AWS Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 21 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,382 904 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.77% 9.43% 7.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.49% 36.90% 27.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 478 565
10th Percentile £46,000 £33,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,750 £85,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 4,850 2,450 3,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.25% 25.56% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,580 1,679 2,257
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £82,241 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,870 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.78% -7.69% +4.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the North of England

AWS
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

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 8 October 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
North West +5 742 £72,500 +11.54% 550
Yorkshire +11 366 £69,607 +3.12% 215
North East +24 277 £67,500 +22.73% 143
AWS
England

AWS
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 56 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 44 (3.18%) Apache
4 19 (1.37%) Jupyter
5 18 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.09%) Confluence
7 13 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.87%) IIS
9 9 (0.65%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.43%) nginx
11 4 (0.29%) WordPress
12 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.072%) JBoss
14 1 (0.072%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.072%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.072%) Elementor
4 1 (0.072%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (0.65%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.072%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.072%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.072%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.072%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.072%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 515 (37.26%) Azure
2 258 (18.67%) GCP
3 228 (16.50%) Serverless
4 178 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
5 168 (12.16%) GitHub
6 167 (12.08%) Amazon S3
7 138 (9.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 120 (8.68%) Amazon ECS
9 114 (8.25%) SaaS
10 94 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
11 91 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 88 (6.37%) GitHub Actions
13 62 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
14 54 (3.91%) AWS Step Functions
15 48 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
16 43 (3.11%) Datadog
17 41 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
18 39 (2.82%) Amazon ECR
18 39 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.11%) DNS
2 42 (3.04%) Firewall
3 33 (2.39%) DHCP
4 25 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.81%) VPN
5 21 (1.52%) LAN
6 18 (1.30%) Network Security
6 18 (1.30%) WAN
7 13 (0.94%) SAN
8 12 (0.87%) Internet
9 8 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.51%) VLAN
11 5 (0.36%) BGP
11 5 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.22%) IPsec
12 3 (0.22%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.22%) OSPF
12 3 (0.22%) SSL
12 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (6.30%) DynamoDB
3 79 (5.72%) MongoDB
4 75 (5.43%) MySQL
5 74 (5.35%) NoSQL
6 51 (3.69%) SQL Server
7 49 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
8 46 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
9 45 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
9 45 (3.26%) Relational Database
10 38 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (2.39%) BigQuery
12 27 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 27 (1.95%) Metadata
13 22 (1.59%) Data Lake
13 22 (1.59%) Power BI
14 19 (1.37%) MariaDB
15 18 (1.30%) Big Data
16 17 (1.23%) Spark SQL
17 15 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 171 (12.37%) Git
2 134 (9.70%) GitLab
3 119 (8.61%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.24%) JIRA
5 24 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 24 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 20 (1.45%) Maven
7 16 (1.16%) Claude Code
8 15 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.65%) Postman
10 8 (0.58%) Storybook
11 7 (0.51%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.51%) JMeter
12 6 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.36%) Selenium
14 4 (0.29%) JUnit
14 4 (0.29%) Mockito
14 4 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 319 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 247 (17.87%) Public Sector
3 140 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (6.51%) Finance
6 43 (3.11%) Legal
7 33 (2.39%) Law
8 28 (2.03%) Retail
9 25 (1.81%) Publishing
10 18 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 13 (0.94%) Aviation
13 12 (0.87%) Games
13 12 (0.87%) Swedish Language
14 11 (0.80%) Banking
14 11 (0.80%) Health Technology
14 11 (0.80%) Marketing
15 10 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.65%) Billing
17 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 326 (23.59%) Senior
2 234 (16.93%) Developer
3 169 (12.23%) Architect
4 152 (11.00%) Software Engineer
5 143 (10.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 136 (9.84%) Lead
7 134 (9.70%) Data Engineer
8 116 (8.39%) AWS Engineer
