Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Manchester is £72,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 121 154
Rank change year-on-year +60 +33 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 129 38 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.12% 1.68% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 1.84% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 104 27 53
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,392 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,188 £52,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £75,920 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £76,840 £76,672
North West median annual salary £71,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +18.18% -4.86%

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 5,730 2,069 5,590
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 91.31% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,513 1,195 4,260
10th Percentile £31,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,157 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £53,159
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +8.17% -7.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,625 £67,968
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 57 (44.19%) Azure
2 51 (39.53%) AWS
3 49 (37.98%) Security Cleared
4 48 (37.21%) SC Cleared
4 48 (37.21%) Terraform
5 43 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 41 (31.78%) DevOps
7 40 (31.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (28.68%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (17.83%) Kubernetes
10 19 (14.73%) Agile
10 19 (14.73%) GitHub
10 19 (14.73%) Microsoft
11 17 (13.18%) GCP
12 15 (11.63%) Ansible
12 15 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
12 15 (11.63%) PowerShell
13 14 (10.85%) Containerisation
13 14 (10.85%) Python
14 13 (10.08%) Cloud Security
15 12 (9.30%) AI
15 12 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (8.53%) Firewall
17 10 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (7.75%) GitLab
17 10 (7.75%) SaaS
18 9 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
18 9 (6.98%) Cyber Intelligence

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 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 57 (44.19%) Azure
2 51 (39.53%) AWS
3 19 (14.73%) GitHub
4 17 (13.18%) GCP
5 12 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.75%) SaaS
7 9 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (6.20%) Entra ID
9 7 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (5.43%) Pulumi
10 5 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.10%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.33%) Datadog
12 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.55%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.53%) Firewall
2 4 (3.10%) DNS
3 3 (2.33%) SAN
4 2 (1.55%) DHCP
4 2 (1.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
1 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.78%) MySQL
1 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.75%) GitLab
2 7 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.88%) Git
4 2 (1.55%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.78%) JIRA
5 1 (0.78%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (5.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.65%) Banking
2 6 (4.65%) Retail Banking
3 5 (3.88%) Finance
4 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.88%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.10%) JWT
2 4 (3.10%) OAuth
2 4 (3.10%) OAuth2
2 4 (3.10%) OpenID
2 4 (3.10%) SAML
2 4 (3.10%) YAML
3 3 (2.33%) AWS CDK
3 3 (2.33%) NestJS
3 3 (2.33%) Node.js
3 3 (2.33%) REST
4 2 (1.55%) .NET
4 2 (1.55%) Middleware
5 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.55%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.65%) Windows
1 6 (4.65%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.10%) Linux
3 2 (1.55%) Debian
3 2 (1.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 41 (31.78%) DevOps
3 40 (31.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (28.68%) Platform Engineering
5 19 (14.73%) Agile
6 15 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
7 14 (10.85%) Containerisation
8 13 (10.08%) Cloud Security
9 12 (9.30%) AI
9 12 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (6.98%) Cyber Intelligence
10 9 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.20%) Cloud Operations
11 8 (6.20%) Fintech
11 8 (6.20%) Observability
12 7 (5.43%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (4.65%) Digital Banking
13 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 6 (4.65%) Mentoring
13 6 (4.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.63%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.85%) Python
3 8 (6.20%) Bash
4 5 (3.88%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.10%) Bicep
6 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.78%) Go
7 1 (0.78%) Java
7 1 (0.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (37.98%) Security Cleared
2 48 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (6.20%) Docker
2 6 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (37.21%) Terraform
2 23 (17.83%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.63%) Ansible
4 6 (4.65%) Grafana
4 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.78%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.88%) Google
3 4 (3.10%) VMware