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 3 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 267 299 288
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.83% 21.48% 11.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.87% 51.82% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 210 143 191
10th Percentile £49,750 £49,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,375 £75,386
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £74,500 £67,037 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.13% +3.13% -

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 958 577 942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.09% 41.45% 38.03%
Number of salaries quoted 737 337 713
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.55% +0.08% -4.35%

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 3 months to 19 May 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 3 months to 19 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham 0 8 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Salford -10 2 £70,000 +3.51% 7
Bolton +16 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 7 (1.67%) Apache
1 7 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.44%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.20%) WordPress
4 4 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.96%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.72%) Confluence
5 3 (0.72%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.72%) nginx
6 2 (0.48%) CICS
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) JBoss
6 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.87%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 182 (43.54%) Azure
2 77 (18.42%) GCP
3 47 (11.24%) Serverless
4 40 (9.57%) GitHub
5 31 (7.42%) SaaS
6 22 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 22 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.11%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.67%) dbt
12 6 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.44%) Datadog
12 6 (1.44%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.87%) Internet
2 9 (2.15%) DNS
3 8 (1.91%) Firewall
4 6 (1.44%) SSL
5 4 (0.96%) HTTP
5 4 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (0.96%) Network Security
5 4 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.72%) AMQP
7 2 (0.48%) DHCP
8 1 (0.24%) LAN
8 1 (0.24%) VPN
8 1 (0.24%) VSAN
8 1 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 18 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.07%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.59%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.39%) MySQL
7 9 (2.15%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.91%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.67%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.67%) Neo4j
10 6 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.44%) Big Data
10 6 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.20%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.20%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.96%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.96%) Flink
13 3 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
13 3 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 48 (11.48%) Git
2 17 (4.07%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.35%) GitLab
4 13 (3.11%) Claude Code
5 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.20%) JIRA
8 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.72%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.72%) Maven
9 2 (0.48%) Subversion
9 2 (0.48%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.48%) Vite
10 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.24%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.24%) Storybook
10 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 51 (12.20%) Social Skills
2 45 (10.77%) Finance
3 27 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.02%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.87%) Multimedia
6 10 (2.39%) Retail
7 9 (2.15%) Banking
7 9 (2.15%) Retail Banking
8 8 (1.91%) Marketing
9 7 (1.67%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.96%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.72%) Legal
13 2 (0.48%) Advertising
14 1 (0.24%) Back Office
14 1 (0.24%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (28.47%) Senior
2 78 (18.66%) Software Engineer
3 68 (16.27%) Developer
4 50 (11.96%) Lead
5 48 (11.48%) AWS Engineer
6 47 (11.24%) Architect
7 44 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 35 (8.37%) Senior Developer
9 26 (6.22%) Analyst
9 26 (6.22%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (5.50%) Java Engineer
10 23 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (5.26%) Java Developer
12 21 (5.02%) AWS Architect
13 20 (4.78%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (4.55%) Security Architect
15 18 (4.31%) Trainee
16 17 (4.07%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.07%) React
2 49 (11.72%) Node.js
3 35 (8.37%) .NET
3 35 (8.37%) Spring
4 34 (8.13%) Spring Boot
5 29 (6.94%) CSS
6 27 (6.46%) HTML
7 25 (5.98%) AngularJS
7 25 (5.98%) REST
8 16 (3.83%) Kafka
9 14 (3.35%) OAuth
10 13 (3.11%) Next.js
10 13 (3.11%) Pandas
10 13 (3.11%) RESTful
11 11 (2.63%) OAuth2
11 11 (2.63%) PySpark
12 10 (2.39%) FastAPI
13 9 (2.15%) Django
13 9 (2.15%) NumPy
13 9 (2.15%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.11%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.96%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.72%) IoT
12 3 (0.72%) Life Science
13 2 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.48%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.48%) NHS
14 1 (0.24%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.50%) Linux
2 14 (3.35%) Windows
3 5 (1.20%) CentOS
3 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.72%) Debian
4 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.24%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) VMS
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (29.43%) CI/CD
2 115 (27.51%) DevOps
3 110 (26.32%) Agile
3 110 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 87 (20.81%) Mentoring
5 86 (20.57%) AI
6 71 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 65 (15.55%) Microservices
8 60 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (14.11%) TDD
10 58 (13.88%) Cybersecurity
10 58 (13.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 43 (10.29%) Scrum
12 41 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
14 38 (9.09%) Event-Driven
14 38 (9.09%) Test Automation
15 37 (8.85%) Cost Optimisation
15 37 (8.85%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 134 (32.06%) Python
2 92 (22.01%) Java
3 70 (16.75%) SQL
4 64 (15.31%) JavaScript
5 46 (11.00%) TypeScript
6 24 (5.74%) C#
7 21 (5.02%) PHP
8 10 (2.39%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.91%) Go
9 8 (1.91%) R
9 8 (1.91%) Ruby
10 7 (1.67%) Bash
11 6 (1.44%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.20%) C
13 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.72%) Scala
14 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 57 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 44 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 15 (3.59%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.35%) Degree
6 12 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.24%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.59%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.15%) QA
4 8 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) HL7
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (13.64%) Docker
2 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.72%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.72%) vSphere
4 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (21.77%) Terraform
2 64 (15.31%) Kubernetes
3 28 (6.70%) Ansible
4 11 (2.63%) Grafana
4 11 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.72%) Nagios
5 3 (0.72%) Puppet
5 3 (0.72%) Rancher
6 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.48%) cPanel
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) Packer
6 2 (0.48%) Plesk
6 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 53 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.33%) Adobe
3 21 (5.02%) Apple
4 12 (2.87%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.67%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.67%) Splunk
6 5 (1.20%) Databricks
6 5 (1.20%) Google
6 5 (1.20%) Pega
6 5 (1.20%) VMware
7 4 (0.96%) Atlassian
7 4 (0.96%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.72%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.48%) New Relic
9 2 (0.48%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle
9 2 (0.48%) WSO2
10 1 (0.24%) Informatica
10 1 (0.24%) McAfee