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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 203 125
Rank change year-on-year +78 -78 +70
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 82 34 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.69% 0.49% 1.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.62% 1.62% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 70 18 54
10th Percentile £33,125 £43,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,625 £61,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,154 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% -4.07% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,438 £78,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,125 £91,250 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% -3.03%

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 1,776 2,095 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 36.63% 30.28% 38.24%
Number of salaries quoted 955 875 1,093
10th Percentile £26,519 £31,250 £32,092
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £52,500 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% -8.36% +4.16%
75th Percentile £62,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.17% -4.00% -0.79%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +81 75 £72,500 +7.96% 127
Cheshire -2 3 £82,500 - 40
Lancashire +18 2 £40,000 - 43
Merseyside -1 2 £62,500 - 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 3 (3.66%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.22%) Apache
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 59 (71.95%) AWS
2 41 (50.00%) Azure
3 17 (20.73%) Serverless
4 16 (19.51%) GCP
5 11 (13.41%) Entra ID
6 10 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (8.54%) Amazon Bedrock
8 7 (8.54%) Amazon S3
8 7 (8.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (7.32%) SaaS
10 5 (6.10%) GitHub
11 4 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (4.88%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (4.88%) Power Automate
12 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.66%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.98%) Firewall
2 2 (2.44%) DHCP
2 2 (2.44%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) HTTP
2 2 (2.44%) SSL
3 1 (1.22%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.73%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.76%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.88%) MySQL
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.44%) Big Data
6 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.44%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.22%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) GitLab
2 5 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.44%) Gatling
3 2 (2.44%) JMeter
3 2 (2.44%) Selenium
4 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.22%) Git
General
1 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.98%) Finance
4 5 (6.10%) Retail
5 4 (4.88%) Banking
5 4 (4.88%) Electronics
5 4 (4.88%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.88%) Marketing
5 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (26.83%) Senior
2 20 (24.39%) Architect
3 18 (21.95%) AWS Architect
4 17 (20.73%) AWS Solution Architect
4 17 (20.73%) Software Engineer
4 17 (20.73%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (13.41%) Developer
6 10 (12.20%) Senior Architect
6 10 (12.20%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (10.98%) Lead
7 9 (10.98%) Support Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Technical Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Technical Support
7 9 (10.98%) Technical Support Engineer
8 8 (9.76%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (9.76%) DevOps Architect
8 8 (9.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 8 (9.76%) TOGAF Architect
9 6 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.61%) .NET
2 16 (19.51%) React
3 9 (10.98%) .NET Core
4 7 (8.54%) .NET Framework
4 7 (8.54%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.54%) Node.js
5 5 (6.10%) Spring
5 5 (6.10%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.88%) FastAPI
6 4 (4.88%) REST
6 4 (4.88%) Vue
7 3 (3.66%) ASP.NET
7 3 (3.66%) DPDK
7 3 (3.66%) eBPF
7 3 (3.66%) Entity Framework
7 3 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.66%) RESTful
8 2 (2.44%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (2.44%) Next.js
8 2 (2.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) AI Agents
1 10 (12.20%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (10.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (10.98%) Driving Licence
2 9 (10.98%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (9.76%) Management Information System
4 6 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.22%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Windows
3 2 (2.44%) VMS
4 1 (1.22%) CentOS
4 1 (1.22%) Debian
4 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (58.54%) CI/CD
2 41 (50.00%) DevOps
3 38 (46.34%) Agile
4 32 (39.02%) Microservices
5 28 (34.15%) Software Engineering
6 25 (30.49%) Containerisation
6 25 (30.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (21.95%) AI
7 18 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.07%) Event-Driven
10 13 (15.85%) Enterprise Architecture
11 12 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (14.63%) Roadmaps
12 11 (13.41%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.20%) Mentoring
14 9 (10.98%) High Availability
14 9 (10.98%) Preventative Maintenance
14 9 (10.98%) Technology Roadmap
15 8 (9.76%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.71%) C#
1 26 (31.71%) SQL
2 24 (29.27%) Python
3 17 (20.73%) Java
4 15 (18.29%) TypeScript
5 14 (17.07%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.22%) Bash
7 1 (1.22%) PHP
7 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (12.20%) AWS Certification
1 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 8 (9.76%) Azure Certification
3 6 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (9.76%) GDPR
2 8 (9.76%) HIPAA
2 8 (9.76%) NIST
3 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 26 (31.71%) Docker
2 11 (13.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (10.98%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.66%) KVM
5 3 (3.66%) QEMU
6 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.44%) vSphere
7 1 (1.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (37.80%) Kubernetes
2 22 (26.83%) Terraform
3 9 (10.98%) Ansible
3 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.22%) Grafana
5 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.41%) Google
3 4 (4.88%) Foundry
3 4 (4.88%) SaltStack
3 4 (4.88%) SAP
4 3 (3.66%) Oracle
5 2 (2.44%) VMware
6 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.22%) Databricks
6 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.22%) Red Hat