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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 498 456 696
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.17% 20.12% 11.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.75% 48.36% 32.63%
Number of salaries quoted 394 257 510
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 1,674 943 2,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.47% 41.62% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 598 1,681
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £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 17 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 17 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
Cheadle -5 6 £63,750 -
Salford -16 6 £70,000 +3.51% 15
Bolton +17 1 £31,500 - 13
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 (2.81%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.41%) Apache
3 10 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 6 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.00%) Confluence
7 4 (0.80%) IIS
7 4 (0.80%) nginx
8 3 (0.60%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.60%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.40%) CICS
9 2 (0.40%) CMS
9 2 (0.40%) JBoss
9 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.40%) WordPress
10 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.41%) Cloudability
2 9 (1.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 199 (39.96%) Azure
2 94 (18.88%) GCP
3 60 (12.05%) Serverless
4 47 (9.44%) GitHub
4 47 (9.44%) SaaS
5 31 (6.22%) Amazon S3
6 27 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (2.81%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (2.21%) Pulumi
11 10 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (1.81%) dbt
12 9 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.61%) DNS
2 16 (3.21%) Firewall
3 10 (2.01%) DHCP
4 8 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.61%) VPN
5 6 (1.20%) Internet
6 5 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.00%) LAN
6 5 (1.00%) Network Security
6 5 (1.00%) SSL
7 4 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (0.80%) VLAN
8 3 (0.60%) AMQP
8 3 (0.60%) HTTP
9 2 (0.40%) SAN
10 1 (0.20%) VSAN
10 1 (0.20%) WAN
10 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.62%) NoSQL
2 22 (4.42%) MongoDB
3 21 (4.22%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.61%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.81%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.61%) Big Data
9 8 (1.61%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.41%) MySQL
10 7 (1.41%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.20%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.20%) Power BI
12 5 (1.00%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.80%) Flink
14 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 47 (9.44%) Git
2 28 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.82%) GitLab
4 14 (2.81%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.81%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.61%) JIRA
7 7 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (1.20%) Maven
9 4 (0.80%) Storybook
9 4 (0.80%) Vite
10 3 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.60%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.60%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.60%) Postman
11 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.40%) Selenium
11 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (14.26%) Social Skills
2 54 (10.84%) Finance
3 28 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.82%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (2.21%) Marketing
7 10 (2.01%) Retail
8 9 (1.81%) Banking
8 9 (1.81%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.41%) Health Technology
9 7 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.20%) Law
10 6 (1.20%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.80%) Publishing
12 3 (0.60%) Legal
13 2 (0.40%) Advertising
13 2 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.20%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 138 (27.71%) Senior
2 88 (17.67%) Software Engineer
3 76 (15.26%) Developer
4 60 (12.05%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (11.45%) Architect
5 57 (11.45%) Lead
6 51 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (7.83%) Data Engineer
8 38 (7.63%) Senior Developer
9 33 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 30 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (5.02%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
13 23 (4.62%) Java Engineer
14 22 (4.42%) Java Developer
15 21 (4.22%) Analyst
16 19 (3.82%) Lead Software Engineer
16 19 (3.82%) Security Architect
16 19 (3.82%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (15.86%) React
2 60 (12.05%) Node.js
3 46 (9.24%) .NET
4 38 (7.63%) Spring
5 37 (7.43%) Spring Boot
6 33 (6.63%) AngularJS
7 26 (5.22%) REST
8 23 (4.62%) CSS
8 23 (4.62%) FastAPI
9 22 (4.42%) Kafka
10 21 (4.22%) HTML
11 20 (4.02%) Next.js
11 20 (4.02%) Vue
12 18 (3.61%) OAuth
13 15 (3.01%) RESTful
14 14 (2.81%) OAuth2
15 13 (2.61%) LangChain
15 13 (2.61%) Pandas
15 13 (2.61%) React Native
15 13 (2.61%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 83 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.41%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.61%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.80%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.80%) Life Science
11 4 (0.80%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.60%) Sports Betting
13 2 (0.40%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.42%) Linux
2 16 (3.21%) Windows
3 8 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.00%) CentOS
4 5 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.60%) Debian
5 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (33.94%) CI/CD
2 147 (29.52%) DevOps
3 133 (26.71%) Software Engineering
4 129 (25.90%) Agile
5 115 (23.09%) AI
6 95 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 95 (19.08%) Mentoring
7 90 (18.07%) Microservices
8 79 (15.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 68 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (13.05%) TDD
11 61 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (11.24%) Test Automation
13 52 (10.44%) Observability
14 50 (10.04%) Decision-Making
14 50 (10.04%) Event-Driven
15 49 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
15 49 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
16 48 (9.64%) Containerisation
17 47 (9.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 172 (34.54%) Python
2 101 (20.28%) Java
3 99 (19.88%) SQL
4 66 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 62 (12.45%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.83%) C#
7 19 (3.82%) PHP
8 17 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.01%) Go
10 13 (2.61%) Bash
10 13 (2.61%) Ruby
11 12 (2.41%) Scala
12 8 (1.61%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.60%) C
13 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.60%) R
14 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 68 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.63%) AWS Certification
4 20 (4.02%) Degree
5 15 (3.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 15 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.40%) CISA
10 2 (0.40%) CISM
10 2 (0.40%) CISSP
10 2 (0.40%) CRISC
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.20%) MBA
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.82%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.41%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.61%) QA
4 9 (1.81%) NIST
5 7 (1.41%) GDPR
6 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.80%) WCAG
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (15.26%) Docker
2 10 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 117 (23.49%) Terraform
2 83 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.82%) Ansible
4 14 (2.81%) Grafana
4 14 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.00%) Puppet
6 4 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.80%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.60%) Argo
7 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.40%) Istio
8 2 (0.40%) linkerd
8 2 (0.40%) Nagios
8 2 (0.40%) Packer
8 2 (0.40%) 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 57 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.43%) Adobe
3 19 (3.82%) Apple
4 15 (3.01%) Google
5 14 (2.81%) Splunk
6 13 (2.61%) Databricks
7 12 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.21%) VMware
9 9 (1.81%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.00%) Pega
12 4 (0.80%) Cisco
12 4 (0.80%) Okta
12 4 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.60%) SaltStack
13 3 (0.60%) SolarWinds
14 2 (0.40%) Dynatrace
14 2 (0.40%) New Relic