AWS Jobs in Manchester

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 444 720 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.07% 13.23% 24.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 47.03% 34.33% 49.48%
Number of salaries quoted 249 495 579
10th Percentile £47,034 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £63,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,772 £78,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £85,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,783 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% +4.00%

All Cloud 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 944 2,097 2,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 42.68% 38.53% 49.55%
Number of salaries quoted 598 1,633 1,351
10th Percentile £31,338 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -3.40% +4.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in Manchester.

Salary trend for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 +4 16 £65,000 +18.18% 21
Stockport -3 14 £75,000 +33.33% 208
Cheadle +12 11 - -
Salford +5 10 £67,626 -9.83% 10
Oldham - 9 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 - - 20
Sale - 8 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Bury +3 5 - - 19
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Bolton -27 3 - - 295
Wigan - 3 - -
Rochdale +5 1 £65,000 - 3
AWS
North West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (4.95%) Confluence
2 8 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.35%) IIS
4 5 (1.13%) Apache
5 4 (0.90%) CMS
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.68%) nginx
6 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.45%) WordPress
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 223 (50.23%) Azure
2 166 (37.39%) GCP
3 44 (9.91%) Serverless
4 31 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (4.50%) GitHub
6 19 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (4.28%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (4.05%) SaaS
8 16 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (3.15%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 12 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (2.48%) Cloud Composer
13 10 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.03%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.80%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.58%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.60%) DNS
2 10 (2.25%) WAN
3 7 (1.58%) Firewall
3 7 (1.58%) VPN
4 6 (1.35%) HTTP
5 5 (1.13%) Internet
5 5 (1.13%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (0.90%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (0.90%) SSH
7 2 (0.45%) DHCP
7 2 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.23%) LAN
8 1 (0.23%) OSPF
8 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.04%) SQL Server
2 43 (9.68%) MySQL
3 41 (9.23%) MongoDB
4 37 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 27 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (3.38%) DynamoDB
7 14 (3.15%) Power BI
8 13 (2.93%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.70%) BigQuery
10 11 (2.48%) Cloud Spanner
11 9 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (2.03%) Tableau
12 7 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.13%) Big Data
14 5 (1.13%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.13%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (11.04%) JIRA
2 47 (10.59%) GitLab
3 37 (8.33%) Selenium
4 33 (7.43%) Cucumber
5 28 (6.31%) Bitbucket
5 28 (6.31%) Git
6 27 (6.08%) Maven
6 27 (6.08%) SonarQube
6 27 (6.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 18 (4.05%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.58%) JMeter
9 5 (1.13%) Jasmine
9 5 (1.13%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.90%) Appium
10 4 (0.90%) Fiddler
10 4 (0.90%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.90%) Postman
11 3 (0.68%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 117 (26.35%) Finance
2 112 (25.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 82 (18.47%) Social Skills
4 62 (13.96%) Banking
5 42 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (9.23%) Retail
7 21 (4.73%) Games
8 18 (4.05%) Corporate Banking
8 18 (4.05%) Investment Banking
9 14 (3.15%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.80%) Marketing
12 7 (1.58%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.35%) Cantonese Language
13 6 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.35%) Mandarin Language
14 5 (1.13%) Back Office
14 5 (1.13%) Digital Healthcare
14 5 (1.13%) Legal
14 5 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 189 (42.57%) Software Engineer
2 170 (38.29%) Senior
3 113 (25.45%) Senior Software Engineer
4 80 (18.02%) Lead
5 62 (13.96%) Developer
6 29 (6.53%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (6.08%) Senior Developer
8 21 (4.73%) .NET Developer
9 20 (4.50%) Data Engineer
10 19 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 19 (4.28%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (3.83%) Architect
11 17 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (3.60%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (3.38%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.15%) AWS Software Engineer
15 13 (2.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 13 (2.93%) Java Engineer
15 13 (2.93%) Technical Leader
16 12 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (31.08%) Node.js
2 130 (29.28%) .NET
3 113 (25.45%) React
4 60 (13.51%) CSS
4 60 (13.51%) HTML
5 58 (13.06%) Kafka
6 53 (11.94%) Spring Boot
7 44 (9.91%) Spring
8 43 (9.68%) RESTful
9 38 (8.56%) Redux
10 37 (8.33%) REST
11 30 (6.76%) AngularJS
12 27 (6.08%) JPA
12 27 (6.08%) Sass
13 25 (5.63%) .NET Core
13 25 (5.63%) HTML5
14 21 (4.73%) Jest
15 20 (4.50%) CSS3
16 16 (3.60%) Vue
16 16 (3.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.92%) Cyberattack
2 83 (18.69%) Self-Motivation
3 82 (18.47%) Linux Command Line
4 50 (11.26%) Product Ownership
5 38 (8.56%) Cloud Native
6 31 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.70%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.25%) Mobile App
11 9 (2.03%) IoT
11 9 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.80%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.58%) Wiki
14 6 (1.35%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (1.13%) Life Science
15 5 (1.13%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 118 (26.58%) Linux
2 25 (5.63%) Windows
3 7 (1.58%) CentOS
3 7 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.35%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.90%) Android
5 4 (0.90%) Unix
6 3 (0.68%) Debian
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (56.98%) Software Engineering
2 239 (53.83%) Agile
3 190 (42.79%) Microservices
4 157 (35.36%) Mentoring
5 138 (31.08%) DevOps
6 135 (30.41%) CI/CD
7 132 (29.73%) User Experience
8 107 (24.10%) Cloud Security
9 106 (23.87%) Machine Learning
10 102 (22.97%) Data Engineering
11 98 (22.07%) Scrum
12 96 (21.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 71 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (14.86%) Containerisation
14 66 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 66 (14.86%) Test Automation
15 57 (12.84%) Roadmaps
16 47 (10.59%) Front End Development
17 44 (9.91%) TDD
18 43 (9.68%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 206 (46.40%) JavaScript
2 202 (45.50%) Java
3 185 (41.67%) Python
4 103 (23.20%) TypeScript
5 97 (21.85%) SQL
6 94 (21.17%) Go
7 84 (18.92%) C++
8 82 (18.47%) Rust
9 40 (9.01%) C#
10 26 (5.86%) PHP
11 13 (2.93%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.03%) Bash
13 5 (1.13%) Scala
14 3 (0.68%) R
15 2 (0.45%) Ruby
16 1 (0.23%) Bicep
16 1 (0.23%) Perl
16 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (21.85%) AWS Certification
2 92 (20.72%) Security Cleared
3 91 (20.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 85 (19.14%) DV Cleared
5 82 (18.47%) AWS Certified Developer
6 34 (7.66%) Degree
7 23 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.48%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.58%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.68%) Linux+ Certification
11 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.68%) RHCE
12 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.46%) QA
2 31 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.73%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.70%) GDPR
5 9 (2.03%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.35%) NIST
7 5 (1.13%) HL7
8 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.45%) SLA
10 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 119 (26.80%) Docker
2 16 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.68%) Dovecot
5 3 (0.68%) Postfix
5 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (23.65%) Kubernetes
2 78 (17.57%) Terraform
3 21 (4.73%) Ansible
4 14 (3.15%) Grafana
5 7 (1.58%) Puppet
6 5 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.90%) Kibana
8 3 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.45%) Salt
10 1 (0.23%) Argo
10 1 (0.23%) Automic
10 1 (0.23%) Consul
10 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.23%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.23%) Rancher
10 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (9.91%) Google
2 27 (6.08%) Solace
3 13 (2.93%) Ping Identity
4 11 (2.48%) VMware
5 10 (2.25%) Oracle
6 9 (2.03%) Informatica
6 9 (2.03%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.58%) Okta
8 5 (1.13%) Databricks
8 5 (1.13%) IBM
8 5 (1.13%) Splunk
8 5 (1.13%) Veeam
9 4 (0.90%) Cisco
9 4 (0.90%) Perforce
9 4 (0.90%) SAP
9 4 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.90%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.68%) Hitachi
10 3 (0.68%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.68%) Twitter