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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 260 359 393
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.05% 13.50% 15.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.63% 35.37% 37.08%
Number of salaries quoted 214 213 312
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year - +7.88% -7.31%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,250 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £62,353 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.24% +3.92% -7.69%

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 1,149 1,015 1,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 40.01% 38.16% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 603 574 921
10th Percentile £28,700 £36,250 £34,680
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,080 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 January 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 January 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 -1 5 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Bolton +11 3 £31,500 - 5
Oldham -6 1 £65,000 +18.18%
Stockport -10 1 £60,000 -20.00% 25
Altrincham -16 1 - - 1
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 8 (3.08%) Apache
2 6 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.54%) WordPress
4 2 (0.77%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.77%) JBoss
4 2 (0.77%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.38%) WinCC
Applications
1 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.85%) Magento
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 147 (56.54%) Azure
2 50 (19.23%) GCP
3 31 (11.92%) GitHub
4 23 (8.85%) Serverless
5 19 (7.31%) SaaS
6 15 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 10 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.69%) Amazon Bedrock
10 7 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (2.31%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.31%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.92%) OCI
13 4 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.85%) Internet
2 7 (2.69%) Firewall
3 6 (2.31%) SSL
4 5 (1.92%) DNS
4 5 (1.92%) HTTP
5 3 (1.15%) AMQP
5 3 (1.15%) SSH
6 2 (0.77%) Network Security
6 2 (0.77%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.62%) NoSQL
2 23 (8.85%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.38%) MySQL
5 11 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.69%) Big Data
7 7 (2.69%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.31%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.92%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.92%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.15%) Redis
12 2 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.77%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.77%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 43 (16.54%) Git
2 14 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.85%) GitLab
4 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.15%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.15%) JIRA
6 2 (0.77%) Maven
6 2 (0.77%) Selenium
7 1 (0.38%) Ant
7 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.38%) JMeter
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
7 1 (0.38%) Locust
7 1 (0.38%) Postman
7 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 67 (25.77%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.85%) Finance
2 23 (8.85%) Multimedia
3 20 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.00%) Marketing
7 8 (3.08%) Legal
8 7 (2.69%) Games
8 7 (2.69%) Retail
9 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Electronics
10 4 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.15%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.77%) Law
13 1 (0.38%) Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (24.23%) Developer
2 54 (20.77%) Senior
3 48 (18.46%) Software Engineer
4 33 (12.69%) Lead
5 23 (8.85%) Architect
5 23 (8.85%) Trainee
6 16 (6.15%) Analyst
6 16 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (6.15%) Software Developer
7 15 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (5.00%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.00%) Python Engineer
9 12 (4.62%) Lead Developer
10 11 (4.23%) AWS Architect
10 11 (4.23%) Trainee Developer
10 11 (4.23%) Trainee Software Developer
11 10 (3.85%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.85%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (17.69%) React
2 43 (16.54%) .NET
3 38 (14.62%) CSS
4 36 (13.85%) HTML
5 25 (9.62%) AngularJS
6 23 (8.85%) Node.js
7 21 (8.08%) REST
8 20 (7.69%) Spring
9 19 (7.31%) RESTful
9 19 (7.31%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.85%) Django
10 10 (3.85%) Vue
11 8 (3.08%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.69%) Hibernate
12 7 (2.69%) Kafka
12 7 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.31%) FastAPI
13 6 (2.31%) JSON
14 5 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (1.92%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.31%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.69%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.92%) Clustering
8 5 (1.92%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.15%) IoT
10 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.38%) Linux
2 15 (5.77%) Windows
3 6 (2.31%) Debian
3 6 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.31%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.54%) CentOS
4 4 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.15%) Unix
5 3 (1.15%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.92%) CI/CD
2 77 (29.62%) Agile
3 76 (29.23%) Software Engineering
4 68 (26.15%) DevOps
5 67 (25.77%) Mentoring
6 60 (23.08%) Microservices
7 47 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (17.69%) Cybersecurity
8 46 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (17.31%) AI
10 42 (16.15%) Containerisation
11 37 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (11.15%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (11.15%) Roadmaps
12 29 (11.15%) TDD
13 25 (9.62%) Clean Code
14 22 (8.46%) Coaching
14 22 (8.46%) Collaborative Culture
15 20 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (6.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (30.77%) Python
2 61 (23.46%) JavaScript
3 48 (18.46%) Java
4 42 (16.15%) SQL
5 41 (15.77%) C#
6 25 (9.62%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.15%) PHP
8 12 (4.62%) R
9 7 (2.69%) Bash
10 5 (1.92%) C
10 5 (1.92%) Go
10 5 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.54%) Scala
12 3 (1.15%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.15%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
13 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 30 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 28 (10.77%) Azure Certification
4 23 (8.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 23 (8.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (8.08%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.23%) Degree
8 7 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.15%) MBA
9 3 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.38%) CISM
10 1 (0.38%) CISSP
10 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.31%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.31%) QA
3 4 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.54%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.15%) GDPR
4 3 (1.15%) HL7
4 3 (1.15%) NIST
5 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (19.23%) Docker
2 7 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.15%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.15%) vSphere
5 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.38%) HDFS
6 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 41 (15.77%) Terraform
3 25 (9.62%) Ansible
4 12 (4.62%) Grafana
5 9 (3.46%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.31%) Puppet
7 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.15%) cPanel
8 3 (1.15%) Plesk
8 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.77%) Nagios
9 2 (0.77%) Rancher
9 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.38%) AssetCenter
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.38%) Podman
10 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.08%) Adobe
3 10 (3.85%) Splunk
4 9 (3.46%) Apple
5 8 (3.08%) Google
6 7 (2.69%) Oracle
7 6 (2.31%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.31%) VMware
8 5 (1.92%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.54%) SAP
10 3 (1.15%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.15%) Dell
10 3 (1.15%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.77%) Informatica
11 2 (0.77%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.77%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.77%) SnapLogic
12 1 (0.38%) Pega
12 1 (0.38%) Siemens
12 1 (0.38%) Veeam