Amazon EC2 Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 282 335
Rank change year-on-year -17 +53 -24
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 52 20 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.25% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 0.79% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 38 19 36
10th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £45,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -21.88% +25.49%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,750 -
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% -9.38% +18.52%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

Amazon EC2 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,222 2,542 5,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.00% 27.03% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,622 1,750 4,492
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £78,967 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,759
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.21% -9.69%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the North of England

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the North of England

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Yorkshire -18 24 £65,000 -7.80% 8
North East -36 18 £55,000 -24.14% 8
North West +1 10 £74,500 +24.17% 5
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (23.08%) Apache
1 12 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (23.08%) Jupyter
2 10 (19.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (67.31%) Amazon S3
3 21 (40.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (34.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (30.77%) Serverless
6 15 (28.85%) GitHub
6 15 (28.85%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (23.08%) Amazon EMR
7 12 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (19.23%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (13.46%) Textract
10 4 (7.69%) Azure
10 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (5.77%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (5.77%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (3.85%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) DNS
2 3 (5.77%) SSH
3 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (1.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) Amazon Athena
1 12 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 8 (15.38%) MySQL
3 3 (5.77%) MariaDB
3 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.85%) Big Data
4 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.85%) GIS
4 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 15 (28.85%) GitLab
1 15 (28.85%) Jenkins
2 8 (15.38%) Git
3 4 (7.69%) JIRA
4 3 (5.77%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.77%) Claude Code
4 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.62%) Law
5 3 (5.77%) Legal
6 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Senior
3 7 (13.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Developer
4 6 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Administrator
7 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead
7 3 (5.77%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (5.77%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.77%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) Web Services
2 9 (17.31%) PySpark
3 7 (13.46%) REST
4 6 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (9.62%) .NET
6 4 (7.69%) RESTful
7 3 (5.77%) .NET Core
7 3 (5.77%) Flask
7 3 (5.77%) JSON
7 3 (5.77%) Node.js
7 3 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.77%) React
7 3 (5.77%) YAML
8 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.85%) boto
8 2 (3.85%) Jinja
8 2 (3.85%) Nuxt
8 2 (3.85%) OpenLayers
8 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (17.31%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (15.38%) Data Structures
4 4 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.77%) Replication
6 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (36.54%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (78.85%) CI/CD
2 39 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (57.69%) DevOps
4 25 (48.08%) Containerisation
5 21 (40.38%) Agile
6 16 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (28.85%) Software Engineering
8 14 (26.92%) Network Load Balancing
8 14 (26.92%) Test Automation
9 13 (25.00%) Coaching
9 13 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 13 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 12 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (23.08%) Validation
11 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (19.23%) Data Modelling
12 10 (19.23%) Software Delivery
13 9 (17.31%) AI
13 9 (17.31%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 40 (76.92%) Python
2 17 (32.69%) SQL
3 15 (28.85%) Groovy
4 13 (25.00%) Bash
5 11 (21.15%) Java
6 8 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.77%) C#
9 2 (3.85%) PHP
9 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.92%) Go
10 1 (1.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 19 (36.54%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) QA
2 10 (19.23%) Data Quality
3 6 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (67.31%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) iptables
3 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (75.00%) Terraform
2 25 (48.08%) Kubernetes
3 12 (23.08%) Progress Chef
4 4 (7.69%) Ansible
4 4 (7.69%) Grafana
4 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.77%) Argo
5 3 (5.77%) Packer
5 3 (5.77%) systemd
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (5.77%) AppDynamics
1 3 (5.77%) IBM
1 3 (5.77%) OpenAI
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) VMware