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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 187 198
Rank change year-on-year +81 +11 -21
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 148 51 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.36% 1.13% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.19% 2.28% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 124 41 76
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,231 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,438 £57,500 £56,250
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 £81,719
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £100,144
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -3.03%

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 2,853 2,237 3,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 26.23% 49.35% 31.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 734 2,224
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £26,575
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £75,000 £66,538
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,125 £83,388
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 25 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 25 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 +50 127 £82,500 +10.10% 57
Lancashire +22 6 £70,000 +39.85% 18
Cheshire +1 6 £55,000 -31.25% 6
Merseyside -11 6 £62,500 +4.17% 2
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 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.70%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.03%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 59 (39.86%) AWS
2 45 (30.41%) Azure
3 27 (18.24%) Serverless
4 21 (14.19%) GCP
5 15 (10.14%) SaaS
6 11 (7.43%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.05%) GitHub
9 5 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.70%) dbt
10 4 (2.70%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.03%) Apigee
11 3 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.03%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) DNS
2 1 (0.68%) LTE
2 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.51%) NoSQL
2 16 (10.81%) MongoDB
3 11 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.70%) DocumentDB
5 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.70%) Neo4j
5 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.03%) Big Data
6 3 (2.03%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.03%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.03%) Data Vault
6 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.03%) Metadata
6 3 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.35%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.35%) MySQL
7 2 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.05%) GitLab
3 4 (2.70%) Git
4 2 (1.35%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (11.49%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.81%) Retail
3 12 (8.11%) Finance
4 5 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.03%) French Language
6 3 (2.03%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.03%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.03%) Spanish Language
6 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.35%) Banking
7 2 (1.35%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 63 (42.57%) Senior
2 57 (38.51%) Software Engineer
3 25 (16.89%) Senior Software Engineer
4 19 (12.84%) Developer
4 19 (12.84%) Python Engineer
5 17 (11.49%) Lead
6 15 (10.14%) Architect
7 13 (8.78%) Lead Software Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) Principal Software Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Principal Architect
9 10 (6.76%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Software Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (6.08%) Senior Software Developer
11 8 (5.41%) .NET Software Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Principal Solutions Architect
13 6 (4.05%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.24%) .NET
2 22 (14.86%) Node.js
3 21 (14.19%) React
4 11 (7.43%) RESTful
5 10 (6.76%) .NET Framework
5 10 (6.76%) REST
6 9 (6.08%) Next.js
7 7 (4.73%) FastAPI
7 7 (4.73%) React Native
7 7 (4.73%) Ruby on Rails
7 7 (4.73%) Spring
7 7 (4.73%) Spring Boot
8 6 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.38%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.38%) Django
10 4 (2.70%) Backbone.js
10 4 (2.70%) JWT
10 4 (2.70%) OAuth
11 3 (2.03%) ARM Templates
11 3 (2.03%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.54%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.73%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.03%) IoT
5 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.68%) PMI
7 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.03%) Android
1 3 (2.03%) Apple iOS
1 3 (2.03%) CentOS
1 3 (2.03%) Debian
1 3 (2.03%) Linux
1 3 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (2.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (50.68%) DevOps
2 70 (47.30%) Software Engineering
3 59 (39.86%) CI/CD
4 43 (29.05%) Event-Driven
5 38 (25.68%) AI
6 36 (24.32%) Agile
6 36 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (22.30%) Microservices
8 31 (20.95%) Observability
9 27 (18.24%) Containerisation
10 24 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (16.22%) Mentoring
11 22 (14.86%) Open Source
12 21 (14.19%) Test Automation
13 20 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (12.16%) Scrum
15 16 (10.81%) Roadmaps
16 15 (10.14%) Architectural Patterns
16 15 (10.14%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.49%) Python
2 20 (13.51%) C#
3 19 (12.84%) SQL
4 17 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.14%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.76%) Java
7 8 (5.41%) Bash
8 7 (4.73%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.73%) Ruby
9 2 (1.35%) Go
10 1 (0.68%) Bicep
10 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (5.41%) Degree
2 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.38%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.70%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 24 (16.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 27 (18.24%) Terraform
3 10 (6.76%) Grafana
4 8 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.70%) Puppet
6 3 (2.03%) Ansible
6 3 (2.03%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.35%) Argo
7 2 (1.35%) Istio
7 2 (1.35%) linkerd
7 2 (1.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (6.08%) Google
2 7 (4.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.70%) Databricks
4 3 (2.03%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.03%) SaltStack