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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 473 460 675
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.94% 20.28% 11.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.20% 48.12% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 370 261 503
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +7.69% +3.53% -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 1,620 956 2,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.20% 42.15% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 609 1,655
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -1 10 £65,000 - 3
Salford -14 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Cheadle -5 4 £63,750 -
Bolton +13 1 £31,500 -
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 11 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.90%) Apache
4 8 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (1.27%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.85%) Confluence
6 4 (0.85%) nginx
6 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.63%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.63%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.42%) CICS
8 2 (0.42%) CMS
8 2 (0.42%) IIS
8 2 (0.42%) JBoss
8 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.42%) WordPress
9 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.54%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.11%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 192 (40.59%) Azure
2 87 (18.39%) GCP
3 57 (12.05%) Serverless
4 43 (9.09%) GitHub
4 43 (9.09%) SaaS
5 29 (6.13%) Amazon S3
6 25 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (2.75%) Anthropic Claude
12 10 (2.11%) Pulumi
13 9 (1.90%) dbt
14 8 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.75%) DNS
2 11 (2.33%) Firewall
3 7 (1.48%) Internet
4 6 (1.27%) DHCP
4 6 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.06%) SSL
6 4 (0.85%) Network Security
6 4 (0.85%) VPN
7 3 (0.63%) AMQP
7 3 (0.63%) HTTP
7 3 (0.63%) LAN
8 2 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.42%) VLAN
9 1 (0.21%) SAN
9 1 (0.21%) VSAN
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.23%) MongoDB
1 20 (4.23%) NoSQL
1 20 (4.23%) Relational Database
2 17 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (1.90%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.90%) MySQL
6 8 (1.69%) Big Data
6 8 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.27%) Neo4j
8 6 (1.27%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.06%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.06%) Power BI
10 4 (0.85%) Flink
11 3 (0.63%) GIS
Development Applications
1 44 (9.30%) Git
2 23 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.38%) GitLab
4 13 (2.75%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.48%) JIRA
6 7 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.06%) Maven
8 3 (0.63%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.63%) Storybook
9 2 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.42%) Subversion
9 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.42%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.42%) Vite
10 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 65 (13.74%) Social Skills
2 53 (11.21%) Finance
3 27 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (5.07%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.33%) Marketing
6 10 (2.11%) Retail
7 9 (1.90%) Banking
7 9 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.90%) Retail Banking
8 7 (1.48%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.48%) Multimedia
9 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.63%) Legal
10 3 (0.63%) Publishing
11 2 (0.42%) Advertising
11 2 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.42%) Law
12 1 (0.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 133 (28.12%) Senior
2 85 (17.97%) Software Engineer
3 71 (15.01%) Developer
4 58 (12.26%) Lead
5 56 (11.84%) Architect
6 55 (11.63%) AWS Engineer
7 49 (10.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 36 (7.61%) Data Engineer
8 36 (7.61%) Senior Developer
9 29 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 27 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (5.07%) Analyst
12 24 (5.07%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.86%) Java Engineer
14 21 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (4.44%) Java Developer
15 20 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
16 19 (4.02%) Security Architect
17 18 (3.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (15.22%) React
2 58 (12.26%) Node.js
3 45 (9.51%) .NET
4 36 (7.61%) Spring
5 35 (7.40%) Spring Boot
6 30 (6.34%) AngularJS
7 26 (5.50%) REST
8 23 (4.86%) CSS
9 21 (4.44%) HTML
9 21 (4.44%) Kafka
10 18 (3.81%) OAuth
11 17 (3.59%) FastAPI
11 17 (3.59%) Vue
12 16 (3.38%) Next.js
13 15 (3.17%) RESTful
14 14 (2.96%) OAuth2
15 13 (2.75%) Pandas
16 12 (2.54%) OpenID
16 12 (2.54%) PySpark
17 11 (2.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 71 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.59%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.90%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.48%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.85%) Life Science
10 4 (0.85%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.63%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.42%) Culture of Ownership
12 2 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.42%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.65%) Linux
2 13 (2.75%) Windows
3 6 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.06%) CentOS
4 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Debian
5 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.21%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (33.19%) CI/CD
2 136 (28.75%) DevOps
3 127 (26.85%) Software Engineering
4 125 (26.43%) Agile
5 107 (22.62%) AI
6 94 (19.87%) Mentoring
7 89 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 85 (17.97%) Microservices
9 74 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (13.53%) TDD
12 56 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (10.99%) Test Automation
14 51 (10.78%) Cybersecurity
15 48 (10.15%) Event-Driven
15 48 (10.15%) Platform Engineering
16 47 (9.94%) Decision-Making
17 46 (9.73%) Scrum
18 44 (9.30%) Observability
19 43 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 160 (33.83%) Python
2 99 (20.93%) Java
3 90 (19.03%) SQL
4 65 (13.74%) JavaScript
5 55 (11.63%) TypeScript
6 31 (6.55%) C#
7 20 (4.23%) PHP
8 15 (3.17%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.75%) Go
10 11 (2.33%) Bash
10 11 (2.33%) Ruby
11 8 (1.69%) Scala
12 7 (1.48%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.85%) C
13 4 (0.85%) R
14 3 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 63 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 48 (10.15%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.40%) AWS Certification
4 18 (3.81%) Degree
5 17 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.21%) CISA
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) CRISC
12 1 (0.21%) MBA
12 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.54%) QA
4 10 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.69%) NIST
6 5 (1.06%) GDPR
7 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.63%) WCAG
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 67 (14.16%) Docker
2 7 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 110 (23.26%) Terraform
2 75 (15.86%) Kubernetes
3 29 (6.13%) Ansible
4 12 (2.54%) Grafana
4 12 (2.54%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.85%) Puppet
6 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.42%) Argo
7 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.42%) Nagios
7 2 (0.42%) Packer
7 2 (0.42%) Rancher
7 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.21%) Istio
8 1 (0.21%) linkerd
8 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 53 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.25%) Adobe
3 19 (4.02%) Apple
4 12 (2.54%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.11%) Databricks
5 10 (2.11%) Google
5 10 (2.11%) Splunk
6 8 (1.69%) VMware
7 6 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.06%) Pega
9 3 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.63%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.63%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.63%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.42%) Cisco
10 2 (0.42%) New Relic
10 2 (0.42%) Okta
10 2 (0.42%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.42%) WSO2