Cloud Native Jobs 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 185 156
Rank change year-on-year -31 -29 -17
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 66 109 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 1.02% 1.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.57% 3.28% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 48 74 73
10th Percentile £35,000 £51,250 £43,500
25th Percentile £53,058 £56,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £100,000 £86,400
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +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 2,567 3,321 2,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 33.45% 31.18% 41.31%
Number of salaries quoted 929 2,112 1,479
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £32,983
25th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £42,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,836 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.16% -15.38% +4.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the North West.

Salary trend for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the North West over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 +36 61 £74,870 -0.17% 68
Merseyside +16 2 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Lancashire -55 2 £40,000 -50.00% 34
Cheshire +7 1 £80,000 - 6
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.52%) IIS
1 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 50 (75.76%) AWS
2 36 (54.55%) Azure
3 15 (22.73%) GCP
4 10 (15.15%) Serverless
5 8 (12.12%) SaaS
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.61%) GitHub
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.58%) DynamoDB
3 4 (6.06%) MySQL
3 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.03%) DocumentDB
5 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.03%) Power BI
6 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.55%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.03%) Gatling
3 2 (3.03%) JMeter
3 2 (3.03%) MSTest
3 2 (3.03%) NUnit
3 2 (3.03%) Selenium
3 2 (3.03%) SpecFlow
3 2 (3.03%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.52%) Git
General
1 19 (28.79%) Finance
2 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.67%) Banking
4 9 (13.64%) Retail
5 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Electronics
6 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.55%) Marketing
6 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.03%) Front Office
7 2 (3.03%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Automotive
8 1 (1.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Senior
2 13 (19.70%) Architect
2 13 (19.70%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (19.70%) Developer
2 13 (19.70%) Software Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) AWS Architect
3 12 (18.18%) AWS Solution Architect
3 12 (18.18%) Lead
3 12 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 11 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
4 11 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 11 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (16.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 11 (16.67%) TOGAF Architect
5 10 (15.15%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 10 (15.15%) Security Engineer
6 9 (13.64%) .NET Developer
7 8 (12.12%) Lead Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) .NET
2 15 (22.73%) React
3 13 (19.70%) .NET Core
4 8 (12.12%) Node.js
5 7 (10.61%) Kafka
6 5 (7.58%) Lambda Expressions
6 5 (7.58%) REST
7 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.55%) Spring
7 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.03%) CSS
8 2 (3.03%) Highcharts JS
8 2 (3.03%) HTML
8 2 (3.03%) JSON
8 2 (3.03%) LESS
8 2 (3.03%) Reactive Extensions
8 2 (3.03%) RxJS
8 2 (3.03%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 11 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 9 (13.64%) Public Cloud
4 7 (10.61%) Security Posture
5 5 (7.58%) Driving Licence
6 4 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (3.03%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (3.03%) Derivative
8 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (3.03%) Equities
8 2 (3.03%) Fixed Income
8 2 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.52%) IoT
9 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Linux
2 7 (10.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (62.12%) CI/CD
1 41 (62.12%) DevOps
2 26 (39.39%) Microservices
3 24 (36.36%) Agile
3 24 (36.36%) Event-Driven
4 22 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 21 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (30.30%) Software Engineering
7 17 (25.76%) Containerisation
8 13 (19.70%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (19.70%) Technology Roadmap
9 12 (18.18%) Cloud Security
9 12 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
9 12 (18.18%) TDD
10 11 (16.67%) Architectural Design
10 11 (16.67%) Data Management
10 11 (16.67%) Data Privacy
10 11 (16.67%) TOGAF
11 10 (15.15%) Line Management
12 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.33%) SQL
2 21 (31.82%) C#
3 18 (27.27%) Python
4 17 (25.76%) TypeScript
5 16 (24.24%) Java
6 13 (19.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.03%) PHP
8 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) AWS Certification
2 11 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 11 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.03%) Degree
5 2 (3.03%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.52%) CCNA
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.52%) MCITP
6 1 (1.52%) MCSE
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) GDPR
1 11 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 11 (16.67%) NIST
2 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 31 (46.97%) Docker
2 7 (10.61%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (45.45%) Terraform
2 24 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
4 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Google
2 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle
3 3 (4.55%) SAP
4 2 (3.03%) Informatica
5 1 (1.52%) Facebook
5 1 (1.52%) Foundry