Cloud Engineer Jobs in the North West

Cloud Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the North West is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 179 187
Rank change year-on-year -62 +8 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 46 117 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.59% 1.14% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.20% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 33 86 90
10th Percentile £50,500 £37,500 £39,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,750 £47,648
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.86% -3.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,851 £78,304
90th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £81,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,783 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.50% -6.99% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 7,154 9,728 6,776
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 94.70% 89.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,794 7,455 4,011
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,138
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,396 £40,391
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the North West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the North West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the North West

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Manchester +31 41 £65,000 +8.33% 29
Cheshire -2 3 £57,500 +32.18% 6
Lancashire -73 1 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Cloud 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 North West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (65.22%) Azure
2 28 (60.87%) Terraform
3 27 (58.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 22 (47.83%) DevOps
5 22 (47.83%) Finance
6 20 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (41.30%) AWS
8 18 (39.13%) Cloud Security
9 16 (34.78%) Microsoft
10 15 (32.61%) Banking
11 14 (30.43%) Azure Certification
12 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (26.09%) Cloud Native
12 12 (26.09%) Linux
12 12 (26.09%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (23.91%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (23.91%) Agile
14 10 (21.74%) Windows
14 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
14 10 (21.74%) Product Ownership
15 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Automation
16 8 (17.39%) GCP
16 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (17.39%) Python
16 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
17 7 (15.22%) Security Posture
17 7 (15.22%) ARM Templates
17 7 (15.22%) Virtual Machines

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) Azure
2 19 (41.30%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.39%) GCP
5 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (8.70%) GitHub
7 4 (8.70%) SaaS
8 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.17%) OCI
8 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.17%) PaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) DHCP
1 5 (10.87%) DNS
1 5 (10.87%) NAS
1 5 (10.87%) SAN
1 5 (10.87%) VSAN
2 4 (8.70%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Broadband
3 1 (2.17%) SSH
3 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
1 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.17%) Big Data
2 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 23 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (47.83%) Finance
3 15 (32.61%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Aviation
5 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) ARM Templates
2 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
2 5 (10.87%) Middleware
2 5 (10.87%) React
3 4 (8.70%) Web Services
4 3 (6.52%) REST
5 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.17%) JSON
5 1 (2.17%) OAuth
5 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Cloud Native
1 12 (26.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (21.74%) Product Ownership
3 7 (15.22%) Public Cloud
3 7 (15.22%) Security Posture
4 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.35%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Linux
2 10 (21.74%) Windows
3 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (47.83%) DevOps
3 20 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (39.13%) Cloud Security
5 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (23.91%) Agile
6 11 (23.91%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
9 7 (15.22%) Configuration Management
10 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
10 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
11 5 (10.87%) Architectural Design
11 5 (10.87%) Defect Management
11 5 (10.87%) Fintech
11 5 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (10.87%) Service Design
11 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
12 4 (8.70%) Information Security
12 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Azure Certification
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.17%) CCNA
5 1 (2.17%) CCSP
5 1 (2.17%) CISSP
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) MCITP
5 1 (2.17%) MCSA
5 1 (2.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
1 7 (15.22%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (10.87%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (60.87%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.22%) Ansible
4 5 (10.87%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) Oracle
3 6 (13.04%) Google
4 5 (10.87%) VMware
5 4 (8.70%) Ping Identity
5 4 (8.70%) Veeam
6 1 (2.17%) Facebook
6 1 (2.17%) Thales