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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 30 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 -13
Permanent jobs citing AWS 380 221 323
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.96% 6.60% 6.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.52% 26.95% 23.46%
Number of salaries quoted 271 174 218
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,607 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% +12.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £87,824 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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 1,550 820 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.22% 24.48% 28.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 680 865
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,688 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £84,985
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +1.56%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +2 299 £72,500 +3.57% 142
South Yorkshire -18 43 £65,000 -10.96% 40
East Yorkshire -7 18 £47,000 +16.05% 4
North Yorkshire +7 5 £65,000 +18.18% 9
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 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.05%) Apache
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.79%) WordPress
5 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.53%) CMS
5 2 (0.53%) Confluence
5 2 (0.53%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.26%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.26%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 116 (30.53%) Azure
2 92 (24.21%) Serverless
3 82 (21.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 78 (20.53%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (18.16%) GitHub
6 68 (17.89%) Amazon S3
7 66 (17.37%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (14.47%) GCP
10 44 (11.58%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (11.58%) AWS Step Functions
11 33 (8.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (6.58%) SaaS
13 22 (5.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 18 (4.74%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (4.47%) Datadog
15 17 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (4.21%) Apigee
17 15 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.63%) DNS
2 9 (2.37%) Firewall
2 9 (2.37%) LAN
3 8 (2.11%) DHCP
3 8 (2.11%) VPN
3 8 (2.11%) WAN
4 6 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.32%) Internet
6 3 (0.79%) Network Security
7 2 (0.53%) BGP
7 2 (0.53%) OSPF
7 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.53%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.53%) 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 43 (11.32%) DynamoDB
2 25 (6.58%) MySQL
2 25 (6.58%) NoSQL
3 23 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.74%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.47%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.89%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.63%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.63%) MariaDB
10 9 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.37%) Metadata
11 8 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.84%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.84%) Spark SQL
13 5 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.79%) Big Data
14 3 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 73 (19.21%) Jenkins
2 46 (12.11%) Git
3 40 (10.53%) GitLab
4 18 (4.74%) Cypress.io
5 12 (3.16%) JIRA
6 11 (2.89%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.37%) Maven
8 7 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (1.84%) JMeter
9 5 (1.32%) Postman
10 3 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.53%) Appium
11 2 (0.53%) Ranorex
11 2 (0.53%) Selenium
12 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 76 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.95%) Public Sector
3 43 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.58%) Finance
5 13 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (2.63%) Law
7 9 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.11%) Local Government
9 6 (1.58%) Banking
9 6 (1.58%) Legal
10 4 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Retail
12 2 (0.53%) Billing
12 2 (0.53%) Games
12 2 (0.53%) Publishing
13 1 (0.26%) Advertising
13 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (26.84%) Developer
2 98 (25.79%) Senior
3 59 (15.53%) Java Developer
4 42 (11.05%) Architect
5 40 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 37 (9.74%) Software Engineer
8 36 (9.47%) AWS Engineer
9 35 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (8.42%) Lead
11 31 (8.16%) Data Engineer
12 29 (7.63%) AWS Developer
13 26 (6.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 17 (4.47%) Java Engineer
16 17 (4.47%) Senior Java Developer
17 15 (3.95%) Analyst
17 15 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (21.05%) Terraform
2 65 (17.11%) AngularJS
2 65 (17.11%) Node.js
3 43 (11.32%) Spring Boot
4 41 (10.79%) React
5 39 (10.26%) Spring
6 29 (7.63%) .NET
7 22 (5.79%) Gherkin
8 21 (5.53%) Web Services
9 20 (5.26%) REST
10 18 (4.74%) CSS
11 14 (3.68%) RESTful
12 12 (3.16%) PySpark
12 12 (3.16%) Vue
13 11 (2.89%) .NET Core
13 11 (2.89%) HTML
14 10 (2.63%) Jest
14 10 (2.63%) Middleware
15 7 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
15 7 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.11%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.58%) NHS
8 6 (1.58%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.58%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.58%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.32%) Blog
9 5 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.05%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.53%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 54 (14.21%) Linux
2 22 (5.79%) Windows
3 14 (3.68%) Unix
4 7 (1.84%) CentOS
4 7 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (42.37%) CI/CD
2 116 (30.53%) Agile
2 116 (30.53%) DevOps
3 87 (22.89%) Mentoring
4 79 (20.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 79 (20.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 59 (15.53%) Microservices
7 56 (14.74%) Coaching
8 51 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (13.42%) Technical Leadership
9 49 (12.89%) AI
10 45 (11.84%) Containerisation
11 44 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
12 43 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (10.26%) Analytics
14 38 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
15 37 (9.74%) Decision-Making
15 37 (9.74%) Scrum
16 34 (8.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.26%) Java
2 79 (20.79%) Python
3 74 (19.47%) SQL
4 71 (18.68%) TypeScript
5 57 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 39 (10.26%) Groovy
7 28 (7.37%) C#
8 24 (6.32%) Kotlin
8 24 (6.32%) PHP
9 22 (5.79%) Bash
10 7 (1.84%) Scala
11 5 (1.32%) C++
11 5 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.79%) Bicep
12 3 (0.79%) Ruby
13 2 (0.53%) Go
13 2 (0.53%) Perl
13 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 56 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 39 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.74%) Degree
4 15 (3.95%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.58%) CISSP
8 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (1.32%) CISM
9 5 (1.32%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.26%) CCNA
12 1 (0.26%) CISA
12 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.68%) GDPR
3 12 (3.16%) QA
4 10 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.79%) WCAG
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.53%) GRC
7 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 94 (24.74%) Docker
2 9 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (13.42%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.74%) Progress Chef
3 16 (4.21%) Ansible
4 8 (2.11%) Argo
4 8 (2.11%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.79%) Packer
6 2 (0.53%) Grafana
6 2 (0.53%) Kibana
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.53%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.53%) SCCM
6 2 (0.53%) SCOM
6 2 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.00%) Google
3 11 (2.89%) Databricks
4 7 (1.84%) SAP
5 6 (1.58%) Oracle
6 5 (1.32%) Adobe
6 5 (1.32%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.32%) Foundry
6 5 (1.32%) IBM
7 4 (1.05%) Informatica
7 4 (1.05%) Pega
8 3 (0.79%) Cisco
8 3 (0.79%) VMware
9 2 (0.53%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.53%) Zoho
10 1 (0.26%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.26%) Palantir
10 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds