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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 458 440 640
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.74% 20.39% 12.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.39% 47.11% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 356 244 493
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +5.57% -2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £66,019 £62,783
% change year-on-year +6.03% +5.15% -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 1,804 934 1,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.50% 43.28% 38.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,206 587 1,633
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 29 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 29 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 -1 10 £65,000 - 3
Salford -20 6 £70,000 +3.51% 2
Bolton +19 2 £31,500 -
Cheadle -9 2 £63,750 - 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 9 (1.97%) Apache
1 9 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.31%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.87%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.87%) nginx
5 3 (0.66%) Confluence
5 3 (0.66%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.66%) WordPress
6 2 (0.44%) CICS
6 2 (0.44%) CMS
6 2 (0.44%) JBoss
6 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.62%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 193 (42.14%) Azure
2 84 (18.34%) GCP
3 54 (11.79%) Serverless
4 44 (9.61%) GitHub
5 37 (8.08%) SaaS
6 28 (6.11%) Amazon S3
7 24 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (2.84%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (1.97%) dbt
13 9 (1.97%) Pulumi
14 8 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.53%) Datadog
15 7 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.18%) DNS
1 10 (2.18%) Internet
2 8 (1.75%) Firewall
3 6 (1.31%) SSL
4 5 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (0.87%) HTTP
5 4 (0.87%) Network Security
5 4 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.66%) AMQP
7 2 (0.44%) DHCP
8 1 (0.22%) LAN
8 1 (0.22%) SAN
8 1 (0.22%) VPN
8 1 (0.22%) VSAN
8 1 (0.22%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.59%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.15%) NoSQL
3 17 (3.71%) Relational Database
4 16 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.18%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.97%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.97%) MySQL
8 8 (1.75%) Big Data
9 7 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.53%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.31%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.31%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.09%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.87%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.87%) Flink
12 4 (0.87%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 47 (10.26%) Git
2 22 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.49%) GitLab
4 13 (2.84%) Claude Code
5 8 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.31%) JIRA
8 5 (1.09%) Maven
9 3 (0.66%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.66%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.66%) Storybook
10 2 (0.44%) Subversion
10 2 (0.44%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.44%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.44%) Vite
11 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 62 (13.54%) Social Skills
2 53 (11.57%) Finance
3 29 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.02%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.18%) Marketing
6 10 (2.18%) Multimedia
6 10 (2.18%) Retail
7 9 (1.97%) Banking
7 9 (1.97%) Retail Banking
8 7 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.53%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.66%) Legal
11 3 (0.66%) Publishing
12 2 (0.44%) Advertising
12 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.22%) Back Office
13 1 (0.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 129 (28.17%) Senior
2 84 (18.34%) Software Engineer
3 68 (14.85%) Developer
4 56 (12.23%) Lead
5 55 (12.01%) AWS Engineer
6 53 (11.57%) Architect
7 49 (10.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 35 (7.64%) Senior Developer
9 33 (7.21%) Data Engineer
10 29 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (5.90%) Analyst
12 26 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (5.02%) Java Engineer
14 22 (4.80%) AWS Architect
14 22 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (4.59%) Java Developer
16 20 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (4.37%) Security Architect
17 18 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
18 17 (3.71%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (14.41%) React
2 55 (12.01%) Node.js
3 40 (8.73%) .NET
4 34 (7.42%) Spring
5 33 (7.21%) Spring Boot
6 28 (6.11%) CSS
7 27 (5.90%) AngularJS
8 26 (5.68%) HTML
9 24 (5.24%) REST
10 19 (4.15%) Kafka
11 17 (3.71%) OAuth
12 16 (3.49%) RESTful
13 15 (3.28%) Next.js
14 13 (2.84%) FastAPI
14 13 (2.84%) OAuth2
14 13 (2.84%) Pandas
14 13 (2.84%) Vue
15 11 (2.40%) OpenID
15 11 (2.40%) PySpark
16 10 (2.18%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.32%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.97%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.87%) Life Science
11 4 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.44%) Culture of Ownership
12 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.44%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.44%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.24%) Linux
2 15 (3.28%) Windows
3 6 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.09%) CentOS
4 5 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.66%) Debian
5 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.22%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) VMS
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (32.31%) CI/CD
2 131 (28.60%) DevOps
3 119 (25.98%) Software Engineering
4 118 (25.76%) Agile
5 101 (22.05%) AI
6 92 (20.09%) Mentoring
7 84 (18.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 76 (16.59%) Microservices
9 69 (15.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 62 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (13.32%) TDD
12 57 (12.45%) Cybersecurity
13 48 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
13 48 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (10.04%) Test Automation
15 44 (9.61%) Decision-Making
15 44 (9.61%) Scrum
16 43 (9.39%) Containerisation
16 43 (9.39%) Event-Driven
17 40 (8.73%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 150 (32.75%) Python
2 93 (20.31%) Java
3 83 (18.12%) SQL
4 65 (14.19%) JavaScript
5 52 (11.35%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.68%) C#
7 20 (4.37%) PHP
8 14 (3.06%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.40%) Bash
9 11 (2.40%) Go
10 10 (2.18%) Ruby
11 7 (1.53%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.53%) R
12 6 (1.31%) Scala
13 4 (0.87%) C
14 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 63 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 49 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.17%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.71%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 16 (3.49%) Degree
6 13 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.22%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.06%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.62%) QA
4 8 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.53%) NIST
6 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.66%) WCAG
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.44%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
System Software
1 66 (14.41%) Docker
2 6 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.66%) vSphere
6 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 104 (22.71%) Terraform
2 73 (15.94%) Kubernetes
3 28 (6.11%) Ansible
4 13 (2.84%) Grafana
4 13 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.87%) Puppet
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.44%) Argo
7 2 (0.44%) Nagios
7 2 (0.44%) Packer
7 2 (0.44%) Rancher
7 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.22%) Istio
8 1 (0.22%) linkerd
8 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.22%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 55 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.39%) Adobe
3 21 (4.59%) Apple
4 12 (2.62%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.97%) Splunk
6 8 (1.75%) Google
6 8 (1.75%) VMware
7 6 (1.31%) Databricks
7 6 (1.31%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.09%) Pega
9 4 (0.87%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.87%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.66%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.66%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.44%) New Relic
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle
11 2 (0.44%) WSO2
12 1 (0.22%) Informatica
12 1 (0.22%) McAfee