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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 532 472 687
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.41% 19.06% 12.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.59% 47.82% 33.03%
Number of salaries quoted 419 272 465
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 1,798 987 2,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.41% 39.86% 37.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 644 1,587
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,620
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,950 £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 10 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 10 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 -2 10 £65,000 - 2
Cheadle -5 6 £63,750 -
Salford -18 6 £70,000 +3.51% 5
Bolton +14 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 14 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.26%) Apache
3 11 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (1.50%) Confluence
5 8 (1.50%) IIS
6 7 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.13%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.75%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.56%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.56%) nginx
10 2 (0.38%) CICS
10 2 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.38%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.19%) JBoss
11 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.26%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 196 (36.84%) Azure
2 96 (18.05%) GCP
3 69 (12.97%) Serverless
4 59 (11.09%) SaaS
5 50 (9.40%) GitHub
6 36 (6.77%) Amazon S3
7 35 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
13 12 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.07%) Pulumi
15 10 (1.88%) dbt
16 9 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (1.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.51%) Firewall
2 22 (4.14%) DNS
3 16 (3.01%) DHCP
4 13 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.44%) VPN
5 8 (1.50%) Network Security
6 6 (1.13%) LAN
7 5 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.94%) VLAN
8 4 (0.75%) SAN
9 3 (0.56%) AMQP
9 3 (0.56%) WAN
10 2 (0.38%) BGP
10 2 (0.38%) DMZ
10 2 (0.38%) Internet
10 2 (0.38%) IPsec
10 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.38%) SSL
11 1 (0.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.08%) MongoDB
2 25 (4.70%) NoSQL
3 23 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 19 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.88%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.88%) MySQL
8 9 (1.69%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.50%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.32%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.13%) Big Data
11 6 (1.13%) Power BI
12 4 (0.75%) Flink
12 4 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (9.02%) Git
2 31 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.95%) GitLab
4 14 (2.63%) Claude Code
5 13 (2.44%) JIRA
6 11 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.13%) Maven
10 5 (0.94%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.75%) Postman
11 4 (0.75%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.75%) Storybook
11 4 (0.75%) Vite
12 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.56%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.56%) Selenium
13 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 59 (11.09%) Finance
3 31 (5.83%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.26%) Marketing
8 10 (1.88%) Health Technology
8 10 (1.88%) Retail
9 9 (1.69%) Banking
9 9 (1.69%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.32%) Law
10 7 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.75%) Publishing
12 2 (0.38%) Advertising
12 2 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.38%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.19%) Billing
13 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (27.44%) Senior
2 80 (15.04%) Software Engineer
3 74 (13.91%) Developer
4 67 (12.59%) Architect
5 62 (11.65%) AWS Engineer
6 58 (10.90%) Lead
7 55 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 45 (8.46%) Data Engineer
9 41 (7.71%) Senior Developer
10 40 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 33 (6.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 33 (6.20%) Solutions Architect
12 29 (5.45%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
14 22 (4.14%) Java Engineer
15 21 (3.95%) AWS Solution Architect
15 21 (3.95%) Java Developer
15 21 (3.95%) Security Engineer
15 21 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (15.60%) React
2 70 (13.16%) Node.js
3 47 (8.83%) .NET
4 40 (7.52%) Spring
5 39 (7.33%) AngularJS
5 39 (7.33%) Spring Boot
6 28 (5.26%) Vue
7 26 (4.89%) Kafka
7 26 (4.89%) REST
8 25 (4.70%) FastAPI
9 21 (3.95%) CSS
9 21 (3.95%) Next.js
10 19 (3.57%) HTML
11 18 (3.38%) RESTful
12 16 (3.01%) OAuth
13 14 (2.63%) LangChain
13 14 (2.63%) Pandas
13 14 (2.63%) React Native
13 14 (2.63%) Ruby on Rails
14 13 (2.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 101 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.82%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.44%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.07%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.75%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.75%) IVR
11 4 (0.75%) Life Science
11 4 (0.75%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.51%) Linux
2 18 (3.38%) Windows
3 12 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.50%) CentOS
5 7 (1.32%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.56%) Debian
8 2 (0.38%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.19%) Solaris
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (34.40%) CI/CD
2 166 (31.20%) DevOps
3 139 (26.13%) Agile
4 128 (24.06%) Software Engineering
5 126 (23.68%) AI
6 101 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 95 (17.86%) Microservices
8 92 (17.29%) Mentoring
9 83 (15.60%) Full-Stack Development
10 74 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 69 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
12 65 (12.22%) TDD
13 61 (11.47%) Test Automation
14 55 (10.34%) Observability
15 54 (10.15%) Decision-Making
16 53 (9.96%) Containerisation
17 52 (9.77%) Platform Engineering
18 51 (9.59%) Machine Learning
19 50 (9.40%) Roadmaps
20 49 (9.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 177 (33.27%) Python
2 111 (20.86%) SQL
3 103 (19.36%) Java
4 71 (13.35%) JavaScript
5 70 (13.16%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.58%) C#
7 21 (3.95%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.01%) Go
9 14 (2.63%) Bash
9 14 (2.63%) Ruby
9 14 (2.63%) Scala
10 13 (2.44%) PHP
11 7 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.56%) C
12 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.38%) R
13 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.19%) C++
14 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.65%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.70%) Degree
5 23 (4.32%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.75%) CISA
11 4 (0.75%) CISM
11 4 (0.75%) CISSP
11 4 (0.75%) CRISC
12 3 (0.56%) MBA
13 2 (0.38%) CCIE
13 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.19%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.76%) PCI DSS
4 16 (3.01%) QA
5 12 (2.26%) GDPR
6 11 (2.07%) NIST
7 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.75%) WCAG
8 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 84 (15.79%) Docker
2 17 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.69%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.75%) Firmware
7 3 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.38%) vSphere
9 1 (0.19%) KVM
Systems Management
1 128 (24.06%) Terraform
2 98 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 38 (7.14%) Ansible
4 12 (2.26%) Grafana
4 12 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.13%) Puppet
6 5 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.56%) Argo
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.38%) Istio
9 2 (0.38%) linkerd
9 2 (0.38%) Packer
9 2 (0.38%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.19%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.19%) Nagios
10 1 (0.19%) Rancher
10 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.26%) Adobe
3 19 (3.57%) Google
4 18 (3.38%) Splunk
4 18 (3.38%) VMware
5 17 (3.20%) Apple
6 15 (2.82%) Databricks
7 12 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.88%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.32%) Cisco
9 7 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.94%) Okta
11 5 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.94%) Pega
12 3 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.56%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.38%) WSO2
13 2 (0.38%) Zscaler