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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 357 346 367
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 10.14% 11.21% 9.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.62% 32.25% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 279 151 284
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £45,625 £47,201
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,648 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -2.25% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £88,750
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 1,166 1,073 1,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 33.13% 34.77% 39.86%
Number of salaries quoted 690 581 1,272
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £28,756
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £38,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,726
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,975
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 22 January 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 22 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
West Yorkshire +5 289 £70,000 +16.67% 121
South Yorkshire -9 41 £30,500 -50.81% 52
East Yorkshire -16 12 £45,000 - 34
North Yorkshire +5 9 £39,250 -31.74% 33
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 18 (5.04%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.08%) Apache
3 10 (2.80%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.52%) WordPress
5 5 (1.40%) Drupal
5 5 (1.40%) nginx
6 4 (1.12%) Confluence
7 3 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.56%) CMS
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.28%) FileNet
9 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Magento
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (49.02%) Azure
2 121 (33.89%) Serverless
3 96 (26.89%) GitHub
4 77 (21.57%) Amazon S3
5 67 (18.77%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (15.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (14.85%) Amazon ECS
8 46 (12.89%) AWS Step Functions
9 44 (12.32%) SaaS
10 40 (11.20%) GCP
11 31 (8.68%) Amazon SQS
12 25 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (6.16%) Amazon ECR
13 22 (6.16%) Apigee
14 20 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (3.92%) Amazon EventBridge
17 8 (2.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (2.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 58 (16.25%) Internet
2 10 (2.80%) Firewall
3 7 (1.96%) DNS
4 4 (1.12%) Network Security
4 4 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.84%) DHCP
5 3 (0.84%) LAN
5 3 (0.84%) WAN
6 2 (0.56%) DMZ
6 2 (0.56%) HTTP
6 2 (0.56%) NGFW
6 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.56%) VoIP
6 2 (0.56%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.28%) BGP
7 1 (0.28%) MQTT
7 1 (0.28%) SSL
7 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (19.33%) DynamoDB
2 39 (10.92%) SQL Server
3 36 (10.08%) NoSQL
4 32 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.20%) Metadata
6 14 (3.92%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.08%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.52%) MySQL
10 8 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.84%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (0.84%) Big Data
13 3 (0.84%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.84%) TIBCO EBX
14 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 92 (25.77%) Git
2 46 (12.89%) Jenkins
3 36 (10.08%) GitLab
4 22 (6.16%) Cypress.io
4 22 (6.16%) Maven
4 22 (6.16%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.68%) JIRA
6 2 (0.56%) Postman
7 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.28%) JUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 110 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.25%) Multimedia
3 31 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.28%) Finance
6 12 (3.36%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.80%) Law
8 7 (1.96%) Legal
9 6 (1.68%) Retail
9 6 (1.68%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.40%) Local Government
10 5 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.40%) Police
11 4 (1.12%) Games
12 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.84%) Marketing
13 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 118 (33.05%) Developer
2 58 (16.25%) Trainee
3 55 (15.41%) Senior
4 51 (14.29%) Architect
5 47 (13.17%) Lead
6 43 (12.04%) Java Developer
7 34 (9.52%) Software Developer
8 30 (8.40%) Software Engineer
9 28 (7.84%) Trainee Developer
9 28 (7.84%) Trainee Software Developer
10 19 (5.32%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.76%) AWS Developer
11 17 (4.76%) Python Developer
12 16 (4.48%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.20%) Development Manager
14 14 (3.92%) .NET Developer
14 14 (3.92%) Applications Architect
14 14 (3.92%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.92%) Software Development Manager
14 14 (3.92%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.13%) CSS
1 79 (22.13%) HTML
2 74 (20.73%) React
3 52 (14.57%) Node.js
4 43 (12.04%) .NET
5 40 (11.20%) Spring Boot
6 33 (9.24%) AngularJS
7 31 (8.68%) Spring
8 29 (8.12%) REST
9 27 (7.56%) RESTful
10 22 (6.16%) Gherkin
10 22 (6.16%) Jest
11 18 (5.04%) FastAPI
11 18 (5.04%) Flask
12 17 (4.76%) .NET Core
12 17 (4.76%) Django
13 15 (4.20%) Blazor
14 14 (3.92%) Vue
15 13 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (3.64%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.04%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (6.16%) Data Structures
4 21 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.84%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.84%) Taxonomies
8 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.56%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.56%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.56%) PKI
9 2 (0.56%) Robotics
9 2 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.92%) Windows
2 6 (1.68%) Linux
3 5 (1.40%) Android
3 5 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.56%) Unix
4 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (41.74%) CI/CD
2 144 (40.34%) Mentoring
3 134 (37.54%) Agile
4 121 (33.89%) DevOps
5 84 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 82 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (21.29%) Microservices
8 74 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 73 (20.45%) Software Engineering
10 69 (19.33%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (15.41%) Data Modelling
12 41 (11.48%) SDLC
13 39 (10.92%) Migration
14 37 (10.36%) Application Security
15 35 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 34 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
16 34 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
17 33 (9.24%) Computer Science
18 29 (8.12%) Containerisation
18 29 (8.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 149 (41.74%) Python
2 142 (39.78%) JavaScript
3 109 (30.53%) Java
4 90 (25.21%) TypeScript
5 76 (21.29%) SQL
6 55 (15.41%) C#
7 32 (8.96%) R
8 30 (8.40%) Bash
9 21 (5.88%) Groovy
10 12 (3.36%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.36%) PHP
11 10 (2.80%) Scala
12 8 (2.24%) Go
12 8 (2.24%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.12%) Bicep
14 2 (0.56%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.28%) C++
15 1 (0.28%) Delphi
15 1 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 130 (36.41%) AWS Certification
2 88 (24.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 87 (24.37%) Azure Certification
4 63 (17.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 39 (10.92%) Degree
6 31 (8.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (7.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (6.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 16 (4.48%) AWS Certified Developer
10 14 (3.92%) Security Cleared
11 10 (2.80%) SC Cleared
12 9 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.56%) IIBA
13 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.28%) CISA
14 1 (0.28%) CRISC
14 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (2.24%) QA
4 7 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.40%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.12%) GDPR
7 3 (0.84%) GRC
7 3 (0.84%) NIST
7 3 (0.84%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (28.85%) Docker
2 7 (1.96%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 78 (21.85%) Terraform
2 38 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 22 (6.16%) Ansible
3 22 (6.16%) HP Fortify
4 13 (3.64%) Grafana
4 13 (3.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.56%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.28%) Argo
Vendors
1 110 (30.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.20%) Google
3 13 (3.64%) Databricks
4 6 (1.68%) Oracle
5 5 (1.40%) Palantir
5 5 (1.40%) VMware
5 5 (1.40%) Zoho
6 3 (0.84%) Informatica
6 3 (0.84%) Pega
6 3 (0.84%) SAP
6 3 (0.84%) TIBCO
6 3 (0.84%) WSO2
7 2 (0.56%) Arista
7 2 (0.56%) Aruba
7 2 (0.56%) Cisco
7 2 (0.56%) Citrix
7 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.56%) NetScout
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe
8 1 (0.28%) IBM