Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 107 126
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 37 39 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.94% 1.76% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.87% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 30 24 56
10th Percentile £49,675 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £61,391
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -4.30% +3.13%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £76,288 -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +4.07%

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 3,561 2,091 4,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.40% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,461 1,241 3,401
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £58,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -6.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,101
North West median annual salary £50,000 £53,589 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.70% +7.18% -8.90%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 23 (62.16%) Terraform
2 21 (56.76%) AWS
3 20 (54.05%) Azure
4 13 (35.14%) DevOps
4 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
5 11 (29.73%) Agile
5 11 (29.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (27.03%) Ansible
6 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
6 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
7 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (21.62%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (21.62%) Windows
7 8 (21.62%) Windows Server
8 7 (18.92%) GitLab
8 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
8 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
9 6 (16.22%) GCP
9 6 (16.22%) Microservices
9 6 (16.22%) Python
10 5 (13.51%) Azure AKS
10 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
10 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
10 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (13.51%) Linux
10 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365

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 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) AWS
2 20 (54.05%) Azure
3 11 (29.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (16.22%) GCP
6 5 (13.51%) Azure AKS
6 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (13.51%) SaaS
7 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
7 4 (10.81%) GitHub
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.41%) iPaaS
9 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
9 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
9 2 (5.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) DHCP
2 2 (5.41%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
1 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.11%) MySQL
1 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) GitLab
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) Banking
3 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) AWS CDK
1 3 (8.11%) NestJS
1 3 (8.11%) Node.js
1 3 (8.11%) REST
1 3 (8.11%) RESTful
1 3 (8.11%) YAML
2 2 (5.41%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Windows
1 8 (21.62%) Windows Server
2 5 (13.51%) Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Debian
3 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) DevOps
1 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (29.73%) Agile
3 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.62%) Collaborative Culture
4 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (16.22%) Microservices
6 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
6 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.11%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.11%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (8.11%) Fintech
8 3 (8.11%) Scrum
8 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
8 3 (8.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.11%) Go
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.11%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (62.16%) Terraform
2 10 (27.03%) Ansible
3 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (8.11%) Rancher
6 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Foundry
2 1 (2.70%) Google
2 1 (2.70%) Splunk