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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 285 356 493
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.37% 14.08% 13.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.69% 35.46% 34.99%
Number of salaries quoted 230 231 416
10th Percentile £29,975 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year - +7.00% -0.41%
75th Percentile £83,438 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% -1.64%

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 1,256 1,004 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 36.87% 39.72% 39.19%
Number of salaries quoted 687 591 1,249
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,750 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £56,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.18% +4.76% -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 13 February 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 13 February 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
Salford -2 6 £71,940 +3.80% 9
Bolton +18 3 £31,500 - 2
Altrincham -14 3 £67,500 +28.57% 2
Stockport -11 1 £60,000 -20.00% 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 9 (3.16%) Apache
2 8 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.40%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.40%) WordPress
4 3 (1.05%) JBoss
4 3 (1.05%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.70%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) WinCC
Applications
1 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.51%) Magento
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 151 (52.98%) Azure
2 51 (17.89%) GCP
3 29 (10.18%) GitHub
4 28 (9.82%) Serverless
5 18 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.96%) SaaS
7 14 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.51%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.81%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.11%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (2.11%) dbt
14 5 (1.75%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.07%) Internet
2 7 (2.46%) SSL
3 6 (2.11%) DNS
3 6 (2.11%) Firewall
4 5 (1.75%) HTTP
5 4 (1.40%) AMQP
6 3 (1.05%) SSH
6 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.35%) DHCP
8 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Network Security
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) VSAN
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 19 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 18 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.56%) MySQL
4 12 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.81%) Big Data
5 8 (2.81%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.46%) Hadoop
6 7 (2.46%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.11%) Neo4j
8 4 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.40%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.05%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.70%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 46 (16.14%) Git
2 9 (3.16%) GitLab
2 9 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.05%) JIRA
6 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.70%) Maven
6 2 (0.70%) Subversion
6 2 (0.70%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Locust
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.53%) Finance
3 23 (8.07%) Multimedia
4 21 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.86%) Marketing
8 8 (2.81%) Legal
8 8 (2.81%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.81%) Retail
9 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.75%) Electronics
10 4 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.40%) Games
10 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.05%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 61 (21.40%) Senior
2 60 (21.05%) Developer
3 55 (19.30%) Software Engineer
4 33 (11.58%) Lead
5 27 (9.47%) Trainee
6 24 (8.42%) Architect
7 23 (8.07%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (5.61%) Analyst
9 15 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.56%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.56%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.86%) AWS Architect
13 11 (3.86%) Data Engineer
13 11 (3.86%) Trainee Developer
13 11 (3.86%) Trainee Software Developer
14 10 (3.51%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (18.95%) React
2 37 (12.98%) .NET
2 37 (12.98%) CSS
3 36 (12.63%) HTML
4 29 (10.18%) Node.js
5 26 (9.12%) AngularJS
5 26 (9.12%) Spring
6 24 (8.42%) Spring Boot
7 23 (8.07%) REST
8 16 (5.61%) RESTful
9 11 (3.86%) Vue
10 10 (3.51%) Django
11 8 (2.81%) Hibernate
11 8 (2.81%) OAuth
12 7 (2.46%) FastAPI
12 7 (2.46%) Kafka
12 7 (2.46%) Laravel
12 7 (2.46%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.39%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.91%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.56%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.46%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.40%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.40%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.40%) IoT
11 3 (1.05%) Clustering
11 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.18%) Linux
2 16 (5.61%) Windows
3 7 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.11%) CentOS
4 6 (2.11%) Debian
4 6 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.05%) VMS
7 2 (0.70%) Unix
8 1 (0.35%) Android
8 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (29.47%) CI/CD
2 83 (29.12%) Software Engineering
3 82 (28.77%) Agile
4 70 (24.56%) Mentoring
5 66 (23.16%) DevOps
6 61 (21.40%) Microservices
7 48 (16.84%) Cybersecurity
7 48 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (15.09%) AI
10 39 (13.68%) Containerisation
10 39 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (13.68%) TDD
11 38 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (8.42%) Coaching
13 23 (8.07%) Clean Code
13 23 (8.07%) Collaborative Culture
14 22 (7.72%) Scrum
14 22 (7.72%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (7.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 91 (31.93%) Python
2 71 (24.91%) JavaScript
3 61 (21.40%) Java
4 37 (12.98%) SQL
5 34 (11.93%) TypeScript
6 32 (11.23%) C#
7 21 (7.37%) PHP
8 12 (4.21%) R
9 6 (2.11%) C
9 6 (2.11%) Go
9 6 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.75%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.40%) Bash
11 4 (1.40%) Scala
12 3 (1.05%) Rust
13 1 (0.35%) Bicep
13 1 (0.35%) Groovy
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (15.09%) AWS Certification
2 37 (12.98%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 27 (9.47%) Azure Certification
4 25 (8.77%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.56%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.51%) Degree
8 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.05%) MBA
9 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.46%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.11%) QA
3 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.05%) HL7
5 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (15.79%) Docker
2 7 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.40%) vSphere
6 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.35%) HDFS
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 45 (15.79%) Terraform
3 27 (9.47%) Ansible
4 10 (3.51%) Grafana
5 8 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.46%) Puppet
7 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.05%) cPanel
8 3 (1.05%) Nagios
8 3 (1.05%) Plesk
8 3 (1.05%) Rancher
8 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.70%) Packer
10 1 (0.35%) AssetCenter
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.35%) SCCM
10 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 49 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.37%) Adobe
3 10 (3.51%) Splunk
4 9 (3.16%) Apple
5 8 (2.81%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.46%) Google
6 7 (2.46%) Oracle
6 7 (2.46%) VMware
7 6 (2.11%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.75%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.40%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.40%) SAP
10 3 (1.05%) Informatica
11 2 (0.70%) Databricks
11 2 (0.70%) Dell
11 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.70%) New Relic
11 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.70%) SnapLogic
12 1 (0.35%) Spotify