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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 493 457 695
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.12% 20.14% 11.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.65% 48.00% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 391 257 509
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +7.69% +3.53% -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 1,663 952 2,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.39% 41.96% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,300 605 1,678
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,250
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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -1 10 £65,000 - 4
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -17 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +15 1 £31,500 - 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 14 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.43%) Apache
3 10 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.01%) Confluence
6 5 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.81%) nginx
8 3 (0.61%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.61%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.41%) CICS
9 2 (0.41%) CMS
9 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 2 (0.41%) JBoss
9 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.41%) WordPress
10 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.43%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.03%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 200 (40.57%) Azure
2 94 (19.07%) GCP
3 60 (12.17%) Serverless
4 47 (9.53%) GitHub
5 46 (9.33%) SaaS
6 31 (6.29%) Amazon S3
7 27 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.84%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.23%) Pulumi
12 10 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (1.83%) dbt
13 9 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.04%) DNS
2 13 (2.64%) Firewall
3 7 (1.42%) DHCP
4 6 (1.22%) Internet
4 6 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.01%) Network Security
5 5 (1.01%) SSL
5 5 (1.01%) VPN
6 4 (0.81%) LAN
7 3 (0.61%) AMQP
7 3 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.61%) HTTP
7 3 (0.61%) VLAN
8 2 (0.41%) SAN
9 1 (0.20%) VSAN
9 1 (0.20%) WAN
9 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.67%) NoSQL
2 22 (4.46%) MongoDB
2 22 (4.46%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.23%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.62%) Big Data
8 8 (1.62%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.62%) MySQL
8 8 (1.62%) RDBMS
9 7 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.42%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.42%) Neo4j
10 6 (1.22%) Power BI
11 5 (1.01%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.81%) Flink
13 3 (0.61%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 47 (9.53%) Git
2 28 (5.68%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.85%) GitLab
4 14 (2.84%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.83%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.62%) JIRA
7 7 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.01%) Maven
9 4 (0.81%) Vite
10 3 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.61%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.61%) Postman
10 3 (0.61%) Storybook
11 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.41%) Selenium
11 2 (0.41%) Subversion
11 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (13.59%) Social Skills
2 54 (10.95%) Finance
3 29 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.67%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.23%) Marketing
7 10 (2.03%) Retail
8 9 (1.83%) Banking
8 9 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (1.83%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.42%) Health Technology
9 7 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.22%) Law
10 6 (1.22%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.61%) Legal
12 3 (0.61%) Publishing
13 2 (0.41%) Advertising
13 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.20%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 137 (27.79%) Senior
2 89 (18.05%) Software Engineer
3 76 (15.42%) Developer
4 59 (11.97%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (11.56%) Architect
5 57 (11.56%) Lead
6 50 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (7.91%) Data Engineer
8 38 (7.71%) Senior Developer
9 31 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 29 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (5.27%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (5.07%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (4.67%) Java Engineer
14 22 (4.46%) Analyst
14 22 (4.46%) Java Developer
15 19 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
15 19 (3.85%) Security Architect
15 19 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (15.82%) React
2 60 (12.17%) Node.js
3 45 (9.13%) .NET
4 38 (7.71%) Spring
5 37 (7.51%) Spring Boot
6 32 (6.49%) AngularJS
7 27 (5.48%) REST
8 23 (4.67%) CSS
9 22 (4.46%) FastAPI
9 22 (4.46%) Kafka
10 21 (4.26%) HTML
11 20 (4.06%) Vue
12 19 (3.85%) Next.js
13 18 (3.65%) OAuth
14 15 (3.04%) RESTful
15 14 (2.84%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.64%) LangChain
16 13 (2.64%) Pandas
17 12 (2.43%) PySpark
17 12 (2.43%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.23%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.64%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.42%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.22%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.81%) Life Science
11 4 (0.81%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.81%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.61%) Sports Betting
13 2 (0.41%) Culture of Ownership
13 2 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.46%) Linux
2 15 (3.04%) Windows
3 7 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.01%) CentOS
4 5 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.61%) Debian
6 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.20%) Unix
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (33.87%) CI/CD
2 143 (29.01%) DevOps
3 132 (26.77%) Software Engineering
4 127 (25.76%) Agile
5 114 (23.12%) AI
6 94 (19.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 92 (18.66%) Mentoring
8 89 (18.05%) Microservices
9 78 (15.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 67 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (12.98%) TDD
12 58 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (10.95%) Test Automation
14 52 (10.55%) Observability
15 50 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
15 50 (10.14%) Decision-Making
16 49 (9.94%) Event-Driven
16 49 (9.94%) Platform Engineering
17 47 (9.53%) Containerisation
18 46 (9.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 171 (34.69%) Python
2 100 (20.28%) Java
3 98 (19.88%) SQL
4 67 (13.59%) JavaScript
5 62 (12.58%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.49%) C#
7 20 (4.06%) PHP
8 16 (3.25%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.84%) Go
10 13 (2.64%) Bash
11 12 (2.43%) Ruby
11 12 (2.43%) Scala
12 8 (1.62%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.81%) C
14 3 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.61%) R
15 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 68 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 53 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.69%) AWS Certification
4 20 (4.06%) Degree
5 16 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.41%) CISA
11 2 (0.41%) CISM
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) CRISC
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.20%) MBA
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.25%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.64%) QA
4 12 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.83%) NIST
6 6 (1.22%) GDPR
7 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.61%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) HL7
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (15.21%) Docker
2 8 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.41%) Firmware
7 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (23.53%) Terraform
2 83 (16.84%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.68%) Ansible
4 14 (2.84%) Grafana
4 14 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.01%) Puppet
6 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.61%) Argo
7 3 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.41%) Istio
8 2 (0.41%) linkerd
8 2 (0.41%) Nagios
8 2 (0.41%) Packer
8 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.20%) Rancher
9 1 (0.20%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 54 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.51%) Adobe
3 18 (3.65%) Apple
4 14 (2.84%) Google
5 13 (2.64%) Databricks
5 13 (2.64%) Splunk
6 12 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.83%) VMware
8 8 (1.62%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.01%) Pega
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco
11 3 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.61%) Okta
11 3 (0.61%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.61%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.61%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.41%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.41%) Oracle