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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 184 132
Rank change year-on-year -4 -52 +63
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 107 119 249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.04% 1.57% 2.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.38% 3.78% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 74 57 61
10th Percentile £52,000 £40,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,938 £79,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,587 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +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 3,163 3,145 4,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.79% 41.49% 48.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 1,466 2,159
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,680 £28,250
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 £67,521
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,903 £81,250
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 28 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 28 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 -3 80 £75,000 +15.07% 23
Merseyside +11 15 £55,000 -8.33%
Lancashire - 10 £80,000 - 1
Cheshire -22 2 - - 1
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 (10.28%) Apache
1 11 (10.28%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.48%) Confluence
3 5 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 62 (57.94%) Azure
2 55 (51.40%) AWS
3 26 (24.30%) GCP
4 20 (18.69%) Serverless
5 17 (15.89%) Amazon S3
6 16 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (14.02%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (13.08%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (12.15%) Amazon Kinesis
10 11 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (10.28%) OpenShift
11 9 (8.41%) PaaS
12 8 (7.48%) SaaS
13 7 (6.54%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.67%) Cloud Composer
14 5 (4.67%) dbt
14 5 (4.67%) IaaS
14 5 (4.67%) Power Platform
15 4 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.28%) AMQP
2 3 (2.80%) MQTT
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) Network Security
3 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (23.36%) Relational Database
2 24 (22.43%) RDBMS
3 21 (19.63%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (14.02%) MySQL
5 14 (13.08%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (12.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (12.15%) SQL Server
7 11 (10.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (10.28%) Big Data
7 11 (10.28%) Cloudera CDH
7 11 (10.28%) Hadoop
8 10 (9.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (9.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
10 6 (5.61%) BigQuery
11 5 (4.67%) Looker
11 5 (4.67%) Power BI
11 5 (4.67%) Tableau
12 4 (3.74%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.80%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (19.63%) Git
2 13 (12.15%) Postman
3 11 (10.28%) JIRA
4 8 (7.48%) GitLab
5 6 (5.61%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.80%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.87%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 27 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.76%) Finance
3 13 (12.15%) Aerospace
4 5 (4.67%) Tech for Good
5 3 (2.80%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (28.04%) Lead
2 18 (16.82%) Architect
3 17 (15.89%) Developer
3 17 (15.89%) Software Engineer
4 13 (12.15%) Technical Leader
5 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) DBA
6 10 (9.35%) Senior
6 10 (9.35%) SQL DBA
7 9 (8.41%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Lead Developer
8 8 (7.48%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) AWS Software Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Presales Solution Architect
9 6 (5.61%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.23%) Spring
1 27 (25.23%) Spring Boot
2 20 (18.69%) Node.js
2 20 (18.69%) React
3 13 (12.15%) AngularJS
3 13 (12.15%) JSON
4 12 (11.21%) .NET
4 12 (11.21%) REST
5 11 (10.28%) gRPC
5 11 (10.28%) Material-UI
5 11 (10.28%) OpenAPI
5 11 (10.28%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (10.28%) Swagger
6 6 (5.61%) .NET Core
7 5 (4.67%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.80%) Kafka
8 3 (2.80%) Next.js
9 2 (1.87%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.87%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.67%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.02%) Linux
2 11 (10.28%) CentOS
2 11 (10.28%) Debian
2 11 (10.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (10.28%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.87%) Windows
3 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.81%) Agile
2 57 (53.27%) DevOps
3 42 (39.25%) Software Engineering
4 40 (37.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (29.91%) Mentoring
6 29 (27.10%) CI/CD
7 26 (24.30%) Microservices
8 23 (21.50%) Scrum
9 21 (19.63%) Roadmaps
10 20 (18.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 18 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (15.89%) Containerisation
12 17 (15.89%) Design Patterns
12 17 (15.89%) SDLC
13 16 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (14.95%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (14.02%) Continuous Delivery
14 15 (14.02%) Data Engineering
15 14 (13.08%) API Development
15 14 (13.08%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.97%) Java
2 27 (25.23%) Python
3 21 (19.63%) SQL
4 20 (18.69%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.15%) PHP
6 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
6 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
7 10 (9.35%) T-SQL
8 7 (6.54%) C#
9 5 (4.67%) Perl
9 5 (4.67%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.80%) Bash
11 1 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.08%) Degree
4 13 (12.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
6 8 (7.48%) AWS Certification
6 8 (7.48%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.61%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.74%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.87%) CEH
10 2 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.87%) CISM
10 2 (1.87%) CISSP
10 2 (1.87%) OSCP
11 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.87%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (11.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (41.12%) Terraform
2 23 (21.50%) Kubernetes
3 14 (13.08%) Ansible
4 11 (10.28%) Puppet
5 1 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.93%) Packer
5 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.69%) Google
3 11 (10.28%) Red Hat
3 11 (10.28%) SaltStack
4 10 (9.35%) Commvault
5 5 (4.67%) Teradata
6 2 (1.87%) Black Duck
6 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) Atlassian