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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 376 352 599
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.11% 16.71% 12.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.05% 40.46% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 285 276 485
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +5.57% -2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,813 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £67,249 £67,037 £62,783
% change year-on-year +0.32% +6.78% -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 1,705 870 1,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.22% 41.29% 38.95%
Number of salaries quoted 994 654 1,598
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 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,519 £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 May 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 May 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 7 £67,500 +28.57% 7
Salford -16 6 £70,000 +3.51% 2
Bolton - 3 £31,500 - 3
Stockport -9 1 £60,000 -20.00% 5
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 8 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.86%) Apache
2 7 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.60%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.33%) WordPress
5 4 (1.06%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.80%) Confluence
6 3 (0.80%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.80%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) CICS
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) JBoss
7 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.66%) Magento
2 9 (2.39%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 165 (43.88%) Azure
2 65 (17.29%) GCP
3 45 (11.97%) Serverless
4 35 (9.31%) GitHub
5 25 (6.65%) SaaS
6 24 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.93%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.86%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.60%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (1.60%) Datadog
12 6 (1.60%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.26%) Internet
2 8 (2.13%) DNS
2 8 (2.13%) Firewall
3 7 (1.86%) SSL
4 5 (1.33%) HTTP
5 4 (1.06%) AMQP
5 4 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.80%) Network Security
7 2 (0.53%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.53%) SSH
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.27%) VPN
8 1 (0.27%) VSAN
8 1 (0.27%) WAN
8 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.05%) MongoDB
1 19 (5.05%) NoSQL
1 19 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.46%) Relational Database
3 11 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (2.66%) MySQL
5 8 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.86%) Neo4j
6 7 (1.86%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.60%) Big Data
7 6 (1.60%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.06%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.06%) Flink
10 3 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 49 (13.03%) Git
2 14 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.46%) GitLab
4 11 (2.93%) Claude Code
5 9 (2.39%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.86%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.60%) JIRA
8 3 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.80%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.53%) Maven
9 2 (0.53%) Subversion
9 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.53%) Vite
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) PyCharm
General
1 52 (13.83%) Social Skills
2 43 (11.44%) Finance
3 23 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.26%) Multimedia
7 10 (2.66%) Retail
8 9 (2.39%) Banking
8 9 (2.39%) Retail Banking
9 6 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.33%) Legal
10 5 (1.33%) Marketing
11 3 (0.80%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.53%) Advertising
12 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Electronics
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 103 (27.39%) Senior
2 74 (19.68%) Software Engineer
3 64 (17.02%) Developer
4 45 (11.97%) AWS Engineer
5 42 (11.17%) Lead
6 36 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (9.04%) Architect
8 30 (7.98%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (5.85%) Analyst
10 22 (5.85%) Data Engineer
10 22 (5.85%) Trainee
11 21 (5.59%) Java Engineer
12 19 (5.05%) AWS Architect
13 18 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (4.52%) Java Developer
14 17 (4.52%) Lead Software Engineer
15 16 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (3.99%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (3.99%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (17.29%) React
2 49 (13.03%) Node.js
3 33 (8.78%) .NET
4 31 (8.24%) Spring
5 30 (7.98%) CSS
5 30 (7.98%) Spring Boot
6 28 (7.45%) HTML
7 25 (6.65%) REST
8 21 (5.59%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.72%) RESTful
10 13 (3.46%) Pandas
11 11 (2.93%) Kafka
12 9 (2.39%) Django
12 9 (2.39%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.39%) NumPy
12 9 (2.39%) scikit-learn
13 8 (2.13%) OAuth
13 8 (2.13%) OAuth2
13 8 (2.13%) Vue
14 7 (1.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.37%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.19%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.86%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.80%) IoT
11 2 (0.53%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.53%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.53%) NHS
11 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.18%) Linux
2 14 (3.72%) Windows
3 6 (1.60%) CentOS
3 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.06%) Debian
5 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (28.46%) CI/CD
2 106 (28.19%) Software Engineering
3 103 (27.39%) DevOps
4 101 (26.86%) Agile
5 76 (20.21%) Mentoring
6 71 (18.88%) AI
7 62 (16.49%) Microservices
8 61 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 57 (15.16%) Cybersecurity
10 56 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (14.10%) TDD
12 45 (11.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 40 (10.64%) Scrum
14 36 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (9.04%) Containerisation
15 34 (9.04%) Observability
16 33 (8.78%) Collaborative Culture
16 33 (8.78%) Cost Optimisation
17 31 (8.24%) Event-Driven
17 31 (8.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 122 (32.45%) Python
2 83 (22.07%) Java
3 67 (17.82%) JavaScript
4 66 (17.55%) SQL
5 51 (13.56%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.12%) C#
7 21 (5.59%) PHP
8 10 (2.66%) Go
8 10 (2.66%) R
9 7 (1.86%) C
9 7 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.60%) Bash
10 6 (1.60%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.53%) Scala
12 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 50 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 45 (11.97%) AWS Certification
3 35 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 19 (5.05%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.99%) Degree
7 15 (3.99%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.53%) MBA
10 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.99%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.86%) NIST
4 7 (1.86%) QA
5 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 52 (13.83%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.80%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.80%) vSphere
5 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (19.68%) Terraform
2 56 (14.89%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.38%) Ansible
4 12 (3.19%) Grafana
4 12 (3.19%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.06%) Puppet
6 3 (0.80%) Nagios
6 3 (0.80%) Rancher
6 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.53%) cPanel
7 2 (0.53%) Packer
7 2 (0.53%) Plesk
7 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 47 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.24%) Adobe
3 18 (4.79%) Apple
4 9 (2.39%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.86%) Splunk
7 6 (1.60%) Google
8 5 (1.33%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.33%) Pega
8 5 (1.33%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.33%) VMware
9 4 (1.06%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.53%) Databricks
11 2 (0.53%) New Relic
11 2 (0.53%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle
11 2 (0.53%) WSO2
12 1 (0.27%) Informatica
12 1 (0.27%) McAfee