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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 183 190
Rank change year-on-year +75 +7 0
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 141 53 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.35% 1.15% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.08% 2.35% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 118 44 76
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £54,375
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -0.17% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £83,281
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,750 £100,144
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -4.65%

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 2,775 2,259 2,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 26.63% 48.83% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,411 794 2,213
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,825 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,852 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £85,000 £83,759
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 May 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 May 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 +46 121 £82,500 +10.19% 49
Lancashire +26 6 £70,000 +39.85% 17
Merseyside -15 6 £62,500 +4.17% 1
Cheshire +1 5 £55,000 -31.25% 6
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 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.84%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.13%) Apache
3 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.42%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.46%) AWS
2 45 (31.91%) Azure
3 27 (19.15%) Serverless
4 19 (13.48%) GCP
5 13 (9.22%) SaaS
6 12 (8.51%) Azure AKS
7 6 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.26%) GitHub
8 5 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (2.84%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.84%) dbt
10 3 (2.13%) Apigee
10 3 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.13%) Datadog
10 3 (2.13%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.13%) AMQP
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) LTE
2 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.60%) NoSQL
2 16 (11.35%) MongoDB
3 11 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.84%) DocumentDB
5 4 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.84%) Neo4j
5 4 (2.84%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.13%) Big Data
6 3 (2.13%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.13%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.13%) Data Vault
6 3 (2.13%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.13%) Metadata
6 3 (2.13%) MySQL
6 3 (2.13%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.42%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.84%) Git
3 3 (2.13%) GitLab
4 2 (1.42%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (11.35%) Retail
1 16 (11.35%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.80%) Finance
3 5 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.84%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.13%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.13%) French Language
5 3 (2.13%) Italian Language
5 3 (2.13%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (2.13%) Spanish Language
5 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.42%) Banking
6 2 (1.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (41.84%) Senior
2 56 (39.72%) Software Engineer
3 24 (17.02%) Senior Software Engineer
4 19 (13.48%) Python Engineer
5 18 (12.77%) Developer
6 17 (12.06%) Lead
7 16 (11.35%) Architect
8 13 (9.22%) Lead Software Engineer
8 13 (9.22%) Principal Engineer
9 12 (8.51%) Principal Software Engineer
10 11 (7.80%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (7.09%) Principal Architect
12 9 (6.38%) .NET Software Engineer
12 9 (6.38%) Senior Developer
12 9 (6.38%) Software Developer
13 8 (5.67%) Senior Software Developer
14 7 (4.96%) Principal Solutions Architect
15 6 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
15 6 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (4.26%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.15%) .NET
2 21 (14.89%) Node.js
3 20 (14.18%) React
4 12 (8.51%) .NET Framework
5 11 (7.80%) RESTful
6 10 (7.09%) REST
7 7 (4.96%) FastAPI
7 7 (4.96%) Spring
7 7 (4.96%) Spring Boot
8 6 (4.26%) Next.js
9 5 (3.55%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.55%) Django
9 5 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.84%) Backbone.js
10 4 (2.84%) CSS
10 4 (2.84%) HTML
10 4 (2.84%) React Native
10 4 (2.84%) Ruby on Rails
11 3 (2.13%) OAuth
11 3 (2.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.18%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.84%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.84%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.13%) IoT
4 3 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.13%) Android
1 3 (2.13%) Apple iOS
1 3 (2.13%) CentOS
1 3 (2.13%) Debian
1 3 (2.13%) Linux
1 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (51.06%) DevOps
2 67 (47.52%) Software Engineering
3 55 (39.01%) CI/CD
4 44 (31.21%) Event-Driven
5 35 (24.82%) Agile
5 35 (24.82%) AI
6 34 (24.11%) Microservices
7 32 (22.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (19.15%) Observability
9 25 (17.73%) Containerisation
10 23 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (15.60%) Mentoring
11 22 (15.60%) Open Source
12 21 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (13.48%) Scrum
14 17 (12.06%) Test Automation
15 15 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (9.93%) Clean Code
16 14 (9.93%) Software Architecture
17 13 (9.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (34.04%) Python
2 22 (15.60%) C#
3 21 (14.89%) SQL
4 18 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.35%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.09%) Java
7 5 (3.55%) Bash
7 5 (3.55%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.84%) Ruby
9 1 (0.71%) Bicep
9 1 (0.71%) Go
9 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (5.67%) Degree
2 4 (2.84%) Azure Certification
2 4 (2.84%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.84%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.84%) QA
System Software
1 22 (15.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (24.11%) Kubernetes
2 23 (16.31%) Terraform
3 7 (4.96%) Grafana
4 5 (3.55%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.13%) Ansible
5 3 (2.13%) Puppet
6 2 (1.42%) Packer
6 2 (1.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (5.67%) Google
1 8 (5.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.84%) Databricks
3 3 (2.13%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.13%) SaltStack