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 8 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 169 194
Rank change year-on-year +64 +25 -9
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 90 40 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.27% 0.84% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 2.74% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 79 32 39
10th Percentile £53,500 £44,098 £54,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,527 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,625 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.29% +6.25% -5.88%

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 2,906 1,458 2,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 40.92% 30.51% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 748 1,712
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,550 £40,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £66,757
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,000 £83,759
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +10.62% -13.08%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +52 82 £75,000 +11.11% 51
Cheshire -17 4 £79,000 - 3
Merseyside - 3 £77,500 - 4
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 4 (4.44%) Apache
1 4 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.22%) nginx
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.89%) AWS
2 37 (41.11%) Azure
3 19 (21.11%) Serverless
4 13 (14.44%) GCP
5 10 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 7 (7.78%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.78%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
8 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.67%) SaaS
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.33%) GitHub
10 3 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Firewall
2 4 (4.44%) AMQP
3 3 (3.33%) DNS
4 2 (2.22%) DHCP
4 2 (2.22%) HTTP
4 2 (2.22%) SSL
5 1 (1.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.11%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.56%) Big Data
3 5 (5.56%) Hadoop
3 5 (5.56%) MySQL
3 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.44%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.22%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.22%) Neo4j
5 2 (2.22%) PostHog
5 2 (2.22%) Redis
6 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Git
1 3 (3.33%) GitLab
2 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.78%) Finance
4 4 (4.44%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.44%) Banking
5 3 (3.33%) French Language
5 3 (3.33%) Italian Language
5 3 (3.33%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (3.33%) Spanish Language
6 2 (2.22%) Electronics
6 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.22%) Marketing
6 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (30.00%) Senior
2 23 (25.56%) Software Engineer
3 15 (16.67%) Architect
4 11 (12.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (11.11%) Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Lead
6 8 (8.89%) AWS Architect
7 7 (7.78%) AWS Solution Architect
7 7 (7.78%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Technical Support
9 5 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.78%) .NET
2 17 (18.89%) React
3 13 (14.44%) .NET Framework
4 10 (11.11%) Node.js
5 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
5 8 (8.89%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (8.89%) Spring
5 8 (8.89%) Spring Boot
6 7 (7.78%) CSS
6 7 (7.78%) HTML
6 7 (7.78%) REST
6 7 (7.78%) RESTful
7 5 (5.56%) A2A Protocol
8 4 (4.44%) .NET Core
8 4 (4.44%) Entity Framework
8 4 (4.44%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.44%) gRPC
8 4 (4.44%) Material-UI
8 4 (4.44%) OpenAPI
8 4 (4.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.78%) AI Agents
3 7 (7.78%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (5.56%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.11%) NVMe
8 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Linux
2 4 (4.44%) CentOS
2 4 (4.44%) Debian
2 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.33%) Android
3 3 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.22%) VMS
4 2 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 41 (45.56%) DevOps
3 40 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 36 (40.00%) Agile
5 32 (35.56%) Microservices
6 27 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 25 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (25.56%) AI
9 17 (18.89%) Event-Driven
9 17 (18.89%) Open Source
10 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (17.78%) Scrum
11 15 (16.67%) Clean Code
11 15 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 14 (15.56%) Machine Learning
13 13 (14.44%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (13.33%) High Availability
14 12 (13.33%) TDD
15 10 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.89%) Python
1 26 (28.89%) SQL
2 21 (23.33%) C#
3 19 (21.11%) TypeScript
4 18 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.11%) Java
6 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.11%) Bicep
7 1 (1.11%) PHP
7 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 20 (22.22%) Docker
2 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.33%) KVM
4 3 (3.33%) QEMU
5 2 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.22%) vSphere
6 1 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 20 (22.22%) Terraform
3 11 (12.22%) Ansible
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.44%) Puppet
6 2 (2.22%) Grafana
6 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) SaltStack
3 6 (6.67%) Google
4 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.22%) Databricks
5 2 (2.22%) Foundry
5 2 (2.22%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle