AWS Jobs in Durham

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Durham requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 33 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -21 +9
Permanent jobs citing AWS 6 19 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 1.94% 4.28% 16.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.14% 11.18% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 19 12
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £36,190 £33,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.19% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £74,258 £62,500 £42,313
90th Percentile £76,254 £72,920 £53,300
North East median annual salary £65,000 £63,749 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% +15.91% -

All Cloud Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35 170 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 11.29% 38.29% 32.48%
Number of salaries quoted 20 117 45
10th Percentile £26,075 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £72,125 £62,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £70,000 £61,400
North East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Durham

AWS
Salary Trend in Durham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in Durham.

Salary trend for AWS in Durham

AWS
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Durham over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in Durham

AWS
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Durham region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Darlington +3 3 £69,384 +59.50%
Billingham - 2 £28,000 -
AWS
North East

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (50.00%) dbt
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 3 (50.00%) Sentry
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Junior
2 2 (33.33%) Junior DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) ERP
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Server Management
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google