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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 604 397 513
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.10% 16.74% 12.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.46% 46.43% 36.03%
Number of salaries quoted 439 216 244
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £89,500 £77,500 £73,784
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -

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 1,920 855 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.73% 36.06% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 569 833
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,800
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 8 £65,000 - 15
Stockport 0 7 £70,000 - 5
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -21 6 £100,000 +44.13% 25
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 19 (3.15%) Apache
2 16 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.49%) Confluence
4 9 (1.49%) IIS
5 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.99%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 198 (32.78%) Azure
2 102 (16.89%) GCP
3 85 (14.07%) SaaS
4 81 (13.41%) Serverless
5 64 (10.60%) GitHub
6 53 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (6.95%) Amazon S3
8 33 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (3.31%) Datadog
11 19 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.81%) dbt
12 17 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (2.48%) Route 53
15 14 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (1.99%) OpenShift
16 12 (1.99%) Snowflake
16 12 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.97%) DNS
2 23 (3.81%) Firewall
3 20 (3.31%) DHCP
4 15 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.32%) VPN
6 9 (1.49%) Network Security
7 8 (1.32%) LAN
7 8 (1.32%) SAN
8 6 (0.99%) WAN
9 5 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.83%) VLAN
10 3 (0.50%) AMQP
10 3 (0.50%) IPsec
10 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.50%) VSAN
11 2 (0.33%) BGP
11 2 (0.33%) DMZ
11 2 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.47%) MongoDB
1 27 (4.47%) NoSQL
2 23 (3.81%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (2.98%) DynamoDB
5 18 (2.98%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.66%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.66%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.16%) MySQL
11 6 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.99%) Big Data
11 6 (0.99%) Neo4j
11 6 (0.99%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.83%) Redis
13 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (8.94%) Git
2 34 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 27 (4.47%) GitLab
4 16 (2.65%) JIRA
5 13 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.82%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.82%) Maven
7 9 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (1.32%) Storybook
9 6 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.66%) Postman
10 4 (0.66%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.66%) Vite
11 3 (0.50%) Selenium
12 2 (0.33%) Mocha
12 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.33%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 124 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 49 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (7.95%) Finance
4 34 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 30 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (2.98%) Legal
7 17 (2.81%) Publishing
8 16 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.65%) Retail
9 13 (2.15%) Aviation
10 12 (1.99%) Marketing
11 11 (1.82%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.82%) Law
12 8 (1.32%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.83%) Banking
14 5 (0.83%) Billing
15 4 (0.66%) iGaming
15 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 147 (24.34%) Senior
2 89 (14.74%) Architect
3 81 (13.41%) Software Engineer
4 73 (12.09%) Developer
5 59 (9.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 57 (9.44%) Data Engineer
7 55 (9.11%) Lead
8 54 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
9 40 (6.62%) Senior Developer
9 40 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 40 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (6.46%) AWS Architect
10 39 (6.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (4.47%) Analyst
11 27 (4.47%) AWS Solution Architect
12 21 (3.48%) Security Engineer
13 19 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (2.98%) Java Engineer
14 18 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (20.70%) Terraform
2 80 (13.25%) React
3 60 (9.93%) Node.js
4 45 (7.45%) .NET
5 43 (7.12%) AngularJS
6 41 (6.79%) Spring
7 40 (6.62%) Spring Boot
8 35 (5.79%) Kafka
9 26 (4.30%) REST
10 25 (4.14%) Vue
11 21 (3.48%) FastAPI
12 19 (3.15%) CSS
12 19 (3.15%) Next.js
13 16 (2.65%) HTML
13 16 (2.65%) PySpark
13 16 (2.65%) React Native
14 14 (2.32%) LangChain
14 14 (2.32%) RESTful
14 14 (2.32%) Ruby on Rails
15 12 (1.99%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 142 (23.51%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (3.97%) Onboarding
3 24 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.48%) AI Agents
5 15 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.99%) Marketing Technology
7 11 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.16%) Media Streaming
11 7 (1.16%) Podcast
11 7 (1.16%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.99%) Driving Licence
12 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.30%) Linux
2 27 (4.47%) Windows
3 16 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.82%) CentOS
4 11 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.83%) Unix
7 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.50%) Debian
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.33%) Android
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (33.11%) CI/CD
2 169 (27.98%) DevOps
3 162 (26.82%) Software Engineering
4 150 (24.83%) AI
5 147 (24.34%) Agile
6 114 (18.87%) Mentoring
7 112 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 103 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 92 (15.23%) Microservices
10 91 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
11 76 (12.58%) Observability
12 71 (11.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 70 (11.59%) Test Automation
14 66 (10.93%) Roadmaps
14 66 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 65 (10.76%) Containerisation
16 64 (10.60%) Collaborative Culture
17 62 (10.26%) Machine Learning
18 59 (9.77%) Decision-Making
19 54 (8.94%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 191 (31.62%) Python
2 120 (19.87%) SQL
3 105 (17.38%) Java
4 77 (12.75%) TypeScript
5 64 (10.60%) JavaScript
6 32 (5.30%) C#
7 24 (3.97%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.64%) Bash
9 19 (3.15%) Go
10 15 (2.48%) Ruby
10 15 (2.48%) Scala
11 6 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.99%) PHP
12 4 (0.66%) C++
12 4 (0.66%) Rust
13 3 (0.50%) C
14 2 (0.33%) Swift
15 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.62%) Degree
4 35 (5.79%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.14%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.99%) CISM
10 4 (0.66%) CISA
10 4 (0.66%) CISSP
10 4 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.66%) CRISC
10 4 (0.66%) MBA
10 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.33%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.33%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.31%) PCI DSS
4 19 (3.15%) QA
5 15 (2.48%) GDPR
6 14 (2.32%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.82%) NIST
8 8 (1.32%) WCAG
9 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (15.07%) Docker
2 20 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.98%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.99%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.32%) Firmware
6 7 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) UAG
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.12%) Ansible
3 14 (2.32%) Grafana
3 14 (2.32%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.66%) Puppet
5 8 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.66%) Argo
8 4 (0.66%) Nessus
9 3 (0.50%) Istio
9 3 (0.50%) linkerd
9 3 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.50%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.33%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.33%) Packer
10 2 (0.33%) SCCM
10 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.30%) Adobe
2 32 (5.30%) Google
3 23 (3.81%) Databricks
3 23 (3.81%) VMware
4 20 (3.31%) Splunk
5 19 (3.15%) Apple
6 12 (1.99%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.49%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.32%) Cisco
8 8 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.16%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.83%) Okta
11 4 (0.66%) F5
11 4 (0.66%) Mistral
12 3 (0.50%) McAfee
12 3 (0.50%) New Relic
12 3 (0.50%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.50%) YouTube