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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 172 184
Rank change year-on-year +73 +12 -5
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 86 39 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.27% 0.78% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.99% 2.58% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 76 30 33
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £54,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,842 £60,000
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 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +6.06% -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 2,875 1,511 1,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 42.62% 30.35% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,002 762 1,491
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,354 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,644 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.78% +7.21% -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 26 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 26 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 +53 79 £75,000 +11.11% 53
Cheshire -12 4 £79,000 - 13
Merseyside - 2 £77,500 - 7
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 (4.65%) Apache
1 4 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.49%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.33%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.33%) nginx
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 45 (52.33%) AWS
2 33 (38.37%) Azure
3 18 (20.93%) Serverless
4 13 (15.12%) GCP
5 10 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (8.14%) Amazon Bedrock
7 7 (8.14%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.14%) Azure AKS
7 7 (8.14%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.98%) SaaS
9 4 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.65%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.49%) GitHub
11 2 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Firewall
2 4 (4.65%) AMQP
3 2 (2.33%) DHCP
3 2 (2.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.33%) HTTP
3 2 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.09%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.47%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.81%) Big Data
3 5 (5.81%) Hadoop
3 5 (5.81%) MySQL
3 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.65%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.33%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.33%) Neo4j
5 2 (2.33%) PostHog
5 2 (2.33%) Redis
6 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.65%) GitLab
2 3 (3.49%) Git
2 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 19 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.14%) Finance
5 4 (4.65%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.65%) Banking
6 3 (3.49%) French Language
6 3 (3.49%) Italian Language
6 3 (3.49%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (3.49%) Spanish Language
7 2 (2.33%) Electronics
7 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.33%) Marketing
7 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (31.40%) Senior
2 22 (25.58%) Software Engineer
3 13 (15.12%) Architect
4 11 (12.79%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (10.47%) AWS Architect
6 9 (10.47%) Lead
7 8 (9.30%) AWS Solution Architect
8 7 (8.14%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) .NET Software Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Technical Support
9 5 (5.81%) Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.07%) .NET
2 17 (19.77%) React
3 12 (13.95%) .NET Framework
4 10 (11.63%) Node.js
5 9 (10.47%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.30%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (8.14%) CSS
7 7 (8.14%) HTML
7 7 (8.14%) REST
7 7 (8.14%) Spring
7 7 (8.14%) Spring Boot
8 6 (6.98%) RESTful
9 5 (5.81%) .NET Core
10 4 (4.65%) Entity Framework
10 4 (4.65%) FastAPI
10 4 (4.65%) gRPC
10 4 (4.65%) Material-UI
10 4 (4.65%) OpenAPI
10 4 (4.65%) Swagger
11 3 (3.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (9.30%) AI Agents
2 8 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (8.14%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (5.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (5.81%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.49%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.16%) NVMe
7 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Linux
2 4 (4.65%) CentOS
2 4 (4.65%) Debian
2 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.65%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.49%) Android
3 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.49%) Windows
4 2 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (55.81%) CI/CD
2 39 (45.35%) Software Engineering
3 38 (44.19%) DevOps
4 35 (40.70%) Agile
5 33 (38.37%) Microservices
6 27 (31.40%) Containerisation
7 24 (27.91%) AI
7 24 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (19.77%) Event-Driven
8 17 (19.77%) Open Source
8 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (17.44%) Machine Learning
9 15 (17.44%) Scrum
10 14 (16.28%) Clean Code
10 14 (16.28%) Mentoring
11 12 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (12.79%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (12.79%) High Availability
12 11 (12.79%) TDD
13 10 (11.63%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.07%) Python
2 24 (27.91%) SQL
3 21 (24.42%) C#
4 18 (20.93%) JavaScript
5 17 (19.77%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.47%) Java
7 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.16%) Bash
8 1 (1.16%) PHP
8 1 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) DV Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.49%) DBS Check
3 3 (3.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 20 (23.26%) Docker
2 7 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.81%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.49%) KVM
4 3 (3.49%) QEMU
5 2 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.33%) vSphere
6 1 (1.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (39.53%) Kubernetes
2 20 (23.26%) Terraform
3 12 (13.95%) Ansible
4 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.65%) Puppet
6 2 (2.33%) Grafana
6 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.14%) SaltStack
3 6 (6.98%) Google
4 4 (4.65%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.33%) Foundry
5 2 (2.33%) SAP
5 2 (2.33%) VMware
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.16%) Databricks
6 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle