Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £70,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 116 141
Rank change year-on-year +46 +25 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 118 41 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.02% 1.92% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 2.11% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 96 29 53
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,446 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,625 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,625 £76,840 £77,715
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -4.86%

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 5,440 1,945 4,864
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 91.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,110 1,120 3,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,488 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,313 £40,928
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £53,159
Median % change year-on-year - +12.87% -7.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 59 (50.00%) Azure
2 50 (42.37%) Terraform
3 49 (41.53%) AWS
4 46 (38.98%) Security Cleared
5 44 (37.29%) SC Cleared
6 41 (34.75%) CI/CD
7 37 (31.36%) DevOps
7 37 (31.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (30.51%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (18.64%) Kubernetes
10 20 (16.95%) Agile
11 19 (16.10%) Microsoft
12 18 (15.25%) Ansible
12 18 (15.25%) GitHub
13 17 (14.41%) Collaborative Culture
14 15 (12.71%) Containerisation
14 15 (12.71%) Python
15 14 (11.86%) GCP
15 14 (11.86%) PowerShell
16 12 (10.17%) AI
16 12 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (9.32%) GitLab
18 10 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
19 9 (7.63%) Cloud Security
19 9 (7.63%) Cyber Intelligence
19 9 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
19 9 (7.63%) 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 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 59 (50.00%) Azure
2 49 (41.53%) AWS
3 18 (15.25%) GitHub
4 14 (11.86%) GCP
5 12 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.78%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.78%) SaaS
9 7 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (5.08%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.08%) Pulumi
11 4 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.39%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.54%) Datadog
12 3 (2.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.63%) Firewall
2 4 (3.39%) DNS
3 3 (2.54%) SAN
4 2 (1.69%) DHCP
5 1 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.54%) DynamoDB
1 3 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
1 3 (2.54%) MySQL
1 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
1 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) GitLab
2 7 (5.93%) Git
3 6 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.54%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.69%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.85%) JIRA
6 1 (0.85%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (7.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.08%) Banking
2 6 (5.08%) Retail Banking
3 5 (4.24%) Finance
4 3 (2.54%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.39%) JWT
2 4 (3.39%) OAuth
2 4 (3.39%) OAuth2
2 4 (3.39%) OpenID
2 4 (3.39%) SAML
2 4 (3.39%) YAML
3 3 (2.54%) AWS CDK
3 3 (2.54%) NestJS
3 3 (2.54%) Node.js
3 3 (2.54%) REST
3 3 (2.54%) RESTful
4 2 (1.69%) .NET
4 2 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.54%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.78%) Windows
1 8 (6.78%) Windows Server
2 6 (5.08%) Linux
3 2 (1.69%) Debian
3 2 (1.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.75%) CI/CD
2 37 (31.36%) DevOps
2 37 (31.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (30.51%) Platform Engineering
4 20 (16.95%) Agile
5 17 (14.41%) Collaborative Culture
6 15 (12.71%) Containerisation
7 12 (10.17%) AI
7 12 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (7.63%) Cloud Security
8 9 (7.63%) Cyber Intelligence
8 9 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (5.93%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (5.93%) Observability
11 6 (5.08%) Digital Banking
11 6 (5.08%) Fintech
11 6 (5.08%) Project Delivery
11 6 (5.08%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.71%) Python
2 14 (11.86%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.93%) Bash
4 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.39%) Bicep
6 3 (2.54%) Go
6 3 (2.54%) Java
6 3 (2.54%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (38.98%) Security Cleared
2 44 (37.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.39%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.54%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (5.93%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (42.37%) Terraform
2 22 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 18 (15.25%) Ansible
4 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.24%) Grafana
5 5 (4.24%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.54%) Rancher
7 2 (1.69%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.39%) VMware