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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 487 459 686
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.10% 20.22% 11.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.62% 48.11% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 383 260 508
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,063 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,563 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +7.69% +3.53% -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 1,644 954 2,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.34% 42.03% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 608 1,664
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 12 June 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 June 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 -1 10 £65,000 - 2
Salford -15 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Cheadle -5 4 £63,750 -
Bolton +15 1 £31,500 -
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 13 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.26%) Apache
3 10 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (1.23%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.03%) Confluence
7 4 (0.82%) nginx
7 4 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.62%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.62%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.41%) CICS
9 2 (0.41%) CMS
9 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 2 (0.41%) JBoss
9 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.41%) WordPress
10 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.46%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.05%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 199 (40.86%) Azure
2 90 (18.48%) GCP
3 58 (11.91%) Serverless
4 46 (9.45%) GitHub
4 46 (9.45%) SaaS
5 30 (6.16%) Amazon S3
6 27 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
12 10 (2.05%) Pulumi
13 9 (1.85%) dbt
14 8 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.87%) DNS
2 12 (2.46%) Firewall
3 7 (1.44%) Internet
4 6 (1.23%) DHCP
4 6 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.03%) Network Security
5 5 (1.03%) SSL
6 4 (0.82%) VPN
7 3 (0.62%) AMQP
7 3 (0.62%) HTTP
7 3 (0.62%) LAN
8 2 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.41%) SAN
8 2 (0.41%) VLAN
9 1 (0.21%) VSAN
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.72%) MongoDB
2 22 (4.52%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.11%) Relational Database
4 19 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.26%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.85%) MySQL
9 8 (1.64%) Big Data
9 8 (1.64%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.64%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.23%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.23%) Power BI
11 6 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.03%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.82%) Flink
14 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 46 (9.45%) Git
2 25 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.70%) GitLab
4 13 (2.67%) Claude Code
5 10 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.64%) JIRA
7 7 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.03%) Maven
9 4 (0.82%) Vite
10 3 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.62%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.62%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.62%) Storybook
11 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.41%) Subversion
11 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.21%) MLflow
12 1 (0.21%) Postman
12 1 (0.21%) PyCharm
General
1 68 (13.96%) Social Skills
2 54 (11.09%) Finance
3 28 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (4.93%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.26%) Marketing
6 10 (2.05%) Retail
7 9 (1.85%) Banking
7 9 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.85%) Retail Banking
8 7 (1.44%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.44%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.44%) Multimedia
9 5 (1.03%) Law
10 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.62%) Legal
11 3 (0.62%) Publishing
12 2 (0.41%) Advertising
12 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 134 (27.52%) Senior
2 89 (18.28%) Software Engineer
3 72 (14.78%) Developer
4 58 (11.91%) AWS Engineer
4 58 (11.91%) Lead
5 56 (11.50%) Architect
6 51 (10.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (7.80%) Data Engineer
8 36 (7.39%) Senior Developer
9 30 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (4.93%) Analyst
12 24 (4.93%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.72%) Java Engineer
14 21 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (4.31%) Java Developer
15 20 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
16 19 (3.90%) Security Architect
16 19 (3.90%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.20%) React
2 61 (12.53%) Node.js
3 46 (9.45%) .NET
4 37 (7.60%) Spring
5 36 (7.39%) Spring Boot
6 31 (6.37%) AngularJS
7 26 (5.34%) REST
8 24 (4.93%) CSS
9 22 (4.52%) HTML
10 21 (4.31%) Kafka
11 19 (3.90%) FastAPI
12 18 (3.70%) Next.js
12 18 (3.70%) OAuth
13 17 (3.49%) Vue
14 15 (3.08%) RESTful
15 14 (2.87%) OAuth2
16 13 (2.67%) Pandas
17 12 (2.46%) LangChain
17 12 (2.46%) OpenID
17 12 (2.46%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 76 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.49%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.82%) Life Science
10 4 (0.82%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.62%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.62%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.41%) Culture of Ownership
12 2 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.72%) Linux
2 15 (3.08%) Windows
3 7 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.03%) CentOS
4 5 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.62%) Debian
5 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.21%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (33.06%) CI/CD
2 141 (28.95%) DevOps
3 131 (26.90%) Software Engineering
4 127 (26.08%) Agile
5 110 (22.59%) AI
6 94 (19.30%) Mentoring
7 92 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 88 (18.07%) Microservices
9 77 (15.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (13.35%) TDD
12 57 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (10.88%) Test Automation
14 52 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
15 49 (10.06%) Decision-Making
16 48 (9.86%) Event-Driven
16 48 (9.86%) Platform Engineering
17 47 (9.65%) Observability
18 46 (9.45%) Scrum
19 45 (9.24%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 166 (34.09%) Python
2 100 (20.53%) Java
3 96 (19.71%) SQL
4 67 (13.76%) JavaScript
5 58 (11.91%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.57%) C#
7 20 (4.11%) PHP
8 15 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.87%) Go
10 11 (2.26%) Bash
10 11 (2.26%) Ruby
11 10 (2.05%) Scala
12 7 (1.44%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.82%) C
13 4 (0.82%) R
14 3 (0.62%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.21%) C++
Qualifications
1 67 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 52 (10.68%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.39%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.90%) Degree
5 17 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.41%) CISA
12 2 (0.41%) CISM
12 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 2 (0.41%) CRISC
13 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) MBA
13 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.29%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.46%) QA
4 9 (1.85%) NIST
5 6 (1.23%) GDPR
6 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.62%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) HL7
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (14.17%) Docker
2 8 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.44%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.41%) Firmware
7 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 114 (23.41%) Terraform
2 79 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.95%) Ansible
4 12 (2.46%) Grafana
4 12 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.82%) Puppet
6 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.62%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) Argo
7 2 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.41%) Nagios
7 2 (0.41%) Packer
7 2 (0.41%) Rancher
7 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.21%) Istio
8 1 (0.21%) linkerd
8 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 56 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.01%) Adobe
3 19 (3.90%) Apple
4 12 (2.46%) Databricks
4 12 (2.46%) Google
4 12 (2.46%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.26%) Splunk
6 9 (1.85%) VMware
7 7 (1.44%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.03%) Pega
10 3 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.62%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.62%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.41%) Cisco
11 2 (0.41%) New Relic
11 2 (0.41%) Oracle
11 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.41%) WSO2