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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 406 323 433
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.81% 13.07% 9.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.46% 33.13% 25.41%
Number of salaries quoted 321 141 349
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,200
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,648 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -6.59% +4.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,250 £87,750
England median annual salary £70,079 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.56% +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 1,378 975 1,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 33.31% 39.46% 37.85%
Number of salaries quoted 785 555 1,475
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,818 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,822 £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 21 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 21 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 +3 328 £65,000 +8.33% 73
South Yorkshire -8 50 £30,500 -51.20% 25
East Yorkshire -26 11 £45,000 - 9
North Yorkshire +4 10 £47,500 -17.39% 6
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 16 (3.94%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.46%) Apache
2 10 (2.46%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.22%) Jupyter
3 9 (2.22%) WordPress
4 5 (1.23%) Drupal
4 5 (1.23%) nginx
5 4 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.99%) Confluence
6 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.49%) CMS
7 2 (0.49%) JBoss
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) FileNet
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 192 (47.29%) Azure
2 141 (34.73%) Serverless
3 106 (26.11%) GitHub
4 92 (22.66%) Amazon S3
5 83 (20.44%) AWS Lambda
6 68 (16.75%) Amazon ECS
7 67 (16.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (14.04%) AWS Step Functions
9 46 (11.33%) SaaS
10 44 (10.84%) GCP
11 36 (8.87%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (7.64%) Amazon ECR
12 31 (7.64%) Apigee
13 27 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (6.65%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
17 13 (3.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 11 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 58 (14.29%) Internet
2 14 (3.45%) Firewall
3 9 (2.22%) DNS
4 8 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.23%) NGFW
5 5 (1.23%) VXLAN
5 5 (1.23%) Wireshark
6 4 (0.99%) DHCP
6 4 (0.99%) HTTP
6 4 (0.99%) LAN
6 4 (0.99%) Network Security
6 4 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.99%) WAN
7 3 (0.74%) VoIP
8 2 (0.49%) DMZ
9 1 (0.25%) Broadband
9 1 (0.25%) MQTT
9 1 (0.25%) SSL
9 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (20.69%) DynamoDB
2 44 (10.84%) NoSQL
3 39 (9.61%) SQL Server
4 36 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.69%) Metadata
7 14 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (3.20%) MySQL
9 11 (2.71%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.46%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.23%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.99%) Big Data
15 3 (0.74%) Power BI
15 3 (0.74%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.74%) TIBCO EBX
16 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.49%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 93 (22.91%) Git
2 60 (14.78%) Jenkins
3 43 (10.59%) GitLab
4 31 (7.64%) Cypress.io
4 31 (7.64%) Maven
4 31 (7.64%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.23%) JIRA
7 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.74%) Selenium
8 1 (0.25%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) PHPUnit
General
1 111 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.29%) Multimedia
3 42 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.11%) Finance
5 14 (3.45%) Retail
6 13 (3.20%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.97%) Law
9 7 (1.72%) Legal
10 5 (1.23%) Games
10 5 (1.23%) Local Government
10 5 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.23%) Police
10 5 (1.23%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Marketing
13 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 139 (34.24%) Developer
2 72 (17.73%) Senior
3 67 (16.50%) Trainee
4 55 (13.55%) Java Developer
5 50 (12.32%) Architect
6 45 (11.08%) Lead
7 43 (10.59%) Software Engineer
8 33 (8.13%) Software Developer
9 28 (6.90%) Trainee Developer
9 28 (6.90%) Trainee Software Developer
10 22 (5.42%) Senior Developer
11 21 (5.17%) AWS Developer
12 19 (4.68%) Python Developer
13 18 (4.43%) Data Engineer
14 17 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (3.94%) .NET Developer
15 16 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (3.69%) Development Manager
17 14 (3.45%) Applications Architect
17 14 (3.45%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (21.43%) React
2 82 (20.20%) CSS
2 82 (20.20%) HTML
3 62 (15.27%) Node.js
4 53 (13.05%) Spring Boot
5 46 (11.33%) .NET
6 45 (11.08%) AngularJS
7 35 (8.62%) Spring
8 32 (7.88%) Jest
8 32 (7.88%) REST
9 31 (7.64%) Gherkin
10 29 (7.14%) RESTful
11 20 (4.93%) Flask
12 18 (4.43%) FastAPI
12 18 (4.43%) Vue
13 17 (4.19%) .NET Core
13 17 (4.19%) Django
14 15 (3.69%) Blazor
14 15 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (3.20%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.58%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.65%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (5.67%) Data Structures
5 15 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.48%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.48%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.23%) PKI
9 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.74%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.74%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.49%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.49%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.45%) Windows
2 7 (1.72%) Android
2 7 (1.72%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.99%) Linux
4 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.74%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (39.90%) CI/CD
2 159 (39.16%) Mentoring
3 150 (36.95%) Agile
4 136 (33.50%) DevOps
5 92 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (21.92%) Microservices
7 87 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 87 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 72 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (16.75%) Cybersecurity
10 55 (13.55%) Data Modelling
11 49 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 48 (11.82%) SDLC
13 40 (9.85%) Containerisation
14 39 (9.61%) Application Security
14 39 (9.61%) Coaching
15 38 (9.36%) Architectural Patterns
16 37 (9.11%) Migration
17 36 (8.87%) Computer Science
17 36 (8.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 162 (39.90%) Python
2 153 (37.68%) JavaScript
3 124 (30.54%) Java
4 106 (26.11%) TypeScript
5 78 (19.21%) SQL
6 58 (14.29%) C#
7 42 (10.34%) Bash
8 32 (7.88%) R
9 30 (7.39%) Groovy
10 16 (3.94%) Kotlin
11 11 (2.71%) PHP
12 10 (2.46%) Go
13 7 (1.72%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.72%) Scala
14 4 (0.99%) Bicep
15 1 (0.25%) C++
15 1 (0.25%) Delphi
15 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 144 (35.47%) AWS Certification
2 87 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 87 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (17.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 40 (9.85%) Degree
5 31 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 19 (4.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 15 (3.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (3.69%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (3.20%) Security Cleared
11 9 (2.22%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.74%) IIBA
13 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.25%) CISSP
14 1 (0.25%) CRISC
14 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 7 (1.72%) QA
5 5 (1.23%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.99%) GDPR
6 4 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.74%) GRC
7 3 (0.74%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.25%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (28.82%) Docker
2 8 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.97%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 87 (21.43%) Terraform
2 39 (9.61%) Kubernetes
3 31 (7.64%) HP Fortify
4 23 (5.67%) Ansible
5 13 (3.20%) Grafana
5 13 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 121 (29.80%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.19%) Google
3 10 (2.46%) Databricks
4 5 (1.23%) Arista
4 5 (1.23%) Aruba
4 5 (1.23%) NetScout
4 5 (1.23%) VMware
4 5 (1.23%) Zoho
5 4 (0.99%) Informatica
5 4 (0.99%) Oracle
5 4 (0.99%) Palantir
6 3 (0.74%) Pega
6 3 (0.74%) SAP
6 3 (0.74%) TIBCO
6 3 (0.74%) WSO2
7 2 (0.49%) Apple
7 2 (0.49%) Cisco
7 2 (0.49%) Citrix
7 2 (0.49%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.49%) Samsung