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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 450 436 635
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 7.70% 20.44% 12.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.31% 47.14% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 348 242 494
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,037 £63,624
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +5.36% -2.12%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,037 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.42% +6.78% -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 1,778 925 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.41% 43.37% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,187 583 1,625
10th Percentile £32,800 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,991
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 27 May 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 27 May 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 - 4
Salford -20 6 £70,000 +3.51% 4
Bolton +20 2 £31,500 -
Cheadle -9 1 £55,000 - 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 (1.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 8 (1.78%) Apache
1 8 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (1.78%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.33%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.89%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.67%) Confluence
4 3 (0.67%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.67%) nginx
4 3 (0.67%) WordPress
5 2 (0.44%) CICS
5 2 (0.44%) CMS
5 2 (0.44%) JBoss
5 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.67%) Cloudability
2 10 (2.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 188 (41.78%) Azure
2 83 (18.44%) GCP
3 51 (11.33%) Serverless
4 44 (9.78%) GitHub
5 36 (8.00%) SaaS
6 27 (6.00%) Amazon S3
7 25 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (2.00%) Pulumi
13 8 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.78%) dbt
13 8 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.56%) Datadog
14 7 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.22%) DNS
1 10 (2.22%) Internet
2 7 (1.56%) Firewall
3 6 (1.33%) SSL
4 4 (0.89%) HTTP
4 4 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (0.89%) Network Security
4 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.67%) AMQP
6 2 (0.44%) DHCP
7 1 (0.22%) LAN
7 1 (0.22%) VPN
7 1 (0.22%) VSAN
7 1 (0.22%) WAN
7 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.67%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.22%) NoSQL
3 17 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.56%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (2.00%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.00%) MySQL
6 9 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.78%) Big Data
8 7 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (1.56%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.56%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.33%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.11%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.89%) DocumentDB
11 4 (0.89%) Flink
12 3 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
12 3 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 47 (10.44%) Git
2 22 (4.89%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.78%) GitLab
4 13 (2.89%) Claude Code
5 9 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (1.33%) JIRA
8 5 (1.11%) Maven
9 3 (0.67%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.67%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.67%) Storybook
10 2 (0.44%) Subversion
10 2 (0.44%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.44%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.44%) Vite
11 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 60 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 52 (11.56%) Finance
3 30 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.22%) Multimedia
6 10 (2.22%) Retail
7 9 (2.00%) Banking
7 9 (2.00%) Marketing
7 9 (2.00%) Retail Banking
8 7 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.56%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.89%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.67%) Legal
11 3 (0.67%) Publishing
12 2 (0.44%) Advertising
12 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.22%) Back Office
13 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 128 (28.44%) Senior
2 83 (18.44%) Software Engineer
3 67 (14.89%) Developer
4 56 (12.44%) Lead
5 54 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
6 52 (11.56%) Architect
7 49 (10.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 35 (7.78%) Senior Developer
9 30 (6.67%) Data Engineer
10 29 (6.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (6.00%) Analyst
12 26 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (5.11%) Java Engineer
14 22 (4.89%) AWS Architect
14 22 (4.89%) Java Developer
14 22 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (4.44%) Security Architect
16 17 (3.78%) Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (3.78%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (14.22%) React
2 52 (11.56%) Node.js
3 38 (8.44%) .NET
4 35 (7.78%) Spring
5 34 (7.56%) Spring Boot
6 27 (6.00%) AngularJS
6 27 (6.00%) CSS
7 25 (5.56%) HTML
8 23 (5.11%) REST
9 19 (4.22%) Kafka
10 17 (3.78%) OAuth
10 17 (3.78%) RESTful
11 15 (3.33%) Next.js
12 13 (2.89%) OAuth2
12 13 (2.89%) Pandas
13 12 (2.67%) FastAPI
14 11 (2.44%) OpenID
14 11 (2.44%) PySpark
15 10 (2.22%) React Native
15 10 (2.22%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.89%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.11%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.89%) Life Science
11 4 (0.89%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.44%) Culture of Ownership
12 2 (0.44%) IoT
12 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.44%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.33%) Linux
2 14 (3.11%) Windows
3 5 (1.11%) CentOS
3 5 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.67%) Debian
4 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.22%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (32.22%) CI/CD
2 128 (28.44%) DevOps
3 118 (26.22%) Agile
4 117 (26.00%) Software Engineering
5 99 (22.00%) AI
6 90 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 83 (18.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 75 (16.67%) Microservices
9 65 (14.44%) Full-Stack Development
10 63 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (13.56%) TDD
12 57 (12.67%) Cybersecurity
13 48 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
13 48 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
14 45 (10.00%) Test Automation
15 44 (9.78%) Containerisation
15 44 (9.78%) Scrum
16 43 (9.56%) Decision-Making
17 41 (9.11%) Event-Driven
18 39 (8.67%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 146 (32.44%) Python
2 95 (21.11%) Java
3 79 (17.56%) SQL
4 65 (14.44%) JavaScript
5 50 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 24 (5.33%) C#
7 19 (4.22%) PHP
8 14 (3.11%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.67%) Go
10 11 (2.44%) Bash
11 10 (2.22%) Ruby
12 7 (1.56%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.56%) R
13 5 (1.11%) Scala
14 4 (0.89%) C
15 3 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 62 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 48 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.33%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 15 (3.33%) Degree
7 13 (2.89%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.22%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.44%) QA
4 8 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.56%) NIST
6 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.67%) WCAG
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.44%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
System Software
1 66 (14.67%) Docker
2 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.67%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.67%) vSphere
5 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 103 (22.89%) Terraform
2 74 (16.44%) Kubernetes
3 29 (6.44%) Ansible
4 13 (2.89%) Grafana
4 13 (2.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.89%) Puppet
6 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.67%) Rancher
7 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.44%) Argo
7 2 (0.44%) Nagios
7 2 (0.44%) Packer
7 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.22%) Istio
8 1 (0.22%) linkerd
8 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.22%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 52 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.56%) Adobe
3 21 (4.67%) Apple
4 12 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.00%) Splunk
6 7 (1.56%) Google
6 7 (1.56%) VMware
7 6 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.11%) Databricks
8 5 (1.11%) Pega
9 4 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.89%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.67%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.44%) New Relic
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle
11 2 (0.44%) WSO2
12 1 (0.22%) Informatica
12 1 (0.22%) McAfee