AWS Job Trends in the East Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 21 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing AWS 179 116 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 4.49% 8.03% 7.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.71% 20.90% 22.46%
Number of salaries quoted 129 88 254
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,165 £55,785 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,192 £81,625
England median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,217 555 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.52% 38.41% 33.99%
Number of salaries quoted 604 483 1,124
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

AWS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in the East Midlands

AWS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +20 58 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Nottinghamshire -11 53 £65,000 - 16
Leicestershire -4 43 £57,600 -25.19% 23
Derbyshire -28 11 £37,500 -36.17% 9
Lincolnshire -29 8 £55,000 +15.79% 4
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (2.23%) WordPress
2 2 (1.12%) IIS
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (54.75%) Azure
2 58 (32.40%) Serverless
3 31 (17.32%) Amazon S3
4 30 (16.76%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (15.08%) GCP
6 20 (11.17%) GitHub
7 15 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.59%) Firebase
8 10 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (5.59%) Stripe
8 10 (5.59%) TestFlight
9 9 (5.03%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.91%) Snowflake
11 6 (3.35%) SaaS
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) Firewall
2 6 (3.35%) LAN
2 6 (3.35%) WAN
3 5 (2.79%) IP Telephony
3 5 (2.79%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.23%) Internet
5 3 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.12%) BGP
6 2 (1.12%) OSPF
7 1 (0.56%) Broadband
7 1 (0.56%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) DNS
7 1 (0.56%) LTE
7 1 (0.56%) VPN
7 1 (0.56%) Wireless
7 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (5.03%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.03%) Power BI
4 6 (3.35%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.23%) Redis
7 2 (1.12%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.12%) MySQL
7 2 (1.12%) Tableau
8 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (6.70%) Git
2 10 (5.59%) Crashlytics
2 10 (5.59%) XCTest
3 8 (4.47%) Burp Suite
3 8 (4.47%) Metasploit
4 3 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.68%) JIRA
4 3 (1.68%) Selenium
5 2 (1.12%) Postman
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.56%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.56%) JUnit
6 1 (0.56%) Subversion
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (12.29%) Retail
4 13 (7.26%) Finance
5 9 (5.03%) Law
6 8 (4.47%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.79%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.23%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.12%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 58 (32.40%) Developer
2 47 (26.26%) Senior
3 31 (17.32%) Software Developer
4 25 (13.97%) Lead
4 25 (13.97%) Senior Developer
5 23 (12.85%) Architect
6 19 (10.61%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (8.94%) Python Developer
7 16 (8.94%) React Developer
7 16 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (8.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (7.26%) AWS Developer
9 13 (7.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (6.70%) AWS Architect
10 12 (6.70%) AWS Solution Architect
10 12 (6.70%) Node.js Developer
11 11 (6.15%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (6.15%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 10 (5.59%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (34.64%) React
2 43 (24.02%) Node.js
3 33 (18.44%) .NET
4 30 (16.76%) HTML
5 22 (12.29%) CSS
6 16 (8.94%) .NET Core
7 11 (6.15%) AngularJS
8 10 (5.59%) SwiftUI
8 10 (5.59%) UIKit
9 9 (5.03%) ASP.NET
9 9 (5.03%) Next.js
10 8 (4.47%) AWS CDK
11 7 (3.91%) Pandas
11 7 (3.91%) scikit-learn
12 6 (3.35%) PyTorch
13 5 (2.79%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (2.79%) Django
13 5 (2.79%) REST
14 4 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
15 3 (1.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.85%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (7.26%) Security Posture
3 11 (6.15%) Mobile App
4 10 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.03%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.91%) Insider Threat
7 6 (3.35%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.79%) CCTV
9 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.23%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.12%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.12%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.56%) PKI
12 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.70%) Linux
2 11 (6.15%) Apple iOS
3 9 (5.03%) Windows
4 6 (3.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (31.28%) Full-Stack Development
2 46 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (23.46%) CI/CD
4 40 (22.35%) Mentoring
5 30 (16.76%) Agile
5 30 (16.76%) Software Engineering
6 24 (13.41%) Test Automation
7 23 (12.85%) Analytics
7 23 (12.85%) Re-Platforming
8 22 (12.29%) DevOps
9 21 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (11.73%) Decision-Making
10 20 (11.17%) Clean Code
10 20 (11.17%) Computer Science
11 19 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (10.61%) Process Improvement
12 17 (9.50%) Containerisation
13 16 (8.94%) API Development
13 16 (8.94%) Roadmaps
14 14 (7.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 61 (34.08%) Python
2 51 (28.49%) SQL
3 47 (26.26%) JavaScript
4 36 (20.11%) C#
5 18 (10.06%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.59%) Kotlin
6 10 (5.59%) Swift
7 7 (3.91%) Java
8 6 (3.35%) Bash
8 6 (3.35%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.35%) R
9 5 (2.79%) Bicep
10 4 (2.23%) PHP
11 2 (1.12%) C++
11 2 (1.12%) Go
12 1 (0.56%) Delphi
12 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (16.76%) Degree
2 20 (11.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (9.50%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.70%) CCNA
5 12 (6.70%) CISSP
5 12 (6.70%) MCSE
5 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 11 (6.15%) AWS Certification
6 11 (6.15%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (6.15%) SC Cleared
6 11 (6.15%) Security Cleared
7 10 (5.59%) OSCP
8 9 (5.03%) CEH
9 8 (4.47%) Azure Certification
9 8 (4.47%) CREST Certified
9 8 (4.47%) DBS Check
9 8 (4.47%) GPEN
10 7 (3.91%) CCNP
10 7 (3.91%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.91%) Actionable Recommendations
2 6 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.79%) GDPR
4 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.68%) NIST
5 3 (1.68%) QA
5 3 (1.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.56%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (3.91%) Docker
2 6 (3.35%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (8.38%) Terraform
2 8 (4.47%) Nmap
3 7 (3.91%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.79%) Grafana
4 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.68%) Autotask
6 2 (1.12%) Ansible
6 2 (1.12%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.56%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.56%) Nessus
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.70%) Databricks
3 10 (5.59%) Amplitude
3 10 (5.59%) Braze
4 9 (5.03%) Google
5 7 (3.91%) Cisco
6 6 (3.35%) VMware
7 5 (2.79%) Draytek
7 5 (2.79%) Mitel
7 5 (2.79%) WatchGuard
8 3 (1.68%) Adobe
8 3 (1.68%) Informatica
8 3 (1.68%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.68%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.68%) SAP
9 2 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.12%) Progress
9 2 (1.12%) Zoho