AWS Jobs in the North of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 980 1,724 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.40% 9.39% 17.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.43% 27.13% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 464 1,210 1,399
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,783 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +0.45% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,772 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,633 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,424 6,355 7,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.78% 34.62% 44.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,559 5,037 3,863
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,645 £82,500 £85,000
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in the North of England.

Salary trend for AWS in the North of England

AWS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in the North of England

AWS
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 AWS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
North West -15 673 £65,000 +3.53% 1,993
Yorkshire -7 255 £62,500 +4.17% 1,625
North East -5 52 £65,000 +1.96% 508
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 71 (7.24%) Confluence
2 22 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.63%) Apache
4 9 (0.92%) IIS
5 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.41%) CMS
6 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.31%) nginx
7 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.20%) WordPress
9 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 552 (56.33%) Azure
2 359 (36.63%) GCP
3 88 (8.98%) Serverless
4 72 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
5 66 (6.73%) SaaS
6 39 (3.98%) GitHub
7 34 (3.47%) Amazon S3
8 31 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (2.65%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (1.94%) OCI
14 17 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (1.73%) Snowflake
15 16 (1.63%) dbt
16 14 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.27%) Firewall
2 24 (2.45%) DNS
3 20 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.04%) VPN
4 17 (1.73%) WAN
5 12 (1.22%) Broadband
6 9 (0.92%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.82%) Network Security
7 8 (0.82%) OSPF
7 8 (0.82%) SAN
8 7 (0.71%) BGP
8 7 (0.71%) DHCP
9 6 (0.61%) HTTP
9 6 (0.61%) NAS
9 6 (0.61%) VLAN
10 5 (0.51%) Internet
10 5 (0.51%) SSH
11 4 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.41%) LAN
11 4 (0.41%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (17.45%) SQL Server
2 79 (8.06%) MySQL
3 57 (5.82%) MongoDB
3 57 (5.82%) NoSQL
4 52 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.76%) DynamoDB
6 26 (2.65%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.35%) Power BI
8 20 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (1.84%) BigQuery
10 16 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.33%) Tableau
12 12 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.12%) Big Data
13 11 (1.12%) Cloud Spanner
14 10 (1.02%) Redis
15 8 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 159 (16.22%) JIRA
2 148 (15.10%) GitLab
3 125 (12.76%) Selenium
4 118 (12.04%) Cucumber
5 116 (11.84%) Bitbucket
6 115 (11.73%) SonarQube
7 114 (11.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 113 (11.53%) Maven
9 56 (5.71%) Git
10 33 (3.37%) Jenkins
11 8 (0.82%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.71%) Jasmine
12 7 (0.71%) JMeter
12 7 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
13 4 (0.41%) Appium
13 4 (0.41%) Fiddler
13 4 (0.41%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.41%) Postman
13 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 295 (30.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 242 (24.69%) Social Skills
3 227 (23.16%) Finance
4 155 (15.82%) Banking
5 102 (10.41%) Retail
6 87 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
8 72 (7.35%) Corporate Banking
8 72 (7.35%) Investment Banking
9 28 (2.86%) Games
10 24 (2.45%) Public Sector
11 22 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.92%) Law
14 9 (0.92%) Marketing
15 7 (0.71%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.61%) Cantonese Language
16 6 (0.61%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 402 (41.02%) Software Engineer
2 345 (35.20%) Senior
3 217 (22.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 122 (12.45%) Developer
5 112 (11.43%) Lead
6 94 (9.59%) IT Support
7 57 (5.82%) Senior Developer
8 52 (5.31%) Data Engineer
9 45 (4.59%) Architect
10 36 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
11 35 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
12 32 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (2.65%) Cloud Engineer
13 26 (2.65%) Lead Software Engineer
13 26 (2.65%) Senior Data Engineer
14 24 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
15 23 (2.35%) .NET Developer
16 21 (2.14%) Support Engineer
17 19 (1.94%) IT Engineer
17 19 (1.94%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (26.53%) Node.js
