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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 578 440 587
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.66% 17.51% 12.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.86% 45.83% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 439 247 346
10th Percentile £47,250 £45,450 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,125 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 1,873 960 1,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.05% 38.20% 37.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,456 626 1,186
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,692 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +3.60% -3.48%

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 August 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 August 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 -3 9 £65,000 - 3
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -20 5 £70,000 +3.51% 3
Bolton +15 1 £31,500 - 5
Stockport -7 1 £70,000 +1.82% 8
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 16 (2.77%) Apache
1 16 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.56%) IIS
5 8 (1.38%) Confluence
6 7 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.69%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.52%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.52%) nginx
9 2 (0.35%) CICS
9 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.35%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 5 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.08%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 204 (35.29%) Azure
2 101 (17.47%) GCP
3 74 (12.80%) Serverless
4 71 (12.28%) SaaS
5 61 (10.55%) GitHub
6 40 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (6.57%) Amazon S3
8 35 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (3.11%) dbt
12 17 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
14 13 (2.25%) Datadog
15 11 (1.90%) PaaS
15 11 (1.90%) Pulumi
16 10 (1.73%) GitHub Copilot
16 10 (1.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.33%) Firewall
2 24 (4.15%) DNS
3 18 (3.11%) DHCP
4 17 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.42%) VPN
6 9 (1.56%) Network Security
7 8 (1.38%) LAN
7 8 (1.38%) SAN
8 6 (1.04%) WAN
9 5 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.87%) VLAN
10 3 (0.52%) IPsec
10 3 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.52%) VSAN
11 2 (0.35%) AMQP
11 2 (0.35%) BGP
11 2 (0.35%) DMZ
11 2 (0.35%) Internet
11 2 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.67%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.50%) NoSQL
3 25 (4.33%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.98%) Relational Database
5 22 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 14 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.08%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.21%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.21%) MySQL
10 7 (1.21%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.21%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.87%) Big Data
12 5 (0.87%) Power BI
12 5 (0.87%) Redis
13 4 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 59 (10.21%) Git
2 36 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.81%) GitLab
4 13 (2.25%) Bitbucket
4 13 (2.25%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.25%) JIRA
5 10 (1.73%) Maven
6 8 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.38%) Storybook
6 8 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.69%) Postman
8 4 (0.69%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.69%) Vite
9 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.52%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
10 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.17%) PyCharm
General
1 104 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 56 (9.69%) Finance
3 42 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.42%) Retail
8 12 (2.08%) Marketing
9 11 (1.90%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.73%) Banking
10 10 (1.73%) Law
10 10 (1.73%) Publishing
11 9 (1.56%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.04%) Aviation
12 6 (1.04%) Legal
13 5 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.35%) Advertising
15 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 149 (25.78%) Senior
2 78 (13.49%) Architect
3 77 (13.32%) Software Engineer
4 75 (12.98%) Developer
5 64 (11.07%) AWS Engineer
6 59 (10.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 57 (9.86%) Lead
8 52 (9.00%) Data Engineer
9 45 (7.79%) Senior Developer
10 43 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
12 35 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (5.36%) AWS Architect
14 24 (4.15%) AWS Solution Architect
15 23 (3.98%) Analyst
16 21 (3.63%) Java Engineer
16 21 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
17 20 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
17 20 (3.46%) Java Developer
18 19 (3.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.15%) React
2 68 (11.76%) Node.js
3 50 (8.65%) .NET
4 44 (7.61%) AngularJS
5 35 (6.06%) Spring
5 35 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.50%) Kafka
6 26 (4.50%) REST
7 25 (4.33%) Vue
8 24 (4.15%) CSS
9 23 (3.98%) FastAPI
10 22 (3.81%) HTML
11 20 (3.46%) Next.js
12 17 (2.94%) RESTful
13 16 (2.77%) React Native
14 15 (2.60%) OAuth
14 15 (2.60%) PySpark
15 14 (2.42%) LangChain
15 14 (2.42%) Ruby on Rails
16 12 (2.08%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 121 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.29%) AI Agents
4 19 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.77%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.08%) Marketing Technology
7 11 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.04%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (0.87%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.87%) Social Media
12 4 (0.69%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.50%) Linux
2 24 (4.15%) Windows
3 16 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.56%) CentOS
6 8 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.52%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.52%) Unix
7 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.35%) Android
8 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.35%) Debian
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (33.56%) CI/CD
2 176 (30.45%) DevOps
3 145 (25.09%) Agile
4 144 (24.91%) AI
5 142 (24.57%) Software Engineering
6 105 (18.17%) Mentoring
7 100 (17.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 91 (15.74%) Microservices
9 89 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 77 (13.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 73 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (12.11%) Test Automation
13 61 (10.55%) Observability
14 60 (10.38%) Decision-Making
14 60 (10.38%) Machine Learning
14 60 (10.38%) Roadmaps
15 59 (10.21%) TDD
16 55 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
17 54 (9.34%) Platform Engineering
18 53 (9.17%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 194 (33.56%) Python
2 123 (21.28%) SQL
3 101 (17.47%) Java
4 70 (12.11%) JavaScript
5 69 (11.94%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.06%) C#
7 23 (3.98%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.29%) Bash
9 18 (3.11%) Go
10 15 (2.60%) Scala
11 14 (2.42%) Ruby
12 8 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.38%) PHP
13 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.35%) C++
14 2 (0.35%) R
14 2 (0.35%) Swift
14 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.23%) Degree
4 30 (5.19%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.69%) CISA
10 4 (0.69%) CISM
10 4 (0.69%) CISSP
10 4 (0.69%) CRISC
10 4 (0.69%) MBA
11 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.35%) CCIE
12 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.35%) GCIH
12 2 (0.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.46%) PCI DSS
3 20 (3.46%) QA
4 15 (2.60%) GDPR
5 11 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.90%) NIST
6 8 (1.38%) WCAG
7 5 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 86 (14.88%) Docker
2 18 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.38%) Firmware
6 7 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) NFS
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (21.80%) Terraform
2 99 (17.13%) Kubernetes
3 38 (6.57%) Ansible
4 12 (2.08%) Grafana
4 12 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.38%) Puppet
6 7 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.69%) Nessus
9 3 (0.52%) Argo
9 3 (0.52%) Istio
9 3 (0.52%) linkerd
9 3 (0.52%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.52%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.35%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
11 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.54%) Adobe
3 25 (4.33%) Google
4 21 (3.63%) VMware
5 20 (3.46%) Databricks
6 19 (3.29%) Apple
6 19 (3.29%) Splunk
7 12 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.38%) Cisco
10 7 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.21%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.87%) Okta
11 5 (0.87%) Pega
12 3 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.52%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.52%) McAfee
13 2 (0.35%) Oracle
13 2 (0.35%) Zscaler