Amazon EC2 Job Trends in Manchester

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 157 126
Rank change year-on-year +36 -31 +77
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 13 4 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.46% 0.15% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 0.39% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 13
10th Percentile £52,750 - £51,400
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -25.00%
75th Percentile £72,188 £75,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,750 £94,750 £76,500
North West median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -17.24%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,148 1,027 995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 40.67% 38.15% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 598 577 860
10th Percentile £29,200 £36,250 £34,587
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Manchester

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in Manchester

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) FactoryTalk
1 1 (7.69%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (23.08%) AWS CodeBuild
5 3 (23.08%) Route 53
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (15.38%) Serverless
7 1 (7.69%) Azure
7 1 (7.69%) GitHub
7 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) CircleCI
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Technology Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) React
2 3 (23.08%) AWS CDK
2 3 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (23.08%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (23.08%) Next.js
3 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (15.38%) Middleware
3 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (15.38%) WCF
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Debian
3 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
3 3 (23.08%) VMS
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Auto-Scaling
5 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
5 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
5 3 (23.08%) GitOps
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Security Hardening
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.69%) AI
7 1 (7.69%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) VMware NSX
2 3 (23.08%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) Ansible
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) AssetCenter
4 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) Kepware
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Rockwell
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Siemens