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 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 127 147
Rank change year-on-year +71 +20 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 142 39 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.25% 1.60% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.75% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 114 28 51
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,419 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,460 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,840 £70,000
North West median annual salary £71,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.40% +4.17% -

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 5,967 2,226 5,315
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 91.45% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,703 1,328 3,988
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £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 8 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 8 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 55 (38.73%) Security Cleared
2 54 (38.03%) AWS
3 52 (36.62%) SC Cleared
4 50 (35.21%) Terraform
5 49 (34.51%) Azure
6 48 (33.80%) DevOps
7 44 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (30.28%) CI/CD
9 40 (28.17%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (20.42%) Kubernetes
11 21 (14.79%) Agile
12 20 (14.08%) GCP
13 19 (13.38%) GitHub
13 19 (13.38%) Microsoft
14 17 (11.97%) Ansible
14 17 (11.97%) Cloud Security
15 16 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (10.56%) Collaborative Culture
17 14 (9.86%) Containerisation
18 13 (9.15%) Cloud Operations
18 13 (9.15%) PowerShell
19 12 (8.45%) AI
19 12 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 12 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (8.45%) Python
20 11 (7.75%) Firewall
20 11 (7.75%) SaaS
21 10 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
21 10 (7.04%) Fintech
21 10 (7.04%) GitLab

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 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 54 (38.03%) AWS
2 49 (34.51%) Azure
3 20 (14.08%) GCP
4 19 (13.38%) GitHub
5 16 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.75%) SaaS
8 10 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (5.63%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.93%) Pulumi
12 5 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.82%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (2.11%) Datadog
14 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
15 2 (1.41%) OpenShift
15 2 (1.41%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.75%) Firewall
2 3 (2.11%) Network Security
2 3 (2.11%) SAN
3 2 (1.41%) DNS
3 2 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.70%) MySQL
1 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.04%) GitLab
2 7 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.52%) Git
4 2 (1.41%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.70%) JIRA
5 1 (0.70%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (4.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.23%) Banking
2 6 (4.23%) Retail Banking
3 5 (3.52%) Finance
4 3 (2.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.23%) OpenID
1 6 (4.23%) SAML
2 5 (3.52%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.82%) JWT
3 4 (2.82%) OAuth
3 4 (2.82%) OAuth2
3 4 (2.82%) YAML
4 3 (2.11%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.11%) NestJS
4 3 (2.11%) Node.js
4 3 (2.11%) REST
5 1 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.11%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.23%) Linux
2 2 (1.41%) Debian
2 2 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.80%) DevOps
2 44 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (30.28%) CI/CD
4 40 (28.17%) Platform Engineering
5 21 (14.79%) Agile
6 17 (11.97%) Cloud Security
7 15 (10.56%) Collaborative Culture
8 14 (9.86%) Containerisation
9 13 (9.15%) Cloud Operations
10 12 (8.45%) AI
10 12 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (7.04%) Fintech
12 9 (6.34%) Cyber Intelligence
13 8 (5.63%) Observability
13 8 (5.63%) RBAC
14 7 (4.93%) Cybersecurity
14 7 (4.93%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (4.23%) Mentoring
15 6 (4.23%) Product Management
15 6 (4.23%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.15%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.45%) Python
3 8 (5.63%) Bash
4 4 (2.82%) Bicep
5 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.70%) Go
6 1 (0.70%) Java
6 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (38.73%) Security Cleared
2 52 (36.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.82%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.11%) PCI DSS
1 3 (2.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Docker
2 6 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (35.21%) Terraform
2 29 (20.42%) Kubernetes
3 17 (11.97%) Ansible
4 6 (4.23%) Grafana
4 6 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.11%) Argo
7 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.04%) Google
3 4 (2.82%) VMware
4 2 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.41%) Okta