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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 31 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 -13
Permanent jobs citing AWS 391 224 327
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.09% 6.69% 6.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.58% 26.89% 23.47%
Number of salaries quoted 277 176 223
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +12.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,375 £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 1,591 833 1,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.72% 24.87% 28.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 690 886
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,239 £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 £84,982
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 25 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 25 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 +3 309 £72,500 +3.57% 176
South Yorkshire -19 43 £65,000 -14.47% 57
East Yorkshire -1 18 £47,000 +16.05% 5
North Yorkshire +6 5 £65,000 +18.18% 14
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 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.02%) Apache
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.77%) WordPress
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
5 2 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.26%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.26%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 118 (30.18%) Azure
2 100 (25.58%) Serverless
3 88 (22.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 85 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (19.18%) Amazon S3
6 73 (18.67%) Amazon ECS
6 73 (18.67%) GitHub
7 58 (14.83%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (14.32%) GCP
9 51 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
10 44 (11.25%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 26 (6.65%) SaaS
13 25 (6.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 22 (5.63%) Amazon ECR
15 20 (5.12%) Apigee
16 19 (4.86%) Datadog
17 17 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
18 16 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.56%) DNS
2 9 (2.30%) Firewall
2 9 (2.30%) LAN
3 8 (2.05%) DHCP
3 8 (2.05%) VPN
3 8 (2.05%) WAN
4 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.28%) Internet
6 3 (0.77%) Network Security
7 2 (0.51%) BGP
7 2 (0.51%) OSPF
7 2 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.51%) 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 50 (12.79%) DynamoDB
2 29 (7.42%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.39%) MySQL
4 23 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 23 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.60%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.35%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.81%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.56%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.56%) MariaDB
10 9 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.30%) Metadata
11 8 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.79%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.79%) Spark SQL
13 5 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.77%) Big Data
14 3 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 77 (19.69%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.28%) Git
3 43 (11.00%) GitLab
4 21 (5.37%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.58%) SonarQube
6 12 (3.07%) JIRA
6 12 (3.07%) Maven
7 7 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (1.79%) JMeter
8 5 (1.28%) Postman
9 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.77%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.77%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.77%) Selenium
11 2 (0.51%) Appium
11 2 (0.51%) Ranorex
12 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.41%) Public Sector
3 44 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.39%) Finance
5 13 (3.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (2.81%) Law
7 9 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.05%) Local Government
9 6 (1.53%) Banking
9 6 (1.53%) Legal
10 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.77%) Retail
12 2 (0.51%) Billing
12 2 (0.51%) Games
12 2 (0.51%) Publishing
13 1 (0.26%) Advertising
13 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (28.39%) Developer
2 100 (25.58%) Senior
3 63 (16.11%) Java Developer
4 42 (10.74%) Architect
5 40 (10.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (10.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 40 (10.23%) Senior Developer
6 37 (9.46%) Software Engineer
7 36 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
8 33 (8.44%) Lead
9 32 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 31 (7.93%) AWS Developer
10 31 (7.93%) Data Engineer
11 26 (6.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 24 (6.14%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (5.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 17 (4.35%) Java Engineer
14 17 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
15 16 (4.09%) Angular Developer
16 15 (3.84%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (20.97%) Terraform
2 72 (18.41%) AngularJS
3 70 (17.90%) Node.js
4 48 (12.28%) Spring Boot
5 43 (11.00%) React
6 41 (10.49%) Spring
7 29 (7.42%) .NET
8 25 (6.39%) Gherkin
9 21 (5.37%) Web Services
10 20 (5.12%) REST
11 19 (4.86%) CSS
12 14 (3.58%) RESTful
13 13 (3.32%) Jest
13 13 (3.32%) Vue
14 12 (3.07%) HTML
14 12 (3.07%) PySpark
15 11 (2.81%) .NET Core
16 10 (2.56%) Middleware
17 7 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
17 7 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.58%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.05%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.53%) NHS
9 6 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.28%) Blog
10 5 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.02%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.51%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.81%) Linux
2 22 (5.63%) Windows
3 14 (3.58%) Unix
4 7 (1.79%) CentOS
4 7 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (42.71%) CI/CD
2 122 (31.20%) DevOps
3 120 (30.69%) Agile
4 90 (23.02%) Mentoring
5 84 (21.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 81 (20.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (19.69%) Software Engineering
8 59 (15.09%) Microservices
9 57 (14.58%) Coaching
10 53 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
12 50 (12.79%) AI
13 47 (12.02%) Containerisation
14 45 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
17 39 (9.97%) Analytics
18 38 (9.72%) Decision-Making
19 37 (9.46%) Scrum
20 36 (9.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 122 (31.20%) Java
2 82 (20.97%) Python
3 79 (20.20%) SQL
4 78 (19.95%) TypeScript
5 61 (15.60%) JavaScript
6 42 (10.74%) Groovy
7 28 (7.16%) C#
7 28 (7.16%) Kotlin
8 25 (6.39%) Bash
9 24 (6.14%) PHP
10 7 (1.79%) Scala
11 5 (1.28%) C++
11 5 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.77%) Bicep
12 3 (0.77%) Ruby
13 2 (0.51%) Go
13 2 (0.51%) Perl
13 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 43 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.60%) AWS Certification
3 18 (4.60%) Degree
4 12 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 9 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.53%) CISSP
6 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (1.28%) CISM
7 5 (1.28%) SAP Certification
8 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CCNA
10 1 (0.26%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.93%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.58%) GDPR
3 12 (3.07%) QA
4 10 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.77%) WCAG
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.51%) GRC
7 2 (0.51%) 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
1 101 (25.83%) Docker
2 9 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.60%) Progress Chef
3 16 (4.09%) Ansible
4 11 (2.81%) HP Fortify
5 8 (2.05%) Argo
6 3 (0.77%) Packer
7 2 (0.51%) Grafana
7 2 (0.51%) Kibana
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.51%) SCCM
7 2 (0.51%) SCOM
7 2 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.86%) Google
3 11 (2.81%) Databricks
4 7 (1.79%) SAP
5 6 (1.53%) Oracle
6 5 (1.28%) Adobe
6 5 (1.28%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.28%) Foundry
6 5 (1.28%) IBM
7 4 (1.02%) Informatica
7 4 (1.02%) Pega
8 3 (0.77%) Cisco
8 3 (0.77%) VMware
9 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.51%) Zoho
10 1 (0.26%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.26%) Palantir
10 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds