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 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 103 133
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 53 38 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.12% 1.90% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 2.03% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 43 30 51
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £84,375 £74,721 £75,107
90th Percentile £96,750 £76,840 £77,715
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +16.67% +0.80% +3.52%

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 4,323 1,872 4,475
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 93.83% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,095 1,255 3,635
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,700 £29,850
25th Percentile £42,875 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -4.06%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,500 £88,750 £81,250
North West median annual salary £51,250 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.47% +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 11 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 11 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 34 (64.15%) AWS
2 33 (62.26%) Terraform
3 28 (52.83%) Azure
4 23 (43.40%) Security Cleared
5 22 (41.51%) DevOps
6 21 (39.62%) CI/CD
7 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (37.74%) SC Cleared
8 19 (35.85%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (28.30%) Agile
10 14 (26.42%) Kubernetes
11 13 (24.53%) Ansible
11 13 (24.53%) Collaborative Culture
12 11 (20.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (18.87%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (18.87%) GitHub
14 9 (16.98%) Containerisation
14 9 (16.98%) GitLab
14 9 (16.98%) Python
15 8 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
15 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 8 (15.09%) Windows
15 8 (15.09%) Windows Server
16 7 (13.21%) GCP
17 6 (11.32%) Deployment Automation
17 6 (11.32%) Git
17 6 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
17 6 (11.32%) Microservices
17 6 (11.32%) Observability

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 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (64.15%) AWS
2 28 (52.83%) Azure
3 11 (20.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (18.87%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (18.87%) GitHub
5 7 (13.21%) GCP
6 6 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (9.43%) Azure AKS
7 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
8 4 (7.55%) SaaS
9 3 (5.66%) Datadog
9 3 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.77%) iPaaS
10 2 (3.77%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.89%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) DHCP
2 2 (3.77%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
1 3 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.66%) MySQL
1 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
1 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) GitLab
2 6 (11.32%) Git
3 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) PyCharm
4 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (9.43%) Banking
1 5 (9.43%) Finance
1 5 (9.43%) Retail Banking
1 5 (9.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) YAML
2 4 (7.55%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.66%) AWS CDK
3 3 (5.66%) NestJS
3 3 (5.66%) Node.js
3 3 (5.66%) REST
3 3 (5.66%) RESTful
4 2 (3.77%) .NET
4 2 (3.77%) Middleware
5 1 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Windows
1 8 (15.09%) Windows Server
2 5 (9.43%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Debian
3 2 (3.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) DevOps
2 21 (39.62%) CI/CD
3 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (35.85%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (28.30%) Agile
6 13 (24.53%) Collaborative Culture
7 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (16.98%) Containerisation
9 8 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (11.32%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (11.32%) Microservices
10 6 (11.32%) Observability
10 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
11 5 (9.43%) Digital Banking
11 5 (9.43%) ITIL
11 5 (9.43%) Product Management
12 4 (7.55%) Cost Optimisation
12 4 (7.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) Python
2 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
3 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.66%) Bash
4 3 (5.66%) Go
4 3 (5.66%) Java
4 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.66%) SQL
5 1 (1.89%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 20 (37.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (62.26%) Terraform
2 14 (26.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (24.53%) Ansible
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.66%) Grafana
5 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.89%) Google
2 1 (1.89%) Splunk