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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 491 456 695
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.12% 20.10% 11.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.63% 47.95% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 387 256 510
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,063 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,019 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% +1.57% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +7.69% +3.53% -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 1,657 951 2,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.40% 41.91% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 604 1,669
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,250
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 14 June 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 14 June 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 - 2
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -16 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +15 1 £31,500 -
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 13 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.24%) Apache
3 10 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.02%) Confluence
7 4 (0.81%) nginx
7 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.61%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.61%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.41%) CICS
9 2 (0.41%) CMS
9 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 2 (0.41%) JBoss
9 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.41%) WordPress
10 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.44%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.04%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 199 (40.53%) Azure
2 91 (18.53%) GCP
3 59 (12.02%) Serverless
4 46 (9.37%) GitHub
4 46 (9.37%) SaaS
5 31 (6.31%) Amazon S3
6 27 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.85%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.24%) Pulumi
12 9 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (1.83%) dbt
12 9 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.85%) DNS
2 12 (2.44%) Firewall
3 6 (1.22%) DHCP
3 6 (1.22%) Internet
3 6 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (1.02%) Network Security
4 5 (1.02%) SSL
5 4 (0.81%) VPN
6 3 (0.61%) AMQP
6 3 (0.61%) HTTP
6 3 (0.61%) LAN
7 2 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.41%) SAN
7 2 (0.41%) VLAN
8 1 (0.20%) VSAN
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
8 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.68%) NoSQL
2 22 (4.48%) MongoDB
2 22 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.24%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.63%) Big Data
8 8 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.63%) MySQL
8 8 (1.63%) RDBMS
9 7 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.43%) Neo4j
10 6 (1.22%) Power BI
11 5 (1.02%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.81%) Flink
13 3 (0.61%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 45 (9.16%) Git
2 26 (5.30%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.67%) GitLab
4 14 (2.85%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.83%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.63%) JIRA
7 7 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.02%) Maven
9 4 (0.81%) Vite
10 3 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.61%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.61%) Storybook
11 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.41%) Postman
11 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.41%) Subversion
11 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 68 (13.85%) Social Skills
2 54 (11.00%) Finance
3 29 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (4.68%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.24%) Marketing
7 10 (2.04%) Retail
8 9 (1.83%) Banking
8 9 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.83%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.43%) Health Technology
9 7 (1.43%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.22%) Multimedia
11 5 (1.02%) Law
12 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.61%) Legal
13 3 (0.61%) Publishing
14 2 (0.41%) Advertising
14 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.20%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 136 (27.70%) Senior
2 89 (18.13%) Software Engineer
3 75 (15.27%) Developer
4 59 (12.02%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (11.61%) Architect
5 57 (11.61%) Lead
6 50 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (7.74%) Data Engineer
8 37 (7.54%) Senior Developer
9 31 (6.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 29 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (5.09%) AWS Architect
13 24 (4.89%) Analyst
14 23 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
14 23 (4.68%) Java Engineer
15 21 (4.28%) Java Developer
16 19 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
16 19 (3.87%) Security Architect
16 19 (3.87%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (15.89%) React
2 60 (12.22%) Node.js
3 45 (9.16%) .NET
4 37 (7.54%) Spring
5 36 (7.33%) Spring Boot
6 32 (6.52%) AngularJS
7 27 (5.50%) REST
8 23 (4.68%) CSS
9 22 (4.48%) FastAPI
10 21 (4.28%) HTML
10 21 (4.28%) Kafka
11 20 (4.07%) Vue
12 19 (3.87%) Next.js
13 18 (3.67%) OAuth
14 14 (2.85%) OAuth2
14 14 (2.85%) RESTful
15 13 (2.65%) LangChain
15 13 (2.65%) Pandas
16 12 (2.44%) PySpark
16 12 (2.44%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.46%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.65%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.81%) Life Science
11 4 (0.81%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.61%) Sports Betting
13 2 (0.41%) Culture of Ownership
13 2 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.48%) Linux
2 15 (3.05%) Windows
3 7 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.02%) CentOS
4 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.61%) Debian
5 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (33.60%) CI/CD
2 143 (29.12%) DevOps
3 132 (26.88%) Software Engineering
4 127 (25.87%) Agile
5 114 (23.22%) AI
6 93 (18.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 92 (18.74%) Mentoring
8 89 (18.13%) Microservices
9 78 (15.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 67 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (13.03%) TDD
12 58 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (11.00%) Test Automation
14 52 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
15 51 (10.39%) Observability
16 49 (9.98%) Decision-Making
16 49 (9.98%) Event-Driven
17 48 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
18 46 (9.37%) Scrum
19 45 (9.16%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 169 (34.42%) Python
2 99 (20.16%) Java
3 97 (19.76%) SQL
4 67 (13.65%) JavaScript
5 62 (12.63%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.52%) C#
7 20 (4.07%) PHP
8 16 (3.26%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.65%) Go
10 12 (2.44%) Bash
10 12 (2.44%) Ruby
11 10 (2.04%) Scala
12 7 (1.43%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.81%) C
14 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.61%) R
15 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 68 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 53 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 35 (7.13%) AWS Certification
4 20 (4.07%) Degree
5 16 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.41%) CISA
11 2 (0.41%) CISM
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) CRISC
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) MBA
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.26%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.65%) QA
4 12 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.83%) NIST
6 6 (1.22%) GDPR
7 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.61%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) HL7
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (14.87%) Docker
2 8 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.41%) Firmware
7 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (23.42%) Terraform
2 81 (16.50%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.70%) Ansible
4 13 (2.65%) Grafana
4 13 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.81%) Puppet
6 3 (0.61%) Argo
6 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.41%) Nagios
7 2 (0.41%) Packer
7 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.20%) Istio
8 1 (0.20%) linkerd
8 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.20%) Rancher
8 1 (0.20%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 55 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.94%) Adobe
3 19 (3.87%) Apple
4 12 (2.44%) Databricks
4 12 (2.44%) Google
4 12 (2.44%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.44%) Splunk
5 9 (1.83%) VMware
6 7 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.22%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.02%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.02%) Pega
9 3 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.61%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.61%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.41%) Cisco
10 2 (0.41%) New Relic
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle
10 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.41%) WSO2