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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 958 1,552 1,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.72% 19.85% 19.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.58% 46.97% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 658 739 1,061
10th Percentile £41,171 £42,500 £40,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,167 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £88,750
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 3,352 3,304 3,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.02% 42.26% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,648 1,919 2,617
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 £71,250 £72,500
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 10 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 10 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 -4 680 £64,374 -0.96% 157
Cheshire -9 130 £50,000 -33.33% 31
Merseyside -15 85 £42,500 -43.33% 9
Lancashire -12 57 £73,805 +34.19% 13
Cumbria -6 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 (5.95%) ArcGIS
1 57 (5.95%) GeoServer
2 32 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.98%) Apache
3 19 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.25%) IIS
5 12 (1.25%) Tuxedo
6 8 (0.84%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.42%) Confluence
7 4 (0.42%) WordPress
8 1 (0.10%) Jetty
8 1 (0.10%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.42%) 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 (0.63%) 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 (50.73%) Azure
2 156 (16.28%) GCP
3 104 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (9.39%) Amazon S3
5 87 (9.08%) SaaS
6 77 (8.04%) Serverless
7 68 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (3.86%) OCI
10 36 (3.76%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (3.76%) IBM Cloud
10 36 (3.76%) Route 53
11 34 (3.55%) GitHub
12 33 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (2.30%) Entra ID
15 20 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (1.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.32%) DNS
2 50 (5.22%) Firewall
3 45 (4.70%) WAN
4 34 (3.55%) DHCP
5 31 (3.24%) SD-WAN
6 18 (1.88%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.77%) Network Security
8 16 (1.67%) SSL
9 15 (1.57%) BGP
10 14 (1.46%) LAN
11 12 (1.25%) HTTP
11 12 (1.25%) iSCSI
11 12 (1.25%) SAN
11 12 (1.25%) VPN
12 11 (1.15%) AMQP
13 9 (0.94%) MQTT
14 8 (0.84%) Wireless
15 7 (0.73%) EIGRP
15 7 (0.73%) OSPF
15 7 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (8.98%) MySQL
3 72 (7.52%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (6.16%) SQL Server
6 57 (5.95%) GIS
6 57 (5.95%) QGIS
7 50 (5.22%) NoSQL
8 46 (4.80%) MongoDB
9 42 (4.38%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (2.51%) Oracle Database
11 24 (2.51%) RDBMS
12 21 (2.19%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.09%) DynamoDB
14 17 (1.77%) Big Data
15 16 (1.67%) Oracle Database 11g
16 15 (1.57%) Hadoop
17 13 (1.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 86 (8.98%) Git
2 49 (5.11%) GitLab
3 34 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.44%) JIRA
5 20 (2.09%) TeamCity
6 18 (1.88%) IntelliJ
6 18 (1.88%) JUnit
6 18 (1.88%) Mockito
7 17 (1.77%) Gradle
8 16 (1.67%) Postman
9 7 (0.73%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.63%) Selenium
10 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.52%) JetBrains Rider
11 5 (0.52%) JMeter
11 5 (0.52%) webpack
12 4 (0.42%) Jasmine
General
1 154 (16.08%) Social Skills
2 87 (9.08%) Finance
3 77 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 63 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (5.11%) Retail
7 29 (3.03%) Aerospace
8 23 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (1.77%) Legal
9 17 (1.77%) Marketing
10 16 (1.67%) Games
10 16 (1.67%) Law
10 16 (1.67%) Tech for Good
11 10 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.84%) Banking
13 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.52%) Retail Finance
15 4 (0.42%) Aviation
15 4 (0.42%) Publishing
15 4 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 316 (32.99%) Senior
2 250 (26.10%) Developer
3 172 (17.95%) Software Engineer
4 122 (12.73%) Lead
5 106 (11.06%) Architect
6 89 (9.29%) Senior Developer
7 84 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 75 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
9 50 (5.22%) .NET Developer
10 48 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
10 48 (5.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 45 (4.70%) Technical Leader
12 44 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 43 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (3.97%) Data Engineer
14 38 (3.97%) PHP Developer
15 36 (3.76%) Java Engineer
15 36 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
16 33 (3.44%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (22.34%) React
2 147 (15.34%) Node.js
3 133 (13.88%) .NET
4 97 (10.13%) CSS
5 84 (8.77%) .NET Core
6 71 (7.41%) Spring
7 62 (6.47%) RESTful
8 57 (5.95%) AngularJS
8 57 (5.95%) Leaflet
8 57 (5.95%) OpenLayers
8 57 (5.95%) PostGIS
9 55 (5.74%) Spring Boot
10 54 (5.64%) REST
11 50 (5.22%) Laravel
12 47 (4.91%) Vue
13 46 (4.80%) HTML
14 41 (4.28%) .NET Framework
15 30 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
16 29 (3.03%) ASP.NET
16 29 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.95%) Public Cloud
2 53 (5.53%) Cloud Native
3 51 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 46 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (4.70%) Blockchain
6 40 (4.18%) Management Information System
7 36 (3.76%) e-Learning
8 34 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.30%) PKI
9 22 (2.30%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.77%) Blog
10 17 (1.77%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 16 (1.67%) PMI
12 15 (1.57%) IoT
13 13 (1.36%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.15%) Onboarding
15 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 150 (15.66%) Linux
2 94 (9.81%) Windows
3 45 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 28 (2.92%) Unix
5 23 (2.40%) Ubuntu
6 20 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.77%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.25%) Android
8 12 (1.25%) CentOS
8 12 (1.25%) Debian
8 12 (1.25%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.63%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.42%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.42%) VMS
10 4 (0.42%) 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
1 430 (44.89%) Agile
2 318 (33.19%) DevOps
3 253 (26.41%) Software Engineering
4 193 (20.15%) Mentoring
5 173 (18.06%) CI/CD
6 148 (15.45%) TDD
7 135 (14.09%) Actionable Insight
8 126 (13.15%) Full Stack Development
9 122 (12.73%) Coaching
10 120 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 109 (11.38%) Microservices
13 101 (10.54%) Containerisation
14 94 (9.81%) Scrum
15 90 (9.39%) Roadmaps
16 77 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence
17 71 (7.41%) Test Automation
18 70 (7.31%) Continuous Integration
18 70 (7.31%) Kanban
19 68 (7.10%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 246 (25.68%) JavaScript
2 215 (22.44%) Python
3 174 (18.16%) Java
4 157 (16.39%) SQL
5 124 (12.94%) C#
5 124 (12.94%) TypeScript
6 77 (8.04%) PHP
7 43 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 28 (2.92%) Go
9 26 (2.71%) Bash
10 19 (1.98%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.25%) COBOL
11 12 (1.25%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 11 (1.15%) Ruby
13 9 (0.94%) Scala
14 8 (0.84%) Perl
14 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.52%) C
16 5 (0.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 129 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 99 (10.33%) Degree
3 90 (9.39%) SC Cleared
4 77 (8.04%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (4.07%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (3.34%) DV Cleared
8 22 (2.30%) CISSP
9 18 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 18 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.77%) CISM
11 16 (1.67%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.57%) CCSK
12 15 (1.57%) CCSP
12 15 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.36%) CCNA
14 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.73%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.92%) GDPR
2 25 (2.61%) NIST
3 21 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.77%) QA
5 14 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.31%) SLA
8 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.21%) HL7
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 168 (17.54%) Docker
2 66 (6.89%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.73%) Firmware
6 4 (0.42%) 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
1 180 (18.79%) Terraform
2 177 (18.48%) Kubernetes
3 49 (5.11%) Ansible
4 39 (4.07%) Prometheus
5 26 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (1.46%) Puppet
8 12 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (1.25%) Opsgenie
8 12 (1.25%) VxRail
8 12 (1.25%) ZABBIX
9 8 (0.84%) Grafana
10 7 (0.73%) CA Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.63%) Kibana
12 4 (0.42%) 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 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.41%) Google
3 57 (5.95%) ESRI
4 55 (5.74%) Oracle
5 48 (5.01%) Red Hat
6 46 (4.80%) VMware
7 45 (4.70%) IBM
8 38 (3.97%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.71%) Cisco
10 22 (2.30%) Citrix
11 15 (1.57%) Fortinet
12 14 (1.46%) Dell
13 13 (1.36%) Facebook
14 12 (1.25%) Micro Focus
14 12 (1.25%) NetApp
14 12 (1.25%) SolarWinds
15 11 (1.15%) SaltStack
16 10 (1.04%) Databricks
16 10 (1.04%) Sparx
17 9 (0.94%) Adobe