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 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 170 154
Rank change year-on-year +63 -16 +27
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 78 33 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.25% 0.65% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.79% 2.09% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 72 24 33
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,875 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,654 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% -0.49% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £96,539
90th Percentile £99,750 £90,500 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -

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 2,794 1,582 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.93% 30.98% 34.89%
Number of salaries quoted 915 789 1,057
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +60 72 £75,000 +7.14% 46
Cheshire -9 3 £82,500 - 22
Merseyside - 2 £77,500 - 13
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 3 (3.85%) Apache
1 3 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.56%) nginx
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 43 (55.13%) AWS
2 35 (44.87%) Azure
3 15 (19.23%) Serverless
4 12 (15.38%) GCP
5 9 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.97%) Amazon Bedrock
6 7 (8.97%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.97%) Entra ID
7 6 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.41%) SaaS
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.13%) GitHub
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.85%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) AMQP
3 2 (2.56%) DHCP
3 2 (2.56%) DNS
3 2 (2.56%) HTTP
3 2 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.64%) NoSQL
2 9 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.41%) MySQL
3 5 (6.41%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.13%) Big Data
4 4 (5.13%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.85%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.56%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.56%) Neo4j
6 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.56%) PostHog
6 2 (2.56%) Redis
7 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (5.13%) GitLab
2 3 (3.85%) Git
2 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Finance
4 4 (5.13%) Banking
5 3 (3.85%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.56%) Electronics
6 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.56%) Marketing
6 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (32.05%) Senior
2 21 (26.92%) Software Engineer
3 15 (19.23%) Architect
4 12 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (14.10%) AWS Architect
6 10 (12.82%) AWS Solution Architect
7 9 (11.54%) Developer
7 9 (11.54%) Lead
7 9 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Technical Support
8 5 (6.41%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) .NET Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Senior Architect
9 4 (5.13%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.77%) .NET
2 17 (21.79%) React
3 12 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 9 (11.54%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.97%) Node.js
5 7 (8.97%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (7.69%) .NET Core
6 6 (7.69%) RESTful
6 6 (7.69%) Spring
6 6 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.41%) Entity Framework
7 5 (6.41%) REST
8 4 (5.13%) CSS
8 4 (5.13%) HTML
8 4 (5.13%) Next.js
8 4 (5.13%) Vue
9 3 (3.85%) DPDK
9 3 (3.85%) eBPF
9 3 (3.85%) Material-UI
9 3 (3.85%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.54%) AI Agents
3 7 (8.97%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (8.97%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (6.41%) Driving Licence
4 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.28%) NVMe
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Linux
2 3 (3.85%) CentOS
2 3 (3.85%) Debian
2 3 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.85%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.85%) Windows
3 2 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 37 (47.44%) DevOps
3 35 (44.87%) Agile
4 34 (43.59%) Software Engineering
5 31 (39.74%) Microservices
6 27 (34.62%) Containerisation
7 22 (28.21%) AI
7 22 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (20.51%) Event-Driven
9 14 (17.95%) Clean Code
9 14 (17.95%) Mentoring
10 13 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (14.10%) High Availability
11 11 (14.10%) Scrum
12 10 (12.82%) Open Source
12 10 (12.82%) TDD
13 9 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.05%) C#
2 22 (28.21%) SQL
3 21 (26.92%) Python
4 14 (17.95%) TypeScript
5 13 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 11 (14.10%) Java
7 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.28%) Bash
8 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.56%) GDPR
3 2 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.56%) NIST
3 2 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 22 (28.21%) Docker
2 7 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.85%) KVM
4 3 (3.85%) QEMU
4 3 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.56%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.56%) vSphere
6 1 (1.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 17 (21.79%) Terraform
3 11 (14.10%) Ansible
4 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.85%) Grafana
5 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.85%) Puppet
6 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Google
2 6 (7.69%) SaltStack
3 3 (3.85%) Foundry
3 3 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.56%) SAP
4 2 (2.56%) VMware
5 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.28%) Databricks
5 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle