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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 308 352 572
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.53% 16.47% 12.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.92% 38.22% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 240 268 480
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,175 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +3.53% +4.42%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% +2.09%

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 1,405 921 1,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.34% 43.10% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 791 653 1,514
10th Percentile £30,500 £33,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -

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 20 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 20 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 -3 10 £70,039 +1.06% 4
Altrincham -9 6 £67,500 +28.57% 3
Bolton +22 4 £31,500 - 5
Stockport -10 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 (2.27%) Apache
1 7 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.95%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.95%) WordPress
3 4 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.97%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.97%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.97%) nginx
5 2 (0.65%) CICS
5 2 (0.65%) CMS
5 2 (0.65%) JBoss
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.32%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.95%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (3.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 145 (47.08%) Azure
2 53 (17.21%) GCP
3 38 (12.34%) Serverless
4 31 (10.06%) GitHub
5 23 (7.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (6.17%) SaaS
7 18 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 13 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (2.60%) dbt
13 7 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.27%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.95%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.82%) Internet
2 8 (2.60%) DNS
3 7 (2.27%) SSL
4 6 (1.95%) Firewall
4 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.62%) HTTP
6 4 (1.30%) AMQP
7 2 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.65%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.65%) SSH
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) LAN
8 1 (0.32%) Network Security
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
8 1 (0.32%) VSAN
8 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 18 (5.84%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (4.22%) MySQL
4 13 (4.22%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.27%) Neo4j
5 7 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.95%) Big Data
6 6 (1.95%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.62%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.97%) GIS
9 3 (0.97%) QGIS
9 3 (0.97%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (16.56%) Git
2 13 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.92%) GitLab
4 6 (1.95%) Claude Code
4 6 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (1.62%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.97%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.97%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.65%) Subversion
7 2 (0.65%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.32%) JIRA
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) Locust
General
1 50 (16.23%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.01%) Finance
3 21 (6.82%) Multimedia
3 21 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.57%) Retail
7 10 (3.25%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.92%) Marketing
9 7 (2.27%) Legal
10 6 (1.95%) Banking
11 5 (1.62%) Electronics
11 5 (1.62%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.30%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.30%) Games
13 3 (0.97%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (24.03%) Senior
2 66 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 63 (20.45%) Developer
4 38 (12.34%) Lead
5 34 (11.04%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (8.77%) Trainee
7 23 (7.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 18 (5.84%) Senior Developer
9 18 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (5.52%) Python Engineer
11 16 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
12 15 (4.87%) Architect
13 14 (4.55%) Java Engineer
13 14 (4.55%) Software Developer
14 12 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.57%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (17.86%) React
2 40 (12.99%) Node.js
3 36 (11.69%) CSS
4 35 (11.36%) .NET
4 35 (11.36%) HTML
5 33 (10.71%) Spring
6 32 (10.39%) Spring Boot
7 25 (8.12%) REST
8 23 (7.47%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.84%) RESTful
10 13 (4.22%) Django
11 11 (3.57%) Vue
12 9 (2.92%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.92%) OAuth
12 9 (2.92%) OAuth2
13 8 (2.60%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.60%) Pandas
13 8 (2.60%) scikit-learn
14 7 (2.27%) Kafka
14 7 (2.27%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.95%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.30%) IoT
7 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.65%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.65%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.65%) NHS
9 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.09%) Linux
2 15 (4.87%) Windows
3 6 (1.95%) CentOS
3 6 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.30%) Debian
5 4 (1.30%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.97%) Unix
6 3 (0.97%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (31.82%) Agile
2 96 (31.17%) Software Engineering
3 94 (30.52%) CI/CD
4 89 (28.90%) DevOps
5 73 (23.70%) Mentoring
6 60 (19.48%) Microservices
7 53 (17.21%) TDD
8 50 (16.23%) AI
8 50 (16.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 41 (13.31%) Cybersecurity
12 38 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (12.01%) Scrum
14 33 (10.71%) Containerisation
15 30 (9.74%) Clean Code
15 30 (9.74%) Collaborative Culture
16 27 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
17 25 (8.12%) Coaching
18 24 (7.79%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 106 (34.42%) Python
2 83 (26.95%) Java
3 77 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 42 (13.64%) SQL
5 39 (12.66%) TypeScript
6 25 (8.12%) C#
7 22 (7.14%) PHP
8 12 (3.90%) R
9 6 (1.95%) C
9 6 (1.95%) Go
9 6 (1.95%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.62%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.65%) Bash
12 2 (0.65%) Scala
13 1 (0.32%) Bicep
13 1 (0.32%) C++
13 1 (0.32%) Rust
13 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 41 (13.31%) Security Cleared
3 28 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 27 (8.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 24 (7.79%) Azure Certification
6 21 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (4.55%) Degree
7 14 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.97%) MBA
9 3 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CISM
10 1 (0.32%) CISSP
10 1 (0.32%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.95%) Data Quality
1 6 (1.95%) PCI DSS
1 6 (1.95%) QA
2 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.97%) NIST
4 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.65%) HL7
5 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (16.23%) Docker
2 5 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (1.62%) VMware NSX
2 5 (1.62%) vSphere
3 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (19.48%) Terraform
2 52 (16.88%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.12%) Ansible
4 8 (2.60%) Grafana
5 6 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.30%) Puppet
7 3 (0.97%) cPanel
7 3 (0.97%) Nagios
7 3 (0.97%) Plesk
7 3 (0.97%) Rancher
7 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.65%) Packer
8 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.32%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.32%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 39 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.49%) Adobe
3 9 (2.92%) Apple
4 8 (2.60%) Google
4 8 (2.60%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.60%) Splunk
5 7 (2.27%) VMware
6 6 (1.95%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.62%) Pega
7 5 (1.62%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.30%) Oracle
8 4 (1.30%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.97%) SAP
10 2 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.65%) Databricks
10 2 (0.65%) New Relic
10 2 (0.65%) WSO2
11 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.32%) Spotify
11 1 (0.32%) Veeam