Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £74,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
2 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 131 151
Rank change year-on-year +86 +20 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 198 34 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.78% 1.38% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% 1.52% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 166 25 31
10th Percentile £55,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,438 £50,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £86,875 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £76,840 £72,500
North West median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% +9.09% -18.52%

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 6,733 2,243 4,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 91.22% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,242 1,373 2,587
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,040
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 2 September 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 2 September 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 71 (35.86%) Security Cleared
2 66 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 59 (29.80%) AWS
4 57 (28.79%) DevOps
5 56 (28.28%) Azure
6 55 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
7 53 (26.77%) Terraform
8 44 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (20.20%) CI/CD
10 33 (16.67%) Kubernetes
11 23 (11.62%) Microsoft
12 21 (10.61%) Cyber Intelligence
12 21 (10.61%) GCP
13 20 (10.10%) Agile
13 20 (10.10%) Ansible
13 20 (10.10%) Cloud Security
14 19 (9.60%) Cloud Operations
14 19 (9.60%) PowerShell
15 18 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (8.59%) GitHub
17 16 (8.08%) Python
17 16 (8.08%) SaaS
18 13 (6.57%) Bash
18 13 (6.57%) Collaborative Working
18 13 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 12 (6.06%) AI
19 12 (6.06%) Identity Access Management
20 11 (5.56%) Active Directory
20 11 (5.56%) Collaborative Culture
20 11 (5.56%) Containerisation

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 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.80%) AWS
2 56 (28.28%) Azure
3 21 (10.61%) GCP
4 18 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (8.59%) GitHub
6 16 (8.08%) SaaS
7 11 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 10 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.53%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.53%) Serverless
12 3 (1.52%) Datadog
12 3 (1.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.52%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.55%) Firewall
2 4 (2.02%) DNS
3 3 (1.52%) Network Security
3 3 (1.52%) SAN
3 3 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.01%) VPN
5 1 (0.51%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (3.54%) GitLab
1 7 (3.54%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.02%) Git
3 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.51%) JIRA
4 1 (0.51%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (3.03%) Banking
1 6 (3.03%) Public Sector
1 6 (3.03%) Retail Banking
1 6 (3.03%) Social Skills
2 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (1.01%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (26.77%) Terraform
2 7 (3.54%) OpenID
2 7 (3.54%) Pulumi
2 7 (3.54%) SAML
3 5 (2.53%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.02%) JWT
4 4 (2.02%) OAuth
4 4 (2.02%) OAuth2
4 4 (2.02%) YAML
5 3 (1.52%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.66%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.53%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.51%) CCTV
6 1 (0.51%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.54%) Linux
2 5 (2.53%) Windows
3 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (28.79%) DevOps
2 55 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
3 44 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (20.20%) CI/CD
5 21 (10.61%) Cyber Intelligence
6 20 (10.10%) Agile
6 20 (10.10%) Cloud Security
7 19 (9.60%) Cloud Operations
8 13 (6.57%) Collaborative Working
8 13 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (6.06%) AI
9 12 (6.06%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (5.56%) Collaborative Culture
10 11 (5.56%) Containerisation
11 10 (5.05%) Fintech
12 9 (4.55%) RBAC
13 8 (4.04%) Observability
13 8 (4.04%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (4.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.60%) PowerShell
2 16 (8.08%) Python
3 13 (6.57%) Bash
4 7 (3.54%) Bicep
5 3 (1.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 71 (35.86%) Security Cleared
2 66 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.52%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.04%) Docker
3 3 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 33 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.10%) Ansible
3 6 (3.03%) Grafana
3 6 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.52%) Argo
4 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.52%) Puppet
4 3 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.56%) Google
3 4 (2.02%) Okta
3 4 (2.02%) VMware
4 3 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco
6 1 (0.51%) Citrix
6 1 (0.51%) Splunk
46 Cloud Engineer jobs in Manchester