AWS Jobs in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 948 1,550 1,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.70% 19.80% 19.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.47% 46.98% 45.09%
Number of salaries quoted 652 734 1,074
10th Percentile £41,014 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,833 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £95,000 £89,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Cloud Skills
North West

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,330 3,299 3,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.09% 42.14% 42.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,629 1,909 2,636
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,220
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North West

AWS
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for AWS in the North West

AWS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the North West

AWS
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 AWS within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 -4 669 £63,624 -2.12% 186
Cheshire -10 132 £52,500 -32.26% 30
Merseyside -14 84 £42,500 -43.33% 14
Lancashire -16 57 £73,805 +34.19% 20
Cumbria -6 3 £105,000 - 2
AWS
England

AWS
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 57 (6.01%) ArcGIS
1 57 (6.01%) GeoServer
2 32 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.00%) Apache
3 19 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.27%) IIS
5 12 (1.27%) Tuxedo
6 8 (0.84%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.42%) Confluence
7 4 (0.42%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) Jetty
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.53%) SAP IBP
3 5 (0.53%) SAP PP
3 5 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 479 (50.53%) Azure
2 154 (16.24%) GCP
3 104 (10.97%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (9.49%) Amazon S3
5 87 (9.18%) SaaS
6 77 (8.12%) Serverless
7 68 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (3.90%) OCI
10 36 (3.80%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (3.80%) IBM Cloud
10 36 (3.80%) Route 53
11 32 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (3.38%) GitHub
12 24 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (2.32%) Entra ID
14 19 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (1.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.38%) DNS
2 50 (5.27%) Firewall
3 45 (4.75%) WAN
4 34 (3.59%) DHCP
5 31 (3.27%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.90%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.79%) Network Security
8 16 (1.69%) SSL
9 15 (1.58%) BGP
10 14 (1.48%) LAN
11 13 (1.37%) HTTP
12 12 (1.27%) iSCSI
12 12 (1.27%) SAN
12 12 (1.27%) VPN
13 11 (1.16%) AMQP
14 9 (0.95%) MQTT
15 8 (0.84%) Wireless
16 7 (0.74%) EIGRP
16 7 (0.74%) OSPF
16 7 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (12.13%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (9.07%) MySQL
3 72 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (6.01%) GIS
5 57 (6.01%) QGIS
6 56 (5.91%) SQL Server
7 49 (5.17%) NoSQL
8 43 (4.54%) MongoDB
9 42 (4.43%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.74%) Oracle Database
11 25 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (2.53%) RDBMS
13 19 (2.00%) Data Lake
13 19 (2.00%) DynamoDB
14 18 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
15 17 (1.79%) Big Data
16 15 (1.58%) Hadoop
17 13 (1.37%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 87 (9.18%) Git
2 49 (5.17%) GitLab
3 33 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 33 (3.48%) JIRA
4 20 (2.11%) TeamCity
5 18 (1.90%) IntelliJ
5 18 (1.90%) JUnit
5 18 (1.90%) Mockito
6 17 (1.79%) Gradle
7 16 (1.69%) Postman
8 7 (0.74%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.63%) Selenium
10 5 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.53%) JetBrains Rider
10 5 (0.53%) JMeter
10 5 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.53%) webpack
11 4 (0.42%) Jasmine
General
1 150 (15.82%) Social Skills
2 85 (8.97%) Finance
3 77 (8.12%) Public Sector
4 63 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (5.17%) Retail
7 29 (3.06%) Aerospace
8 21 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (1.79%) Legal
10 16 (1.69%) Games
10 16 (1.69%) Law
10 16 (1.69%) Marketing
11 15 (1.58%) Tech for Good
12 10 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.84%) Banking
14 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.53%) Retail Finance
16 4 (0.42%) Aviation
16 4 (0.42%) Publishing
16 4 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 317 (33.44%) Senior
2 250 (26.37%) Developer
3 168 (17.72%) Software Engineer
4 123 (12.97%) Lead
5 103 (10.86%) Architect
6 90 (9.49%) Senior Developer
7 84 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 75 (7.91%) Senior Software Engineer
9 49 (5.17%) .NET Developer
10 48 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
11 47 (4.96%) Senior DevOps
11 47 (4.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 45 (4.75%) Technical Leader
13 44 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
15 38 (4.01%) Data Engineer
15 38 (4.01%) PHP Developer
16 36 (3.80%) Java Engineer
17 35 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
18 32 (3.38%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (22.36%) React
2 146 (15.40%) Node.js
3 132 (13.92%) .NET
4 97 (10.23%) CSS
5 83 (8.76%) .NET Core
6 70 (7.38%) Spring
7 62 (6.54%) RESTful
8 57 (6.01%) Leaflet
8 57 (6.01%) OpenLayers
8 57 (6.01%) PostGIS
9 56 (5.91%) AngularJS
10 55 (5.80%) Spring Boot
11 53 (5.59%) REST
12 49 (5.17%) Laravel
13 46 (4.85%) HTML
14 45 (4.75%) Vue
15 40 (4.22%) .NET Framework
16 30 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (2.95%) ASP.NET
17 28 (2.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.01%) Public Cloud
2 53 (5.59%) Cloud Native
3 51 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 46 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (4.75%) Blockchain
6 40 (4.22%) Management Information System
7 36 (3.80%) e-Learning
8 34 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.32%) PKI
10 21 (2.22%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.79%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.69%) Blog
12 16 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 16 (1.69%) PMI
13 15 (1.58%) IoT
14 13 (1.37%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.37%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.16%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 151 (15.93%) Linux
2 95 (10.02%) Windows
3 45 (4.75%) Windows Server
4 29 (3.06%) Unix
5 23 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 20 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.79%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.27%) CentOS
8 12 (1.27%) Debian
8 12 (1.27%) Mac OS
9 11 (1.16%) Android
10 6 (0.63%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.42%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.42%) VMS
11 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.32%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.11%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (44.94%) Agile
2 313 (33.02%) DevOps
3 249 (26.27%) Software Engineering
4 193 (20.36%) Mentoring
5 170 (17.93%) CI/CD
6 147 (15.51%) TDD
7 139 (14.66%) Actionable Insight
8 123 (12.97%) Full Stack Development
9 122 (12.87%) Coaching
10 120 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (11.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 106 (11.18%) Microservices
13 101 (10.65%) Containerisation
14 93 (9.81%) Scrum
15 87 (9.18%) Roadmaps
16 76 (8.02%) Artificial Intelligence
17 71 (7.49%) Test Automation
18 69 (7.28%) Continuous Integration
18 69 (7.28%) Kanban
18 69 (7.28%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 243 (25.63%) JavaScript
2 212 (22.36%) Python
3 171 (18.04%) Java
4 159 (16.77%) SQL
5 124 (13.08%) TypeScript
6 120 (12.66%) C#
7 76 (8.02%) PHP
8 43 (4.54%) PowerShell
9 27 (2.85%) Go
10 26 (2.74%) Bash
11 21 (2.22%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.27%) COBOL
12 12 (1.27%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 11 (1.16%) Ruby
14 8 (0.84%) Perl
14 8 (0.84%) Scala
14 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.53%) C
16 5 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 129 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 96 (10.13%) Degree
3 90 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 75 (7.91%) AWS Certification
5 41 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.90%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (3.38%) DV Cleared
8 22 (2.32%) CISSP
9 18 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 18 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.79%) CISM
11 16 (1.69%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.58%) CCSK
12 15 (1.58%) CCSP
12 15 (1.58%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.37%) CCNA
14 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.74%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.95%) GDPR
2 25 (2.64%) NIST
3 21 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.79%) QA
5 14 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.32%) SLA
8 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.21%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 170 (17.93%) Docker
2 66 (6.96%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.06%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.74%) Firmware
6 4 (0.42%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Snort
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 179 (18.88%) Terraform
2 177 (18.67%) Kubernetes
3 49 (5.17%) Ansible
4 39 (4.11%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (1.48%) Puppet
8 12 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (1.27%) Opsgenie
8 12 (1.27%) VxRail
8 12 (1.27%) ZABBIX
9 8 (0.84%) Grafana
10 7 (0.74%) CA Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.63%) Kibana
12 4 (0.42%) Autotask
13 3 (0.32%) SELinux
14 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.11%) Kiali
Vendors
1 156 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.38%) Google
3 57 (6.01%) ESRI
3 57 (6.01%) Oracle
4 48 (5.06%) Red Hat
5 46 (4.85%) VMware
6 45 (4.75%) IBM
7 38 (4.01%) Dynatrace
8 26 (2.74%) Cisco
9 22 (2.32%) Citrix
10 15 (1.58%) Fortinet
11 14 (1.48%) Dell
12 13 (1.37%) Facebook
13 12 (1.27%) Micro Focus
13 12 (1.27%) NetApp
13 12 (1.27%) SolarWinds
14 11 (1.16%) SaltStack
15 10 (1.05%) Databricks
15 10 (1.05%) Sparx
16 9 (0.95%) Adobe