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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 466 457 655
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.82% 20.60% 11.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.80% 47.85% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 363 260 498
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 1,739 955 2,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 29.19% 43.06% 37.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 608 1,643
10th Percentile £33,700 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,991
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 4 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 4 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 - 4
Salford -16 6 £70,000 +3.51% 2
Cheadle -7 3 £55,000 -
Bolton +19 1 £31,500 - 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 11 (2.36%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.15%) Apache
2 10 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (1.29%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.86%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.86%) Confluence
5 4 (0.86%) nginx
6 3 (0.64%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) JBoss
7 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.43%) WordPress
8 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.50%) Chatbot
1 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.58%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 192 (41.20%) Azure
2 87 (18.67%) GCP
3 56 (12.02%) Serverless
4 43 (9.23%) GitHub
5 38 (8.15%) SaaS
6 28 (6.01%) Amazon S3
7 25 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.79%) Anthropic Claude
12 10 (2.15%) Pulumi
13 9 (1.93%) dbt
14 8 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.50%) Datadog
15 7 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.15%) DNS
2 9 (1.93%) Firewall
3 8 (1.72%) Internet
4 5 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (1.07%) SSL
5 4 (0.86%) Network Security
5 4 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.64%) AMQP
6 3 (0.64%) DHCP
6 3 (0.64%) HTTP
7 2 (0.43%) LAN
7 2 (0.43%) VPN
8 1 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.21%) SAN
8 1 (0.21%) VLAN
8 1 (0.21%) VSAN
8 1 (0.21%) WAN
8 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.51%) MongoDB
2 20 (4.29%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 17 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (2.15%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.93%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.93%) MySQL
8 8 (1.72%) Big Data
8 8 (1.72%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.50%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.29%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.07%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.07%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.86%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.86%) Flink
12 4 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (9.87%) Git
2 23 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.43%) GitLab
4 13 (2.79%) Claude Code
5 9 (1.93%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.50%) JIRA
6 7 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.07%) Maven
8 3 (0.64%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.64%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.64%) Storybook
9 2 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.43%) Subversion
9 2 (0.43%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.43%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.43%) Vite
10 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.21%) Postman
10 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 62 (13.30%) Social Skills
2 54 (11.59%) Finance
3 27 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (4.94%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.15%) Marketing
5 10 (2.15%) Retail
6 9 (1.93%) Banking
6 9 (1.93%) Retail Banking
7 8 (1.72%) Multimedia
8 7 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.50%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.64%) Legal
11 3 (0.64%) Publishing
12 2 (0.43%) Advertising
12 2 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.43%) Law
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 132 (28.33%) Senior
2 85 (18.24%) Software Engineer
3 70 (15.02%) Developer
4 56 (12.02%) Lead
5 55 (11.80%) Architect
5 55 (11.80%) AWS Engineer
6 49 (10.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 36 (7.73%) Data Engineer
8 35 (7.51%) Senior Developer
9 29 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 27 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (5.58%) Analyst
12 24 (5.15%) AWS Architect
12 24 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (4.94%) Java Engineer
14 21 (4.51%) Java Developer
15 20 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
15 20 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (4.29%) Security Architect
16 18 (3.86%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (14.81%) React
2 57 (12.23%) Node.js
3 41 (8.80%) .NET
4 36 (7.73%) Spring
5 35 (7.51%) Spring Boot
6 29 (6.22%) AngularJS
7 26 (5.58%) CSS
8 25 (5.36%) REST
9 24 (5.15%) HTML
10 20 (4.29%) Kafka
11 18 (3.86%) OAuth
12 16 (3.43%) Next.js
12 16 (3.43%) RESTful
13 15 (3.22%) FastAPI
14 14 (3.00%) OAuth2
14 14 (3.00%) Vue
15 13 (2.79%) Pandas
16 12 (2.58%) OpenID
17 11 (2.36%) React Native
17 11 (2.36%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 64 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.43%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.93%) AI Agents
6 9 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.93%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.50%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.86%) Life Science
10 4 (0.86%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.64%) Sports Betting
11 3 (0.64%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
12 2 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.43%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.72%) Linux
2 13 (2.79%) Windows
3 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.07%) CentOS
4 5 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.64%) Debian
5 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.21%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (32.40%) CI/CD
2 132 (28.33%) DevOps
3 122 (26.18%) Software Engineering
4 120 (25.75%) Agile
5 102 (21.89%) AI
6 93 (19.96%) Mentoring
7 85 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (16.95%) Microservices
9 71 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
10 63 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (13.52%) TDD
11 55 (11.80%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (10.52%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (10.30%) Platform Engineering
13 48 (10.30%) Test Automation
14 45 (9.66%) Decision-Making
15 44 (9.44%) Event-Driven
15 44 (9.44%) Scrum
16 43 (9.23%) Containerisation
17 42 (9.01%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 154 (33.05%) Python
2 96 (20.60%) Java
3 87 (18.67%) SQL
4 64 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 53 (11.37%) TypeScript
6 28 (6.01%) C#
7 20 (4.29%) PHP
8 14 (3.00%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.58%) Go
10 11 (2.36%) Bash
10 11 (2.36%) Ruby
11 7 (1.50%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.50%) Scala
12 5 (1.07%) R
13 4 (0.86%) C
14 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 63 (13.52%) Security Cleared
2 49 (10.52%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.37%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.65%) Degree
4 17 (3.65%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 12 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.21%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.00%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.58%) QA
4 8 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.50%) NIST
6 4 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.64%) WCAG
8 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.43%) GDPR
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 67 (14.38%) Docker
2 6 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.43%) vSphere
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (22.96%) Terraform
2 73 (15.67%) Kubernetes
3 29 (6.22%) Ansible
4 12 (2.58%) Grafana
4 12 (2.58%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.86%) Puppet
6 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.43%) Argo
7 2 (0.43%) Nagios
7 2 (0.43%) Packer
7 2 (0.43%) Rancher
7 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.21%) Istio
8 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.21%) linkerd
8 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 52 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.80%) Adobe
3 20 (4.29%) Apple
4 12 (2.58%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.15%) Splunk
6 9 (1.93%) Databricks
6 9 (1.93%) Google
7 7 (1.50%) VMware
8 6 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.07%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.07%) Pega
10 3 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.64%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.64%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.64%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.43%) New Relic
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle
11 2 (0.43%) WSO2
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco
12 1 (0.21%) Informatica