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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 364 358 596
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.13% 17.04% 12.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.07% 39.60% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 281 277 488
10th Percentile £36,500 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £63,624
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +5.36% +1.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,288 £67,269 £62,783
% change year-on-year -2.94% +7.15% -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 1,649 904 1,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.31% 43.03% 38.97%
Number of salaries quoted 956 666 1,593
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £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 £97,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -7 6 £67,500 +28.57% 2
Salford -17 6 £70,000 +3.51% 5
Bolton +20 3 £31,500 - 3
Stockport -7 1 £60,000 -20.00% 5
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 7 (1.92%) Apache
1 7 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.65%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.37%) WordPress
4 4 (1.10%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.82%) Confluence
5 3 (0.82%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.82%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) CICS
6 2 (0.55%) CMS
6 2 (0.55%) JBoss
6 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.75%) Magento
2 6 (1.65%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 164 (45.05%) Azure
2 63 (17.31%) GCP
3 43 (11.81%) Serverless
4 35 (9.62%) GitHub
5 23 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 23 (6.32%) SaaS
6 19 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (4.40%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (2.75%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.92%) OpenShift
11 6 (1.65%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (1.65%) Datadog
12 5 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.22%) Internet
2 8 (2.20%) DNS
2 8 (2.20%) Firewall
3 7 (1.92%) SSL
4 5 (1.37%) HTTP
5 4 (1.10%) AMQP
5 4 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.55%) Network Security
6 2 (0.55%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.55%) SSH
7 1 (0.27%) DHCP
7 1 (0.27%) LAN
7 1 (0.27%) VPN
7 1 (0.27%) VSAN
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.49%) MongoDB
1 20 (5.49%) NoSQL
1 20 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (2.75%) MySQL
5 8 (2.20%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.20%) Neo4j
6 7 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.92%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.65%) Big Data
7 6 (1.65%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.10%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.10%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.82%) Flink
10 3 (0.82%) GIS
10 3 (0.82%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 50 (13.74%) Git
2 12 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.75%) Claude Code
4 9 (2.47%) GitLab
5 8 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.65%) JIRA
8 3 (0.82%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.82%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.55%) Subversion
9 2 (0.55%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) PyCharm
General
1 51 (14.01%) Social Skills
2 42 (11.54%) Finance
3 22 (6.04%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (5.22%) Multimedia
6 17 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.02%) Retail
8 10 (2.75%) Banking
9 9 (2.47%) Retail Banking
10 8 (2.20%) Legal
11 6 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.37%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.10%) Marketing
14 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.55%) Electronics
15 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.27%) Billing
16 1 (0.27%) Digital Health
16 1 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 96 (26.37%) Senior
2 71 (19.51%) Software Engineer
3 65 (17.86%) Developer
4 44 (12.09%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (10.99%) Lead
6 36 (9.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (8.52%) Architect
8 28 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 25 (6.87%) Trainee
10 24 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.49%) Data Engineer
12 19 (5.22%) Analyst
12 19 (5.22%) AWS Architect
12 19 (5.22%) Java Engineer
13 18 (4.95%) Python Engineer
13 18 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (4.67%) Java Developer
15 16 (4.40%) Lead Software Engineer
16 15 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
17 14 (3.85%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.76%) React
2 45 (12.36%) Node.js
3 33 (9.07%) CSS
4 32 (8.79%) .NET
5 31 (8.52%) HTML
6 29 (7.97%) Spring
7 28 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 24 (6.59%) REST
9 21 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 13 (3.57%) RESTful
11 12 (3.30%) Pandas
12 10 (2.75%) Django
12 10 (2.75%) Kafka
13 9 (2.47%) NumPy
13 9 (2.47%) scikit-learn
14 8 (2.20%) AWS CDK
14 8 (2.20%) FastAPI
14 8 (2.20%) OAuth
14 8 (2.20%) OAuth2
14 8 (2.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.44%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.92%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) IoT
11 2 (0.55%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.55%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.55%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.55%) NHS
11 2 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.42%) Linux
2 14 (3.85%) Windows
3 6 (1.65%) CentOS
3 6 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.10%) Debian
5 4 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 102 (28.02%) DevOps
3 101 (27.75%) CI/CD
4 98 (26.92%) Agile
5 74 (20.33%) Mentoring
6 65 (17.86%) AI
7 58 (15.93%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (15.93%) Microservices
8 56 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (14.29%) TDD
10 43 (11.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (10.16%) Scrum
12 36 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (9.07%) Collaborative Culture
13 33 (9.07%) Observability
14 32 (8.79%) Containerisation
15 29 (7.97%) Event-Driven
16 28 (7.69%) Decision-Making
16 28 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 120 (32.97%) Python
2 80 (21.98%) Java
3 70 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 62 (17.03%) SQL
5 48 (13.19%) TypeScript
6 22 (6.04%) C#
7 21 (5.77%) PHP
8 11 (3.02%) R
9 8 (2.20%) Go
10 7 (1.92%) C
11 6 (1.65%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.37%) Bash
13 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.55%) Scala
14 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (12.91%) AWS Certification
2 46 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.07%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 23 (6.32%) Azure Certification
6 19 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (4.12%) Degree
8 13 (3.57%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.82%) MBA
11 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.27%) CISM
12 1 (0.27%) CISSP
12 1 (0.27%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.12%) Data Quality
1 15 (4.12%) PCI DSS
2 8 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.92%) NIST
4 4 (1.10%) QA
5 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 50 (13.74%) Docker
2 5 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.82%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.82%) vSphere
5 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (19.23%) Terraform
2 55 (15.11%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.59%) Ansible
4 12 (3.30%) Grafana
4 12 (3.30%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.10%) Puppet
6 3 (0.82%) Nagios
6 3 (0.82%) Rancher
6 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.55%) cPanel
7 2 (0.55%) Packer
7 2 (0.55%) Plesk
7 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 47 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.42%) Adobe
3 15 (4.12%) Apple
4 8 (2.20%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.92%) Splunk
6 6 (1.65%) Google
6 6 (1.65%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.37%) Pega
7 5 (1.37%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.37%) VMware
8 4 (1.10%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.55%) Databricks
10 2 (0.55%) New Relic
10 2 (0.55%) Oracle
10 2 (0.55%) WSO2
11 1 (0.27%) Informatica
11 1 (0.27%) McAfee
11 1 (0.27%) Veeam