AWS Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 16 25
Rank change year-on-year -33 +9 -14
Permanent jobs citing AWS 457 458 787
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.47% 8.95% 6.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.44% 26.69% 20.36%
Number of salaries quoted 333 231 648
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.07%
75th Percentile £77,424 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,703 £86,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing 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 3,996 1,716 3,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.38% 33.54% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,843 1,284 3,215
10th Percentile £29,625 £27,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,125 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in the Midlands

AWS
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 21 May 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
West Midlands -34 283 £62,788 +4.65% 104
East Midlands +6 173 £61,250 +2.08% 66
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 9 (1.97%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (1.31%) WordPress
3 5 (1.09%) CMS
3 5 (1.09%) Confluence
3 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.88%) nginx
4 4 (0.88%) SAS
5 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (2.41%) Chatbot
2 10 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.88%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.63%) Cloudability
2 7 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.88%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 240 (52.52%) Azure
2 87 (19.04%) Serverless
3 69 (15.10%) GCP
4 49 (10.72%) AWS Lambda
5 48 (10.50%) GitHub
6 44 (9.63%) Amazon S3
7 30 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (5.03%) Snowflake
9 19 (4.16%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 18 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (3.72%) SaaS
12 16 (3.50%) Power Platform
13 15 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (2.84%) Firebase
14 13 (2.84%) Stripe
14 13 (2.84%) TestFlight
15 12 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.19%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.81%) WAN
2 21 (4.60%) Internet
2 21 (4.60%) SD-WAN
3 17 (3.72%) VLAN
4 16 (3.50%) Firewall
5 5 (1.09%) VPN
6 4 (0.88%) DNS
6 4 (0.88%) LAN
6 4 (0.88%) Network Security
7 3 (0.66%) DHCP
7 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.44%) SSL
8 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.22%) BGP
9 1 (0.22%) Broadband
9 1 (0.22%) DMZ
9 1 (0.22%) LTE
9 1 (0.22%) OSPF
9 1 (0.22%) Wireless
9 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
1 17 (3.72%) Data Lake
1 17 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (3.50%) Power BI
3 13 (2.84%) NoSQL
3 13 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.63%) DynamoDB
4 12 (2.63%) MySQL
5 11 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.41%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.09%) Redis
9 4 (0.88%) Pentaho
9 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.66%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.66%) Tableau
10 3 (0.66%) TimescaleDB
11 2 (0.44%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 43 (9.41%) Git
2 14 (3.06%) JIRA
3 13 (2.84%) Crashlytics
3 13 (2.84%) Maven
3 13 (2.84%) XCTest
4 12 (2.63%) JUnit
4 12 (2.63%) Mockito
5 11 (2.41%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.97%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (1.53%) GitLab
8 5 (1.09%) Burp Suite
8 5 (1.09%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.88%) Vite
10 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.44%) JMeter
10 2 (0.44%) Locust
11 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.22%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.22%) MLflow
11 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 90 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.35%) Finance
3 42 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (9.19%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (6.56%) Retail
6 21 (4.60%) Multimedia
7 14 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.97%) Banking
8 9 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (1.75%) Advertising
10 7 (1.53%) Law
11 6 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.66%) Swedish Language
13 2 (0.44%) Automotive
13 2 (0.44%) Marketing
13 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.44%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 88 (19.26%) Developer
2 86 (18.82%) Senior
3 50 (10.94%) Architect
4 49 (10.72%) AWS Engineer
4 49 (10.72%) Lead
5 45 (9.85%) Data Engineer
5 45 (9.85%) Software Developer
6 40 (8.75%) Analyst
7 28 (6.13%) AWS Data Engineer
7 28 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (6.13%) Trainee
8 24 (5.25%) Senior Analyst
8 24 (5.25%) Senior Developer
9 22 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 22 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 21 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (4.38%) Lead Developer
12 18 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (3.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (17.29%) React
2 55 (12.04%) HTML
3 54 (11.82%) Node.js
4 49 (10.72%) CSS
5 34 (7.44%) .NET
6 21 (4.60%) AWS CDK
6 21 (4.60%) REST
7 17 (3.72%) scikit-learn
8 16 (3.50%) Pandas
9 13 (2.84%) .NET Core
9 13 (2.84%) Next.js
9 13 (2.84%) SwiftUI
9 13 (2.84%) UIKit
10 12 (2.63%) Spring
11 10 (2.19%) NumPy
11 10 (2.19%) Streamlit
12 9 (1.97%) Hugging Face
12 9 (1.97%) Matplotlib
12 9 (1.97%) RESTful
13 7 (1.53%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.97%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.50%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.19%) Algorithms
6 10 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.19%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.97%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.09%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.09%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.88%) Insider Threat
11 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.35%) Linux
2 14 (3.06%) Apple iOS
2 14 (3.06%) Windows
3 7 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.44%) CentOS
4 2 (0.44%) Debian
4 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.44%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (24.29%) Mentoring
2 98 (21.44%) Agile
3 97 (21.23%) CI/CD
4 76 (16.63%) AI
4 76 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (16.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 62 (13.57%) DevOps
7 57 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 55 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
9 50 (10.94%) Analytics
10 46 (10.07%) Roadmaps
10 46 (10.07%) Software Engineering
11 43 (9.41%) Test Automation
12 41 (8.97%) Computer Science
13 40 (8.75%) Containerisation
14 38 (8.32%) Decision-Making
14 38 (8.32%) Microservices
15 37 (8.10%) Technical Leadership
16 33 (7.22%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 142 (31.07%) Python
2 92 (20.13%) SQL
3 76 (16.63%) JavaScript
4 48 (10.50%) TypeScript
5 42 (9.19%) C#
6 37 (8.10%) Java
7 32 (7.00%) Bash
8 20 (4.38%) R
9 17 (3.72%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.84%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.84%) Swift
11 12 (2.63%) PHP
11 12 (2.63%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.97%) C++
13 7 (1.53%) Bicep
13 7 (1.53%) C
14 3 (0.66%) Go
15 2 (0.44%) Scala
15 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (14.00%) AWS Certification
2 54 (11.82%) Security Cleared
3 46 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 38 (8.32%) Degree
5 33 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (6.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 26 (5.69%) Azure Certification
8 24 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.97%) CISSP
11 8 (1.75%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.75%) OSCP
12 7 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.53%) CITP
12 7 (1.53%) MCSE
13 6 (1.31%) CEH
13 6 (1.31%) CREST Certified
14 5 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.09%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.22%) QA
2 15 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 12 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.19%) GDPR
5 6 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.44%) PMO
7 2 (0.44%) SLA
7 2 (0.44%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (10.28%) Docker
2 11 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (10.07%) Terraform
2 40 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.97%) Ansible
4 7 (1.53%) Grafana
5 5 (1.09%) Nmap
5 5 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.66%) Nagios
8 2 (0.44%) Argo
8 2 (0.44%) Autotask
8 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.44%) Puppet
8 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.22%) CASB
9 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.22%) Istio
9 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.22%) Nessus
9 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.91%) Databricks
3 21 (4.60%) Adobe
4 20 (4.38%) Apple
4 20 (4.38%) Cisco
4 20 (4.38%) SolarWinds
5 16 (3.50%) Oracle
5 16 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 15 (3.28%) Google
6 15 (3.28%) Zscaler
7 14 (3.06%) Avaya
7 14 (3.06%) Braze
8 13 (2.84%) Amplitude
9 10 (2.19%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.75%) SAP
11 7 (1.53%) Planon
12 5 (1.09%) Aruba
12 5 (1.09%) HP
12 5 (1.09%) Informatica
13 4 (0.88%) Talend