AWS Jobs in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 12 6
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 680 1,005 1,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.67% 9.66% 19.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 46.93% 28.83% 46.19%
Number of salaries quoted 291 654 717
10th Percentile £45,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Cloud 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 1,449 3,486 3,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 18.47% 33.51% 43.28%
Number of salaries quoted 833 2,698 1,855
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £32,916
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,964 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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

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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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 +3 449 £67,037 +4.14% 464
Cheshire +6 113 £62,500 +19.05% 64
Lancashire -45 93 £62,205 -15.72% 167
Merseyside -17 21 £55,000 +22.22% 32
Cumbria -67 4 £30,000 -71.43% 7
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 52 (7.65%) Confluence
2 10 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.18%) IIS
4 7 (1.03%) Apache
5 5 (0.74%) CMS
6 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.44%) nginx
7 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.15%) Magento
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 433 (63.68%) Azure
2 301 (44.26%) GCP
3 50 (7.35%) Serverless
4 37 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (3.24%) SaaS
6 21 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
6 21 (3.09%) GitHub
7 20 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (2.94%) Power Platform
8 18 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (1.91%) Amazon S3
10 13 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (1.91%) Azure Machine Learning
11 11 (1.62%) Cloud Composer
12 10 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.47%) Entra ID
12 10 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.32%) dbt
13 9 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.50%) DNS
2 12 (1.76%) WAN
3 11 (1.62%) Firewall
3 11 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.18%) Broadband
4 8 (1.18%) VPN
5 7 (1.03%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.88%) HTTP
7 5 (0.74%) Internet
7 5 (0.74%) SSH
8 4 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (0.59%) LoRaWAN
9 2 (0.29%) DHCP
9 2 (0.29%) NAS
9 2 (0.29%) OSPF
9 2 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) SAN
10 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.15%) LAN
10 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (19.71%) SQL Server
2 56 (8.24%) MySQL
3 42 (6.18%) MongoDB
4 41 (6.03%) NoSQL
5 39 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 17 (2.50%) Power BI
7 16 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.91%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.62%) Cloud Spanner
9 11 (1.62%) Tableau
10 9 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.18%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.03%) Big Data
12 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 137 (20.15%) GitLab
2 133 (19.56%) JIRA
3 119 (17.50%) Selenium
4 115 (16.91%) Cucumber
5 111 (16.32%) Bitbucket
6 109 (16.03%) Maven
6 109 (16.03%) SonarQube
6 109 (16.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 40 (5.88%) Git
8 22 (3.24%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.03%) JMeter
10 5 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.74%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.59%) Appium
11 4 (0.59%) Fiddler
11 4 (0.59%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.59%) Postman
12 3 (0.44%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.15%) MLflow
General
1 287 (42.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 207 (30.44%) Finance
3 145 (21.32%) Banking
4 96 (14.12%) Retail
4 96 (14.12%) Social Skills
5 70 (10.29%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (10.29%) Investment Banking
6 52 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (3.09%) Games
8 16 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.47%) Marketing
10 7 (1.03%) Public Sector
11 6 (0.88%) Automotive
11 6 (0.88%) Cantonese Language
11 6 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (0.74%) Back Office
12 5 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 367 (53.97%) Software Engineer
2 277 (40.74%) Senior
3 205 (30.15%) Senior Software Engineer
4 88 (12.94%) Developer
5 85 (12.50%) Lead
6 37 (5.44%) Senior Developer
7 30 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (3.53%) .NET Developer
8 24 (3.53%) Architect
9 22 (3.24%) Data Engineer
9 22 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 22 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (2.35%) Lead Developer
