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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 136 171
Rank change year-on-year -55 +35 -22
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 8 24 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.12% 0.97% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 2.56% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 22
10th Percentile - £44,225 -
25th Percentile £28,000 £47,063 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,250 £66,250 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -54.34% +29.27% -18.00%
75th Percentile £35,625 £79,375 £63,406
90th Percentile £39,000 £105,575 £95,000
North West median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -42.31% +52.94% -22.73%

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 1,900 937 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.36% 37.74% 36.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,470 611 1,115
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £56,504 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -4.35%

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
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 19 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
Stockport - 1 £32,500 -
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 1 (12.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) SaaS
2 5 (62.50%) IaaS
2 5 (62.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) IT Support
1 5 (62.50%) IT Support Technician
1 5 (62.50%) IT Technician
1 5 (62.50%) Support Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) B2B Sales Executive
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Controller
2 1 (12.50%) Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Sales Executive
2 1 (12.50%) Trainee
2 1 (12.50%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
1 1 (12.50%) Matplotlib
1 1 (12.50%) NumPy
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
1 1 (12.50%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Active Listening
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Conversational UI
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Generation
5 1 (12.50%) LLM
5 1 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ACCA
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (12.50%) CIMA
1 1 (12.50%) ICAEW
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft