Public Cloud Job Trends in Manchester

Public Cloud
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 131 91
Rank change year-on-year +12 -40 -36
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 13 25 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.45% 0.94% 2.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 2.59% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 49
10th Percentile £60,000 £54,585 £46,306
25th Percentile £63,750 £59,168 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £81,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +15.48% +17.63%
75th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £85,000 - £102,619
North West median annual salary £85,000 £71,991 £70,576
% change year-on-year +18.07% +2.01% +18.56%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,094 967 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.50% 36.26% 37.19%
Number of salaries quoted 507 448 730
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,369
90th Percentile £88,000 £86,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Manchester

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in Manchester

Public Cloud
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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
3 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DSL
1 1 (7.69%) MPLS
1 1 (7.69%) NGN
1 1 (7.69%) PBX
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
1 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (69.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Account Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) AI
1 9 (69.23%) Client Onboarding
1 9 (69.23%) Cost Optimisation
1 9 (69.23%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (69.23%) FinOps
1 9 (69.23%) Software Licensing
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
3 2 (15.38%) System Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Go
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Rancher
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) Adobe
2 9 (69.23%) Apple