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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 587 436 576
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.66% 17.43% 12.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.86% 45.80% 34.66%
Number of salaries quoted 443 243 337
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £79,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 1,902 952 1,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.07% 38.06% 37.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,477 622 1,167
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,775 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,913 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.86% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £85,700
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% -1.32%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -2 9 £65,000 - 3
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -22 4 £70,000 +2.18% 2
Bolton +15 1 £31,500 - 2
Stockport -6 1 £70,000 +1.82% 10
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 17 (2.90%) Apache
1 17 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.53%) IIS
5 8 (1.36%) Confluence
6 7 (1.19%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.68%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.68%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.51%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 5 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 206 (35.09%) Azure
2 103 (17.55%) GCP
3 77 (13.12%) Serverless
4 74 (12.61%) SaaS
5 62 (10.56%) GitHub
6 43 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (6.64%) Amazon S3
8 38 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.24%) dbt
12 18 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (2.56%) Datadog
15 14 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.21%) Anthropic Claude
17 11 (1.87%) GitHub Copilot
17 11 (1.87%) PaaS
17 11 (1.87%) Pulumi
17 11 (1.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.26%) Firewall
2 24 (4.09%) DNS
3 18 (3.07%) DHCP
3 18 (3.07%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.39%) VPN
5 9 (1.53%) Network Security
6 8 (1.36%) LAN
6 8 (1.36%) SAN
7 6 (1.02%) WAN
8 5 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.85%) VLAN
9 3 (0.51%) IPsec
9 3 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.51%) VSAN
10 2 (0.34%) BGP
10 2 (0.34%) DMZ
10 2 (0.34%) Internet
10 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.60%) MongoDB
2 26 (4.43%) NoSQL
3 25 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (2.73%) DynamoDB
7 15 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.04%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.19%) MySQL
10 7 (1.19%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.19%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.85%) Big Data
12 5 (0.85%) Redis
13 4 (0.68%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.68%) Flink
Development Applications
1 60 (10.22%) Git
2 37 (6.30%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.75%) GitLab
4 13 (2.21%) Bitbucket
4 13 (2.21%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.21%) JIRA
5 10 (1.70%) Maven
6 8 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.36%) Storybook
6 8 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.68%) Postman
8 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.68%) Vite
9 3 (0.51%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.51%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.51%) Selenium
10 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.17%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 109 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 58 (9.88%) Finance
3 43 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (2.73%) Retail
7 12 (2.04%) Marketing
8 11 (1.87%) Health Technology
8 11 (1.87%) Law
9 10 (1.70%) Banking
9 10 (1.70%) Publishing
10 9 (1.53%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.36%) Aviation
11 8 (1.36%) Legal
12 5 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.51%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.34%) Advertising
14 2 (0.34%) Games
14 2 (0.34%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 152 (25.89%) Senior
2 79 (13.46%) Architect
3 78 (13.29%) Software Engineer
4 76 (12.95%) Developer
5 62 (10.56%) AWS Engineer
6 60 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 58 (9.88%) Lead
8 52 (8.86%) Data Engineer
9 46 (7.84%) Senior Developer
10 41 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
12 36 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (5.28%) AWS Architect
14 24 (4.09%) Analyst
14 24 (4.09%) AWS Solution Architect
15 21 (3.58%) Java Engineer
15 21 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
16 20 (3.41%) Java Developer
17 19 (3.24%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.12%) React
2 68 (11.58%) Node.js
3 50 (8.52%) .NET
4 44 (7.50%) AngularJS
5 36 (6.13%) Spring
5 36 (6.13%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.43%) Kafka
6 26 (4.43%) REST
7 25 (4.26%) CSS
7 25 (4.26%) Vue
8 23 (3.92%) FastAPI
9 22 (3.75%) HTML
10 20 (3.41%) Next.js
11 18 (3.07%) RESTful
12 16 (2.73%) React Native
13 15 (2.56%) OAuth
13 15 (2.56%) PySpark
14 14 (2.39%) LangChain
14 14 (2.39%) Ruby on Rails
15 12 (2.04%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 126 (21.47%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.41%) AI Agents
4 20 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.73%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
7 11 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.70%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.85%) Social Media
12 4 (0.68%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.60%) Linux
2 24 (4.09%) Windows
3 16 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.87%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.53%) CentOS
6 8 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.68%) Unix
8 3 (0.51%) CoreOS
8 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (33.56%) CI/CD
2 176 (29.98%) DevOps
3 148 (25.21%) Agile
3 148 (25.21%) Software Engineering
4 145 (24.70%) AI
5 109 (18.57%) Mentoring
6 103 (17.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 94 (16.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (15.84%) Microservices
9 78 (13.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 75 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (11.93%) Test Automation
12 64 (10.90%) Observability
13 63 (10.73%) Roadmaps
14 61 (10.39%) Decision-Making
14 61 (10.39%) Machine Learning
15 59 (10.05%) Collaborative Culture
15 59 (10.05%) TDD
16 54 (9.20%) Containerisation
16 54 (9.20%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 198 (33.73%) Python
2 126 (21.47%) SQL
3 103 (17.55%) Java
4 70 (11.93%) JavaScript
4 70 (11.93%) TypeScript
5 37 (6.30%) C#
6 23 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 20 (3.41%) Bash
8 19 (3.24%) Go
9 15 (2.56%) Ruby
9 15 (2.56%) Scala
10 9 (1.53%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.36%) PHP
12 3 (0.51%) C
12 3 (0.51%) C++
12 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.34%) R
13 2 (0.34%) Swift
13 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (15.16%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.47%) Degree
4 31 (5.28%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.68%) CISA
10 4 (0.68%) CISM
10 4 (0.68%) CISSP
10 4 (0.68%) CRISC
10 4 (0.68%) MBA
11 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.34%) CCIE
12 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.34%) GCIH
12 2 (0.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.41%) PCI DSS
3 20 (3.41%) QA
4 15 (2.56%) GDPR
5 11 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.87%) NIST
6 8 (1.36%) WCAG
7 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 88 (14.99%) Docker
2 18 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.36%) Firmware
6 7 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) NFS
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 130 (22.15%) Terraform
2 102 (17.38%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.64%) Ansible
4 12 (2.04%) Grafana
4 12 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.53%) Puppet
6 7 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.68%) Nessus
9 3 (0.51%) Argo
9 3 (0.51%) Istio
9 3 (0.51%) linkerd
9 3 (0.51%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.51%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.17%) Nagios
11 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 71 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.45%) Adobe
3 26 (4.43%) Google
4 21 (3.58%) VMware
5 20 (3.41%) Databricks
6 19 (3.24%) Apple
6 19 (3.24%) Splunk
7 12 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.36%) Cisco
10 7 (1.19%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.19%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.85%) Okta
11 5 (0.85%) Pega
12 3 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.51%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.51%) McAfee
13 2 (0.34%) Oracle
13 2 (0.34%) Zscaler