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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 299 364 566
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.44% 16.67% 12.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.43% 38.40% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 233 272 480
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,025 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +3.53% +4.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £63,864 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -1.75% +3.53% +2.92%

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 1,395 948 1,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.69% 43.41% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 784 661 1,504
10th Percentile £30,150 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £81,856 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -4 10 £70,039 +1.06% 6
Bolton +23 4 £31,500 - 3
Altrincham -13 4 £67,500 +28.57% 5
Stockport -10 1 £60,000 -20.00% 4
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 7 (2.34%) Apache
1 7 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.01%) Jupyter
2 6 (2.01%) WordPress
3 4 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.00%) nginx
5 2 (0.67%) CICS
5 2 (0.67%) CMS
5 2 (0.67%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.67%) JBoss
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.33%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.01%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (3.34%) Magento
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 144 (48.16%) Azure
2 53 (17.73%) GCP
3 35 (11.71%) Serverless
4 34 (11.37%) GitHub
5 23 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (6.02%) SaaS
7 15 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (4.01%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.68%) dbt
12 7 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.34%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.67%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (1.34%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (1.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.69%) Internet
2 8 (2.68%) DNS
3 7 (2.34%) SSL
4 6 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.67%) HTTP
6 4 (1.34%) AMQP
6 4 (1.34%) Firewall
7 2 (0.67%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.67%) SSH
8 1 (0.33%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) Network Security
8 1 (0.33%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) VSAN
8 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (7.02%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.02%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (4.35%) MySQL
4 13 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.34%) Neo4j
6 6 (2.01%) Big Data
6 6 (2.01%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.00%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.00%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.00%) Redis
10 2 (0.67%) GIS
10 2 (0.67%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 53 (17.73%) Git
2 12 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.01%) GitLab
4 6 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.67%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.00%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.00%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.67%) Subversion
7 2 (0.67%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.33%) JIRA
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) Locust
General
1 48 (16.05%) Social Skills
2 34 (11.37%) Finance
3 23 (7.69%) Multimedia
4 20 (6.69%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.68%) Retail
7 10 (3.34%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.01%) Marketing
9 7 (2.34%) Legal
10 6 (2.01%) Banking
11 5 (1.67%) Electronics
11 5 (1.67%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.34%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.34%) Games
13 3 (1.00%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (23.41%) Senior
2 63 (21.07%) Developer
3 61 (20.40%) Software Engineer
4 33 (11.04%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (11.04%) Lead
5 29 (9.70%) Trainee
6 23 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (7.02%) Java Developer
8 18 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (5.69%) Python Engineer
9 17 (5.69%) Senior Developer
10 16 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (5.02%) Architect
12 13 (4.35%) Java Engineer
12 13 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (4.35%) Software Developer
13 12 (4.01%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.68%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (18.73%) React
2 39 (13.04%) Node.js
3 38 (12.71%) CSS
3 38 (12.71%) HTML
4 31 (10.37%) .NET
4 31 (10.37%) Spring
5 30 (10.03%) Spring Boot
6 24 (8.03%) AngularJS
6 24 (8.03%) REST
7 18 (6.02%) RESTful
8 13 (4.35%) Django
9 12 (4.01%) Vue
10 9 (3.01%) FastAPI
10 9 (3.01%) OAuth
10 9 (3.01%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.68%) AWS CDK
12 7 (2.34%) Kafka
12 7 (2.34%) Pandas
12 7 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.34%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.68%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.01%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.34%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.34%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.34%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.34%) IoT
8 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.67%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.67%) NHS
9 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.03%) Linux
2 14 (4.68%) Windows
3 6 (2.01%) CentOS
3 6 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.34%) Debian
5 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.00%) Unix
6 3 (1.00%) VMS
7 1 (0.33%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (31.44%) Agile
2 91 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 91 (30.43%) Software Engineering
3 87 (29.10%) DevOps
4 70 (23.41%) Mentoring
5 58 (19.40%) Microservices
6 50 (16.72%) AI
7 48 (16.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 48 (16.05%) TDD
8 45 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (13.71%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (11.04%) Scrum
12 31 (10.37%) Containerisation
13 29 (9.70%) Collaborative Culture
14 28 (9.36%) Clean Code
15 24 (8.03%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (7.69%) Coaching
16 23 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 103 (34.45%) Python
2 78 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 77 (25.75%) Java
4 40 (13.38%) TypeScript
5 38 (12.71%) SQL
6 22 (7.36%) C#
7 21 (7.02%) PHP
8 13 (4.35%) R
9 6 (2.01%) C
9 6 (2.01%) Go
9 6 (2.01%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.67%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.67%) Bash
12 2 (0.67%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) Bicep
13 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (14.72%) AWS Certification
2 43 (14.38%) Security Cleared
3 30 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 29 (9.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 26 (8.70%) Azure Certification
6 23 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (4.68%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.35%) Degree
9 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.00%) MBA
10 3 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.33%) CISM
11 1 (0.33%) CISSP
11 1 (0.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.01%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.01%) QA
2 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.34%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.67%) HL7
3 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.33%) NIST
4 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (15.38%) Docker
2 5 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.34%) vSphere
4 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (18.73%) Terraform
2 50 (16.72%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.36%) Ansible
4 8 (2.68%) Grafana
5 6 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.34%) Puppet
7 3 (1.00%) cPanel
7 3 (1.00%) Nagios
7 3 (1.00%) Plesk
7 3 (1.00%) Rancher
7 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.67%) Packer
8 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.33%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 39 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.69%) Adobe
3 9 (3.01%) Apple
3 9 (3.01%) Google
4 8 (2.68%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.68%) Splunk
5 6 (2.01%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.01%) VMware
6 5 (1.67%) Pega
6 5 (1.67%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.34%) Oracle
7 4 (1.34%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.00%) SAP
9 2 (0.67%) Databricks
9 2 (0.67%) New Relic
9 2 (0.67%) WSO2
10 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.33%) Spotify
10 1 (0.33%) Veeam