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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 585 437 584
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.63% 17.49% 12.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.84% 46.05% 34.84%
Number of salaries quoted 444 244 342
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £45,125
25th Percentile £55,938 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £79,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 1,897 949 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.00% 37.99% 37.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,476 619 1,176
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,756 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% -2.61%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -2 9 £65,000 - 3
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -20 5 £70,000 +2.18% 2
Bolton +14 1 £31,500 - 2
Stockport -7 1 £70,000 +1.82% 10
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 17 (2.91%) Apache
1 17 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.54%) IIS
5 8 (1.37%) Confluence
6 7 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.68%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.68%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 5 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.05%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 206 (35.21%) Azure
2 103 (17.61%) GCP
3 76 (12.99%) Serverless
4 73 (12.48%) SaaS
5 62 (10.60%) GitHub
6 42 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 37 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.25%) dbt
12 18 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (2.39%) Datadog
14 14 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.22%) Anthropic Claude
16 11 (1.88%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (1.88%) PaaS
16 11 (1.88%) Pulumi
16 11 (1.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.27%) Firewall
2 24 (4.10%) DNS
3 18 (3.08%) DHCP
3 18 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.39%) VPN
5 9 (1.54%) Network Security
6 8 (1.37%) LAN
6 8 (1.37%) SAN
7 6 (1.03%) WAN
8 5 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.85%) VLAN
9 3 (0.51%) IPsec
9 3 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.51%) VSAN
10 2 (0.34%) AMQP
10 2 (0.34%) DMZ
10 2 (0.34%) Internet
10 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.62%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 25 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.93%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (2.74%) DynamoDB
7 15 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.05%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.20%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.20%) MySQL
10 7 (1.20%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.20%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.85%) Big Data
12 5 (0.85%) Redis
13 4 (0.68%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.68%) Flink
Development Applications
1 60 (10.26%) Git
2 37 (6.32%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.76%) GitLab
4 13 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 13 (2.22%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.22%) JIRA
5 10 (1.71%) Maven
6 8 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.37%) Storybook
6 8 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.68%) Postman
8 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.68%) Vite
9 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.51%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.51%) Selenium
10 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 108 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 57 (9.74%) Finance
3 42 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.56%) Retail
8 12 (2.05%) Marketing
9 11 (1.88%) Health Technology
9 11 (1.88%) Law
10 10 (1.71%) Banking
10 10 (1.71%) Publishing
11 9 (1.54%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.37%) Legal
13 7 (1.20%) Aviation
14 5 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.51%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.34%) Advertising
16 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (25.98%) Senior
2 79 (13.50%) Architect
3 78 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 76 (12.99%) Developer
5 63 (10.77%) AWS Engineer
6 59 (10.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 58 (9.91%) Lead
8 52 (8.89%) Data Engineer
9 46 (7.86%) Senior Developer
10 42 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
12 36 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (5.30%) AWS Architect
14 24 (4.10%) AWS Solution Architect
15 23 (3.93%) Analyst
16 21 (3.59%) Java Engineer
16 21 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
17 20 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
17 20 (3.42%) Java Developer
18 19 (3.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.16%) React
2 68 (11.62%) Node.js
3 50 (8.55%) .NET
4 44 (7.52%) AngularJS
5 36 (6.15%) Spring
5 36 (6.15%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.44%) Kafka
6 26 (4.44%) REST
7 25 (4.27%) CSS
7 25 (4.27%) Vue
8 23 (3.93%) FastAPI
9 22 (3.76%) HTML
10 20 (3.42%) Next.js
11 18 (3.08%) RESTful
12 16 (2.74%) React Native
13 15 (2.56%) OAuth
13 15 (2.56%) PySpark
14 14 (2.39%) LangChain
14 14 (2.39%) Ruby on Rails
15 12 (2.05%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 124 (21.20%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.42%) AI Agents
5 19 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.74%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.05%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.03%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.03%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.85%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.85%) Social Media
13 4 (0.68%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.62%) Linux
2 24 (4.10%) Windows
3 16 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.88%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.54%) CentOS
6 8 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.68%) Unix
8 3 (0.51%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (33.68%) CI/CD
2 177 (30.26%) DevOps
3 148 (25.30%) Agile
4 147 (25.13%) Software Engineering
5 145 (24.79%) AI
6 108 (18.46%) Mentoring
7 102 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 93 (15.90%) Microservices
9 92 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 78 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 74 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (11.97%) Test Automation
13 63 (10.77%) Observability
14 62 (10.60%) Roadmaps
15 61 (10.43%) Decision-Making
15 61 (10.43%) Machine Learning
16 59 (10.09%) TDD
17 57 (9.74%) Collaborative Culture
18 54 (9.23%) Containerisation
18 54 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 197 (33.68%) Python
2 126 (21.54%) SQL
3 103 (17.61%) Java
4 70 (11.97%) JavaScript
4 70 (11.97%) TypeScript
5 37 (6.32%) C#
6 23 (3.93%) PowerShell
7 19 (3.25%) Bash
8 18 (3.08%) Go
9 15 (2.56%) Ruby
9 15 (2.56%) Scala
10 9 (1.54%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.37%) PHP
12 3 (0.51%) C
12 3 (0.51%) C++
12 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.34%) R
13 2 (0.34%) Swift
13 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.79%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.32%) Degree
4 30 (5.13%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.68%) CISA
10 4 (0.68%) CISM
10 4 (0.68%) CISSP
10 4 (0.68%) CRISC
10 4 (0.68%) MBA
11 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.34%) CCIE
12 2 (0.34%) CEH
12 2 (0.34%) GCIH
12 2 (0.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.42%) PCI DSS
3 20 (3.42%) QA
4 15 (2.56%) GDPR
5 11 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.88%) NIST
6 8 (1.37%) WCAG
7 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 88 (15.04%) Docker
2 18 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.37%) Firmware
6 7 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) NFS
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 129 (22.05%) Terraform
2 101 (17.26%) Kubernetes
3 38 (6.50%) Ansible
4 12 (2.05%) Grafana
4 12 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.37%) Puppet
6 7 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.68%) Nessus
9 3 (0.51%) Argo
9 3 (0.51%) Istio
9 3 (0.51%) linkerd
9 3 (0.51%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.51%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 71 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.47%) Adobe
3 26 (4.44%) Google
4 21 (3.59%) VMware
5 20 (3.42%) Databricks
6 19 (3.25%) Apple
6 19 (3.25%) Splunk
7 12 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.37%) Cisco
10 7 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.20%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.85%) Okta
11 5 (0.85%) Pega
12 3 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.51%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.51%) McAfee
13 2 (0.34%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.34%) WSO2