Cloud Computing Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Computing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 136 159
Rank change year-on-year +121 +23 +46
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 419 18 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 12.19% 0.71% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.23% 1.78% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 18
10th Percentile - £38,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £53,438 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £76,982 £75,582 £81,525
North West median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% +9.09% -4.35%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,261 1,010 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 36.68% 40.00% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 691 590 1,268
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in Manchester

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Stockport - 34 £77,500 - 1
Altrincham - 17 £27,500 -
Salford +9 14 £74,301 +7.20% 1
Wigan - 14 - -
Cheadle - 14 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - -
Bolton - 13 - -
Bury - 13 - -
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Rochdale +7 12 - -
Heywood - 12 - -
Littleborough - 12 - -
Oldham - 12 - -
Sale - 11 - -
Cloud Computing
North West

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.19%) SharePoint
1 5 (1.19%) WordPress
2 4 (0.95%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (1.91%) Power Platform
2 5 (1.19%) AWS
2 5 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (1.19%) Entra ID
2 5 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (1.19%) OneDrive
2 5 (1.19%) Power Automate
3 3 (0.72%) Snowflake
4 2 (0.48%) Azure
4 2 (0.48%) dbt
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (0.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.24%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (0.24%) GCP
5 1 (0.24%) PaaS
5 1 (0.24%) Pulumi
5 1 (0.24%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 402 (95.94%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.91%) Power BI
2 3 (0.72%) Data Vault
2 3 (0.72%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.24%) Redis
3 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.72%) GitLab
General
1 410 (97.85%) Social Skills
2 405 (96.66%) Banking
3 403 (96.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (1.91%) Finance
5 4 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
5 4 (0.95%) Retail
6 3 (0.72%) French Language
6 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
6 3 (0.72%) Italian Language
6 3 (0.72%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (0.72%) Spanish Language
7 2 (0.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 314 (74.94%) Lecturer
2 5 (1.19%) IT Support
2 5 (1.19%) Support Officer
3 4 (0.95%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 4 (0.95%) Programmer
3 4 (0.95%) Trainee
3 4 (0.95%) Trainee Programmer
4 3 (0.72%) Developer
4 3 (0.72%) Graduate
4 3 (0.72%) Snowflake Developer
5 1 (0.24%) Architect
5 1 (0.24%) Azure Architect
5 1 (0.24%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (0.24%) Senior
5 1 (0.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.91%) HTML
2 4 (0.95%) Hugging Face
2 4 (0.95%) Matplotlib
2 4 (0.95%) NumPy
2 4 (0.95%) Pandas
2 4 (0.95%) scikit-learn
2 4 (0.95%) Streamlit
3 3 (0.72%) .NET
3 3 (0.72%) CSS
4 1 (0.24%) Django
4 1 (0.24%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 402 (95.94%) IoT
2 8 (1.91%) Onboarding
3 7 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (0.72%) Cloud Native
5 3 (0.72%) Data Centre
5 3 (0.72%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.24%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.19%) Windows
1 5 (1.19%) Windows 10
2 3 (0.72%) Android
2 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.24%) Linux
3 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (98.33%) Machine Learning
2 410 (97.85%) Cybersecurity
3 409 (97.61%) AI
4 402 (95.94%) User Experience
4 402 (95.94%) Web Development
5 9 (2.15%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (1.91%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (1.67%) Visualisation
7 7 (1.67%) Workflow
8 5 (1.19%) Analytics
8 5 (1.19%) Patch Management
8 5 (1.19%) Process Improvement
8 5 (1.19%) Threat Detection
9 4 (0.95%) Conversational UI
9 4 (0.95%) Data Privacy
9 4 (0.95%) Neural Network
9 4 (0.95%) OO
9 4 (0.95%) OOP
9 4 (0.95%) Open Source
9 4 (0.95%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.63%) Python
2 6 (1.43%) SQL
3 3 (0.72%) ANSI SQL
3 3 (0.72%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.24%) Java
Qualifications
1 405 (96.66%) Degree
2 402 (95.94%) Master's Degree
2 402 (95.94%) PhD
2 402 (95.94%) Postgraduate
3 5 (1.19%) A+ Certification
4 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
4 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (2.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.72%) Oracle
3 1 (0.24%) Google