AWS Jobs in Manchester

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 463 720 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 18.23% 13.11% 21.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.93% 34.78% 44.66%
Number of salaries quoted 264 439 545
10th Percentile £45,400 £44,800 £42,650
25th Percentile £53,625 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,772 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,783 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% +4.00%

All Cloud 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 966 2,070 1,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 38.03% 37.68% 47.21%
Number of salaries quoted 624 1,506 1,315
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +6.37%
75th Percentile £76,840 £71,806 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,633 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in Manchester.

Salary trend for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 2025. 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 21 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Stockport -1 12 £62,500 +4.17% 12
Cheadle +9 11 - -
Salford +5 10 £67,626 -6.72% 8
Oldham - 9 - - 2
Sale - 8 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 - - 2
Heywood - 6 - -
Bury +3 5 - - 2
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Bolton -22 3 - - 10
Wigan - 3 - - 8
Rochdale +3 1 £65,000 -
AWS
North West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (4.97%) Confluence
2 7 (1.51%) IIS
3 5 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.86%) Apache
4 4 (0.86%) CMS
4 4 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.43%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 241 (52.05%) Azure
2 178 (38.44%) GCP
3 45 (9.72%) Serverless
4 34 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (3.89%) GitHub
7 18 (3.89%) SaaS
8 17 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (3.02%) Azure Machine Learning
10 11 (2.38%) Cloud Composer
10 11 (2.38%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (2.16%) Power Platform
12 9 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.73%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.73%) AWS CodeBuild
14 7 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.32%) DNS
2 13 (2.81%) Firewall
3 12 (2.59%) WAN
4 9 (1.94%) VPN
5 8 (1.73%) HTTP
6 7 (1.51%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.08%) Internet
7 5 (1.08%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (0.86%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.86%) SSH
9 2 (0.43%) DHCP
9 2 (0.43%) LAN
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.22%) Network Security
10 1 (0.22%) OSPF
10 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
10 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.10%) SQL Server
2 43 (9.29%) MongoDB
3 41 (8.86%) NoSQL
4 40 (8.64%) MySQL
5 28 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.89%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.81%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.38%) BigQuery
8 11 (2.38%) Cloud Spanner
9 10 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.16%) Power BI
10 8 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.30%) Tableau
12 5 (1.08%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.86%) Big Data
13 4 (0.86%) Redis
13 4 (0.86%) TimescaleDB
14 3 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 51 (11.02%) GitLab
1 51 (11.02%) JIRA
2 39 (8.42%) Selenium
3 35 (7.56%) Cucumber
4 30 (6.48%) Git
5 28 (6.05%) Bitbucket
6 27 (5.83%) Maven
6 27 (5.83%) SonarQube
6 27 (5.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 22 (4.75%) Jenkins
8 9 (1.94%) JMeter
9 6 (1.30%) Jasmine
9 6 (1.30%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (1.08%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.86%) Appium
11 4 (0.86%) Fiddler
11 4 (0.86%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.86%) Postman
12 3 (0.65%) MLflow
13 2 (0.43%) Gatling
General
1 117 (25.27%) Finance
2 112 (24.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 90 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 57 (12.31%) Banking
5 44 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (9.29%) Retail
7 27 (5.83%) Games
8 18 (3.89%) Corporate Banking
8 18 (3.89%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.38%) Marketing
10 6 (1.30%) Back Office
10 6 (1.30%) Legal
10 6 (1.30%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.08%) Cantonese Language
11 5 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
11 5 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 191 (41.25%) Software Engineer
2 180 (38.88%) Senior
3 113 (24.41%) Senior Software Engineer
4 76 (16.41%) Developer
5 72 (15.55%) Lead
6 32 (6.91%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
8 26 (5.62%) Architect
9 24 (5.18%) .NET Developer
10 23 (4.97%) AWS Architect
10 23 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (4.75%) AWS Solution Architect
12 20 (4.32%) Lead Developer
13 19 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
14 18 (3.89%) TOGAF Architect
15 16 (3.46%) Data Engineer
15 16 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.46%) Principal Engineer
16 15 (3.24%) AWS Software Engineer
17 14 (3.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (29.59%) Node.js
2 130 (28.08%) .NET
3 116 (25.05%) React
4 62 (13.39%) CSS
4 62 (13.39%) HTML
5 56 (12.10%) Spring Boot
6 53 (11.45%) Kafka
7 47 (10.15%) RESTful
7 47 (10.15%) Spring
8 39 (8.42%) Redux
9 31 (6.70%) REST
10 29 (6.26%) Sass
11 27 (5.83%) AngularJS
11 27 (5.83%) HTML5
11 27 (5.83%) JPA
12 25 (5.40%) .NET Core
13 21 (4.54%) CSS3
13 21 (4.54%) Jest
14 15 (3.24%) Vue
15 14 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 87 (18.79%) Self-Motivation
2 84 (18.14%) Cyberattack
3 83 (17.93%) Linux Command Line
4 52 (11.23%) Product Ownership
5 47 (10.15%) Cloud Native
6 28 (6.05%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (3.89%) Management Information System
8 17 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.38%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.38%) Mobile App
10 11 (2.38%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.94%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.94%) IoT
13 8 (1.73%) Clustering
13 8 (1.73%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.51%) Wiki
15 6 (1.30%) Data Centre
16 5 (1.08%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 124 (26.78%) Linux
2 25 (5.40%) Windows
3 10 (2.16%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.73%) CentOS
5 6 (1.30%) Debian
5 6 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.08%) Unix
7 4 (0.86%) Android
8 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (54.00%) Software Engineering
2 241 (52.05%) Agile
3 192 (41.47%) Microservices
4 156 (33.69%) Mentoring
5 147 (31.75%) DevOps
6 139 (30.02%) User Experience
7 137 (29.59%) CI/CD
8 108 (23.33%) Machine Learning
9 100 (21.60%) Cloud Security
10 99 (21.38%) Data Engineering
11 93 (20.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 89 (19.22%) Scrum
13 84 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
14 79 (17.06%) Containerisation
15 72 (15.55%) Test Automation
16 68 (14.69%) Full-Stack Development
17 61 (13.17%) Roadmaps
18 52 (11.23%) TDD
19 51 (11.02%) Front End Development
20 48 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 207 (44.71%) JavaScript
2 206 (44.49%) Java
3 179 (38.66%) Python
4 108 (23.33%) TypeScript
5 100 (21.60%) SQL
6 90 (19.44%) Go
7 85 (18.36%) C++
8 82 (17.71%) Rust
9 54 (11.66%) C#
10 24 (5.18%) PHP
11 13 (2.81%) PowerShell
12 12 (2.59%) Bash
13 4 (0.86%) Scala
14 3 (0.65%) R
15 2 (0.43%) Ruby
16 1 (0.22%) Bicep
16 1 (0.22%) Perl
16 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (22.03%) AWS Certification
2 94 (20.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 91 (19.65%) Security Cleared
4 85 (18.36%) DV Cleared
5 82 (17.71%) AWS Certified Developer
6 28 (6.05%) Degree
7 20 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (3.67%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.30%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.30%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.86%) Linux+ Certification
11 4 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.86%) RHCE
12 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.22%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.22%) CCNA
13 1 (0.22%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
13 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.86%) QA
2 31 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.89%) GDPR
4 16 (3.46%) Data Quality
5 15 (3.24%) HIPAA
6 11 (2.38%) NIST
7 7 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.08%) HL7
9 2 (0.43%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 132 (28.51%) Docker
2 18 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.86%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.86%) Postfix
6 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (23.97%) Kubernetes
2 78 (16.85%) Terraform
3 25 (5.40%) Ansible
4 15 (3.24%) Grafana
5 9 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.51%) Puppet
7 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.65%) Kibana
10 2 (0.43%) Salt
11 1 (0.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.22%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (11.88%) Google
2 27 (5.83%) Solace
3 16 (3.46%) Microsoft
4 12 (2.59%) Ping Identity
4 12 (2.59%) VMware
5 10 (2.16%) Oracle
5 10 (2.16%) Splunk
6 8 (1.73%) Okta
7 6 (1.30%) Informatica
7 6 (1.30%) Zscaler
8 5 (1.08%) Cisco
9 4 (0.86%) Perforce
9 4 (0.86%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.86%) Veeam
10 3 (0.65%) Databricks
10 3 (0.65%) IBM
10 3 (0.65%) SAP
10 3 (0.65%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.43%) Atlassian