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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 597 389 517
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.95% 16.57% 12.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.21% 46.09% 36.33%
Number of salaries quoted 432 210 245
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,625 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -

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 1,913 844 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.48% 35.95% 35.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 559 830
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,975
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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
Stockport -2 7 £70,000 - 5
Altrincham -4 6 £65,000 - 11
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -23 6 £100,000 +44.13% 22
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 19 (3.18%) Apache
2 16 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.51%) Confluence
4 9 (1.51%) IIS
5 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.01%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 196 (32.83%) Azure
2 103 (17.25%) GCP
3 84 (14.07%) SaaS
4 78 (13.07%) Serverless
5 65 (10.89%) GitHub
6 52 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (6.70%) Amazon S3
8 34 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (3.35%) Datadog
11 19 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.85%) dbt
12 17 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (2.51%) Route 53
15 14 (2.35%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (2.01%) OpenShift
16 12 (2.01%) Snowflake
17 11 (1.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.02%) DNS
2 21 (3.52%) Firewall
3 20 (3.35%) DHCP
4 15 (2.51%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.35%) VPN
6 9 (1.51%) Network Security
7 8 (1.34%) LAN
7 8 (1.34%) SAN
8 6 (1.01%) WAN
9 5 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.84%) VLAN
10 3 (0.50%) AMQP
10 3 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.50%) IPsec
10 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.50%) VSAN
11 2 (0.34%) BGP
11 2 (0.34%) DMZ
11 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.52%) MongoDB
1 27 (4.52%) NoSQL
2 22 (3.69%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.02%) DynamoDB
5 18 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.68%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.68%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.17%) MySQL
11 6 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.01%) Big Data
11 6 (1.01%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.01%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.84%) Redis
13 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 56 (9.38%) Git
2 34 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.69%) GitLab
4 16 (2.68%) JIRA
5 13 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.84%) Maven
7 10 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (1.68%) Claude Code
8 8 (1.34%) Storybook
9 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.67%) Postman
10 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.67%) Vite
11 3 (0.50%) Selenium
12 2 (0.34%) Mocha
12 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.17%) PyCharm
General
1 124 (20.77%) Social Skills
2 48 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (7.71%) Finance
4 33 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (3.02%) Legal
7 17 (2.85%) Publishing
8 16 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.68%) Retail
9 13 (2.18%) Aviation
10 12 (2.01%) Marketing
11 11 (1.84%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.84%) Law
12 8 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.84%) Banking
14 5 (0.84%) Billing
15 4 (0.67%) iGaming
15 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 144 (24.12%) Senior
2 86 (14.41%) Architect
3 76 (12.73%) Software Engineer
4 73 (12.23%) Developer
5 61 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 57 (9.55%) Data Engineer
7 54 (9.05%) AWS Engineer
8 51 (8.54%) Lead
9 42 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 40 (6.70%) Solutions Architect
11 39 (6.53%) Senior Developer
12 38 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
13 37 (6.20%) AWS Architect
14 27 (4.52%) Analyst
14 27 (4.52%) AWS Solution Architect
15 20 (3.35%) Security Engineer
16 19 (3.18%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
17 18 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
18 17 (2.85%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (20.44%) Terraform
2 80 (13.40%) React
3 58 (9.72%) Node.js
4 43 (7.20%) AngularJS
5 42 (7.04%) .NET
6 39 (6.53%) Spring
7 38 (6.37%) Spring Boot
8 35 (5.86%) Kafka
9 25 (4.19%) REST
9 25 (4.19%) Vue
10 21 (3.52%) FastAPI
11 19 (3.18%) Next.js
12 18 (3.02%) CSS
13 16 (2.68%) HTML
13 16 (2.68%) PySpark
13 16 (2.68%) React Native
14 14 (2.35%) LangChain
14 14 (2.35%) RESTful
14 14 (2.35%) Ruby on Rails
15 12 (2.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 145 (24.29%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.02%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.52%) AI Agents
5 15 (2.51%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.51%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.17%) Media Streaming
10 7 (1.17%) Podcast
10 7 (1.17%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.01%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.84%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.53%) Linux
2 26 (4.36%) Windows
3 16 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.01%) CentOS
5 11 (1.84%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.84%) Unix
7 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.50%) Debian
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (33.00%) CI/CD
2 170 (28.48%) DevOps
3 158 (26.47%) Software Engineering
4 149 (24.96%) AI
5 143 (23.95%) Agile
6 111 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 110 (18.43%) Mentoring
8 102 (17.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 91 (15.24%) Microservices
9 91 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
10 75 (12.56%) Observability
11 69 (11.56%) Full-Stack Development
12 68 (11.39%) Test Automation
13 66 (11.06%) Roadmaps
13 66 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 64 (10.72%) Containerisation
15 63 (10.55%) Collaborative Culture
16 61 (10.22%) Machine Learning
17 58 (9.72%) Decision-Making
18 54 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 188 (31.49%) Python
2 117 (19.60%) SQL
3 100 (16.75%) Java
4 78 (13.07%) TypeScript
5 63 (10.55%) JavaScript
6 30 (5.03%) C#
7 24 (4.02%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.69%) Bash
9 19 (3.18%) Go
10 15 (2.51%) Ruby
10 15 (2.51%) Scala
11 6 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.84%) PHP
13 4 (0.67%) Rust
14 3 (0.50%) C
14 3 (0.50%) C++
15 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.34%) Swift
16 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (18.76%) Security Cleared
2 76 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.53%) Degree
4 37 (6.20%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.01%) CISM
10 4 (0.67%) CISA
10 4 (0.67%) CISSP
10 4 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.67%) CRISC
10 4 (0.67%) MBA
10 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.34%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.34%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.18%) QA
4 17 (2.85%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.51%) GDPR
6 14 (2.35%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.51%) NIST
8 8 (1.34%) WCAG
9 5 (0.84%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (14.91%) Docker
2 19 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.01%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.34%) Firmware
6 7 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) UAG
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 111 (18.59%) Kubernetes
2 44 (7.37%) Ansible
3 14 (2.35%) Grafana
3 14 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.68%) Puppet
5 8 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.67%) Argo
8 4 (0.67%) Nessus
9 3 (0.50%) Istio
9 3 (0.50%) linkerd
9 3 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.50%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.34%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.34%) Packer
10 2 (0.34%) SCCM
10 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.53%) Google
3 32 (5.36%) Adobe
4 23 (3.85%) Databricks
5 22 (3.69%) VMware
6 20 (3.35%) Splunk
7 19 (3.18%) Apple
8 12 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.51%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.34%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.34%) Cisco
10 8 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.17%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.84%) Okta
13 4 (0.67%) F5
13 4 (0.67%) Mistral
14 3 (0.50%) McAfee
14 3 (0.50%) New Relic
14 3 (0.50%) SaltStack
14 3 (0.50%) YouTube