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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 537 457 654
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.39% 18.42% 12.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.64% 47.65% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 422 259 437
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 1,812 959 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.31% 38.65% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 619 1,499
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £31,700
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,938 £76,840 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,022 £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 18 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 18 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 -3 10 £65,000 - 2
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -18 6 £70,000 +3.51% 2
Bolton +17 1 £31,500 - 1
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 (2.23%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.05%) Apache
2 11 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.49%) Confluence
4 8 (1.49%) IIS
5 7 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.12%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.74%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.56%) nginx
9 2 (0.37%) CICS
9 2 (0.37%) CMS
9 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.37%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 194 (36.13%) Azure
2 94 (17.50%) GCP
3 67 (12.48%) Serverless
4 61 (11.36%) SaaS
5 50 (9.31%) GitHub
6 36 (6.70%) Amazon S3
7 33 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (2.42%) Anthropic Claude
12 12 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.05%) Pulumi
14 10 (1.86%) dbt
14 10 (1.86%) PaaS
15 9 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 7 (1.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.47%) Firewall
2 21 (3.91%) DNS
3 16 (2.98%) DHCP
4 13 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.42%) VPN
5 8 (1.49%) Network Security
6 6 (1.12%) LAN
7 5 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.93%) VLAN
8 4 (0.74%) SAN
9 3 (0.56%) 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%) IPsec
10 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.19%) SSL
11 1 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.66%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.47%) NoSQL
3 23 (4.28%) Relational Database
4 20 (3.72%) SQL Server
5 17 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.68%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.68%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.49%) MySQL
10 8 (1.49%) Neo4j
11 7 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.30%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.93%) Big Data
13 5 (0.93%) Power BI
13 5 (0.93%) Redis
14 4 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 48 (8.94%) Git
2 31 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.72%) GitLab
4 13 (2.42%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.42%) JIRA
5 10 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (1.30%) Maven
7 7 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.93%) Storybook
9 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.74%) Postman
9 4 (0.74%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.74%) Vite
10 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.56%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.56%) Selenium
11 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (15.64%) Social Skills
2 57 (10.61%) Finance
3 32 (5.96%) Public Sector
4 30 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.23%) Marketing
8 11 (2.05%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.86%) Retail
10 9 (1.68%) Banking
10 9 (1.68%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.30%) Law
11 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.12%) Publishing
13 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.56%) Legal
14 2 (0.37%) Advertising
14 2 (0.37%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.37%) Multimedia
15 1 (0.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 147 (27.37%) Senior
2 77 (14.34%) Developer
2 77 (14.34%) Software Engineer
3 73 (13.59%) Architect
4 60 (11.17%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (10.80%) Lead
6 54 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 45 (8.38%) Data Engineer
7 45 (8.38%) Senior Developer
8 42 (7.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 36 (6.70%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (5.77%) AWS Architect
12 23 (4.28%) AWS Solution Architect
12 23 (4.28%) Full-Stack Developer
13 21 (3.91%) Java Developer
13 21 (3.91%) Java Engineer
13 21 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (3.72%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (3.72%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.27%) React
2 70 (13.04%) Node.js
3 48 (8.94%) .NET
4 40 (7.45%) AngularJS
5 38 (7.08%) Spring
5 38 (7.08%) Spring Boot
6 28 (5.21%) Vue
7 26 (4.84%) Kafka
8 24 (4.47%) FastAPI
8 24 (4.47%) REST
9 22 (4.10%) CSS
10 21 (3.91%) Next.js
11 20 (3.72%) HTML
12 17 (3.17%) RESTful
13 16 (2.98%) OAuth
14 15 (2.79%) React Native
15 14 (2.61%) LangChain
15 14 (2.61%) Pandas
15 14 (2.61%) Ruby on Rails
16 13 (2.42%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 102 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.98%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.61%) AI Agents
6 13 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.23%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.12%) 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 (3.72%) Linux
2 16 (2.98%) Windows
3 12 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.30%) CentOS
4 7 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.37%) Debian
7 2 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.19%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.19%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (34.26%) CI/CD
2 168 (31.28%) DevOps
3 138 (25.70%) Agile
4 128 (23.84%) AI
5 124 (23.09%) Software Engineering
6 96 (17.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 95 (17.69%) Mentoring
8 94 (17.50%) Microservices
9 83 (15.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 77 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 69 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (11.73%) TDD
13 62 (11.55%) Test Automation
14 55 (10.24%) Decision-Making
15 54 (10.06%) Observability
16 52 (9.68%) Containerisation
16 52 (9.68%) Machine Learning
17 51 (9.50%) Platform Engineering
17 51 (9.50%) Roadmaps
18 49 (9.12%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 178 (33.15%) Python
2 110 (20.48%) SQL
3 102 (18.99%) Java
4 73 (13.59%) JavaScript
5 69 (12.85%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.33%) C#
7 21 (3.91%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.61%) Bash
8 14 (2.61%) Go
8 14 (2.61%) Ruby
8 14 (2.61%) Scala
9 12 (2.23%) PHP
10 8 (1.49%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) C
11 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
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 82 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.55%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.40%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.84%) Degree
5 24 (4.47%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.74%) CISA
10 4 (0.74%) CISM
10 4 (0.74%) CISSP
10 4 (0.74%) CRISC
10 4 (0.74%) MBA
11 2 (0.37%) CCIE
11 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.19%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.72%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.98%) QA
5 12 (2.23%) GDPR
6 11 (2.05%) NIST
7 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.93%) WCAG
8 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 82 (15.27%) Docker
2 16 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.86%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.68%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.74%) Firmware
5 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.19%) KVM
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (23.09%) Terraform
2 96 (17.88%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.70%) Ansible
4 11 (2.05%) Grafana
4 11 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.93%) Puppet
6 4 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.56%) Argo
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.37%) linkerd
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
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.40%) Adobe
3 19 (3.54%) Google
4 18 (3.35%) Apple
5 17 (3.17%) Splunk
5 17 (3.17%) VMware
6 15 (2.79%) Databricks
7 12 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.86%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.30%) Cisco
9 7 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.93%) Okta
10 5 (0.93%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.93%) Pega
10 5 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.37%) F5
12 2 (0.37%) WSO2
12 2 (0.37%) Zscaler