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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -18
Permanent jobs citing AWS 391 218 320
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.23% 6.60% 6.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.85% 26.39% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 289 168 246
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,350 £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% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £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 1,711 826 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.90% 24.99% 28.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 697 1,056
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £29,656
25th Percentile £38,563 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +0.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,900 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.17% -4.00% -3.85%

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 4 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 4 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 +3 301 £72,500 +3.57% 148
South Yorkshire -16 48 £65,500 -6.43% 40
East Yorkshire -3 17 £47,000 +16.05% 3
North Yorkshire +5 7 £47,500 -1.04% 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 8 (2.05%) WordPress
3 7 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.02%) Apache
4 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 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
1 125 (31.97%) Azure
2 98 (25.06%) Serverless
3 85 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 83 (21.23%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (18.93%) GitHub
6 72 (18.41%) Amazon ECS
7 70 (17.90%) Amazon S3
8 52 (13.30%) GCP
9 51 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
10 49 (12.53%) GitHub Actions
11 37 (9.46%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (7.67%) SaaS
13 29 (7.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (6.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 23 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
15 23 (5.88%) Apigee
16 18 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
17 16 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (4.09%) Datadog
17 16 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
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 7 (1.79%) Internet
5 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.77%) Network Security
7 2 (0.51%) BGP
7 2 (0.51%) OSPF
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 52 (13.30%) DynamoDB
2 29 (7.42%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.39%) MySQL
4 22 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (5.37%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (5.12%) MongoDB
7 19 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (3.32%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.07%) BigQuery
10 11 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (2.56%) MariaDB
12 9 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (2.30%) Metadata
12 9 (2.30%) SQL Server
13 8 (2.05%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.79%) Spark SQL
15 5 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (1.02%) Big Data
16 4 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 70 (17.90%) Jenkins
2 45 (11.51%) Git
3 36 (9.21%) GitLab
4 18 (4.60%) Cypress.io
5 16 (4.09%) SonarQube
6 14 (3.58%) Maven
7 8 (2.05%) JIRA
8 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.26%) MLflow
12 1 (0.26%) Selenium
12 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 71 (18.16%) Social Skills
2 64 (16.37%) Public Sector
3 37 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.14%) Finance
5 14 (3.58%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (3.32%) Law
7 9 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.05%) Local Government
9 7 (1.79%) Multimedia
10 6 (1.53%) Legal
11 4 (1.02%) Banking
11 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Billing
13 2 (0.51%) Games
13 2 (0.51%) Publishing
13 2 (0.51%) Retail
14 1 (0.26%) Advertising
14 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (31.20%) Developer
2 108 (27.62%) Senior
3 64 (16.37%) Java Developer
4 46 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 45 (11.51%) Senior Developer
6 40 (10.23%) Architect
6 40 (10.23%) Software Engineer
7 32 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (7.93%) Data Engineer
9 30 (7.67%) Lead
10 29 (7.42%) AWS Developer
10 29 (7.42%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
11 28 (7.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 23 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (5.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 18 (4.60%) Senior Java Developer
15 16 (4.09%) Angular Developer
15 16 (4.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 16 (4.09%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (20.46%) Terraform
2 72 (18.41%) AngularJS
3 70 (17.90%) Node.js
4 48 (12.28%) Spring Boot
5 47 (12.02%) React
6 39 (9.97%) Spring
7 32 (8.18%) CSS
8 29 (7.42%) .NET
9 24 (6.14%) HTML
10 22 (5.63%) Gherkin
11 19 (4.86%) Web Services
12 18 (4.60%) Vue
13 17 (4.35%) REST
14 15 (3.84%) Jest
15 11 (2.81%) .NET Core
15 11 (2.81%) PySpark
15 11 (2.81%) RESTful
16 10 (2.56%) Middleware
17 9 (2.30%) Flask
18 7 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.05%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.79%) NHS
7 7 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.28%) Blog
9 5 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.28%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.02%) PKI
11 3 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.76%) Linux
2 22 (5.63%) Windows
3 14 (3.58%) Unix
4 6 (1.53%) CentOS
4 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) AIX
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (39.90%) CI/CD
2 114 (29.16%) Agile
3 109 (27.88%) DevOps
4 92 (23.53%) Mentoring
5 87 (22.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 81 (20.72%) Software Engineering
7 75 (19.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 58 (14.83%) Microservices
9 56 (14.32%) Coaching
10 53 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (13.30%) AI
12 48 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (10.74%) Containerisation
15 41 (10.49%) Analytics
16 39 (9.97%) Decision-Making
17 34 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
18 33 (8.44%) Continuous Integration
19 31 (7.93%) Scrum
19 31 (7.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 124 (31.71%) Java
2 94 (24.04%) Python
3 78 (19.95%) SQL
4 75 (19.18%) TypeScript
5 68 (17.39%) JavaScript
6 43 (11.00%) Groovy
7 31 (7.93%) C#
8 26 (6.65%) Bash
8 26 (6.65%) Kotlin
9 24 (6.14%) PHP
10 7 (1.79%) Scala
11 6 (1.53%) C++
11 6 (1.53%) R
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
Qualifications
1 52 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.97%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.91%) AWS Certification
4 18 (4.60%) Degree
5 11 (2.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (2.81%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.81%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.53%) CISM
9 6 (1.53%) CISSP
9 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (1.28%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.18%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.09%) GDPR
3 11 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.05%) QA
5 3 (0.77%) WCAG
6 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 95 (24.30%) Docker
2 9 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Clusterware
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 13 (3.32%) Ansible
3 13 (3.32%) HP Fortify
4 9 (2.30%) Argo
5 3 (0.77%) Packer
6 2 (0.51%) Kibana
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.51%) SCCM
6 2 (0.51%) SCOM
6 2 (0.51%) WSUS
7 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 40 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.58%) Google
3 13 (3.32%) Databricks
4 7 (1.79%) Oracle
5 5 (1.28%) Adobe
5 5 (1.28%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.28%) Foundry
5 5 (1.28%) IBM
5 5 (1.28%) SAP
6 4 (1.02%) Pega
7 3 (0.77%) Cisco
7 3 (0.77%) VMware
8 2 (0.51%) Informatica
8 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.51%) Zoho
9 1 (0.26%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.26%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.26%) Palantir
9 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds