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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 14 | 6 | 10 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -8 | +4 | -4 |
| Permanent jobs citing AWS | 608 | 377 | 502 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester | 7.85% | 16.46% | 13.08% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 31.77% | 44.51% | 37.69% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 427 | 206 | 241 |
| 10th Percentile | £50,000 | £37,500 | £43,750 |
| 25th Percentile | £58,750 | £55,000 | £51,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £75,000 | £65,000 | £62,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +15.38% | +4.00% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £90,000 | £80,000 | £73,750 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £90,625 | £85,000 |
| North West median annual salary | £72,500 | £65,000 | £60,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +11.54% | +8.33% | - |
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.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 1,914 | 847 | 1,332 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester | 24.72% | 36.99% | 34.71% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 1,413 | 568 | 736 |
| 10th Percentile | £35,000 | £29,500 | £35,750 |
| 25th Percentile | £46,250 | £40,000 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £65,000 | £60,000 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +8.33% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £80,000 | £75,000 | £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 Salary Trend in Manchester
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 16 October 2026.
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 16 October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockport | 0 | 10 | £70,000 | - | 4 |
| Salford | -17 | 9 | £100,000 | +35.50% | 7 |
| Altrincham | -4 | 8 | £65,000 | - | 10 |
| Cheadle | -5 | 6 | £63,750 | - | 6 |
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AWS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure | 30.1% | 183 |
| 2 | GCP | 16.1% | 98 |
| 3 | SaaS | 13.7% | 83 |
| 4 | Serverless | 12.2% | 74 |
| 5 | GitHub | 10.9% | 66 |
| 6 | AWS Lambda | 8.4% | 51 |
| 7 | Amazon S3 | 6.6% | 40 |
| 8 | AWS CloudFormation | 5.4% | 33 |
| 9 | Amazon ECS | 3.9% | 24 |
| 10 | dbt | 3.0% | 18 |
| 11 | Azure DevOps | 2.8% | 17 |
| 12 | Datadog | 2.6% | 16 |
| 12 | Microsoft 365 | 2.6% | 16 |
| 14 | Amazon EKS | 2.5% | 15 |
| 14 | GitHub Copilot | 2.5% | 15 |
| 14 | Route 53 | 2.5% | 15 |
| 17 | GitHub Actions | 2.3% | 14 |
| 18 | Amazon CloudWatch | 2.0% | 12 |
| 18 | PaaS | 2.0% | 12 |
| 20 | OpenShift | 1.8% | 11 |