Cloud Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 146 159
Rank change year-on-year +42 +13 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 42 73 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.95% 1.42% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.16% 1.51% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 31 53 65
10th Percentile £47,231 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -8.42%
75th Percentile £74,443 £67,968 £77,715
90th Percentile £76,840 £77,715 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 1,941 4,849 4,551
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.50% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 3,739 2,670
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (59.52%) Azure
2 23 (54.76%) Terraform
2 23 (54.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (52.38%) Finance
4 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
5 19 (45.24%) DevOps
5 19 (45.24%) AWS
6 16 (38.10%) Cloud Security
7 15 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (35.71%) Banking
8 13 (30.95%) Agile
8 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
9 12 (28.57%) Linux
9 12 (28.57%) Cloud Native
10 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (26.19%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (23.81%) Windows
11 10 (23.81%) Azure Certification
11 10 (23.81%) Product Ownership
12 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
12 9 (21.43%) GCP
12 9 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (19.05%) Oracle
14 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (16.67%) Public Cloud
14 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
14 7 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (16.67%) Security Posture
14 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) Azure
2 19 (45.24%) AWS
3 9 (21.43%) GCP
4 7 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (9.52%) GitHub
6 4 (9.52%) SaaS
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.38%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.38%) OCI
7 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.38%) PaaS
7 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) DHCP
1 6 (14.29%) DNS
2 5 (11.90%) NAS
2 5 (11.90%) SAN
2 5 (11.90%) VSAN
3 4 (9.52%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) MongoDB
1 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.38%) Big Data
2 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 22 (52.38%) Finance
2 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
3 15 (35.71%) Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Aviation
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Middleware
2 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 4 (9.52%) ARM Templates
2 4 (9.52%) React
3 2 (4.76%) REST
3 2 (4.76%) Web Services
4 1 (2.38%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) OAuth
4 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (23.81%) Product Ownership
3 9 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 7 (16.67%) Security Posture
5 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.38%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Linux
2 10 (23.81%) Windows
3 7 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (45.24%) DevOps
3 16 (38.10%) Cloud Security
4 15 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (30.95%) Agile
6 11 (26.19%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 7 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 6 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (11.90%) Architectural Design
9 5 (11.90%) Defect Management
9 5 (11.90%) Fintech
9 5 (11.90%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (11.90%) Service Design
9 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
10 4 (9.52%) Configuration Management
10 4 (9.52%) Information Security
10 4 (9.52%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 6 (14.29%) SQL
2 5 (11.90%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) Bicep
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Azure Certification
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (11.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) CCNA
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) MCITP
5 1 (2.38%) MCSE
5 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.38%) GDPR
1 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.90%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.76%) Docker
5 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (54.76%) Terraform
2 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.90%) Progress Chef
4 4 (9.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) Oracle
3 6 (14.29%) Google
3 6 (14.29%) VMware
4 5 (11.90%) Veeam
5 3 (7.14%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.38%) Facebook
6 1 (2.38%) Planview