AWS Job Trends in Manchester

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 596 396 511
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.99% 16.72% 12.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.20% 46.21% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 430 215 243
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £89,875 £77,500 £73,818
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

AWS 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 1,910 857 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.60% 36.19% 34.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 571 833
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £36,050
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Manchester

AWS
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 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Stockport 0 7 £70,000 - 5
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Altrincham -5 6 £65,000 - 15
Salford -21 6 £100,000 +44.13% 20
AWS
North West

AWS
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 19 (3.19%) Apache
2 16 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.51%) Confluence
4 9 (1.51%) IIS
5 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.01%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 199 (33.39%) Azure
2 102 (17.11%) GCP
3 84 (14.09%) SaaS
4 78 (13.09%) Serverless
5 65 (10.91%) GitHub
6 52 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (6.71%) Amazon S3
8 33 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (3.36%) Datadog
11 19 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.85%) dbt
12 17 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (2.52%) Route 53
15 14 (2.35%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (2.01%) OpenShift
16 12 (2.01%) Snowflake
17 11 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.03%) DNS
2 21 (3.52%) Firewall
3 20 (3.36%) DHCP
4 15 (2.52%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.35%) VPN
6 9 (1.51%) Network Security
7 8 (1.34%) LAN
7 8 (1.34%) SAN
8 6 (1.01%) WAN
9 5 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.84%) VLAN
10 3 (0.50%) AMQP
10 3 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.50%) IPsec
10 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.50%) VSAN
11 2 (0.34%) BGP
11 2 (0.34%) DMZ
11 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.53%) MongoDB
1 27 (4.53%) NoSQL
2 23 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.02%) DynamoDB
5 18 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.68%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.68%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.17%) MySQL
11 6 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.01%) Big Data
11 6 (1.01%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.01%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.84%) Redis
13 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 55 (9.23%) Git
2 35 (5.87%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.70%) GitLab
4 16 (2.68%) JIRA
5 13 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.85%) Maven
7 10 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (1.68%) Claude Code
8 8 (1.34%) Storybook
9 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.67%) Postman
10 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.67%) Vite
11 3 (0.50%) Selenium
12 2 (0.34%) Mocha
12 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 125 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 47 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (7.89%) Finance
3 35 (5.87%) Public Sector
4 31 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (3.02%) Legal
6 17 (2.85%) Publishing
7 16 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.68%) Retail
8 13 (2.18%) Aviation
9 12 (2.01%) Marketing
10 11 (1.85%) Health Technology
10 11 (1.85%) Law
11 8 (1.34%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Banking
13 5 (0.84%) Billing
14 4 (0.67%) iGaming
14 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 143 (23.99%) Senior
2 87 (14.60%) Architect
3 78 (13.09%) Software Engineer
4 73 (12.25%) Developer
5 59 (9.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 57 (9.56%) Data Engineer
7 53 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
8 52 (8.72%) Lead
9 40 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
10 39 (6.54%) Senior Developer
11 38 (6.38%) AWS Architect
11 38 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (4.53%) Analyst
12 27 (4.53%) AWS Solution Architect
13 19 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (3.19%) Security Engineer
13 19 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.85%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (20.47%) Terraform
2 80 (13.42%) React
3 60 (10.07%) Node.js
4 44 (7.38%) .NET
5 43 (7.21%) AngularJS
6 39 (6.54%) Spring
7 38 (6.38%) Spring Boot
8 35 (5.87%) Kafka
9 25 (4.19%) REST
9 25 (4.19%) Vue
10 21 (3.52%) FastAPI
11 19 (3.19%) CSS
11 19 (3.19%) Next.js
12 16 (2.68%) HTML
12 16 (2.68%) PySpark
12 16 (2.68%) React Native
13 14 (2.35%) LangChain
13 14 (2.35%) RESTful
13 14 (2.35%) Ruby on Rails
14 12 (2.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 143 (23.99%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.52%) AI Agents
5 15 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
7 11 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.17%) Media Streaming
11 7 (1.17%) Podcast
11 7 (1.17%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.01%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (0.84%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.37%) Linux
2 26 (4.36%) Windows
3 16 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.01%) CentOS
5 11 (1.85%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.84%) Unix
7 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.50%) Debian
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (33.05%) CI/CD
2 167 (28.02%) DevOps
3 160 (26.85%) Software Engineering
4 149 (25.00%) AI
5 144 (24.16%) Agile
6 111 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 111 (18.62%) Mentoring
7 101 (16.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 92 (15.44%) Microservices
9 91 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
10 75 (12.58%) Observability
11 71 (11.91%) Full-Stack Development
12 68 (11.41%) Test Automation
13 66 (11.07%) Roadmaps
13 66 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 63 (10.57%) Collaborative Culture
14 63 (10.57%) Containerisation
15 61 (10.23%) Machine Learning
16 59 (9.90%) Decision-Making
17 54 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 191 (32.05%) Python
2 118 (19.80%) SQL
3 103 (17.28%) Java
4 78 (13.09%) TypeScript
5 65 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 31 (5.20%) C#
7 24 (4.03%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.69%) Bash
9 19 (3.19%) Go
10 15 (2.52%) Ruby
10 15 (2.52%) Scala
11 6 (1.01%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.01%) PHP
12 4 (0.67%) C++
12 4 (0.67%) Rust
13 3 (0.50%) C
14 2 (0.34%) Swift
15 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 75 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.71%) Degree
4 36 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.01%) CISM
10 4 (0.67%) CISA
10 4 (0.67%) CISSP
10 4 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.67%) CRISC
10 4 (0.67%) MBA
10 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.34%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.34%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.19%) QA
4 18 (3.02%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.52%) GDPR
6 14 (2.35%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.51%) NIST
8 8 (1.34%) WCAG
9 5 (0.84%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (14.77%) Docker
2 19 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.01%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.34%) Firmware
6 7 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) UAG
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 110 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.21%) Ansible
3 14 (2.35%) Grafana
3 14 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.68%) Puppet
5 8 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.67%) Argo
8 4 (0.67%) Nessus
9 3 (0.50%) Istio
9 3 (0.50%) linkerd
9 3 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.50%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.34%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.34%) Packer
10 2 (0.34%) SCCM
10 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.37%) Adobe
2 32 (5.37%) Google
3 23 (3.86%) Databricks
4 22 (3.69%) VMware
5 20 (3.36%) Splunk
6 19 (3.19%) Apple
7 12 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.51%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.34%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.34%) Cisco
9 8 (1.34%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.17%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.84%) Okta
12 4 (0.67%) F5
12 4 (0.67%) Mistral
13 3 (0.50%) McAfee
13 3 (0.50%) New Relic
13 3 (0.50%) SaltStack
13 3 (0.50%) YouTube