AWS Certification Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 88 139
Rank change year-on-year +48 +51 -23
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 93 9 4
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.02% 0.63% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.61% 2.17% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 64 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28,250 - £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +68.22% -35.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £48,809
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year -32.22% -5.38% -40.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 560 414 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 30.20% 28.85% 20.80%
Number of salaries quoted 225 105 250
10th Percentile - £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,075 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% -17.39% -1.06%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,250 £79,000 £78,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -35.00% -4.76% -

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Certification in West Yorkshire

AWS Certification
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Leeds +51 91 £58,750 -26.56% 13
AWS Certification
Yorkshire

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (5.38%) Drupal
1 5 (5.38%) nginx
1 5 (5.38%) WordPress
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (68.82%) Azure
3 51 (54.84%) Serverless
4 36 (38.71%) GitHub
5 30 (32.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (29.03%) Amazon S3
6 27 (29.03%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (25.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 19 (20.43%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (12.90%) Amazon ECR
10 12 (12.90%) Apigee
11 11 (11.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (11.83%) Amazon EventBridge
11 11 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (11.83%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (5.38%) Google Workspace
12 5 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (2.15%) Amazon Cognito
14 1 (1.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (25.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.96%) DynamoDB
2 13 (13.98%) NoSQL
3 11 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (11.83%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.38%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.15%) Metadata
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.08%) Big Data
6 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.08%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 35 (37.63%) Git
2 18 (19.35%) GitLab
2 18 (19.35%) Jenkins
3 12 (12.90%) Cypress.io
3 12 (12.90%) Maven
3 12 (12.90%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (53.76%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.81%) Multimedia
3 5 (5.38%) Legal
3 5 (5.38%) Local Government
3 5 (5.38%) Police
3 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (34.41%) Developer
2 26 (27.96%) Architect
3 24 (25.81%) Trainee
4 13 (13.98%) Applications Architect
5 12 (12.90%) Software Developer
5 12 (12.90%) Trainee Developer
5 12 (12.90%) Trainee Software Developer
6 11 (11.83%) Software Architect
7 10 (10.75%) .NET Developer
7 10 (10.75%) AWS Developer
8 9 (9.68%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Lead
10 5 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
10 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Support
10 5 (5.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (25.81%) CSS
1 24 (25.81%) HTML
2 12 (12.90%) AngularJS
2 12 (12.90%) Gherkin
2 12 (12.90%) Jest
2 12 (12.90%) Spring Boot
3 11 (11.83%) .NET
3 11 (11.83%) .NET Core
3 11 (11.83%) ASP.NET
3 11 (11.83%) ASP.NET Core
3 11 (11.83%) AWS CDK
3 11 (11.83%) Blazor
3 11 (11.83%) React
3 11 (11.83%) RESTful
4 2 (2.15%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.15%) Pandas
4 2 (2.15%) Swagger
5 1 (1.08%) Dask
5 1 (1.08%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.81%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (11.83%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Linux
1 2 (2.15%) Windows
2 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.76%) Mentoring
2 35 (37.63%) Application Security
2 35 (37.63%) Microservices
3 31 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 31 (33.33%) DevOps
4 30 (32.26%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (30.11%) Agile
5 28 (30.11%) Computer Science
5 28 (30.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 27 (29.03%) Data Modelling
7 25 (26.88%) Migration
8 24 (25.81%) Architectural Patterns
8 24 (25.81%) EAI
8 24 (25.81%) Enterprise Architecture
8 24 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (25.81%) TOGAF
9 18 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (11.83%) Containerisation
10 11 (11.83%) Deployment Automation
10 11 (11.83%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 56 (60.22%) Python
2 48 (51.61%) JavaScript
3 42 (45.16%) Java
3 42 (45.16%) TypeScript
4 24 (25.81%) C#
5 19 (20.43%) Bash
6 14 (15.05%) SQL
7 12 (12.90%) Groovy
7 12 (12.90%) R
8 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (58.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 53 (56.99%) Azure Certification
3 29 (31.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 28 (30.11%) Degree
5 27 (29.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (27.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (25.81%) TOGAF Certification
8 16 (17.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (7.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.53%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.15%) IIBA
10 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 5 (5.38%) ISO 9001
1 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (32.26%) Docker
2 5 (5.38%) Hyper-V
2 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (12.90%) HP Fortify
2 11 (11.83%) Terraform
3 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 54 (58.06%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) Google
3 5 (5.38%) VMware