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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 984 1,552 1,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.87% 20.09% 19.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.01% 47.19% 45.52%
Number of salaries quoted 658 737 1,060
10th Percentile £41,171 £42,500 £40,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
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 £87,875 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.35% +13.85%

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 3,392 3,289 4,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.02% 42.57% 42.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,657 1,894 2,629
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £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 20 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 20 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 -3 701 £65,000 - 207
Cheshire -10 129 £55,000 -26.67% 35
Merseyside -10 91 £45,000 -45.45% 16
Lancashire -20 57 £73,805 +34.19% 17
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 (5.79%) ArcGIS
1 57 (5.79%) GeoServer
2 30 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.93%) Apache
3 19 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.63%) SharePoint
5 12 (1.22%) IIS
5 12 (1.22%) Tuxedo
6 8 (0.81%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.61%) Confluence
8 4 (0.41%) WordPress
9 1 (0.10%) Jetty
9 1 (0.10%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.41%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.20%) Sketch
4 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.51%) SAP IBP
3 5 (0.51%) SAP PP
3 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 491 (49.90%) Azure
2 161 (16.36%) GCP
3 102 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (9.15%) Amazon S3
5 85 (8.64%) SaaS
6 77 (7.83%) Serverless
7 68 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
10 37 (3.76%) OCI
11 36 (3.66%) Amazon ECR
11 36 (3.66%) GitHub
11 36 (3.66%) IBM Cloud
11 36 (3.66%) Route 53
12 34 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 33 (3.35%) Amazon Kinesis
14 26 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (2.24%) Entra ID
16 18 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (1.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.08%) DNS
1 50 (5.08%) Firewall
2 45 (4.57%) WAN
3 32 (3.25%) DHCP
4 31 (3.15%) SD-WAN
5 18 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.73%) Network Security
7 16 (1.63%) SSL
8 15 (1.52%) BGP
9 14 (1.42%) HTTP
9 14 (1.42%) LAN
10 12 (1.22%) iSCSI
10 12 (1.22%) SAN
10 12 (1.22%) VPN
11 11 (1.12%) AMQP
12 9 (0.91%) MQTT
13 8 (0.81%) Wireless
14 7 (0.71%) EIGRP
14 7 (0.71%) OSPF
14 7 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (12.91%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (8.64%) MySQL
3 72 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
4 65 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (6.50%) NoSQL
6 60 (6.10%) SQL Server
7 57 (5.79%) GIS
7 57 (5.79%) QGIS
8 48 (4.88%) MongoDB
9 42 (4.27%) Relational Database
10 33 (3.35%) DynamoDB
11 27 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (2.44%) Oracle Database
12 24 (2.44%) RDBMS
13 23 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
14 22 (2.24%) Data Lake
15 17 (1.73%) Big Data
16 16 (1.63%) Oracle Database 11g
17 15 (1.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 85 (8.64%) Git
2 52 (5.28%) GitLab
3 35 (3.56%) JIRA
4 34 (3.46%) Jenkins
5 19 (1.93%) TeamCity
6 17 (1.73%) IntelliJ
6 17 (1.73%) JUnit
6 17 (1.73%) Mockito
7 16 (1.63%) Gradle
7 16 (1.63%) Postman
8 10 (1.02%) Gatling
9 8 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.61%) Selenium
11 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.51%) JetBrains Rider
12 5 (0.51%) JMeter
12 5 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 172 (17.48%) Social Skills
2 89 (9.04%) Finance
3 80 (8.13%) Public Sector
4 63 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (4.98%) Retail
7 29 (2.95%) Aerospace
8 27 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (1.83%) Games
10 17 (1.73%) Legal
10 17 (1.73%) Marketing
11 16 (1.63%) Tech for Good
12 15 (1.52%) Law
13 11 (1.12%) Electronics
14 10 (1.02%) Billing
14 10 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.81%) Banking
16 6 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.51%) Retail Finance
18 4 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 325 (33.03%) Senior
2 254 (25.81%) Developer
3 183 (18.60%) Software Engineer
4 126 (12.80%) Lead
5 113 (11.48%) Architect
6 92 (9.35%) Senior Developer
7 88 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 75 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 51 (5.18%) Senior DevOps
9 51 (5.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 50 (5.08%) .NET Developer
11 49 (4.98%) Technical Leader
12 48 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
13 42 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
15 39 (3.96%) PHP Developer
16 37 (3.76%) Data Engineer
16 37 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
17 36 (3.66%) Java Engineer
18 34 (3.46%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (21.85%) React
