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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 22 11
Rank change year-on-year -12 -11 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 418 885 1,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.05% 6.88% 12.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.38% 21.77% 34.49%
Number of salaries quoted 229 671 477
10th Percentile £41,100 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,140 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,703 £85,000 £86,250
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 1,647 4,065 3,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.83% 31.60% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,251 3,283 2,074
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,050 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £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 £63,750 £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

AWS
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

AWS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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 +3 286 £60,000 - 204
East Midlands -38 131 £60,000 +4.35% 105
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 68 (16.27%) Confluence
2 5 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.96%) Apache
3 4 (0.96%) CMS
4 3 (0.72%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.72%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Mendix
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Strapi
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.48%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 263 (62.92%) Azure
2 102 (24.40%) GCP
3 53 (12.68%) SaaS
4 43 (10.29%) Serverless
5 38 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 36 (8.61%) Amazon S3
7 30 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (6.22%) AWS KMS
10 25 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (5.50%) Power Platform
12 22 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (5.02%) PaaS
14 20 (4.78%) Amazon ELB
15 17 (4.07%) Amazon Glacier
16 16 (3.83%) IaaS
17 14 (3.35%) Snowflake
18 13 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
19 12 (2.87%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.29%) Firewall
2 20 (4.78%) WAN
3 17 (4.07%) DNS
4 15 (3.59%) SD-WAN
5 14 (3.35%) VLAN
6 12 (2.87%) VPN
7 9 (2.15%) HTTP
8 8 (1.91%) Broadband
8 8 (1.91%) FTP
8 8 (1.91%) SMTP
8 8 (1.91%) SSH
9 6 (1.44%) DHCP
9 6 (1.44%) LAN
9 6 (1.44%) SSL
10 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.96%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.96%) Internet
11 4 (0.96%) Network Security
11 4 (0.96%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (19.38%) SQL Server
2 45 (10.77%) NoSQL
3 31 (7.42%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.50%) Power BI
5 19 (4.55%) MySQL
6 18 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.11%) Tableau
8 12 (2.87%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (2.39%) Big Data
9 10 (2.39%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.15%) BigQuery
10 9 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 92 (22.01%) JIRA
2 75 (17.94%) SonarQube
3 72 (17.22%) GitLab
4 71 (16.99%) Maven
5 70 (16.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 65 (15.55%) Bitbucket
6 65 (15.55%) Selenium
7 63 (15.07%) Cucumber
8 47 (11.24%) Git
9 34 (8.13%) Jenkins
10 22 (5.26%) JUnit
10 22 (5.26%) Mockito
11 20 (4.78%) Vagrant
12 14 (3.35%) Eclipse
12 14 (3.35%) IntelliJ
12 14 (3.35%) Jasmine
12 14 (3.35%) Karma Test Runner
12 14 (3.35%) Protractor
13 9 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (1.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 117 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 103 (24.64%) Finance
3 88 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (16.75%) Presentation Skills
5 67 (16.03%) Banking
6 37 (8.85%) Retail
7 36 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (8.37%) Public Sector
9 16 (3.83%) Corporate Banking
9 16 (3.83%) Investment Banking
10 13 (3.11%) Law
10 13 (3.11%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.67%) Automotive
12 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.96%) Games
13 4 (0.96%) Marketing
13 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.96%) Police
14 3 (0.72%) Advertising
14 3 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 90 (21.53%) Software Engineer
2 65 (15.55%) IT Support
3 61 (14.59%) Developer
4 41 (9.81%) Lead
5 40 (9.57%) Architect
6 30 (7.18%) Senior
7 24 (5.74%) Java Developer
8 22 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (5.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (4.78%) Analyst
11 18 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (3.35%) SaaS Developer
14 13 (3.11%) Site Engineer
14 13 (3.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 13 (3.11%) Support Engineer
15 12 (2.87%) Backend Developer
15 12 (2.87%) Team Leader
16 11 (2.63%) Java Software Engineer
16 11 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (25.12%) React
2 84 (20.10%) Spring
3 83 (19.86%) JPA
4 75 (17.94%) CSS
5 74 (17.70%) HTML
6 73 (17.46%) Spring Boot
7 67 (16.03%) Kafka
8 66 (15.79%) Hibernate
9 63 (15.07%) Redux
10 49 (11.72%) .NET
11 34 (8.13%) AngularJS
12 29 (6.94%) REST
12 29 (6.94%) RESTful
13 20 (4.78%) HTML5
13 20 (4.78%) Jest
14 19 (4.55%) CSS3
14 19 (4.55%) Node.js
15 16 (3.83%) Sass
16 15 (3.59%) Web Services
17 14 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 124 (29.67%) Enterprise Software
2 69 (16.51%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.31%) Algorithms
4 15 (3.59%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.11%) Replication
6 12 (2.87%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.67%) PKI
10 5 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.96%) NHS
12 3 (0.72%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.97%) Windows
2 74 (17.70%) Linux
3 21 (5.02%) VMS
4 18 (4.31%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.15%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (2.15%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.67%) Unix
7 5 (1.20%) Android
8 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.24%) CentOS
10 1 (0.24%) Debian
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (39.47%) DevOps
2 151 (36.12%) Agile
3 124 (29.67%) Microservices
4 120 (28.71%) Containerisation
5 116 (27.75%) Software Engineering
6 113 (27.03%) CI/CD
7 101 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (19.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (18.66%) Performance Optimisation
10 77 (18.42%) Test Automation
11 73 (17.46%) SDLC
12 72 (17.22%) TDD
13 71 (16.99%) Front End Development
14 69 (16.51%) Mentoring
15 58 (13.88%) Clean Code
15 58 (13.88%) Line Management
16 56 (13.40%) Mathematics
17 38 (9.09%) Analytics
17 38 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 147 (35.17%) SQL
2 132 (31.58%) Java
3 107 (25.60%) JavaScript
4 82 (19.62%) Python
5 55 (13.16%) TypeScript
6 39 (9.33%) C#
6 39 (9.33%) PowerShell
7 19 (4.55%) Groovy
8 10 (2.39%) Go
9 9 (2.15%) Perl
10 8 (1.91%) Bash
11 6 (1.44%) C++
12 5 (1.20%) PHP
12 5 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.96%) Bicep
14 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.72%) Ruby
15 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.48%) Rust
16 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (13.16%) Degree
2 53 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 40 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.18%) AWS Certification
5 22 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (5.02%) Azure Certification
7 17 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (2.63%) CCNA
10 10 (2.39%) CCNP
11 8 (1.91%) MCP
11 8 (1.91%) MCSA
11 8 (1.91%) MCSE
12 7 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.67%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.96%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.96%) PhD
13 4 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (18.42%) QA
2 17 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.67%) NCSC
5 6 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.20%) SLA
7 3 (0.72%) NIST
8 2 (0.48%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.24%) COBIT
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 143 (34.21%) Docker
2 36 (8.61%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.11%) DFS Replication
4 12 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.20%) Postfix
7 4 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.72%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.72%) LXC
8 3 (0.72%) Squid
9 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 119 (28.47%) Kubernetes
2 66 (15.79%) Terraform
3 39 (9.33%) Prometheus
4 35 (8.37%) Grafana
5 28 (6.70%) Ansible
6 8 (1.91%) Nessus
7 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.67%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.20%) Argo
8 5 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.96%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.72%) Nagios
10 3 (0.72%) QRadar
11 1 (0.24%) Consul
11 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.24%) Marathon
11 1 (0.24%) Packer
11 1 (0.24%) Puppet
11 1 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 63 (15.07%) Solace
2 52 (12.44%) Microsoft
3 31 (7.42%) Google
4 22 (5.26%) Databricks
5 19 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.83%) IBM
7 14 (3.35%) Cisco
8 12 (2.87%) Juniper
9 11 (2.63%) VMware
10 10 (2.39%) Oracle
11 7 (1.67%) Avaya
11 7 (1.67%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.44%) Meraki
12 6 (1.44%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
13 5 (1.20%) Splunk
14 4 (0.96%) SAP
15 3 (0.72%) Informatica
16 2 (0.48%) Red Hat