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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 124 170
Rank change year-on-year +108 +46 +32
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 417 26 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 10.68% 1.16% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.77% 2.73% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 22
10th Percentile £28,000 £44,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £55,000 £74,201 £66,875
90th Percentile £68,750 £85,500 £93,075
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 1,355 954 1,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.72% 42.70% 39.72%
Number of salaries quoted 755 638 1,483
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.77% +7.62% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 - 33 - - 1
Salford +5 14 £74,301 +7.20% 1
Cheadle - 14 - -
Wigan - 14 - -
Dukinfield - 13 - -
Bolton - 13 - -
Bury - 13 - -
Altrincham - 13 £27,500 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 13 - -
Stalybridge - 13 - -
Rochdale +2 12 - -
Littleborough - 12 - -
Heywood - 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 6 (1.44%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (1.68%) AWS
2 4 (0.96%) Power Platform
3 3 (0.72%) Snowflake
4 2 (0.48%) dbt
4 2 (0.48%) PaaS
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%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.24%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.24%) GCP
5 1 (0.24%) IaaS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.24%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.24%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.24%) SaaS
5 1 (0.24%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 402 (96.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.96%) 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 6 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (0.72%) GitLab
General
1 406 (97.36%) Social Skills
2 405 (97.12%) Banking
3 403 (96.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (2.16%) Finance
5 6 (1.44%) Manufacturing
5 6 (1.44%) Retail
6 3 (0.72%) Analytical Skills
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 (75.30%) Lecturer
2 6 (1.44%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 6 (1.44%) Programmer
2 6 (1.44%) Trainee
2 6 (1.44%) Trainee Programmer
3 3 (0.72%) Developer
3 3 (0.72%) Graduate
3 3 (0.72%) Snowflake Developer
4 2 (0.48%) IT Support
5 1 (0.24%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (0.24%) IT Technician
5 1 (0.24%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (0.24%) Senior
5 1 (0.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (0.24%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (0.24%) Support Officer
5 1 (0.24%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.44%) Hugging Face
1 6 (1.44%) Matplotlib
1 6 (1.44%) NumPy
1 6 (1.44%) Pandas
1 6 (1.44%) scikit-learn
1 6 (1.44%) Streamlit
2 4 (0.96%) HTML
3 3 (0.72%) .NET
3 3 (0.72%) CSS
4 1 (0.24%) Django
4 1 (0.24%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 402 (96.40%) IoT
2 9 (2.16%) Algorithms
3 4 (0.96%) Onboarding
4 3 (0.72%) Cloud Native
4 3 (0.72%) Data Centre
4 3 (0.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.24%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.24%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.72%) Android
1 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.24%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
2 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (99.28%) Machine Learning
2 411 (98.56%) AI
3 407 (97.60%) Cybersecurity
4 402 (96.40%) User Experience
4 402 (96.40%) Web Development
5 9 (2.16%) Visualisation
5 9 (2.16%) Workflow
6 6 (1.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 6 (1.44%) Conversational UI
6 6 (1.44%) Customer Service
6 6 (1.44%) Data Privacy
6 6 (1.44%) LLM
6 6 (1.44%) Neural Network
6 6 (1.44%) OO
6 6 (1.44%) OOP
6 6 (1.44%) Prompt Engineering
6 6 (1.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 6 (1.44%) Sentiment Analysis
7 5 (1.20%) Analytics
8 4 (0.96%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (3.12%) Python
2 6 (1.44%) SQL
3 3 (0.72%) ANSI SQL
3 3 (0.72%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.24%) Java
Qualifications
1 405 (97.12%) Degree
2 402 (96.40%) Master's Degree
2 402 (96.40%) PhD
2 402 (96.40%) Postgraduate
3 6 (1.44%) AWS Certification
3 6 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.24%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (1.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.72%) Oracle
3 1 (0.24%) Google