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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 430 433 634
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.47% 20.22% 12.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.73% 46.66% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 332 244 500
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,037 £62,783
% change year-on-year +0.69% +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 1,739 928 1,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.19% 43.34% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,150 592 1,627
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 23 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 23 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 -3 10 £65,000 - 4
Salford -19 6 £70,000 +3.51% 5
Bolton +24 3 £31,500 - 2
Stockport -13 1 £60,000 -20.00% 2
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 (1.86%) Apache
1 8 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (1.86%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.40%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.93%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.93%) WordPress
4 3 (0.70%) Confluence
4 3 (0.70%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.70%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) CICS
5 2 (0.47%) CMS
5 2 (0.47%) JBoss
5 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.79%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 184 (42.79%) Azure
2 80 (18.60%) GCP
3 49 (11.40%) Serverless
4 41 (9.53%) GitHub
5 33 (7.67%) SaaS
6 25 (5.81%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.02%) Anthropic Claude
10 13 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.86%) dbt
13 7 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.63%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.63%) Pulumi
13 7 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.40%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.79%) Internet
2 9 (2.09%) DNS
3 8 (1.86%) Firewall
4 6 (1.40%) SSL
5 4 (0.93%) HTTP
5 4 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (0.93%) Network Security
5 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.70%) AMQP
7 2 (0.47%) DHCP
8 1 (0.23%) LAN
8 1 (0.23%) VPN
8 1 (0.23%) VSAN
8 1 (0.23%) WAN
8 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.42%) MongoDB
2 18 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.49%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.33%) MySQL
7 9 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (2.09%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.09%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.86%) Big Data
9 7 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.63%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.63%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.40%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.16%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.93%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.93%) Flink
13 3 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (11.16%) Git
2 20 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.72%) GitLab
4 13 (3.02%) Claude Code
5 9 (2.09%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.16%) JIRA
8 3 (0.70%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.70%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.70%) Maven
9 2 (0.47%) Subversion
9 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.47%) Vite
10 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.23%) Storybook
10 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 53 (12.33%) Social Skills
2 47 (10.93%) Finance
3 29 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.12%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.79%) Multimedia
7 10 (2.33%) Retail
8 9 (2.09%) Banking
8 9 (2.09%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.63%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.40%) Marketing
11 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Legal
13 2 (0.47%) Advertising
14 1 (0.23%) Billing
14 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 122 (28.37%) Senior
2 79 (18.37%) Software Engineer
3 65 (15.12%) Developer
4 51 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
5 50 (11.63%) Lead
6 48 (11.16%) Architect
7 46 (10.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 33 (7.67%) Senior Developer
9 30 (6.98%) Data Engineer
10 27 (6.28%) Analyst
11 26 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
12 24 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (5.35%) Java Engineer
14 22 (5.12%) AWS Architect
14 22 (5.12%) Java Developer
15 21 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
17 19 (4.42%) Security Architect
18 18 (4.19%) Trainee
19 17 (3.95%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.95%) React
2 49 (11.40%) Node.js
3 36 (8.37%) .NET
4 35 (8.14%) Spring
5 34 (7.91%) Spring Boot
6 27 (6.28%) CSS
7 25 (5.81%) HTML
7 25 (5.81%) REST
8 24 (5.58%) AngularJS
9 18 (4.19%) Kafka
10 15 (3.49%) OAuth
11 14 (3.26%) RESTful
12 13 (3.02%) Next.js
12 13 (3.02%) Pandas
13 12 (2.79%) OAuth2
14 11 (2.56%) PySpark
15 10 (2.33%) FastAPI
15 10 (2.33%) scikit-learn
16 9 (2.09%) Django
16 9 (2.09%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.40%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.02%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.79%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.93%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.70%) IoT
13 3 (0.70%) Life Science
14 2 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.47%) Mainframe
15 1 (0.23%) Legacy Code
15 1 (0.23%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.58%) Linux
2 14 (3.26%) Windows
3 5 (1.16%) CentOS
3 5 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.70%) Debian
4 3 (0.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.23%) VMS
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (30.23%) CI/CD
2 119 (27.67%) DevOps
3 114 (26.51%) Agile
4 111 (25.81%) Software Engineering
5 90 (20.93%) AI
6 87 (20.23%) Mentoring
7 76 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 66 (15.35%) Microservices
9 61 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (13.72%) TDD
11 58 (13.49%) Cybersecurity
12 57 (13.26%) Full-Stack Development
13 46 (10.70%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (10.00%) Scrum
15 40 (9.30%) Containerisation
16 39 (9.07%) Test Automation
17 38 (8.84%) Decision-Making
17 38 (8.84%) Event-Driven
18 37 (8.60%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 140 (32.56%) Python
2 91 (21.16%) Java
3 75 (17.44%) SQL
4 61 (14.19%) JavaScript
5 45 (10.47%) TypeScript
6 23 (5.35%) C#
7 19 (4.42%) PHP
8 12 (2.79%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.33%) Bash
9 10 (2.33%) Go
10 8 (1.86%) R
10 8 (1.86%) Ruby
11 6 (1.40%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.93%) C
12 4 (0.93%) Scala
13 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 59 (13.72%) Security Cleared
2 46 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.23%) AWS Certification
4 18 (4.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 15 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.26%) Degree
7 12 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.49%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.56%) QA
4 8 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.63%) NIST
6 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.47%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) HL7
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (13.95%) Docker
2 5 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.70%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.70%) vSphere
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 97 (22.56%) Terraform
2 67 (15.58%) Kubernetes
3 29 (6.74%) Ansible
4 13 (3.02%) Grafana
4 13 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.93%) Puppet
6 3 (0.70%) Nagios
6 3 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.70%) Rancher
7 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.47%) Packer
7 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.23%) Istio
8 1 (0.23%) linkerd
8 1 (0.23%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.23%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 53 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.07%) Adobe
3 21 (4.88%) Apple
4 12 (2.79%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.63%) Google
5 7 (1.63%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.63%) Splunk
5 7 (1.63%) VMware
6 5 (1.16%) Databricks
6 5 (1.16%) Pega
7 4 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 4 (0.93%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.70%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.47%) New Relic
9 2 (0.47%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.47%) Oracle
9 2 (0.47%) WSO2
10 1 (0.23%) Informatica
10 1 (0.23%) McAfee