Cloud Engineer Jobs in the North West

Cloud Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the North West is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 187 202
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 118 116 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.21% 1.47% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.65% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 86 88 77
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,965 £45,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £44,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £67,851 £77,715 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,715 £80,375 £88,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.99% +3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 9,204 7,035 9,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 89.07% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,085 4,082 5,490
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,475 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the North West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the North West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the North West

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +15 72 £60,000 +3.79% 11
Cheshire -10 20 £43,500 -20.91% 4
Merseyside +22 15 £42,500 -54.55% 1
Lancashire -2 11 £66,391 +104.28% 3
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (57.63%) Azure
2 43 (36.44%) AWS
2 43 (36.44%) Microsoft
3 34 (28.81%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (28.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (25.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 30 (25.42%) ITIL
5 29 (24.58%) Active Directory
6 28 (23.73%) Terraform
6 28 (23.73%) Windows
6 28 (23.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (20.34%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (19.49%) CI/CD
9 21 (17.80%) Windows Server
10 20 (16.95%) PowerShell
10 20 (16.95%) DHCP
11 19 (16.10%) Finance
12 18 (15.25%) GitHub
13 17 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (14.41%) DevOps
13 17 (14.41%) Migration
13 17 (14.41%) Linux
13 17 (14.41%) Roadmaps
14 16 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (13.56%) Python
15 15 (12.71%) DNS
15 15 (12.71%) Entra ID
15 15 (12.71%) GCP
15 15 (12.71%) Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 28 (23.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (8.47%) Apache Spark
3 9 (7.63%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.24%) Confluence
5 3 (2.54%) Apache
5 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 68 (57.63%) Azure
2 43 (36.44%) AWS
3 34 (28.81%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (15.25%) GitHub
5 16 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (12.71%) Entra ID
6 15 (12.71%) GCP
7 11 (9.32%) PaaS
8 10 (8.47%) OCI
9 9 (7.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (7.63%) IaaS
10 8 (6.78%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.08%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (4.24%) Power Platform
13 4 (3.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 4 (3.39%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (3.39%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.95%) DHCP
2 15 (12.71%) DNS
3 13 (11.02%) Firewall
4 3 (2.54%) HTTP
4 3 (2.54%) MQTT
5 2 (1.69%) PBX
5 2 (1.69%) VoIP
6 1 (0.85%) DMZ
6 1 (0.85%) Network Security
6 1 (0.85%) SSL
6 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.85%) VLAN
6 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.24%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.39%) Power BI
4 3 (2.54%) Airbyte
4 3 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.54%) Looker
4 3 (2.54%) Tableau
5 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Git
1 10 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.93%) Artifactory
2 7 (5.93%) GitLab
2 7 (5.93%) Spinnaker
3 5 (4.24%) JIRA
General
1 19 (16.10%) Finance
2 10 (8.47%) Banking
3 8 (6.78%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.93%) Legal
4 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.08%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.24%) Local Government
7 3 (2.54%) Law
7 3 (2.54%) Retail
7 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.69%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.47%) Kafka
2 4 (3.39%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.54%) Apache Beam
3 3 (2.54%) CSS
3 3 (2.54%) HTML
3 3 (2.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (8.47%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.08%) Blog
4 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.54%) iPad
5 3 (2.54%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.69%) IoT
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.73%) Windows
2 21 (17.80%) Windows Server
3 17 (14.41%) Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (25.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (25.42%) ITIL
3 24 (20.34%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (19.49%) CI/CD
5 17 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (14.41%) DevOps
5 17 (14.41%) Migration
5 17 (14.41%) Roadmaps
6 16 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (11.86%) Agile
7 14 (11.86%) Capacity Planning
7 14 (11.86%) Incident Management
8 13 (11.02%) Proactive Monitoring
8 13 (11.02%) Server Management
8 13 (11.02%) Software Engineering
9 12 (10.17%) Technology Roadmap
10 11 (9.32%) Service Management
11 10 (8.47%) Data Management
11 10 (8.47%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.95%) PowerShell
2 16 (13.56%) Python
3 11 (9.32%) Bash
4 10 (8.47%) Java
5 6 (5.08%) SQL
6 4 (3.39%) Bicep
7 2 (1.69%) Go
8 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (11.86%) Azure Certification
2 12 (10.17%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (24.58%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.86%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.54%) Docker
5 3 (2.54%) Firmware
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (23.73%) Terraform
2 14 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (8.47%) Ansible
4 2 (1.69%) Grafana
4 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.69%) Rundeck
5 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (36.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.02%) Citrix
3 11 (9.32%) Google
4 10 (8.47%) Oracle
5 7 (5.93%) Confluent
5 7 (5.93%) VMware
6 3 (2.54%) Teradata
7 2 (1.69%) BT
7 2 (1.69%) Cisco
7 2 (1.69%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.69%) New Relic
7 2 (1.69%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.69%) Splunk
8 1 (0.85%) Informatica
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Veeam