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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 312 352 582
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.40% 17.20% 12.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.88% 39.42% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 243 272 484
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,025 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £64,374
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +0.97% +5.53%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% +0.45%

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 1,426 893 1,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.82% 43.62% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 801 658 1,539
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.06% -0.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £86,250
North West median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -7 10 £70,039 +1.06% 3
Altrincham -10 6 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Bolton +22 3 £31,500 - 4
Stockport -9 1 £60,000 -20.00% 2
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 7 (2.24%) Apache
1 7 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.92%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.92%) WordPress
3 4 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.96%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.96%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.96%) nginx
5 2 (0.64%) CICS
5 2 (0.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.64%) JBoss
5 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.32%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (3.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 146 (46.79%) Azure
2 54 (17.31%) GCP
3 38 (12.18%) Serverless
4 32 (10.26%) GitHub
5 24 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (6.09%) SaaS
7 15 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (2.56%) dbt
11 7 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.24%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.28%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.73%) Internet
2 8 (2.56%) DNS
3 7 (2.24%) SSL
4 6 (1.92%) Firewall
4 6 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.60%) HTTP
6 4 (1.28%) AMQP
7 2 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.64%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.64%) SSH
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) LAN
8 1 (0.32%) Network Security
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
8 1 (0.32%) VSAN
8 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 18 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (4.17%) MySQL
4 13 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.24%) Neo4j
6 6 (1.92%) Big Data
6 6 (1.92%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.92%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.60%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.28%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.96%) DocumentDB
9 3 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.96%) GIS
9 3 (0.96%) QGIS
9 3 (0.96%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (16.67%) Git
2 13 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.21%) GitLab
4 7 (2.24%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (1.92%) Claude Code
6 5 (1.60%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.96%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.96%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.64%) JIRA
8 2 (0.64%) Subversion
8 2 (0.64%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.32%) JMeter
9 1 (0.32%) Locust
9 1 (0.32%) PyCharm
General
1 48 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.50%) Finance
3 21 (6.73%) Multimedia
3 21 (6.73%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.21%) Retail
7 9 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.56%) Marketing
9 7 (2.24%) Banking
9 7 (2.24%) Legal
10 6 (1.92%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.60%) Electronics
12 4 (1.28%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.28%) Games
13 3 (0.96%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (24.04%) Senior
2 66 (21.15%) Software Engineer
3 62 (19.87%) Developer
4 39 (12.50%) Lead
5 35 (11.22%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (8.65%) Trainee
7 26 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (6.73%) Java Developer
10 19 (6.09%) Senior Developer
11 18 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (5.45%) Architect
12 17 (5.45%) Python Engineer
13 16 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
14 14 (4.49%) Java Engineer
14 14 (4.49%) Software Developer
15 13 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.53%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (17.31%) React
2 40 (12.82%) Node.js
3 35 (11.22%) CSS
4 34 (10.90%) HTML
5 33 (10.58%) .NET
6 32 (10.26%) Spring
7 31 (9.94%) Spring Boot
8 25 (8.01%) REST
9 23 (7.37%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.13%) RESTful
11 13 (4.17%) Django
12 10 (3.21%) Vue
13 9 (2.88%) FastAPI
14 8 (2.56%) OAuth
14 8 (2.56%) OAuth2
14 8 (2.56%) Pandas
14 8 (2.56%) scikit-learn
15 7 (2.24%) Laravel
15 7 (2.24%) NumPy
15 7 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.24%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.28%) IoT
8 3 (0.96%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.64%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.64%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.64%) NHS
9 2 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.29%) Linux
2 15 (4.81%) Windows
3 6 (1.92%) CentOS
3 6 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.28%) Debian
5 4 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.96%) Unix
6 3 (0.96%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (30.45%) Agile
1 95 (30.45%) CI/CD
1 95 (30.45%) Software Engineering
2 92 (29.49%) DevOps
3 72 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 57 (18.27%) Microservices
5 53 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (16.35%) TDD
7 50 (16.03%) AI
8 46 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (14.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 44 (14.10%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (11.54%) Scrum
12 32 (10.26%) Collaborative Culture
12 32 (10.26%) Containerisation
13 29 (9.29%) Clean Code
14 27 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (8.01%) Observability
15 25 (8.01%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (34.62%) Python
2 80 (25.64%) Java
3 76 (24.36%) JavaScript
4 42 (13.46%) SQL
5 39 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.05%) C#
6 22 (7.05%) PHP
7 12 (3.85%) R
8 6 (1.92%) C
8 6 (1.92%) Go
8 6 (1.92%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.64%) Bash
11 2 (0.64%) Scala
11 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) Bicep
12 1 (0.32%) C++
Qualifications
1 42 (13.46%) AWS Certification
1 42 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 24 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 21 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (4.81%) Degree
7 14 (4.49%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.96%) MBA
9 3 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CISM
10 1 (0.32%) CISSP
10 1 (0.32%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.56%) PCI DSS
2 6 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.92%) QA
3 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.96%) NIST
5 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.64%) HL7
6 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (15.71%) Docker
2 5 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (1.60%) VMware NSX
2 5 (1.60%) vSphere
3 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (20.51%) Terraform
2 52 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.33%) Ansible
4 8 (2.56%) Grafana
5 6 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.28%) Puppet
7 3 (0.96%) cPanel
7 3 (0.96%) Nagios
7 3 (0.96%) Plesk
7 3 (0.96%) Rancher
7 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.64%) Packer
8 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.32%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.32%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 39 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.41%) Adobe
3 9 (2.88%) Apple
4 8 (2.56%) Google
4 8 (2.56%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.56%) Splunk
5 7 (2.24%) VMware
6 6 (1.92%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.60%) Pega
7 5 (1.60%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.28%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.96%) Oracle
9 3 (0.96%) SAP
10 2 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.64%) Databricks
10 2 (0.64%) New Relic
10 2 (0.64%) WSO2
11 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.32%) Informatica
11 1 (0.32%) Spotify