2 151 (15.35%) Node.js
3 134 (13.62%) .NET
4 99 (10.06%) CSS
5 84 (8.54%) .NET Core
6 72 (7.32%) Spring
7 69 (7.01%) REST
8 64 (6.50%) RESTful
9 57 (5.79%) AngularJS
9 57 (5.79%) Leaflet
9 57 (5.79%) OpenLayers
9 57 (5.79%) PostGIS
10 56 (5.69%) Spring Boot
11 51 (5.18%) Laravel
12 48 (4.88%) HTML
12 48 (4.88%) Vue
13 43 (4.37%) Web Services
14 42 (4.27%) GraphQL
15 41 (4.17%) .NET Framework
16 32 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.79%) Public Cloud
2 53 (5.39%) Cloud Native
3 51 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 46 (4.67%) Blockchain
4 46 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
5 40 (4.07%) Management Information System
6 38 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (3.66%) e-Learning
8 35 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (3.05%) Blog
10 25 (2.54%) Product Ownership
11 22 (2.24%) PKI
12 17 (1.73%) Media Streaming
12 17 (1.73%) Private Cloud
13 16 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 16 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.63%) PMI
14 15 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.52%) IoT
15 13 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 148 (15.04%) Linux
2 92 (9.35%) Windows
3 43 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.64%) Unix
5 23 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.73%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.22%) Android
8 12 (1.22%) Mac OS
9 11 (1.12%) CentOS
9 11 (1.12%) Debian
10 6 (0.61%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.41%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.41%) VMS
11 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (45.22%) Agile
2 345 (35.06%) DevOps
3 266 (27.03%) Software Engineering
4 200 (20.33%) Mentoring
5 175 (17.78%) CI/CD
6 145 (14.74%) TDD
7 133 (13.52%) Actionable Insight
8 129 (13.11%) Coaching
9 127 (12.91%) Full Stack Development
10 121 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (11.69%) Microservices
12 113 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 103 (10.47%) Containerisation
14 94 (9.55%) Roadmaps
14 94 (9.55%) Scrum
15 84 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
16 78 (7.93%) Artificial Intelligence
17 72 (7.32%) Computer Science
18 71 (7.22%) Migration
18 71 (7.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 250 (25.41%) JavaScript
2 214 (21.75%) Python
3 181 (18.39%) Java
4 155 (15.75%) SQL
5 126 (12.80%) TypeScript
6 125 (12.70%) C#
7 78 (7.93%) PHP
8 44 (4.47%) PowerShell
9 28 (2.85%) Go
10 26 (2.64%) Bash
11 22 (2.24%) Scala
12 19 (1.93%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.32%) Ruby
14 12 (1.22%) COBOL
14 12 (1.22%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 8 (0.81%) Perl
15 8 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.71%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.61%) C++
18 5 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 130 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 108 (10.98%) Degree
3 91 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 79 (8.03%) AWS Certification
5 51 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 33 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 32 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.24%) CISSP
10 18 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 18 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.73%) CISM
12 16 (1.63%) PMI Certification
13 15 (1.52%) CCSK
13 15 (1.52%) CCSP
13 15 (1.52%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.32%) CCNA
15 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.71%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.85%) GDPR
2 26 (2.64%) NIST
3 21 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.83%) QA
5 14 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.30%) SLA
9 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.20%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 173 (17.58%) Docker
2 64 (6.50%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.71%) Firmware
6 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.20%) 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
1 183 (18.60%) Terraform
2 181 (18.39%) Kubernetes
3 51 (5.18%) Ansible
4 39 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.52%) Puppet
8 12 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (1.22%) Opsgenie
8 12 (1.22%) VxRail
8 12 (1.22%) ZABBIX
9 8 (0.81%) Grafana
9 8 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.71%) CA Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.61%) Kibana
12 4 (0.41%) Autotask
13 3 (0.30%) SELinux
14 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.10%) SCCM
14 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 155 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.52%) Google
3 57 (5.79%) ESRI
4 56 (5.69%) Oracle
5 47 (4.78%) Red Hat
6 46 (4.67%) IBM
6 46 (4.67%) VMware
7 38 (3.86%) Dynatrace
8 26 (2.64%) Cisco
9 20 (2.03%) Citrix
10 15 (1.52%) Fortinet
11 14 (1.42%) Dell
12 13 (1.32%) Facebook
13 12 (1.22%) Micro Focus
13 12 (1.22%) NetApp
13 12 (1.22%) SolarWinds
14 11 (1.12%) SaltStack
15 10 (1.02%) Databricks
15 10 (1.02%) Sparx
16 9 (0.91%) ServiceNow