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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 525 465 709
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.34% 19.64% 12.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.71% 48.19% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 418 266 497
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,507 £53,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 1,767 965 2,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.07% 40.75% 37.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 626 1,660
10th Percentile £34,050 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,625 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,514 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 - 3
Cheadle -3 6 £63,750 -
Salford -16 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +14 1 £31,500 - 1
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 14 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.29%) Apache
3 11 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.33%) Confluence
5 7 (1.33%) IIS
5 7 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.14%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.76%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.57%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.57%) nginx
9 2 (0.38%) CICS
9 2 (0.38%) CMS
9 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.38%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.29%) Cloudability
2 4 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 195 (37.14%) Azure
2 96 (18.29%) GCP
3 66 (12.57%) Serverless
4 60 (11.43%) SaaS
5 49 (9.33%) GitHub
6 35 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 32 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (2.86%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.10%) Pulumi
13 10 (1.90%) dbt
14 9 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.19%) Firewall
2 21 (4.00%) DNS
3 14 (2.67%) DHCP
4 12 (2.29%) VPN
5 11 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.52%) Network Security
7 6 (1.14%) LAN
8 5 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.95%) VLAN
9 4 (0.76%) SAN
10 3 (0.57%) AMQP
10 3 (0.57%) Internet
10 3 (0.57%) SSL
11 2 (0.38%) HTTP
12 1 (0.19%) VSAN
12 1 (0.19%) WAN
12 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 24 (4.57%) NoSQL
3 21 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.71%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.71%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.71%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.52%) MySQL
9 8 (1.52%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.33%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.14%) Big Data
11 6 (1.14%) Power BI
12 5 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.76%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.76%) Flink
Development Applications
1 48 (9.14%) Git
2 30 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.81%) GitLab
4 15 (2.86%) Claude Code
5 10 (1.90%) Bitbucket
5 10 (1.90%) JIRA
6 7 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (1.14%) Maven
8 5 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.76%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.76%) Postman
9 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.76%) Storybook
9 4 (0.76%) Vite
10 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.57%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.57%) Selenium
11 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 76 (14.48%) Social Skills
2 57 (10.86%) Finance
3 28 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (5.33%) Public Sector
4 17 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.29%) Marketing
7 10 (1.90%) Retail
8 9 (1.71%) Banking
8 9 (1.71%) Retail Banking
9 8 (1.52%) Health Technology
10 7 (1.33%) Law
10 7 (1.33%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.76%) Publishing
12 3 (0.57%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.38%) Advertising
13 2 (0.38%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.38%) Legal
14 1 (0.19%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 146 (27.81%) Senior
2 87 (16.57%) Software Engineer
3 74 (14.10%) Developer
4 64 (12.19%) AWS Engineer
5 63 (12.00%) Architect
6 58 (11.05%) Lead
7 55 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 45 (8.57%) Data Engineer
9 39 (7.43%) Senior Developer
10 37 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (5.71%) AWS Architect
14 23 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
14 23 (4.38%) Java Engineer
15 22 (4.19%) Java Developer
16 21 (4.00%) AWS Solution Architect
16 21 (4.00%) Security Engineer
16 21 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
17 20 (3.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.62%) React
2 67 (12.76%) Node.js
3 51 (9.71%) .NET
4 40 (7.62%) Spring
5 39 (7.43%) AngularJS
5 39 (7.43%) Spring Boot
6 27 (5.14%) REST
7 26 (4.95%) Kafka
8 25 (4.76%) Vue
9 24 (4.57%) FastAPI
10 21 (4.00%) CSS
10 21 (4.00%) Next.js
11 19 (3.62%) HTML
12 17 (3.24%) OAuth
12 17 (3.24%) RESTful
13 14 (2.67%) LangChain
13 14 (2.67%) Pandas
13 14 (2.67%) React Native
13 14 (2.67%) Ruby on Rails
14 13 (2.48%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 94 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.05%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.67%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.10%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.33%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.95%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.76%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.76%) IVR
12 4 (0.76%) Life Science
12 4 (0.76%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.38%) Linux
2 18 (3.43%) Windows
3 11 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.33%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.14%) CentOS
5 6 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.57%) Debian
6 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (34.10%) CI/CD
2 159 (30.29%) DevOps
3 137 (26.10%) Agile
4 134 (25.52%) Software Engineering
5 120 (22.86%) AI
6 98 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 96 (18.29%) Mentoring
8 95 (18.10%) Microservices
9 81 (15.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 72 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (12.57%) TDD
13 61 (11.62%) Test Automation
14 54 (10.29%) Observability
15 53 (10.10%) Decision-Making
16 51 (9.71%) Containerisation
16 51 (9.71%) Platform Engineering
17 50 (9.52%) Event-Driven
18 48 (9.14%) Machine Learning
19 47 (8.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 175 (33.33%) Python
2 108 (20.57%) SQL
3 105 (20.00%) Java
4 71 (13.52%) TypeScript
5 67 (12.76%) JavaScript
6 37 (7.05%) C#
7 20 (3.81%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.05%) Go
9 14 (2.67%) PHP
9 14 (2.67%) Ruby
10 13 (2.48%) Bash
10 13 (2.48%) Scala
11 8 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.57%) C
12 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.38%) R
13 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 76 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 59 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.52%) AWS Certification
4 23 (4.38%) Degree
5 18 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.76%) CISA
11 4 (0.76%) CISM
11 4 (0.76%) CISSP
11 4 (0.76%) CRISC
12 3 (0.57%) MBA
12 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.81%) PCI DSS
4 16 (3.05%) QA
5 12 (2.29%) GDPR
6 11 (2.10%) NIST
7 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.76%) WCAG
8 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 83 (15.81%) Docker
2 15 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.76%) Firmware
7 3 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (23.62%) Terraform
2 94 (17.90%) Kubernetes
3 32 (6.10%) Ansible
4 13 (2.48%) Grafana
4 13 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.95%) Puppet
6 4 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.57%) Argo
7 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.38%) Istio
8 2 (0.38%) linkerd
8 2 (0.38%) Packer
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.19%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.19%) Nagios
9 1 (0.19%) Rancher
9 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.90%) Adobe
3 19 (3.62%) Google
4 17 (3.24%) Apple
5 16 (3.05%) Splunk
5 16 (3.05%) VMware
6 15 (2.86%) Databricks
7 12 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.90%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.95%) Cisco
10 5 (0.95%) Okta
10 5 (0.95%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.95%) Pega
10 5 (0.95%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.57%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.57%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.38%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.38%) WSO2