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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 253 372 372
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.04% 13.78% 15.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.21% 35.94% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 205 217 290
10th Percentile £28,850 £43,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year - +7.88% -7.31%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 1,139 1,035 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 40.69% 38.35% 42.42%
Number of salaries quoted 591 579 862
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £34,712
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -1 5 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Bolton +11 3 £31,500 - 28
Oldham -6 1 £65,000 +18.18%
Stockport -12 1 £60,000 -20.00% 31
Altrincham -15 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 8 (3.16%) Apache
2 6 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.58%) WordPress
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.79%) JBoss
4 2 (0.79%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.40%) WinCC
Applications
1 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.77%) Magento
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (55.73%) Azure
2 50 (19.76%) GCP
3 31 (12.25%) GitHub
4 23 (9.09%) Serverless
5 15 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (5.53%) SaaS
7 13 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.95%) Amazon S3
8 10 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.77%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.37%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.37%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.98%) OCI
13 4 (1.58%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.09%) Internet
2 7 (2.77%) Firewall
3 6 (2.37%) SSL
4 5 (1.98%) DNS
4 5 (1.98%) HTTP
5 3 (1.19%) AMQP
5 3 (1.19%) SSH
6 2 (0.79%) Network Security
6 2 (0.79%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.28%) NoSQL
2 23 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 18 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.53%) MySQL
5 12 (4.74%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.77%) Big Data
7 7 (2.77%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.37%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.98%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.98%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.19%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.19%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.19%) Redis
12 2 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.79%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.79%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 43 (17.00%) Git
2 14 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.95%) GitLab
4 4 (1.58%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.19%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.19%) JIRA
6 2 (0.79%) Maven
6 2 (0.79%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Ant
7 1 (0.40%) Appium
7 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) JMeter
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
7 1 (0.40%) Locust
7 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 68 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.09%) Finance
2 23 (9.09%) Multimedia
3 20 (7.91%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.14%) Marketing
6 8 (3.16%) Legal
7 7 (2.77%) Games
7 7 (2.77%) Retail
8 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.98%) Electronics
9 4 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.58%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.19%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.79%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (24.11%) Developer
2 54 (21.34%) Senior
3 41 (16.21%) Software Engineer
4 31 (12.25%) Lead
5 25 (9.88%) Architect
6 23 (9.09%) Trainee
7 16 (6.32%) Analyst
7 16 (6.32%) Software Developer
8 15 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (5.14%) AWS Architect
10 13 (5.14%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
11 11 (4.35%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.35%) Trainee Developer
11 11 (4.35%) Trainee Software Developer
12 10 (3.95%) .NET Developer
12 10 (3.95%) Lead Developer
12 10 (3.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.39%) React
2 39 (15.42%) .NET
3 38 (15.02%) CSS
4 36 (14.23%) HTML
5 24 (9.49%) AngularJS
6 23 (9.09%) Node.js
7 21 (8.30%) REST
8 20 (7.91%) Spring
9 19 (7.51%) RESTful
9 19 (7.51%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.95%) Django
10 10 (3.95%) Vue
11 8 (3.16%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.77%) Hibernate
12 7 (2.77%) Kafka
12 7 (2.77%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.37%) FastAPI
13 6 (2.37%) JSON
14 5 (1.98%) Next.js
14 5 (1.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.74%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.98%) Clustering
8 5 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.19%) IoT
9 3 (1.19%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.67%) Linux
2 15 (5.93%) Windows
3 6 (2.37%) Debian
3 6 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.37%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.58%) CentOS
4 4 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.19%) Unix
5 3 (1.19%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (32.81%) CI/CD
2 76 (30.04%) Agile
3 68 (26.88%) DevOps
4 66 (26.09%) Software Engineering
5 65 (25.69%) Mentoring
6 59 (23.32%) Microservices
7 47 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
9 44 (17.39%) AI
10 42 (16.60%) Containerisation
11 37 (14.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (11.86%) Roadmaps
13 28 (11.07%) TDD
14 26 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (9.88%) Clean Code
16 22 (8.70%) Collaborative Culture
17 21 (8.30%) Coaching
18 18 (7.11%) Machine Learning
18 18 (7.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (31.62%) Python
2 61 (24.11%) JavaScript
3 48 (18.97%) Java
4 42 (16.60%) SQL
5 39 (15.42%) C#
6 22 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.14%) PHP
8 12 (4.74%) R
9 7 (2.77%) Bash
10 5 (1.98%) C
10 5 (1.98%) Go
10 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.58%) Scala
12 3 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.19%) Rust
13 1 (0.40%) Bicep
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (16.21%) AWS Certification
2 29 (11.46%) Azure Certification
2 29 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 23 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (7.91%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.74%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.35%) Degree
7 7 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.19%) MBA
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.40%) CISM
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.37%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.37%) QA
3 4 (1.58%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.58%) GDPR
3 4 (1.58%) NIST
3 4 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.19%) HL7
5 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (20.16%) Docker
2 7 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.37%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.19%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.19%) vSphere
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.40%) HDFS
6 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (19.37%) Kubernetes
2 41 (16.21%) Terraform
3 25 (9.88%) Ansible
4 12 (4.74%) Grafana
5 9 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.37%) Puppet
7 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.19%) cPanel
8 3 (1.19%) Plesk
8 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.79%) Nagios
9 2 (0.79%) Rancher
9 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.40%) AssetCenter
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.40%) Podman
10 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.11%) Adobe
3 10 (3.95%) Google
3 10 (3.95%) Splunk
4 9 (3.56%) Apple
5 7 (2.77%) Oracle
6 6 (2.37%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.37%) VMware
7 5 (1.98%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.58%) SAP
9 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.19%) Dell
9 3 (1.19%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.79%) Informatica
10 2 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.79%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.40%) Ariba
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco
11 1 (0.40%) Siemens