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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 509 456 705
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.24% 19.97% 11.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.68% 48.10% 32.82%
Number of salaries quoted 407 260 512
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,700 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,563 £75,193
90th Percentile £98,500 £115,000 £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 1,715 948 2,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.76% 41.52% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,344 607 1,687
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -1 10 £65,000 - 2
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -19 6 £70,000 +3.51% 5
Bolton +14 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 13 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.16%) Apache
3 10 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.18%) Confluence
6 6 (1.18%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.79%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.79%) IIS
8 3 (0.59%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.59%) nginx
9 2 (0.39%) CICS
9 2 (0.39%) CMS
9 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.39%) WordPress
10 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.20%) JBoss
10 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.36%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 191 (37.52%) Azure
2 93 (18.27%) GCP
3 61 (11.98%) Serverless
4 53 (10.41%) SaaS
5 47 (9.23%) GitHub
6 33 (6.48%) Amazon S3
7 28 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (2.95%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.16%) Pulumi
12 10 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (1.77%) dbt
13 9 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.73%) DNS
2 18 (3.54%) Firewall
3 11 (2.16%) DHCP
4 9 (1.77%) VPN
5 8 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.38%) Network Security
7 6 (1.18%) LAN
8 5 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.98%) VLAN
9 4 (0.79%) Internet
9 4 (0.79%) SSL
10 3 (0.59%) HTTP
10 3 (0.59%) SAN
11 2 (0.39%) AMQP
12 1 (0.20%) VSAN
12 1 (0.20%) WAN
12 1 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.72%) MongoDB
1 24 (4.72%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.13%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.77%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.57%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.57%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.57%) MySQL
10 7 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.38%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.38%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.18%) Big Data
11 6 (1.18%) Power BI
12 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.79%) Flink
13 3 (0.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 46 (9.04%) Git
2 28 (5.50%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.73%) GitLab
4 15 (2.95%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.77%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.77%) JIRA
6 7 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.18%) Maven
8 4 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.79%) Storybook
8 4 (0.79%) Vite
9 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.59%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.59%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.59%) Postman
9 3 (0.59%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.39%) Selenium
10 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (13.75%) Social Skills
2 56 (11.00%) Finance
3 29 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.72%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.36%) Marketing
7 11 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.96%) Retail
9 9 (1.77%) Banking
9 9 (1.77%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.38%) Health Technology
10 7 (1.38%) Law
10 7 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.79%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.79%) Publishing
12 3 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.59%) Legal
13 2 (0.39%) Advertising
13 2 (0.39%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 142 (27.90%) Senior
2 90 (17.68%) Software Engineer
3 74 (14.54%) Developer
4 63 (12.38%) AWS Engineer
5 60 (11.79%) Architect
6 58 (11.39%) Lead
7 53 (10.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (7.86%) Data Engineer
9 38 (7.47%) Senior Developer
10 35 (6.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 30 (5.89%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (5.50%) AWS Architect
14 24 (4.72%) Java Engineer
15 23 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
16 22 (4.32%) Java Developer
17 20 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (3.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 20 (3.93%) Lead Software Engineer
17 20 (3.93%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (15.52%) React
2 64 (12.57%) Node.js
3 48 (9.43%) .NET
4 38 (7.47%) Spring
5 37 (7.27%) Spring Boot
6 35 (6.88%) AngularJS
7 27 (5.30%) REST
8 24 (4.72%) FastAPI
8 24 (4.72%) Vue
9 23 (4.52%) Kafka
10 21 (4.13%) CSS
10 21 (4.13%) Next.js
11 19 (3.73%) HTML
12 18 (3.54%) OAuth
13 16 (3.14%) RESTful
14 14 (2.75%) LangChain
14 14 (2.75%) OAuth2
14 14 (2.75%) Pandas
14 14 (2.75%) React Native
14 14 (2.75%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 87 (17.09%) Cloud Native
2 40 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.34%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 10 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
7 9 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.98%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.79%) Life Science
11 4 (0.79%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.59%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.59%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.13%) Linux
2 15 (2.95%) Windows
3 7 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.79%) CentOS
5 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Debian
6 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.20%) Unix
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (34.18%) CI/CD
2 153 (30.06%) DevOps
3 135 (26.52%) Software Engineering
4 129 (25.34%) Agile
5 117 (22.99%) AI
6 94 (18.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 93 (18.27%) Mentoring
8 92 (18.07%) Microservices
9 80 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
10 70 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (12.97%) TDD
12 63 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (11.59%) Test Automation
14 53 (10.41%) Decision-Making
14 53 (10.41%) Observability
15 50 (9.82%) Event-Driven
16 49 (9.63%) Platform Engineering
17 47 (9.23%) Containerisation
18 46 (9.04%) Cybersecurity
19 45 (8.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 172 (33.79%) Python
2 103 (20.24%) SQL
3 102 (20.04%) Java
4 70 (13.75%) TypeScript
5 65 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 35 (6.88%) C#
7 17 (3.34%) PHP
7 17 (3.34%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.95%) Go
9 14 (2.75%) Ruby
10 13 (2.55%) Bash
10 13 (2.55%) Scala
11 8 (1.57%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.59%) C
12 3 (0.59%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.39%) R
13 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 70 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.89%) AWS Certification
4 22 (4.32%) Degree
5 14 (2.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 14 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.59%) CISA
11 3 (0.59%) CISM
11 3 (0.59%) CISSP
11 3 (0.59%) CRISC
12 2 (0.39%) MBA
13 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.89%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.54%) PCI DSS
3 17 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.95%) QA
5 10 (1.96%) NIST
6 9 (1.77%) GDPR
7 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.79%) WCAG
8 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 79 (15.52%) Docker
2 11 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.59%) Firmware
5 3 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 119 (23.38%) Terraform
2 87 (17.09%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.70%) Ansible
4 14 (2.75%) Grafana
4 14 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.79%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.79%) Puppet
7 3 (0.59%) Argo
7 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.39%) Istio
8 2 (0.39%) linkerd
8 2 (0.39%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.20%) Nagios
9 1 (0.20%) Rancher
9 1 (0.20%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.68%) Adobe
3 18 (3.54%) Apple
4 16 (3.14%) Google
5 15 (2.95%) Splunk
6 14 (2.75%) Databricks
7 12 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.36%) VMware
8 9 (1.77%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.38%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.98%) Cisco
10 5 (0.98%) Okta
10 5 (0.98%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.98%) Pega
11 4 (0.79%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.59%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.39%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.39%) WSO2