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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 473 462 669
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.90% 20.43% 11.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.20% 48.07% 32.33%
Number of salaries quoted 371 262 499
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £53,375 £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 £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 1,620 961 2,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.07% 42.50% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 611 1,646
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £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 £71,806
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 9 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 9 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 - 3
Salford -16 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Cheadle -5 4 £63,750 -
Bolton +18 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 11 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.11%) Apache
2 10 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.06%) nginx
6 4 (0.85%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.85%) Confluence
6 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.63%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.42%) CICS
8 2 (0.42%) CMS
8 2 (0.42%) IIS
8 2 (0.42%) JBoss
8 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.42%) WordPress
9 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.54%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.11%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 194 (41.01%) Azure
2 88 (18.60%) GCP
3 58 (12.26%) Serverless
4 44 (9.30%) GitHub
5 40 (8.46%) SaaS
6 29 (6.13%) Amazon S3
7 25 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (2.75%) Anthropic Claude
13 10 (2.11%) Pulumi
14 9 (1.90%) dbt
15 8 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.75%) DNS
2 11 (2.33%) Firewall
3 8 (1.69%) Internet
4 6 (1.27%) DHCP
4 6 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.06%) SSL
6 4 (0.85%) Network Security
6 4 (0.85%) VPN
7 3 (0.63%) AMQP
7 3 (0.63%) HTTP
7 3 (0.63%) LAN
8 2 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.42%) VLAN
9 1 (0.21%) SAN
9 1 (0.21%) VSAN
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.44%) MongoDB
1 21 (4.44%) NoSQL
2 20 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (2.11%) MySQL
7 9 (1.90%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.69%) Big Data
8 8 (1.69%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.48%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.48%) Neo4j
10 6 (1.27%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.06%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.06%) Power BI
12 4 (0.85%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.85%) Flink
Development Applications
1 46 (9.73%) Git
2 23 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.38%) GitLab
4 13 (2.75%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.48%) JIRA
6 7 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.06%) Maven
8 3 (0.63%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.63%) Storybook
9 2 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.42%) Subversion
9 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.42%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.42%) Vite
10 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 63 (13.32%) Social Skills
2 53 (11.21%) Finance
3 26 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.11%) Marketing
6 10 (2.11%) Retail
7 9 (1.90%) Banking
7 9 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.90%) Retail Banking
8 8 (1.69%) Multimedia
9 7 (1.48%) Health Technology
9 7 (1.48%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.63%) Legal
11 3 (0.63%) Publishing
12 2 (0.42%) Advertising
12 2 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.42%) Law
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 134 (28.33%) Senior
2 86 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 72 (15.22%) Developer
4 57 (12.05%) Lead
5 56 (11.84%) Architect
6 55 (11.63%) AWS Engineer
7 49 (10.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 36 (7.61%) Data Engineer
8 36 (7.61%) Senior Developer
9 29 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (5.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (5.07%) Analyst
11 24 (5.07%) AWS Architect
11 24 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (4.86%) Java Engineer
13 21 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (4.44%) Java Developer
14 20 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (4.23%) Security Architect
15 18 (3.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (15.43%) React
2 58 (12.26%) Node.js
3 44 (9.30%) .NET
4 36 (7.61%) Spring
5 35 (7.40%) Spring Boot
6 30 (6.34%) AngularJS
7 27 (5.71%) REST
8 25 (5.29%) CSS
9 23 (4.86%) HTML
10 20 (4.23%) Kafka
11 18 (3.81%) OAuth
12 17 (3.59%) FastAPI
12 17 (3.59%) Vue
13 16 (3.38%) Next.js
13 16 (3.38%) RESTful
14 14 (2.96%) OAuth2
15 13 (2.75%) Pandas
16 12 (2.54%) OpenID
16 12 (2.54%) PySpark
17 11 (2.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 70 (14.80%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.59%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.85%) Life Science
11 4 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.63%) Sports Betting
13 2 (0.42%) Culture of Ownership
13 2 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.42%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.86%) Linux
2 13 (2.75%) Windows
3 6 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.06%) CentOS
4 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Debian
5 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.21%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (32.98%) CI/CD
2 136 (28.75%) DevOps
3 128 (27.06%) Software Engineering
4 122 (25.79%) Agile
5 104 (21.99%) AI
6 95 (20.08%) Mentoring
7 89 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 83 (17.55%) Microservices
9 73 (15.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (13.53%) TDD
12 55 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
14 51 (10.78%) Test Automation
15 48 (10.15%) Event-Driven
15 48 (10.15%) Platform Engineering
16 46 (9.73%) Decision-Making
17 45 (9.51%) Observability
18 44 (9.30%) Scrum
19 43 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 160 (33.83%) Python
2 98 (20.72%) Java
3 90 (19.03%) SQL
4 65 (13.74%) JavaScript
5 55 (11.63%) TypeScript
6 31 (6.55%) C#
7 21 (4.44%) PHP
8 15 (3.17%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.75%) Go
10 11 (2.33%) Bash
10 11 (2.33%) Ruby
11 8 (1.69%) Scala
12 7 (1.48%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.06%) R
14 4 (0.85%) C
15 3 (0.63%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 63 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 48 (10.15%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.61%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.59%) Degree
4 17 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 12 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.21%) CISA
10 1 (0.21%) CISM
10 1 (0.21%) CISSP
10 1 (0.21%) CRISC
10 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.96%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.54%) QA
4 8 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.69%) NIST
5 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.63%) GDPR
5 3 (0.63%) WCAG
6 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 68 (14.38%) Docker
2 7 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 110 (23.26%) Terraform
2 75 (15.86%) Kubernetes
3 29 (6.13%) Ansible
4 12 (2.54%) Grafana
4 12 (2.54%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.85%) Puppet
6 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.42%) Argo
7 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.42%) Nagios
7 2 (0.42%) Packer
7 2 (0.42%) Rancher
7 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.21%) Istio
8 1 (0.21%) linkerd
8 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 54 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.25%) Adobe
3 19 (4.02%) Apple
4 12 (2.54%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.11%) Databricks
5 10 (2.11%) Google
5 10 (2.11%) Splunk
6 8 (1.69%) VMware
7 6 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.06%) Pega
9 3 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.63%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.63%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.63%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.42%) Cisco
10 2 (0.42%) New Relic
10 2 (0.42%) Okta
10 2 (0.42%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.42%) WSO2