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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 743 635 661
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 5.77% 12.47% 9.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.47% 44.04% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 527 267 318
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,770 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,500 £83,025
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +2.04%

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 2,705 1,442 2,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.00% 28.31% 28.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,057 892 1,183
10th Percentile £31,075 £28,275 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,625 £82,000
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -8 605 £75,000 +15.38% 440
Lancashire +4 52 £62,500 +47.46% 30
Cheshire -31 42 £55,000 -8.33% 29
Merseyside -2 41 £70,000 +47.37% 27
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 22 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (2.83%) Apache
3 17 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 12 (1.62%) IIS
6 9 (1.21%) Confluence
7 5 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.40%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.40%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 258 (34.72%) Azure
2 134 (18.03%) GCP
3 92 (12.38%) Serverless
4 87 (11.71%) SaaS
5 71 (9.56%) GitHub
6 68 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (6.86%) Amazon S3
8 40 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (3.77%) dbt
11 27 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (2.69%) Datadog
15 18 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.15%) Anthropic Claude
16 16 (2.15%) Entra ID
16 16 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (2.02%) GitHub Copilot
17 15 (2.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.04%) DNS
2 26 (3.50%) Firewall
3 23 (3.10%) DHCP
4 16 (2.15%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.15%) VPN
5 13 (1.75%) Network Security
6 11 (1.48%) LAN
6 11 (1.48%) SAN
7 9 (1.21%) WAN
8 6 (0.81%) VLAN
9 5 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.67%) Internet
9 5 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.40%) AMQP
10 3 (0.40%) BGP
10 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.40%) IPsec
10 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.40%) VSAN
11 2 (0.27%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.17%) MySQL
2 30 (4.04%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.90%) MongoDB
3 29 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 28 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (2.69%) DynamoDB
7 14 (1.88%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.48%) Power BI
10 10 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (1.21%) Big Data
11 9 (1.21%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.21%) MariaDB
11 9 (1.21%) Redis
12 7 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 71 (9.56%) Git
2 47 (6.33%) GitLab
3 39 (5.25%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.29%) JIRA
5 14 (1.88%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.48%) Maven
7 8 (1.08%) Storybook
8 6 (0.81%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.67%) Postman
10 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.54%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.54%) Vagrant
10 4 (0.54%) Vite
11 3 (0.40%) Selenium
11 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.27%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.27%) YouTrack
General
1 169 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 59 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (7.67%) Public Sector
4 46 (6.19%) Finance
5 38 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (3.10%) Retail
7 22 (2.96%) Legal
7 22 (2.96%) Publishing
8 17 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.88%) Law
10 13 (1.75%) Aviation
11 11 (1.48%) Marketing
12 10 (1.35%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.35%) Swedish Language
13 9 (1.21%) Games
14 8 (1.08%) Billing
15 7 (0.94%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.54%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 184 (24.76%) Senior
2 97 (13.06%) Developer
3 96 (12.92%) Architect
4 90 (12.11%) Software Engineer
5 75 (10.09%) AWS Engineer
6 71 (9.56%) Data Engineer
7 68 (9.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 61 (8.21%) Lead
9 59 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 45 (6.06%) Senior Developer
12 40 (5.38%) Analyst
13 35 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (4.04%) AWS Architect
15 26 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
16 24 (3.23%) Java Engineer
16 24 (3.23%) Security Engineer
17 22 (2.96%) Consultant
18 21 (2.83%) AWS Solution Architect
19 20 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (20.05%) Terraform
2 85 (11.44%) React
3 68 (9.15%) Node.js
4 57 (7.67%) .NET
5 50 (6.73%) Kafka
5 50 (6.73%) Spring
6 49 (6.59%) Spring Boot
7 43 (5.79%) AngularJS
8 36 (4.85%) REST
9 28 (3.77%) Vue
10 25 (3.36%) CSS
11 23 (3.10%) HTML
11 23 (3.10%) Middleware
11 23 (3.10%) RESTful
12 21 (2.83%) Next.js
13 20 (2.69%) FastAPI
14 19 (2.56%) OAuth
14 19 (2.56%) PySpark
15 16 (2.15%) JWT
15 16 (2.15%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 158 (21.27%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.04%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 22 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.02%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 12 (1.62%) Media Streaming
8 12 (1.62%) Podcast
9 11 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
10 10 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.21%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.94%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.94%) Life Science
13 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 56 (7.54%) Linux
2 36 (4.85%) Windows
3 20 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.15%) Unix
5 12 (1.62%) CentOS
6 11 (1.48%) macOS
6 11 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.40%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Debian
8 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (33.38%) CI/CD
2 214 (28.80%) DevOps
3 187 (25.17%) Agile
4 186 (25.03%) AI
5 185 (24.90%) Software Engineering
6 160 (21.53%) Mentoring
7 136 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 136 (18.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 116 (15.61%) Microservices
9 113 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
10 90 (12.11%) Test Automation
11 89 (11.98%) Observability
12 88 (11.84%) Containerisation
13 82 (11.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 80 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 79 (10.63%) Roadmaps
16 78 (10.50%) Technical Leadership
17 72 (9.69%) Event-Driven
18 69 (9.29%) Machine Learning
19 68 (9.15%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 203 (27.32%) Python
2 147 (19.78%) SQL
3 127 (17.09%) Java
4 98 (13.19%) TypeScript
5 83 (11.17%) JavaScript
6 38 (5.11%) C#
7 30 (4.04%) PowerShell
8 28 (3.77%) Bash
9 22 (2.96%) Go
10 18 (2.42%) Scala
11 15 (2.02%) Ruby
12 8 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.08%) PHP
12 8 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.94%) Bicep
13 7 (0.94%) C++
14 4 (0.54%) Rust
15 3 (0.40%) C
15 3 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.40%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 122 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 85 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.21%) Degree
4 39 (5.25%) DV Cleared
5 37 (4.98%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.62%) MCSE
9 10 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.35%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.08%) CISM
10 8 (1.08%) CISSP
11 6 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.67%) CISA
12 5 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.67%) CRISC
13 4 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.44%) QA
3 31 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.02%) GDPR
6 13 (1.75%) NIST
7 12 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.08%) WCAG
9 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.27%) SLA
13 1 (0.13%) COBIT
13 1 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 123 (16.55%) Docker
2 24 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.62%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.08%) Firmware
6 7 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.27%) UAG
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) NFS
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 144 (19.38%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.06%) Ansible
3 11 (1.48%) Grafana
4 10 (1.35%) Progress Chef
5 9 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.21%) Puppet
6 8 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.94%) Argo
7 7 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.54%) Nessus
9 4 (0.54%) Packer
10 3 (0.40%) Istio
10 3 (0.40%) linkerd
10 3 (0.40%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.40%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.27%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.27%) SCCM
11 2 (0.27%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (13.32%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.73%) Google
3 30 (4.04%) Databricks
4 26 (3.50%) Adobe
5 23 (3.10%) OpenAI
5 23 (3.10%) Splunk
5 23 (3.10%) VMware
6 17 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.88%) Apple
8 12 (1.62%) Cisco
9 11 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.35%) YouTube
11 8 (1.08%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.81%) Mistral
14 5 (0.67%) Okta
15 4 (0.54%) F5
15 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
16 3 (0.40%) McAfee
16 3 (0.40%) webMethods