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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 174 182
Rank change year-on-year +113 +8 -38
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 255 66 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.23% 1.28% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.81% 2.68% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 211 47 69
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -0.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £93,750
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 2,360 2,462 2,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.61% 47.84% 30.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 877 1,672
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,950 £84,919
England median annual salary £59,527 £57,194 £56,252
% change year-on-year +4.08% +1.67% -13.46%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +67 213 £82,500 +10.10% 94
Lancashire +26 16 £55,000 +37.50% 6
Merseyside -9 13 £62,500 - 2
Cheshire +21 11 £62,500 -21.88% 5
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 7 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.57%) Apache
3 3 (1.18%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 122 (47.84%) AWS
2 54 (21.18%) Azure
3 34 (13.33%) Serverless
4 31 (12.16%) SaaS
5 30 (11.76%) GCP
6 17 (6.67%) GitHub
7 14 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.75%) Azure AKS
10 7 (2.75%) dbt
10 7 (2.75%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.75%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.35%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.18%) Firewall
1 3 (1.18%) Network Security
2 2 (0.78%) AMQP
3 1 (0.39%) DNS
3 1 (0.39%) HTTP
3 1 (0.39%) LTE
3 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.24%) NoSQL
1 21 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.84%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.53%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.35%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.57%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.57%) MySQL
7 4 (1.57%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (1.18%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.18%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.18%) Metadata
8 3 (1.18%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.18%) Redis
9 2 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.78%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.78%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (7.06%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.27%) GitLab
3 15 (5.88%) Git
4 7 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.78%) Vite
General
1 36 (14.12%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.06%) Retail
3 15 (5.88%) Finance
4 11 (4.31%) Public Sector
5 4 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.18%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.78%) Aviation
7 2 (0.78%) Banking
7 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.78%) Marketing
7 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.39%) Law
8 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (32.16%) Senior
2 64 (25.10%) Software Engineer
3 43 (16.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (10.98%) Developer
5 27 (10.59%) Senior Software Engineer
6 26 (10.20%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (9.41%) Architect
8 23 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (9.02%) Lead
9 16 (6.27%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (5.88%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 15 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (5.10%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (5.10%) Principal Software Engineer
12 13 (5.10%) Python Engineer
13 12 (4.71%) Product Engineer
13 12 (4.71%) Senior Software Developer
13 12 (4.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.51%) React
2 34 (13.33%) .NET
3 29 (11.37%) Node.js
4 15 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 12 (4.71%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.31%) Next.js
6 11 (4.31%) RESTful
6 11 (4.31%) Vue
7 10 (3.92%) REST
8 8 (3.14%) React Native
8 8 (3.14%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (2.75%) Kafka
9 7 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.75%) Spring
10 6 (2.35%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.35%) Flask
11 5 (1.96%) Django
11 5 (1.96%) JWT
11 5 (1.96%) OAuth
11 5 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.98%) Product Ownership
2 27 (10.59%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.92%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.18%) IoT
6 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.39%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.39%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.10%) Linux
2 5 (1.96%) CentOS
2 5 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Debian
3 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (58.04%) DevOps
2 103 (40.39%) CI/CD
3 94 (36.86%) Software Engineering
4 66 (25.88%) AI
5 62 (24.31%) Microservices
6 57 (22.35%) Event-Driven
7 54 (21.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (20.78%) Agile
9 49 (19.22%) Observability
10 44 (17.25%) Containerisation
11 43 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 43 (16.86%) Mentoring
12 41 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
14 32 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (10.98%) Roadmaps
17 23 (9.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 22 (8.63%) Decision-Making
19 21 (8.24%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 66 (25.88%) Python
2 29 (11.37%) TypeScript
3 25 (9.80%) C#
4 24 (9.41%) SQL
5 19 (7.45%) Bash
6 16 (6.27%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.31%) Go
8 11 (4.31%) Java
9 8 (3.14%) Ruby
10 2 (0.78%) Bicep
10 2 (0.78%) PHP
10 2 (0.78%) Scala
11 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (11.37%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.71%) Degree
5 6 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.78%) CSPO
7 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.96%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.18%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.78%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) QA
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (15.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 50 (19.61%) Terraform
3 13 (5.10%) Grafana
3 13 (5.10%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.92%) Ansible
5 8 (3.14%) Argo
5 8 (3.14%) Istio
5 8 (3.14%) linkerd
6 6 (2.35%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.35%) Puppet
7 2 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (6.27%) Google
2 14 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.35%) Databricks
4 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.78%) SaltStack