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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 396 310 448
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.22% 13.07% 9.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.21% 34.56% 25.33%
Number of salaries quoted 314 139 365
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £38,150
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,123 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -5.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

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 1,404 897 1,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.67% 37.83% 37.61%
Number of salaries quoted 789 555 1,517
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,493 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +2 319 £65,000 +6.12% 109
South Yorkshire -10 49 £30,500 -50.81% 49
East Yorkshire -29 11 £45,000 - 30
North Yorkshire +4 10 £47,500 -7.32% 23
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 16 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.78%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.53%) Apache
3 10 (2.53%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.27%) WordPress
5 5 (1.26%) Drupal
5 5 (1.26%) nginx
6 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.01%) Confluence
7 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.51%) CMS
8 2 (0.51%) JBoss
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.25%) FileNet
9 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (46.72%) Azure
2 143 (36.11%) Serverless
3 102 (25.76%) GitHub
4 93 (23.48%) Amazon S3
5 86 (21.72%) AWS Lambda
6 68 (17.17%) Amazon ECS
7 66 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 58 (14.65%) AWS Step Functions
9 47 (11.87%) SaaS
10 44 (11.11%) GCP
11 37 (9.34%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (8.08%) Amazon ECR
12 32 (8.08%) Apigee
13 28 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (3.54%) Amazon EventBridge
17 14 (3.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 13 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 54 (13.64%) Internet
2 14 (3.54%) Firewall
3 9 (2.27%) DNS
4 8 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.26%) NGFW
5 5 (1.26%) VXLAN
5 5 (1.26%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.01%) DHCP
6 4 (1.01%) HTTP
6 4 (1.01%) LAN
6 4 (1.01%) Network Security
6 4 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.01%) WAN
7 3 (0.76%) VoIP
8 2 (0.51%) DMZ
9 1 (0.25%) Broadband
9 1 (0.25%) SSL
9 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (21.72%) DynamoDB
2 45 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 39 (9.85%) SQL Server
4 35 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (4.04%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.79%) Metadata
7 13 (3.28%) MySQL
8 11 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.27%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.26%) MariaDB
13 4 (1.01%) Big Data
14 3 (0.76%) Power BI
14 3 (0.76%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.76%) TIBCO EBX
15 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 89 (22.47%) Git
2 59 (14.90%) Jenkins
3 42 (10.61%) GitLab
4 32 (8.08%) Cypress.io
4 32 (8.08%) Maven
4 32 (8.08%) SonarQube
5 11 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.26%) JIRA
7 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.76%) Selenium
8 1 (0.25%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) PHPUnit
General
1 108 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.64%) Multimedia
3 42 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 38 (9.60%) Finance
5 35 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.04%) Retail
7 12 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.02%) Law
10 7 (1.77%) Legal
11 5 (1.26%) Games
11 5 (1.26%) Local Government
11 5 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Police
11 5 (1.26%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Marketing
14 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (34.85%) Developer
2 71 (17.93%) Senior
3 65 (16.41%) Trainee
4 55 (13.89%) Java Developer
5 49 (12.37%) Architect
6 45 (11.36%) Software Engineer
7 43 (10.86%) Lead
8 29 (7.32%) Software Developer
9 26 (6.57%) Trainee Developer
9 26 (6.57%) Trainee Software Developer
10 22 (5.56%) AWS Developer
10 22 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (4.80%) Python Developer
12 18 (4.55%) .NET Developer
12 18 (4.55%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (3.79%) Development Manager
15 14 (3.54%) Software Development Manager
15 14 (3.54%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (21.46%) React
2 77 (19.44%) CSS
2 77 (19.44%) HTML
3 62 (15.66%) Node.js
4 54 (13.64%) Spring Boot
5 46 (11.62%) AngularJS
6 45 (11.36%) .NET
7 35 (8.84%) Spring
8 33 (8.33%) Jest
9 32 (8.08%) Gherkin
10 30 (7.58%) REST
10 30 (7.58%) RESTful
11 20 (5.05%) Flask
11 20 (5.05%) Vue
12 18 (4.55%) FastAPI
13 17 (4.29%) .NET Core
13 17 (4.29%) Django
14 15 (3.79%) Blazor
14 15 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (3.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.62%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (5.81%) Data Structures
3 23 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.26%) PKI
8 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.76%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.51%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.28%) Windows
2 7 (1.77%) Android
2 7 (1.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.76%) Linux
3 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.76%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (40.15%) CI/CD
2 148 (37.37%) Agile
2 148 (37.37%) Mentoring
3 135 (34.09%) DevOps
4 90 (22.73%) Microservices
5 89 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (21.97%) Software Engineering
7 83 (20.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 72 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (16.16%) Cybersecurity
10 53 (13.38%) Data Modelling
11 51 (12.88%) Full-Stack Development
12 46 (11.62%) SDLC
13 40 (10.10%) Containerisation
14 38 (9.60%) Application Security
15 37 (9.34%) Architectural Patterns
16 36 (9.09%) Coaching
16 36 (9.09%) Migration
17 35 (8.84%) Computer Science
18 34 (8.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 152 (38.38%) Python
2 143 (36.11%) JavaScript
3 118 (29.80%) Java
4 104 (26.26%) TypeScript
5 74 (18.69%) SQL
6 56 (14.14%) C#
7 41 (10.35%) Bash
8 31 (7.83%) Groovy
9 30 (7.58%) R
10 16 (4.04%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.02%) PHP
12 7 (1.77%) Go
13 5 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.26%) Scala
14 4 (1.01%) Bicep
15 1 (0.25%) Delphi
15 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 140 (35.35%) AWS Certification
2 82 (20.71%) Azure Certification
2 82 (20.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 70 (17.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 39 (9.85%) Degree
5 30 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (6.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (5.81%) TOGAF Certification
8 19 (4.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 16 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.04%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (3.54%) Security Cleared
11 10 (2.53%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.76%) IIBA
13 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.25%) CISSP
14 1 (0.25%) CRISC
14 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 7 (1.77%) QA
5 5 (1.26%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.01%) GDPR
6 4 (1.01%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.76%) GRC
7 3 (0.76%) NIST
8 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.25%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (29.80%) Docker
2 8 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.02%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 85 (21.46%) Terraform
2 36 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 32 (8.08%) HP Fortify
4 21 (5.30%) Ansible
5 13 (3.28%) Grafana
5 13 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 115 (29.04%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.29%) Google
3 8 (2.02%) Databricks
4 5 (1.26%) Arista
4 5 (1.26%) Aruba
4 5 (1.26%) NetScout
4 5 (1.26%) VMware
4 5 (1.26%) Zoho
5 4 (1.01%) Informatica
5 4 (1.01%) Oracle
5 4 (1.01%) Palantir
6 3 (0.76%) Pega
6 3 (0.76%) SAP
6 3 (0.76%) TIBCO
6 3 (0.76%) WSO2
7 2 (0.51%) Apple
7 2 (0.51%) Cisco
7 2 (0.51%) Citrix
7 2 (0.51%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.51%) Samsung