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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 385 423 600
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.17% 19.47% 12.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.18% 44.86% 31.27%
Number of salaries quoted 291 275 486
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £63,141
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +6.17% -0.95%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,037 £62,783
% change year-on-year +0.69% +6.78% -3.41%

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 1,736 943 1,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.35% 43.40% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 655 1,597
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,517 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

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 6 May 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 6 May 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
Altrincham -6 7 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Salford -17 6 £70,000 +3.51% 3
Bolton +21 3 £31,500 - 5
Stockport -12 1 £60,000 -20.00% 3
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 8 (2.08%) Apache
1 8 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.56%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.30%) WordPress
5 4 (1.04%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.78%) Confluence
6 3 (0.78%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.78%) nginx
7 2 (0.52%) CICS
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
7 2 (0.52%) JBoss
7 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.60%) Cloudability
1 10 (2.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 170 (44.16%) Azure
2 69 (17.92%) GCP
3 46 (11.95%) Serverless
4 36 (9.35%) GitHub
5 26 (6.75%) SaaS
6 24 (6.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (4.68%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (4.68%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (2.86%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.82%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.56%) Datadog
12 6 (1.56%) dbt
13 5 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.16%) Internet
2 8 (2.08%) DNS
2 8 (2.08%) Firewall
3 7 (1.82%) SSL
4 5 (1.30%) HTTP
5 4 (1.04%) AMQP
5 4 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.04%) Network Security
5 4 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.52%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.52%) SSH
7 1 (0.26%) DHCP
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) VPN
7 1 (0.26%) VSAN
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.94%) MongoDB
3 17 (4.42%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.60%) MySQL
7 8 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.08%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.82%) Big Data
8 7 (1.82%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.82%) Neo4j
9 6 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.56%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.56%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.04%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.04%) Flink
11 3 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (12.99%) Git
2 15 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.12%) GitLab
4 11 (2.86%) Claude Code
5 9 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.56%) JIRA
8 3 (0.78%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.78%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.52%) Maven
9 2 (0.52%) Subversion
9 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.52%) Vite
10 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.26%) PyCharm
General
1 50 (12.99%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.17%) Finance
3 24 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.16%) Multimedia
7 10 (2.60%) Retail
8 9 (2.34%) Banking
8 9 (2.34%) Retail Banking
9 6 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.56%) Marketing
10 5 (1.30%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.04%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.04%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Advertising
13 2 (0.52%) Electronics
13 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.26%) Games
14 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (27.01%) Senior
2 73 (18.96%) Software Engineer
3 67 (17.40%) Developer
4 46 (11.95%) Lead
5 45 (11.69%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (9.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (9.35%) Architect
8 30 (7.79%) Senior Developer
9 23 (5.97%) Analyst
9 23 (5.97%) Data Engineer
9 23 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (5.71%) Java Engineer
10 22 (5.71%) Trainee
11 19 (4.94%) AWS Architect
11 19 (4.94%) Java Developer
12 18 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
14 16 (4.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (4.16%) Security Architect
14 16 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.62%) React
2 51 (13.25%) Node.js
3 34 (8.83%) .NET
4 33 (8.57%) Spring
5 32 (8.31%) Spring Boot
6 31 (8.05%) CSS
7 29 (7.53%) HTML
8 26 (6.75%) REST
9 23 (5.97%) AngularJS
10 13 (3.38%) Kafka
10 13 (3.38%) Pandas
10 13 (3.38%) RESTful
11 9 (2.34%) Django
11 9 (2.34%) FastAPI
11 9 (2.34%) NumPy
11 9 (2.34%) OAuth
11 9 (2.34%) OAuth2
11 9 (2.34%) scikit-learn
12 8 (2.08%) PySpark
13 7 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.12%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.78%) IoT
12 2 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.52%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.52%) NHS
12 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.26%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.01%) Linux
2 14 (3.64%) Windows
3 6 (1.56%) CentOS
3 6 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.04%) Debian
5 4 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (28.31%) CI/CD
2 105 (27.27%) DevOps
3 104 (27.01%) Software Engineering
4 102 (26.49%) Agile
5 80 (20.78%) Mentoring
6 73 (18.96%) AI
7 65 (16.88%) Microservices
8 61 (15.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 58 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (15.06%) Cybersecurity
10 54 (14.03%) TDD
11 47 (12.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (10.39%) Scrum
13 37 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (9.09%) Containerisation
15 34 (8.83%) Cost Optimisation
15 34 (8.83%) Observability
16 33 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
16 33 (8.57%) Event-Driven
16 33 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 125 (32.47%) Python
2 86 (22.34%) Java
3 68 (17.66%) JavaScript
4 66 (17.14%) SQL
5 50 (12.99%) TypeScript
6 24 (6.23%) C#
7 21 (5.45%) PHP
8 10 (2.60%) Go
8 10 (2.60%) R
9 7 (1.82%) C
9 7 (1.82%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.56%) Bash
10 6 (1.56%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.78%) Scala
12 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 52 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.95%) AWS Certification
3 38 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 19 (4.94%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.90%) Degree
7 15 (3.90%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.52%) MBA
10 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.90%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.82%) NIST
4 7 (1.82%) QA
5 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
6 1 (0.26%) HL7
System Software
1 52 (13.51%) Docker
2 5 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.78%) vSphere
5 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (20.00%) Terraform
2 57 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.49%) Ansible
4 12 (3.12%) Grafana
4 12 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.04%) Puppet
6 3 (0.78%) Nagios
6 3 (0.78%) Rancher
6 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.52%) cPanel
7 2 (0.52%) Packer
7 2 (0.52%) Plesk
7 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 49 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.83%) Adobe
3 19 (4.94%) Apple
4 10 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.82%) Splunk
7 6 (1.56%) Google
8 5 (1.30%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.30%) Pega
8 5 (1.30%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.30%) VMware
9 4 (1.04%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.78%) Databricks
11 2 (0.52%) New Relic
11 2 (0.52%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.52%) Oracle
11 2 (0.52%) WSO2
12 1 (0.26%) Informatica
12 1 (0.26%) McAfee