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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 409 454 619
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.38% 20.33% 12.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.42% 46.37% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 315 267 495
10th Percentile £40,500 £46,838 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,500 £86,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.85% +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 1,675 979 1,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.23% 43.84% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,098 645 1,620
10th Percentile £32,350 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -0.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,850 £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 16 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 6 months to 16 May 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 -4 10 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Salford -16 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +22 3 £31,500 - 4
Stockport -13 1 £60,000 -20.00% 3
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 (1.71%) Apache
1 7 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.47%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.22%) WordPress
4 4 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.98%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.73%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.73%) nginx
6 2 (0.49%) CICS
6 2 (0.49%) CMS
6 2 (0.49%) JBoss
6 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.93%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 177 (43.28%) Azure
2 75 (18.34%) GCP
3 48 (11.74%) Serverless
4 40 (9.78%) GitHub
5 30 (7.33%) SaaS
6 22 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (4.89%) Amazon S3
8 18 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.16%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.18%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.71%) dbt
13 6 (1.47%) Datadog
13 6 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.47%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.93%) Internet
2 8 (1.96%) DNS
2 8 (1.96%) Firewall
3 6 (1.47%) SSL
4 4 (0.98%) HTTP
4 4 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (0.98%) Network Security
4 4 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.73%) AMQP
6 2 (0.49%) DHCP
7 1 (0.24%) LAN
7 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.24%) SSH
7 1 (0.24%) VPN
7 1 (0.24%) VSAN
7 1 (0.24%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.89%) MongoDB
2 18 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.16%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.67%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.44%) MySQL
7 8 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.96%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.71%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.71%) Neo4j
9 6 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.47%) Big Data
9 6 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.22%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.98%) DocumentDB
11 4 (0.98%) Flink
12 3 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 49 (11.98%) Git
2 17 (4.16%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.42%) GitLab
4 13 (3.18%) Claude Code
5 9 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.22%) JIRA
8 3 (0.73%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.73%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.73%) Maven
9 2 (0.49%) Subversion
9 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.49%) Vite
10 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.24%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.24%) Storybook
General
1 51 (12.47%) Social Skills
2 46 (11.25%) Finance
3 27 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.93%) Multimedia
6 10 (2.44%) Retail
7 9 (2.20%) Banking
7 9 (2.20%) Retail Banking
8 8 (1.96%) Marketing
9 6 (1.47%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.73%) Legal
13 2 (0.49%) Advertising
14 1 (0.24%) Back Office
14 1 (0.24%) Electronics
14 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (28.61%) Senior
2 75 (18.34%) Software Engineer
3 67 (16.38%) Developer
4 48 (11.74%) Lead
5 46 (11.25%) AWS Engineer
6 44 (10.76%) Architect
7 42 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (8.31%) Senior Developer
9 26 (6.36%) Analyst
10 25 (6.11%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (5.62%) Java Engineer
12 22 (5.38%) Java Developer
13 21 (5.13%) AWS Architect
13 21 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
14 19 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (4.40%) Security Architect
15 18 (4.40%) Trainee
16 17 (4.16%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.16%) React
2 51 (12.47%) Node.js
3 35 (8.56%) .NET
3 35 (8.56%) Spring
4 34 (8.31%) Spring Boot
5 29 (7.09%) CSS
6 27 (6.60%) HTML
7 25 (6.11%) AngularJS
7 25 (6.11%) REST
8 15 (3.67%) Kafka
9 13 (3.18%) Pandas
9 13 (3.18%) RESTful
10 12 (2.93%) OAuth
11 10 (2.44%) OAuth2
11 10 (2.44%) PySpark
12 9 (2.20%) Django
12 9 (2.20%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.20%) Next.js
12 9 (2.20%) NumPy
12 9 (2.20%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.02%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.16%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.93%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.44%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.73%) IoT
12 3 (0.73%) Life Science
13 2 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.49%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.49%) NHS
14 1 (0.24%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.87%) Linux
2 14 (3.42%) Windows
3 5 (1.22%) CentOS
3 5 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.73%) Debian
4 3 (0.73%) 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
1 121 (29.58%) CI/CD
2 114 (27.87%) DevOps
3 111 (27.14%) Agile
4 106 (25.92%) Software Engineering
5 84 (20.54%) Mentoring
6 83 (20.29%) AI
7 70 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 65 (15.89%) Microservices
9 60 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (14.43%) TDD
11 58 (14.18%) Cybersecurity
12 55 (13.45%) Full-Stack Development
13 43 (10.51%) Scrum
14 40 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (9.54%) Platform Engineering
16 38 (9.29%) Collaborative Culture
17 37 (9.05%) Cost Optimisation
17 37 (9.05%) Event-Driven
18 36 (8.80%) Containerisation
18 36 (8.80%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 129 (31.54%) Python
2 92 (22.49%) Java
3 70 (17.11%) SQL
4 65 (15.89%) JavaScript
5 48 (11.74%) TypeScript
6 24 (5.87%) C#
7 21 (5.13%) PHP
8 9 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.96%) Go
9 8 (1.96%) R
10 7 (1.71%) Bash
11 6 (1.47%) C
11 6 (1.47%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.98%) Ruby
13 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.73%) Scala
14 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 56 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.76%) AWS Certification
3 43 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 15 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.42%) Degree
7 12 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.24%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.67%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.20%) QA
4 8 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.71%) NIST
6 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) HL7
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (13.69%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.73%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.73%) vSphere
4 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (21.52%) Terraform
2 63 (15.40%) Kubernetes
3 27 (6.60%) Ansible
4 11 (2.69%) Grafana
4 11 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.73%) Nagios
5 3 (0.73%) Puppet
5 3 (0.73%) Rancher
5 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.49%) cPanel
6 2 (0.49%) Packer
6 2 (0.49%) Plesk
6 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 51 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.54%) Adobe
3 21 (5.13%) Apple
4 12 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.47%) Splunk
7 5 (1.22%) Google
7 5 (1.22%) Pega
7 5 (1.22%) VMware
8 4 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.98%) Databricks
8 4 (0.98%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.73%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.49%) New Relic
10 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.49%) Oracle
10 2 (0.49%) WSO2
11 1 (0.24%) Informatica
11 1 (0.24%) Spotify