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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 186 120
Rank change year-on-year -3 -66 +79
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 104 112 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.05% 1.43% 2.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.35% 3.42% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 76 57 71
10th Percentile £54,375 £40,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £52,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,281 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,144 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £83,900 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.65% +4.88% +6.67%

All Generic Skills
North West

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,108 3,277 4,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 31.52% 41.85% 48.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,270 1,507 2,136
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £28,261
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £68,337
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 +4 79 £75,000 +25.00% 26
Merseyside +7 13 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Lancashire - 10 £80,000 -
Cheshire -6 2 - -
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 11 (10.58%) Apache
1 11 (10.58%) Apache Spark
2 10 (9.62%) Confluence
3 5 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 60 (57.69%) Azure
2 51 (49.04%) AWS
3 26 (25.00%) GCP
4 19 (18.27%) Serverless
5 17 (16.35%) Amazon S3
6 15 (14.42%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (13.46%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 13 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (10.58%) OpenShift
10 9 (8.65%) PaaS
10 9 (8.65%) SaaS
11 6 (5.77%) Azure AKS
12 5 (4.81%) Cloud Composer
12 5 (4.81%) Collibra
12 5 (4.81%) dbt
12 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (4.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.58%) AMQP
2 2 (1.92%) MQTT
3 1 (0.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.96%) Network Security
3 1 (0.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.04%) Relational Database
2 24 (23.08%) RDBMS
3 19 (18.27%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (14.42%) MySQL
5 14 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (12.50%) SQL Server
7 11 (10.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (10.58%) Big Data
7 11 (10.58%) Cloudera CDH
7 11 (10.58%) Hadoop
8 10 (9.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (9.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (7.69%) NoSQL
10 6 (5.77%) BigQuery
11 5 (4.81%) Looker
11 5 (4.81%) Metadata
11 5 (4.81%) Power BI
11 5 (4.81%) Tableau
12 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (20.19%) Git
2 13 (12.50%) Postman
3 11 (10.58%) JIRA
4 7 (6.73%) GitLab
5 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.81%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 26 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Finance
3 13 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 5 (4.81%) Banking
4 5 (4.81%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.92%) Retail
6 1 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 32 (30.77%) Lead
2 17 (16.35%) Architect
2 17 (16.35%) Developer
3 16 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 13 (12.50%) Technical Leader
5 11 (10.58%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) DBA
6 10 (9.62%) Senior
6 10 (9.62%) SQL DBA
7 9 (8.65%) Lead Developer
8 8 (7.69%) .NET Developer
8 8 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Lead .NET Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Operations Team Leader
10 5 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.81%) Team Leader
10 5 (4.81%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.00%) Spring
1 26 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 20 (19.23%) React
3 18 (17.31%) Node.js
4 13 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 13 (12.50%) JSON
5 12 (11.54%) .NET
5 12 (11.54%) REST
6 11 (10.58%) gRPC
6 11 (10.58%) Material-UI
6 11 (10.58%) OpenAPI
6 11 (10.58%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (10.58%) Swagger
7 6 (5.77%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.85%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.88%) Next.js
10 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.92%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.92%) Kafka
10 2 (1.92%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.81%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.42%) Linux
2 11 (10.58%) CentOS
2 11 (10.58%) Debian
2 11 (10.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (10.58%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.92%) Windows
3 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (59.62%) Agile
2 56 (53.85%) DevOps
3 42 (40.38%) Software Engineering
4 37 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 27 (25.96%) CI/CD
7 25 (24.04%) Microservices
8 21 (20.19%) Roadmaps
9 20 (19.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 20 (19.23%) Scrum
10 19 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (18.27%) SDLC
11 18 (17.31%) Containerisation
12 17 (16.35%) Design Patterns
13 16 (15.38%) Data Engineering
13 16 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (13.46%) Event-Driven
14 14 (13.46%) Kanban
15 13 (12.50%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.85%) Java
2 24 (23.08%) Python
3 21 (20.19%) SQL
4 18 (17.31%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.50%) PHP
6 11 (10.58%) PowerShell
6 11 (10.58%) TypeScript
7 10 (9.62%) T-SQL
8 7 (6.73%) C#
9 5 (4.81%) Perl
9 5 (4.81%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.92%) Bash
11 1 (0.96%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.46%) Degree
2 14 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (10.58%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.81%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.85%) BC Cleared
7 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.92%) CEH
8 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.92%) CISM
8 2 (1.92%) CISSP
8 2 (1.92%) OSCP
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (8.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (38.46%) Terraform
2 19 (18.27%) Kubernetes
3 12 (11.54%) Ansible
4 11 (10.58%) Puppet
5 1 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) Packer
5 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 22 (21.15%) Google
3 11 (10.58%) Red Hat
3 11 (10.58%) SaltStack
4 10 (9.62%) Commvault
5 5 (4.81%) Teradata
6 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.96%) VMware