AWS Job Trends in Leicestershire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 23 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 -21
Permanent jobs citing AWS 14 39 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 2.48% 8.67% 5.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.85% 34.21% 14.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 21
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £59,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £86,200 -
East Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 129 114 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 22.83% 25.33% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 104 69 156
10th Percentile £24,625 £27,000 £32,188
25th Percentile £35,063 £34,000 £39,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,250 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

AWS
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Leicestershire

AWS
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Leicester -15 6 £57,600 -14.67% 15
Lutterworth +6 5 £35,000 -
Coalville -6 1 £45,390 +33.50%
Melton Mowbray - 1 £37,500 - 1
Loughborough - 1 £75,000 - 1
AWS
East Midlands

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (7.14%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) Internet
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
2 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Metasploit
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Multimedia
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Technical Support
1 5 (35.71%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) Django
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Flask
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) Next.js
2 1 (7.14%) pytest
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Driving Licence
2 5 (35.71%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Mac OS X
3 1 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
3 5 (35.71%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 5 (35.71%) Organisational Awareness
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 2 (14.29%) Secure Coding
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) R
3 1 (7.14%) Delphi
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) MCP
2 5 (35.71%) MCSA
2 5 (35.71%) MCSE
2 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
3 3 (21.43%) OSCP
4 2 (14.29%) CEH
4 2 (14.29%) CISSP
4 2 (14.29%) GCIH
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (7.14%) CHECK Team Member
5 1 (7.14%) CREST Certified
5 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
5 1 (7.14%) GPEN
5 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Nessus
1 1 (7.14%) Nmap
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Civica
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) HubSpot
3 1 (7.14%) Northgate
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Orchard
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys