Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 151 99
Rank change year-on-year +28 -52 +97
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 29 35 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.23% 0.86% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.91% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 21 23 68
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,500 £45,914
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -19.23% +18.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,000 £96,539
North West median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +15.00% -28.00% +15.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,137 3,849 2,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.50% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 2,194 2,135
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £34,572
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,850 £82,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer 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 20 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Altrincham - 2 £62,500 -
Cloud Engineer
North West

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (89.66%) Azure
2 20 (68.97%) DevOps
3 19 (65.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (62.07%) Terraform
4 18 (62.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
6 13 (44.83%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (31.03%) High Availability
9 8 (27.59%) Windows
9 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
9 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
9 8 (27.59%) Cloud Security
9 8 (27.59%) ARM Templates
10 7 (24.14%) Azure Certification
10 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
10 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
10 7 (24.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (24.14%) Linux
10 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
10 7 (24.14%) Ansible
11 6 (20.69%) IaaS
11 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (20.69%) SQL
12 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
12 5 (17.24%) VoIP
12 5 (17.24%) ISO 9001
12 5 (17.24%) VPN
12 5 (17.24%) DMZ

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 26 (89.66%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) IaaS
4 5 (17.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (13.79%) PaaS
5 4 (13.79%) Power Automate
6 3 (10.34%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (6.90%) AWS
7 2 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Stack
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DMZ
1 5 (17.24%) STUN
1 5 (17.24%) VLAN
1 5 (17.24%) VoIP
1 5 (17.24%) VPN
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) WAN
4 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) ARM Templates
2 5 (17.24%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.24%) Driving Licence
3 3 (10.34%) AI Agents
3 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Windows
2 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.24%) Debian
4 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) DevOps
2 19 (65.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (62.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Automation
5 9 (31.03%) High Availability
6 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
6 8 (27.59%) Cloud Security
7 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
8 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (17.24%) Cloud Operations
9 5 (17.24%) Software Licensing
9 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (13.79%) Agile
10 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
11 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
11 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
12 2 (6.90%) Code Quality
12 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) Bicep
4 1 (3.45%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (17.24%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (17.24%) ISO 9001
3 2 (6.90%) GDPR
4 1 (3.45%) NIST
4 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Kamailio
2 4 (13.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (62.07%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Ansible
2 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.34%) Foundry
4 2 (6.90%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Ping Identity
5 1 (3.45%) VMware