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 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 176 194
Rank change year-on-year +97 +18 -33
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 198 60 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.83% 1.27% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.13% 2.58% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 166 45 74
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +6.96% +7.11%
75th Percentile £90,938 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -

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 2,168 2,323 3,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.08% 49.35% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,668 788 2,302
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +65 167 £80,000 +6.67% 67
Lancashire +40 11 £57,500 +43.75% 13
Merseyside -8 10 £62,500 - 5
Cheshire +15 8 £55,000 -31.25% 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 5 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.52%) Apache
2 3 (1.52%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.01%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 89 (44.95%) AWS
2 53 (26.77%) Azure
3 31 (15.66%) Serverless
4 28 (14.14%) GCP
5 21 (10.61%) SaaS
6 11 (5.56%) GitHub
7 10 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.05%) Azure AKS
8 9 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (3.03%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.03%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.53%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (2.53%) Pulumi
12 4 (2.02%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) AMQP
2 1 (0.51%) DNS
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) LTE
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
2 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.12%) NoSQL
2 18 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 17 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.05%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.03%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.02%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.02%) MySQL
7 3 (1.52%) Big Data
7 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.52%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.52%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.52%) Metadata
7 3 (1.52%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.01%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.01%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 14 (7.07%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.06%) GitLab
3 11 (5.56%) Git
4 3 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.01%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.01%) Vite
General
1 27 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.08%) Retail
3 14 (7.07%) Finance
4 7 (3.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.52%) French Language
6 3 (1.52%) Italian Language
6 3 (1.52%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (1.52%) Spanish Language
6 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.01%) Banking
7 2 (1.01%) Marketing
7 2 (1.01%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (37.88%) Senior
2 64 (32.32%) Software Engineer
3 28 (14.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 26 (13.13%) Developer
5 20 (10.10%) Lead
6 18 (9.09%) Architect
6 18 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (9.09%) Python Engineer
7 13 (6.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (6.57%) Lead Software Engineer
7 13 (6.57%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.06%) Principal Software Engineer
9 11 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (5.56%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) Principal Architect
10 10 (5.05%) Senior Software Developer
10 10 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.16%) .NET
1 32 (16.16%) React
2 28 (14.14%) Node.js
3 17 (8.59%) FastAPI
4 13 (6.57%) RESTful
5 12 (6.06%) REST
6 11 (5.56%) Next.js
6 11 (5.56%) Vue
7 8 (4.04%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.04%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.04%) React Native
7 8 (4.04%) Ruby on Rails
8 7 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.03%) Django
9 6 (3.03%) Flask
9 6 (3.03%) Spring
9 6 (3.03%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.53%) JWT
10 5 (2.53%) OAuth
11 4 (2.02%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 22 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.05%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.52%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.52%) IoT
6 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.51%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.55%) Linux
2 4 (2.02%) CentOS
2 4 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.52%) Android
3 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.52%) Debian
3 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (56.06%) DevOps
2 89 (44.95%) CI/CD
3 86 (43.43%) Software Engineering
4 59 (29.80%) AI
5 53 (26.77%) Event-Driven
5 53 (26.77%) Microservices
6 52 (26.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (23.74%) Observability
8 43 (21.72%) Agile
9 38 (19.19%) Containerisation
9 38 (19.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (16.16%) Mentoring
11 30 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (12.63%) Test Automation
14 22 (11.11%) Open Source
15 20 (10.10%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (10.10%) Scrum
15 20 (10.10%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (9.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 70 (35.35%) Python
2 27 (13.64%) SQL
2 27 (13.64%) TypeScript
3 22 (11.11%) C#
4 19 (9.60%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.07%) Bash
6 11 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.05%) Java
8 8 (4.04%) Ruby
9 6 (3.03%) Go
10 3 (1.52%) PHP
11 2 (1.01%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.05%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.55%) Degree
4 5 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.02%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.51%) CSPO
6 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.02%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.01%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (16.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (26.26%) Kubernetes
2 41 (20.71%) Terraform
3 12 (6.06%) Grafana
3 12 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.03%) Argo
4 6 (3.03%) Istio
4 6 (3.03%) linkerd
5 5 (2.53%) Puppet
6 4 (2.02%) Ansible
6 4 (2.02%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.01%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (6.57%) Google
2 9 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.02%) Databricks
4 3 (1.52%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.52%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.01%) OpenAI