Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Cloud Platform Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Platform Engineer salary in Manchester is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 203 201
Rank change year-on-year +63 -2 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 4 19 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.19% 0.37% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.39% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 32
10th Percentile £49,000 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -15.79% +14.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £86,563
90th Percentile £66,000 £78,000 £102,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% -15.79% +16.33%

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 1,928 4,846 4,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.61% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,745 2,665
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 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Platform Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Platform Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Cloud Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) NIST
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Aviation
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (25.00%) OCI
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Confluence
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement

Cloud Platform 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aviation
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle