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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 175 124 115
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 19.08% 17.61% 9.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.45% 38.75% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 94 96
10th Percentile £385 £381 £356
25th Percentile £450 £419 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £519
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.47% -5.68%
75th Percentile £540 £555 £600
90th Percentile £600 £721 £622
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £544
% change year-on-year - -8.05% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £62.00

All Cloud 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 385 320 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 41.98% 45.45% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 210 263
10th Percentile £315 £330 £281
25th Percentile £400 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £600
90th Percentile £625 £713 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.79% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile - £20.67 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% -33.87% +175.56%
75th Percentile £21.50 £99.32 -
90th Percentile £97.25 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £38.43 £34.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year +12.20% +71.25% -11.11%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -1 164 £500 +4.17% 72
Wakefield - 3 £475 - 1
Bradford - 3 £494 - 5
Halifax - 3 - -
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 4 (2.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.14%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.71%) Azure
2 54 (30.86%) GCP
3 42 (24.00%) Serverless
4 40 (22.86%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (16.57%) Amazon S3
6 24 (13.71%) GitHub
7 23 (13.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (9.14%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (7.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (4.57%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (4.00%) Power Platform
14 6 (3.43%) Amazon ELB
15 5 (2.86%) OCI
16 4 (2.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 4 (2.29%) Entra ID
16 4 (2.29%) Slack
17 3 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.14%) Firewall
2 9 (5.14%) DNS
2 9 (5.14%) Network Security
3 8 (4.57%) VPN
4 7 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.43%) SSL
6 2 (1.14%) BGP
6 2 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.57%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.57%) FTP
7 1 (0.57%) IPsec
7 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.57%) LAN
7 1 (0.57%) OSPF
7 1 (0.57%) SCCP
7 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.57%) VLAN
7 1 (0.57%) WAN
7 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.14%) NoSQL
2 14 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 14 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.43%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.29%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.00%) Power BI
5 7 (4.00%) Redis
5 7 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.71%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.71%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.71%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (1.14%) MySQL
9 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.14%) Riak
9 2 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (21.14%) Jenkins
2 33 (18.86%) Git
3 23 (13.14%) GitLab
4 10 (5.71%) Cucumber
4 10 (5.71%) JIRA
5 7 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.43%) CircleCI
6 6 (3.43%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.86%) Mocha
7 5 (2.86%) Mockito
7 5 (2.86%) Selenium
8 4 (2.29%) Maven
9 2 (1.14%) Gradle
9 2 (1.14%) JUnit
9 2 (1.14%) Log4j
9 2 (1.14%) MSI
9 2 (1.14%) Subversion
10 1 (0.57%) Vite
10 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 48 (27.43%) Public Sector
2 34 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.00%) Finance
5 12 (6.86%) Banking
6 7 (4.00%) Legal
7 3 (1.71%) Military
8 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.14%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (21.71%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (20.57%) Senior
3 32 (18.29%) Developer
4 24 (13.71%) Software Engineer
5 22 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (10.86%) Architect
7 15 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (7.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.43%) Lead
8 13 (7.43%) Python Developer
8 13 (7.43%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.29%) Java Developer
10 10 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) AWS Developer
11 9 (5.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.57%) AWS Software Engineer
12 8 (4.57%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.43%) Node.js
2 33 (18.86%) React
3 15 (8.57%) Kafka
4 13 (7.43%) RESTful
4 13 (7.43%) Spring
5 11 (6.29%) Spring Boot
6 10 (5.71%) Jest
6 10 (5.71%) REST
7 8 (4.57%) CSS
7 8 (4.57%) HTML
8 6 (3.43%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.43%) Django
9 5 (2.86%) Flask
10 4 (2.29%) .NET
10 4 (2.29%) AWS CDK
10 4 (2.29%) Express.js
10 4 (2.29%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.29%) Playwright
10 4 (2.29%) Swagger
10 4 (2.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.43%) Cloud Native
1 27 (15.43%) NHS
2 7 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.43%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.14%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.71%) Linux
2 7 (4.00%) Windows
3 6 (3.43%) Unix
4 3 (1.71%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (41.71%) DevOps
2 67 (38.29%) CI/CD
3 59 (33.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (29.14%) Agile
5 44 (25.14%) Microservices
6 35 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 33 (18.86%) Containerisation
8 23 (13.14%) Mentoring
9 20 (11.43%) Cloud Security
9 20 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (10.29%) Migration
10 18 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (9.71%) Roadmaps
11 17 (9.71%) Test Automation
12 16 (9.14%) DevSecOps
12 16 (9.14%) Infrastructure Automation
12 16 (9.14%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (8.57%) Clean Code
13 15 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 69 (39.43%) Python
2 28 (16.00%) Bash
2 28 (16.00%) TypeScript
3 26 (14.86%) Java
4 24 (13.71%) JavaScript
5 21 (12.00%) SQL
6 14 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.86%) PHP
8 4 (2.29%) C#
9 3 (1.71%) Delphi
9 3 (1.71%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (1.14%) Go
10 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.14%) Rust
10 2 (1.14%) Solidity
11 1 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.57%) Perl
11 1 (0.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (23.43%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.43%) CISSP
4 5 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.71%) CCSP
6 3 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.71%) GCIA
6 3 (1.71%) GCIH
6 3 (1.71%) GIAC
6 3 (1.71%) SSCP
7 2 (1.14%) CCSK
7 2 (1.14%) CEH
7 2 (1.14%) CISA
7 2 (1.14%) CISM
7 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.86%) QA
2 12 (6.86%) WCAG
3 11 (6.29%) Accessibility
4 10 (5.71%) NIST
5 8 (4.57%) PCI DSS
6 7 (4.00%) GDPR
7 5 (2.86%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.71%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.71%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.71%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.71%) PSD2
9 2 (1.14%) COBIT
9 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (30.29%) Docker
2 8 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 86 (49.14%) Terraform
2 35 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 20 (11.43%) Ansible
4 19 (10.86%) Grafana
5 8 (4.57%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.00%) NetBackup
6 7 (4.00%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (1.71%) Packer
8 2 (1.14%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (9.71%) Splunk
2 15 (8.57%) Google
3 11 (6.29%) Oracle
4 8 (4.57%) CheckPoint
4 8 (4.57%) F5
4 8 (4.57%) VMware
5 7 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 7 (4.00%) Databricks
5 7 (4.00%) Veritas
6 6 (3.43%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.43%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.71%) Cisco
8 3 (1.71%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.14%) Brio
9 2 (1.14%) Citrix
9 2 (1.14%) Dell
9 2 (1.14%) HP
9 2 (1.14%) Salesforce