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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 29 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 -14
Permanent jobs citing AWS 359 234 298
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.74% 6.99% 6.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.51% 28.78% 23.56%
Number of salaries quoted 252 185 188
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,607 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +1.01%

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 1,465 813 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.33% 24.28% 28.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 666 755
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +1 282 £72,500 +3.57% 181
South Yorkshire -20 42 £65,000 +8.33% 46
East Yorkshire -2 18 £47,000 +22.08% 4
North Yorkshire +5 4 £49,250 -10.45% 12
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 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.11%) Apache
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.84%) nginx
4 3 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.84%) WordPress
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 113 (31.48%) Azure
2 85 (23.68%) Serverless
3 82 (22.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 71 (19.78%) AWS Lambda
4 71 (19.78%) GitHub
5 63 (17.55%) Amazon ECS
5 63 (17.55%) Amazon S3
6 57 (15.88%) GitHub Actions
7 55 (15.32%) GCP
8 43 (11.98%) AWS Step Functions
9 41 (11.42%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (9.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (6.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 22 (6.13%) SaaS
13 19 (5.29%) Datadog
13 19 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (4.46%) Amazon ECR
15 15 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (3.62%) Apigee
17 10 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.79%) DNS
2 9 (2.51%) Firewall
2 9 (2.51%) LAN
3 8 (2.23%) DHCP
3 8 (2.23%) VPN
3 8 (2.23%) WAN
4 6 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.39%) Internet
6 3 (0.84%) Network Security
6 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.56%) BGP
7 2 (0.56%) OSPF
7 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.28%) SAN
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.42%) DynamoDB
2 27 (7.52%) NoSQL
3 26 (7.24%) MySQL
4 22 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (4.74%) MongoDB
8 15 (4.18%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.34%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.06%) Metadata
11 10 (2.79%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.79%) MariaDB
11 10 (2.79%) Spark SQL
12 9 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.95%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.84%) Power BI
16 2 (0.56%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 66 (18.38%) Jenkins
2 47 (13.09%) Git
3 37 (10.31%) GitLab
4 18 (5.01%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.51%) Maven
6 8 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (2.23%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.95%) JIRA
7 7 (1.95%) JMeter
8 5 (1.39%) Postman
9 3 (0.84%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.56%) Appium
10 2 (0.56%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.56%) Selenium
11 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.33%) Public Sector
3 41 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.69%) Finance
5 9 (2.51%) Law
6 7 (1.95%) Local Government
6 7 (1.95%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.67%) Banking
7 6 (1.67%) Legal
7 6 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.11%) Retail
9 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.56%) Games
10 2 (0.56%) Publishing
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (25.63%) Developer
2 86 (23.96%) Senior
3 53 (14.76%) Java Developer
4 39 (10.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (10.58%) Architect
6 36 (10.03%) Software Engineer
7 33 (9.19%) AWS Engineer
8 32 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (8.91%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
8 32 (8.91%) Lead
9 30 (8.36%) Senior Developer
10 29 (8.08%) AWS Developer
11 25 (6.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 23 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (5.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (4.46%) Java Engineer
15 15 (4.18%) Angular Developer
15 15 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.89%) Terraform
2 63 (17.55%) Node.js
3 59 (16.43%) AngularJS
4 37 (10.31%) React
5 35 (9.75%) Spring Boot
6 31 (8.64%) Spring
7 28 (7.80%) .NET
8 22 (6.13%) Gherkin
9 19 (5.29%) Web Services
10 17 (4.74%) CSS
11 15 (4.18%) REST
12 14 (3.90%) PySpark
13 13 (3.62%) RESTful
14 12 (3.34%) .NET Core
15 11 (3.06%) Vue
16 10 (2.79%) HTML
16 10 (2.79%) Jest
17 8 (2.23%) Middleware
18 5 (1.39%) .NET Framework
18 5 (1.39%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.51%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.39%) Blog
8 5 (1.39%) NHS
8 5 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.11%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
11 2 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.28%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 52 (14.48%) Linux
2 20 (5.57%) Windows
3 14 (3.90%) Unix
4 8 (2.23%) CentOS
4 8 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (44.01%) CI/CD
2 115 (32.03%) Agile
3 110 (30.64%) DevOps
4 87 (24.23%) Mentoring
5 80 (22.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (21.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 76 (21.17%) Software Engineering
7 57 (15.88%) Coaching
8 52 (14.48%) Technical Leadership
9 51 (14.21%) Microservices
10 50 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (12.53%) AI
11 45 (12.53%) Containerisation
12 44 (12.26%) Platform Engineering
13 42 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (10.86%) Continuous Integration
15 38 (10.58%) Decision-Making
16 37 (10.31%) Analytics
16 37 (10.31%) Test Automation
17 35 (9.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 105 (29.25%) Java
2 78 (21.73%) Python
3 74 (20.61%) SQL
4 70 (19.50%) TypeScript
5 57 (15.88%) JavaScript
6 36 (10.03%) Groovy
7 27 (7.52%) C#
8 25 (6.96%) Kotlin
9 24 (6.69%) PHP
10 22 (6.13%) Bash
11 7 (1.95%) Scala
12 5 (1.39%) C++
12 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.84%) Bicep
13 3 (0.84%) Ruby
14 2 (0.56%) Go
14 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.28%) Perl
15 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (14.76%) Security Cleared
2 38 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.74%) Degree
4 13 (3.62%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.11%) CISSP
7 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.84%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.56%) CISA
9 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.56%) CISM
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.51%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.51%) GDPR
3 8 (2.23%) QA
4 7 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.39%) GRC
6 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.84%) WCAG
7 2 (0.56%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 94 (26.18%) Docker
2 9 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (13.37%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.01%) Progress Chef
3 13 (3.62%) Ansible
4 8 (2.23%) HP Fortify
5 5 (1.39%) Argo
6 3 (0.84%) Grafana
6 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.56%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.56%) SCCM
7 2 (0.56%) SCOM
7 2 (0.56%) WSUS
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.01%) Google
3 9 (2.51%) Databricks
4 7 (1.95%) Foundry
5 5 (1.39%) Adobe
5 5 (1.39%) SAP
6 4 (1.11%) Informatica
6 4 (1.11%) Oracle
6 4 (1.11%) Pega
7 3 (0.84%) Cisco
7 3 (0.84%) Palantir
7 3 (0.84%) VMware
8 2 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.56%) Zoho
9 1 (0.28%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.28%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.28%) Varonis