12 16 (2.35%) Principal Engineer
12 16 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.06%) AWS Software Engineer
13 14 (2.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 13 (1.91%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (35.00%) Node.js
2 232 (34.12%) .NET
3 204 (30.00%) React
4 148 (21.76%) HTML
5 147 (21.62%) CSS
6 145 (21.32%) Kafka
7 135 (19.85%) Spring Boot
8 126 (18.53%) Spring
9 120 (17.65%) Redux
10 109 (16.03%) JPA
11 100 (14.71%) RESTful
12 93 (13.68%) REST
13 81 (11.91%) Sass
14 78 (11.47%) HTML5
15 73 (10.74%) CSS3
15 73 (10.74%) Jest
16 41 (6.03%) Hibernate
17 32 (4.71%) .NET Core
18 31 (4.56%) AngularJS
19 19 (2.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 177 (26.03%) Self-Motivation
2 175 (25.74%) Cyberattack
3 172 (25.29%) Linux Command Line
4 132 (19.41%) Product Ownership
5 116 (17.06%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (6.03%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.65%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.91%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.32%) IoT
12 8 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.03%) Wiki
14 6 (0.88%) Clustering
15 5 (0.74%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 217 (31.91%) Linux
2 28 (4.12%) Windows
3 8 (1.18%) Unix
4 7 (1.03%) CentOS
4 7 (1.03%) Ubuntu
4 7 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.74%) Android
6 4 (0.59%) Debian
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (65.44%) Agile
2 435 (63.97%) Software Engineering
3 372 (54.71%) Microservices
4 310 (45.59%) Mentoring
5 286 (42.06%) User Experience
6 241 (35.44%) CI/CD
7 239 (35.15%) DevOps
8 200 (29.41%) Machine Learning
9 198 (29.12%) Cloud Security
10 192 (28.24%) Data Engineering
11 190 (27.94%) Scrum
12 187 (27.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 163 (23.97%) Containerisation
13 163 (23.97%) Full-Stack Development
14 149 (21.91%) Test Automation
15 135 (19.85%) Front End Development
16 128 (18.82%) Performance Optimisation
17 119 (17.50%) SDLC
18 98 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
19 94 (13.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 401 (58.97%) JavaScript
2 382 (56.18%) Java
3 290 (42.65%) Python
4 195 (28.68%) SQL
5 188 (27.65%) Go
6 174 (25.59%) C++
7 173 (25.44%) Rust
8 170 (25.00%) TypeScript
9 51 (7.50%) C#
10 30 (4.41%) PHP
11 16 (2.35%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.06%) Bash
13 5 (0.74%) Scala
14 3 (0.44%) R
14 3 (0.44%) Ruby
15 2 (0.29%) Bicep
15 2 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 195 (28.68%) AWS Certification
2 184 (27.06%) Security Cleared
3 183 (26.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 175 (25.74%) DV Cleared
5 172 (25.29%) AWS Certified Developer
6 45 (6.62%) Degree
7 25 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.65%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.32%) SC Cleared
10 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.59%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.59%) PhD
11 4 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.44%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.44%) RHCE
13 2 (0.29%) CISA
13 2 (0.29%) CISM
13 2 (0.29%) CISSP
13 2 (0.29%) GIAC
13 2 (0.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (18.38%) QA
2 83 (12.21%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.06%) GDPR
5 9 (1.32%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.03%) NIST
7 5 (0.74%) HL7
7 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.44%) SLA
9 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 223 (32.79%) Docker
2 18 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.44%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.44%) Postfix
7 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.15%) KVM
8 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 203 (29.85%) Kubernetes
2 86 (12.65%) Terraform
3 27 (3.97%) Ansible
4 15 (2.21%) Grafana
5 9 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.03%) Puppet
6 7 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.59%) Argo
8 4 (0.59%) Kibana
8 4 (0.59%) SCCM
9 3 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.44%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.29%) Salt
11 1 (0.15%) Automic
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.15%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 109 (16.03%) Solace
2 53 (7.79%) Google
3 18 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.06%) Ping Identity
4 14 (2.06%) VMware
5 12 (1.76%) Oracle
6 11 (1.62%) Databricks
7 9 (1.32%) Informatica
8 7 (1.03%) Okta
9 6 (0.88%) IBM
9 6 (0.88%) Splunk
10 5 (0.74%) Cisco
10 5 (0.74%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.74%) SAP
10 5 (0.74%) Veeam
11 4 (0.59%) Perforce
11 4 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.59%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.44%) Blue Prism
12 3 (0.44%) UiPath