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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 601 379 511
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.86% 15.96% 12.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.58% 44.69% 36.82%
Number of salaries quoted 425 205 240
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £43,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -1.64%

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 1,903 848 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.88% 35.71% 35.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 567 770
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £81,250 £74,004 £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 7 October 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 7 October 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
Salford -15 9 £100,000 +44.13% 8
Stockport -3 8 £70,000 - 5
Altrincham -3 8 £65,000 - 13
Cheadle -5 6 £63,750 - 6
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 (3.16%) Apache
2 14 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.50%) Confluence
4 9 (1.50%) IIS
5 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 186 (30.95%) Azure
2 96 (15.97%) GCP
3 85 (14.14%) SaaS
4 75 (12.48%) Serverless
5 64 (10.65%) GitHub
6 50 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (6.32%) Amazon S3
8 33 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (3.00%) Datadog
11 17 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.83%) dbt
12 16 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (2.50%) Route 53
14 14 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (2.00%) OpenShift
16 12 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.16%) DNS
2 20 (3.33%) DHCP
2 20 (3.33%) Firewall
3 15 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.33%) VPN
5 9 (1.50%) Network Security
6 8 (1.33%) LAN
6 8 (1.33%) SAN
7 6 (1.00%) WAN
8 5 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.83%) VLAN
9 3 (0.50%) AMQP
9 3 (0.50%) IPsec
9 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.50%) VSAN
10 2 (0.33%) BGP
10 2 (0.33%) DMZ
10 2 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.33%) MongoDB
2 23 (3.83%) NoSQL
3 21 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.49%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (2.83%) DynamoDB
5 17 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.50%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.16%) MySQL
11 6 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.00%) Big Data
11 6 (1.00%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.83%) Chroma
12 5 (0.83%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.83%) Pinecone
12 5 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (9.32%) Git
2 34 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.32%) GitLab
4 16 (2.66%) JIRA
5 13 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.83%) Maven
7 10 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.50%) Claude Code
9 8 (1.33%) Storybook
10 6 (1.00%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.67%) Postman
11 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.67%) Vagrant
11 4 (0.67%) Vite
12 3 (0.50%) Selenium
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.33%) Mocha
13 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 129 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 47 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (6.82%) Finance
4 32 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.66%) Publishing
7 21 (3.49%) Legal
8 16 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.50%) Retail
10 13 (2.16%) Aviation
11 11 (1.83%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.83%) Law
11 11 (1.83%) Marketing
12 8 (1.33%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Billing
15 4 (0.67%) iGaming
16 3 (0.50%) Banking
16 3 (0.50%) Games
17 2 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 150 (24.96%) Senior
2 84 (13.98%) Architect
2 84 (13.98%) Software Engineer
3 73 (12.15%) Developer
4 65 (10.82%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (9.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 54 (8.99%) Data Engineer
7 50 (8.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (8.15%) Lead
9 45 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 37 (6.16%) Senior Developer
11 36 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (5.49%) AWS Architect
13 24 (3.99%) Analyst
14 23 (3.83%) AWS Solution Architect
14 23 (3.83%) Security Engineer
15 20 (3.33%) Java Engineer
16 19 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
17 17 (2.83%) Consultant
17 17 (2.83%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (19.80%) Terraform
2 85 (14.14%) React
3 57 (9.48%) Node.js
4 45 (7.49%) Spring
5 44 (7.32%) Spring Boot
6 42 (6.99%) .NET
7 41 (6.82%) AngularJS
8 38 (6.32%) Kafka
9 25 (4.16%) Vue
10 23 (3.83%) REST
11 22 (3.66%) FastAPI
12 19 (3.16%) Next.js
13 18 (3.00%) CSS
14 16 (2.66%) HTML
14 16 (2.66%) LangChain
14 16 (2.66%) React Native
15 15 (2.50%) Middleware
16 14 (2.33%) RESTful
16 14 (2.33%) Ruby on Rails
17 12 (2.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 146 (24.29%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.16%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.83%) AI Agents
4 23 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.00%) Media Streaming
6 12 (2.00%) Podcast
7 11 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.16%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.00%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.82%) Linux
2 27 (4.49%) Windows
3 16 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.00%) CentOS
5 11 (1.83%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.16%) 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 (0.33%) Android
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (33.44%) CI/CD
2 177 (29.45%) DevOps
3 169 (28.12%) Software Engineering
4 156 (25.96%) AI
5 149 (24.79%) Agile
6 116 (19.30%) Mentoring
7 115 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 102 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 95 (15.81%) Microservices
10 94 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (12.98%) Observability
12 70 (11.65%) Test Automation
13 69 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 68 (11.31%) Containerisation
15 67 (11.15%) Full-Stack Development
16 66 (10.98%) Roadmaps
17 61 (10.15%) Machine Learning
18 60 (9.98%) Collaborative Culture
19 59 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
20 57 (9.48%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 183 (30.45%) Python
2 110 (18.30%) SQL
3 108 (17.97%) Java
4 86 (14.31%) TypeScript
5 62 (10.32%) JavaScript
6 29 (4.83%) C#
7 25 (4.16%) PowerShell
8 24 (3.99%) Bash
9 20 (3.33%) Go
10 16 (2.66%) Scala
11 15 (2.50%) Ruby
12 6 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.67%) PHP
13 4 (0.67%) Rust
14 3 (0.50%) C
14 3 (0.50%) C++
14 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.33%) Swift
16 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 118 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 82 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.32%) Degree
4 37 (6.16%) DV Cleared
5 22 (3.66%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.00%) CISM
10 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.67%) CISA
11 4 (0.67%) CISSP
11 4 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.67%) CRISC
11 4 (0.67%) MBA
12 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.33%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.33%) OSCP
13 2 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.16%) QA
4 14 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.33%) GDPR
4 14 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.33%) WCAG
6 6 (1.00%) NIST
7 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (14.81%) Docker
2 19 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.33%) Firmware
6 7 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) UAG
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 118 (19.63%) Kubernetes
2 41 (6.82%) Ansible
3 12 (2.00%) Grafana
3 12 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.66%) Progress Chef
4 10 (1.66%) Puppet
5 7 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.67%) Argo
7 4 (0.67%) Nessus
7 4 (0.67%) Packer
8 3 (0.50%) Istio
8 3 (0.50%) linkerd
8 3 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (0.50%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.33%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.33%) SCCM
9 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.82%) Google
3 28 (4.66%) Adobe
4 23 (3.83%) Databricks
5 22 (3.66%) VMware
6 20 (3.33%) Splunk
7 16 (2.66%) Apple
8 9 (1.50%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.50%) YouTube
9 8 (1.33%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.33%) Cisco
9 8 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.00%) Mistral
11 5 (0.83%) Okta
12 4 (0.67%) F5
13 3 (0.50%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.50%) New Relic
13 3 (0.50%) SaltStack