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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 539 457 651
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.36% 18.29% 12.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.68% 47.36% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 421 259 430
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,200 £43,975
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 1,816 965 1,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.16% 38.62% 37.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,425 624 1,472
10th Percentile £34,550 £30,750 £31,525
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £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 20 July 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 July 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 10 £65,000 - 2
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -15 6 £70,000 +3.51% 2
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 12 (2.23%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.04%) Apache
2 11 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.48%) Confluence
3 8 (1.48%) IIS
4 7 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.74%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.56%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.56%) nginx
8 2 (0.37%) CICS
8 2 (0.37%) CMS
8 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 192 (35.62%) Azure
2 93 (17.25%) GCP
3 67 (12.43%) Serverless
4 61 (11.32%) SaaS
5 51 (9.46%) GitHub
6 36 (6.68%) Amazon S3
7 33 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (2.41%) Anthropic Claude
11 13 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.04%) dbt
12 11 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.04%) Pulumi
13 10 (1.86%) PaaS
14 9 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.48%) npm
15 8 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.64%) Firewall
2 20 (3.71%) DNS
3 15 (2.78%) DHCP
4 14 (2.60%) VPN
5 13 (2.41%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.67%) Network Security
7 5 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.93%) LAN
7 5 (0.93%) VLAN
8 4 (0.74%) SAN
9 3 (0.56%) IPsec
9 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.56%) WAN
10 2 (0.37%) AMQP
10 2 (0.37%) BGP
10 2 (0.37%) DMZ
10 2 (0.37%) Internet
10 2 (0.37%) SSL
11 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.64%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.45%) NoSQL
3 23 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 21 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.86%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.67%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.48%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.48%) MySQL
11 8 (1.48%) Neo4j
12 7 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.30%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.93%) Big Data
14 5 (0.93%) Power BI
14 5 (0.93%) Redis
15 4 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 48 (8.91%) Git
2 32 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.71%) GitLab
4 13 (2.41%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.41%) JIRA
5 11 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.48%) Maven
6 8 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.11%) Storybook
8 5 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.74%) Postman
9 4 (0.74%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.74%) Vite
10 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.56%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.56%) Selenium
11 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (15.77%) Social Skills
2 58 (10.76%) Finance
3 32 (5.94%) Public Sector
4 31 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.23%) Marketing
8 11 (2.04%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.86%) Retail
10 9 (1.67%) Banking
10 9 (1.67%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.30%) Law
11 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.30%) Publishing
12 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.56%) Legal
13 2 (0.37%) Advertising
13 2 (0.37%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.37%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 145 (26.90%) Senior
2 77 (14.29%) Developer
3 76 (14.10%) Software Engineer
4 73 (13.54%) Architect
5 61 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
6 58 (10.76%) Lead
7 55 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 46 (8.53%) Data Engineer
9 44 (8.16%) Senior Developer
10 43 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (6.68%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 30 (5.57%) AWS Architect
14 23 (4.27%) AWS Solution Architect
14 23 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
15 21 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
15 21 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.90%) Java Engineer
15 21 (3.90%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (3.71%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (15.03%) React
2 71 (13.17%) Node.js
3 48 (8.91%) .NET
4 41 (7.61%) AngularJS
5 37 (6.86%) Spring
5 37 (6.86%) Spring Boot
6 27 (5.01%) Vue
7 26 (4.82%) Kafka
8 24 (4.45%) REST
9 23 (4.27%) CSS
9 23 (4.27%) FastAPI
10 21 (3.90%) HTML
10 21 (3.90%) Next.js
11 16 (2.97%) OAuth
11 16 (2.97%) RESTful
12 15 (2.78%) React Native
13 14 (2.60%) LangChain
13 14 (2.60%) Pandas
13 14 (2.60%) Ruby on Rails
14 13 (2.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 104 (19.29%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.97%) Mobile App
5 15 (2.78%) AI Agents
6 13 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.23%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.74%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.74%) IVR
13 4 (0.74%) Life Science
13 4 (0.74%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.53%) Linux
2 15 (2.78%) Windows
3 11 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.11%) CentOS
6 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.37%) Debian
8 2 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (34.32%) CI/CD
2 168 (31.17%) DevOps
3 137 (25.42%) Agile
4 129 (23.93%) AI
5 125 (23.19%) Software Engineering
6 96 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 96 (17.81%) Mentoring
7 94 (17.44%) Microservices
8 83 (15.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (11.87%) Test Automation
12 63 (11.69%) TDD
13 55 (10.20%) Decision-Making
14 54 (10.02%) Observability
15 52 (9.65%) Machine Learning
15 52 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
16 51 (9.46%) Containerisation
17 50 (9.28%) Roadmaps
18 49 (9.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 178 (33.02%) Python
2 110 (20.41%) SQL
3 101 (18.74%) Java
4 74 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 70 (12.99%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.31%) C#
7 20 (3.71%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.60%) Go
8 14 (2.60%) Ruby
8 14 (2.60%) Scala
9 13 (2.41%) Bash
10 12 (2.23%) PHP
11 8 (1.48%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.56%) C
12 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.37%) R
13 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.19%) C++
14 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 84 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 64 (11.87%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.38%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.64%) Degree
5 24 (4.45%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.74%) CISA
11 4 (0.74%) CISM
11 4 (0.74%) CISSP
11 4 (0.74%) CRISC
11 4 (0.74%) MBA
12 2 (0.37%) CCIE
12 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.19%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.57%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.71%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.97%) QA
5 13 (2.41%) GDPR
6 11 (2.04%) NIST
7 7 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.11%) WCAG
9 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 82 (15.21%) Docker
2 16 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.48%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.93%) Firmware
6 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.19%) KVM
8 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (23.01%) Terraform
2 95 (17.63%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.68%) Ansible
4 11 (2.04%) Grafana
4 11 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.93%) Puppet
6 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.56%) Argo
8 2 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.37%) linkerd
8 2 (0.37%) Packer
8 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.19%) Nagios
9 1 (0.19%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.57%) Adobe
3 19 (3.53%) Google
4 18 (3.34%) Apple
5 17 (3.15%) Splunk
5 17 (3.15%) VMware
6 15 (2.78%) Databricks
7 12 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.86%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.30%) Cisco
9 7 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.93%) Okta
10 5 (0.93%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.93%) Pega
11 4 (0.74%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.37%) F5
13 2 (0.37%) Oracle
13 2 (0.37%) Zscaler