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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 589 426 561
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.47% 17.18% 12.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.98% 45.61% 34.89%
Number of salaries quoted 441 237 316
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £43,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £74,358
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - -

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 1,901 934 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.34% 37.66% 36.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 609 1,109
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -4 8 £65,000 - 4
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Stockport -1 4 £70,000 +1.82% 6
Salford -25 2 £70,000 +2.18% 9
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 18 (3.06%) Apache
2 17 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 12 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.53%) Confluence
5 9 (1.53%) IIS
6 7 (1.19%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.68%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 207 (35.14%) Azure
2 102 (17.32%) GCP
3 82 (13.92%) SaaS
4 80 (13.58%) Serverless
5 66 (11.21%) GitHub
6 46 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (6.45%) Amazon S3
8 36 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (3.06%) Datadog
11 18 (3.06%) dbt
12 17 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.21%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (2.21%) Route 53
16 12 (2.04%) Snowflake
17 11 (1.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.07%) Firewall
2 23 (3.90%) DNS
3 18 (3.06%) DHCP
4 16 (2.72%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.38%) VPN
6 9 (1.53%) Network Security
7 8 (1.36%) LAN
7 8 (1.36%) SAN
8 6 (1.02%) WAN
9 5 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.85%) VLAN
10 3 (0.51%) IPsec
10 3 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.51%) VSAN
11 2 (0.34%) BGP
11 2 (0.34%) DMZ
11 2 (0.34%) Internet
11 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.58%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.41%) NoSQL
3 25 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (2.89%) DynamoDB
7 15 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.87%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.19%) MySQL
10 7 (1.19%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.19%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.85%) Big Data
13 4 (0.68%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.68%) Flink
13 4 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (10.36%) Git
2 38 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.24%) GitLab
4 15 (2.55%) JIRA
5 13 (2.21%) Bitbucket
5 13 (2.21%) Claude Code
6 10 (1.70%) Maven
7 9 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (1.36%) Storybook
9 6 (1.02%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.85%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.68%) Postman
11 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.68%) Vite
12 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.51%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.51%) Selenium
13 2 (0.34%) Mocha
13 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
General
1 112 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 55 (9.34%) Finance
3 45 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (5.94%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (2.72%) Retail
7 12 (2.04%) Marketing
8 11 (1.87%) Aviation
8 11 (1.87%) Health Technology
8 11 (1.87%) Law
8 11 (1.87%) Legal
9 10 (1.70%) Banking
9 10 (1.70%) Publishing
10 9 (1.53%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.68%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.51%) Games
13 2 (0.34%) Advertising
13 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.34%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 154 (26.15%) Senior
2 82 (13.92%) Architect
3 77 (13.07%) Developer
3 77 (13.07%) Software Engineer
4 60 (10.19%) Lead
5 59 (10.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 58 (9.85%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (8.83%) Data Engineer
8 47 (7.98%) Senior Developer
9 43 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
10 38 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (5.43%) AWS Architect
13 26 (4.41%) Analyst
14 25 (4.24%) AWS Solution Architect
15 20 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
15 20 (3.40%) Java Engineer
15 20 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (3.23%) Java Developer
16 19 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (21.73%) Terraform
2 77 (13.07%) React
3 68 (11.54%) Node.js
4 50 (8.49%) .NET
5 44 (7.47%) AngularJS
6 34 (5.77%) Spring
7 33 (5.60%) Spring Boot
8 27 (4.58%) Kafka
8 27 (4.58%) REST
9 25 (4.24%) CSS
10 24 (4.07%) Vue
11 22 (3.74%) FastAPI
11 22 (3.74%) HTML
12 21 (3.57%) Next.js
13 17 (2.89%) RESTful
14 16 (2.72%) React Native
15 15 (2.55%) PySpark
16 14 (2.38%) LangChain
16 14 (2.38%) Ruby on Rails
17 13 (2.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 131 (22.24%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 20 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.38%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.02%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.85%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.85%) Social Media
13 4 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.75%) Linux
2 25 (4.24%) Windows
3 16 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.87%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.70%) CentOS
6 9 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.68%) Unix
8 3 (0.51%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (33.45%) CI/CD
2 177 (30.05%) DevOps
3 153 (25.98%) Software Engineering
4 150 (25.47%) Agile
5 146 (24.79%) AI
6 108 (18.34%) Mentoring
7 103 (17.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 100 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 92 (15.62%) Microservices
10 82 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 79 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (11.88%) Test Automation
13 68 (11.54%) Observability
14 66 (11.21%) Roadmaps
15 62 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
16 60 (10.19%) Decision-Making
17 59 (10.02%) Machine Learning
18 57 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
19 56 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
20 55 (9.34%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 194 (32.94%) Python
2 126 (21.39%) SQL
3 103 (17.49%) Java
4 73 (12.39%) JavaScript
5 71 (12.05%) TypeScript
6 36 (6.11%) C#
7 23 (3.90%) PowerShell
8 21 (3.57%) Bash
9 19 (3.23%) Go
10 15 (2.55%) Ruby
10 15 (2.55%) Scala
11 7 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.02%) PHP
13 4 (0.68%) C++
14 3 (0.51%) C
14 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.34%) R
15 2 (0.34%) Swift
15 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 93 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 70 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.62%) Degree
4 27 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.41%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.72%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.68%) CISA
11 4 (0.68%) CISM
11 4 (0.68%) CISSP
11 4 (0.68%) CRISC
11 4 (0.68%) MBA
12 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.34%) CCIE
13 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.34%) GCIH
13 2 (0.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.40%) PCI DSS
3 20 (3.40%) QA
4 15 (2.55%) GDPR
5 11 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.87%) NIST
6 8 (1.36%) WCAG
7 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 88 (14.94%) Docker
2 18 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.89%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.36%) Firmware
6 7 (1.19%) 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
1 103 (17.49%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.13%) Ansible
3 12 (2.04%) Grafana
3 12 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.53%) Puppet
5 7 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.02%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.68%) Nessus
7 4 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.51%) Argo
8 3 (0.51%) Istio
8 3 (0.51%) linkerd
8 3 (0.51%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (0.51%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.17%) Nagios
10 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 67 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.43%) Adobe
3 26 (4.41%) Google
4 21 (3.57%) Databricks
4 21 (3.57%) VMware
5 19 (3.23%) Apple
5 19 (3.23%) Splunk
6 12 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.53%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.36%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.36%) Cisco
9 7 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.19%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.85%) Okta
10 5 (0.85%) Pega
11 3 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.51%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.51%) McAfee
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle
12 2 (0.34%) Zscaler