Cloud Native Job Trends in Lancashire

Cloud Native
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 98 72
Rank change year-on-year +29 -26 -
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 16 2 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 1.06% 0.18% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.19% 0.27% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 9
10th Percentile £48,289 - -
25th Percentile £54,063 £35,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -50.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £45,000 -
90th Percentile £74,367 - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 £74,870 £76,250
% change year-on-year +0.17% -1.81% +8.93%

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 308 745 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 20.45% 65.58% 31.48%
Number of salaries quoted 223 94 212
10th Percentile £30,750 £22,425 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,375 £25,125 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £54,793 £65,603
90th Percentile £74,985 £66,000 £74,700
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% -6.96%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Lancashire over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in Lancashire

Cloud Native
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Blackpool - 3 £52,130 -
Burnley - 3 £70,000 -
Lancaster - 2 £53,750 -
Preston - 2 £83,750 -
Cloud Native
North West

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Software Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) IoT
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Coaching
3 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Observability
4 3 (18.75%) Operational Stability
4 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) BDD
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (12.50%) GitOps
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Open Source
5 2 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Argo
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Google