Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 125 149
Rank change year-on-year +81 +24 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 211 30 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.85% 1.27% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.03% 1.39% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 177 22 24
10th Percentile £55,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £48,281 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £58,750 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% +9.30% -17.31%
75th Percentile £90,000 £64,688 £65,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,906 £71,750
North West median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% +15.00% -28.00%

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 6,955 2,154 3,832
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 90.85% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,354 1,282 2,197
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,143 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.82% -1.56% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,250 £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 16 September 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 16 September 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 71 (33.65%) Security Cleared
2 64 (30.33%) SC Cleared
3 59 (27.96%) Azure
4 57 (27.01%) AWS
5 56 (26.54%) DevOps
6 54 (25.59%) Platform Engineering
7 49 (23.22%) Terraform
8 44 (20.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (17.54%) CI/CD
10 31 (14.69%) Kubernetes
11 29 (13.74%) Cyber Intelligence
12 27 (12.80%) Cloud Security
13 25 (11.85%) Microsoft
14 21 (9.95%) Collaborative Working
14 21 (9.95%) GCP
14 21 (9.95%) PowerShell
15 19 (9.00%) Cloud Operations
16 18 (8.53%) Ansible
17 17 (8.06%) Agile
17 17 (8.06%) Python
18 16 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (7.58%) GitHub
18 16 (7.58%) SaaS
19 14 (6.64%) Bash
20 13 (6.16%) Identity Access Management
21 12 (5.69%) AI
21 12 (5.69%) Entra ID
22 11 (5.21%) Active Directory
22 11 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
22 11 (5.21%) Containerisation

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 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 59 (27.96%) Azure
2 57 (27.01%) AWS
3 21 (9.95%) GCP
4 16 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (7.58%) GitHub
4 16 (7.58%) SaaS
5 12 (5.69%) Entra ID
6 11 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.37%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.37%) Serverless
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.42%) Datadog
12 3 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.42%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.95%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.27%) Firewall
2 5 (2.37%) DNS
3 3 (1.42%) Network Security
3 3 (1.42%) SAN
3 3 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.42%) VPN
4 2 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.37%) GitLab
3 4 (1.90%) Git
4 2 (0.95%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.47%) JIRA
5 1 (0.47%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (3.32%) Social Skills
2 6 (2.84%) Public Sector
3 4 (1.90%) Banking
3 4 (1.90%) Retail Banking
4 3 (1.42%) Finance
5 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (23.22%) Terraform
2 7 (3.32%) OpenID
2 7 (3.32%) Pulumi
2 7 (3.32%) SAML
3 5 (2.37%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.90%) JWT
4 4 (1.90%) OAuth
4 4 (1.90%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.42%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.95%) YAML
7 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.84%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.47%) CCTV
6 1 (0.47%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.79%) Linux
2 6 (2.84%) Windows
3 3 (1.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (26.54%) DevOps
2 54 (25.59%) Platform Engineering
3 44 (20.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (17.54%) CI/CD
5 29 (13.74%) Cyber Intelligence
6 27 (12.80%) Cloud Security
7 21 (9.95%) Collaborative Working
8 19 (9.00%) Cloud Operations
9 17 (8.06%) Agile
10 13 (6.16%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (5.69%) AI
12 11 (5.21%) Containerisation
12 11 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (4.74%) Fintech
14 9 (4.27%) Collaborative Culture
14 9 (4.27%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (4.27%) RBAC
15 8 (3.79%) Infrastructure Automation
15 8 (3.79%) Observability
15 8 (3.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.95%) PowerShell
2 17 (8.06%) Python
3 14 (6.64%) Bash
4 8 (3.79%) Bicep
5 3 (1.42%) Go
6 1 (0.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (33.65%) Security Cleared
2 64 (30.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.32%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.84%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.79%) Docker
3 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 31 (14.69%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.53%) Ansible
3 6 (2.84%) Grafana
3 6 (2.84%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.42%) Argo
4 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.42%) Puppet
4 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.21%) Google
3 4 (1.90%) Okta
3 4 (1.90%) VMware
4 3 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (1.42%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.47%) Cisco
5 1 (0.47%) Citrix
5 1 (0.47%) Splunk
125 Cloud Engineer jobs in Manchester