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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 588 433 576
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.59% 17.43% 12.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.11% 45.58% 34.64%
Number of salaries quoted 443 241 335
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £71,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 1,890 950 1,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.62% 38.24% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 618 1,160
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £34,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,175
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 12 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 12 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 -4 9 £65,000 - 4
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -21 4 £70,000 +2.18% 2
Stockport -4 2 £70,000 +1.82% 12
Bolton +14 1 £31,500 - 2
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 (2.89%) Apache
2 16 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 12 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.53%) IIS
6 8 (1.36%) Confluence
7 7 (1.19%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.68%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.51%) nginx
10 2 (0.34%) CICS
10 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.34%) WordPress
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 205 (34.86%) Azure
2 103 (17.52%) GCP
3 79 (13.44%) Serverless
4 76 (12.93%) SaaS
5 63 (10.71%) GitHub
6 45 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (6.63%) Amazon S3
8 38 (6.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (3.06%) dbt
12 17 (2.89%) Datadog
12 17 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.21%) Anthropic Claude
15 12 (2.04%) Route 53
16 11 (1.87%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (1.87%) Pulumi
16 11 (1.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.25%) Firewall
2 24 (4.08%) DNS
3 18 (3.06%) DHCP
3 18 (3.06%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.38%) VPN
5 9 (1.53%) Network Security
6 8 (1.36%) LAN
6 8 (1.36%) SAN
7 6 (1.02%) 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%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.51%) VSAN
10 2 (0.34%) AMQP
10 2 (0.34%) DMZ
10 2 (0.34%) Internet
10 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.59%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.42%) NoSQL
3 25 (4.25%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.91%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (2.72%) DynamoDB
7 15 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.87%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.19%) MySQL
10 7 (1.19%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.19%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.02%) 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 59 (10.03%) Git
2 37 (6.29%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.74%) GitLab
4 13 (2.21%) Bitbucket
4 13 (2.21%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.21%) JIRA
5 10 (1.70%) Maven
6 8 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.36%) Storybook
7 7 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.68%) Postman
9 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.68%) Vite
10 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.51%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.51%) Selenium
11 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.17%) PyCharm
General
1 108 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 57 (9.69%) Finance
3 43 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.78%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (2.89%) Retail
7 16 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.04%) Marketing
9 11 (1.87%) Health Technology
9 11 (1.87%) Law
10 10 (1.70%) Aviation
10 10 (1.70%) Banking
10 10 (1.70%) Publishing
11 9 (1.53%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.36%) Legal
13 4 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.51%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.34%) Advertising
15 2 (0.34%) Games
15 2 (0.34%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 153 (26.02%) Senior
2 80 (13.61%) Architect
3 77 (13.10%) Software Engineer
4 76 (12.93%) Developer
5 61 (10.37%) AWS Engineer
6 60 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 58 (9.86%) Lead
8 51 (8.67%) Data Engineer
9 46 (7.82%) Senior Developer
10 42 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
12 36 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (5.27%) AWS Architect
14 24 (4.08%) Analyst
14 24 (4.08%) AWS Solution Architect
15 22 (3.74%) Java Engineer
16 20 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
16 20 (3.40%) Java Developer
16 20 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
17 19 (3.23%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.10%) React
2 68 (11.56%) Node.js
3 50 (8.50%) .NET
4 44 (7.48%) AngularJS
5 37 (6.29%) Spring
6 36 (6.12%) Spring Boot
7 27 (4.59%) Kafka
7 27 (4.59%) REST
8 25 (4.25%) CSS
8 25 (4.25%) Vue
9 23 (3.91%) FastAPI
10 22 (3.74%) HTML
11 20 (3.40%) Next.js
12 18 (3.06%) RESTful
13 16 (2.72%) React Native
14 15 (2.55%) OAuth
14 15 (2.55%) PySpark
15 14 (2.38%) LangChain
15 14 (2.38%) Ruby on Rails
16 11 (1.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 128 (21.77%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 19 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.72%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.02%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.85%) Social Media
13 4 (0.68%) Life Science
13 4 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.76%) Linux
2 24 (4.08%) Windows
3 16 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.87%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.53%) CentOS
6 8 (1.36%) 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 (33.50%) CI/CD
2 178 (30.27%) DevOps
3 151 (25.68%) Software Engineering
4 147 (25.00%) Agile
5 144 (24.49%) AI
6 110 (18.71%) Mentoring
7 105 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 96 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (15.82%) Microservices
10 78 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
11 75 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (11.90%) Test Automation
13 67 (11.39%) Observability
14 65 (11.05%) Roadmaps
15 61 (10.37%) Collaborative Culture
15 61 (10.37%) Decision-Making
16 60 (10.20%) Machine Learning
16 60 (10.20%) TDD
17 55 (9.35%) Containerisation
18 54 (9.18%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 195 (33.16%) Python
2 124 (21.09%) SQL
3 104 (17.69%) Java
4 70 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 70 (11.90%) TypeScript
5 37 (6.29%) C#
6 23 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 20 (3.40%) Bash
8 19 (3.23%) Go
9 15 (2.55%) Ruby
9 15 (2.55%) Scala
10 9 (1.53%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.02%) 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 89 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.39%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.46%) Degree
4 30 (5.10%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 11 (1.87%) 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%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.34%) GCIH
12 2 (0.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.40%) PCI DSS
4 19 (3.23%) QA
5 15 (2.55%) GDPR
6 11 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.87%) NIST
7 8 (1.36%) WCAG
8 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 88 (14.97%) Docker
2 18 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.72%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.36%) Firmware
6 7 (1.19%) 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
1 130 (22.11%) Terraform
2 103 (17.52%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.63%) Ansible
4 12 (2.04%) Grafana
4 12 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.53%) Puppet
6 7 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
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%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
11 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 70 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.44%) Adobe
3 27 (4.59%) Google
4 21 (3.57%) VMware
5 20 (3.40%) Databricks
6 19 (3.23%) Apple
6 19 (3.23%) Splunk
7 12 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.36%) Cisco
10 7 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.19%) 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