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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 179 179
Rank change year-on-year +119 0 -35
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 267 67 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.30% 1.30% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.07% 2.70% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 215 48 64
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £74,870 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -1.81% +8.93%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £81,719
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 2,412 2,482 2,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.74% 48.01% 30.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,795 892 1,503
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,992 £33,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,954
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.58% -7.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,734
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £58,750 £55,443 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.97% -3.58% -11.54%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +62 224 £85,000 +13.53% 100
Lancashire +30 16 £55,000 +37.50% 2
Merseyside -9 13 £62,500 - 3
Cheshire +21 12 £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 10 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.62%) Apache
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 131 (49.06%) AWS
2 52 (19.48%) Azure
3 38 (14.23%) Serverless
4 36 (13.48%) SaaS
5 30 (11.24%) GCP
6 21 (7.87%) GitHub
7 15 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.75%) dbt
9 10 (3.75%) Snowflake
10 9 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.37%) Datadog
10 9 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (3.00%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.25%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.12%) Firewall
1 3 (1.12%) Network Security
2 2 (0.75%) AMQP
2 2 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) HTTP
3 1 (0.37%) LTE
3 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.49%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.49%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.00%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.62%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.25%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.87%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.50%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.50%) MySQL
8 4 (1.50%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.12%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.12%) Metadata
9 3 (1.12%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.12%) Redis
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.75%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.75%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (6.74%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.99%) GitLab
3 15 (5.62%) Git
4 7 (2.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.75%) Vite
7 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 40 (14.98%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.24%) Retail
3 15 (5.62%) Finance
4 11 (4.12%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.25%) Aviation
6 4 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.12%) Law
7 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.75%) Banking
8 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Marketing
8 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 84 (31.46%) Senior
2 64 (23.97%) Software Engineer
3 45 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (11.24%) Developer
5 27 (10.11%) Principal Engineer
5 27 (10.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (9.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (8.61%) Architect
7 23 (8.61%) Lead
8 16 (5.99%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 16 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.99%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
10 13 (4.87%) Principal Software Engineer
10 13 (4.87%) Product Engineer
10 13 (4.87%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.87%) Senior Software Developer
10 13 (4.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.48%) React
2 33 (12.36%) .NET
3 29 (10.86%) Node.js
4 15 (5.62%) FastAPI
5 12 (4.49%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.12%) Next.js
6 11 (4.12%) Vue
7 10 (3.75%) REST
7 10 (3.75%) RESTful
8 8 (3.00%) React Native
8 8 (3.00%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (2.62%) Kafka
9 7 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.25%) Flask
10 6 (2.25%) Spring
11 5 (1.87%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.87%) Django
11 5 (1.87%) JWT
11 5 (1.87%) OAuth
12 4 (1.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.61%) Product Ownership
2 27 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.75%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.12%) IoT
5 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.37%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.37%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.37%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.37%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.87%) Linux
2 5 (1.87%) CentOS
2 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.75%) Debian
3 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (55.06%) DevOps
2 101 (37.83%) CI/CD
3 100 (37.45%) Software Engineering
4 72 (26.97%) AI
5 61 (22.85%) Microservices
6 58 (21.72%) Event-Driven
7 55 (20.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 54 (20.22%) Agile
8 54 (20.22%) Observability
9 45 (16.85%) Mentoring
10 44 (16.48%) Containerisation
10 44 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 34 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (12.36%) Roadmaps
13 32 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (11.99%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (8.99%) Architectural Patterns
16 22 (8.24%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.22%) Python
2 28 (10.49%) TypeScript
3 25 (9.36%) SQL
4 24 (8.99%) C#
5 20 (7.49%) Bash
6 16 (5.99%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.24%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.49%) Go
9 11 (4.12%) Java
10 8 (3.00%) Ruby
11 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (0.75%) Bicep
12 2 (0.75%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (11.24%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.99%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.62%) Degree
3 15 (5.62%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.37%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.75%) CSPO
7 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.37%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.12%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.75%) GDPR
4 2 (0.75%) QA
5 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (14.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (25.47%) Kubernetes
2 51 (19.10%) Terraform
3 13 (4.87%) Grafana
3 13 (4.87%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.12%) Ansible
5 8 (3.00%) Argo
5 8 (3.00%) Istio
5 8 (3.00%) linkerd
6 7 (2.62%) Puppet
7 6 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (5.99%) Google
2 14 (5.24%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.00%) Databricks
4 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.75%) SaltStack