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 citing AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	14	8	10
Rank change year-on-year	-6	+2	-4
Permanent jobs citing AWS	626	362	482
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester	8.03%	15.33%	13.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category	33.53%	42.39%	37.69%
Number of salaries quoted	436	209	237
10^th Percentile	£51,250	£37,250	£43,750
25^th Percentile	£59,688	£55,000	£51,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£75,000	£67,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+11.11%	+3.85%	+4.00%
75^th Percentile	£90,000	£82,500	£74,144
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,500	£85,000
North West median annual salary	£71,996	£65,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+10.76%	+8.33%	-

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 citing cloud computing skills in Manchester.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	1,867	854	1,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester	23.94%	36.16%	35.08%
Number of salaries quoted	1,362	595	697
10^th Percentile	£36,250	£29,500	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£49,533	£40,000	£46,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£60,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.33%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£75,000	£73,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£87,500	£85,000
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 Salary Trend in Manchester

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 3 November 2026.

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 3 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Altrincham	-4	12	£62,500	-3.85%	1
Stockport	-4	11	£70,000	-	4
Salford	-20	9	£100,000	+35.50%	3
Cheadle	-3	6	£63,750	-
AWS North West

AWS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 3 November 2026, job vacancies citing AWS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region citing AWS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	34.3%	215
2	DevOps	30.2%	189
2	Software Engineering	30.2%	189
4	Python	28.9%	181
5	Azure	28.1%	176
6	Agile	25.6%	160
7	AI	25.4%	159
8	Java	20.8%	130
9	Kubernetes	20.6%	129
10	Terraform	20.3%	127
11	Mentoring	20.1%	126
11	Security Cleared	20.1%	126
13	Continuous Improvement	18.2%	114
14	SQL	17.9%	112
15	Infrastructure as Code	16.5%	103
16	Microservices	16.3%	102
17	Docker	15.7%	98
18	Problem-Solving	15.2%	95
19	GCP	14.9%	93
20	SC Cleared	14.2%	89
21	TypeScript	14.1%	88
22	React	13.3%	83
22	SaaS	13.3%	83
24	Test Automation	12.8%	80
25	Full-Stack Development	12.5%	78
26	Technical Leadership	12.3%	77
27	Serverless	12.1%	76
27	Stakeholder Management	12.1%	76
29	Observability	11.8%	74
30	JavaScript	10.7%	67

AWS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	28.1%	176
2	GCP	14.9%	93
3	SaaS	13.3%	83
4	Serverless	12.1%	76
5	GitHub	10.2%	64
6	AWS Lambda	8.5%	53
7	Amazon S3	6.4%	40
8	AWS CloudFormation	5.1%	32
9	Amazon ECS	3.8%	24
10	Azure DevOps	2.7%	17
10	Datadog	2.7%	17
10	dbt	2.7%	17
13	GitHub Actions	2.6%	16
13	Microsoft 365	2.6%	16
15	Amazon EKS	2.4%	15
15	GitHub Copilot	2.4%	15
15	Route 53	2.4%	15
18	PaaS	1.9%	12
19	OpenShift	1.8%	11
19	Snowflake	1.8%	11