AWS Job Trends in Leeds

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 346 111 268
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 15.39% 14.61% 12.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.65% 32.84% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 255 83 211
10th Percentile £30,350 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +10.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £94,000 £88,080 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -4.51%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 758 338 834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 33.72% 44.47% 39.66%
Number of salaries quoted 524 275 692
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,200 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,959
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £59,800 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.52% +8.73% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Leeds

AWS
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Leeds over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Leeds

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 11 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.02%) Apache
2 7 (2.02%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.73%) Jupyter
3 6 (1.73%) WordPress
4 5 (1.45%) Drupal
4 5 (1.45%) nginx
5 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.87%) JBoss
6 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
2 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 154 (44.51%) Serverless
2 124 (35.84%) Azure
3 112 (32.37%) Amazon S3
4 109 (31.50%) AWS Lambda
5 87 (25.14%) Amazon ECS
6 80 (23.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 75 (21.68%) AWS Step Functions
8 71 (20.52%) GitHub
9 44 (12.72%) Amazon ECR
9 44 (12.72%) Apigee
10 43 (12.43%) GCP
11 41 (11.85%) Amazon SQS
12 37 (10.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (8.96%) SaaS
14 30 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (6.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
18 14 (4.05%) Amazon EventBridge
19 10 (2.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.49%) Internet
2 10 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.02%) Firewall
4 5 (1.45%) DHCP
4 5 (1.45%) DNS
4 5 (1.45%) LAN
4 5 (1.45%) NGFW
4 5 (1.45%) VXLAN
4 5 (1.45%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.16%) WAN
6 3 (0.87%) VoIP
7 2 (0.58%) BGP
7 2 (0.58%) OSPF
7 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.58%) VPN
8 1 (0.29%) Broadband
8 1 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (29.48%) DynamoDB
2 47 (13.58%) NoSQL
3 32 (9.25%) SQL Server
4 28 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (4.34%) Metadata
6 15 (4.34%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.18%) MySQL
8 10 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.02%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.73%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.45%) MariaDB
11 5 (1.45%) Power BI
12 4 (1.16%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.87%) TIBCO EBX
14 2 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 69 (19.94%) Jenkins
2 58 (16.76%) Git
3 53 (15.32%) GitLab
4 42 (12.14%) SonarQube
5 39 (11.27%) Cypress.io
5 39 (11.27%) Maven
6 7 (2.02%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.16%) JIRA
8 4 (1.16%) Selenium
9 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.29%) JUnit
10 1 (0.29%) PHPUnit
General
1 97 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (9.83%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.49%) Finance
4 19 (5.49%) Multimedia
5 13 (3.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (2.60%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.31%) Retail
8 5 (1.45%) Local Government
8 5 (1.45%) Police
9 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.16%) Legal
10 3 (0.87%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.58%) Games
11 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.58%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 150 (43.35%) Developer
2 80 (23.12%) Senior
3 68 (19.65%) Java Developer
4 41 (11.85%) Senior Developer
5 38 (10.98%) Architect
5 38 (10.98%) Lead
6 36 (10.40%) Software Engineer
7 35 (10.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (7.23%) AWS Developer
8 25 (7.23%) Trainee
9 23 (6.65%) Python Developer
10 21 (6.07%) .NET Developer
11 17 (4.91%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.91%) Senior Java Developer
12 15 (4.34%) Analyst
13 14 (4.05%) .NET Development Manager
13 14 (4.05%) Data Architect
13 14 (4.05%) Development Manager
13 14 (4.05%) Software Development Manager
13 14 (4.05%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (22.54%) React
2 66 (19.08%) AngularJS
2 66 (19.08%) Spring Boot
3 61 (17.63%) Node.js
4 43 (12.43%) .NET
4 43 (12.43%) CSS
4 43 (12.43%) HTML
5 40 (11.56%) Jest
6 39 (11.27%) Gherkin
7 37 (10.69%) Spring
8 26 (7.51%) RESTful
8 26 (7.51%) Vue
9 25 (7.23%) REST
10 22 (6.36%) Flask
11 17 (4.91%) .NET Core
12 15 (4.34%) Blazor
12 15 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (4.05%) Django
14 13 (3.76%) AWS CDK
14 13 (3.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 21 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.20%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.31%) PKI
6 7 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.73%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.45%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.45%) NHS
9 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.87%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.58%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.58%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.31%) Windows
2 6 (1.73%) Linux
3 5 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.87%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (40.75%) Agile
1 141 (40.75%) CI/CD
2 124 (35.84%) DevOps
3 87 (25.14%) Mentoring
4 77 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (21.97%) Microservices
6 73 (21.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 63 (18.21%) Software Engineering
8 62 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (15.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 51 (14.74%) SDLC
11 46 (13.29%) Data Modelling
12 39 (11.27%) Application Security
13 33 (9.54%) Containerisation
13 33 (9.54%) Secure Coding
14 30 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
15 28 (8.09%) Computer Science
16 27 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 26 (7.51%) Stakeholder Management
18 25 (7.23%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 116 (33.53%) Java
2 105 (30.35%) Python
3 104 (30.06%) TypeScript
4 92 (26.59%) JavaScript
5 78 (22.54%) SQL
6 45 (13.01%) C#
7 44 (12.72%) Bash
8 41 (11.85%) Groovy
9 27 (7.80%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.18%) R
11 6 (1.73%) PHP
11 6 (1.73%) Scala
12 3 (0.87%) Go
13 2 (0.58%) Bicep
13 2 (0.58%) Perl
13 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.29%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 98 (28.32%) AWS Certification
2 39 (11.27%) Azure Certification
2 39 (11.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (8.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 28 (8.09%) Degree
5 24 (6.94%) Security Cleared
6 22 (6.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 22 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (6.36%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (5.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 20 (5.78%) SC Cleared
8 19 (5.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.73%) CISM
10 6 (1.73%) CISSP
11 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.87%) IIBA
12 3 (0.87%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.65%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.60%) GDPR
4 8 (2.31%) QA
5 5 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.45%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 123 (35.55%) Docker
2 7 (2.02%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 81 (23.41%) Terraform
2 39 (11.27%) HP Fortify
3 34 (9.83%) Kubernetes
4 17 (4.91%) Ansible
5 8 (2.31%) Grafana
5 8 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.16%) Argo
7 3 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.87%) Packer
8 2 (0.58%) Kibana
8 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.18%) Google
3 8 (2.31%) Databricks
4 6 (1.73%) Oracle
4 6 (1.73%) SAP
5 5 (1.45%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.45%) Arista
5 5 (1.45%) Aruba
5 5 (1.45%) IBM
5 5 (1.45%) NetScout
5 5 (1.45%) Palantir
6 4 (1.16%) VMware
7 3 (0.87%) Informatica
7 3 (0.87%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.58%) Cisco
8 2 (0.58%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.58%) UiPath
9 1 (0.29%) Adobe
9 1 (0.29%) Foundry
9 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds