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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 544 453 629
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.41% 18.15% 12.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.74% 47.04% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 422 258 399
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,175 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £88,438 £80,000 £75,386
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 1,829 963 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.27% 38.58% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 626 1,367
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £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 24 July 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 24 July 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 10 £65,000 - 2
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 -
Salford -18 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +14 1 £31,500 - 2
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 (2.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (2.21%) Apache
2 12 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.47%) Confluence
4 8 (1.47%) IIS
5 7 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.10%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.74%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.74%) nginx
8 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.37%) CICS
9 2 (0.37%) JBoss
9 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.37%) WordPress
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (1.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.21%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 196 (36.03%) Azure
2 95 (17.46%) GCP
3 68 (12.50%) Serverless
4 63 (11.58%) SaaS
5 51 (9.38%) GitHub
6 37 (6.80%) Amazon S3
7 33 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.39%) Anthropic Claude
13 12 (2.21%) dbt
14 11 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.02%) Pulumi
15 10 (1.84%) npm
15 10 (1.84%) PaaS
16 9 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.60%) Firewall
2 21 (3.86%) DNS
3 16 (2.94%) DHCP
4 14 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.57%) VPN
5 9 (1.65%) Network Security
6 6 (1.10%) LAN
6 6 (1.10%) SAN
7 5 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.92%) VLAN
8 4 (0.74%) WAN
9 3 (0.55%) IPsec
9 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.55%) SSL
10 2 (0.37%) AMQP
10 2 (0.37%) BGP
10 2 (0.37%) DMZ
10 2 (0.37%) Internet
11 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.78%) MongoDB
2 25 (4.60%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.04%) Relational Database
3 22 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.02%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.65%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.47%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.29%) MySQL
10 7 (1.29%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.29%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.92%) Big Data
12 5 (0.92%) Power BI
12 5 (0.92%) Redis
13 4 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 52 (9.56%) Git
2 34 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.86%) GitLab
4 13 (2.39%) Bitbucket
4 13 (2.39%) Claude Code
4 13 (2.39%) JIRA
5 10 (1.84%) Maven
6 9 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (1.47%) Storybook
8 5 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.74%) Postman
9 4 (0.74%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.74%) Vite
10 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.55%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.55%) Selenium
11 2 (0.37%) Subversion
11 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 91 (16.73%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.29%) Finance
3 35 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.21%) Marketing
8 11 (2.02%) Health Technology
8 11 (2.02%) Retail
9 9 (1.65%) Banking
9 9 (1.65%) Publishing
9 9 (1.65%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.29%) Law
10 7 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.74%) Legal
12 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.37%) Advertising
13 2 (0.37%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.37%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 145 (26.65%) Senior
2 75 (13.79%) Developer
3 74 (13.60%) Architect
3 74 (13.60%) Software Engineer
4 61 (11.21%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (10.48%) Lead
6 54 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.82%) Data Engineer
8 44 (8.09%) Senior Developer
9 43 (7.90%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
11 32 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 30 (5.51%) AWS Architect
13 23 (4.23%) AWS Solution Architect
14 21 (3.86%) Analyst
14 21 (3.86%) Java Engineer
14 21 (3.86%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
15 20 (3.68%) Java Developer
15 20 (3.68%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.97%) React
2 70 (12.87%) Node.js
3 48 (8.82%) .NET
4 42 (7.72%) AngularJS
5 37 (6.80%) Spring
5 37 (6.80%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.78%) Kafka
7 25 (4.60%) CSS
7 25 (4.60%) Vue
8 23 (4.23%) FastAPI
8 23 (4.23%) HTML
8 23 (4.23%) REST
9 20 (3.68%) Next.js
10 17 (3.13%) OAuth
11 16 (2.94%) RESTful
12 15 (2.76%) React Native
13 14 (2.57%) LangChain
13 14 (2.57%) Pandas
13 14 (2.57%) PySpark
13 14 (2.57%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 104 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.94%) AI Agents
4 16 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.21%) Marketing Technology
7 11 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.29%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.92%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.74%) IVR
12 4 (0.74%) Life Science
12 4 (0.74%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.68%) Linux
2 19 (3.49%) Windows
3 13 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.65%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.29%) CentOS
6 6 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.37%) Debian
8 2 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.18%) Android
9 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.18%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.18%) Solaris
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 170 (31.25%) DevOps
3 137 (25.18%) Agile
4 133 (24.45%) AI
5 125 (22.98%) Software Engineering
6 98 (18.01%) Mentoring
7 97 (17.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 90 (16.54%) Microservices
9 81 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (14.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 68 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (12.32%) Test Automation
13 63 (11.58%) TDD
14 57 (10.48%) Decision-Making
15 54 (9.93%) Observability
16 53 (9.74%) Machine Learning
16 53 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
17 52 (9.56%) Containerisation
18 51 (9.38%) Roadmaps
19 48 (8.82%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 184 (33.82%) Python
2 112 (20.59%) SQL
3 101 (18.57%) Java
4 69 (12.68%) JavaScript
5 68 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.25%) C#
7 21 (3.86%) PowerShell
8 16 (2.94%) Bash
8 16 (2.94%) Go
9 14 (2.57%) Ruby
9 14 (2.57%) Scala
10 8 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.47%) PHP
11 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.37%) C
12 2 (0.37%) R
12 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.18%) C++
13 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 81 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 65 (11.95%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.51%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.96%) Degree
5 22 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 12 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.74%) CISA
11 4 (0.74%) CISM
11 4 (0.74%) CISSP
11 4 (0.74%) CRISC
11 4 (0.74%) MBA
12 2 (0.37%) CCIE
12 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.18%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.68%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.94%) QA
5 14 (2.57%) GDPR
6 11 (2.02%) NIST
7 10 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.47%) WCAG
9 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 83 (15.26%) Docker
2 17 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.84%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.29%) Firmware
6 5 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) KVM
8 1 (0.18%) NFS
8 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (22.61%) Terraform
2 95 (17.46%) Kubernetes
3 36 (6.62%) Ansible
4 12 (2.21%) Grafana
4 12 (2.21%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.29%) Puppet
6 6 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.55%) Argo
8 3 (0.55%) Istio
8 3 (0.55%) linkerd
9 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.37%) Nagios
9 2 (0.37%) Nessus
9 2 (0.37%) Packer
9 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 65 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.88%) Adobe
3 20 (3.68%) Google
4 19 (3.49%) Splunk
4 19 (3.49%) VMware
5 18 (3.31%) Apple
6 15 (2.76%) Databricks
7 12 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.65%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.47%) Cisco
10 7 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.29%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.10%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.92%) Okta
12 5 (0.92%) Pega
13 3 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 2 (0.37%) New Relic
14 2 (0.37%) SaltStack
14 2 (0.37%) Zscaler