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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 601 381 515
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.86% 16.06% 12.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.42% 44.93% 36.73%
Number of salaries quoted 424 207 242
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.76% +8.33% -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 1,913 848 1,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.03% 35.75% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 567 782
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,125 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £81,250 £74,004 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £84,996
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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -3 8 £65,000 - 15
Stockport -3 8 £70,000 - 4
Salford -15 8 £100,000 +44.13% 8
Cheadle -5 6 £63,750 - 6
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 (3.16%) Apache
2 14 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.50%) Confluence
4 9 (1.50%) IIS
5 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 188 (31.28%) Azure
2 96 (15.97%) GCP
3 85 (14.14%) SaaS
4 76 (12.65%) Serverless
5 64 (10.65%) GitHub
6 51 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (6.49%) Amazon S3
8 33 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (3.00%) Datadog
11 17 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.83%) dbt
11 17 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.50%) Route 53
13 14 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
14 13 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (2.00%) OpenShift
15 12 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.16%) DNS
2 20 (3.33%) DHCP
2 20 (3.33%) Firewall
3 15 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.33%) VPN
5 9 (1.50%) Network Security
6 8 (1.33%) LAN
6 8 (1.33%) SAN
7 6 (1.00%) WAN
8 5 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.83%) VLAN
9 3 (0.50%) AMQP
9 3 (0.50%) IPsec
9 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.50%) VSAN
10 2 (0.33%) BGP
10 2 (0.33%) DMZ
10 2 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.33%) MongoDB
2 23 (3.83%) NoSQL
3 21 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.49%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (2.83%) DynamoDB
5 17 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.50%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.16%) MySQL
11 6 (1.00%) Big Data
11 6 (1.00%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.83%) Chroma
12 5 (0.83%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.83%) Pinecone
12 5 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (9.32%) Git
2 34 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.32%) GitLab
4 16 (2.66%) JIRA
5 13 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.83%) Maven
7 10 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.50%) Claude Code
9 8 (1.33%) Storybook
10 6 (1.00%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.67%) Postman
11 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.67%) Vagrant
11 4 (0.67%) Vite
12 3 (0.50%) Selenium
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.33%) Mocha
13 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 128 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 48 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (6.99%) Finance
4 32 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 30 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.66%) Publishing
7 21 (3.49%) Legal
8 16 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.50%) Retail
10 13 (2.16%) Aviation
11 12 (2.00%) Marketing
12 11 (1.83%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.83%) Law
13 8 (1.33%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.00%) Billing
16 4 (0.67%) iGaming
17 3 (0.50%) Banking
17 3 (0.50%) Games
18 2 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 149 (24.79%) Senior
2 84 (13.98%) Architect
2 84 (13.98%) Software Engineer
3 72 (11.98%) Developer
4 64 (10.65%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 54 (8.99%) Data Engineer
7 51 (8.49%) Lead
8 49 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 44 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 37 (6.16%) Senior Developer
10 37 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (5.49%) AWS Architect
12 26 (4.33%) Analyst
13 24 (3.99%) AWS Solution Architect
14 22 (3.66%) Security Engineer
15 19 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
15 19 (3.16%) Java Engineer
16 17 (2.83%) Consultant
16 17 (2.83%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (19.80%) Terraform
2 84 (13.98%) React
3 57 (9.48%) Node.js
4 45 (7.49%) Spring
5 44 (7.32%) Spring Boot
6 42 (6.99%) .NET
6 42 (6.99%) AngularJS
7 38 (6.32%) Kafka
8 25 (4.16%) Vue
9 23 (3.83%) REST
10 22 (3.66%) FastAPI
11 19 (3.16%) Next.js
12 18 (3.00%) CSS
13 16 (2.66%) HTML
13 16 (2.66%) LangChain
13 16 (2.66%) React Native
14 14 (2.33%) Middleware
14 14 (2.33%) RESTful
14 14 (2.33%) Ruby on Rails
15 12 (2.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 144 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.16%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.83%) AI Agents
4 23 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
6 12 (2.00%) Media Streaming
6 12 (2.00%) Podcast
7 10 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.82%) Linux
2 27 (4.49%) Windows
3 16 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.00%) CentOS
5 11 (1.83%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.16%) 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 (0.33%) Android
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (33.44%) CI/CD
2 176 (29.28%) DevOps
3 167 (27.79%) Software Engineering
4 156 (25.96%) AI
5 149 (24.79%) Agile
6 118 (19.63%) Mentoring
7 114 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 102 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 95 (15.81%) Microservices
10 94 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (12.98%) Observability
12 70 (11.65%) Test Automation
13 68 (11.31%) Containerisation
13 68 (11.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 67 (11.15%) Full-Stack Development
15 65 (10.82%) Roadmaps
16 61 (10.15%) Machine Learning
17 59 (9.82%) Collaborative Culture
17 59 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
18 56 (9.32%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 183 (30.45%) Python
2 111 (18.47%) SQL
3 107 (17.80%) Java
4 84 (13.98%) TypeScript
5 62 (10.32%) JavaScript
6 29 (4.83%) C#
7 25 (4.16%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.99%) Bash
9 21 (3.49%) Go
10 15 (2.50%) Ruby
10 15 (2.50%) Scala
11 6 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.67%) PHP
12 4 (0.67%) Rust
13 3 (0.50%) C
13 3 (0.50%) C++
13 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.33%) Swift
15 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 117 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 81 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.32%) Degree
4 37 (6.16%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.00%) CISM
9 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
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
11 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.33%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.33%) ECSA
12 2 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.16%) QA
4 15 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.33%) GDPR
6 8 (1.33%) WCAG
7 7 (1.16%) NIST
8 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (14.81%) Docker
2 19 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.33%) Firmware
6 7 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) UAG
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 118 (19.63%) Kubernetes
2 41 (6.82%) Ansible
3 12 (2.00%) Grafana
3 12 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.66%) Progress Chef
4 10 (1.66%) Puppet
5 7 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.67%) Argo
7 4 (0.67%) Nessus
7 4 (0.67%) Packer
8 3 (0.50%) Istio
8 3 (0.50%) linkerd
8 3 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (0.50%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.33%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.33%) SCCM
9 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.82%) Google
3 30 (4.99%) Adobe
4 23 (3.83%) Databricks
5 22 (3.66%) VMware
6 20 (3.33%) Splunk
7 17 (2.83%) Apple
8 10 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.50%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.50%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.50%) YouTube
10 8 (1.33%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.33%) Cisco
10 8 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.00%) Mistral
12 5 (0.83%) Okta
13 4 (0.67%) F5
14 3 (0.50%) McAfee
14 3 (0.50%) New Relic
14 3 (0.50%) SaltStack