AWS Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -11
Permanent jobs citing AWS 122 127 100
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 7.02% 6.91% 8.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.00% 18.98% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 95 76 88
10th Percentile - £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,438 £48,301
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +6.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,358 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £82,282 £87,150
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.80%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 581 669 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.41% 36.38% 41.41%
Number of salaries quoted 408 389 466
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £30,340
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,627 £83,993 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

AWS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

AWS
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Birmingham

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (4.10%) Confluence
1 5 (4.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.28%) CMS
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.64%) nginx
4 1 (0.82%) Apache
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.82%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 85 (69.67%) Azure
2 27 (22.13%) GitHub
3 20 (16.39%) SaaS
4 15 (12.30%) GCP
5 13 (10.66%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (9.84%) Serverless
7 9 (7.38%) Amazon S3
8 8 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (4.10%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (4.10%) AWS KMS
12 4 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.28%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.46%) Amazon Glacier
13 3 (2.46%) dbt
13 3 (2.46%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.49%) Internet
2 8 (6.56%) Firewall
3 5 (4.10%) DNS
3 5 (4.10%) FTP
3 5 (4.10%) HTTP
3 5 (4.10%) SMTP
3 5 (4.10%) SSH
3 5 (4.10%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.64%) IMAP
4 2 (1.64%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.64%) VLAN
4 2 (1.64%) VPN
4 2 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.92%) MySQL
5 5 (4.10%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.28%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.64%) Redis
8 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (28.69%) Git
2 9 (7.38%) JIRA
3 8 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.74%) JUnit
4 7 (5.74%) Maven
4 7 (5.74%) Mockito
5 5 (4.10%) Vagrant
6 4 (3.28%) GitLab
7 2 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.82%) Gatling
8 1 (0.82%) JMeter
8 1 (0.82%) Locust
8 1 (0.82%) MLflow
8 1 (0.82%) Moq
8 1 (0.82%) MSTest
8 1 (0.82%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.82%) NUnit
8 1 (0.82%) Postman
8 1 (0.82%) Selenium
General
1 35 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.49%) Multimedia
3 22 (18.03%) Finance
4 20 (16.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (13.11%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.74%) Advertising
7 7 (5.74%) Banking
8 4 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.28%) Retail
9 3 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.64%) Law
10 2 (1.64%) Legal
10 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.64%) Marketing
11 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (24.59%) Developer
2 25 (20.49%) Trainee
3 16 (13.11%) Senior
3 16 (13.11%) Software Developer
4 15 (12.30%) Lead
5 12 (9.84%) Trainee Developer
5 12 (9.84%) Trainee Software Developer
6 10 (8.20%) Analyst
6 10 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.56%) Lead Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Architect
8 7 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) C# Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.59%) CSS
1 30 (24.59%) HTML
2 18 (14.75%) React
3 8 (6.56%) Spring
4 7 (5.74%) .NET
4 7 (5.74%) REST
5 5 (4.10%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.10%) AWS CDK
5 5 (4.10%) EDI
5 5 (4.10%) Node.js
6 4 (3.28%) Vue
7 3 (2.46%) Django
7 3 (2.46%) Laravel
7 3 (2.46%) Next.js
7 3 (2.46%) React Native
7 3 (2.46%) RESTful
7 3 (2.46%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.64%) gRPC
8 2 (1.64%) LDAP
9 1 (0.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.38%) Management Information System
1 9 (7.38%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.56%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.74%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.46%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.64%) Replication
7 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.82%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.82%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.82%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.75%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (4.10%) VMS
3 3 (2.46%) Unix
4 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.79%) Mentoring
2 38 (31.15%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (25.41%) DevOps
4 28 (22.95%) Agile
5 27 (22.13%) AI
6 24 (19.67%) CI/CD
7 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (15.57%) Microservices
10 18 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (12.30%) Software Engineering
12 14 (11.48%) Computer Science
12 14 (11.48%) Containerisation
12 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (10.66%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (8.20%) Data Governance
14 10 (8.20%) FinOps
14 10 (8.20%) Observability
14 10 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 9 (7.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (37.70%) Python
2 36 (29.51%) JavaScript
3 23 (18.85%) Java
4 18 (14.75%) R
5 15 (12.30%) SQL
6 11 (9.02%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.38%) C#
8 7 (5.74%) PL/SQL
8 7 (5.74%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.92%) Bash
10 5 (4.10%) Groovy
11 4 (3.28%) PHP
12 3 (2.46%) C
12 3 (2.46%) Perl
13 2 (1.64%) C++
13 2 (1.64%) Go
14 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (31.15%) AWS Certification
2 29 (23.77%) Azure Certification
3 27 (22.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (20.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 21 (17.21%) Security Cleared
6 20 (16.39%) SC Cleared
7 11 (9.02%) Degree
8 7 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.28%) CITP
10 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.64%) CISM
10 2 (1.64%) CISSP
11 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.82%) CBAP
11 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.10%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.64%) NIST
3 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.64%) WCAG
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.82%) GRC
System Software
1 21 (17.21%) Docker
2 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.64%) DFS Replication
3 2 (1.64%) Dovecot
3 2 (1.64%) Postfix
3 2 (1.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.93%) Terraform
3 7 (5.74%) Grafana
4 5 (4.10%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.64%) Nessus
5 2 (1.64%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.82%) Ansible
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (31.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.56%) Adobe
2 8 (6.56%) Apple
2 8 (6.56%) Google
3 7 (5.74%) Oracle
4 5 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.28%) Planon
5 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.64%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.64%) Splunk
7 1 (0.82%) Aruba
7 1 (0.82%) Avaya
7 1 (0.82%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.82%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.82%) Genesys
7 1 (0.82%) HP
7 1 (0.82%) New Relic
7 1 (0.82%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.82%) Teradata