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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 397 445 603
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.41% 20.24% 12.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.53% 45.69% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 304 273 488
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,446 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £63,624
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +5.36% -2.12%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £76,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £85,750
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,037 £62,783
% change year-on-year +0.69% +6.78% -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 1,687 974 1,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 31.49% 44.29% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 652 1,607
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 9 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 9 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 -6 9 £65,000 +20.93% 5
Salford -13 6 £70,000 +3.51% 2
Bolton +22 3 £31,500 - 3
Stockport -12 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 (1.76%) Apache
1 7 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.76%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.51%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.26%) WordPress
4 4 (1.01%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.76%) Confluence
5 3 (0.76%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.76%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.50%) CICS
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) JBoss
6 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.52%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 174 (43.83%) Azure
2 74 (18.64%) GCP
3 47 (11.84%) Serverless
4 39 (9.82%) GitHub
5 29 (7.30%) SaaS
6 23 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (5.04%) Amazon S3
8 18 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.02%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.51%) Datadog
14 6 (1.51%) dbt
14 6 (1.51%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.53%) Internet
2 8 (2.02%) DNS
2 8 (2.02%) Firewall
3 7 (1.76%) SSL
4 5 (1.26%) HTTP
5 4 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.01%) Network Security
5 4 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.76%) AMQP
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.25%) SSH
7 1 (0.25%) VPN
7 1 (0.25%) VSAN
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (4.53%) MongoDB
3 17 (4.28%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.52%) MySQL
7 8 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.02%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.02%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.76%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.76%) Neo4j
9 6 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.51%) Big Data
9 6 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.26%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.01%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.01%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.01%) Flink
12 3 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (12.09%) Git
2 16 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.27%) GitLab
4 12 (3.02%) Claude Code
5 9 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.51%) JIRA
8 3 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.76%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.50%) Maven
9 2 (0.50%) Subversion
9 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.50%) Vite
10 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.25%) PyCharm
General
1 51 (12.85%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.08%) Finance
3 27 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.29%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.53%) Multimedia
7 10 (2.52%) Retail
8 9 (2.27%) Banking
8 9 (2.27%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.76%) Marketing
10 6 (1.51%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.26%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Legal
13 2 (0.50%) Advertising
13 2 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.25%) Law
14 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 110 (27.71%) Senior
2 73 (18.39%) Software Engineer
3 67 (16.88%) Developer
4 48 (12.09%) Lead
5 46 (11.59%) AWS Engineer
6 40 (10.08%) Architect
6 40 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (8.31%) Senior Developer
8 25 (6.30%) Analyst
9 24 (6.05%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
11 22 (5.54%) Java Engineer
12 21 (5.29%) Java Developer
13 20 (5.04%) Trainee
14 19 (4.79%) AWS Architect
14 19 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
15 18 (4.53%) Security Architect
16 16 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (4.03%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (15.37%) React
2 49 (12.34%) Node.js
3 34 (8.56%) Spring
4 33 (8.31%) Spring Boot
5 32 (8.06%) .NET
6 29 (7.30%) CSS
7 27 (6.80%) HTML
8 25 (6.30%) REST
9 22 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.78%) Kafka
11 13 (3.27%) Pandas
11 13 (3.27%) RESTful
12 12 (3.02%) OAuth
13 10 (2.52%) OAuth2
13 10 (2.52%) PySpark
14 9 (2.27%) Django
14 9 (2.27%) FastAPI
14 9 (2.27%) NumPy
14 9 (2.27%) scikit-learn
15 8 (2.02%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.02%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.76%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.51%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.26%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.76%) IoT
12 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.50%) Life Science
12 2 (0.50%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.50%) NHS
13 1 (0.25%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.30%) Linux
2 14 (3.53%) Windows
3 5 (1.26%) CentOS
3 5 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.76%) Debian
4 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.25%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.72%) CI/CD
2 110 (27.71%) DevOps
3 105 (26.45%) Agile
3 105 (26.45%) Software Engineering
4 85 (21.41%) Mentoring
5 80 (20.15%) AI
6 68 (17.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 63 (15.87%) Microservices
8 59 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
9 58 (14.61%) TDD
10 50 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 42 (10.58%) Scrum
12 39 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (9.07%) Collaborative Culture
13 36 (9.07%) Cost Optimisation
13 36 (9.07%) Event-Driven
13 36 (9.07%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (8.82%) Containerisation
14 35 (8.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 129 (32.49%) Python
2 88 (22.17%) Java
3 67 (16.88%) SQL
4 65 (16.37%) JavaScript
5 49 (12.34%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.54%) C#
7 21 (5.29%) PHP
8 10 (2.52%) Go
9 9 (2.27%) R
10 8 (2.02%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.76%) Bash
12 6 (1.51%) C
12 6 (1.51%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.76%) Ruby
13 3 (0.76%) Scala
14 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 55 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.59%) AWS Certification
3 41 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (4.28%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.78%) Degree
7 14 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.25%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) MBA
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.78%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.76%) NIST
4 7 (1.76%) QA
5 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 54 (13.60%) Docker
2 5 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.76%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.76%) vSphere
5 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (21.16%) Terraform
2 62 (15.62%) Kubernetes
3 26 (6.55%) Ansible
4 12 (3.02%) Grafana
4 12 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.76%) Nagios
5 3 (0.76%) Puppet
5 3 (0.76%) Rancher
5 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.50%) cPanel
6 2 (0.50%) Packer
6 2 (0.50%) Plesk
6 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 51 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.32%) Adobe
3 21 (5.29%) Apple
4 12 (3.02%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.76%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.76%) Splunk
6 5 (1.26%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.26%) Google
6 5 (1.26%) Pega
6 5 (1.26%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.26%) VMware
7 4 (1.01%) Databricks
8 3 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.76%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.50%) New Relic
9 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle
9 2 (0.50%) WSO2
10 1 (0.25%) Informatica
10 1 (0.25%) McAfee