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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 345 344 340
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 10.33% 10.98% 10.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.89% 32.39% 24.55%
Number of salaries quoted 273 154 261
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £45,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,886 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -5.78% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 1,117 1,062 1,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 33.43% 33.89% 41.93%
Number of salaries quoted 668 574 1,165
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £28,888
25th Percentile £30,906 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +3 279 £70,000 +16.67% 106
South Yorkshire -4 41 £30,500 -50.41% 44
East Yorkshire -14 13 £42,500 -5.56% 26
North Yorkshire +1 9 £39,250 -31.74% 19
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 17 (4.93%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.90%) Apache
2 10 (2.90%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.61%) WordPress
4 5 (1.45%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.45%) Drupal
4 5 (1.45%) nginx
5 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.58%) CMS
6 2 (0.58%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.29%) FileNet
7 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
2 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (50.43%) Azure
2 109 (31.59%) Serverless
3 91 (26.38%) GitHub
4 65 (18.84%) Amazon S3
5 55 (15.94%) AWS Lambda
6 48 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (13.33%) SaaS
8 44 (12.75%) Amazon ECS
9 42 (12.17%) GCP
10 37 (10.72%) AWS Step Functions
11 26 (7.54%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (4.93%) Amazon ECR
14 17 (4.93%) Apigee
15 16 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (4.06%) Amazon EventBridge
17 9 (2.61%) Datadog
18 7 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (16.52%) Internet
2 7 (2.03%) Firewall
3 5 (1.45%) DNS
4 4 (1.16%) Network Security
5 2 (0.58%) DHCP
5 2 (0.58%) DMZ
5 2 (0.58%) LAN
5 2 (0.58%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) BGP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTP
6 1 (0.29%) MQTT
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) VoIP
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (16.81%) DynamoDB
2 38 (11.01%) SQL Server
3 37 (10.72%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (9.86%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.06%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.48%) Metadata
6 12 (3.48%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.48%) MySQL
7 10 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.45%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (0.87%) Big Data
10 3 (0.87%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.87%) TIBCO EBX
11 2 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 88 (25.51%) Git
2 41 (11.88%) Jenkins
3 32 (9.28%) GitLab
4 18 (5.22%) Cypress.io
5 17 (4.93%) Maven
5 17 (4.93%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.74%) Postman
7 4 (1.16%) JIRA
8 2 (0.58%) Selenium
9 1 (0.29%) Appium
9 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.29%) JUnit
9 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 115 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.52%) Multimedia
3 30 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.67%) Finance
6 12 (3.48%) Financial Institution
6 12 (3.48%) Law
7 10 (2.90%) Retail
8 7 (2.03%) Legal
9 6 (1.74%) Marketing
9 6 (1.74%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.45%) Local Government
10 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.45%) Police
11 4 (1.16%) Games
12 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (33.04%) Developer
2 57 (16.52%) Trainee
3 51 (14.78%) Architect
3 51 (14.78%) Lead
4 49 (14.20%) Senior
5 36 (10.43%) Software Developer
6 34 (9.86%) Java Developer
7 27 (7.83%) Trainee Developer
7 27 (7.83%) Trainee Software Developer
8 26 (7.54%) Software Engineer
9 20 (5.80%) Python Developer
10 18 (5.22%) Lead Developer
11 16 (4.64%) Data Engineer
12 14 (4.06%) .NET Developer
12 14 (4.06%) Applications Architect
12 14 (4.06%) Development Manager
12 14 (4.06%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
13 13 (3.77%) Software Development Manager
13 13 (3.77%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (22.61%) CSS
1 78 (22.61%) HTML
2 72 (20.87%) React
3 44 (12.75%) Node.js
4 43 (12.46%) .NET
5 35 (10.14%) Spring Boot
6 33 (9.57%) RESTful
7 31 (8.99%) Spring
8 29 (8.41%) REST
9 24 (6.96%) AngularJS
10 20 (5.80%) FastAPI
10 20 (5.80%) Flask
11 19 (5.51%) Django
12 17 (4.93%) .NET Core
12 17 (4.93%) Gherkin
12 17 (4.93%) Jest
13 15 (4.35%) Blazor
14 14 (4.06%) Kafka
14 14 (4.06%) Vue
15 13 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.75%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.25%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (6.38%) Data Structures
4 21 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.51%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.87%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.87%) Taxonomies
8 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.58%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.58%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.29%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.29%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.77%) Windows
2 6 (1.74%) Linux
3 5 (1.45%) Android
4 4 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.58%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (42.03%) Mentoring
2 136 (39.42%) CI/CD
3 130 (37.68%) Agile
4 106 (30.72%) DevOps
5 82 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (22.90%) Microservices
7 71 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 68 (19.71%) Cybersecurity
10 49 (14.20%) Data Modelling
11 39 (11.30%) Migration
12 37 (10.72%) Application Security
12 37 (10.72%) SDLC
13 35 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 34 (9.86%) Architectural Patterns
15 33 (9.57%) Computer Science
16 31 (8.99%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (8.41%) Scrum
18 28 (8.12%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 149 (43.19%) Python
2 142 (41.16%) JavaScript
3 101 (29.28%) Java
4 81 (23.48%) TypeScript
5 70 (20.29%) SQL
6 56 (16.23%) C#
7 32 (9.28%) R
8 24 (6.96%) Bash
9 16 (4.64%) Groovy
9 16 (4.64%) PHP
10 10 (2.90%) Scala
11 8 (2.32%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.32%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.03%) Go
13 5 (1.45%) DataWeave
14 4 (1.16%) Bicep
15 1 (0.29%) C++
15 1 (0.29%) Delphi
15 1 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 124 (35.94%) AWS Certification
2 87 (25.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 86 (24.93%) Azure Certification
4 62 (17.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 39 (11.30%) Degree
6 31 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (7.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (6.96%) TOGAF Certification
9 16 (4.64%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (2.90%) SC Cleared
10 10 (2.90%) Security Cleared
11 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.58%) IIBA
12 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.29%) CISA
13 1 (0.29%) CRISC
13 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.06%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.61%) QA
4 8 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.45%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.16%) GDPR
8 3 (0.87%) GRC
8 3 (0.87%) NIST
8 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (28.99%) Docker
2 6 (1.74%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (21.45%) Terraform
2 41 (11.88%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.80%) Ansible
4 17 (4.93%) HP Fortify
5 13 (3.77%) Grafana
5 13 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.45%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 105 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.19%) Databricks
2 11 (3.19%) Google
3 6 (1.74%) Oracle
4 5 (1.45%) MuleSoft
4 5 (1.45%) Palantir
4 5 (1.45%) VMware
4 5 (1.45%) Zoho
5 3 (0.87%) Informatica
5 3 (0.87%) Pega
5 3 (0.87%) SAP
5 3 (0.87%) TIBCO
5 3 (0.87%) WSO2
6 2 (0.58%) Cisco
6 2 (0.58%) Citrix
7 1 (0.29%) IBM
7 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.29%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.29%) Sparx
7 1 (0.29%) UiPath