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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 287 358 549
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.41% 15.95% 12.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.31% 37.49% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 225 263 470
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -

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 1,347 955 1,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.76% 42.54% 39.67%
Number of salaries quoted 749 639 1,479
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.44% +9.05% -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 9 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 9 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 -1 10 £70,039 +1.06% 6
Altrincham -11 5 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Bolton +16 3 £31,500 - 17
Stockport -6 1 £60,000 -20.00% 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 (2.44%) Apache
1 7 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.09%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.39%) WordPress
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.05%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) CICS
5 2 (0.70%) CMS
5 2 (0.70%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.70%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.09%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 140 (48.78%) Azure
2 54 (18.82%) GCP
3 34 (11.85%) Serverless
4 31 (10.80%) GitHub
5 19 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.92%) SaaS
7 16 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.18%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (2.79%) dbt
13 7 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.44%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.32%) Internet
2 7 (2.44%) DNS
2 7 (2.44%) SSL
3 5 (1.74%) HTTP
3 5 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.39%) AMQP
5 3 (1.05%) Firewall
5 3 (1.05%) SSH
6 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.35%) DHCP
7 1 (0.35%) LAN
7 1 (0.35%) Network Security
7 1 (0.35%) VPN
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
7 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.67%) MongoDB
2 21 (7.32%) NoSQL
2 21 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.88%) MySQL
4 13 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (4.18%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.44%) Neo4j
6 7 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.09%) Big Data
7 6 (2.09%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.39%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.39%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.05%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.05%) Redis
11 2 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.70%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 51 (17.77%) Git
2 11 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.44%) GitLab
4 6 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.39%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.05%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.05%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.70%) JIRA
8 2 (0.70%) Subversion
8 2 (0.70%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.35%) JMeter
9 1 (0.35%) JUnit
9 1 (0.35%) Locust
9 1 (0.35%) Maven
9 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 47 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.45%) Finance
3 21 (7.32%) Multimedia
3 21 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (3.83%) Retail
6 10 (3.48%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.48%) Marketing
7 8 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.44%) Legal
9 5 (1.74%) Electronics
10 4 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.39%) Banking
10 4 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.39%) Games
10 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.05%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (23.00%) Senior
2 63 (21.95%) Developer
3 59 (20.56%) Software Engineer
4 32 (11.15%) Lead
5 31 (10.80%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (9.41%) Trainee
7 20 (6.97%) Java Developer
8 19 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.92%) Architect
9 17 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (5.92%) Python Engineer
10 16 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (5.57%) Senior Developer
11 15 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.53%) Analyst
12 13 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (4.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.53%) Software Developer
13 12 (4.18%) Lead Software Engineer
14 11 (3.83%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.47%) React
2 37 (12.89%) CSS
2 37 (12.89%) HTML
3 35 (12.20%) Node.js
4 31 (10.80%) .NET
5 28 (9.76%) Spring
6 27 (9.41%) Spring Boot
7 24 (8.36%) REST
8 23 (8.01%) AngularJS
9 18 (6.27%) RESTful
10 13 (4.53%) Django
11 12 (4.18%) Vue
12 9 (3.14%) FastAPI
13 8 (2.79%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.79%) OAuth
13 8 (2.79%) OAuth2
14 7 (2.44%) CSS3
14 7 (2.44%) Hibernate
14 7 (2.44%) HTML5
14 7 (2.44%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.89%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.53%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.18%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.44%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.39%) IoT
10 3 (1.05%) Clustering
10 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.70%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.70%) NHS
12 1 (0.35%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.41%) Linux
2 14 (4.88%) Windows
3 6 (2.09%) CentOS
3 6 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.39%) Debian
5 4 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.05%) Unix
6 3 (1.05%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.31%) Agile
1 87 (30.31%) Software Engineering
2 83 (28.92%) CI/CD
3 80 (27.87%) DevOps
4 67 (23.34%) Mentoring
5 56 (19.51%) Microservices
6 48 (16.72%) AI
7 46 (16.03%) TDD
8 43 (14.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 42 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
10 41 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (10.80%) Containerisation
13 31 (10.80%) Scrum
14 25 (8.71%) Clean Code
14 25 (8.71%) Collaborative Culture
14 25 (8.71%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (7.67%) Coaching
16 20 (6.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.84%) Python
2 76 (26.48%) JavaScript
3 73 (25.44%) Java
4 38 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 36 (12.54%) SQL
6 22 (7.67%) C#
7 21 (7.32%) PHP
8 11 (3.83%) R
9 6 (2.09%) C
9 6 (2.09%) Go
9 6 (2.09%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.74%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.39%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.70%) Bash
12 2 (0.70%) Scala
13 1 (0.35%) Bicep
13 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (14.63%) AWS Certification
2 40 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 27 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 24 (8.36%) Azure Certification
5 21 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.83%) Degree
8 7 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.05%) MBA
9 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.09%) QA
2 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.05%) HL7
4 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (15.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.39%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.39%) vSphere
4 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (17.07%) Terraform
2 47 (16.38%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.67%) Ansible
4 8 (2.79%) Grafana
5 6 (2.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.39%) Puppet
7 3 (1.05%) cPanel
7 3 (1.05%) Nagios
7 3 (1.05%) Plesk
7 3 (1.05%) Rancher
7 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.70%) Packer
8 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 38 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.32%) Adobe
3 9 (3.14%) Apple
3 9 (3.14%) Google
4 8 (2.79%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.79%) Splunk
5 6 (2.09%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.09%) VMware
6 5 (1.74%) Oracle
6 5 (1.74%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.39%) Pega
7 4 (1.39%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.05%) SAP
9 2 (0.70%) Databricks
9 2 (0.70%) Informatica
9 2 (0.70%) New Relic
10 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.35%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.35%) Spotify