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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 353 350 586
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.46% 17.54% 12.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.53% 39.24% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 274 271 480
10th Percentile £36,800 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +3.13% +5.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £64,374
% change year-on-year -3.04% +4.14% +3.00%

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 1,567 892 1,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.11% 44.71% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 904 661 1,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.39% +0.28%
75th Percentile £84,813 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 April 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 11 April 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
Salford -12 8 £70,000 +1.00% 3
Altrincham -11 6 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Bolton +23 3 £31,500 - 4
Stockport -7 1 £60,000 -20.00% 2
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 8 (2.27%) Apache
1 8 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.70%) Jupyter
3 6 (1.70%) WordPress
4 5 (1.42%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.85%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.85%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) CICS
6 2 (0.57%) CMS
6 2 (0.57%) JBoss
6 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.28%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.83%) Magento
2 3 (0.85%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 162 (45.89%) Azure
2 65 (18.41%) GCP
3 43 (12.18%) Serverless
4 36 (10.20%) GitHub
5 25 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (5.95%) SaaS
7 20 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (3.68%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (2.27%) Datadog
12 8 (2.27%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.98%) dbt
13 7 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.38%) Internet
2 8 (2.27%) DNS
3 7 (1.98%) Firewall
3 7 (1.98%) SSL
4 5 (1.42%) AMQP
4 5 (1.42%) HTTP
4 5 (1.42%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.57%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.57%) SSH
7 1 (0.28%) DHCP
7 1 (0.28%) LAN
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
7 1 (0.28%) VPN
7 1 (0.28%) VSAN
7 1 (0.28%) WAN
7 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.08%) MongoDB
2 24 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.25%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (3.68%) MySQL
7 9 (2.55%) Neo4j
8 7 (1.98%) Big Data
8 7 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.98%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.98%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.42%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.85%) GIS
11 3 (0.85%) QGIS
11 3 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 52 (14.73%) Git
2 13 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.55%) GitLab
4 8 (2.27%) Claude Code
5 7 (1.98%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.42%) JIRA
7 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.85%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.57%) Subversion
8 2 (0.57%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.28%) JMeter
9 1 (0.28%) Locust
9 1 (0.28%) PyCharm
General
1 51 (14.45%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.33%) Finance
3 20 (5.67%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.38%) Multimedia
5 17 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.12%) Retail
8 9 (2.55%) Banking
9 8 (2.27%) Legal
9 8 (2.27%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.70%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.70%) Marketing
11 5 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.57%) Electronics
14 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Games
15 1 (0.28%) Law
15 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (25.78%) Senior
2 72 (20.40%) Software Engineer
3 64 (18.13%) Developer
4 40 (11.33%) Lead
5 39 (11.05%) AWS Engineer
6 34 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (7.08%) Trainee
8 24 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 23 (6.52%) Architect
10 21 (5.95%) Python Engineer
11 19 (5.38%) Java Developer
11 19 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (4.82%) Java Engineer
13 16 (4.53%) Analyst
13 16 (4.53%) Data Engineer
14 15 (4.25%) AWS Architect
14 15 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
15 13 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (18.13%) React
2 43 (12.18%) Node.js
3 33 (9.35%) .NET
3 33 (9.35%) CSS
4 32 (9.07%) HTML
5 31 (8.78%) Spring
6 30 (8.50%) Spring Boot
7 27 (7.65%) REST
8 23 (6.52%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.97%) Django
9 14 (3.97%) RESTful
10 11 (3.12%) FastAPI
10 11 (3.12%) Pandas
10 11 (3.12%) Vue
11 9 (2.55%) NumPy
11 9 (2.55%) scikit-learn
12 8 (2.27%) Kafka
12 8 (2.27%) Laravel
12 8 (2.27%) OAuth
12 8 (2.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.13%) IoT
10 2 (0.57%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.57%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.57%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.57%) NHS
10 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.28%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.22%) Linux
2 15 (4.25%) Windows
3 7 (1.98%) CentOS
3 7 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.42%) Debian
4 5 (1.42%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.57%) Unix
5 2 (0.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (29.75%) DevOps
1 105 (29.75%) Software Engineering
2 104 (29.46%) CI/CD
3 100 (28.33%) Agile
4 72 (20.40%) Mentoring
5 61 (17.28%) AI
6 60 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (16.71%) Microservices
8 55 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (15.01%) Cybersecurity
9 53 (15.01%) TDD
10 46 (13.03%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (10.48%) Containerisation
13 36 (10.20%) Observability
14 35 (9.92%) Collaborative Culture
14 35 (9.92%) Scrum
15 29 (8.22%) Platform Engineering
16 28 (7.93%) Clean Code
17 26 (7.37%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 122 (34.56%) Python
2 80 (22.66%) Java
3 73 (20.68%) JavaScript
4 56 (15.86%) SQL
5 45 (12.75%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.52%) PHP
7 22 (6.23%) C#
8 11 (3.12%) R
9 8 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.98%) Go
11 6 (1.70%) C
11 6 (1.70%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.42%) Bash
13 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.57%) Scala
14 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.28%) Bicep
15 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 44 (12.46%) AWS Certification
1 44 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 23 (6.52%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.53%) Degree
7 12 (3.40%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.85%) MBA
9 3 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CISM
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.68%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.40%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.70%) NIST
5 5 (1.42%) QA
6 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.57%) HL7
8 1 (0.28%) GDPR
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (15.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.13%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.13%) vSphere
4 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (21.25%) Terraform
2 63 (17.85%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.65%) Ansible
4 13 (3.68%) Grafana
5 12 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.42%) Puppet
7 3 (0.85%) cPanel
7 3 (0.85%) Nagios
7 3 (0.85%) Plesk
7 3 (0.85%) Rancher
7 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.57%) Packer
8 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.28%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.28%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 44 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.80%) Adobe
3 12 (3.40%) Apple
4 9 (2.55%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.27%) Google
5 8 (2.27%) Splunk
6 6 (1.70%) VMware
7 5 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.42%) Pega
7 5 (1.42%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.42%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.57%) Databricks
9 2 (0.57%) New Relic
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle
9 2 (0.57%) WSO2
10 1 (0.28%) Informatica
10 1 (0.28%) McAfee
10 1 (0.28%) Veeam