AWS Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Amazon Web Services Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in Manchester is £66,925 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 179 183
Rank change year-on-year +46 +4 +33
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 32 41 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.41% 0.79% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 0.83% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26 31 59
10th Percentile £49,865 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,925 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £102,500
North West median annual salary £65,675 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% -3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,047 4,917 4,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.38% 92.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,257 3,795 2,590
10th Percentile £31,450 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,047 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,700 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -4.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,340 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Manchester

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in Manchester

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in Manchester

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Rochdale - 1 £55,000 -
AWS Engineer
North West

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (56.25%) Agile
2 18 (56.25%) Software Engineering
3 16 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 13 (40.63%) Node.js
4 13 (40.63%) Finance
5 12 (37.50%) Python
5 12 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (37.50%) Terraform
5 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 12 (37.50%) Cloud Security
6 11 (34.38%) DevOps
7 9 (28.13%) NoSQL
7 9 (28.13%) SaaS
8 8 (25.00%) Microservices
8 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
9 7 (21.88%) Scrum
9 7 (21.88%) Security Architecture
9 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (21.88%) Serverless
10 6 (18.75%) Ping Identity
10 6 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 6 (18.75%) REST
10 6 (18.75%) Investment Management
10 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
10 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 6 (18.75%) Web Services

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (9.38%) Apache
1 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (28.13%) SaaS
4 7 (21.88%) Serverless
5 5 (15.63%) GitHub
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.13%) Azure
8 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) GCP
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.13%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) NoSQL
2 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
3 5 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (9.38%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) Storybook
3 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.13%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Retail
3 5 (15.63%) Law
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Aviation
7 1 (3.13%) Electronics
7 1 (3.13%) Local Government
7 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Marketing
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) Node.js
2 6 (18.75%) REST
2 6 (18.75%) Web Services
3 5 (15.63%) GraphQL
3 5 (15.63%) React
4 2 (6.25%) .NET
4 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.13%) JSON
5 1 (3.13%) Kafka
5 1 (3.13%) Redux
5 1 (3.13%) Spring
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (15.63%) Legacy Code
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Agile
1 18 (56.25%) Software Engineering
2 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 12 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 11 (34.38%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) Microservices
5 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (21.88%) Scrum
5 7 (21.88%) Security Architecture
6 6 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (18.75%) Investment Management
6 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 6 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 5 (15.63%) API Development
7 5 (15.63%) Client Onboarding
7 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
7 5 (15.63%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 12 (37.50%) Python
3 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.63%) C#
5 4 (12.50%) Java
5 4 (12.50%) SQL
6 3 (9.38%) Scala
7 1 (3.13%) Go
7 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Automic
3 1 (3.13%) Consul
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Kibana
3 1 (3.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Ping Identity
2 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.13%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.13%) SAP