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 citing AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	13	11	10
Rank change year-on-year	-2	-1	-4
Permanent jobs citing AWS	617	280	480
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester	7.90%	11.71%	13.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category	33.59%	33.02%	37.71%
Number of salaries quoted	419	212	237
10^th Percentile	£51,250	£33,438	£43,750
25^th Percentile	£60,000	£55,000	£51,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£75,000	£66,250	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+13.21%	+1.92%	+4.00%
75^th Percentile	£90,000	£82,500	£74,144
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£97,250	£85,000
North West median annual salary	£72,500	£65,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+11.54%	+8.33%	-

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 citing cloud computing skills in Manchester.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	1,837	848	1,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester	23.52%	35.47%	35.29%
Number of salaries quoted	1,314	601	688
10^th Percentile	£36,250	£29,500	£35,525
25^th Percentile	£49,094	£40,000	£46,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£60,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.33%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£77,500	£73,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£88,750	£84,825
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 Salary Trend in Manchester

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 10 November 2026.

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 10 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Stockport	-5	11	£70,000	-	6
Altrincham	-3	10	£60,000	-7.69%	8
Salford	-17	9	£100,000	+35.50%	9
Cheadle	-	6	£63,750	-	3
AWS North West

AWS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 10 November 2026, job vacancies citing AWS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region citing AWS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	33.1%	204
2	Software Engineering	30.5%	188
3	DevOps	30.1%	186
4	Python	29.2%	180
5	Azure	26.3%	162
6	AI	24.8%	153
7	Agile	24.6%	152
8	Java	20.1%	124
8	Kubernetes	20.1%	124
10	Security Cleared	19.9%	123
11	Mentoring	19.6%	121
12	Terraform	19.1%	118
13	Continuous Improvement	18.3%	113
14	SQL	18.0%	111
15	Microservices	16.2%	100
16	Infrastructure as Code	15.9%	98
17	Docker	15.4%	95
18	Problem-Solving	15.2%	94
19	TypeScript	14.4%	89
20	SC Cleared	13.9%	86
21	GCP	13.6%	84
22	React	13.1%	81
22	SaaS	13.1%	81
24	Technical Leadership	13.0%	80
25	Serverless	12.6%	78
25	Stakeholder Management	12.6%	78
27	Test Automation	12.2%	75
28	Observability	12.0%	74
29	Full-Stack Development	11.0%	68
30	Containerisation	10.7%	66

AWS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	26.3%	162
2	GCP	13.6%	84
3	SaaS	13.1%	81
4	Serverless	12.6%	78
5	AWS Lambda	9.4%	58
6	GitHub	9.2%	57
7	Amazon S3	6.6%	41
8	AWS CloudFormation	5.3%	33
9	Amazon ECS	3.7%	23
10	Datadog	2.8%	17
10	dbt	2.8%	17
12	GitHub Actions	2.6%	16
12	Microsoft 365	2.6%	16
14	Azure DevOps	2.4%	15
14	GitHub Copilot	2.4%	15
14	Route 53	2.4%	15
17	Amazon EKS	2.3%	14
18	PaaS	1.9%	12
19	Amazon CloudWatch	1.8%	11
19	Amazon EC2	1.8%	11