Amazon EC2 Job Trends in the North West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 201 169
Rank change year-on-year +38 -32 +92
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 16 4 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.26% 0.077% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 0.24% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 15 4 15
10th Percentile £53,500 - £50,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -24.14%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £94,750 £75,500
England median annual salary £68,750 £107,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -36.05% +59.26% -10.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

Amazon EC2 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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,737 1,634 1,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.41% 31.42% 38.91%
Number of salaries quoted 993 923 1,292
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,375 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the North West

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the North West

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +30 14 £62,500 +4.17% 12
Merseyside - 1 £65,000 - 1
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (12.50%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (12.50%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon S3
3 6 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (31.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (25.00%) Route 53
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (18.75%) Serverless
7 1 (6.25%) Azure
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) GitLab
2 4 (25.00%) CircleCI
2 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technology Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 3 (18.75%) AWS CDK
2 3 (18.75%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (18.75%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (12.50%) WCF
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 2 (12.50%) SCADA
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) Debian
3 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (18.75%) VMS
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
2 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
5 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
6 3 (18.75%) GitOps
6 3 (18.75%) Microservices
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Security Hardening
7 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 2 (12.50%) Data Security
7 2 (12.50%) ITIL
7 2 (12.50%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Bash
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) VMware NSX
2 3 (18.75%) vSphere
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (50.00%) Terraform
3 7 (43.75%) Ansible
4 4 (25.00%) Grafana
4 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (12.50%) AssetCenter
5 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Kepware
3 2 (12.50%) Rockwell
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) Siemens
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat