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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 176 189
Rank change year-on-year +112 +13 -49
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 246 64 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.16% 1.25% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.44% 2.60% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 205 45 73
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,500 £101,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.62% +0.63% -

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 2,357 2,458 3,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.71% 47.87% 30.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,801 874 1,913
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,100 £83,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% +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 20 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 20 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 +69 203 £82,500 +10.19% 72
Lancashire +29 16 £55,000 +37.50% 5
Merseyside -4 13 £62,500 - 1
Cheshire +15 12 £62,500 -21.88% 8
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 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.22%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.81%) Apache
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.81%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 114 (46.34%) AWS
2 53 (21.54%) Azure
3 32 (13.01%) Serverless
4 29 (11.79%) GCP
4 29 (11.79%) SaaS
5 14 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (5.69%) GitHub
6 9 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.25%) Azure AKS
8 7 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (2.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.44%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (2.03%) dbt
10 5 (2.03%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) Firewall
1 3 (1.22%) Network Security
2 2 (0.81%) AMQP
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
3 1 (0.41%) LTE
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.94%) NoSQL
2 20 (8.13%) MongoDB
3 19 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.07%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.03%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.63%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.63%) MySQL
7 4 (1.63%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (1.22%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.22%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.22%) Metadata
8 3 (1.22%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.22%) Redis
9 2 (0.81%) Big Data
9 2 (0.81%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.81%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.81%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 16 (6.50%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.69%) GitLab
3 13 (5.28%) Git
4 7 (2.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.81%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.81%) Vite
General
1 34 (13.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.50%) Finance
2 16 (6.50%) Retail
3 11 (4.47%) Public Sector
4 6 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.81%) Aerospace
6 2 (0.81%) Banking
6 2 (0.81%) French Language
6 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (0.81%) Italian Language
6 2 (0.81%) Marketing
6 2 (0.81%) Portuguese Language
6 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
6 2 (0.81%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 81 (32.93%) Senior
2 63 (25.61%) Software Engineer
3 43 (17.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (11.38%) Developer
5 27 (10.98%) Senior Software Engineer
6 26 (10.57%) Principal Engineer
7 22 (8.94%) Architect
7 22 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (8.94%) Lead
8 15 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (6.10%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.69%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 13 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (5.28%) Lead Software Engineer
10 13 (5.28%) Principal Software Engineer
10 13 (5.28%) Python Engineer
10 13 (5.28%) Software Developer
11 12 (4.88%) Senior Software Developer
12 11 (4.47%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.23%) React
2 34 (13.82%) .NET
3 30 (12.20%) Node.js
4 16 (6.50%) FastAPI
5 12 (4.88%) RESTful
6 11 (4.47%) Next.js
6 11 (4.47%) Vue
7 10 (4.07%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.07%) REST
8 8 (3.25%) React Native
8 8 (3.25%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (2.85%) Kafka
9 7 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.85%) Spring
10 6 (2.44%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.44%) Flask
11 5 (2.03%) Django
11 5 (2.03%) JWT
11 5 (2.03%) OAuth
11 5 (2.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.98%) Product Ownership
2 26 (10.57%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.07%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.22%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.22%) IoT
6 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.22%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.81%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.41%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.41%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.28%) Linux
2 5 (2.03%) CentOS
2 5 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.81%) Android
3 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.81%) Debian
3 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (58.94%) DevOps
2 105 (42.68%) CI/CD
3 90 (36.59%) Software Engineering
4 63 (25.61%) AI
4 63 (25.61%) Microservices
5 55 (22.36%) Event-Driven
6 52 (21.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 51 (20.73%) Agile
8 46 (18.70%) Observability
9 45 (18.29%) Containerisation
10 42 (17.07%) Full-Stack Development
11 39 (15.85%) Mentoring
12 38 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
15 26 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (9.76%) Roadmaps
17 23 (9.35%) Test Automation
18 22 (8.94%) Open Source
18 22 (8.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.42%) Python
2 30 (12.20%) TypeScript
3 25 (10.16%) SQL
4 23 (9.35%) C#
5 19 (7.72%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.91%) Bash
7 14 (5.69%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.47%) Java
9 8 (3.25%) Ruby
10 7 (2.85%) Go
11 3 (1.22%) PHP
12 2 (0.81%) Bicep
12 2 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.54%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.69%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.47%) Degree
5 5 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.63%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.81%) 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 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.03%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.22%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.81%) GDPR
4 2 (0.81%) QA
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (15.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 50 (20.33%) Terraform
3 12 (4.88%) Grafana
3 12 (4.88%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.66%) Ansible
5 8 (3.25%) Argo
6 7 (2.85%) Istio
6 7 (2.85%) linkerd
7 4 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.63%) Puppet
8 2 (0.81%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (6.50%) Google
2 12 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.63%) Databricks
4 2 (0.81%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.81%) SaltStack