9 104 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 91 (6.58%) Senior Developer
11 72 (5.21%) Java Developer
12 64 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 59 (4.27%) Analyst
14 54 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
14 54 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 43 (3.11%) Java Engineer
17 40 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 40 (2.89%) Software Developer
18 39 (2.82%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (21.35%) Terraform
2 172 (12.45%) Node.js
3 147 (10.64%) React
4 114 (8.25%) AngularJS
5 110 (7.96%) .NET
6 99 (7.16%) Spring Boot
7 96 (6.95%) Spring
8 73 (5.28%) Kafka
9 69 (4.99%) REST
10 61 (4.41%) CSS
11 56 (4.05%) PySpark
12 52 (3.76%) RESTful
13 46 (3.33%) HTML
14 44 (3.18%) Vue
15 36 (2.60%) LangChain
16 35 (2.53%) Middleware
17 34 (2.46%) .NET Core
18 33 (2.39%) Web Services
19 26 (1.88%) Next.js
20 25 (1.81%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 266 (19.25%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.34%) Onboarding
4 44 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 38 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 30 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
7 28 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.45%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.16%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 13 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (0.94%) Driving Licence
12 13 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
13 12 (0.87%) Media Streaming
13 12 (0.87%) Podcast
14 11 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 141 (10.20%) Linux
2 77 (5.57%) Windows
3 44 (3.18%) Unix
4 29 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.88%) CentOS
6 25 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.43%) Debian
10 4 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.22%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.14%) Android
12 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.072%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (40.16%) CI/CD
2 447 (32.34%) DevOps
3 442 (31.98%) Agile
4 336 (24.31%) Mentoring
5 305 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 304 (22.00%) Software Engineering
7 287 (20.77%) AI
8 253 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 225 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
10 203 (14.69%) Microservices
11 199 (14.40%) Containerisation
12 193 (13.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 180 (13.02%) Test Automation
14 175 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
15 170 (12.30%) Coaching
16 152 (11.00%) Observability
17 148 (10.71%) Decision-Making
18 139 (10.06%) Data Engineering
19 138 (9.99%) Analytics
20 122 (8.83%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 405 (29.31%) Python
2 292 (21.13%) SQL
3 276 (19.97%) Java
4 204 (14.76%) TypeScript
5 174 (12.59%) JavaScript
6 90 (6.51%) C#
7 70 (5.07%) Bash
8 43 (3.11%) PowerShell
9 36 (2.60%) Groovy
10 33 (2.39%) PHP
11 31 (2.24%) Kotlin
12 28 (2.03%) Scala
13 26 (1.88%) Go
14 18 (1.30%) Ruby
15 17 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 15 (1.09%) C++
17 12 (0.87%) Bicep
18 4 (0.29%) Rust
19 3 (0.22%) C
19 3 (0.22%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 248 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 189 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 96 (6.95%) Degree
4 83 (6.01%) AWS Certification
5 63 (4.56%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.16%) MCSE
12 12 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.80%) CISSP
14 9 (0.65%) CISM
14 9 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.32%) Data Quality
2 69 (4.99%) QA
3 39 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.24%) GDPR
6 17 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.87%) NIST
7 12 (0.87%) WCAG
8 9 (0.65%) NCSC
9 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.22%) GRC
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.14%) SLA
14 1 (0.072%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 305 (22.07%) Docker
2 36 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.94%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.58%) Firmware
7 4 (0.29%) iptables
7 4 (0.29%) vSphere
8 2 (0.14%) UAG
9 1 (0.072%) KVM
9 1 (0.072%) NFS
9 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 243 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 72 (5.21%) Ansible
3 31 (2.24%) Progress Chef
4 26 (1.88%) Grafana
5 18 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.23%) Argo
7 16 (1.16%) Puppet
8 8 (0.58%) HP Fortify
9 7 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.29%) Nessus
11 4 (0.29%) Packer
11 4 (0.29%) SCCM
12 3 (0.22%) Control-M
12 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.22%) Istio
12 3 (0.22%) linkerd
12 3 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.22%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 166 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.86%) Google
3 50 (3.62%) Databricks
4 35 (2.53%) Adobe
5 31 (2.24%) VMware
6 27 (1.95%) Splunk
7 23 (1.66%) OpenAI
7 23 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.37%) Oracle
9 16 (1.16%) Apple
10 15 (1.09%) Cisco
11 13 (0.94%) Palo Alto
12 11 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.80%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.72%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.65%) YouTube
15 7 (0.51%) Foundry
16 6 (0.43%) F5
16 6 (0.43%) Pega
16 6 (0.43%) SAP