Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 108 143
Rank change year-on-year +16 +35 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 69 41 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.35% 1.95% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 2.15% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 56 31 53
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £79,063 £74,443 £67,968
90th Percentile £93,750 £76,840 £77,715
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +16.67% +0.80% +2.97%

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 4,687 1,911 4,631
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 90.96% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,359 1,270 3,743
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,125 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,822 £81,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -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 25 April 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 25 April 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 36 (52.17%) AWS
2 33 (47.83%) Terraform
3 31 (44.93%) Azure
4 29 (42.03%) Security Cleared
5 26 (37.68%) SC Cleared
6 25 (36.23%) DevOps
7 22 (31.88%) CI/CD
7 22 (31.88%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
10 14 (20.29%) Agile
11 13 (18.84%) Ansible
11 13 (18.84%) Collaborative Culture
12 10 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (14.49%) Containerisation
12 10 (14.49%) GitHub
13 9 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (13.04%) GitLab
13 9 (13.04%) Python
14 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (11.59%) GCP
14 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
14 8 (11.59%) Windows
14 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
15 7 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (8.70%) Azure AKS
16 6 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
16 6 (8.70%) Digital Banking

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 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (52.17%) AWS
2 31 (44.93%) Azure
3 10 (14.49%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (14.49%) GitHub
4 9 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (11.59%) GCP
6 7 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.70%) Azure AKS
8 5 (7.25%) Entra ID
8 5 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.80%) SaaS
10 3 (4.35%) Datadog
10 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (4.35%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.90%) iPaaS
11 2 (2.90%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) DHCP
2 2 (2.90%) DNS
3 1 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) DynamoDB
1 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 3 (4.35%) MySQL
1 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
1 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) GitLab
2 5 (7.25%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) PyCharm
4 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (8.70%) Banking
1 6 (8.70%) Retail Banking
2 5 (7.25%) Finance
2 5 (7.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) YAML
2 3 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 3 (4.35%) NestJS
2 3 (4.35%) Node.js
2 3 (4.35%) REST
2 3 (4.35%) RESTful
3 2 (2.90%) .NET
3 2 (2.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.80%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Windows
1 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
2 5 (7.25%) Linux
3 2 (2.90%) Debian
3 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.23%) DevOps
2 22 (31.88%) CI/CD
2 22 (31.88%) Platform Engineering
3 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (20.29%) Agile
5 13 (18.84%) Collaborative Culture
6 10 (14.49%) Containerisation
7 9 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (8.70%) Digital Banking
9 6 (8.70%) Microservices
9 6 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.70%) Product Management
9 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
10 4 (5.80%) Cost Optimisation
10 4 (5.80%) Cyber Intelligence
10 4 (5.80%) ITIL
10 4 (5.80%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.04%) Python
2 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.80%) Bash
5 3 (4.35%) Go
5 3 (4.35%) Java
5 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.35%) SQL
6 1 (1.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 29 (42.03%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (47.83%) Terraform
2 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 13 (18.84%) Ansible
4 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.35%) Grafana
5 3 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.45%) Google
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