AWS DevOps Job Trends in Manchester

Amazon Web Services DevOps
North West > Manchester

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps salary in Manchester is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 149 167
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 +46
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 6 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.18% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £48,375 - £57,125
25th Percentile £53,438 £85,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £90,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +50.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £91,000 - £75,000
North West median annual salary £63,750 £90,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% +50.00% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,932 2,407 3,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 94.13% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,949 1,189 2,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £69,936
90th Percentile £88,800 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS DevOps' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

AWS DevOps job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS DevOps
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps job vacancies in Manchester

AWS DevOps
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS DevOps in Manchester

AWS DevOps
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 DevOps within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Salford - 1 £70,000 - 2
AWS DevOps
North West

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, AWS DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Ant
4 1 (16.67%) Apache
4 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (16.67%) Groovy
4 1 (16.67%) JBoss
4 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Kong
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing

AWS DevOps Skill Set
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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Kong
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Podman
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet