AWS Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 168 93 115
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 13.01% 14.07% 12.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.40% 31.85% 37.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 62 87
10th Percentile £400 £376 £330
25th Percentile £450 £417 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £547 £559
90th Percentile £622 £650 £619
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £74.00 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 503 292 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 38.96% 44.18% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 191 225
10th Percentile £331 £313 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -11.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £641 £619 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £22.48 £27.82 -
25th Percentile £26.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -72.22%
75th Percentile - £50.48 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.33 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -33.36%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

AWS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in West Yorkshire

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -1 151 £500 - 47
Bradford -9 6 £700 +27.27% 2
Castleford - 1 £400 -
AWS
Yorkshire

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 7 (4.17%) Palantir Foundry
2 5 (2.98%) Confluence
2 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.19%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.07%) Azure
2 50 (29.76%) GitHub
3 37 (22.02%) GitHub Actions
4 26 (15.48%) Serverless
5 20 (11.90%) GCP
6 16 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 10 (5.95%) SaaS
10 9 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (4.76%) Apigee
11 8 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.76%) PaaS
12 7 (4.17%) IaaS
13 6 (3.57%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (2.98%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) Firewall
2 4 (2.38%) IPsec
2 4 (2.38%) Kerberos
2 4 (2.38%) SSL
3 3 (1.79%) BGP
3 3 (1.79%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.79%) OSPF
3 3 (1.79%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.79%) VXLAN
3 3 (1.79%) WAN
3 3 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.79%) WLAN
4 1 (0.60%) DNS
4 1 (0.60%) Internet
4 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.74%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.55%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.76%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.57%) Power BI
8 3 (1.79%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.79%) DTS
8 3 (1.79%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.19%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.19%) Parquet
10 1 (0.60%) Redis
10 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 34 (20.24%) Jenkins
2 29 (17.26%) GitLab
3 17 (10.12%) Git
4 14 (8.33%) Gatling
5 11 (6.55%) JIRA
6 7 (4.17%) Maven
6 7 (4.17%) REST Assured
6 7 (4.17%) Selenium
6 7 (4.17%) Serenity BDD
7 6 (3.57%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.38%) Flyway
9 1 (0.60%) Appium
9 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.93%) Finance
4 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.17%) Legal
5 7 (4.17%) Military
5 7 (4.17%) Retail
6 4 (2.38%) Games
7 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (26.19%) Senior
2 43 (25.60%) Developer
3 22 (13.10%) Architect
4 20 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 17 (10.12%) Lead
7 16 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.74%) Python Developer
8 13 (7.74%) Technical Architect
9 9 (5.36%) Analyst
9 9 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.76%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 7 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (4.17%) Lead Test Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Senior Manager
11 7 (4.17%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.50%) Playwright
2 19 (11.31%) React
3 18 (10.71%) Kafka
4 15 (8.93%) Spring
5 13 (7.74%) Node.js
5 13 (7.74%) REST
6 9 (5.36%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.76%) OAuth
7 8 (4.76%) Redux
7 8 (4.76%) RESTful
8 7 (4.17%) FHIR
8 7 (4.17%) OpenID
8 7 (4.17%) PySpark
8 7 (4.17%) Web Services
9 6 (3.57%) Flask
9 6 (3.57%) JSON
9 6 (3.57%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.57%) Zustand
10 5 (2.98%) SAML
10 5 (2.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.48%) Cloud Native
1 26 (15.48%) NHS
2 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.38%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.19%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.36%) Linux
2 5 (2.98%) Windows
3 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.19%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.19%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 87 (51.79%) DevOps
3 80 (47.62%) Agile
4 52 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (17.26%) Microservices
6 27 (16.07%) Software Engineering
7 24 (14.29%) Observability
7 24 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 24 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 23 (13.69%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (10.71%) Code Quality
10 18 (10.71%) High Availability
10 18 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (8.93%) Migration
12 14 (8.33%) Front End Development
12 14 (8.33%) Test Strategy
13 13 (7.74%) Containerisation
13 13 (7.74%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (7.74%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 77 (45.83%) Python
2 44 (26.19%) Java
3 24 (14.29%) SQL
3 24 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 16 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.93%) Scala
6 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.98%) Bash
8 4 (2.38%) C#
9 3 (1.79%) ABAP
10 2 (1.19%) Ruby
10 2 (1.19%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 45 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.38%) Degree
5 4 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.19%) CISM
7 2 (1.19%) CISSP
7 2 (1.19%) CRISC
7 2 (1.19%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.19%) PMP
8 1 (0.60%) CCNA
8 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.17%) HL7
3 6 (3.57%) WCAG
4 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.38%) NIST
6 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.79%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.19%) GRC
7 2 (1.19%) QA
8 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.60%) GxP
8 1 (0.60%) NCSC
8 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.60%) PMO
8 1 (0.60%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 45 (26.79%) Docker
2 10 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.38%) RACF
5 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 72 (42.86%) Terraform
2 31 (18.45%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.95%) HAProxy
4 8 (4.76%) Grafana
5 6 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.98%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.38%) Ansible
7 4 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.79%) Foglight
9 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.93%) ServiceNow
3 14 (8.33%) Databricks
4 12 (7.14%) Splunk
5 8 (4.76%) Foundry
6 7 (4.17%) Palantir
7 5 (2.98%) Google
7 5 (2.98%) SAP
8 3 (1.79%) Arista
8 3 (1.79%) Aruba
8 3 (1.79%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.79%) F5
8 3 (1.79%) New Relic
8 3 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.19%) Adobe
9 2 (1.19%) IBM
9 2 (1.19%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.60%) Ariba
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco
10 1 (0.60%) Progress