CloudOps Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Cloud Operations Engineer
England > North West

As of 3 April 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Cloud Operations Engineer salary in the North West.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 - 277
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a CloudOps Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.011% - 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% - 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £55,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 8,006 3,219 8,205
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.40% 89.72% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,075 2,192 6,617
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,620 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

CloudOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 the North West.

CloudOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

CloudOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in the North West

CloudOps 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 CloudOps Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. 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 - 1 - - 1
CloudOps Engineer
England

CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 3 April 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 North West region featuring CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

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

CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform