Cloud Native Job Trends in the North West

Cloud Native
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 158 194
Rank change year-on-year +93 +36 -66
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 272 73 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.11% 1.43% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.43% 3.09% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 211 60 20
10th Percentile £52,500 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,375 £95,875
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -8.57% +9.38%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,883 2,363 2,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 22.41% 46.26% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 905 918
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,850 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,400 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.55% -8.33% -4.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the North West

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the North West over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +40 232 £85,000 +13.33% 153
Lancashire +20 14 £56,250 +40.63% 4
Merseyside +3 14 £62,500 - 7
Cheshire +18 10 £62,500 -27.33% 10
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.31%) Apache
3 3 (1.10%) CMS
3 3 (1.10%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 154 (56.62%) AWS
2 46 (16.91%) Serverless
3 41 (15.07%) Azure
4 40 (14.71%) SaaS
5 34 (12.50%) GCP
6 25 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (8.82%) GitHub
8 19 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.78%) Datadog
9 13 (4.78%) Route 53
10 12 (4.41%) dbt
10 12 (4.41%) Snowflake
11 10 (3.68%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.31%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.84%) Network Security
2 3 (1.10%) Firewall
2 3 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (0.74%) AMQP
4 1 (0.37%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.41%) MongoDB
2 12 (4.41%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.31%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.21%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.47%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.47%) Redis
7 4 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (1.47%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.10%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.10%) Metadata
8 3 (1.10%) MySQL
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.74%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (9.19%) GitLab
2 21 (7.72%) Git
3 20 (7.35%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.74%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.74%) Vite
7 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.37%) Maven
7 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 42 (15.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (7.72%) Retail
3 15 (5.51%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.78%) Aviation
5 10 (3.68%) Finance
6 6 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.47%) Law
8 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.74%) Marketing
9 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (26.84%) Senior
2 61 (22.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (17.28%) Software Engineer
4 40 (14.71%) Developer
5 31 (11.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (9.19%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 23 (8.46%) Principal Engineer
8 22 (8.09%) Lead
9 19 (6.99%) Architect
9 19 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (6.25%) Product Engineer
10 17 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 16 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (4.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.78%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.78%) Head of Architecture
13 12 (4.41%) Software Developer
14 11 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (22.06%) Terraform
2 38 (13.97%) React
3 26 (9.56%) .NET
4 23 (8.46%) Node.js
5 13 (4.78%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.78%) Vue
6 12 (4.41%) FastAPI
7 11 (4.04%) Next.js
7 11 (4.04%) REST
7 11 (4.04%) Spring
8 9 (3.31%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.94%) Middleware
9 8 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (2.94%) React Native
9 8 (2.94%) Ruby on Rails
10 6 (2.21%) Flask
10 6 (2.21%) Kafka
10 6 (2.21%) Pulumi
10 6 (2.21%) RESTful
11 4 (1.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.19%) Product Ownership
2 23 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.68%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.10%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.10%) IoT
4 3 (1.10%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.37%) Life Science
6 1 (0.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.37%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.37%) PMI
6 1 (0.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.25%) Linux
2 8 (2.94%) CentOS
2 8 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.74%) Debian
3 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (54.41%) DevOps
2 100 (36.76%) CI/CD
3 99 (36.40%) Software Engineering
4 69 (25.37%) AI
5 63 (23.16%) Microservices
6 59 (21.69%) Agile
7 58 (21.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (19.49%) Mentoring
9 51 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (18.75%) Event-Driven
10 46 (16.91%) Observability
11 41 (15.07%) Containerisation
11 41 (15.07%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (14.34%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (13.24%) Roadmaps
15 34 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
16 32 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (11.03%) Architectural Patterns
18 26 (9.56%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.63%) Python
2 31 (11.40%) TypeScript
3 22 (8.09%) SQL
4 20 (7.35%) Bash
5 19 (6.99%) Java
6 18 (6.62%) C#
7 16 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.41%) Go
8 12 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.94%) Ruby
10 4 (1.47%) Scala
11 3 (1.10%) Rust
12 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.74%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) Bicep
13 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 57 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.91%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.29%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.25%) Degree
5 11 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.84%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.74%) CCSP
8 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.74%) CISSP
8 2 (0.74%) CSPO
8 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.84%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 43 (15.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (25.74%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.35%) Ansible
3 10 (3.68%) Argo
3 10 (3.68%) Grafana
3 10 (3.68%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.94%) Istio
4 8 (2.94%) linkerd
4 8 (2.94%) Progress Chef
4 8 (2.94%) Puppet
5 2 (0.74%) Packer
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.78%) Google
3 11 (4.04%) Databricks
4 3 (1.10%) Cisco
5 2 (0.74%) Mistral
5 2 (0.74%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.74%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.74%) YouTube
6 1 (0.37%) Avaya
6 1 (0.37%) Cribl.io
6 1 (0.37%) Genesys
6 1 (0.37%) New Relic
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle
6 1 (0.37%) Splunk