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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -8
Permanent jobs citing AWS 570 443 605
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.60% 17.61% 12.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.58% 46.05% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 435 249 367
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £45,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 1,864 962 1,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.13% 38.24% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,452 629 1,239
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,840 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +3.60% -3.48%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 9 £65,000 - 4
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -19 5 £70,000 +3.51% 3
Bolton +14 1 £31,500 - 5
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 (2.46%) Apache
1 14 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.58%) IIS
5 8 (1.40%) Confluence
6 7 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.70%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.53%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.53%) nginx
10 2 (0.35%) CICS
10 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.35%) WordPress
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.18%) JBoss
11 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.11%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 200 (35.09%) Azure
2 99 (17.37%) GCP
3 72 (12.63%) Serverless
4 67 (11.75%) SaaS
5 58 (10.18%) GitHub
6 38 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 38 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (2.98%) dbt
12 16 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.28%) Anthropic Claude
15 11 (1.93%) Datadog
15 11 (1.93%) PaaS
15 11 (1.93%) Pulumi
16 10 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.75%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.39%) Firewall
2 24 (4.21%) DNS
3 18 (3.16%) DHCP
4 17 (2.98%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.46%) VPN
6 9 (1.58%) Network Security
7 8 (1.40%) LAN
8 7 (1.23%) SAN
9 6 (1.05%) WAN
10 5 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.88%) VLAN
11 3 (0.53%) IPsec
11 3 (0.53%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.53%) VSAN
12 2 (0.35%) AMQP
12 2 (0.35%) BGP
12 2 (0.35%) DMZ
12 2 (0.35%) Internet
12 2 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.74%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.56%) NoSQL
3 25 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 23 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.28%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.11%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.40%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.23%) MySQL
12 7 (1.23%) Neo4j
12 7 (1.23%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.88%) Big Data
14 5 (0.88%) Power BI
14 5 (0.88%) Redis
15 4 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 57 (10.00%) Git
2 36 (6.32%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.86%) GitLab
4 13 (2.28%) Bitbucket
4 13 (2.28%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.28%) JIRA
5 10 (1.75%) Maven
6 9 (1.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (1.40%) Storybook
8 5 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.70%) Postman
9 4 (0.70%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.70%) Vite
10 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.53%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.53%) Selenium
11 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.18%) PyCharm
General
1 101 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 57 (10.00%) Finance
3 41 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.28%) Retail
8 12 (2.11%) Marketing
9 11 (1.93%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.75%) Banking
10 10 (1.75%) Publishing
11 9 (1.58%) Law
11 9 (1.58%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.05%) Legal
12 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.70%) Aviation
14 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.35%) Advertising
15 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 149 (26.14%) Senior
2 78 (13.68%) Architect
3 75 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 74 (12.98%) Developer
5 64 (11.23%) AWS Engineer
6 58 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 56 (9.82%) Lead
8 52 (9.12%) Data Engineer
9 45 (7.89%) Senior Developer
10 43 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (5.44%) AWS Architect
14 24 (4.21%) AWS Solution Architect
15 22 (3.86%) Analyst
15 22 (3.86%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (3.68%) Java Engineer
17 20 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
17 20 (3.51%) Java Developer
18 19 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.33%) React
2 68 (11.93%) Node.js
3 49 (8.60%) .NET
4 44 (7.72%) AngularJS
5 35 (6.14%) Spring
5 35 (6.14%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.56%) Kafka
7 25 (4.39%) REST
7 25 (4.39%) Vue
8 24 (4.21%) CSS
9 23 (4.04%) FastAPI
10 22 (3.86%) HTML
11 20 (3.51%) Next.js
12 17 (2.98%) RESTful
13 16 (2.81%) React Native
14 15 (2.63%) OAuth
14 15 (2.63%) PySpark
15 14 (2.46%) LangChain
15 14 (2.46%) Ruby on Rails
16 13 (2.28%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 117 (20.53%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 18 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.81%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.88%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (0.88%) Social Media
12 4 (0.70%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.39%) Linux
2 23 (4.04%) Windows
3 16 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.75%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.58%) CentOS
6 8 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.53%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.53%) Unix
7 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.35%) Android
8 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.35%) Debian
9 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (33.86%) CI/CD
2 174 (30.53%) DevOps
3 141 (24.74%) Agile
3 141 (24.74%) AI
4 136 (23.86%) Software Engineering
5 101 (17.72%) Mentoring
6 100 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 90 (15.79%) Microservices
8 86 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 71 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
11 69 (12.11%) Test Automation
12 60 (10.53%) Decision-Making
13 59 (10.35%) Observability
13 59 (10.35%) TDD
14 58 (10.18%) Machine Learning
15 57 (10.00%) Roadmaps
16 53 (9.30%) Collaborative Culture
16 53 (9.30%) Containerisation
16 53 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 193 (33.86%) Python
2 119 (20.88%) SQL
3 100 (17.54%) Java
4 69 (12.11%) TypeScript
5 68 (11.93%) JavaScript
6 35 (6.14%) C#
7 23 (4.04%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.33%) Bash
9 18 (3.16%) Go
10 15 (2.63%) Scala
11 14 (2.46%) Ruby
12 8 (1.40%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.40%) PHP
13 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.35%) R
14 2 (0.35%) Swift
14 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.18%) C++
15 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.61%) Degree
4 31 (5.44%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.70%) CISA
10 4 (0.70%) CISM
10 4 (0.70%) CISSP
10 4 (0.70%) CRISC
10 4 (0.70%) MBA
11 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.35%) CCIE
12 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.14%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 18 (3.16%) QA
5 14 (2.46%) GDPR
6 11 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.93%) NIST
7 8 (1.40%) WCAG
8 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 85 (14.91%) Docker
2 17 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.23%) Firmware
5 7 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) NFS
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (22.11%) Terraform
2 97 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 37 (6.49%) Ansible
4 12 (2.11%) Grafana
4 12 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.40%) Puppet
6 6 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.53%) Argo
8 3 (0.53%) Istio
8 3 (0.53%) linkerd
8 3 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (0.53%) Nessus
8 3 (0.53%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.35%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.18%) Nagios
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.61%) Adobe
3 24 (4.21%) Google
4 20 (3.51%) VMware
5 19 (3.33%) Apple
6 18 (3.16%) Databricks
6 18 (3.16%) Splunk
7 12 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.40%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.40%) Cisco
8 8 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.88%) Okta
10 5 (0.88%) Pega
11 3 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.53%) McAfee
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle
12 2 (0.35%) SaltStack