Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 December 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 133 98
Rank change year-on-year +36 -35 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 32 24 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.18% 0.85% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.91% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 29 7 47
10th Percentile £35,500 £46,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £50,625 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £73,500 £66,500 £86,616
North West median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year +26.32% -28.30% +11.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,426 2,639 1,991
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 93.98% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 1,276 1,597
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £71,750 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,890 £54,750
% change year-on-year -1.75% -7.05% +4.29%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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
Altrincham - 2 £62,500 -
Cloud Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, 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 25 (78.13%) Azure
2 19 (59.38%) Terraform
3 16 (50.00%) DevOps
4 13 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
5 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (34.38%) Windows
5 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
6 9 (28.13%) High Availability
6 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
7 8 (25.00%) AWS
7 8 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (21.88%) Agile
8 7 (21.88%) Linux
8 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
8 7 (21.88%) SQL
9 6 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (18.75%) IaaS
9 6 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
10 5 (15.63%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (15.63%) Cloud Operations
10 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security
10 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (15.63%) Debian
10 5 (15.63%) DMZ
10 5 (15.63%) FreeSWITCH

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:

Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (18.75%) IaaS
4 5 (15.63%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (15.63%) Power Automate
4 5 (15.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
5 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (9.38%) GCP
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub
6 3 (9.38%) PaaS
7 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) DMZ
1 5 (15.63%) STUN
1 5 (15.63%) VLAN
1 5 (15.63%) VoIP
1 5 (15.63%) VPN
2 2 (6.25%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Driving Licence
2 4 (12.50%) AI Agents
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Windows
1 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
2 7 (21.88%) Linux
3 5 (15.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
3 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (28.13%) High Availability
5 7 (21.88%) Agile
6 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (15.63%) Cloud Operations
7 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security
7 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (15.63%) Software Licensing
7 5 (15.63%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (12.50%) AI
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (9.38%) Observability
9 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (6.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.38%) Bicep
3 3 (9.38%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) Go
4 2 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (15.63%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Kamailio
1 5 (15.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.50%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.25%) Rancher
5 1 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Salesforce
3 4 (12.50%) Foundry
4 3 (9.38%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) VMware