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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 134 148
Rank change year-on-year +83 +14 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 158 34 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.41% 1.35% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.55% 1.47% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 131 23 37
10th Percentile £55,000 £37,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,500 £76,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 - £71,000
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 6,195 2,307 4,485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.66% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,867 1,389 3,180
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £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 29 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 29 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 62 (39.24%) Security Cleared
2 57 (36.08%) AWS
2 57 (36.08%) SC Cleared
3 50 (31.65%) DevOps
4 49 (31.01%) Terraform
5 48 (30.38%) Azure
6 45 (28.48%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (26.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (25.95%) CI/CD
9 30 (18.99%) Kubernetes
10 20 (12.66%) Agile
10 20 (12.66%) GCP
10 20 (12.66%) Microsoft
11 18 (11.39%) Cloud Operations
11 18 (11.39%) GitHub
12 17 (10.76%) Ansible
13 16 (10.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (9.49%) Cloud Security
15 14 (8.86%) PowerShell
15 14 (8.86%) SaaS
16 12 (7.59%) AI
16 12 (7.59%) Collaborative Culture
16 12 (7.59%) Containerisation
16 12 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (7.59%) Python
17 11 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (6.96%) Google
18 10 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
18 10 (6.33%) Fintech
18 10 (6.33%) Firewall

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 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 57 (36.08%) AWS
2 48 (30.38%) Azure
3 20 (12.66%) GCP
4 18 (11.39%) GitHub
5 16 (10.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (8.86%) SaaS
7 11 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.70%) Entra ID
10 7 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (4.43%) Pulumi
11 5 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.53%) Serverless
13 3 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.90%) Datadog
13 3 (1.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.90%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.27%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.33%) Firewall
2 3 (1.90%) Network Security
2 3 (1.90%) SAN
3 2 (1.27%) DNS
3 2 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 8 (5.06%) GitLab
2 7 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.53%) Git
4 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.63%) JIRA
5 1 (0.63%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (3.80%) Banking
1 6 (3.80%) Public Sector
1 6 (3.80%) Retail Banking
2 5 (3.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (1.90%) Finance
4 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.43%) OpenID
1 7 (4.43%) SAML
2 5 (3.16%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.53%) JWT
3 4 (2.53%) OAuth
3 4 (2.53%) OAuth2
3 4 (2.53%) YAML
4 2 (1.27%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.63%) NestJS
5 1 (0.63%) Node.js
5 1 (0.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.90%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Debian
2 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.65%) DevOps
2 45 (28.48%) Platform Engineering
3 42 (26.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (25.95%) CI/CD
5 20 (12.66%) Agile
6 18 (11.39%) Cloud Operations
7 15 (9.49%) Cloud Security
8 12 (7.59%) AI
8 12 (7.59%) Collaborative Culture
8 12 (7.59%) Containerisation
8 12 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (6.33%) Fintech
10 9 (5.70%) Cyber Intelligence
10 9 (5.70%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (5.70%) RBAC
11 8 (5.06%) Observability
12 7 (4.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (3.80%) Digital Banking
13 6 (3.80%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (3.80%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.86%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.59%) Python
3 9 (5.70%) Bash
4 5 (3.16%) Bicep
5 1 (0.63%) Go
5 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (39.24%) Security Cleared
2 57 (36.08%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.53%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.53%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (5.06%) Active Directory
1 8 (5.06%) Docker
2 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (31.01%) Terraform
2 30 (18.99%) Kubernetes
3 17 (10.76%) Ansible
4 6 (3.80%) Grafana
4 6 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.90%) Argo
5 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.96%) Google
3 4 (2.53%) VMware
4 3 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (1.90%) Okta