AWS Certification Job Trends in Manchester

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 148 95
Rank change year-on-year +57 -53 -53
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 40 10 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.36% 0.37% 2.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.08% 1.07% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 27 4 28
10th Percentile - £52,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £63,103
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% +3.01% -15.86%
75th Percentile £32,750 £70,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £75,375 £80,000
North West median annual salary £30,500 £58,750 £61,206
% change year-on-year -48.09% -4.01% -23.49%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 980 931 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.33% 34.83% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 342 389 408
10th Percentile £24,500 £30,000 £37,431
25th Percentile £29,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £68,729 £68,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £48,979 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.15% -4.66% -4.34%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in Manchester

AWS Certification
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Bolton - 2 £31,500 -
AWS Certification
North West

AWS Certification
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 2 (5.00%) WordPress
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (95.00%) Azure
3 23 (57.50%) GitHub
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (57.50%) Internet
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (57.50%) Git
General
1 23 (57.50%) Multimedia
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (57.50%) Trainee
2 11 (27.50%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Software Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Trainee Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Trainee Software Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Architecture Director
5 2 (5.00%) Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Trainee Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Web Administrator
6 1 (2.50%) Architect
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Architect
6 1 (2.50%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Lead
6 1 (2.50%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (57.50%) CSS
1 23 (57.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Onboarding
1 9 (22.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
1 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (52.50%) Mentoring
3 9 (22.50%) AI
3 9 (22.50%) Client Onboarding
3 9 (22.50%) Cost Optimisation
3 9 (22.50%) FinOps
3 9 (22.50%) Software Licensing
4 5 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (10.00%) ITIL
6 3 (7.50%) ArchiMate
6 3 (7.50%) Business Strategy
6 3 (7.50%) Digital Strategy
6 3 (7.50%) ERP
6 3 (7.50%) Lean Six Sigma
6 3 (7.50%) Migration
6 3 (7.50%) Six Sigma
7 2 (5.00%) DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Incident Response
7 2 (5.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) Python
2 23 (57.50%) JavaScript
3 12 (30.00%) R
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (70.00%) Azure Certification
2 23 (57.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 23 (57.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.50%) MBA
3 3 (7.50%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.50%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
1 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
1 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Ansible
1 1 (2.50%) Grafana
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) Adobe
2 9 (22.50%) Apple
3 1 (2.50%) Ariba
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) SAP
3 1 (2.50%) Spotify
3 1 (2.50%) Veeam
3 1 (2.50%) VMware