Cloud Engineer Jobs 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 5 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 154 149
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 39 69 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.58% 1.18% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.24% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 28 51 69
10th Percentile £47,419 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +15.98%
75th Percentile £75,460 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £70,000 £80,250
North West median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -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 2,246 5,578 3,963
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 95.12% 92.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 4,073 2,590
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,784 £67,968 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,200 £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 July 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 July 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 29 (74.36%) Azure
2 26 (66.67%) Terraform
2 26 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (53.85%) Finance
4 20 (51.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (48.72%) DevOps
6 17 (43.59%) Microsoft
6 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
6 17 (43.59%) Cloud Security
7 15 (38.46%) Banking
8 14 (35.90%) AWS
9 13 (33.33%) Azure Certification
10 12 (30.77%) Cloud Native
10 12 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (30.77%) Linux
11 10 (25.64%) Windows
12 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
13 8 (20.51%) Agile
13 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
13 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
14 7 (17.95%) Virtual Machines
14 7 (17.95%) Public Cloud
14 7 (17.95%) Ansible
14 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (17.95%) SQL
14 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification

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 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 29 (74.36%) Azure
2 14 (35.90%) AWS
3 9 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.26%) SaaS
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (5.13%) PaaS
7 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.56%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) DHCP
1 5 (12.82%) DNS
1 5 (12.82%) NAS
1 5 (12.82%) SAN
1 5 (12.82%) VSAN
2 4 (10.26%) WAN
3 1 (2.56%) Firewall
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
1 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 21 (53.85%) Finance
2 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
3 15 (38.46%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Aviation
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) ARM Templates
2 5 (12.82%) Middleware
3 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.69%) React
4 1 (2.56%) JSON
4 1 (2.56%) OAuth
4 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Cloud Native
1 12 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
3 7 (17.95%) Public Cloud
3 7 (17.95%) Security Posture
4 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.56%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Windows
3 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (51.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (48.72%) DevOps
4 17 (43.59%) Cloud Security
5 12 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.51%) Agile
7 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (17.95%) Configuration Management
8 7 (17.95%) Roadmaps
9 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 5 (12.82%) Architectural Design
10 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
10 5 (12.82%) Defect Management
10 5 (12.82%) Fintech
10 5 (12.82%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (12.82%) Service Design
11 4 (10.26%) Information Security
11 4 (10.26%) Project Delivery
12 3 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.95%) SQL
3 4 (10.26%) Python
4 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.56%) Bicep
5 1 (2.56%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (12.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.56%) CCNA
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) MCITP
4 1 (2.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.82%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.56%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (66.67%) Terraform
2 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 7 (17.95%) Ansible
4 5 (12.82%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Google
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 5 (12.82%) VMware
4 4 (10.26%) Veeam
5 2 (5.13%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.56%) Facebook
6 1 (2.56%) Foundry