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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 287 361 498
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.03% 14.66% 13.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.16% 36.24% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 230 238 422
10th Percentile £32,788 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £84,688 £77,500 £75,579
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,633 £85,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £62,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.82% +1.64%

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 1,295 996 1,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 36.25% 40.44% 39.60%
Number of salaries quoted 712 596 1,275
10th Percentile £29,775 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,438 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +2 8 £71,940 +3.80% 7
Bolton +17 3 £31,500 - 1
Altrincham -13 3 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Stockport -11 1 £60,000 -17.24% 1
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 8 (2.79%) Apache
2 7 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.09%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.39%) WordPress
5 3 (1.05%) JBoss
5 3 (1.05%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.70%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) WinCC
Applications
1 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.09%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (50.52%) Azure
2 49 (17.07%) GCP
3 30 (10.45%) GitHub
4 28 (9.76%) Serverless
5 21 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.92%) SaaS
7 14 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.79%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.44%) dbt
13 6 (2.09%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.74%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.01%) Internet
2 7 (2.44%) DNS
2 7 (2.44%) SSL
3 6 (2.09%) Firewall
4 5 (1.74%) HTTP
4 5 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.39%) AMQP
6 3 (1.05%) SSH
7 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.35%) DHCP
8 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Network Security
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) VSAN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.97%) MongoDB
1 20 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.62%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (4.53%) MySQL
4 10 (3.48%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.44%) Big Data
5 7 (2.44%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.09%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.09%) Neo4j
6 6 (2.09%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.39%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.05%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.05%) Redis
10 2 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.70%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 46 (16.03%) Git
2 9 (3.14%) GitLab
2 9 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.05%) JIRA
6 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.70%) Maven
6 2 (0.70%) Subversion
6 2 (0.70%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Locust
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.15%) Finance
3 23 (8.01%) Multimedia
4 20 (6.97%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.48%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.48%) Marketing
6 10 (3.48%) Retail
7 8 (2.79%) Legal
8 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.74%) Electronics
9 4 (1.39%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.39%) Games
9 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (21.95%) Senior
2 57 (19.86%) Developer
3 55 (19.16%) Software Engineer
4 31 (10.80%) Lead
5 29 (10.10%) Trainee
6 27 (9.41%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (8.01%) Architect
8 16 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.23%) Analyst
9 15 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.88%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.88%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.53%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.83%) AWS Architect
13 11 (3.83%) Trainee Developer
13 11 (3.83%) Trainee Software Developer
14 10 (3.48%) Data Engineer
14 10 (3.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.12%) React
2 35 (12.20%) CSS
2 35 (12.20%) HTML
3 33 (11.50%) .NET
4 29 (10.10%) Node.js
5 26 (9.06%) Spring
6 24 (8.36%) AngularJS
6 24 (8.36%) Spring Boot
7 22 (7.67%) REST
8 17 (5.92%) RESTful
9 12 (4.18%) Django
10 11 (3.83%) Vue
11 9 (3.14%) OAuth
12 8 (2.79%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.79%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.79%) OAuth2
13 7 (2.44%) Kafka
13 7 (2.44%) Laravel
13 7 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.53%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.44%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.09%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.09%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.39%) IoT
10 3 (1.05%) Clustering
10 3 (1.05%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.80%) Linux
2 16 (5.57%) Windows
3 7 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.09%) CentOS
4 6 (2.09%) Debian
4 6 (2.09%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.05%) Unix
6 3 (1.05%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (28.92%) CI/CD
2 81 (28.22%) Software Engineering
3 77 (26.83%) Agile
4 71 (24.74%) Mentoring
5 69 (24.04%) DevOps
6 59 (20.56%) Microservices
7 49 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
8 45 (15.68%) AI
9 43 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 43 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (13.94%) TDD
12 38 (13.24%) Containerisation
13 36 (12.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (8.71%) Collaborative Culture
15 23 (8.01%) Clean Code
16 22 (7.67%) Scrum
17 21 (7.32%) Coaching
17 21 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
18 19 (6.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 94 (32.75%) Python
2 71 (24.74%) JavaScript
3 63 (21.95%) Java
4 34 (11.85%) SQL
4 34 (11.85%) TypeScript
5 28 (9.76%) C#
6 21 (7.32%) PHP
7 12 (4.18%) R
8 6 (2.09%) C
8 6 (2.09%) Go
8 6 (2.09%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.09%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.39%) Bash
10 3 (1.05%) Rust
10 3 (1.05%) Scala
11 1 (0.35%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (15.68%) AWS Certification
2 40 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 29 (10.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 27 (9.41%) Azure Certification
4 27 (9.41%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.83%) Degree
8 7 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.05%) MBA
9 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.74%) Data Quality
1 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.74%) QA
2 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.05%) HL7
4 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (15.68%) Docker
2 6 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.74%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.39%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.39%) vSphere
5 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) HDFS
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (17.42%) Kubernetes
2 47 (16.38%) Terraform
3 26 (9.06%) Ansible
4 10 (3.48%) Grafana
5 8 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.09%) Puppet
7 3 (1.05%) cPanel
7 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.05%) Nagios
7 3 (1.05%) Plesk
7 3 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.05%) Rancher
7 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.70%) Packer
9 1 (0.35%) AssetCenter
9 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.35%) SCCM
9 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 49 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.32%) Adobe
3 10 (3.48%) Splunk
4 9 (3.14%) Apple
5 8 (2.79%) Google
5 8 (2.79%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.44%) Oracle
6 7 (2.44%) VMware
7 6 (2.09%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.74%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.39%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.39%) SAP
10 2 (0.70%) Databricks
10 2 (0.70%) Informatica
10 2 (0.70%) New Relic
10 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.35%) Kepware
11 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.35%) Spotify
11 1 (0.35%) WSO2