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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 400 460 611
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.46% 20.54% 12.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.42% 46.56% 31.43%
Number of salaries quoted 306 273 494
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,446 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £64,374
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +4.14% -0.96%
75th Percentile £86,875 £82,500 £77,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,037 £62,783
% change year-on-year +0.69% +6.78% -3.41%

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 1,638 988 1,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.55% 44.13% 38.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 654 1,615
10th Percentile £31,475 £31,999 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -6 9 £65,000 +20.93% 4
Salford -13 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +19 3 £31,500 - 2
Stockport -12 1 £60,000 -20.00% 3
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 7 (1.75%) Apache
1 7 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.50%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.25%) WordPress
4 4 (1.00%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.75%) Confluence
5 3 (0.75%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.50%) CICS
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) JBoss
6 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (3.00%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 177 (44.25%) Azure
2 75 (18.75%) GCP
3 47 (11.75%) Serverless
4 39 (9.75%) GitHub
5 29 (7.25%) SaaS
6 22 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 18 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.75%) dbt
13 6 (1.50%) Datadog
13 6 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.50%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.50%) Internet
2 8 (2.00%) Firewall
3 7 (1.75%) DNS
4 6 (1.50%) SSL
5 4 (1.00%) HTTP
5 4 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.00%) Network Security
5 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.75%) AMQP
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.25%) SSH
7 1 (0.25%) VPN
7 1 (0.25%) VSAN
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 20 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.25%) NoSQL
3 15 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.50%) MySQL
6 8 (2.00%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.75%) Neo4j
8 6 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.50%) Big Data
8 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.25%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.00%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.00%) Flink
11 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.75%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 50 (12.50%) Git
2 17 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.50%) GitLab
4 12 (3.00%) Claude Code
5 9 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.25%) JIRA
8 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.75%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.50%) Maven
9 2 (0.50%) Subversion
9 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.50%) Vite
10 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.25%) PyCharm
General
1 52 (13.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.00%) Finance
3 27 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.25%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.50%) Multimedia
7 10 (2.50%) Retail
8 9 (2.25%) Banking
8 9 (2.25%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.75%) Marketing
10 6 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.25%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Legal
14 2 (0.50%) Advertising
14 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Back Office
15 1 (0.25%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 112 (28.00%) Senior
2 73 (18.25%) Software Engineer
3 68 (17.00%) Developer
4 47 (11.75%) Lead
5 45 (11.25%) AWS Engineer
6 41 (10.25%) Architect
7 40 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 33 (8.25%) Senior Developer
9 26 (6.50%) Analyst
10 24 (6.00%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (5.50%) Java Engineer
13 21 (5.25%) Java Developer
14 20 (5.00%) Trainee
15 19 (4.75%) AWS Architect
15 19 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
16 18 (4.50%) Security Architect
17 17 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.50%) React
2 50 (12.50%) Node.js
3 34 (8.50%) .NET
3 34 (8.50%) Spring
4 33 (8.25%) Spring Boot
5 30 (7.50%) CSS
6 28 (7.00%) HTML
7 25 (6.25%) REST
8 23 (5.75%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.75%) Kafka
10 13 (3.25%) Pandas
10 13 (3.25%) RESTful
11 12 (3.00%) OAuth
12 10 (2.50%) OAuth2
12 10 (2.50%) PySpark
13 9 (2.25%) Django
13 9 (2.25%) FastAPI
13 9 (2.25%) NumPy
13 9 (2.25%) scikit-learn
14 8 (2.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.25%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.25%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.75%) IoT
13 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.50%) Life Science
13 2 (0.50%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.50%) NHS
14 1 (0.25%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.00%) Linux
2 13 (3.25%) Windows
3 5 (1.25%) CentOS
3 5 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.75%) Debian
4 3 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.25%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (29.75%) CI/CD
2 111 (27.75%) DevOps
3 107 (26.75%) Agile
4 104 (26.00%) Software Engineering
5 85 (21.25%) Mentoring
6 81 (20.25%) AI
7 68 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 64 (16.00%) Microservices
9 60 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
10 59 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (14.50%) TDD
12 52 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 42 (10.50%) Scrum
14 39 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (9.25%) Platform Engineering
16 36 (9.00%) Collaborative Culture
16 36 (9.00%) Cost Optimisation
16 36 (9.00%) Event-Driven
17 35 (8.75%) Containerisation
17 35 (8.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 129 (32.25%) Python
2 89 (22.25%) Java
3 68 (17.00%) SQL
4 66 (16.50%) JavaScript
5 49 (12.25%) TypeScript
6 24 (6.00%) C#
7 21 (5.25%) PHP
8 10 (2.50%) Go
9 9 (2.25%) R
10 8 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.75%) Bash
12 6 (1.50%) C
12 6 (1.50%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.75%) Ruby
13 3 (0.75%) Scala
14 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 55 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.50%) AWS Certification
3 41 (10.25%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (4.25%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.75%) Degree
6 15 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.25%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) MBA
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.75%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.00%) QA
4 7 (1.75%) NIST
5 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 55 (13.75%) Docker
2 5 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.75%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.75%) vSphere
5 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (21.25%) Terraform
2 62 (15.50%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.25%) Ansible
4 11 (2.75%) Grafana
4 11 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.75%) Nagios
5 3 (0.75%) Puppet
5 3 (0.75%) Rancher
5 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.50%) cPanel
6 2 (0.50%) Packer
6 2 (0.50%) Plesk
6 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 52 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.25%) Adobe
3 21 (5.25%) Apple
4 12 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.50%) Splunk
7 5 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.25%) Google
7 5 (1.25%) Pega
7 5 (1.25%) VMware
8 4 (1.00%) Databricks
8 4 (1.00%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.75%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.50%) New Relic
10 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle
10 2 (0.50%) WSO2
11 1 (0.25%) Informatica
11 1 (0.25%) Spotify