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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 31 23
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 -11
Permanent jobs citing AWS 370 224 311
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.83% 6.64% 6.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.36% 27.42% 23.78%
Number of salaries quoted 264 178 196
10th Percentile £42,150 £28,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,607 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £77,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,125 £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 1,519 817 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.84% 24.22% 28.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 672 787
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +4.00%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +4 289 £72,500 +3.57% 177
South Yorkshire -19 45 £65,000 - 53
East Yorkshire +2 18 £47,000 +22.08% 5
North Yorkshire +6 4 £49,250 -10.45% 20
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 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.08%) Apache
3 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.81%) nginx
4 3 (0.81%) WordPress
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) CMS
5 2 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.27%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 115 (31.08%) Azure
2 87 (23.51%) Serverless
3 81 (21.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 73 (19.73%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (18.65%) GitHub
6 65 (17.57%) Amazon ECS
6 65 (17.57%) Amazon S3
7 56 (15.14%) GitHub Actions
8 54 (14.59%) GCP
9 45 (12.16%) AWS Step Functions
10 41 (11.08%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (8.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (6.49%) SaaS
13 22 (5.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 19 (5.14%) Amazon ECR
15 18 (4.86%) Datadog
15 18 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (4.32%) Apigee
17 15 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
18 10 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.70%) DNS
2 9 (2.43%) Firewall
2 9 (2.43%) LAN
3 8 (2.16%) DHCP
3 8 (2.16%) VPN
3 8 (2.16%) WAN
4 6 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.81%) Network Security
6 3 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.54%) BGP
7 2 (0.54%) OSPF
7 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.27%) HTTP
8 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.27%) SAN
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.62%) DynamoDB
2 26 (7.03%) MySQL
2 26 (7.03%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (5.14%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.97%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.70%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.70%) MariaDB
9 10 (2.70%) Metadata
10 9 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.43%) Spark SQL
11 8 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.89%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.81%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 66 (17.84%) Jenkins
2 44 (11.89%) Git
3 38 (10.27%) GitLab
4 18 (4.86%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.43%) Maven
6 8 (2.16%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (1.89%) JIRA
7 7 (1.89%) JMeter
8 5 (1.35%) Postman
9 3 (0.81%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.54%) Appium
10 2 (0.54%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.54%) Selenium
11 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 75 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 73 (19.73%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.49%) Finance
5 10 (2.70%) Law
5 10 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (2.16%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.89%) Local Government
8 6 (1.62%) Banking
8 6 (1.62%) Legal
9 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.81%) Retail
11 2 (0.54%) Billing
11 2 (0.54%) Games
11 2 (0.54%) Publishing
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (25.41%) Developer
2 93 (25.14%) Senior
3 53 (14.32%) Java Developer
4 40 (10.81%) Architect
4 40 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 34 (9.19%) Senior Developer
7 33 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 32 (8.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (8.65%) Lead
9 31 (8.38%) Data Engineer
10 30 (8.11%) AWS Developer
11 25 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 23 (6.22%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (4.32%) Java Engineer
15 15 (4.05%) Angular Developer
15 15 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (3.78%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (20.27%) Terraform
2 65 (17.57%) Node.js
3 62 (16.76%) AngularJS
4 39 (10.54%) Spring Boot
5 38 (10.27%) React
6 35 (9.46%) Spring
7 28 (7.57%) .NET
8 22 (5.95%) Gherkin
9 19 (5.14%) Web Services
10 17 (4.59%) CSS
11 15 (4.05%) REST
12 13 (3.51%) PySpark
12 13 (3.51%) RESTful
13 11 (2.97%) .NET Core
13 11 (2.97%) Vue
14 10 (2.70%) HTML
14 10 (2.70%) Jest
15 9 (2.43%) Middleware
16 5 (1.35%) ASP.NET
16 5 (1.35%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.97%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.16%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.62%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.62%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.62%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.35%) Blog
7 5 (1.35%) NHS
7 5 (1.35%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.08%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.54%) Culture of Ownership
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 53 (14.32%) Linux
2 22 (5.95%) Windows
3 16 (4.32%) Unix
4 7 (1.89%) CentOS
4 7 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (43.51%) CI/CD
2 115 (31.08%) Agile
3 112 (30.27%) DevOps
4 89 (24.05%) Mentoring
5 78 (21.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 77 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 77 (20.81%) Software Engineering
7 58 (15.68%) Coaching
8 54 (14.59%) Microservices
9 51 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
10 49 (13.24%) AI
11 44 (11.89%) Containerisation
11 44 (11.89%) Platform Engineering
11 44 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
13 38 (10.27%) Analytics
14 37 (10.00%) Decision-Making
14 37 (10.00%) Scrum
14 37 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 109 (29.46%) Java
2 76 (20.54%) Python
3 73 (19.73%) SQL
4 70 (18.92%) TypeScript
5 57 (15.41%) JavaScript
6 36 (9.73%) Groovy
7 27 (7.30%) C#
8 24 (6.49%) Kotlin
8 24 (6.49%) PHP
9 22 (5.95%) Bash
10 7 (1.89%) Scala
11 5 (1.35%) C++
11 5 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.81%) Bicep
12 3 (0.81%) Ruby
13 2 (0.54%) Go
13 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.27%) Perl
14 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 36 (9.73%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.86%) Degree
4 15 (4.05%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (1.35%) CISSP
10 4 (1.08%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.81%) CISM
11 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.54%) CISA
12 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (0.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.70%) GDPR
3 9 (2.43%) QA
4 8 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.81%) GRC
5 3 (0.81%) WCAG
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 91 (24.59%) Docker
2 9 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (12.43%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.86%) Progress Chef
3 12 (3.24%) Ansible
4 8 (2.16%) HP Fortify
5 7 (1.89%) Argo
6 3 (0.81%) Grafana
6 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.54%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.54%) SCCM
7 2 (0.54%) SCOM
7 2 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.86%) Google
3 9 (2.43%) Databricks
4 6 (1.62%) Foundry
4 6 (1.62%) SAP
5 5 (1.35%) Adobe
6 4 (1.08%) Informatica
6 4 (1.08%) Oracle
6 4 (1.08%) Pega
7 3 (0.81%) Cisco
7 3 (0.81%) VMware
8 2 (0.54%) Palantir
8 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.54%) Zoho
9 1 (0.27%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds