AWS Jobs in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 25 11
Rank change year-on-year -13 -14 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 374 910 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.49% 6.66% 12.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.93% 21.82% 33.84%
Number of salaries quoted 238 681 472
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,140 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.83% +2.92%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,703 £84,919 £86,125
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Cloud Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,631 4,170 3,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.93% 30.51% 38.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 3,315 2,061
10th Percentile £27,413 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
West Midlands +5 255 £62,500 +4.17% 242
East Midlands -40 118 £60,000 +4.35% 220
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 74 (19.79%) Confluence
2 5 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.07%) Apache
3 4 (1.07%) CMS
4 3 (0.80%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Mendix
6 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) Strapi
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 262 (70.05%) Azure
2 101 (27.01%) GCP
3 49 (13.10%) SaaS
4 44 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 43 (11.50%) Amazon S3
5 43 (11.50%) Serverless
6 32 (8.56%) AWS KMS
6 32 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (8.02%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (6.68%) Amazon ELB
11 23 (6.15%) Power Platform
12 22 (5.88%) Amazon Glacier
13 21 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (5.61%) PaaS
14 16 (4.28%) IaaS
15 15 (4.01%) Snowflake
16 13 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (3.48%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 47 (12.57%) Firewall
2 20 (5.35%) WAN
3 18 (4.81%) DNS
4 15 (4.01%) SD-WAN
5 14 (3.74%) VLAN
6 11 (2.94%) VPN
7 10 (2.67%) HTTP
8 9 (2.41%) FTP
8 9 (2.41%) SMTP
8 9 (2.41%) SSH
9 8 (2.14%) Broadband
10 6 (1.60%) DHCP
10 6 (1.60%) LAN
10 6 (1.60%) SSL
11 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
12 4 (1.07%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.07%) Internet
12 4 (1.07%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (1.07%) Wireless
13 3 (0.80%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (21.93%) SQL Server
2 44 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 37 (9.89%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (6.15%) Power BI
6 19 (5.08%) MySQL
7 18 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.48%) Tableau
9 12 (3.21%) MongoDB
10 11 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (2.94%) DynamoDB
11 10 (2.67%) Big Data
11 10 (2.67%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (2.41%) Relational Database
12 9 (2.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (2.14%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 96 (25.67%) JIRA
2 76 (20.32%) SonarQube
3 72 (19.25%) GitLab
3 72 (19.25%) Maven
4 70 (18.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 65 (17.38%) Bitbucket
5 65 (17.38%) Selenium
6 63 (16.84%) Cucumber
7 53 (14.17%) Git
8 40 (10.70%) Jenkins
9 25 (6.68%) Vagrant
10 21 (5.61%) JUnit
10 21 (5.61%) Mockito
11 12 (3.21%) Eclipse
11 12 (3.21%) IntelliJ
11 12 (3.21%) Jasmine
11 12 (3.21%) Karma Test Runner
11 12 (3.21%) Protractor
12 10 (2.67%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 102 (27.27%) Finance
2 87 (23.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 67 (17.91%) Banking
3 67 (17.91%) Social Skills
4 41 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 39 (10.43%) Retail
6 37 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (4.28%) Corporate Banking
8 16 (4.28%) Investment Banking
9 13 (3.48%) Law
9 13 (3.48%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.87%) Automotive
11 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.07%) Games
12 4 (1.07%) Marketing
12 4 (1.07%) Police
13 3 (0.80%) Advertising
13 3 (0.80%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (24.33%) Software Engineer
2 61 (16.31%) Developer
3 43 (11.50%) Lead
4 39 (10.43%) Architect
5 28 (7.49%) Senior
6 26 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (6.42%) Java Developer
8 22 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (5.35%) Analyst
10 19 (5.08%) Support Engineer
11 18 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (4.28%) IT Support
14 13 (3.48%) Site Engineer
14 13 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 12 (3.21%) Infrastructure Support
15 12 (3.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 12 (3.21%) SaaS Developer
15 12 (3.21%) Team Leader
16 11 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (27.81%) React
2 85 (22.73%) Spring
3 82 (21.93%) JPA
4 75 (20.05%) CSS
5 74 (19.79%) HTML
5 74 (19.79%) Spring Boot
6 67 (17.91%) Kafka
7 65 (17.38%) Hibernate
8 63 (16.84%) Redux
9 51 (13.64%) .NET
10 33 (8.82%) AngularJS
11 30 (8.02%) RESTful
12 29 (7.75%) REST
13 20 (5.35%) HTML5
13 20 (5.35%) Jest
14 19 (5.08%) CSS3
14 19 (5.08%) Node.js
15 16 (4.28%) Sass
15 16 (4.28%) Web Services
16 12 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 76 (20.32%) Enterprise Software
2 70 (18.72%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.55%) Replication
4 15 (4.01%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.74%) Algorithms
6 12 (3.21%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.94%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.41%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.07%) NHS
12 4 (1.07%) PKI
13 3 (0.80%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.80%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 75 (20.05%) Linux
2 52 (13.90%) Windows
3 26 (6.95%) VMS
4 18 (4.81%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.67%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (2.41%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.14%) Unix
8 5 (1.34%) Android
9 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.27%) CentOS
11 1 (0.27%) Debian
11 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (45.19%) DevOps
2 149 (39.84%) Agile
3 124 (33.16%) Microservices
4 119 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 115 (30.75%) CI/CD
5 115 (30.75%) Software Engineering
6 83 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 81 (21.66%) Full-Stack Development
8 79 (21.12%) Performance Optimisation
8 79 (21.12%) Test Automation
9 74 (19.79%) SDLC
9 74 (19.79%) TDD
10 71 (18.98%) Front End Development
11 66 (17.65%) Mentoring
12 58 (15.51%) Clean Code
13 54 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (10.43%) Roadmaps
15 37 (9.89%) Analytics
16 36 (9.63%) Cloud Security
17 31 (8.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 149 (39.84%) SQL
2 133 (35.56%) Java
3 105 (28.07%) JavaScript
4 87 (23.26%) Python
5 53 (14.17%) TypeScript
6 44 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 39 (10.43%) C#
8 24 (6.42%) Groovy
9 10 (2.67%) Go
9 10 (2.67%) Perl
10 8 (2.14%) Bash
11 5 (1.34%) PHP
11 5 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.07%) Bicep
12 4 (1.07%) C++
13 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.80%) Ruby
14 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Rust
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 53 (14.17%) Degree
3 46 (12.30%) SC Cleared
4 30 (8.02%) AWS Certification
5 22 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 20 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (2.67%) CCNP
10 9 (2.41%) CCNA
11 8 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.14%) MCP
11 8 (2.14%) MCSA
11 8 (2.14%) MCSE
12 7 (1.87%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.07%) PhD
13 4 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (20.86%) QA
2 17 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.87%) NCSC
4 7 (1.87%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (1.34%) SLA
7 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) GDPR
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 143 (38.24%) Docker
2 41 (10.96%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.55%) DFS Replication
4 12 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.34%) Postfix
7 4 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.80%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.80%) LXC
8 3 (0.80%) Squid
9 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 117 (31.28%) Kubernetes
2 71 (18.98%) Terraform
3 44 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 40 (10.70%) Grafana
5 31 (8.29%) Ansible
6 8 (2.14%) Nessus
7 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.87%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.34%) Argo
9 4 (1.07%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.80%) Nagios
11 2 (0.53%) QRadar
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
12 1 (0.27%) Consul
12 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.27%) Marathon
12 1 (0.27%) Packer
12 1 (0.27%) Puppet
12 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 63 (16.84%) Solace
2 48 (12.83%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.75%) Google
4 24 (6.42%) ServiceNow
5 22 (5.88%) Databricks
6 16 (4.28%) Juniper
7 14 (3.74%) IBM
8 12 (3.21%) Cisco
9 11 (2.94%) VMware
10 8 (2.14%) Oracle
10 8 (2.14%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.87%) Avaya
12 6 (1.60%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.60%) Meraki
12 6 (1.60%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.34%) Jaspersoft
13 5 (1.34%) Splunk
14 4 (1.07%) SAP
15 3 (0.80%) Informatica
16 2 (0.53%) Aruba