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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 119 150
Rank change year-on-year +59 +31 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 126 40 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.12% 1.76% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 1.93% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 101 29 54
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,446 £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% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,840 £77,715
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -4.86%

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 5,598 2,075 5,433
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 91.49% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,401 1,205 4,168
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,188
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 60 (47.62%) Azure
2 49 (38.89%) AWS
2 49 (38.89%) Terraform
3 47 (37.30%) Security Cleared
4 45 (35.71%) SC Cleared
5 43 (34.13%) CI/CD
6 39 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (29.37%) DevOps
7 37 (29.37%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (16.67%) Kubernetes
9 19 (15.08%) Agile
9 19 (15.08%) Microsoft
10 18 (14.29%) GitHub
11 17 (13.49%) Ansible
12 16 (12.70%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (12.70%) GCP
13 14 (11.11%) Containerisation
13 14 (11.11%) PowerShell
13 14 (11.11%) Python
14 12 (9.52%) AI
14 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (8.73%) Cloud Security
15 11 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (7.94%) Firewall
16 10 (7.94%) GitLab
17 9 (7.14%) Cyber Intelligence
17 9 (7.14%) Cybersecurity

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 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 60 (47.62%) Azure
2 49 (38.89%) AWS
3 18 (14.29%) GitHub
4 16 (12.70%) GCP
5 11 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.14%) SaaS
8 8 (6.35%) Entra ID
9 7 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.76%) Pulumi
11 5 (3.97%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.38%) Datadog
13 3 (2.38%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.94%) Firewall
2 4 (3.17%) DNS
3 3 (2.38%) SAN
4 2 (1.59%) DHCP
4 2 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
1 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.59%) MySQL
1 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) GitLab
2 6 (4.76%) Git
2 6 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.59%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (6.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.76%) Banking
2 6 (4.76%) Retail Banking
3 5 (3.97%) Finance
4 3 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.97%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.17%) JWT
2 4 (3.17%) OAuth
2 4 (3.17%) OAuth2
2 4 (3.17%) OpenID
2 4 (3.17%) SAML
2 4 (3.17%) YAML
3 3 (2.38%) AWS CDK
3 3 (2.38%) NestJS
3 3 (2.38%) Node.js
3 3 (2.38%) REST
4 2 (1.59%) .NET
4 2 (1.59%) Middleware
4 2 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.35%) Windows
1 8 (6.35%) Windows Server
2 5 (3.97%) Linux
3 2 (1.59%) Debian
3 2 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.13%) CI/CD
2 39 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (29.37%) DevOps
3 37 (29.37%) Platform Engineering
4 19 (15.08%) Agile
5 16 (12.70%) Collaborative Culture
6 14 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 12 (9.52%) AI
7 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (8.73%) Cloud Security
9 9 (7.14%) Cyber Intelligence
9 9 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (5.56%) Cloud Operations
10 7 (5.56%) Fintech
10 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (5.56%) Observability
10 7 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (4.76%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (4.76%) Digital Banking
11 6 (4.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 14 (11.11%) Python
2 7 (5.56%) Bash
3 5 (3.97%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.17%) Bicep
5 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.59%) Go
6 2 (1.59%) Java
6 2 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (37.30%) Security Cleared
2 45 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) Docker
2 6 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (38.89%) Terraform
2 21 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.49%) Ansible
4 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.97%) Grafana
5 5 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.59%) Argo
6 2 (1.59%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.17%) VMware
3 3 (2.38%) Google