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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 562 450 615
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.61% 17.94% 12.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.38% 46.58% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 434 256 386
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £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 1,850 966 1,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.34% 38.50% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,445 629 1,305
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,600 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.90%

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 27 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 27 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 -4 10 £65,000 - 3
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -19 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +13 1 £31,500 - 3
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 (2.49%) Apache
2 13 (2.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.60%) IIS
5 8 (1.42%) Confluence
6 7 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.07%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.71%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.71%) nginx
9 3 (0.53%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.36%) CICS
10 2 (0.36%) JBoss
10 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.36%) WordPress
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.14%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 199 (35.41%) Azure
2 97 (17.26%) GCP
3 70 (12.46%) Serverless
4 64 (11.39%) SaaS
5 55 (9.79%) GitHub
6 38 (6.76%) Amazon S3
7 35 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (2.67%) dbt
12 15 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.96%) PaaS
15 11 (1.96%) Pulumi
16 10 (1.78%) Datadog
16 10 (1.78%) npm
17 9 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.45%) Firewall
2 24 (4.27%) DNS
3 18 (3.20%) DHCP
4 17 (3.02%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.49%) VPN
6 9 (1.60%) Network Security
7 8 (1.42%) LAN
8 7 (1.25%) SAN
9 6 (1.07%) WAN
10 5 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.89%) VLAN
11 3 (0.53%) IPsec
11 3 (0.53%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.53%) SSL
11 3 (0.53%) VSAN
12 2 (0.36%) AMQP
12 2 (0.36%) BGP
12 2 (0.36%) DMZ
12 2 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.63%) MongoDB
2 25 (4.45%) NoSQL
3 23 (4.09%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.91%) Relational Database
5 19 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.96%) BigQuery
8 11 (1.96%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.25%) MySQL
10 7 (1.25%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.25%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.89%) Big Data
12 5 (0.89%) Power BI
12 5 (0.89%) Redis
13 4 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 56 (9.96%) Git
2 35 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.91%) GitLab
4 13 (2.31%) Bitbucket
4 13 (2.31%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.31%) JIRA
5 10 (1.78%) Maven
6 9 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (1.42%) Storybook
8 5 (0.89%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.71%) Postman
9 4 (0.71%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.71%) Vite
10 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.53%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.53%) Selenium
11 2 (0.36%) Subversion
11 2 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 97 (17.26%) Social Skills
2 57 (10.14%) Finance
3 38 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.87%) Public Sector
5 22 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.14%) Marketing
7 12 (2.14%) Retail
8 11 (1.96%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.78%) Banking
10 9 (1.60%) Publishing
10 9 (1.60%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.42%) Law
12 7 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.71%) Legal
14 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.36%) Advertising
15 2 (0.36%) Aviation
15 2 (0.36%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.36%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 148 (26.33%) Senior
2 77 (13.70%) Architect
3 76 (13.52%) Software Engineer
4 74 (13.17%) Developer
5 63 (11.21%) AWS Engineer
6 57 (10.14%) Lead
7 55 (9.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (9.07%) Data Engineer
9 44 (7.83%) Senior Developer
10 43 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (5.52%) AWS Architect
14 24 (4.27%) AWS Solution Architect
15 22 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (3.74%) Analyst
16 21 (3.74%) Java Engineer
17 20 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (3.56%) Java Developer
17 20 (3.56%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.70%) React
2 70 (12.46%) Node.js
3 49 (8.72%) .NET
4 43 (7.65%) AngularJS
5 37 (6.58%) Spring
5 37 (6.58%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.63%) Kafka
7 25 (4.45%) CSS
7 25 (4.45%) Vue
8 24 (4.27%) REST
9 23 (4.09%) FastAPI
9 23 (4.09%) HTML
10 20 (3.56%) Next.js
11 17 (3.02%) OAuth
12 16 (2.85%) RESTful
13 15 (2.67%) PySpark
13 15 (2.67%) React Native
14 14 (2.49%) LangChain
14 14 (2.49%) Pandas
14 14 (2.49%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 112 (19.93%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.20%) AI Agents
5 16 (2.85%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.14%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.25%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.89%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.89%) Social Media
13 4 (0.71%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.71%) Life Science
13 4 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.27%) Linux
2 22 (3.91%) Windows
3 16 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.60%) CentOS
4 9 (1.60%) Mac OS
5 8 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.53%) CoreOS
6 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.53%) Unix
6 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.36%) Debian
8 1 (0.18%) Android
8 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (33.81%) CI/CD
2 173 (30.78%) DevOps
3 141 (25.09%) Agile
4 138 (24.56%) AI
5 133 (23.67%) Software Engineering
6 102 (18.15%) Mentoring
7 99 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 91 (16.19%) Microservices
9 83 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (14.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 69 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (11.92%) Test Automation
13 62 (11.03%) TDD
14 59 (10.50%) Decision-Making
15 57 (10.14%) Machine Learning
16 56 (9.96%) Observability
17 53 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
17 53 (9.43%) Roadmaps
18 52 (9.25%) Containerisation
19 50 (8.90%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 191 (33.99%) Python
2 116 (20.64%) SQL
3 101 (17.97%) Java
4 71 (12.63%) JavaScript
5 69 (12.28%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.05%) C#
7 23 (4.09%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.20%) Bash
9 17 (3.02%) Go
10 14 (2.49%) Ruby
10 14 (2.49%) Scala
11 8 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.42%) PHP
12 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.36%) C
13 2 (0.36%) R
13 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.18%) C++
14 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.52%) AWS Certification
4 30 (5.34%) Degree
5 23 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.71%) CISA
10 4 (0.71%) CISM
10 4 (0.71%) CISSP
10 4 (0.71%) CRISC
10 4 (0.71%) MBA
11 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.36%) CCIE
12 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.56%) PCI DSS
4 17 (3.02%) QA
5 14 (2.49%) GDPR
6 11 (1.96%) NIST
7 10 (1.78%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.42%) WCAG
9 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 85 (15.12%) Docker
2 17 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.25%) Firmware
5 7 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.18%) KVM
7 1 (0.18%) NFS
7 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (22.24%) Terraform
2 96 (17.08%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.41%) Ansible
4 12 (2.14%) Grafana
4 12 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.25%) Puppet
6 6 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.53%) Argo
8 3 (0.53%) Istio
8 3 (0.53%) linkerd
8 3 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (0.53%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.36%) Nagios
9 2 (0.36%) Nessus
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.36%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 68 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.69%) Adobe
3 22 (3.91%) Google
4 20 (3.56%) VMware
5 19 (3.38%) Splunk
6 18 (3.20%) Apple
7 17 (3.02%) Databricks
8 12 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.42%) Cisco
10 8 (1.42%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.25%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.25%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.89%) Okta
12 5 (0.89%) Pega
13 3 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.53%) McAfee
14 2 (0.36%) Oracle
14 2 (0.36%) Zscaler