AWS Job Trends in Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -19
Permanent jobs citing AWS 392 222 328
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.26% 6.51% 6.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.29% 26.09% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 287 175 264
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £73,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.02% -2.33% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,759 851 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.60% 24.96% 29.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 726 1,170
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £28,981
25th Percentile £37,977 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,625
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

AWS
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Yorkshire

AWS
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
West Yorkshire +5 303 £71,000 +1.43% 109
South Yorkshire -16 45 £66,805 -8.49% 25
East Yorkshire -8 16 £47,000 +16.05% 2
North Yorkshire +2 8 £47,500 +5.56% 4
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 10 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.04%) WordPress
3 7 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.02%) Apache
4 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
5 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.53%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Magento
2 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.26%) SAP MDM
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 126 (32.14%) Azure
2 96 (24.49%) Serverless
3 87 (22.19%) AWS CloudFormation
4 81 (20.66%) AWS Lambda
5 79 (20.15%) GitHub
6 75 (19.13%) Amazon ECS
7 72 (18.37%) Amazon S3
8 54 (13.78%) AWS Step Functions
9 53 (13.52%) GCP
10 52 (13.27%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (8.42%) SaaS
12 31 (7.91%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (6.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 24 (6.12%) Amazon ECR
15 24 (6.12%) Apigee
16 19 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (4.34%) Datadog
18 16 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
19 15 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.55%) DNS
2 9 (2.30%) Firewall
2 9 (2.30%) LAN
3 8 (2.04%) DHCP
3 8 (2.04%) VPN
3 8 (2.04%) WAN
4 7 (1.79%) Internet
5 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.77%) Network Security
7 2 (0.51%) BGP
7 2 (0.51%) OSPF
7 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
8 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.26%) SAN
8 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (14.03%) DynamoDB
2 33 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.38%) MySQL
4 23 (5.87%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.36%) MongoDB
7 19 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (3.32%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.06%) BigQuery
10 11 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (2.55%) MariaDB
11 10 (2.55%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (2.04%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.04%) Metadata
14 6 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.28%) Big Data
15 5 (1.28%) Power BI
16 3 (0.77%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 73 (18.62%) Jenkins
2 47 (11.99%) Git
3 38 (9.69%) GitLab
4 19 (4.85%) Cypress.io
5 17 (4.34%) SonarQube
6 15 (3.83%) Maven
7 9 (2.30%) JIRA
8 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.26%) MLflow
12 1 (0.26%) Selenium
12 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.54%) Public Sector
3 33 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.63%) Finance
5 14 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (3.06%) Law
7 11 (2.81%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.04%) Local Government
9 7 (1.79%) Multimedia
10 6 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.28%) Legal
12 4 (1.02%) Banking
12 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.02%) Retail
13 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Billing
14 2 (0.51%) Games
14 2 (0.51%) Publishing
15 1 (0.26%) Advertising
15 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (33.93%) Developer
2 110 (28.06%) Senior
3 69 (17.60%) Java Developer
4 51 (13.01%) Senior Developer
5 50 (12.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 43 (10.97%) Software Engineer
7 37 (9.44%) Architect
8 30 (7.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 30 (7.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 29 (7.40%) AWS Developer
10 28 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
10 28 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (6.63%) Lead
12 23 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (5.36%) Senior Java Developer
14 20 (5.10%) Data Engineer
14 20 (5.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 18 (4.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 16 (4.08%) Angular Developer
17 15 (3.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (20.66%) Terraform
2 75 (19.13%) AngularJS
2 75 (19.13%) Node.js
3 50 (12.76%) Spring Boot
4 49 (12.50%) React
5 39 (9.95%) Spring
6 34 (8.67%) CSS
7 27 (6.89%) .NET
8 26 (6.63%) HTML
9 23 (5.87%) Gherkin
10 21 (5.36%) Vue
11 19 (4.85%) Web Services
12 17 (4.34%) REST
13 16 (4.08%) Jest
14 12 (3.06%) .NET Core
15 11 (2.81%) Flask
15 11 (2.81%) RESTful
16 10 (2.55%) Middleware
17 7 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
17 7 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.04%) NHS
6 7 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.28%) Blog
8 5 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.28%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.02%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.02%) PKI
10 3 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 44 (11.22%) Linux
2 22 (5.61%) Windows
3 12 (3.06%) Unix
4 6 (1.53%) CentOS
4 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.77%) AIX
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (39.03%) CI/CD
2 112 (28.57%) DevOps
3 107 (27.30%) Agile
4 87 (22.19%) Full-Stack Development
4 87 (22.19%) Mentoring
5 82 (20.92%) Software Engineering
6 76 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 57 (14.54%) Microservices
8 52 (13.27%) AI
9 51 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (12.24%) Coaching
11 46 (11.73%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (10.97%) Containerisation
13 42 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
15 33 (8.42%) Continuous Integration
16 32 (8.16%) Analytics
16 32 (8.16%) Test Automation
17 30 (7.65%) ITIL
17 30 (7.65%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 123 (31.38%) Java
2 98 (25.00%) Python
3 79 (20.15%) TypeScript
4 77 (19.64%) SQL
5 66 (16.84%) JavaScript
6 44 (11.22%) Groovy
7 30 (7.65%) Kotlin
8 29 (7.40%) C#
9 26 (6.63%) Bash
10 24 (6.12%) PHP
11 7 (1.79%) Scala
12 6 (1.53%) R
13 3 (0.77%) Bicep
13 3 (0.77%) Ruby
14 2 (0.51%) Go
14 2 (0.51%) Perl
14 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.26%) C++
15 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.40%) AWS Certification
4 18 (4.59%) Degree
5 12 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 12 (3.06%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (2.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 11 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.55%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.53%) CISM
10 6 (1.53%) CISSP
10 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (1.28%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.08%) GDPR
3 11 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.04%) QA
5 7 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.77%) WCAG
7 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 98 (25.00%) Docker
2 9 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.77%) Oracle Clusterware
3 3 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (11.99%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.34%) Progress Chef
3 14 (3.57%) HP Fortify
4 13 (3.32%) Ansible
5 9 (2.30%) Argo
6 3 (0.77%) Data Guard
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (0.77%) Packer
7 2 (0.51%) Kibana
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.51%) SCCM
7 2 (0.51%) SCOM
7 2 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.32%) Databricks
2 13 (3.32%) Google
3 7 (1.79%) Oracle
4 5 (1.28%) Adobe
4 5 (1.28%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.28%) Foundry
4 5 (1.28%) IBM
4 5 (1.28%) SAP
5 4 (1.02%) Pega
6 3 (0.77%) Cisco
6 3 (0.77%) VMware
7 2 (0.51%) Informatica
7 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.51%) Zoho
8 1 (0.26%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.26%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.26%) Dell
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir
8 1 (0.26%) Salesforce