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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 191 130
Rank change year-on-year +24 -61 +41
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 71 54 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.39% 0.70% 1.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.97% 2.38% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 56 36 58
10th Percentile £33,125 £37,500 £59,250
25th Percentile £57,188 £61,875 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,594 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £91,250 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,865 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.46% +3.58% -

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 2,393 2,268 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 46.94% 29.41% 42.01%
Number of salaries quoted 840 1,053 1,303
10th Percentile £27,450 £28,750 £32,752
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -9.57% +4.55%
75th Percentile £66,563 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 +53 65 £75,000 -4.00% 33
Merseyside -1 2 £62,500 - 4
Lancashire -12 2 £40,000 -50.00% 21
Cheshire -15 2 £86,000 - 9
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.82%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 54 (76.06%) AWS
2 40 (56.34%) Azure
3 15 (21.13%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) Entra ID
4 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (12.68%) Serverless
5 6 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.63%) SaaS
8 3 (4.23%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.23%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (4.23%) GitHub
8 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (4.23%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.68%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) DHCP
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) HTTP
2 2 (2.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.23%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.41%) Big Data
4 1 (1.41%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.41%) MySQL
4 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) GitLab
2 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.82%) Gatling
3 2 (2.82%) JMeter
3 2 (2.82%) Selenium
4 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 15 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Finance
3 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Retail
5 7 (9.86%) Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.82%) Electronics
6 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.82%) Marketing
6 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Senior
2 18 (25.35%) Software Engineer
3 17 (23.94%) Architect
3 17 (23.94%) AWS Architect
3 17 (23.94%) AWS Solution Architect
3 17 (23.94%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (16.90%) AWS DevOps
4 12 (16.90%) DevOps Architect
4 12 (16.90%) Senior Architect
4 12 (16.90%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (16.90%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 12 (16.90%) TOGAF Architect
5 11 (15.49%) Developer
6 10 (14.08%) Lead
7 9 (12.68%) Support Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Technical Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Technical Support
7 9 (12.68%) Technical Support Engineer
8 7 (9.86%) .NET Developer
9 6 (8.45%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.76%) .NET
2 17 (23.94%) React
3 13 (18.31%) .NET Core
4 7 (9.86%) Node.js
5 4 (5.63%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.63%) Kafka
5 4 (5.63%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (5.63%) REST
5 4 (5.63%) Spring
5 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.23%) RESTful
6 3 (4.23%) Vue
7 2 (2.82%) DPDK
7 2 (2.82%) eBPF
7 2 (2.82%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.82%) Next.js
7 2 (2.82%) Playwright
8 1 (1.41%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.68%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (12.68%) Driving Licence
2 9 (12.68%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (11.27%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.86%) AI Agents
5 6 (8.45%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.82%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Linux
2 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.97%) DevOps
2 43 (60.56%) CI/CD
3 33 (46.48%) Microservices
4 29 (40.85%) Agile
5 26 (36.62%) Software Engineering
6 23 (32.39%) Containerisation
7 20 (28.17%) Event-Driven
8 19 (26.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (25.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (25.35%) Roadmaps
10 15 (21.13%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (18.31%) Enterprise Architecture
11 13 (18.31%) Technology Roadmap
12 12 (16.90%) Architectural Design
12 12 (16.90%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (16.90%) Data Management
12 12 (16.90%) Data Privacy
12 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (16.90%) TOGAF
13 9 (12.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.62%) C#
1 26 (36.62%) SQL
2 22 (30.99%) Python
3 20 (28.17%) Java
4 14 (19.72%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.68%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.41%) Bash
7 1 (1.41%) PHP
7 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) AWS Certification
2 12 (16.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 12 (16.90%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.82%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) GDPR
1 12 (16.90%) HIPAA
1 12 (16.90%) NIST
2 9 (12.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.82%) QA
System Software
1 32 (45.07%) Docker
2 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.82%) KVM
4 2 (2.82%) QEMU
5 1 (1.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (42.25%) Kubernetes
2 25 (35.21%) Terraform
3 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.23%) Ansible
4 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Google
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.23%) Foundry
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
3 2 (2.82%) SaltStack
3 2 (2.82%) SAP
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks