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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 271 362 417
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.05% 13.69% 15.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.02% 35.01% 37.13%
Number of salaries quoted 223 217 335
10th Percentile £29,800 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -5.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,750 £83,400
North West median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 1,177 1,034 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 39.29% 39.11% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 624 592 982
10th Percentile £29,825 £36,250 £33,843
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 20 January 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 20 January 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 0 5 £73,801 +6.48% 8
Bolton +11 3 £31,500 - 9
Oldham -5 1 £65,000 +18.18%
Stockport -9 1 £60,000 -20.00% 14
Altrincham -14 1 - - 2
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 9 (3.32%) Apache
2 8 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.48%) WordPress
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.74%) JBoss
4 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.37%) WinCC
Applications
1 9 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.69%) Magento
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (54.98%) Azure
2 53 (19.56%) GCP
3 31 (11.44%) GitHub
4 26 (9.59%) Serverless
5 18 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (6.27%) SaaS
7 15 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.06%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.95%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.58%) Amazon Bedrock
14 7 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (2.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 6 (2.21%) Entra ID
16 5 (1.85%) OCI
16 5 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.49%) Internet
2 7 (2.58%) DNS
2 7 (2.58%) Firewall
2 7 (2.58%) SSL
3 6 (2.21%) HTTP
4 4 (1.48%) AMQP
5 3 (1.11%) SSH
5 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.74%) Network Security
6 2 (0.74%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.37%) DHCP
7 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.37%) LAN
7 1 (0.37%) VPN
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
7 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.59%) NoSQL
2 24 (8.86%) MongoDB
3 19 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.17%) MySQL
5 11 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (4.06%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.95%) Big Data
7 7 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.58%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.58%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.21%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.85%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.11%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.11%) Redis
12 2 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.74%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 45 (16.61%) Git
2 14 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.06%) GitLab
4 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.11%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.11%) JIRA
6 2 (0.74%) Maven
6 2 (0.74%) Selenium
7 1 (0.37%) Ant
7 1 (0.37%) Appium
7 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.37%) JMeter
7 1 (0.37%) JUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 69 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.23%) Finance
3 23 (8.49%) Multimedia
4 20 (7.38%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.06%) Marketing
8 8 (2.95%) Legal
9 7 (2.58%) Games
10 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.85%) Electronics
10 5 (1.85%) Retail
11 4 (1.48%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.11%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.74%) Law
13 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (22.51%) Developer
2 59 (21.77%) Senior
3 52 (19.19%) Software Engineer
4 31 (11.44%) Lead
5 24 (8.86%) Architect
6 23 (8.49%) Trainee
7 18 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (5.90%) Analyst
10 15 (5.54%) Python Engineer
11 14 (5.17%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.80%) Software Developer
13 12 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (4.06%) AWS Architect
14 11 (4.06%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.06%) Trainee Developer
14 11 (4.06%) Trainee Software Developer
15 10 (3.69%) .NET Developer
15 10 (3.69%) Lead Developer
16 9 (3.32%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.08%) React
2 43 (15.87%) .NET
3 38 (14.02%) CSS
4 36 (13.28%) HTML
5 26 (9.59%) AngularJS
6 25 (9.23%) Node.js
7 24 (8.86%) REST
8 23 (8.49%) Spring
9 21 (7.75%) Spring Boot
10 19 (7.01%) RESTful
11 12 (4.43%) Django
12 11 (4.06%) Vue
13 9 (3.32%) .NET Core
14 8 (2.95%) FastAPI
14 8 (2.95%) Hibernate
14 8 (2.95%) Kafka
14 8 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.21%) JSON
16 5 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (1.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.80%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.80%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.95%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.85%) Clustering
7 5 (1.85%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.48%) IoT
9 3 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.74%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.81%) Linux
2 18 (6.64%) Windows
3 8 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.58%) Debian
4 7 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.21%) CentOS
6 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.11%) Unix
7 3 (1.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.47%) CI/CD
2 81 (29.89%) Agile
3 80 (29.52%) Software Engineering
4 72 (26.57%) DevOps
5 65 (23.99%) Mentoring
6 62 (22.88%) Microservices
7 48 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (17.34%) Cybersecurity
9 46 (16.97%) AI
10 45 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (16.24%) Containerisation
12 42 (15.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 33 (12.18%) TDD
14 30 (11.07%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (9.96%) Roadmaps
16 25 (9.23%) Collaborative Culture
17 24 (8.86%) Clean Code
18 21 (7.75%) Coaching
19 20 (7.38%) Scrum
20 18 (6.64%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 82 (30.26%) Python
2 63 (23.25%) JavaScript
3 53 (19.56%) Java
4 43 (15.87%) SQL
5 40 (14.76%) C#
6 28 (10.33%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.90%) PHP
8 12 (4.43%) R
9 8 (2.95%) Bash
10 7 (2.58%) Go
11 6 (2.21%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.85%) C
13 4 (1.48%) Scala
14 3 (1.11%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.11%) Rust
15 1 (0.37%) Bicep
15 1 (0.37%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (14.39%) AWS Certification
2 32 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.96%) Azure Certification
4 23 (8.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 23 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (8.49%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.80%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.43%) Degree
7 8 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.11%) MBA
8 3 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CISM
9 1 (0.37%) CISSP
9 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.21%) QA
3 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.11%) HL7
5 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
6 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (19.19%) Docker
2 8 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.58%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.48%) vSphere
5 3 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.37%) HDFS
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (19.56%) Kubernetes
2 46 (16.97%) Terraform
3 28 (10.33%) Ansible
4 13 (4.80%) Grafana
5 10 (3.69%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.58%) Puppet
7 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.11%) cPanel
8 3 (1.11%) Plesk
8 3 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.11%) Rancher
9 2 (0.74%) Nagios
9 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.37%) AssetCenter
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.37%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.37%) Podman
10 1 (0.37%) SCCM
10 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 47 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.75%) Adobe
3 11 (4.06%) Splunk
4 9 (3.32%) Apple
5 8 (2.95%) Google
5 8 (2.95%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.58%) Oracle
6 7 (2.58%) VMware
7 6 (2.21%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.48%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.48%) SAP
9 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.11%) Dell
9 3 (1.11%) Informatica
10 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.74%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.37%) Rockwell
11 1 (0.37%) Veeam