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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 966 1,553 1,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.80% 19.90% 19.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.72% 47.05% 45.31%
Number of salaries quoted 660 742 1,068
10th Percentile £41,224 £42,500 £40,850
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £94,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

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 3,364 3,301 4,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.11% 42.29% 42.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,655 1,911 2,637
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 -4 686 £65,000 - 185
Cheshire -11 130 £50,000 -33.33% 22
Merseyside -14 87 £45,000 -40.00% 16
Lancashire -16 57 £73,805 +34.19% 24
Cumbria -5 3 £105,000 - 2
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 57 (5.90%) ArcGIS
1 57 (5.90%) GeoServer
2 32 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.97%) Apache
3 19 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.66%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.24%) IIS
5 12 (1.24%) Tuxedo
6 8 (0.83%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.41%) Confluence
7 4 (0.41%) WordPress
8 1 (0.10%) Jetty
8 1 (0.10%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.41%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.52%) SAP IBP
3 5 (0.52%) SAP PP
3 5 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 486 (50.31%) Azure
2 160 (16.56%) GCP
3 104 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (9.21%) Amazon S3
5 87 (9.01%) SaaS
6 77 (7.97%) Serverless
7 68 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (3.83%) OCI
10 36 (3.73%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (3.73%) IBM Cloud
10 36 (3.73%) Route 53
11 35 (3.62%) GitHub
12 34 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
15 22 (2.28%) Entra ID
16 17 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (1.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.28%) DNS
2 50 (5.18%) Firewall
3 45 (4.66%) WAN
4 34 (3.52%) DHCP
5 31 (3.21%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.86%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.76%) Network Security
8 16 (1.66%) SSL
9 15 (1.55%) BGP
10 14 (1.45%) LAN
11 13 (1.35%) HTTP
12 12 (1.24%) iSCSI
12 12 (1.24%) SAN
12 12 (1.24%) VPN
13 11 (1.14%) AMQP
14 9 (0.93%) MQTT
15 8 (0.83%) Wireless
16 7 (0.72%) EIGRP
16 7 (0.72%) OSPF
16 7 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (8.90%) MySQL
3 72 (7.45%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (6.21%) SQL Server
6 57 (5.90%) GIS
6 57 (5.90%) QGIS
7 53 (5.49%) NoSQL
8 46 (4.76%) MongoDB
9 42 (4.35%) Relational Database
10 27 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (2.48%) Oracle Database
11 24 (2.48%) RDBMS
12 23 (2.38%) Data Lake
12 23 (2.38%) DynamoDB
13 17 (1.76%) Big Data
14 16 (1.66%) Oracle Database 11g
15 15 (1.55%) Hadoop
16 13 (1.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 86 (8.90%) Git
2 50 (5.18%) GitLab
3 34 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.42%) JIRA
5 20 (2.07%) TeamCity
6 18 (1.86%) IntelliJ
6 18 (1.86%) JUnit
6 18 (1.86%) Mockito
7 17 (1.76%) Gradle
8 16 (1.66%) Postman
9 7 (0.72%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.62%) Selenium
10 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.52%) JetBrains Rider
11 5 (0.52%) JMeter
11 5 (0.52%) webpack
12 4 (0.41%) Jasmine
General
1 159 (16.46%) Social Skills
2 89 (9.21%) Finance
3 78 (8.07%) Public Sector
4 63 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (5.07%) Retail
7 29 (3.00%) Aerospace
8 25 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (1.86%) Games
10 17 (1.76%) Legal
10 17 (1.76%) Marketing
11 16 (1.66%) Tech for Good
12 15 (1.55%) Law
13 10 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.83%) Banking
15 6 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.52%) Electronics
16 5 (0.52%) Retail Finance
17 4 (0.41%) Billing
17 4 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 319 (33.02%) Senior
2 254 (26.29%) Developer
3 176 (18.22%) Software Engineer
4 122 (12.63%) Lead
5 104 (10.77%) Architect
6 91 (9.42%) Senior Developer
7 85 (8.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 75 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 50 (5.18%) .NET Developer
10 49 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
10 49 (5.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 48 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
12 45 (4.66%) Technical Leader
13 44 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 43 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
15 40 (4.14%) PHP Developer
16 37 (3.83%) Data Engineer
17 36 (3.73%) Java Engineer
18 34 (3.52%) Full Stack Developer
18 34 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (22.36%) React
2 148 (15.32%) Node.js
3 134 (13.87%) .NET
4 99 (10.25%) CSS
5 84 (8.70%) .NET Core
6 72 (7.45%) Spring
7 63 (6.52%) RESTful
8 58 (6.00%) REST
9 57 (5.90%) AngularJS
9 57 (5.90%) Leaflet
9 57 (5.90%) OpenLayers
9 57 (5.90%) PostGIS
10 56 (5.80%) Spring Boot
11 52 (5.38%) Laravel
12 48 (4.97%) HTML
12 48 (4.97%) Vue
13 41 (4.24%) .NET Framework
14 32 (3.31%) Web Services
15 31 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
16 29 (3.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.90%) Public Cloud
2 51 (5.28%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 46 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 46 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 40 (4.14%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.73%) e-Learning
6 34 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.28%) PKI
9 20 (2.07%) Blog
10 17 (1.76%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 16 (1.66%) PMI
12 15 (1.55%) IoT
13 14 (1.45%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.35%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.24%) Onboarding
16 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 150 (15.53%) Linux
2 94 (9.73%) Windows
3 45 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 28 (2.90%) Unix
5 23 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 20 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.76%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.24%) Android
8 12 (1.24%) CentOS
8 12 (1.24%) Debian
8 12 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.62%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.41%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.41%) VMS
10 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.31%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (44.72%) Agile
2 322 (33.33%) DevOps
3 257 (26.60%) Software Engineering
4 193 (19.98%) Mentoring
5 175 (18.12%) CI/CD
6 149 (15.42%) TDD
7 133 (13.77%) Actionable Insight
8 127 (13.15%) Full Stack Development
9 122 (12.63%) Coaching
10 120 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 112 (11.59%) Microservices
12 101 (10.46%) Containerisation
13 92 (9.52%) Roadmaps
13 92 (9.52%) Scrum
14 79 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
15 73 (7.56%) Continuous Integration
16 71 (7.35%) Test Automation
17 70 (7.25%) Kanban
18 68 (7.04%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 250 (25.88%) JavaScript
2 214 (22.15%) Python
3 178 (18.43%) Java
4 157 (16.25%) SQL
5 125 (12.94%) C#
5 125 (12.94%) TypeScript
6 79 (8.18%) PHP
7 43 (4.45%) PowerShell
8 28 (2.90%) Go
9 26 (2.69%) Bash
10 19 (1.97%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.24%) COBOL
11 12 (1.24%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 12 (1.24%) Ruby
11 12 (1.24%) Scala
12 8 (0.83%) Perl
12 8 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.62%) C++
15 5 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 130 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 102 (10.56%) Degree
3 91 (9.42%) SC Cleared
4 79 (8.18%) AWS Certification
5 45 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.24%) Azure Certification
7 33 (3.42%) DV Cleared
8 32 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.28%) CISSP
10 18 (1.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 18 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.76%) CISM
12 16 (1.66%) PMI Certification
13 15 (1.55%) CCSK
13 15 (1.55%) CCSP
13 15 (1.55%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.35%) CCNA
15 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.72%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.90%) GDPR
2 25 (2.59%) NIST
3 21 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.76%) QA
5 14 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.31%) SLA
9 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.21%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 171 (17.70%) Docker
2 66 (6.83%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.00%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.72%) Firmware
6 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.10%) RACF
8 1 (0.10%) Snort
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 181 (18.74%) Terraform
2 179 (18.53%) Kubernetes
3 50 (5.18%) Ansible
4 39 (4.04%) Prometheus
5 26 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.55%) Puppet
8 12 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (1.24%) Opsgenie
8 12 (1.24%) VxRail
8 12 (1.24%) ZABBIX
9 8 (0.83%) Grafana
9 8 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.72%) CA Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.62%) Kibana
12 4 (0.41%) Autotask
13 3 (0.31%) SELinux
14 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.10%) Kiali
Vendors
1 157 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 72 (7.45%) Google
3 57 (5.90%) ESRI
4 55 (5.69%) Oracle
5 48 (4.97%) Red Hat
6 46 (4.76%) VMware
7 45 (4.66%) IBM
8 38 (3.93%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.69%) Cisco
10 22 (2.28%) Citrix
11 15 (1.55%) Fortinet
12 14 (1.45%) Dell
13 13 (1.35%) Facebook
14 12 (1.24%) Micro Focus
14 12 (1.24%) NetApp
14 12 (1.24%) SolarWinds
15 11 (1.14%) SaltStack
16 10 (1.04%) Databricks
16 10 (1.04%) Sparx
17 9 (0.93%) Adobe