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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 31 25
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 -13
Permanent jobs citing AWS 392 223 325
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.11% 6.75% 6.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.05% 26.84% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 278 175 227
10th Percentile £42,500 £29,450 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £84,500 £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 1,630 831 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.24% 25.14% 28.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 692 905
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,772 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -8.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,762
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.90% -1.91%

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 22 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 22 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 0 310 £72,500 +3.57% 179
South Yorkshire -15 45 £65,500 -13.82% 46
East Yorkshire -6 17 £47,000 +16.05% 5
North Yorkshire +4 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 (2.55%) 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
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
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
1 115 (29.34%) Azure
2 104 (26.53%) Serverless
3 90 (22.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 88 (22.45%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (19.39%) Amazon S3
6 75 (19.13%) GitHub
7 74 (18.88%) Amazon ECS
8 58 (14.80%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (13.78%) GCP
10 53 (13.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 43 (10.97%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (9.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (6.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 25 (6.38%) SaaS
15 23 (5.87%) Amazon ECR
16 22 (5.61%) Apigee
17 19 (4.85%) Datadog
18 17 (4.34%) Amazon SQS
19 16 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
20 15 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.55%) DNS
2 9 (2.30%) Firewall
2 9 (2.30%) LAN
3 8 (2.04%) DHCP
3 8 (2.04%) VPN
3 8 (2.04%) WAN
4 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.77%) Internet
5 3 (0.77%) Network Security
6 2 (0.51%) BGP
6 2 (0.51%) OSPF
6 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.26%) SAN
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (13.52%) DynamoDB
2 29 (7.40%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (6.12%) MySQL
4 21 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.59%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.83%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.81%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.55%) MariaDB
9 10 (2.55%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.30%) Metadata
11 8 (2.04%) 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 78 (19.90%) Jenkins
2 45 (11.48%) Git
3 44 (11.22%) GitLab
4 23 (5.87%) Cypress.io
5 16 (4.08%) SonarQube
6 14 (3.57%) Maven
7 12 (3.06%) JIRA
8 7 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (1.79%) JMeter
9 5 (1.28%) Postman
10 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.77%) Selenium
12 2 (0.51%) Appium
12 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.51%) Ranorex
13 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 76 (19.39%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.60%) Public Sector
3 42 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.38%) Finance
5 14 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (2.81%) Law
7 9 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.04%) 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
1 113 (28.83%) Developer
2 102 (26.02%) Senior
3 65 (16.58%) Java Developer
4 42 (10.71%) Architect
4 42 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 41 (10.46%) Senior Developer
6 37 (9.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (9.44%) Software Engineer
7 36 (9.18%) AWS Engineer
8 33 (8.42%) Lead
9 32 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (8.16%) Data Engineer
10 31 (7.91%) AWS Developer
11 26 (6.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 24 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (5.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 18 (4.59%) Senior Java Developer
15 17 (4.34%) Java Engineer
16 16 (4.08%) Analyst
16 16 (4.08%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (20.92%) Terraform
2 74 (18.88%) AngularJS
3 70 (17.86%) Node.js
4 48 (12.24%) Spring Boot
5 42 (10.71%) React
6 39 (9.95%) Spring
7 28 (7.14%) .NET
8 27 (6.89%) Gherkin
9 21 (5.36%) CSS
10 20 (5.10%) Web Services
11 18 (4.59%) REST
12 15 (3.83%) Jest
13 14 (3.57%) HTML
13 14 (3.57%) RESTful
13 14 (3.57%) Vue
14 12 (3.06%) PySpark
15 11 (2.81%) .NET Core
16 10 (2.55%) Middleware
17 7 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
18 6 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.99%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.04%) 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%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.02%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.02%) PKI
12 3 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 51 (13.01%) Linux
2 22 (5.61%) Windows
3 14 (3.57%) 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 (42.60%) CI/CD
2 122 (31.12%) DevOps
3 121 (30.87%) Agile
4 90 (22.96%) Mentoring
5 84 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 80 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (19.64%) Software Engineering
8 58 (14.80%) Microservices
9 57 (14.54%) Coaching
10 55 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (12.76%) AI
11 50 (12.76%) Technical Leadership
12 46 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (11.48%) Containerisation
14 42 (10.71%) Decision-Making
15 41 (10.46%) Analytics
15 41 (10.46%) Platform Engineering
16 38 (9.69%) Continuous Integration
17 37 (9.44%) Test Automation
18 36 (9.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 123 (31.38%) Java
2 84 (21.43%) Python
3 82 (20.92%) SQL
4 81 (20.66%) TypeScript
5 61 (15.56%) JavaScript
6 44 (11.22%) Groovy
7 28 (7.14%) C#
7 28 (7.14%) Kotlin
8 26 (6.63%) Bash
9 23 (5.87%) PHP
10 7 (1.79%) Scala
11 5 (1.28%) C++
12 3 (0.77%) Bicep
12 3 (0.77%) Ruby
12 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
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 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.10%) AWS Certification
4 18 (4.59%) Degree
5 12 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (2.81%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.53%) CISM
8 6 (1.53%) CISSP
8 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (1.28%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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%) CCNA
12 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.83%) GDPR
3 13 (3.32%) QA
4 10 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.77%) WCAG
7 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (25.77%) 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 49 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.59%) Progress Chef
3 15 (3.83%) Ansible
4 13 (3.32%) HP Fortify
5 8 (2.04%) Argo
6 3 (0.77%) Packer
7 2 (0.51%) Kibana
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.51%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.51%) SCCM
7 2 (0.51%) SCOM
7 2 (0.51%) WSUS
8 1 (0.26%) Grafana
8 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (9.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.34%) Google
3 12 (3.06%) 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