AWS Job Trends in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 359 494 470
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.80% 9.63% 11.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.12% 30.86% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 292 282 375
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,125 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,625 £87,500 £84,452
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,736 1,601 1,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.20% 31.21% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 991 904 1,357
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,247 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North West over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in the North West

AWS
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 AWS within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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 -13 252 £65,000 - 155
Cheshire -23 44 £65,000 +36.84% 105
Merseyside +12 33 £30,500 -55.64% 47
Lancashire -4 14 £44,442 -22.51% 71
Cumbria - 13 £60,000 - 3
AWS
England

AWS
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 10 (2.79%) WordPress
2 8 (2.23%) Apache
3 6 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.56%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.56%) JBoss
5 2 (0.56%) nginx
5 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.56%) WinCC
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Magento
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 208 (57.94%) Azure
2 79 (22.01%) GCP
3 63 (17.55%) GitHub
4 31 (8.64%) Serverless
5 18 (5.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (4.46%) Power Platform
6 16 (4.46%) SaaS
7 15 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (3.62%) Snowflake
9 12 (3.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (3.34%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (2.79%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 55 (15.32%) Internet
2 11 (3.06%) Firewall
3 6 (1.67%) DNS
3 6 (1.67%) HTTP
3 6 (1.67%) SSL
4 3 (0.84%) AMQP
4 3 (0.84%) SSH
4 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.84%) VPN
5 2 (0.56%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.56%) Network Security
5 2 (0.56%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.28%) Broadband
6 1 (0.28%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.08%) MongoDB
2 28 (7.80%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.74%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.18%) MySQL
6 14 (3.90%) Power BI
7 10 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.23%) Big Data
8 8 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.67%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.67%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.39%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.39%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.11%) Looker
11 4 (1.11%) Tableau
12 3 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
12 3 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (22.28%) Git
2 23 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.46%) GitLab
4 5 (1.39%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.11%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.11%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.84%) JIRA
7 2 (0.56%) Maven
7 2 (0.56%) Selenium
7 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.28%) Ant
8 1 (0.28%) Appium
8 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) JUnit
8 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) Subversion
8 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 83 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.93%) Multimedia
3 47 (13.09%) Finance
4 24 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.62%) Marketing
8 9 (2.51%) Games
9 8 (2.23%) Legal
9 8 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.95%) Retail
11 6 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.39%) Banking
12 5 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.39%) Electronics
12 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.84%) Law
13 3 (0.84%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (25.35%) Developer
2 67 (18.66%) Senior
3 50 (13.93%) Trainee
4 40 (11.14%) Software Engineer
5 34 (9.47%) Architect
6 33 (9.19%) Lead
7 27 (7.52%) Software Developer
8 23 (6.41%) Analyst
9 22 (6.13%) Trainee Developer
9 22 (6.13%) Trainee Software Developer
10 18 (5.01%) AWS Architect
10 18 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (5.01%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (4.74%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.46%) AWS Solution Architect
13 15 (4.18%) Data Engineer
13 15 (4.18%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
15 11 (3.06%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.38%) CSS
2 64 (17.83%) HTML
3 51 (14.21%) React
4 45 (12.53%) .NET
5 27 (7.52%) AngularJS
6 26 (7.24%) Node.js
7 25 (6.96%) REST
8 23 (6.41%) Spring
9 22 (6.13%) RESTful
9 22 (6.13%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (3.06%) Vue
11 10 (2.79%) .NET Core
11 10 (2.79%) Django
12 7 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (1.95%) Hibernate
12 7 (1.95%) Kafka
12 7 (1.95%) Next.js
13 6 (1.67%) FastAPI
13 6 (1.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.98%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.62%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.62%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.79%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.23%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.95%) IoT
6 7 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.39%) Clustering
8 5 (1.39%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.11%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.56%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.31%) Linux
2 31 (8.64%) Windows
3 6 (1.67%) Debian
3 6 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.67%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.11%) CentOS
6 3 (0.84%) Android
6 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.84%) Unix
6 3 (0.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (28.69%) CI/CD
2 93 (25.91%) Agile
3 91 (25.35%) Mentoring
4 88 (24.51%) DevOps
5 70 (19.50%) Cybersecurity
6 68 (18.94%) Software Engineering
7 67 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (18.11%) Microservices
9 62 (17.27%) Containerisation
10 51 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (13.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 46 (12.81%) AI
13 35 (9.75%) TDD
14 34 (9.47%) Full-Stack Development
15 33 (9.19%) Roadmaps
16 31 (8.64%) Clean Code
17 25 (6.96%) Observability
18 23 (6.41%) Coaching
18 23 (6.41%) Collaborative Culture
18 23 (6.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 125 (34.82%) Python
2 101 (28.13%) JavaScript
3 59 (16.43%) SQL
4 57 (15.88%) Java
5 44 (12.26%) C#
6 31 (8.64%) TypeScript
7 29 (8.08%) R
8 16 (4.46%) Go
9 15 (4.18%) Bash
10 13 (3.62%) PHP
11 11 (3.06%) PowerShell
12 10 (2.79%) C
13 4 (1.11%) Scala
14 3 (0.84%) Elixir
14 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.84%) Ruby
14 3 (0.84%) Rust
14 3 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 69 (19.22%) AWS Certification
2 56 (15.60%) Azure Certification
3 50 (13.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 50 (13.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 33 (9.19%) Security Cleared
5 24 (6.69%) SC Cleared
6 17 (4.74%) Degree
7 12 (3.34%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.95%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.84%) MBA
12 2 (0.56%) CISM
12 2 (0.56%) CISSP
13 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.28%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.34%) QA
2 9 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.39%) NIST
5 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.11%) GDPR
5 4 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.84%) HL7
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (17.83%) Docker
2 9 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.11%) vSphere
5 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 69 (19.22%) Kubernetes
2 57 (15.88%) Terraform
3 33 (9.19%) Ansible
4 20 (5.57%) Grafana
5 16 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.67%) Puppet
8 3 (0.84%) cPanel
8 3 (0.84%) Nagios
8 3 (0.84%) Plesk
8 3 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.56%) AssetCenter
9 2 (0.56%) Rancher
9 2 (0.56%) SCCM
9 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.28%) Argo
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.28%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 78 (21.73%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.24%) Google
3 17 (4.74%) Adobe
4 11 (3.06%) Splunk
5 10 (2.79%) Apple
6 8 (2.23%) Oracle
6 8 (2.23%) VMware
7 6 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.39%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.11%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.11%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.11%) SAP
9 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.84%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.84%) Cisco
10 3 (0.84%) Dell
10 3 (0.84%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.56%) Pega
11 2 (0.56%) SnapLogic