Cloud Engineer Jobs in the North West

Cloud Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the North West is £57,263 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 182 217
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 119 116 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.12% 1.57% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.76% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 88 92 69
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,943 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,263 £57,810 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -3.65% -
75th Percentile £67,968 £78,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,814 £82,375 £76,050
England median annual salary £62,783 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.88% +1.54% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 10,124 6,596 9,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.24% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,670 3,972 5,398
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,138 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,791 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,525 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 2024. 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 -2 73 £60,000 - 10
Merseyside +23 19 £42,500 -54.55% 2
Cheshire -11 17 £43,500 -20.91% 1
Lancashire -12 10 £67,500 +107.69% 2
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 72 (60.50%) Azure
2 43 (36.13%) Microsoft
3 42 (35.29%) AWS
4 36 (30.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (27.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (26.89%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (25.21%) Terraform
7 30 (25.21%) ITIL
8 27 (22.69%) Windows
8 27 (22.69%) Active Directory
9 26 (21.85%) Microsoft Exchange
10 22 (18.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (16.81%) PowerShell
11 20 (16.81%) Windows Server
12 19 (15.97%) CI/CD
12 19 (15.97%) DHCP
13 18 (15.13%) Migration
14 17 (14.29%) Linux
15 16 (13.45%) Python
15 16 (13.45%) DevOps
15 16 (13.45%) Hybrid Cloud
15 16 (13.45%) Entra ID
16 15 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (12.61%) Finance
16 15 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (12.61%) GitHub
17 14 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
17 14 (11.76%) DNS
17 14 (11.76%) Azure Certification
18 13 (10.92%) Roadmaps

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 26 (21.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.56%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 6 (5.04%) Confluence
5 3 (2.52%) Apache
5 3 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 72 (60.50%) Azure
2 42 (35.29%) AWS
3 32 (26.89%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (13.45%) Entra ID
5 15 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.61%) GitHub
6 13 (10.92%) GCP
7 11 (9.24%) PaaS
8 10 (8.40%) IaaS
8 10 (8.40%) OCI
9 8 (6.72%) Amazon S3
10 6 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (5.04%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.20%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.20%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.36%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (3.36%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (3.36%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.97%) DHCP
2 14 (11.76%) DNS
3 11 (9.24%) Firewall
4 3 (2.52%) HTTP
4 3 (2.52%) MQTT
5 2 (1.68%) DMZ
5 2 (1.68%) PBX
5 2 (1.68%) VoIP
6 1 (0.84%) Network Security
6 1 (0.84%) SSL
6 1 (0.84%) VLAN
6 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.20%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.36%) Power BI
4 3 (2.52%) Airbyte
4 3 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.52%) Looker
4 3 (2.52%) Tableau
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Git
2 8 (6.72%) GitLab
3 7 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 6 (5.04%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.04%) JIRA
5 4 (3.36%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (12.61%) Finance
2 7 (5.88%) Legal
2 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 7 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.04%) Aerospace
3 6 (5.04%) Banking
4 5 (4.20%) Local Government
5 3 (2.52%) Law
5 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.68%) Retail
6 2 (1.68%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) Kafka
2 4 (3.36%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.52%) Apache Beam
3 3 (2.52%) CSS
3 3 (2.52%) HTML
3 3 (2.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (7.56%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.04%) Blog
4 5 (4.20%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.52%) iPad
6 3 (2.52%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.68%) IoT
7 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.84%) PKI
8 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.69%) Windows
2 20 (16.81%) Windows Server
3 17 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (0.84%) CentOS
4 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 33 (27.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (25.21%) ITIL
4 22 (18.49%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (15.97%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.13%) Migration
7 16 (13.45%) DevOps
8 15 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (10.92%) Roadmaps
9 13 (10.92%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (10.08%) Capacity Planning
10 12 (10.08%) Incident Management
10 12 (10.08%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (9.24%) Proactive Monitoring
11 11 (9.24%) Server Management
11 11 (9.24%) Service Management
12 10 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (7.56%) Agile
13 9 (7.56%) Data Engineering
13 9 (7.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.81%) PowerShell
2 16 (13.45%) Python
3 10 (8.40%) Bash
4 7 (5.88%) Java
5 6 (5.04%) SQL
6 5 (4.20%) Bicep
7 3 (2.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 11 (9.24%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.84%) NCSC
2 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (22.69%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.08%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.52%) Docker
5 3 (2.52%) Firmware
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (25.21%) Terraform
2 14 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (10.08%) Kubernetes
4 11 (9.24%) Ansible
5 3 (2.52%) Grafana
5 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.68%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.84%) Nagios
7 1 (0.84%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (36.13%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.24%) Citrix
3 10 (8.40%) Google
3 10 (8.40%) Oracle
4 8 (6.72%) VMware
5 4 (3.36%) Confluent
6 3 (2.52%) Teradata
7 2 (1.68%) BT
7 2 (1.68%) Cisco
7 2 (1.68%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.68%) New Relic
7 2 (1.68%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.68%) Splunk
8 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.84%) Databricks
8 1 (0.84%) Informatica
8 1 (0.84%) NetApp
8 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.84%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.84%) Veeam