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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 129 147
Rank change year-on-year +73 +18 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 151 36 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.34% 1.44% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 1.57% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 125 25 46
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,000 - £71,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%

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 6,101 2,287 4,859
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 91.66% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,817 1,365 3,540
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,201 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £82,500
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 22 July 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 22 July 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 58 (38.41%) Security Cleared
2 56 (37.09%) SC Cleared
3 53 (35.10%) AWS
4 50 (33.11%) DevOps
5 49 (32.45%) Azure
5 49 (32.45%) Terraform
6 44 (29.14%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (27.81%) CI/CD
7 42 (27.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (19.87%) Kubernetes
9 21 (13.91%) Microsoft
10 20 (13.25%) Agile
10 20 (13.25%) GCP
11 19 (12.58%) GitHub
12 17 (11.26%) Ansible
13 15 (9.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (9.93%) Cloud Operations
13 15 (9.93%) Cloud Security
14 14 (9.27%) PowerShell
15 13 (8.61%) Containerisation
15 13 (8.61%) SaaS
16 12 (7.95%) AI
16 12 (7.95%) Collaborative Culture
16 12 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (7.28%) Firewall
17 11 (7.28%) Google
17 11 (7.28%) Python
18 10 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
18 10 (6.62%) Entra ID

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 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 53 (35.10%) AWS
2 49 (32.45%) Azure
3 20 (13.25%) GCP
4 19 (12.58%) GitHub
5 15 (9.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (8.61%) SaaS
7 12 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (6.62%) Entra ID
9 8 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (4.64%) Pulumi
11 6 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.65%) Serverless
14 3 (1.99%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (1.99%) Datadog
14 3 (1.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (1.99%) Power Platform
15 2 (1.32%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.28%) Firewall
2 3 (1.99%) Network Security
2 3 (1.99%) SAN
3 2 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 9 (5.96%) GitLab
2 7 (4.64%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.65%) Git
4 2 (1.32%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.66%) JIRA
5 1 (0.66%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (3.97%) Banking
1 6 (3.97%) Retail Banking
1 6 (3.97%) Social Skills
2 3 (1.99%) Finance
2 3 (1.99%) Public Sector
3 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.64%) OpenID
1 7 (4.64%) SAML
2 5 (3.31%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.65%) JWT
3 4 (2.65%) OAuth
3 4 (2.65%) OAuth2
3 4 (2.65%) YAML
4 1 (0.66%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.66%) NestJS
4 1 (0.66%) Node.js
4 1 (0.66%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.99%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.99%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.97%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Debian
2 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (33.11%) DevOps
2 44 (29.14%) Platform Engineering
3 42 (27.81%) CI/CD
3 42 (27.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (13.25%) Agile
5 15 (9.93%) Cloud Operations
5 15 (9.93%) Cloud Security
6 13 (8.61%) Containerisation
7 12 (7.95%) AI
7 12 (7.95%) Collaborative Culture
7 12 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (6.62%) Fintech
9 9 (5.96%) Cyber Intelligence
9 9 (5.96%) RBAC
10 8 (5.30%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (5.30%) Observability
11 7 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (3.97%) Digital Banking
12 6 (3.97%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (3.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.27%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.28%) Python
3 8 (5.30%) Bash
4 5 (3.31%) Bicep
5 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (38.41%) Security Cleared
2 56 (37.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.65%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.65%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.99%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (5.30%) Active Directory
1 8 (5.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (32.45%) Terraform
2 30 (19.87%) Kubernetes
3 17 (11.26%) Ansible
4 6 (3.97%) Grafana
4 6 (3.97%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.99%) Argo
6 3 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.28%) Google
3 4 (2.65%) VMware
4 3 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (1.99%) Okta