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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 127 148
Rank change year-on-year +81 +21 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 233 28 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.03% 1.20% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.24% 1.32% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 195 22 19
10th Percentile £55,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,375 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £55,500 £48,256
Median % change year-on-year +34.23% +15.01% -25.76%
75th Percentile £87,500 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £67,125 £72,500
North West median annual salary £74,500 £57,500 £48,256
% change year-on-year +29.57% +19.16% -28.51%

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 7,199 2,121 3,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.60% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,404 1,277 1,897
10th Percentile £33,150 £28,250 £33,000
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 £78,750 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £84,300
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 14 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 14 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 - 1
Cloud Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 65 (27.90%) Security Cleared
2 58 (24.89%) SC Cleared
3 56 (24.03%) Azure
4 55 (23.61%) AWS
5 54 (23.18%) DevOps
6 53 (22.75%) Cloud Security
7 51 (21.89%) Platform Engineering
8 43 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (17.60%) Terraform
10 35 (15.02%) Cyber Intelligence
11 29 (12.45%) Collaborative Working
11 29 (12.45%) Microsoft
12 27 (11.59%) CI/CD
12 27 (11.59%) Kubernetes
13 21 (9.01%) PowerShell
14 20 (8.58%) GCP
15 19 (8.15%) Cloud Operations
16 17 (7.30%) Identity Access Management
17 16 (6.87%) Ansible
17 16 (6.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (6.87%) Python
17 16 (6.87%) SaaS
18 15 (6.44%) Agile
19 14 (6.01%) Entra ID
19 14 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 13 (5.58%) Bash
20 13 (5.58%) Linux
21 12 (5.15%) Active Directory
22 11 (4.72%) GitHub
22 11 (4.72%) 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 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.03%) Azure
2 55 (23.61%) AWS
3 20 (8.58%) GCP
4 16 (6.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (6.87%) SaaS
5 14 (6.01%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.72%) GitHub
7 9 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.00%) Serverless
10 5 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.15%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.29%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.86%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.86%) Firewall
2 7 (3.00%) DNS
3 5 (2.15%) VPN
4 3 (1.29%) Network Security
4 3 (1.29%) SAN
4 3 (1.29%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.43%) HTTP
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless Security
Development Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.29%) GitLab
3 2 (0.86%) Git
3 2 (0.86%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.43%) Maven
4 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (4.72%) Social Skills
2 8 (3.43%) Finance
3 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
4 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.60%) Terraform
2 7 (3.00%) OpenID
2 7 (3.00%) Pulumi
2 7 (3.00%) SAML
3 4 (1.72%) JWT
3 4 (1.72%) OAuth
3 4 (1.72%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.29%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.86%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.86%) Security Posture
3 7 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.43%) CCTV
6 1 (0.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.43%) FMCG
6 1 (0.43%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.43%) PKI
6 1 (0.43%) PMI
6 1 (0.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.58%) Linux
2 9 (3.86%) Windows
3 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (23.18%) DevOps
2 53 (22.75%) Cloud Security
3 51 (21.89%) Platform Engineering
4 43 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (15.02%) Cyber Intelligence
6 29 (12.45%) Collaborative Working
7 27 (11.59%) CI/CD
8 19 (8.15%) Cloud Operations
9 17 (7.30%) Identity Access Management
10 15 (6.44%) Agile
11 14 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (4.72%) RBAC
13 10 (4.29%) Fintech
13 10 (4.29%) Infrastructure Automation
14 9 (3.86%) AI
14 9 (3.86%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (3.86%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (3.43%) Business Continuity
15 8 (3.43%) Information Security
16 7 (3.00%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.01%) PowerShell
2 16 (6.87%) Python
3 13 (5.58%) Bash
4 9 (3.86%) Bicep
5 3 (1.29%) Go
6 2 (0.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (27.90%) Security Cleared
2 58 (24.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.86%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.58%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.29%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.43%) MOS
6 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.29%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.15%) Docker
3 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 27 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.87%) Ansible
3 4 (1.72%) Progress Chef
3 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.29%) Argo
4 3 (1.29%) Grafana
4 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.29%) Puppet
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.72%) Google
3 5 (2.15%) Fortinet
3 5 (2.15%) Okta
4 4 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (1.72%) VMware
5 1 (0.43%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco
5 1 (0.43%) Citrix
5 1 (0.43%) Splunk