AWS Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 226 179 303
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 13.58% 9.64% 14.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.07% 27.97% 31.27%
Number of salaries quoted 187 135 226
10th Percentile £32,000 £44,843 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £88,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 564 640 969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.89% 34.46% 45.97%
Number of salaries quoted 422 424 783
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,937 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +2.50% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,250 £55,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year -10.45% +3.29% -3.18%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

AWS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AWS
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in West Yorkshire

AWS
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Leeds +8 209 £70,000 +7.69% 118
Bradford -16 5 £55,000 -21.43% 9
Elland - 5 £42,000 -
Wetherby +6 1 £110,000 +144.44%
Wakefield -8 1 £67,500 +42.11% 3
Pontefract - 1 - - 2
Knottingley - 1 - -
Castleford - 1 - -
AWS
Yorkshire

AWS
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 18 (7.96%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.87%) Apache
3 3 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.88%) Drupal
4 2 (0.88%) nginx
4 2 (0.88%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.44%) Magento
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 122 (53.98%) Azure
2 59 (26.11%) Serverless
3 39 (17.26%) GCP
4 34 (15.04%) GitHub
5 26 (11.50%) Amazon S3
6 25 (11.06%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (10.18%) SaaS
8 20 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.10%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.65%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (2.65%) dbt
12 6 (2.65%) OCI
13 5 (2.21%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.64%) Internet
2 11 (4.87%) Firewall
3 7 (3.10%) DNS
3 7 (3.10%) Network Security
3 7 (3.10%) VPN
4 6 (2.65%) BGP
4 6 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.65%) VLAN
5 5 (2.21%) DHCP
5 5 (2.21%) OSPF
6 1 (0.44%) Junos
6 1 (0.44%) MQTT
6 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (8.85%) MongoDB
3 19 (8.41%) DynamoDB
3 19 (8.41%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.31%) Data Lake
4 12 (5.31%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.98%) MySQL
7 4 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.33%) Big Data
8 3 (1.33%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.33%) Metadata
9 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.88%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.88%) TIBCO EBX
10 1 (0.44%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (11.50%) Git
2 16 (7.08%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.19%) GitLab
4 4 (1.77%) JIRA
5 2 (0.88%) Postman
6 1 (0.44%) Appium
6 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.44%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.44%) MLflow
6 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 71 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (7.52%) Finance
3 16 (7.08%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.64%) Multimedia
5 11 (4.87%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.10%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.65%) Retail
8 4 (1.77%) Marketing
9 3 (1.33%) Games
9 3 (1.33%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.88%) Police
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (27.88%) Developer
2 54 (23.89%) Lead
3 44 (19.47%) Senior
4 25 (11.06%) Architect
4 25 (11.06%) Software Developer
5 23 (10.18%) Lead Developer
6 19 (8.41%) Software Engineer
7 18 (7.96%) Data Engineer
7 18 (7.96%) Python Developer
8 15 (6.64%) Java Developer
8 15 (6.64%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (6.64%) Trainee
9 12 (5.31%) Lead Software Developer
10 10 (4.42%) Data Manager
10 10 (4.42%) Engineering Manager
11 9 (3.98%) Applications Architect
11 9 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.54%) Applications Support
12 8 (3.54%) Trainee Developer
12 8 (3.54%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (19.47%) React
2 33 (14.60%) CSS
2 33 (14.60%) HTML
3 29 (12.83%) Node.js
4 23 (10.18%) .NET
5 20 (8.85%) RESTful
6 19 (8.41%) FastAPI
7 18 (7.96%) Django
7 18 (7.96%) Flask
8 17 (7.52%) REST
9 11 (4.87%) Micronaut
9 11 (4.87%) Vue
10 10 (4.42%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.98%) Spring
11 9 (3.98%) Spring Boot
12 8 (3.54%) Kafka
13 7 (3.10%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.10%) AWS CDK
14 6 (2.65%) Blazor
15 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.18%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.73%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.64%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (1.77%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.88%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.44%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.87%) Windows
2 8 (3.54%) Linux
3 5 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.88%) Check Point GAiA
4 2 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (49.56%) Mentoring
2 103 (45.58%) CI/CD
3 76 (33.63%) Agile
4 62 (27.43%) DevOps
4 62 (27.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (21.68%) Software Engineering
7 47 (20.80%) Microservices
8 46 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
10 32 (14.16%) Data Modelling
10 32 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
11 29 (12.83%) Coaching
11 29 (12.83%) Data Engineering
12 27 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (11.95%) Roadmaps
13 24 (10.62%) Migration
14 23 (10.18%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (9.73%) Clean Code
15 22 (9.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 122 (53.98%) Python
2 80 (35.40%) JavaScript
3 71 (31.42%) SQL
4 64 (28.32%) Java
5 42 (18.58%) TypeScript
6 36 (15.93%) C#
7 14 (6.19%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.87%) Bash
9 9 (3.98%) R
10 8 (3.54%) PHP
10 8 (3.54%) Scala
11 6 (2.65%) Go
12 4 (1.77%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) C++
13 1 (0.44%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (23.45%) AWS Certification
2 32 (14.16%) Azure Certification
2 32 (14.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (10.62%) Degree
4 20 (8.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 20 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.19%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (4.87%) SC Cleared
7 11 (4.87%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.88%) CCSA
10 2 (0.88%) CCSE
11 1 (0.44%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.44%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.44%) OSCE
11 1 (0.44%) OSCP
11 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.42%) QA
2 5 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.33%) NIST
4 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (23.89%) Docker
2 7 (3.10%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (24.78%) Terraform
2 37 (16.37%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.50%) Ansible
4 14 (6.19%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.75%) Grafana
6 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 5 (2.21%) SCCM
6 5 (2.21%) SCOM
6 5 (2.21%) WSUS
7 2 (0.88%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
8 1 (0.44%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.44%) Nmap
Vendors
1 47 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.50%) Databricks
3 10 (4.42%) Oracle
4 6 (2.65%) Google
5 5 (2.21%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.77%) Palantir
7 3 (1.33%) Pega
7 3 (1.33%) WSO2
8 2 (0.88%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.88%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.88%) Informatica
8 2 (0.88%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.88%) SAP
8 2 (0.88%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.88%) VMware
9 1 (0.44%) Adobe
9 1 (0.44%) IBM
9 1 (0.44%) Juniper
9 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow