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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 336 346 581
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.47% 17.24% 12.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.33% 38.96% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 262 267 480
10th Percentile £34,125 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +3.13% +6.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +5.57% +1.60%

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 1,505 888 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.44% 44.25% 39.19%
Number of salaries quoted 860 659 1,540
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £58,650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +6.56% +2.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4 April 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 4 April 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
Salford -10 10 £70,039 +1.06% 3
Altrincham -10 6 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Bolton +23 3 £31,500 - 4
Stockport -5 1 £60,000 -20.00% 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 7 (2.08%) Apache
1 7 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.79%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.79%) WordPress
3 4 (1.19%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.89%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.89%) nginx
4 3 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.60%) CICS
5 2 (0.60%) CMS
5 2 (0.60%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) JBoss
5 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.98%) Magento
2 2 (0.60%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 157 (46.73%) Azure
2 62 (18.45%) GCP
3 40 (11.90%) Serverless
4 33 (9.82%) GitHub
5 25 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (5.65%) SaaS
8 15 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.27%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.38%) dbt
14 7 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
14 7 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (2.08%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.79%) Datadog
15 6 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.65%) Internet
2 8 (2.38%) DNS
3 7 (2.08%) Firewall
3 7 (2.08%) SSL
4 6 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.49%) HTTP
6 4 (1.19%) AMQP
7 3 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.60%) OpenVPN
8 2 (0.60%) SSH
9 1 (0.30%) DHCP
9 1 (0.30%) LAN
9 1 (0.30%) Network Security
9 1 (0.30%) VPN
9 1 (0.30%) VSAN
9 1 (0.30%) WAN
9 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.55%) MongoDB
3 20 (5.95%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.46%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (3.87%) MySQL
7 8 (2.38%) Neo4j
8 6 (1.79%) Big Data
8 6 (1.79%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.79%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.19%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.19%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.89%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.89%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (15.48%) Git
2 16 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.27%) GitLab
4 7 (2.08%) Claude Code
4 7 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.19%) JIRA
7 3 (0.89%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.89%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.60%) Subversion
8 2 (0.60%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.30%) JMeter
9 1 (0.30%) Locust
9 1 (0.30%) PyCharm
General
1 49 (14.58%) Social Skills
2 43 (12.80%) Finance
3 23 (6.85%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.65%) Multimedia
5 17 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.27%) Retail
8 9 (2.68%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.38%) Banking
9 8 (2.38%) Marketing
10 7 (2.08%) Legal
10 7 (2.08%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.49%) Electronics
12 4 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.19%) Games
13 3 (0.89%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.30%) Billing
Job Titles
1 84 (25.00%) Senior
2 69 (20.54%) Software Engineer
3 64 (19.05%) Developer
4 40 (11.90%) Lead
5 36 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 32 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (7.44%) Trainee
8 24 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 21 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 20 (5.95%) Architect
11 19 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (5.36%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.76%) Java Engineer
13 16 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
14 13 (3.87%) AWS Architect
14 13 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.87%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (17.26%) React
2 42 (12.50%) Node.js
3 33 (9.82%) CSS
3 33 (9.82%) Spring
4 32 (9.52%) .NET
4 32 (9.52%) HTML
4 32 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 27 (8.04%) REST
6 23 (6.85%) AngularJS
7 16 (4.76%) RESTful
8 14 (4.17%) Django
9 10 (2.98%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.98%) Pandas
9 10 (2.98%) Vue
10 9 (2.68%) scikit-learn
11 8 (2.38%) Laravel
11 8 (2.38%) NumPy
11 8 (2.38%) OAuth
11 8 (2.38%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.31%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) IoT
9 2 (0.60%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.60%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.60%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.60%) NHS
9 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.63%) Linux
2 15 (4.46%) Windows
3 6 (1.79%) CentOS
3 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.19%) Debian
5 4 (1.19%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.89%) Unix
7 2 (0.60%) VMS
8 1 (0.30%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (30.65%) Agile
2 102 (30.36%) CI/CD
2 102 (30.36%) DevOps
3 101 (30.06%) Software Engineering
4 72 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 59 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (17.26%) Microservices
7 56 (16.67%) AI
8 53 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (15.77%) TDD
9 48 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 38 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (11.31%) Scrum
11 35 (10.42%) Containerisation
12 34 (10.12%) Collaborative Culture
13 31 (9.23%) Observability
14 29 (8.63%) Clean Code
15 28 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
16 26 (7.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 117 (34.82%) Python
2 83 (24.70%) Java
3 75 (22.32%) JavaScript
4 47 (13.99%) SQL
5 42 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.85%) PHP
7 22 (6.55%) C#
8 11 (3.27%) R
9 7 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.79%) C
10 6 (1.79%) Go
10 6 (1.79%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.19%) Bash
12 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.60%) Scala
13 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.30%) Bicep
14 1 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 46 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 44 (13.10%) AWS Certification
3 33 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 23 (6.85%) Azure Certification
6 19 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (4.46%) Degree
8 14 (4.17%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.89%) MBA
10 3 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.30%) CISM
12 1 (0.30%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.98%) Data Quality
1 10 (2.98%) PCI DSS
2 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.79%) QA
3 5 (1.49%) NIST
4 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.60%) HL7
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (16.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.19%) vSphere
4 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (21.73%) Terraform
2 59 (17.56%) Kubernetes
3 29 (8.63%) Ansible
4 11 (3.27%) Grafana
5 9 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.19%) Puppet
7 3 (0.89%) cPanel
7 3 (0.89%) Nagios
7 3 (0.89%) Plesk
7 3 (0.89%) Rancher
7 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.60%) Packer
8 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.30%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.30%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 40 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.55%) Adobe
3 11 (3.27%) Apple
4 8 (2.38%) Google
4 8 (2.38%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.38%) Splunk
5 6 (1.79%) Atlassian
5 6 (1.79%) Pega
5 6 (1.79%) VMware
6 5 (1.49%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.19%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle
8 3 (0.89%) SAP
8 3 (0.89%) WSO2
9 2 (0.60%) Databricks
9 2 (0.60%) New Relic
9 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.30%) Spotify