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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 185 125
Rank change year-on-year +85 -60 +52
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 83 34 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.37% 0.64% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.96% 2.03% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 75 25 36
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,048 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.11% +21.15%
75th Percentile £86,750 £78,750 £96,539
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,250 £101,414
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 2,805 1,678 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 46.29% 31.49% 37.25%
Number of salaries quoted 911 837 945
10th Percentile £26,548 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -8.01% +0.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 +73 77 £70,000 -3.45% 27
Cheshire -8 3 £82,500 - 4
Merseyside - 2 £77,500 - 3
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 (3.61%) Apache
1 3 (3.61%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.61%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.41%) nginx
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 49 (59.04%) AWS
2 40 (48.19%) Azure
3 17 (20.48%) Serverless
4 14 (16.87%) GCP
5 11 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (9.64%) Amazon S3
8 7 (8.43%) Amazon Bedrock
8 7 (8.43%) Entra ID
9 6 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (7.23%) Azure AKS
9 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (7.23%) SaaS
10 5 (6.02%) GitHub
11 4 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.82%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (4.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) Firewall
2 3 (3.61%) AMQP
3 2 (2.41%) DHCP
3 2 (2.41%) DNS
3 2 (2.41%) HTTP
3 2 (2.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (27.71%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.84%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.02%) MySQL
3 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.82%) Big Data
4 4 (4.82%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.82%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.61%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (3.61%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.41%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.41%) Neo4j
6 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.41%) PostHog
6 2 (2.41%) Redis
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) GitLab
2 5 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) Git
4 2 (2.41%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.41%) Gatling
4 2 (2.41%) JMeter
4 2 (2.41%) Selenium
5 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.43%) Finance
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.41%) Electronics
7 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.41%) Marketing
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Legal
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) Senior
2 21 (25.30%) Software Engineer
3 18 (21.69%) Architect
4 15 (18.07%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (16.87%) AWS Architect
6 13 (15.66%) AWS Solution Architect
7 12 (14.46%) Lead
8 10 (12.05%) Developer
9 9 (10.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Senior Architect
10 6 (7.23%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (6.02%) Support Engineer
11 5 (6.02%) Technical Engineer
11 5 (6.02%) Technical Support
11 5 (6.02%) Technical Support Engineer
12 4 (4.82%) .NET Software Engineer
12 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.82%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
12 4 (4.82%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (31.33%) .NET
2 18 (21.69%) React
3 12 (14.46%) .NET Framework
4 9 (10.84%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.43%) .NET Core
5 7 (8.43%) Node.js
5 7 (8.43%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (7.23%) RESTful
6 6 (7.23%) Spring
6 6 (7.23%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.02%) Entity Framework
7 5 (6.02%) REST
8 4 (4.82%) CSS
8 4 (4.82%) HTML
8 4 (4.82%) Next.js
8 4 (4.82%) Vue
9 3 (3.61%) gRPC
9 3 (3.61%) Material-UI
9 3 (3.61%) OpenAPI
9 3 (3.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (12.05%) AI Agents
3 9 (10.84%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (8.43%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (6.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (6.02%) Driving Licence
5 5 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.41%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.20%) NVMe
8 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) CentOS
2 3 (3.61%) Debian
2 3 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
3 2 (2.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (62.65%) CI/CD
2 41 (49.40%) DevOps
3 40 (48.19%) Agile
4 37 (44.58%) Microservices
5 35 (42.17%) Software Engineering
6 30 (36.14%) Containerisation
7 26 (31.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (25.30%) AI
9 16 (19.28%) Event-Driven
10 15 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (16.87%) Clean Code
11 14 (16.87%) Mentoring
12 13 (15.66%) Machine Learning
12 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (14.46%) High Availability
14 11 (13.25%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (13.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 11 (13.25%) Scrum
15 10 (12.05%) Observability
15 10 (12.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (33.73%) C#
2 25 (30.12%) SQL
3 22 (26.51%) Python
4 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.87%) TypeScript
5 13 (15.66%) Java
6 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.20%) Bash
7 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
2 6 (7.23%) DV Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (4.82%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (2.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.82%) GDPR
2 4 (4.82%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.82%) NIST
2 4 (4.82%) QA
3 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (31.33%) Docker
2 7 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.02%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.61%) KVM
5 3 (3.61%) QEMU
6 2 (2.41%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.41%) vSphere
7 1 (1.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (44.58%) Kubernetes
2 20 (24.10%) Terraform
3 11 (13.25%) Ansible
4 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.61%) Grafana
6 3 (3.61%) Puppet
7 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) Google
3 6 (7.23%) SaltStack
4 4 (4.82%) Foundry
5 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.41%) VMware
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.20%) Databricks
7 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle