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 23 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 123 149
Rank change year-on-year +77 +26 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 220 28 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.91% 1.19% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 1.31% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 184 20 22
10th Percentile £55,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £53,500 £50,378
Median % change year-on-year +40.19% +6.20% -22.50%
75th Percentile £88,125 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £63,875 £72,250
North West median annual salary £75,000 £55,500 £49,128
% change year-on-year +35.14% +12.97% -29.26%

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 7,081 2,130 3,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 90.75% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,418 1,270 2,103
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,050 £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 23 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 23 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 (32.27%) Security Cleared
2 64 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 62 (28.18%) Azure
4 59 (26.82%) AWS
4 59 (26.82%) DevOps
5 56 (25.45%) Platform Engineering
6 49 (22.27%) Terraform
7 45 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (16.82%) CI/CD
9 33 (15.00%) Cloud Security
10 31 (14.09%) Cyber Intelligence
10 31 (14.09%) Kubernetes
11 26 (11.82%) Microsoft
12 24 (10.91%) Collaborative Working
13 22 (10.00%) PowerShell
14 21 (9.55%) GCP
15 20 (9.09%) Cloud Operations
16 18 (8.18%) Ansible
17 17 (7.73%) Agile
17 17 (7.73%) GitHub
17 17 (7.73%) Python
18 16 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (7.27%) SaaS
19 14 (6.36%) Bash
20 13 (5.91%) Entra ID
20 13 (5.91%) Identity Access Management
21 12 (5.45%) AI
21 12 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
22 11 (5.00%) Active Directory
22 11 (5.00%) 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 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 62 (28.18%) Azure
2 59 (26.82%) AWS
3 21 (9.55%) GCP
4 17 (7.73%) GitHub
5 16 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (7.27%) SaaS
6 13 (5.91%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.73%) Serverless
11 5 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.27%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.36%) Datadog
12 3 (1.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.36%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.91%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.09%) Firewall
2 5 (2.27%) DNS
3 3 (1.36%) Network Security
3 3 (1.36%) SAN
3 3 (1.36%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.36%) VPN
4 2 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.82%) Git
2 4 (1.82%) GitLab
3 2 (0.91%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.45%) JIRA
4 1 (0.45%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (3.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (2.73%) Public Sector
3 5 (2.27%) Finance
4 3 (1.36%) Banking
4 3 (1.36%) Retail Banking
5 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (22.27%) Terraform
2 7 (3.18%) OpenID
2 7 (3.18%) Pulumi
2 7 (3.18%) SAML
3 5 (2.27%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.82%) JWT
4 4 (1.82%) OAuth
4 4 (1.82%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.36%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.73%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.45%) CCTV
5 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.45%) FMCG
5 1 (0.45%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.09%) Linux
2 6 (2.73%) Windows
3 3 (1.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.82%) DevOps
2 56 (25.45%) Platform Engineering
3 45 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (16.82%) CI/CD
5 33 (15.00%) Cloud Security
6 31 (14.09%) Cyber Intelligence
7 24 (10.91%) Collaborative Working
8 20 (9.09%) Cloud Operations
9 17 (7.73%) Agile
10 13 (5.91%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (5.45%) AI
12 11 (5.00%) Containerisation
13 10 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (4.55%) Fintech
13 10 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (4.09%) RBAC
14 9 (4.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 8 (3.64%) Infrastructure Automation
15 8 (3.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 17 (7.73%) Python
3 14 (6.36%) Bash
4 9 (4.09%) Bicep
5 3 (1.36%) Go
6 2 (0.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (32.27%) Security Cleared
2 64 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.64%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.73%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.64%) Docker
3 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 31 (14.09%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.18%) Ansible
3 6 (2.73%) Grafana
3 6 (2.73%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.36%) Argo
4 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.36%) Puppet
4 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.00%) Google
3 4 (1.82%) Okta
3 4 (1.82%) VMware
4 3 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (1.36%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.45%) Cisco
5 1 (0.45%) Citrix
5 1 (0.45%) Splunk
121 Cloud Engineer jobs in Manchester