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 10 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 179 175
Rank change year-on-year +122 -4 -30
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 273 68 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.31% 1.32% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.06% 2.74% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 216 49 60
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £50,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,750 £74,870 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.39% +10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £83,281
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,500 £103,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 2,469 2,485 2,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.89% 48.08% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,815 886 1,459
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,500 £27,950
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +58 231 £85,000 +13.33% 107
Lancashire +31 16 £55,000 +37.50% 5
Cheshire +18 12 £62,500 -21.88% 13
Merseyside -6 12 £62,500 - 6
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 11 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.93%) Apache
3 3 (1.10%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 136 (49.82%) AWS
2 52 (19.05%) Azure
3 41 (15.02%) Serverless
4 40 (14.65%) SaaS
5 32 (11.72%) GCP
6 23 (8.42%) GitHub
7 16 (5.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.40%) Datadog
9 11 (4.03%) dbt
9 11 (4.03%) Snowflake
10 10 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.30%) OpenShift
11 9 (3.30%) Route 53
12 8 (2.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.20%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) Firewall
1 3 (1.10%) Network Security
1 3 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (0.73%) AMQP
3 1 (0.37%) HTTP
3 1 (0.37%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.33%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.33%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.30%) DynamoDB
3 9 (3.30%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.20%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.47%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.47%) MySQL
7 4 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.10%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.10%) Metadata
8 3 (1.10%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.10%) Redis
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.73%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.73%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (6.59%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.23%) GitLab
3 15 (5.49%) Git
4 7 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.73%) Vite
7 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 41 (15.02%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.16%) Retail
3 15 (5.49%) Finance
4 12 (4.40%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.30%) Aviation
6 4 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.47%) Law
7 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.73%) Banking
8 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Marketing
8 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (31.50%) Senior
2 65 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 46 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (11.72%) Developer
5 28 (10.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 27 (9.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (9.89%) Principal Engineer
7 25 (9.16%) Lead
8 21 (7.69%) Architect
9 17 (6.23%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 17 (6.23%) Senior Developer
10 16 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Principal Software Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Product Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
12 13 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.55%) React
2 34 (12.45%) .NET
3 30 (10.99%) Node.js
4 15 (5.49%) FastAPI
5 12 (4.40%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.03%) Next.js
6 11 (4.03%) RESTful
6 11 (4.03%) Vue
7 10 (3.66%) REST
8 8 (2.93%) React Native
8 8 (2.93%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (2.56%) Kafka
9 7 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.56%) Spring
10 6 (2.20%) Flask
11 5 (1.83%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.83%) Django
11 5 (1.83%) JWT
11 5 (1.83%) OAuth
11 5 (1.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.72%) Product Ownership
2 27 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.66%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.10%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.10%) IoT
4 3 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.10%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
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 13 (4.76%) Linux
2 5 (1.83%) CentOS
2 5 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.73%) Debian
3 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (53.85%) DevOps
2 106 (38.83%) Software Engineering
3 102 (37.36%) CI/CD
4 73 (26.74%) AI
5 62 (22.71%) Microservices
6 58 (21.25%) Event-Driven
6 58 (21.25%) Observability
7 57 (20.88%) Agile
8 55 (20.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (17.95%) Mentoring
10 46 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 44 (16.12%) Containerisation
13 35 (12.82%) Roadmaps
13 35 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
14 34 (12.45%) Platform Engineering
15 32 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (9.89%) Architectural Patterns
18 24 (8.79%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 72 (26.37%) Python
2 29 (10.62%) TypeScript
3 25 (9.16%) SQL
4 24 (8.79%) C#
5 21 (7.69%) Bash
6 17 (6.23%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.76%) Go
9 12 (4.40%) Java
10 8 (2.93%) Ruby
11 3 (1.10%) Scala
12 2 (0.73%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) Bicep
13 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.16%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.86%) Degree
4 15 (5.49%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.66%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.73%) CSPO
8 2 (0.73%) 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 10 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.73%) GDPR
4 2 (0.73%) QA
5 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (14.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (26.01%) Kubernetes
2 53 (19.41%) Terraform
3 13 (4.76%) Grafana
3 13 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.40%) Ansible
5 9 (3.30%) Argo
6 8 (2.93%) Istio
6 8 (2.93%) linkerd
6 8 (2.93%) Puppet
7 7 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (5.86%) Google
2 14 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.30%) Databricks
4 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.73%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.37%) New Relic