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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 540 452 638
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.36% 18.09% 12.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.62% 46.89% 33.79%
Number of salaries quoted 421 256 408
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £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 £75,193
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 1,823 964 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.22% 38.58% 37.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,430 623 1,392
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% +3.00% -2.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,756 £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 23 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 23 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 -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -17 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +14 1 £31,500 - 3
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 12 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 12 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.04%) Apache
2 11 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.48%) Confluence
3 8 (1.48%) IIS
4 7 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.74%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.56%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.56%) nginx
8 2 (0.37%) CICS
8 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.22%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 194 (35.93%) Azure
2 95 (17.59%) GCP
3 68 (12.59%) Serverless
4 62 (11.48%) SaaS
5 51 (9.44%) GitHub
6 37 (6.85%) Amazon S3
7 33 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (3.89%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.41%) Anthropic Claude
13 12 (2.22%) dbt
14 11 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.04%) Pulumi
15 10 (1.85%) PaaS
16 9 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.67%) npm
16 9 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.63%) Firewall
2 21 (3.89%) DNS
3 16 (2.96%) DHCP
4 14 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.59%) VPN
5 9 (1.67%) Network Security
6 6 (1.11%) LAN
7 5 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.93%) SAN
7 5 (0.93%) VLAN
8 4 (0.74%) WAN
9 3 (0.56%) IPsec
9 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.37%) AMQP
10 2 (0.37%) BGP
10 2 (0.37%) DMZ
10 2 (0.37%) Internet
10 2 (0.37%) SSL
11 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.81%) MongoDB
2 25 (4.63%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.07%) Relational Database
3 22 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.04%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.67%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.48%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.30%) MySQL
10 7 (1.30%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.30%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.93%) Big Data
12 5 (0.93%) Power BI
12 5 (0.93%) Redis
13 4 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 51 (9.44%) Git
2 34 (6.30%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.89%) GitLab
4 13 (2.41%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.41%) JIRA
5 12 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.67%) Maven
6 9 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (1.30%) Storybook
9 5 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.74%) Postman
10 4 (0.74%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.74%) Vite
11 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.56%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.56%) Selenium
12 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 89 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.37%) Finance
3 35 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.22%) Marketing
8 11 (2.04%) Health Technology
8 11 (2.04%) Retail
9 9 (1.67%) Banking
9 9 (1.67%) Retail Banking
10 8 (1.48%) Publishing
11 7 (1.30%) Law
11 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.56%) Legal
13 2 (0.37%) Advertising
13 2 (0.37%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.37%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 144 (26.67%) Senior
2 74 (13.70%) Software Engineer
3 73 (13.52%) Architect
3 73 (13.52%) Developer
4 62 (11.48%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (10.56%) Lead
6 53 (9.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.89%) Data Engineer
8 44 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 43 (7.96%) Senior Developer
10 36 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
11 32 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
12 30 (5.56%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.26%) AWS Solution Architect
14 21 (3.89%) Analyst
14 21 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.89%) Java Engineer
14 21 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (3.70%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (13.89%) React
2 69 (12.78%) Node.js
3 48 (8.89%) .NET
4 41 (7.59%) AngularJS
5 37 (6.85%) Spring
5 37 (6.85%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.81%) Kafka
7 25 (4.63%) Vue
8 23 (4.26%) CSS
8 23 (4.26%) FastAPI
8 23 (4.26%) REST
9 21 (3.89%) HTML
10 20 (3.70%) Next.js
11 16 (2.96%) OAuth
11 16 (2.96%) RESTful
12 15 (2.78%) React Native
13 14 (2.59%) LangChain
13 14 (2.59%) Pandas
13 14 (2.59%) PySpark
13 14 (2.59%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 105 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.96%) Mobile App
5 15 (2.78%) AI Agents
6 13 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.74%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.74%) IVR
13 4 (0.74%) Life Science
13 4 (0.74%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.70%) Linux
2 19 (3.52%) Windows
3 13 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.67%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.30%) CentOS
6 6 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.37%) Debian
8 2 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) Android
9 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
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
1 188 (34.81%) CI/CD
2 171 (31.67%) DevOps
3 136 (25.19%) Agile
4 132 (24.44%) AI
5 125 (23.15%) Software Engineering
6 97 (17.96%) Mentoring
7 96 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 92 (17.04%) Microservices
9 80 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 68 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (12.22%) Test Automation
13 62 (11.48%) TDD
14 57 (10.56%) Decision-Making
15 54 (10.00%) Observability
16 53 (9.81%) Containerisation
16 53 (9.81%) Machine Learning
16 53 (9.81%) Platform Engineering
17 51 (9.44%) Roadmaps
18 48 (8.89%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 180 (33.33%) Python
2 112 (20.74%) SQL
3 100 (18.52%) Java
4 67 (12.41%) JavaScript
4 67 (12.41%) TypeScript
5 34 (6.30%) C#
6 21 (3.89%) PowerShell
7 15 (2.78%) Bash
7 15 (2.78%) Go
8 14 (2.59%) Ruby
8 14 (2.59%) Scala
9 9 (1.67%) PHP
10 8 (1.48%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.37%) C
12 2 (0.37%) R
12 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.19%) C++
13 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 80 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 64 (11.85%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.37%) AWS Certification
4 27 (5.00%) Degree
5 22 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.74%) CISA
11 4 (0.74%) CISM
11 4 (0.74%) CISSP
11 4 (0.74%) CRISC
11 4 (0.74%) MBA
12 2 (0.37%) CCIE
12 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.19%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.70%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.96%) QA
5 14 (2.59%) GDPR
6 11 (2.04%) NIST
7 9 (1.67%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.30%) WCAG
9 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 83 (15.37%) Docker
2 16 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.11%) Firmware
5 5 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) KVM
6 1 (0.19%) NFS
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (22.78%) Terraform
2 95 (17.59%) Kubernetes
3 35 (6.48%) Ansible
4 12 (2.22%) Grafana
4 12 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (1.11%) Puppet
6 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.56%) Argo
7 3 (0.56%) Istio
7 3 (0.56%) linkerd
8 2 (0.37%) Nessus
8 2 (0.37%) Packer
8 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
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%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 64 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.74%) Adobe
3 20 (3.70%) Google
4 18 (3.33%) Apple
4 18 (3.33%) Splunk
4 18 (3.33%) VMware
5 15 (2.78%) Databricks
6 12 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.48%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.48%) Cisco
8 7 (1.30%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.30%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.93%) Okta
9 5 (0.93%) Pega
9 5 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.37%) F5
11 2 (0.37%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.37%) Zscaler