AWS Jobs in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 10 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 575 1,615 1,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.92% 17.95% 18.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.18% 40.12% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 414 962 1,258
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,490
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,900 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
North West

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,733 4,025 3,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 41.95% 44.75% 45.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,313 2,555 3,099
10th Percentile £29,503 £30,850 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,600
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North West

AWS
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in the North West.

Salary trend for AWS in the North West

AWS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North West over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for AWS in the North West

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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 1 December 2023. 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 -1 441 £60,000 -7.69% 228
Merseyside -17 50 £55,000 -18.52% 23
Cheshire +28 47 £67,500 +6.66% 44
Lancashire +1 34 £47,500 -24.00% 9
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (2.61%) IIS
2 7 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.04%) Apache
3 6 (1.04%) CMS
4 5 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.70%) SAS
6 3 (0.52%) nginx
6 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.35%) Confluence
7 2 (0.35%) Mendix
7 2 (0.35%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Exstream
2 3 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 312 (54.26%) Azure
2 166 (28.87%) GCP
3 69 (12.00%) Serverless
4 62 (10.78%) SaaS
5 47 (8.17%) OpenShift
6 43 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (7.48%) PaaS
7 41 (7.13%) IaaS
8 35 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (5.74%) Amazon S3
9 33 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (5.74%) GitHub
10 28 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (1.04%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.04%) DNS
2 22 (3.83%) DHCP
3 21 (3.65%) Firewall
4 20 (3.48%) LAN
4 20 (3.48%) Structured Cabling
5 19 (3.30%) WAN
6 15 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 12 (2.09%) VPN
8 11 (1.91%) HTTP
9 6 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.70%) SAN
10 4 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.52%) IPv4
11 3 (0.52%) Network Security
11 3 (0.52%) VoIP
11 3 (0.52%) WLAN
12 2 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.35%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.35%) NAS
12 2 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (7.13%) MongoDB
3 34 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (5.57%) Elasticsearch
4 32 (5.57%) MySQL
4 32 (5.57%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 20 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.30%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.26%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.91%) Redis
10 10 (1.74%) Big Data
10 10 (1.74%) Oracle Database 11g
11 9 (1.57%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.04%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.87%) Power BI
14 4 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 76 (13.22%) Jenkins
2 60 (10.43%) Git
3 27 (4.70%) Cucumber
3 27 (4.70%) Selenium
4 25 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.13%) GitLab
6 11 (1.91%) JUnit
6 11 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.57%) Gradle
8 7 (1.22%) IntelliJ
8 7 (1.22%) Mockito
9 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.52%) JIRA
10 3 (0.52%) JSUnit
10 3 (0.52%) Mocha
10 3 (0.52%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.35%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
General
1 109 (18.96%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.87%) Finance
3 51 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (5.39%) Retail
5 27 (4.70%) Aerospace
5 27 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.17%) Banking
7 20 (3.48%) Marketing
8 17 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 17 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.22%) Tech for Good
11 5 (0.87%) Billing
11 5 (0.87%) Law
12 4 (0.70%) Automotive
13 2 (0.35%) Advertising
13 2 (0.35%) Games
13 2 (0.35%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.35%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 156 (27.13%) Developer
2 133 (23.13%) Senior
3 97 (16.87%) Software Engineer
4 66 (11.48%) Architect
5 56 (9.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 46 (8.00%) Lead
7 41 (7.13%) Senior Developer
7 41 (7.13%) Senior Software Engineer
8 37 (6.43%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (5.57%) Full Stack Developer
11 31 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (5.39%) Java Developer
12 30 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
13 29 (5.04%) Enterprise Architect
14 25 (4.35%) Software Developer
15 24 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
15 24 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.30%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
16 19 (3.30%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (16.70%) React
2 92 (16.00%) Node.js
3 79 (13.74%) .NET
4 45 (7.83%) Spring
5 43 (7.48%) Spring Boot
6 39 (6.78%) AngularJS
7 35 (6.09%) HTML
8 31 (5.39%) CSS
9 28 (4.87%) Kafka
10 26 (4.52%) REST
11 20 (3.48%) .NET Core
11 20 (3.48%) JSON
11 20 (3.48%) XML
12 18 (3.13%) Next.js
13 16 (2.78%) Laravel
13 16 (2.78%) OpenID
14 14 (2.43%) RESTful
15 13 (2.26%) ASP.NET Web API
16 11 (1.91%) Vue
16 11 (1.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.74%) Product Ownership
3 30 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.52%) Cyberattack
4 26 (4.52%) Public Cloud
5 24 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (3.13%) Private Cloud
7 15 (2.61%) Mainframe
8 14 (2.43%) Blockchain
8 14 (2.43%) Data Centre
8 14 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.43%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.09%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.39%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.22%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.22%) Sports Betting
13 6 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 122 (21.22%) Linux
2 64 (11.13%) Windows
3 36 (6.26%) Windows Server
4 35 (6.09%) Unix
5 17 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 17 (2.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (2.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (1.74%) Mac OS
8 8 (1.39%) CentOS
8 8 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.70%) Solaris
11 2 (0.35%) Android
11 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
12 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (43.83%) Agile
2 182 (31.65%) DevOps
3 157 (27.30%) Software Engineering
4 132 (22.96%) CI/CD
5 108 (18.78%) Microservices
6 81 (14.09%) Actionable Insight
7 70 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (12.17%) Mentoring
8 64 (11.13%) Machine Learning
9 63 (10.96%) Scrum
10 62 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
11 61 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
12 60 (10.43%) Full Stack Development
13 59 (10.26%) TDD
14 55 (9.57%) Artificial Intelligence
15 46 (8.00%) Containerisation
16 45 (7.83%) Roadmaps
17 44 (7.65%) Enterprise Architecture
17 44 (7.65%) Software Delivery
18 42 (7.30%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 203 (35.30%) Python
2 163 (28.35%) Java
3 134 (23.30%) JavaScript
4 94 (16.35%) SQL
5 74 (12.87%) TypeScript
6 55 (9.57%) C#
7 48 (8.35%) Bash
8 36 (6.26%) Go
9 34 (5.91%) C++
10 29 (5.04%) PowerShell
11 25 (4.35%) PHP
12 23 (4.00%) Rust
13 17 (2.96%) Ruby
14 12 (2.09%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.57%) C
15 9 (1.57%) Kotlin
16 8 (1.39%) T-SQL
17 7 (1.22%) Shell Script
18 6 (1.04%) Perl
19 4 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 117 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.70%) Degree
3 52 (9.04%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.52%) AWS Certification
5 34 (5.91%) SC Cleared
6 32 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (4.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 25 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 23 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.70%) CCNA
13 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.52%) CCNP
13 3 (0.52%) CISSP
13 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.87%) QA
2 11 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.70%) SLA
4 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) Basel III
6 1 (0.17%) GLBA
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 154 (26.78%) Docker
2 47 (8.17%) Active Directory
3 32 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (3.30%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.43%) vSphere
6 9 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.52%) LXC
8 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.17%) RACF
9 1 (0.17%) Shibboleth
9 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 140 (24.35%) Kubernetes
2 112 (19.48%) Terraform
3 51 (8.87%) Ansible
4 14 (2.43%) Nessus
4 14 (2.43%) Puppet
5 7 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.52%) Cacti
7 3 (0.52%) Grafana
7 3 (0.52%) Nagios
7 3 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.52%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.35%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.35%) Packer
9 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.48%) VMware
3 30 (5.22%) Google
3 30 (5.22%) Oracle
4 16 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.61%) Sophos
6 14 (2.43%) arcserve
7 7 (1.22%) Cisco
7 7 (1.22%) Citrix
7 7 (1.22%) Confluent
8 6 (1.04%) IBM
8 6 (1.04%) OpenText
9 5 (0.87%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.87%) Splunk
10 3 (0.52%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.52%) Civica
10 3 (0.52%) Databricks
10 3 (0.52%) Northgate
10 3 (0.52%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.35%) New Relic