Cloud Engineer Job Trends 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 22 January 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 128 104
Rank change year-on-year +29 -24 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 38 30 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.25% 1.13% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.21% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 32 13 53
10th Percentile £43,250 £47,284 £46,306
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,125 - £80,000
North West median annual salary £61,250 £48,507 £60,000
% change year-on-year +26.27% -19.16% +0.80%

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 2,727 2,478 2,751
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.38% 93.72% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,785 1,207 2,254
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,185
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%

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 22 January 2026.

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 22 January 2026. 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 - 1 £62,500 -
Cloud Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 22 January 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 27 (71.05%) Azure
2 23 (60.53%) Terraform
3 14 (36.84%) AWS
3 14 (36.84%) DevOps
3 14 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (31.58%) Windows
4 12 (31.58%) Windows Server
5 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
6 10 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
7 9 (23.68%) Agile
8 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
9 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
9 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
10 6 (15.79%) Ansible
10 6 (15.79%) Cloud Security
10 6 (15.79%) GCP
10 6 (15.79%) High Availability
10 6 (15.79%) Linux
10 6 (15.79%) Python
10 6 (15.79%) SQL
11 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (13.16%) Cloud Operations
11 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Culture
11 5 (13.16%) Microservices
11 5 (13.16%) SaaS

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 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (71.05%) Azure
2 14 (36.84%) AWS
3 10 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (15.79%) GCP
6 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (13.16%) SaaS
7 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (10.53%) Power Automate
8 3 (7.89%) Azure AKS
8 3 (7.89%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (7.89%) GitHub
8 3 (7.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (7.89%) IaaS
8 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
8 3 (7.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) DNS
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) DMZ
2 3 (7.89%) STUN
2 3 (7.89%) VLAN
2 3 (7.89%) VoIP
2 3 (7.89%) VPN
3 2 (5.26%) DHCP
3 2 (5.26%) WAN
4 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) DynamoDB
1 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
1 3 (7.89%) MySQL
1 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
General
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (7.89%) RESTful
2 2 (5.26%) .NET
2 2 (5.26%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.26%) Middleware
2 2 (5.26%) NestJS
2 2 (5.26%) Node.js
2 2 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) AI Agents
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Windows
1 12 (31.58%) Windows Server
2 6 (15.79%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) DevOps
1 14 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
4 9 (23.68%) Agile
5 7 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (15.79%) Cloud Security
6 6 (15.79%) High Availability
7 5 (13.16%) Cloud Operations
7 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (13.16%) Microservices
7 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (7.89%) AI
9 3 (7.89%) Containerisation
9 3 (7.89%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (7.89%) Observability
9 3 (7.89%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.79%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.89%) Bicep
4 3 (7.89%) Go
4 3 (7.89%) Java
5 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.89%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (7.89%) Kamailio
2 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (60.53%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) Ansible
3 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.89%) Rancher
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Foundry
2 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk