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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 189 185
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 -65
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 56 104 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.70% 1.05% 1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.34% 3.35% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 46 76 57
10th Percentile £47,231 £54,375 £40,750
25th Percentile £55,625 £59,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +25.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,281 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £100,144 £80,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £83,900
% change year-on-year +3.13% -4.65% +4.88%

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 2,393 3,109 3,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.88% 31.53% 41.87%
Number of salaries quoted 982 2,271 1,510
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,021 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.04% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,925 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 May 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 May 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 +29 51 £74,870 -0.17% 93
Lancashire -70 3 £50,055 -37.43% 27
Merseyside +27 1 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Cheshire +8 1 £80,000 - 13
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 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 35 (62.50%) AWS
2 22 (39.29%) Azure
3 11 (19.64%) GitHub
4 10 (17.86%) SaaS
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon EventBridge
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (10.71%) GCP
5 6 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (8.93%) Serverless
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.36%) OpenShift
8 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.57%) OCI
9 2 (3.57%) PaaS
10 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.79%) IaaS
10 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.71%) DynamoDB
2 6 (10.71%) MySQL
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.36%) Power BI
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.79%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.14%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) MSTest
3 2 (3.57%) NUnit
3 2 (3.57%) SpecFlow
3 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 11 (19.64%) Banking
4 7 (12.50%) Retail
5 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Marketing
6 3 (5.36%) Military
7 2 (3.57%) Front Office
7 2 (3.57%) Law
8 1 (1.79%) Automotive
8 1 (1.79%) Electronics
8 1 (1.79%) Games
8 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Senior
2 13 (23.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 11 (19.64%) Developer
4 11 (19.64%) Lead
5 10 (17.86%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 10 (17.86%) Security Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Architect
6 8 (14.29%) Lead Developer
7 7 (12.50%) .NET Developer
8 6 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (8.93%) Lead .NET Developer
9 5 (8.93%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (7.14%) AWS Architect
10 4 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
10 4 (7.14%) DevOps Architect
10 4 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
10 4 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 4 (7.14%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.93%) .NET
2 16 (28.57%) React
3 10 (17.86%) .NET Core
4 6 (10.71%) Node.js
5 5 (8.93%) Kafka
6 4 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (7.14%) REST
6 4 (7.14%) SOAP
6 4 (7.14%) XML
7 2 (3.57%) CSS
7 2 (3.57%) CSS3
7 2 (3.57%) Highcharts JS
7 2 (3.57%) HTML
7 2 (3.57%) HTML5
7 2 (3.57%) JSON
7 2 (3.57%) LESS
7 2 (3.57%) NgRx
7 2 (3.57%) Reactive Extensions
7 2 (3.57%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Product Ownership
2 9 (16.07%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 7 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 7 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.57%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (3.57%) Derivative
5 2 (3.57%) Equities
5 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) IoT
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.43%) Linux
2 7 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.36%) Windows
4 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) DevOps
2 30 (53.57%) CI/CD
3 21 (37.50%) Event-Driven
4 19 (33.93%) Agile
4 19 (33.93%) Microservices
4 19 (33.93%) Software Engineering
5 18 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (30.36%) Roadmaps
7 12 (21.43%) TDD
8 10 (17.86%) Cloud Security
9 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (16.07%) Line Management
10 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 7 (12.50%) Architectural Design
11 7 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 7 (12.50%) Observability
11 7 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
11 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) SQL
2 13 (23.21%) TypeScript
3 11 (19.64%) C#
3 11 (19.64%) Python
4 9 (16.07%) Java
4 9 (16.07%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.79%) Bicep
5 1 (1.79%) PHP
5 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) CCNA
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) MCITP
4 1 (1.79%) MCSE
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) GDPR
1 4 (7.14%) HIPAA
1 4 (7.14%) NIST
2 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) Docker
2 7 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (53.57%) Terraform
2 16 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle
2 4 (7.14%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) Informatica
4 1 (1.79%) Facebook
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) SAP