Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 147 100
Rank change year-on-year +43 -47 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 27 25 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.13% 0.70% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.73% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 52
10th Percentile £35,500 - £46,306
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £71,500 £72,500 £96,539
North West median annual salary £60,000 £48,256 £66,250
% change year-on-year +24.34% -27.16% +11.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,190 3,434 2,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 95.52% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,439 1,719 1,863
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,900 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,613
North West median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.00% -9.09% +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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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
Altrincham - 2 £62,500 - 3
Cloud Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, 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 21 (77.78%) Azure
2 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 13 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (48.15%) Terraform
4 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
5 9 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 9 (33.33%) High Availability
6 8 (29.63%) Windows
7 7 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
7 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
8 6 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (22.22%) Cloud Security
8 6 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (22.22%) IaaS
8 6 (22.22%) SQL
9 5 (18.52%) Agile
9 5 (18.52%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (18.52%) Cloud Operations
9 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (18.52%) Debian
9 5 (18.52%) DMZ
9 5 (18.52%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (18.52%) ISO 9001
9 5 (18.52%) Kamailio

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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (22.22%) IaaS
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (18.52%) Power Automate
4 5 (18.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (14.81%) Copilot Studio
5 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (14.81%) PaaS
6 3 (11.11%) AWS
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub
7 2 (7.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (7.41%) Serverless
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DMZ
1 5 (18.52%) STUN
1 5 (18.52%) VLAN
1 5 (18.52%) VoIP
1 5 (18.52%) VPN
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
3 2 (7.41%) DNS
3 2 (7.41%) Network Security
3 2 (7.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 5 (18.52%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Driving Licence
2 4 (14.81%) AI Agents
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
3 5 (18.52%) Debian
3 5 (18.52%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) DevOps
2 13 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 9 (33.33%) High Availability
5 6 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (18.52%) Agile
6 5 (18.52%) Cloud Operations
6 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (18.52%) Software Licensing
6 5 (18.52%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (14.81%) AI
7 4 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (11.11%) Observability
8 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (7.41%) Technical Debt
9 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) Bicep
4 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (18.52%) ISO 9001
4 2 (7.41%) NIST
5 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Kamailio
1 5 (18.52%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Terraform
2 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.41%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Salesforce
3 4 (14.81%) Foundry
4 3 (11.11%) Google
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) VMware