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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 293 343 520
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.79% 14.85% 13.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.85% 35.95% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 237 237 442
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £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 £83,750 £77,500 £75,579
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +2.46%

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 1,341 954 1,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 35.66% 41.32% 39.61%
Number of salaries quoted 751 594 1,346
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -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 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 4 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 -2 9 £70,079 +1.11% 2
Altrincham -11 5 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Bolton +13 3 £31,500 - 18
Stockport -9 1 £60,000 -20.00% 10
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 8 (2.73%) Apache
2 7 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.05%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.37%) WordPress
5 3 (1.02%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.02%) JBoss
5 3 (1.02%) nginx
6 2 (0.68%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.05%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.41%) Magento
2 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (49.49%) Azure
2 52 (17.75%) GCP
3 32 (10.92%) Serverless
4 31 (10.58%) GitHub
5 20 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.80%) SaaS
7 16 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.10%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.73%) dbt
11 8 (2.73%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.71%) Amazon Bedrock
14 5 (1.71%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.17%) Internet
2 7 (2.39%) DNS
2 7 (2.39%) SSL
3 5 (1.71%) Firewall
3 5 (1.71%) HTTP
3 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.37%) AMQP
5 3 (1.02%) SSH
6 2 (0.68%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.34%) DHCP
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) Network Security
7 1 (0.34%) VPN
7 1 (0.34%) VSAN
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.51%) MongoDB
2 21 (7.17%) NoSQL
2 21 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (4.78%) MySQL
4 10 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.39%) Neo4j
5 7 (2.39%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.05%) Big Data
6 6 (2.05%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.71%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.02%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.02%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.02%) Redis
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 49 (16.72%) Git
2 8 (2.73%) GitLab
2 8 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.02%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.02%) JIRA
6 2 (0.68%) Maven
6 2 (0.68%) Subversion
6 2 (0.68%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.34%) Ant
7 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) JMeter
7 1 (0.34%) JUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Locust
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
7 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (19.11%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.92%) Finance
3 21 (7.17%) Multimedia
4 18 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.75%) Retail
7 10 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.41%) Marketing
8 7 (2.39%) Legal
9 5 (1.71%) Electronics
10 4 (1.37%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.37%) Banking
10 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Games
10 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.02%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (24.57%) Senior
2 61 (20.82%) Developer
3 57 (19.45%) Software Engineer
4 31 (10.58%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (10.58%) Lead
5 27 (9.22%) Trainee
6 22 (7.51%) Architect
7 18 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (5.80%) Java Developer
8 17 (5.80%) Python Engineer
9 16 (5.46%) Senior Developer
9 16 (5.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.78%) Analyst
10 14 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (4.44%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (3.41%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.75%) React
2 34 (11.60%) CSS
2 34 (11.60%) HTML
3 32 (10.92%) Node.js
4 31 (10.58%) .NET
5 28 (9.56%) Spring
6 27 (9.22%) Spring Boot
7 22 (7.51%) AngularJS
7 22 (7.51%) REST
8 16 (5.46%) RESTful
9 13 (4.44%) Django
10 12 (4.10%) Vue
11 9 (3.07%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.73%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.73%) OAuth
12 8 (2.73%) OAuth2
13 7 (2.39%) Hibernate
13 7 (2.39%) Laravel
13 7 (2.39%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.39%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.39%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.05%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.37%) IoT
9 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.02%) Clustering
10 3 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.68%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.68%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.68%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.90%) Linux
2 15 (5.12%) Windows
3 7 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.05%) CentOS
5 5 (1.71%) Debian
5 5 (1.71%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.02%) Unix
6 3 (1.02%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (29.35%) Software Engineering
2 85 (29.01%) CI/CD
3 84 (28.67%) Agile
4 79 (26.96%) DevOps
5 69 (23.55%) Mentoring
6 58 (19.80%) Microservices
7 49 (16.72%) AI
8 47 (16.04%) Cybersecurity
9 46 (15.70%) TDD
10 42 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (12.97%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (11.95%) Containerisation
15 26 (8.87%) Collaborative Culture
16 25 (8.53%) Clean Code
17 24 (8.19%) Scrum
18 23 (7.85%) Technical Leadership
19 22 (7.51%) Coaching
19 22 (7.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 98 (33.45%) Python
2 69 (23.55%) JavaScript
3 67 (22.87%) Java
4 39 (13.31%) TypeScript
5 34 (11.60%) SQL
6 27 (9.22%) C#
7 21 (7.17%) PHP
8 11 (3.75%) R
9 6 (2.05%) C
9 6 (2.05%) Go
9 6 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.71%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.37%) Bash
12 2 (0.68%) Rust
12 2 (0.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) Groovy
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (14.68%) AWS Certification
2 40 (13.65%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 27 (9.22%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.53%) Azure Certification
5 21 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (4.78%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.75%) Degree
8 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.02%) MBA
9 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CISM
10 1 (0.34%) CISSP
10 1 (0.34%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.05%) QA
2 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.37%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.02%) HL7
4 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (15.70%) Docker
2 5 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.37%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.37%) vSphere
4 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (17.06%) Kubernetes
2 48 (16.38%) Terraform
3 24 (8.19%) Ansible
4 9 (3.07%) Grafana
5 7 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.71%) Puppet
7 3 (1.02%) cPanel
7 3 (1.02%) Nagios
7 3 (1.02%) Plesk
7 3 (1.02%) Rancher
7 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.68%) Packer
8 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.34%) Podman
9 1 (0.34%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 44 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.17%) Adobe
3 9 (3.07%) Apple
3 9 (3.07%) Google
3 9 (3.07%) Splunk
4 8 (2.73%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.39%) Oracle
6 6 (2.05%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.05%) VMware
7 5 (1.71%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.37%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.37%) SAP
9 2 (0.68%) Databricks
9 2 (0.68%) Informatica
9 2 (0.68%) New Relic
10 1 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.34%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.34%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.34%) Spotify
10 1 (0.34%) WSO2