CloudOps Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Operations Engineer salary in Manchester is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 May 2026.

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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a CloudOps Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.069% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 - -

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 5,379 1,955 4,818
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 90.93% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,055 1,144 3,860
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,413 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,531 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +10.19% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,769 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -9.09%

CloudOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'CloudOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

CloudOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

CloudOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 2026, CloudOps 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 CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (75.00%) Datadog
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell

CloudOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Datadog
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform