The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon AWS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Amazon AWS over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Web Services (Amazon AWS)
Rank 188 174 166
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -8
Permanent jobs citing Amazon AWS 6 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.148% 0.028% 0.177%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.748% 0.132% 1.082%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 6
Average salary £47,500 £70,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.14% +100.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
802 756 647
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 19.76% 20.85% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 679 673 604
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £61,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Amazon AWS
North West

Amazon AWS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Amazon AWS across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Manchester Amazon AWS Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon AWS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Amazon AWS across the Manchester region.

Manchester Amazon AWS Salary Trend

Amazon AWS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Amazon AWS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon AWS.

1 14 (87.50%) Open Source
2 10 (62.50%) NoSQL
3 8 (50.00%) VirtualBox
3 8 (50.00%) Hudson
3 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
3 8 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 8 (50.00%) Puppet
3 8 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 8 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 8 (50.00%) Ruby
3 8 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 8 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (50.00%) Postfix
3 8 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (50.00%) UNIX
3 8 (50.00%) DNS
3 8 (50.00%) E-business
3 8 (50.00%) Firewall
3 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 8 (50.00%) PHP
3 8 (50.00%) J2EE
3 8 (50.00%) Oracle
3 8 (50.00%) Web Services
3 8 (50.00%) Linux
3 8 (50.00%) Apache
4 7 (43.75%) E-Commerce
5 6 (37.50%) XML

Amazon AWS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Amazon AWS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon AWS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (50.00%) J2EE
1 8 (50.00%) Web Services
2 6 (37.50%) XML
2 6 (37.50%) cXML
2 6 (37.50%) CSS
2 6 (37.50%) SOAP
2 6 (37.50%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) Apache
1 8 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) DNS
1 8 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 8 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (37.50%) MySQL
4 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Hudson
1 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Web Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Perl Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Perl Web Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Open Source
2 8 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) UNIX
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
1 8 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 1 (6.250%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) E-business
1 8 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 7 (43.75%) E-Commerce
3 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PHP
1 8 (50.00%) Ruby
1 8 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (37.50%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) C
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.250%) C++
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (50.00%) Postfix
1 8 (50.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle
1 8 (50.00%) VMware