Public Cloud Jobs in the North West

Public Cloud
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 128 51
Rank change year-on-year -111 -77 +139
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 40 180 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 1.83% 6.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.75% 5.80% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 34 141 96
10th Percentile £56,809 £43,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,876 £56,809 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,935 £62,783 £67,708
Median % change year-on-year +19.36% -7.27% -3.28%
75th Percentile £96,896 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £90,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £74,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.40% -6.88%

All Generic Skills
North West

Public Cloud 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 2,292 3,104 3,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 28.97% 31.57% 41.81%
Number of salaries quoted 982 2,269 1,488
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% +4.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,925 £82,510 £83,842
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the North West

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Public Cloud in the North West

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the North West

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 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 -3 34 £74,870 +19.25% 27
Cheshire - 4 £80,000 - 1
Lancashire -91 2 £61,992 +1.28% 16
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
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 3 (7.50%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) Azure
2 19 (47.50%) AWS
3 13 (32.50%) GCP
4 10 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.00%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.00%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.50%) Apigee
7 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (2.50%) dbt
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.50%) IaaS
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) LAN
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) Cloud Spanner
2 3 (7.50%) Data Lake
2 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.00%) Big Data
3 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 25 (62.50%) Finance
2 23 (57.50%) Banking
3 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
4 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Automotive
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Senior
2 13 (32.50%) Software Engineer
3 12 (30.00%) Architect
4 10 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) Security Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Senior Architect
6 6 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (10.00%) Lead
8 3 (7.50%) Data Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Domain Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (2.50%) 1st Line Support
10 1 (2.50%) Security Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Node.js
1 10 (25.00%) React
1 10 (25.00%) RESTful
1 10 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (7.50%) Kafka
2 3 (7.50%) scikit-learn
2 3 (7.50%) TensorFlow
3 2 (5.00%) gRPC
3 2 (5.00%) Playwright
3 2 (5.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.50%) Torch
4 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Algorithms
2 8 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
3 7 (17.50%) Security Posture
4 6 (15.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (7.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
6 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
6 2 (5.00%) Replication
7 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.50%) Debian
4 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Coaching
1 17 (42.50%) Roadmaps
2 16 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 13 (32.50%) Machine Learning
3 13 (32.50%) Software Engineering
3 13 (32.50%) Test Automation
4 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
6 10 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 10 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 10 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (22.50%) DevOps
8 8 (20.00%) Data Science
8 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (15.00%) Data Architecture
9 6 (15.00%) Data Strategy
9 6 (15.00%) Digital Strategy
9 6 (15.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Java
2 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 6 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) SQL
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) VB
5 1 (2.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
1 8 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Istio
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Google
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Apple
4 1 (2.50%) Confluent
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) Logitech
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Veeam