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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 524 467 710
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.33% 19.48% 12.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.59% 48.00% 33.12%
Number of salaries quoted 416 269 496
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £64,374
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +0.97% -0.96%
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 1,771 973 2,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.17% 40.59% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,388 634 1,658
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £32,350
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,313 £77,500 £71,250
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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -3 6 £63,750 -
Salford -15 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +14 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 14 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.29%) Apache
3 11 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.34%) Confluence
5 7 (1.34%) IIS
5 7 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.76%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.57%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.57%) nginx
9 2 (0.38%) CICS
9 2 (0.38%) CMS
9 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.38%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.29%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 198 (37.79%) Azure
2 97 (18.51%) GCP
3 66 (12.60%) Serverless
4 60 (11.45%) SaaS
5 49 (9.35%) GitHub
6 35 (6.68%) Amazon S3
7 32 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (2.86%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.10%) Pulumi
13 10 (1.91%) dbt
14 9 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.39%) Firewall
2 21 (4.01%) DNS
3 15 (2.86%) DHCP
4 12 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.29%) VPN
5 8 (1.53%) Network Security
6 6 (1.15%) LAN
7 5 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.95%) VLAN
8 4 (0.76%) SAN
9 3 (0.57%) AMQP
9 3 (0.57%) Internet
10 2 (0.38%) SSL
10 2 (0.38%) WAN
11 1 (0.19%) BGP
11 1 (0.19%) DMZ
11 1 (0.19%) HTTP
11 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.77%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.58%) NoSQL
3 21 (4.01%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.72%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.72%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.53%) MySQL
9 8 (1.53%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.34%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.15%) Big Data
11 6 (1.15%) Power BI
12 5 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.76%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.76%) Flink
Development Applications
1 48 (9.16%) Git
2 30 (5.73%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.82%) GitLab
4 15 (2.86%) Claude Code
5 11 (2.10%) JIRA
6 10 (1.91%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (1.15%) Maven
9 5 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.76%) Postman
10 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.76%) Storybook
10 4 (0.76%) Vite
11 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.57%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.57%) Selenium
12 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (14.89%) Social Skills
2 58 (11.07%) Finance
3 28 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (5.34%) Public Sector
4 17 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.29%) Marketing
7 10 (1.91%) Retail
8 9 (1.72%) Banking
8 9 (1.72%) Retail Banking
9 8 (1.53%) Health Technology
10 7 (1.34%) Law
10 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.76%) Publishing
12 3 (0.57%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.38%) Advertising
13 2 (0.38%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.19%) Back Office
14 1 (0.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 145 (27.67%) Senior
2 86 (16.41%) Software Engineer
3 74 (14.12%) Developer
4 64 (12.21%) AWS Engineer
5 63 (12.02%) Architect
6 58 (11.07%) Lead
7 55 (10.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 45 (8.59%) Data Engineer
9 39 (7.44%) Senior Developer
10 37 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
11 33 (6.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 33 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
12 29 (5.53%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.39%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (4.39%) Java Engineer
14 22 (4.20%) Java Developer
15 21 (4.01%) AWS Solution Architect
15 21 (4.01%) Security Engineer
15 21 (4.01%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.65%) React
2 67 (12.79%) Node.js
3 50 (9.54%) .NET
4 39 (7.44%) AngularJS
4 39 (7.44%) Spring
5 38 (7.25%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.96%) Kafka
6 26 (4.96%) REST
7 25 (4.77%) Vue
8 24 (4.58%) FastAPI
9 21 (4.01%) CSS
9 21 (4.01%) Next.js
10 19 (3.63%) HTML
11 17 (3.24%) RESTful
12 16 (3.05%) OAuth
13 14 (2.67%) LangChain
13 14 (2.67%) Pandas
13 14 (2.67%) React Native
13 14 (2.67%) Ruby on Rails
14 13 (2.48%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 95 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.67%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.10%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.76%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.76%) IVR
11 4 (0.76%) Life Science
11 4 (0.76%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.39%) Linux
2 17 (3.24%) Windows
3 11 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.34%) CentOS
4 7 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.57%) Debian
8 2 (0.38%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.19%) Solaris
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (33.97%) CI/CD
2 160 (30.53%) DevOps
3 137 (26.15%) Agile
4 134 (25.57%) Software Engineering
5 122 (23.28%) AI
6 99 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 95 (18.13%) Mentoring
8 93 (17.75%) Microservices
9 81 (15.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 73 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 67 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (12.21%) TDD
13 60 (11.45%) Test Automation
14 54 (10.31%) Observability
15 53 (10.11%) Decision-Making
16 51 (9.73%) Containerisation
16 51 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
17 49 (9.35%) Event-Driven
17 49 (9.35%) Machine Learning
18 48 (9.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 177 (33.78%) Python
2 108 (20.61%) SQL
3 104 (19.85%) Java
4 72 (13.74%) TypeScript
5 67 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 36 (6.87%) C#
7 20 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.05%) Go
9 14 (2.67%) Bash
9 14 (2.67%) PHP
9 14 (2.67%) Ruby
9 14 (2.67%) Scala
10 7 (1.34%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.57%) C
11 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.38%) R
12 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.19%) C++
13 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 59 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.53%) AWS Certification
4 23 (4.39%) Degree
5 18 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.76%) CISA
11 4 (0.76%) CISM
11 4 (0.76%) CISSP
11 4 (0.76%) CRISC
12 3 (0.57%) MBA
12 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.19%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.19%) RHCE
13 1 (0.19%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.82%) PCI DSS
4 16 (3.05%) QA
5 12 (2.29%) GDPR
6 11 (2.10%) NIST
7 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.76%) WCAG
8 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 82 (15.65%) Docker
2 16 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.76%) Firmware
6 3 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.38%) vSphere
8 1 (0.19%) KVM
Systems Management
1 124 (23.66%) Terraform
2 94 (17.94%) Kubernetes
3 34 (6.49%) Ansible
4 12 (2.29%) Grafana
4 12 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.15%) Puppet
6 5 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.57%) Argo
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.38%) Istio
9 2 (0.38%) linkerd
9 2 (0.38%) Packer
10 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.19%) Nagios
10 1 (0.19%) Rancher
10 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.19%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 59 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.92%) Adobe
3 19 (3.63%) Google
4 17 (3.24%) Apple
4 17 (3.24%) VMware
5 16 (3.05%) Splunk
6 15 (2.86%) Databricks
7 12 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.91%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.34%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.15%) Cisco
10 6 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.95%) Okta
11 5 (0.95%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.95%) Pega
12 3 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.57%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.57%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.38%) Oracle
13 2 (0.38%) WSO2