2 251 (25.61%) .NET
3 233 (23.78%) React
4 162 (16.53%) Kafka
5 158 (16.12%) CSS
6 155 (15.82%) HTML
7 144 (14.69%) Spring Boot
8 134 (13.67%) Spring
9 126 (12.86%) Redux
10 114 (11.63%) REST
11 113 (11.53%) JPA
12 106 (10.82%) RESTful
13 82 (8.37%) HTML5
14 81 (8.27%) Jest
14 81 (8.27%) Sass
15 75 (7.65%) CSS3
16 48 (4.90%) AngularJS
17 43 (4.39%) Hibernate
18 38 (3.88%) .NET Core
19 26 (2.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 200 (20.41%) Self-Motivation
2 191 (19.49%) Enterprise Software
3 175 (17.86%) Cyberattack
4 172 (17.55%) Linux Command Line
5 142 (14.49%) Product Ownership
6 49 (5.00%) Cloud Native
7 37 (3.78%) Mobile App
8 30 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
9 25 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (2.35%) Public Cloud
11 20 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.53%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.43%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
14 13 (1.33%) Operational Technology
15 12 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
17 9 (0.92%) IoT
18 7 (0.71%) SCADA
18 7 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 248 (25.31%) Linux
2 148 (15.10%) Windows
3 23 (2.35%) Android
4 14 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.33%) Unix
6 7 (0.71%) CentOS
7 6 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.31%) Debian
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (54.59%) Agile
2 496 (50.61%) Software Engineering
3 392 (40.00%) Microservices
4 364 (37.14%) Mentoring
5 317 (32.35%) CI/CD
6 305 (31.12%) DevOps
7 295 (30.10%) User Experience
8 242 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
9 220 (22.45%) Data Engineering
10 211 (21.53%) Machine Learning
11 205 (20.92%) Cloud Security
12 199 (20.31%) Scrum
13 195 (19.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 189 (19.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 186 (18.98%) Containerisation
16 163 (16.63%) Test Automation
17 140 (14.29%) Front End Development
18 138 (14.08%) Performance Optimisation
19 130 (13.27%) Migration
20 127 (12.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 453 (46.22%) JavaScript
2 427 (43.57%) Java
3 369 (37.65%) Python
4 255 (26.02%) SQL
5 211 (21.53%) TypeScript
6 194 (19.80%) Go
7 174 (17.76%) C++
8 173 (17.65%) Rust
9 78 (7.96%) C#
10 38 (3.88%) PHP
11 31 (3.16%) PowerShell
12 19 (1.94%) Bash
13 15 (1.53%) Scala
14 11 (1.12%) R
15 5 (0.51%) Bicep
16 3 (0.31%) Ruby
17 2 (0.20%) C
17 2 (0.20%) F#
17 2 (0.20%) Groovy
17 2 (0.20%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 208 (21.22%) AWS Certification
2 202 (20.61%) Security Cleared
3 184 (18.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 175 (17.86%) DV Cleared
5 172 (17.55%) AWS Certified Developer
6 57 (5.82%) Degree
7 30 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.55%) SC Cleared
9 23 (2.35%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.51%) PhD
13 4 (0.41%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.41%) MCP
13 4 (0.41%) MCSA
13 4 (0.41%) MCSE
14 3 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
14 3 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (13.98%) QA
2 91 (9.29%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.43%) GDPR
5 10 (1.02%) NIST
6 9 (0.92%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.51%) HL7
7 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.41%) SLA
9 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 252 (25.71%) Docker
2 25 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.63%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.31%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.31%) KVM
6 3 (0.31%) Postfix
6 3 (0.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.31%) vSphere
7 2 (0.20%) NFS
7 2 (0.20%) SRDF
7 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.20%) Xen
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.10%) HDFS
8 1 (0.10%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 240 (24.49%) Kubernetes
2 126 (12.86%) Terraform
3 47 (4.80%) Ansible
4 21 (2.14%) Grafana
5 16 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.02%) Puppet
7 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.61%) Argo
8 6 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (0.61%) SCCM
9 5 (0.51%) Kibana
10 4 (0.41%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.41%) PaperCut
11 3 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.31%) SCOM
12 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.20%) Control-M
12 2 (0.20%) Salt
12 2 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 112 (11.43%) Solace
2 62 (6.33%) Google
3 57 (5.82%) Microsoft
4 37 (3.78%) Databricks
5 32 (3.27%) Oracle
6 30 (3.06%) VMware
7 18 (1.84%) Zoho
8 14 (1.43%) Ping Identity
9 11 (1.12%) Cisco
9 11 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.02%) Informatica
10 10 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.92%) Splunk
12 8 (0.82%) IBM
13 7 (0.71%) Okta
14 6 (0.61%) SAP
14 6 (0.61%) Veeam
15 5 (0.51%) Atlassian
16 4 (0.41%) NetApp
16 4 (0.41%) Perforce