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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 369 329 416
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.77% 12.01% 9.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.83% 32.32% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 288 140 330
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £40,900
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,938 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £90,000
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 1,237 1,018 1,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.76% 37.17% 37.95%
Number of salaries quoted 713 548 1,458
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,350 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +5 300 £65,000 +4.00% 75
South Yorkshire -13 41 £30,500 -50.81% 27
East Yorkshire -20 12 £45,000 - 9
North Yorkshire -3 9 £39,250 -31.74% 8
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 15 (4.07%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.71%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.44%) Apache
3 9 (2.44%) WordPress
4 5 (1.36%) Drupal
4 5 (1.36%) nginx
5 4 (1.08%) Confluence
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.81%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.54%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.27%) FileNet
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 178 (48.24%) Azure
2 126 (34.15%) Serverless
3 100 (27.10%) GitHub
4 81 (21.95%) Amazon S3
5 72 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (15.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (15.18%) Amazon ECS
8 49 (13.28%) AWS Step Functions
9 45 (12.20%) SaaS
10 38 (10.30%) GCP
11 33 (8.94%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (6.78%) Amazon ECR
13 25 (6.78%) Apigee
14 24 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (3.79%) Amazon EventBridge
18 9 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 9 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (15.72%) Internet
2 14 (3.79%) Firewall
3 9 (2.44%) DNS
4 8 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.36%) NGFW
5 5 (1.36%) VXLAN
5 5 (1.36%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.08%) DHCP
6 4 (1.08%) HTTP
6 4 (1.08%) LAN
6 4 (1.08%) Network Security
6 4 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.08%) WAN
7 3 (0.81%) VoIP
8 2 (0.54%) DMZ
9 1 (0.27%) Broadband
9 1 (0.27%) MQTT
9 1 (0.27%) SSL
9 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (20.05%) DynamoDB
2 39 (10.57%) SQL Server
3 37 (10.03%) NoSQL
4 31 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.07%) Metadata
5 15 (4.07%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.17%) MySQL
8 6 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.36%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.36%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.81%) Big Data
10 3 (0.81%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.81%) TIBCO EBX
11 2 (0.54%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.54%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 92 (24.93%) Git
2 51 (13.82%) Jenkins
3 36 (9.76%) GitLab
4 25 (6.78%) Cypress.io
4 25 (6.78%) Maven
4 25 (6.78%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.08%) JIRA
6 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
7 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 106 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.72%) Multimedia
3 35 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.13%) Finance
6 12 (3.25%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.44%) Law
8 8 (2.17%) Retail
9 7 (1.90%) Legal
10 5 (1.36%) Games
10 5 (1.36%) Local Government
10 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.36%) Police
10 5 (1.36%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Marketing
14 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (34.42%) Developer
2 61 (16.53%) Trainee
3 58 (15.72%) Senior
4 50 (13.55%) Architect
5 47 (12.74%) Java Developer
6 42 (11.38%) Lead
7 33 (8.94%) Software Developer
7 33 (8.94%) Software Engineer
8 28 (7.59%) Trainee Developer
8 28 (7.59%) Trainee Software Developer
9 19 (5.15%) Senior Developer
10 17 (4.61%) AWS Developer
10 17 (4.61%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.61%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.34%) .NET Developer
11 16 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (4.07%) Development Manager
13 14 (3.79%) Applications Architect
13 14 (3.79%) Lead Developer
13 14 (3.79%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (21.95%) CSS
1 81 (21.95%) HTML
2 78 (21.14%) React
3 54 (14.63%) Node.js
4 46 (12.47%) .NET
5 44 (11.92%) Spring Boot
6 37 (10.03%) AngularJS
7 32 (8.67%) Spring
8 30 (8.13%) REST
9 25 (6.78%) Gherkin
9 25 (6.78%) Jest
9 25 (6.78%) RESTful
10 18 (4.88%) FastAPI
10 18 (4.88%) Flask
11 17 (4.61%) .NET Core
11 17 (4.61%) Django
11 17 (4.61%) Vue
12 15 (4.07%) Blazor
13 14 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (3.52%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (6.23%) Data Structures
3 23 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.52%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.63%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
5 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.36%) PKI
7 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.81%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.81%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.54%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.54%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.79%) Windows
2 7 (1.90%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.36%) Android
3 5 (1.36%) Linux
4 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.81%) Unix
4 3 (0.81%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (40.38%) CI/CD
2 147 (39.84%) Mentoring
3 134 (36.31%) Agile
4 122 (33.06%) DevOps
5 85 (23.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 83 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (21.68%) Microservices
8 76 (20.60%) Software Engineering
9 72 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 68 (18.43%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (14.91%) Data Modelling
12 47 (12.74%) SDLC
13 42 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
14 38 (10.30%) Application Security
15 37 (10.03%) Migration
16 36 (9.76%) Architectural Patterns
17 35 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 34 (9.21%) Computer Science
19 32 (8.67%) Containerisation
20 31 (8.40%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 153 (41.46%) Python
2 144 (39.02%) JavaScript
3 110 (29.81%) Java
4 92 (24.93%) TypeScript
5 73 (19.78%) SQL
6 58 (15.72%) C#
7 35 (9.49%) Bash
8 32 (8.67%) R
9 24 (6.50%) Groovy
10 13 (3.52%) Kotlin
11 11 (2.98%) Go
11 11 (2.98%) PHP
12 9 (2.44%) Scala
13 7 (1.90%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.08%) Bicep
15 1 (0.27%) C++
15 1 (0.27%) Delphi
15 1 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 133 (36.04%) AWS Certification
2 87 (23.58%) Azure Certification
2 87 (23.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 66 (17.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 40 (10.84%) Degree
5 31 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (7.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (6.50%) TOGAF Certification
8 16 (4.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 12 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (3.25%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (3.25%) Security Cleared
10 8 (2.17%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.81%) IIBA
12 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.27%) CISSP
13 1 (0.27%) CRISC
13 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (1.63%) QA
6 5 (1.36%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.08%) GDPR
8 3 (0.81%) GRC
8 3 (0.81%) NIST
8 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.27%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (28.18%) Docker
2 8 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.17%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 84 (22.76%) Terraform
2 36 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.78%) HP Fortify
4 23 (6.23%) Ansible
5 13 (3.52%) Grafana
5 13 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 113 (30.62%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.34%) Google
3 12 (3.25%) Databricks
4 5 (1.36%) Arista
4 5 (1.36%) Aruba
4 5 (1.36%) NetScout
4 5 (1.36%) VMware
4 5 (1.36%) Zoho
5 4 (1.08%) Oracle
5 4 (1.08%) Palantir
6 3 (0.81%) Informatica
6 3 (0.81%) Pega
6 3 (0.81%) SAP
6 3 (0.81%) TIBCO
6 3 (0.81%) WSO2
7 2 (0.54%) Cisco
7 2 (0.54%) Citrix
7 2 (0.54%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.54%) UiPath
8 1 (0.27%) Sparx