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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 165 187
Rank change year-on-year +101 +22 -40
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 243 66 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.16% 1.28% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.32% 2.71% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 201 48 74
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,058 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -0.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,125 £100,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £81,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.14% +2.19% -

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 2,355 2,434 3,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.89% 47.25% 31.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,813 857 2,068
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,250 £83,575
England median annual salary £59,527 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% +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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +71 201 £82,500 +10.19% 73
Lancashire +34 16 £55,000 +37.50% 5
Merseyside -9 13 £62,500 - 1
Cheshire +18 11 £62,500 -21.88% 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 5 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.23%) Apache
2 3 (1.23%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.82%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 111 (45.68%) AWS
2 53 (21.81%) Azure
3 34 (13.99%) Serverless
4 30 (12.35%) GCP
5 29 (11.93%) SaaS
6 15 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (5.35%) GitHub
8 9 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.29%) Azure AKS
10 7 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (2.88%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.47%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.06%) dbt
12 5 (2.06%) Pulumi
12 5 (2.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.23%) AMQP
1 3 (1.23%) Firewall
1 3 (1.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.41%) DNS
2 1 (0.41%) LTE
2 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.05%) NoSQL
2 20 (8.23%) MongoDB
3 19 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.12%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.47%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.06%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.65%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.65%) MySQL
7 4 (1.65%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (1.23%) Big Data
8 3 (1.23%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.23%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.23%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.23%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.23%) Metadata
8 3 (1.23%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.23%) Redis
9 2 (0.82%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 16 (6.58%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.76%) GitLab
3 13 (5.35%) Git
4 7 (2.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.82%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.82%) Vite
General
1 35 (14.40%) Social Skills
2 17 (7.00%) Finance
3 16 (6.58%) Retail
4 11 (4.53%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.23%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.23%) French Language
6 3 (1.23%) Italian Language
6 3 (1.23%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (1.23%) Spanish Language
6 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.82%) Banking
7 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.82%) Marketing
7 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (32.92%) Senior
2 65 (26.75%) Software Engineer
3 41 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (11.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 27 (11.11%) Developer
6 25 (10.29%) Principal Engineer
7 22 (9.05%) Lead
8 21 (8.64%) Architect
8 21 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (5.76%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (5.35%) Lead Software Engineer
11 13 (5.35%) Principal Software Engineer
11 13 (5.35%) Python Engineer
12 12 (4.94%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 12 (4.94%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.53%) Senior Software Developer
14 10 (4.12%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.40%) React
2 34 (13.99%) .NET
3 32 (13.17%) Node.js
4 16 (6.58%) FastAPI
5 12 (4.94%) REST
5 12 (4.94%) RESTful
6 11 (4.53%) Next.js
6 11 (4.53%) Vue
7 10 (4.12%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (3.29%) React Native
8 8 (3.29%) Ruby on Rails
8 8 (3.29%) Spring
9 7 (2.88%) Kafka
10 6 (2.47%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.47%) Flask
10 6 (2.47%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.06%) Django
11 5 (2.06%) JWT
11 5 (2.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.52%) Product Ownership
2 25 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.12%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.06%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.65%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.23%) IoT
6 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.23%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.82%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.41%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.76%) Linux
2 6 (2.47%) CentOS
2 6 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.23%) Android
3 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.23%) Debian
3 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (58.44%) DevOps
2 103 (42.39%) CI/CD
3 92 (37.86%) Software Engineering
4 63 (25.93%) AI
5 62 (25.51%) Microservices
6 54 (22.22%) Event-Driven
6 54 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 52 (21.40%) Agile
8 46 (18.93%) Observability
9 44 (18.11%) Containerisation
10 41 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
11 38 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (15.64%) Mentoring
12 36 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (12.76%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (10.29%) Open Source
14 25 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (9.88%) Roadmaps
15 24 (9.88%) Test Automation
16 21 (8.64%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 67 (27.57%) Python
2 31 (12.76%) TypeScript
3 26 (10.70%) SQL
4 22 (9.05%) C#
4 22 (9.05%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.00%) Bash
6 14 (5.76%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.94%) Java
8 8 (3.29%) Ruby
9 7 (2.88%) Go
10 3 (1.23%) PHP
11 2 (0.82%) Bicep
11 2 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.23%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.35%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.94%) Degree
5 5 (2.06%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.06%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.82%) CSPO
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.06%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.23%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.82%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) QA
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 36 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (26.34%) Kubernetes
2 51 (20.99%) Terraform
3 12 (4.94%) Grafana
3 12 (4.94%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.70%) Ansible
5 8 (3.29%) Argo
6 7 (2.88%) Istio
6 7 (2.88%) linkerd
7 5 (2.06%) Puppet
8 4 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (7.00%) Google
2 11 (4.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.65%) Databricks
4 3 (1.23%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.23%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.82%) OpenAI