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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 134 151
Rank change year-on-year +86 +17 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 179 37 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.62% 1.49% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.77% 1.63% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 148 26 32
10th Percentile £55,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £50,781 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,063 £74,505 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £76,840 £70,000
North West median annual salary £70,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +17.92% +4.35% -17.20%

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 6,469 2,269 4,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 91.34% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5,090 1,363 2,900
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,063 £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 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,216 £83,163
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 12 August 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 12 August 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 67 (37.43%) Security Cleared
2 62 (34.64%) SC Cleared
3 60 (33.52%) AWS
4 53 (29.61%) Terraform
5 52 (29.05%) DevOps
6 51 (28.49%) Azure
6 51 (28.49%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (22.35%) CI/CD
9 32 (17.88%) Kubernetes
10 21 (11.73%) GCP
10 21 (11.73%) Microsoft
11 20 (11.17%) Agile
12 19 (10.61%) Ansible
12 19 (10.61%) Cloud Operations
13 18 (10.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (9.50%) GitHub
14 17 (9.50%) PowerShell
15 16 (8.94%) SaaS
16 15 (8.38%) Cloud Security
17 14 (7.82%) Python
18 13 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (7.26%) Cyber Intelligence
19 12 (6.70%) AI
19 12 (6.70%) Collaborative Culture
20 11 (6.15%) Active Directory
20 11 (6.15%) Bash
20 11 (6.15%) Containerisation
20 11 (6.15%) Entra ID
20 11 (6.15%) Google

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 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.52%) AWS
2 51 (28.49%) Azure
3 21 (11.73%) GCP
4 18 (10.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (9.50%) GitHub
6 16 (8.94%) SaaS
7 11 (6.15%) Entra ID
8 10 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.91%) Pulumi
10 6 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.79%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.23%) Serverless
13 3 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.68%) Datadog
13 3 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.03%) Firewall
2 3 (1.68%) Network Security
2 3 (1.68%) SAN
2 3 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 2 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (3.91%) GitLab
1 7 (3.91%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.23%) Git
3 2 (1.12%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.56%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (3.35%) Banking
1 6 (3.35%) Public Sector
1 6 (3.35%) Retail Banking
2 4 (2.23%) Social Skills
3 3 (1.68%) Finance
4 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.91%) OpenID
1 7 (3.91%) SAML
2 5 (2.79%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.23%) AWS CDK
3 4 (2.23%) JWT
3 4 (2.23%) OAuth
3 4 (2.23%) OAuth2
3 4 (2.23%) YAML
4 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.56%) NestJS
4 1 (0.56%) Node.js
4 1 (0.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.68%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.56%) CCTV
5 1 (0.56%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.79%) Linux
2 3 (1.68%) Windows
2 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.05%) DevOps
2 51 (28.49%) Platform Engineering
3 43 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (22.35%) CI/CD
5 20 (11.17%) Agile
6 19 (10.61%) Cloud Operations
7 15 (8.38%) Cloud Security
8 13 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (7.26%) Cyber Intelligence
9 12 (6.70%) AI
9 12 (6.70%) Collaborative Culture
10 11 (6.15%) Containerisation
11 10 (5.59%) Fintech
11 10 (5.59%) Identity Access Management
12 9 (5.03%) RBAC
13 8 (4.47%) Observability
14 7 (3.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 6 (3.35%) Digital Banking
15 6 (3.35%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (3.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.50%) PowerShell
2 14 (7.82%) Python
3 11 (6.15%) Bash
4 7 (3.91%) Bicep
5 3 (1.68%) Go
6 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (37.43%) Security Cleared
2 62 (34.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.35%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.47%) Docker
3 3 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 53 (29.61%) Terraform
2 32 (17.88%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.61%) Ansible
4 6 (3.35%) Grafana
4 6 (3.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.68%) Argo
5 3 (1.68%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.68%) Puppet
5 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.15%) Google
3 4 (2.23%) Okta
3 4 (2.23%) VMware
4 3 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco
5 1 (0.56%) Citrix
5 1 (0.56%) Splunk