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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 606 383 505
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.92% 16.13% 12.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.51% 45.11% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 426 208 237
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,375 £43,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,915 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.25% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,375 £85,000
North West median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.76% +8.33% -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 1,923 849 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.13% 35.75% 35.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,424 568 791
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,750
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 £81,250 £73,877 £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 2 October 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 2 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
Altrincham -3 8 £65,000 - 14
Stockport -3 8 £70,000 - 4
Salford -16 7 £100,000 +44.13% 8
Cheadle -5 6 £63,750 - 6
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 (3.14%) Apache
2 16 (2.64%) 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 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.98%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 193 (31.85%) Azure
2 99 (16.34%) GCP
3 85 (14.03%) SaaS
4 76 (12.54%) Serverless
5 66 (10.89%) GitHub
6 51 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (6.44%) Amazon S3
8 34 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (3.30%) Datadog
11 19 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.81%) dbt
12 17 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (2.48%) Route 53
14 14 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
15 12 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (1.98%) OpenShift
15 12 (1.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.13%) DNS
2 21 (3.47%) Firewall
3 20 (3.30%) DHCP
4 15 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.31%) 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%) VLAN
10 3 (0.50%) AMQP
10 3 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
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 (4.46%) MongoDB
2 24 (3.96%) NoSQL
3 22 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (3.63%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (2.97%) DynamoDB
5 18 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.65%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.32%) MySQL
11 7 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.99%) Big Data
12 6 (0.99%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.83%) Chroma
13 5 (0.83%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.83%) Pinecone
13 5 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (9.24%) Git
2 36 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.28%) GitLab
4 16 (2.64%) JIRA
5 13 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.82%) Maven
7 10 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.49%) Claude Code
9 8 (1.32%) Storybook
10 6 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.66%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.66%) Postman
11 4 (0.66%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.66%) Vagrant
11 4 (0.66%) Vite
12 3 (0.50%) Selenium
12 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.33%) Mocha
13 2 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 130 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 48 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (7.26%) Finance
4 33 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (3.63%) Publishing
7 21 (3.47%) Legal
8 16 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.48%) Retail
10 13 (2.15%) Aviation
11 12 (1.98%) Marketing
12 11 (1.82%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.82%) Law
13 8 (1.32%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.99%) Billing
16 4 (0.66%) iGaming
17 3 (0.50%) Banking
17 3 (0.50%) Games
18 2 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 151 (24.92%) Senior
2 84 (13.86%) Architect
3 83 (13.70%) Software Engineer
4 72 (11.88%) Developer
5 62 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
6 58 (9.57%) Data Engineer
7 57 (9.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (8.42%) Lead
9 48 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 43 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
12 37 (6.11%) Senior Developer
13 34 (5.61%) AWS Architect
14 28 (4.62%) Analyst
15 25 (4.13%) AWS Solution Architect
16 22 (3.63%) Security Engineer
17 19 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
17 19 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
18 18 (2.97%) Java Engineer
18 18 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (20.30%) Terraform
2 85 (14.03%) React
3 57 (9.41%) Node.js
4 45 (7.43%) Spring
5 44 (7.26%) Spring Boot
6 42 (6.93%) .NET
6 42 (6.93%) AngularJS
7 40 (6.60%) Kafka
8 25 (4.13%) Vue
9 23 (3.80%) REST
10 22 (3.63%) FastAPI
11 19 (3.14%) Next.js
12 18 (2.97%) CSS
13 16 (2.64%) HTML
13 16 (2.64%) LangChain
13 16 (2.64%) React Native
14 14 (2.31%) PySpark
14 14 (2.31%) RESTful
14 14 (2.31%) Ruby on Rails
15 13 (2.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 147 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.13%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.80%) AI Agents
4 23 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
6 12 (1.98%) Media Streaming
6 12 (1.98%) Podcast
7 10 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.32%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.99%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (0.99%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.94%) Linux
2 28 (4.62%) Windows
3 16 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.98%) CentOS
5 11 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.16%) 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
1 204 (33.66%) CI/CD
2 176 (29.04%) DevOps
3 167 (27.56%) Software Engineering
4 161 (26.57%) AI
5 152 (25.08%) Agile
6 120 (19.80%) Mentoring
7 119 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 106 (17.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 97 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (15.68%) Microservices
11 81 (13.37%) Observability
12 71 (11.72%) Containerisation
12 71 (11.72%) Test Automation
13 69 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 67 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
15 65 (10.73%) Roadmaps
16 61 (10.07%) Machine Learning
17 59 (9.74%) Collaborative Culture
18 58 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
19 57 (9.41%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 190 (31.35%) Python
2 115 (18.98%) SQL
3 107 (17.66%) Java
4 84 (13.86%) TypeScript
5 62 (10.23%) JavaScript
6 29 (4.79%) C#
7 27 (4.46%) PowerShell
8 26 (4.29%) Bash
9 21 (3.47%) Go
10 15 (2.48%) Ruby
10 15 (2.48%) Scala
11 6 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.83%) PHP
13 4 (0.66%) Rust
14 3 (0.50%) C
14 3 (0.50%) C++
14 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.33%) Swift
16 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 116 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 80 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.27%) Degree
4 37 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.29%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.64%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.99%) CISM
10 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.66%) CISA
11 4 (0.66%) CISSP
11 4 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.66%) CRISC
11 4 (0.66%) MBA
12 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.33%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.33%) ECSA
13 2 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.14%) QA
4 16 (2.64%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.48%) GDPR
6 14 (2.31%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.49%) NIST
8 8 (1.32%) WCAG
9 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (15.18%) Docker
2 19 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.97%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.98%) 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
Systems Management
1 120 (19.80%) Kubernetes
2 41 (6.77%) Ansible
3 15 (2.48%) Grafana
3 15 (2.48%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.65%) Progress Chef
4 10 (1.65%) Puppet
5 7 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.66%) Argo
7 4 (0.66%) Nessus
7 4 (0.66%) Packer
8 3 (0.50%) Istio
8 3 (0.50%) linkerd
8 3 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (0.50%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.33%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.33%) SCCM
9 2 (0.33%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 75 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.78%) Google
3 32 (5.28%) Adobe
4 23 (3.80%) Databricks
5 22 (3.63%) VMware
6 20 (3.30%) Splunk
7 19 (3.14%) Apple
8 12 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.49%) YouTube
10 8 (1.32%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.32%) Cisco
10 8 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.99%) Mistral
12 5 (0.83%) Okta
13 4 (0.66%) F5
14 3 (0.50%) McAfee
14 3 (0.50%) New Relic
14 3 (0.50%) SaltStack