Cloud Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Cheshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 84 78
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 2 20 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.28% 1.30% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 1.34% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 20 12
10th Percentile £57,000 £37,500 £52,075
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £43,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -20.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £44,250 -
90th Percentile £82,000 £48,075 -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 528 1,496 824
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 73.95% 96.89% 89.66%
Number of salaries quoted 268 1,124 482
10th Percentile £23,503 £25,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £67,188
90th Percentile £77,150 £72,324 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Cheshire.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Cheshire

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Crewe - 1 £55,000 -
Knutsford - 1 £80,000 - 1
Cloud Engineer
North West

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 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 Cheshire region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Docker

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft