Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £71,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 127 145
Rank change year-on-year +72 +18 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 147 40 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.30% 1.61% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 1.76% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 119 29 50
10th Percentile £54,750 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £76,840 £70,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 6,029 2,277 5,220
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 91.59% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,755 1,353 3,891
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,625 £72,777 £67,968
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 15 July 2026, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 54 (36.73%) AWS
3 53 (36.05%) SC Cleared
4 50 (34.01%) Terraform
5 49 (33.33%) Azure
5 49 (33.33%) DevOps
6 44 (29.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (29.25%) CI/CD
8 41 (27.89%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (20.41%) Kubernetes
10 21 (14.29%) Agile
10 21 (14.29%) GCP
11 19 (12.93%) GitHub
11 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
12 18 (12.24%) Ansible
13 16 (10.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (10.88%) Cloud Security
14 15 (10.20%) Cloud Operations
15 14 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
15 14 (9.52%) Containerisation
16 13 (8.84%) PowerShell
17 12 (8.16%) AI
17 12 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 12 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (8.16%) Python
17 12 (8.16%) SaaS
18 11 (7.48%) Firewall
18 11 (7.48%) Google
19 10 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
19 10 (6.80%) Fintech

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.73%) AWS
2 49 (33.33%) Azure
3 21 (14.29%) GCP
4 19 (12.93%) GitHub
5 16 (10.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (8.16%) SaaS
7 10 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.44%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.76%) Pulumi
11 5 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.72%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.04%) Datadog
13 3 (2.04%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.04%) Serverless
14 2 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.48%) Firewall
2 3 (2.04%) Network Security
2 3 (2.04%) SAN
3 2 (1.36%) DNS
3 2 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
1 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.68%) MySQL
1 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.80%) GitLab
2 7 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.40%) Git
4 2 (1.36%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.68%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (4.76%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.08%) Banking
2 6 (4.08%) Retail Banking
3 4 (2.72%) Finance
4 3 (2.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.08%) OpenID
1 6 (4.08%) SAML
2 5 (3.40%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.72%) JWT
3 4 (2.72%) OAuth
3 4 (2.72%) OAuth2
3 4 (2.72%) YAML
4 2 (1.36%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.36%) NestJS
4 2 (1.36%) Node.js
4 2 (1.36%) REST
5 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.76%) Linux
2 2 (1.36%) Debian
2 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.33%) DevOps
2 44 (29.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (29.25%) CI/CD
4 41 (27.89%) Platform Engineering
5 21 (14.29%) Agile
6 16 (10.88%) Cloud Security
7 15 (10.20%) Cloud Operations
8 14 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
8 14 (9.52%) Containerisation
9 12 (8.16%) AI
9 12 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (6.80%) Fintech
11 9 (6.12%) Cyber Intelligence
12 8 (5.44%) Observability
12 8 (5.44%) RBAC
13 7 (4.76%) Identity Access Management
13 7 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (4.08%) Digital Banking
14 6 (4.08%) Mentoring
14 6 (4.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.84%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.16%) Python
3 8 (5.44%) Bash
4 4 (2.72%) Bicep
5 2 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.68%) Go
6 1 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 53 (36.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.04%) PCI DSS
1 3 (2.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (5.44%) Docker
2 6 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (34.01%) Terraform
2 30 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.24%) Ansible
4 6 (4.08%) Grafana
4 6 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.04%) Argo
7 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.48%) Google
3 4 (2.72%) VMware
4 2 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.36%) Okta