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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 592 403 528
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.08% 16.76% 12.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.52% 46.16% 36.64%
Number of salaries quoted 432 218 256
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £88,938 £78,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,375 £85,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +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 1,878 873 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 25.63% 36.31% 35.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,424 582 861
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,875 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -2 8 £65,000 - 5
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Stockport -4 5 £70,000 +12.00% 4
Salford -22 5 £100,000 +44.13% 16
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 19 (3.21%) Apache
2 16 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.52%) Confluence
4 9 (1.52%) IIS
5 7 (1.18%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.51%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.03%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 196 (33.11%) Azure
2 98 (16.55%) GCP
3 85 (14.36%) SaaS
4 81 (13.68%) Serverless
5 62 (10.47%) GitHub
6 53 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (6.93%) Amazon S3
8 35 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (3.38%) Datadog
11 19 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.87%) dbt
12 17 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.53%) Route 53
15 13 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (2.03%) OpenShift
16 12 (2.03%) Snowflake
16 12 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.05%) DNS
1 24 (4.05%) Firewall
2 19 (3.21%) DHCP
3 16 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.36%) VPN
5 9 (1.52%) Network Security
6 8 (1.35%) LAN
6 8 (1.35%) SAN
7 6 (1.01%) WAN
8 5 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.84%) VLAN
9 3 (0.51%) AMQP
9 3 (0.51%) IPsec
9 3 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.51%) VSAN
10 2 (0.34%) BGP
10 2 (0.34%) DMZ
10 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.56%) MongoDB
1 27 (4.56%) NoSQL
2 24 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.04%) DynamoDB
5 18 (3.04%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.69%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.18%) MySQL
11 6 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.01%) Big Data
11 6 (1.01%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.01%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.84%) Redis
13 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (9.12%) Git
2 33 (5.57%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.22%) GitLab
4 16 (2.70%) JIRA
5 13 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.86%) Maven
7 10 (1.69%) Claude Code
8 9 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (1.35%) Storybook
10 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.84%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.68%) Postman
12 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.68%) Vite
13 3 (0.51%) Selenium
14 2 (0.34%) Mocha
14 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 121 (20.44%) Social Skills
2 51 (8.61%) Finance
3 49 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.57%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (2.87%) Legal
7 16 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.70%) Retail
8 15 (2.53%) Publishing
9 13 (2.20%) Aviation
10 12 (2.03%) Marketing
11 11 (1.86%) Health Technology
11 11 (1.86%) Law
12 7 (1.18%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.01%) Banking
14 5 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.84%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.68%) Billing
15 4 (0.68%) iGaming
16 3 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 150 (25.34%) Senior
2 87 (14.70%) Architect
3 78 (13.18%) Software Engineer
4 71 (11.99%) Developer
5 58 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 58 (9.80%) Data Engineer
6 55 (9.29%) Lead
7 51 (8.61%) AWS Engineer
8 42 (7.09%) Senior Developer
9 40 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (6.42%) AWS Architect
12 37 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (4.56%) Analyst
13 27 (4.56%) AWS Solution Architect
14 20 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (3.21%) Java Engineer
16 18 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
16 18 (3.04%) Security Engineer
16 18 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (21.28%) Terraform
2 77 (13.01%) React
3 60 (10.14%) Node.js
4 46 (7.77%) .NET
5 42 (7.09%) AngularJS
5 42 (7.09%) Spring
6 41 (6.93%) Spring Boot
7 34 (5.74%) Kafka
8 26 (4.39%) REST
9 24 (4.05%) Vue
10 21 (3.55%) FastAPI
11 19 (3.21%) CSS
11 19 (3.21%) Next.js
12 17 (2.87%) PySpark
13 16 (2.70%) HTML
13 16 (2.70%) React Native
14 14 (2.36%) LangChain
14 14 (2.36%) RESTful
14 14 (2.36%) Ruby on Rails
15 13 (2.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 135 (22.80%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.89%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.55%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.03%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.18%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.01%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (0.84%) Media Streaming
14 5 (0.84%) Podcast
14 5 (0.84%) Social Media
15 4 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.41%) Linux
2 26 (4.39%) Windows
3 16 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.86%) CentOS
4 11 (1.86%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.84%) Unix
7 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.51%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.51%) Debian
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (33.11%) CI/CD
2 164 (27.70%) DevOps
3 157 (26.52%) Software Engineering
4 145 (24.49%) AI
5 144 (24.32%) Agile
6 112 (18.92%) Mentoring
7 110 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 103 (17.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 93 (15.71%) Microservices
10 91 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (12.33%) Observability
12 71 (11.99%) Full-Stack Development
12 71 (11.99%) Test Automation
13 68 (11.49%) Roadmaps
14 64 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 63 (10.64%) Collaborative Culture
16 62 (10.47%) Containerisation
17 61 (10.30%) Decision-Making
18 60 (10.14%) Machine Learning
19 55 (9.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 189 (31.93%) Python
2 120 (20.27%) SQL
3 104 (17.57%) Java
4 74 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 63 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 33 (5.57%) C#
7 23 (3.89%) PowerShell
8 21 (3.55%) Bash
9 19 (3.21%) Go
10 15 (2.53%) Ruby
10 15 (2.53%) Scala
11 7 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.01%) PHP
13 4 (0.68%) C++
14 3 (0.51%) C
14 3 (0.51%) Rust
15 2 (0.34%) Swift
15 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 71 (11.99%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.59%) Degree
4 31 (5.24%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.22%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.01%) CISM
10 4 (0.68%) CISA
10 4 (0.68%) CISSP
10 4 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.68%) CRISC
10 4 (0.68%) MBA
11 3 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.38%) PCI DSS
4 18 (3.04%) QA
5 15 (2.53%) GDPR
6 13 (2.20%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.86%) NIST
8 8 (1.35%) WCAG
9 5 (0.84%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (15.20%) Docker
2 19 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.04%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.03%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.35%) Firmware
6 7 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) NFS
7 1 (0.17%) UAG
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (18.58%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.09%) Ansible
3 13 (2.20%) Grafana
3 13 (2.20%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.69%) Puppet
5 8 (1.35%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.68%) Nessus
9 3 (0.51%) Argo
9 3 (0.51%) Istio
9 3 (0.51%) linkerd
9 3 (0.51%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.51%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.34%) Packer
10 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
11 1 (0.17%) SCCM
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.41%) Adobe
3 30 (5.07%) Google
4 22 (3.72%) Databricks
4 22 (3.72%) VMware
5 19 (3.21%) Apple
5 19 (3.21%) Splunk
6 12 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.35%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.35%) Cisco
8 8 (1.35%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.18%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.84%) Okta
11 4 (0.68%) Mistral
12 3 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.51%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.51%) New Relic
12 3 (0.51%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.51%) YouTube