AWS Engineer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 103 111
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +24
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 26 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.62% 0.063% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.068% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 6
10th Percentile £70,000 - £58,750
25th Percentile £77,500 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile - - £67,500
90th Percentile £93,500 - £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 3,942 1,464 2,008
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 92.60% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,861 771 1,173
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,925 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,130 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -8.00% -4.76%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in West Yorkshire

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Leeds -20 26 £80,000 - 17
AWS Engineer
Yorkshire

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 7 October 2026, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 11 (42.31%) Jenkins
4 10 (38.46%) GitHub
4 10 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (38.46%) Serverless
5 9 (34.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (34.62%) DevOps
5 9 (34.62%) Docker
5 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
5 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (34.62%) Software Delivery
5 9 (34.62%) Terraform
6 8 (30.77%) Java
6 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
7 7 (26.92%) Agile
7 7 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (26.92%) Python
8 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (19.23%) Groovy
9 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
9 4 (15.38%) GitLab
9 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) Linux
9 4 (15.38%) Progress Chef
9 4 (15.38%) Web Services
10 3 (11.54%) Auto-Scaling
10 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) GitHub
2 10 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
2 10 (38.46%) Serverless
3 9 (34.62%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (7.69%) Cloudflare
7 2 (7.69%) Kong
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.85%) Apigee
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (3.85%) Dagster
8 1 (3.85%) dbt
8 1 (3.85%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
1 2 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
1 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
3 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.69%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) JMeter
4 2 (7.69%) Postman
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Web Services
3 3 (11.54%) Gherkin
4 2 (7.69%) Playwright
5 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.85%) Jest
5 1 (3.85%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (34.62%) DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (34.62%) Software Delivery
4 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 7 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Auto-Scaling
6 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (11.54%) SDLC
7 2 (7.69%) Coaching
7 2 (7.69%) Kanban
7 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 2 (7.69%) Scrum
7 2 (7.69%) Security Testing
7 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Java
2 7 (26.92%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) Groovy
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.85%) HP Fortify