Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 117 102
Rank change year-on-year +18 -15 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 33 35 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.01% 1.37% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.46% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27 18 63
10th Percentile £48,700 £47,231 £39,261
25th Percentile £52,750 £48,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 - £82,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +3.79%

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 2,932 2,398 3,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.69% 94.15% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,954 1,177 2,784
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 22 (66.67%) Azure
2 21 (63.64%) Terraform
3 14 (42.42%) AWS
4 12 (36.36%) DevOps
4 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
6 9 (27.27%) Agile
6 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (27.27%) Windows
6 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
7 7 (21.21%) Ansible
7 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
7 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
8 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (18.18%) GCP
8 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
8 6 (18.18%) Python
9 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
9 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (15.15%) Firewall
9 5 (15.15%) Linux
9 5 (15.15%) Microservices
9 5 (15.15%) SaaS
10 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
10 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (66.67%) Azure
2 14 (42.42%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) GCP
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (15.15%) SaaS
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (12.12%) Azure AKS
6 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 3 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
7 3 (9.09%) Power Automate
8 2 (6.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (6.06%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (6.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
2 4 (12.12%) DNS
3 2 (6.06%) DHCP
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
4 1 (3.03%) DMZ
4 1 (3.03%) Network Security
4 1 (3.03%) STUN
4 1 (3.03%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) VoIP
4 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 3 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 3 (9.09%) MySQL
1 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
1 4 (12.12%) GitLab
2 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) RESTful
2 2 (6.06%) .NET
2 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
2 2 (6.06%) Middleware
2 2 (6.06%) NestJS
2 2 (6.06%) Node.js
2 2 (6.06%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) AI Agents
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
1 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Debian
4 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) DevOps
1 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (27.27%) Agile
2 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
4 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (15.15%) Microservices
5 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
5 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (9.09%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (9.09%) Fintech
6 3 (9.09%) High Availability
6 3 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (9.09%) Observability
6 3 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) SQL
2 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.09%) Bicep
3 3 (9.09%) Go
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 21 (63.64%) Terraform
2 7 (21.21%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.09%) Rancher
5 1 (3.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Foundry
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk