Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £74,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 124 150
Rank change year-on-year +77 +26 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 237 27 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.10% 1.14% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.31% 1.25% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 199 20 21
10th Percentile £55,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,375 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £53,500 £48,256
Median % change year-on-year +39.25% +10.87% -25.76%
75th Percentile £87,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £63,750 £72,500
North West median annual salary £74,500 £53,500 £48,256
% change year-on-year +39.25% +10.87% -30.51%

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 7,163 2,154 3,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 90.69% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,406 1,270 1,987
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £32,650
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,125 £83,600
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 7 October 2026.

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 7 October 2026. 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
Stockport - 1 £62,500 - 3
Cloud Engineer
North West

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 7 October 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 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 60 (25.32%) SC Cleared
3 59 (24.89%) Azure
4 58 (24.47%) AWS
5 56 (23.63%) DevOps
6 54 (22.78%) Platform Engineering
7 50 (21.10%) Cloud Security
8 44 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 43 (18.14%) Terraform
10 35 (14.77%) Cyber Intelligence
11 30 (12.66%) CI/CD
12 29 (12.24%) Microsoft
13 28 (11.81%) Collaborative Working
14 27 (11.39%) Kubernetes
15 22 (9.28%) PowerShell
16 21 (8.86%) GCP
17 20 (8.44%) Cloud Operations
18 17 (7.17%) Identity Access Management
18 17 (7.17%) Python
19 16 (6.75%) SaaS
20 15 (6.33%) Ansible
20 15 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
21 14 (5.91%) Agile
21 14 (5.91%) Bash
21 14 (5.91%) Entra ID
21 14 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 13 (5.49%) Linux
23 12 (5.06%) Active Directory
23 12 (5.06%) GitHub
24 11 (4.64%) 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 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 59 (24.89%) Azure
2 58 (24.47%) AWS
3 21 (8.86%) GCP
4 16 (6.75%) SaaS
5 15 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (5.91%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.06%) GitHub
8 10 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.53%) Serverless
12 5 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.11%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.27%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.84%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.80%) Firewall
2 7 (2.95%) DNS
3 5 (2.11%) VPN
4 3 (1.27%) Network Security
4 3 (1.27%) SAN
4 3 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.42%) HTTP
6 1 (0.42%) Wireless
6 1 (0.42%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.27%) GitLab
3 2 (0.84%) Git
3 2 (0.84%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.42%) Maven
4 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (4.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.38%) Finance
3 5 (2.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (0.84%) Banking
4 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
5 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (18.14%) Terraform
2 7 (2.95%) OpenID
2 7 (2.95%) Pulumi
2 7 (2.95%) SAML
3 4 (1.69%) JWT
3 4 (1.69%) OAuth
3 4 (1.69%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.27%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.27%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.80%) Security Posture
3 7 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.42%) CCTV
6 1 (0.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.42%) FMCG
6 1 (0.42%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.42%) PKI
6 1 (0.42%) PMI
6 1 (0.42%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.42%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.49%) Linux
2 9 (3.80%) Windows
3 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.63%) DevOps
2 54 (22.78%) Platform Engineering
3 50 (21.10%) Cloud Security
4 44 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (14.77%) Cyber Intelligence
6 30 (12.66%) CI/CD
7 28 (11.81%) Collaborative Working
8 20 (8.44%) Cloud Operations
9 17 (7.17%) Identity Access Management
10 14 (5.91%) Agile
10 14 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (4.64%) RBAC
12 10 (4.22%) AI
12 10 (4.22%) Fintech
12 10 (4.22%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (4.22%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (3.80%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (3.38%) Business Continuity
14 8 (3.38%) Containerisation
15 7 (2.95%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.28%) PowerShell
2 17 (7.17%) Python
3 14 (5.91%) Bash
4 9 (3.80%) Bicep
5 3 (1.27%) Go
6 2 (0.84%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 60 (25.32%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.38%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.53%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.27%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.53%) Docker
3 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 27 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.33%) Ansible
3 4 (1.69%) Grafana
3 4 (1.69%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.69%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.27%) Argo
4 3 (1.27%) Puppet
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.64%) Google
3 5 (2.11%) Fortinet
3 5 (2.11%) Okta
4 4 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (1.69%) VMware
5 1 (0.42%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco
5 1 (0.42%) Citrix
5 1 (0.42%) Splunk