Cloud Operations Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 149 148
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 +97
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 6 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.21% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.28% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £50,438 £62,875 £52,000
25th Percentile £50,781 £63,438 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% +22.73% -21.43%
75th Percentile £56,125 £75,313 -
90th Percentile £59,625 £82,625 -
North West median annual salary £53,500 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.74% +28.57% -19.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Cloud Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,325 2,507 2,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.71% 94.00% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,181 1,840
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Operations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cloud Operations
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cloud Operations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks