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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 513 454 701
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.27% 19.83% 11.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.79% 48.04% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 412 259 506
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £87,813 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £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 1,722 945 2,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.76% 41.27% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 605 1,674
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £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 £86,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £56,504 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -

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 24 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 24 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 0 10 £65,000 - 2
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -20 6 £70,000 +3.51% 5
Bolton +14 1 £31,500 - 1
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 13 (2.53%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.14%) Apache
2 11 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.17%) Confluence
5 6 (1.17%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.97%) IIS
7 4 (0.78%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.58%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.58%) nginx
9 2 (0.39%) CICS
9 2 (0.39%) CMS
9 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.39%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.34%) Cloudability
2 6 (1.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 192 (37.43%) Azure
2 95 (18.52%) GCP
3 63 (12.28%) Serverless
4 54 (10.53%) SaaS
5 48 (9.36%) GitHub
6 34 (6.63%) Amazon S3
7 30 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (2.92%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.14%) Pulumi
13 10 (1.95%) dbt
14 9 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.90%) DNS
2 19 (3.70%) Firewall
3 12 (2.34%) DHCP
4 10 (1.95%) VPN
5 9 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.36%) Network Security
7 6 (1.17%) LAN
8 5 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.97%) VLAN
9 4 (0.78%) Internet
9 4 (0.78%) SSL
10 3 (0.58%) HTTP
10 3 (0.58%) SAN
11 2 (0.39%) AMQP
12 1 (0.19%) VSAN
12 1 (0.19%) WAN
12 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.68%) MongoDB
1 24 (4.68%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.09%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.92%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 9 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.56%) MySQL
9 7 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.36%) Neo4j
9 7 (1.36%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.17%) Big Data
10 6 (1.17%) Power BI
11 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.78%) Flink
12 3 (0.58%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 48 (9.36%) Git
2 29 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.70%) GitLab
4 15 (2.92%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.75%) JIRA
6 7 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.17%) Maven
8 4 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.78%) Postman
8 4 (0.78%) Storybook
8 4 (0.78%) Vite
9 3 (0.58%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.58%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.58%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.58%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.58%) Selenium
10 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 73 (14.23%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.92%) Finance
3 28 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (4.87%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.34%) Marketing
7 10 (1.95%) Retail
8 9 (1.75%) Banking
8 9 (1.75%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.36%) Health Technology
9 7 (1.36%) Law
9 7 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.78%) Multimedia
10 4 (0.78%) Publishing
11 3 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.58%) Legal
12 2 (0.39%) Advertising
12 2 (0.39%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.19%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 145 (28.27%) Senior
2 89 (17.35%) Software Engineer
3 75 (14.62%) Developer
4 63 (12.28%) AWS Engineer
5 60 (11.70%) Architect
6 58 (11.31%) Lead
7 53 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 42 (8.19%) Data Engineer
9 39 (7.60%) Senior Developer
10 35 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
12 30 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (5.46%) AWS Architect
14 24 (4.68%) Java Engineer
15 23 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (4.48%) Java Developer
16 20 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (3.90%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (15.59%) React
2 64 (12.48%) Node.js
3 49 (9.55%) .NET
4 39 (7.60%) Spring
5 38 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 36 (7.02%) AngularJS
7 27 (5.26%) REST
8 24 (4.68%) FastAPI
8 24 (4.68%) Kafka
8 24 (4.68%) Vue
9 21 (4.09%) CSS
9 21 (4.09%) Next.js
10 19 (3.70%) HTML
11 18 (3.51%) OAuth
12 17 (3.31%) RESTful
13 14 (2.73%) LangChain
13 14 (2.73%) OAuth2
13 14 (2.73%) Pandas
13 14 (2.73%) React Native
13 14 (2.73%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 88 (17.15%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.99%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.31%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.73%) AI Agents
6 10 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.36%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.97%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.78%) Life Science
10 4 (0.78%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.58%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.58%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.09%) Linux
2 16 (3.12%) Windows
3 8 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.17%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.78%) CentOS
5 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Debian
6 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (34.70%) CI/CD
2 154 (30.02%) DevOps
3 136 (26.51%) Software Engineering
4 132 (25.73%) Agile
5 119 (23.20%) AI
6 98 (19.10%) Mentoring
7 95 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 93 (18.13%) Microservices
9 80 (15.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 72 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 67 (13.06%) TDD
12 66 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
13 60 (11.70%) Test Automation
14 53 (10.33%) Decision-Making
14 53 (10.33%) Observability
15 51 (9.94%) Event-Driven
16 50 (9.75%) Platform Engineering
17 49 (9.55%) Containerisation
18 46 (8.97%) Machine Learning
18 46 (8.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 174 (33.92%) Python
2 105 (20.47%) SQL
3 104 (20.27%) Java
4 70 (13.65%) TypeScript
5 65 (12.67%) JavaScript
6 37 (7.21%) C#
7 18 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.12%) Go
8 16 (3.12%) PHP
9 14 (2.73%) Ruby
9 14 (2.73%) Scala
10 13 (2.53%) Bash
11 9 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.58%) C
12 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.39%) R
13 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 70 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.72%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.65%) AWS Certification
4 22 (4.29%) Degree
5 14 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 14 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.58%) CISA
11 3 (0.58%) CISM
11 3 (0.58%) CISSP
11 3 (0.58%) CRISC
12 2 (0.39%) MBA
13 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 18 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.12%) QA
5 10 (1.95%) GDPR
5 10 (1.95%) NIST
6 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.78%) WCAG
7 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 82 (15.98%) Docker
2 12 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.56%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.58%) Firmware
6 3 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (23.59%) Terraform
2 89 (17.35%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.65%) Ansible
4 14 (2.73%) Grafana
4 14 (2.73%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.78%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.78%) Puppet
7 3 (0.58%) Argo
7 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.39%) Istio
8 2 (0.39%) linkerd
8 2 (0.39%) Packer
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.19%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.19%) Nagios
9 1 (0.19%) Rancher
9 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.24%) Adobe
3 17 (3.31%) Apple
4 16 (3.12%) Google
4 16 (3.12%) Splunk
5 14 (2.73%) Databricks
6 13 (2.53%) VMware
7 12 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.97%) Cisco
10 5 (0.97%) Okta
10 5 (0.97%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.97%) Pega
11 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.58%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.58%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.39%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.39%) WSO2