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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 31 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 -11
Permanent jobs citing AWS 359 237 287
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.75% 7.07% 6.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.91% 29.08% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 251 188 182
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,607 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +2.04%

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 1,441 815 1,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.08% 24.32% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,022 667 740
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,613
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -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 14 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 14 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 -1 282 £72,500 +3.57% 144
South Yorkshire -26 42 £65,000 +8.33% 36
East Yorkshire +1 18 £47,000 +22.08% 4
North Yorkshire +6 4 £49,250 -10.45% 10
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 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.11%) Apache
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.84%) nginx
4 3 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.84%) WordPress
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 114 (31.75%) Azure
2 86 (23.96%) Serverless
3 82 (22.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 72 (20.06%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (19.78%) GitHub
6 64 (17.83%) Amazon S3
7 63 (17.55%) Amazon ECS
8 57 (15.88%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (15.32%) GCP
10 44 (12.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (11.42%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (9.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (6.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 22 (6.13%) SaaS
15 19 (5.29%) Datadog
15 19 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (4.46%) Amazon ECR
17 15 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (3.62%) Apigee
19 10 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.79%) DNS
2 9 (2.51%) Firewall
2 9 (2.51%) LAN
3 8 (2.23%) DHCP
3 8 (2.23%) VPN
3 8 (2.23%) WAN
4 6 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.39%) Internet
6 3 (0.84%) Network Security
6 3 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.56%) BGP
7 2 (0.56%) OSPF
7 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.28%) SAN
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.42%) DynamoDB
2 27 (7.52%) NoSQL
3 26 (7.24%) MySQL
4 22 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (4.74%) MongoDB
8 15 (4.18%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.34%) Metadata
9 12 (3.34%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.06%) Spark SQL
11 10 (2.79%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.79%) MariaDB
12 9 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.95%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.84%) Power BI
16 2 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 67 (18.66%) Jenkins
2 48 (13.37%) Git
3 38 (10.58%) GitLab
4 18 (5.01%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.51%) Maven
6 8 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (2.23%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.95%) JIRA
7 7 (1.95%) JMeter
8 5 (1.39%) Postman
9 3 (0.84%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.56%) Appium
10 2 (0.56%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.56%) Selenium
11 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.33%) Public Sector
3 41 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.96%) Finance
5 9 (2.51%) Law
6 7 (1.95%) Local Government
6 7 (1.95%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.67%) Banking
7 6 (1.67%) Legal
8 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.11%) Retail
9 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.56%) Games
10 2 (0.56%) Publishing
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (25.63%) Developer
2 86 (23.96%) Senior
3 53 (14.76%) Java Developer
4 39 (10.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (10.58%) Architect
6 36 (10.03%) Software Engineer
7 33 (9.19%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (9.19%) Data Engineer
7 33 (9.19%) Lead
8 32 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
9 30 (8.36%) Senior Developer
10 29 (8.08%) AWS Developer
11 25 (6.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 23 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (5.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (4.46%) Java Engineer
15 15 (4.18%) Angular Developer
15 15 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (3.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (21.17%) Terraform
2 63 (17.55%) Node.js
3 59 (16.43%) AngularJS
4 37 (10.31%) React
5 35 (9.75%) Spring Boot
6 31 (8.64%) Spring
7 28 (7.80%) .NET
8 22 (6.13%) Gherkin
9 19 (5.29%) Web Services
10 17 (4.74%) CSS
11 15 (4.18%) PySpark
11 15 (4.18%) REST
12 13 (3.62%) RESTful
13 12 (3.34%) .NET Core
14 11 (3.06%) Vue
15 10 (2.79%) HTML
15 10 (2.79%) Jest
16 8 (2.23%) Middleware
17 5 (1.39%) ASP.NET
17 5 (1.39%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.51%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.39%) Blog
8 5 (1.39%) NHS
8 5 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.11%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
11 2 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 53 (14.76%) Linux
2 20 (5.57%) Windows
3 14 (3.90%) Unix
4 8 (2.23%) CentOS
4 8 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (44.29%) CI/CD
2 116 (32.31%) Agile
3 110 (30.64%) DevOps
4 87 (24.23%) Mentoring
5 80 (22.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (21.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 76 (21.17%) Software Engineering
7 57 (15.88%) Coaching
8 52 (14.48%) Technical Leadership
9 51 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (14.21%) Microservices
10 45 (12.53%) AI
10 45 (12.53%) Containerisation
11 44 (12.26%) Platform Engineering
12 43 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (10.86%) Continuous Integration
14 38 (10.58%) Decision-Making
15 37 (10.31%) Analytics
15 37 (10.31%) Test Automation
16 35 (9.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 105 (29.25%) Java
2 79 (22.01%) Python
3 75 (20.89%) SQL
4 70 (19.50%) TypeScript
5 57 (15.88%) JavaScript
6 36 (10.03%) Groovy
7 27 (7.52%) C#
8 25 (6.96%) Kotlin
9 24 (6.69%) PHP
10 22 (6.13%) Bash
11 7 (1.95%) Scala
12 6 (1.67%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.39%) C++
14 3 (0.84%) Bicep
14 3 (0.84%) Ruby
15 2 (0.56%) Go
15 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.28%) Perl
16 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (14.76%) Security Cleared
2 38 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.74%) Degree
4 13 (3.62%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.11%) CISSP
7 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.84%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.56%) CISA
9 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.56%) CISM
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.51%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.51%) GDPR
3 8 (2.23%) QA
4 7 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.39%) GRC
6 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.84%) WCAG
7 2 (0.56%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 94 (26.18%) Docker
2 9 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (13.37%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.01%) Progress Chef
3 13 (3.62%) Ansible
4 8 (2.23%) HP Fortify
5 5 (1.39%) Argo
6 3 (0.84%) Grafana
6 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.56%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.56%) SCCM
7 2 (0.56%) SCOM
7 2 (0.56%) WSUS
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.01%) Google
3 10 (2.79%) Databricks
4 7 (1.95%) Foundry
5 5 (1.39%) Adobe
5 5 (1.39%) SAP
6 4 (1.11%) Informatica
6 4 (1.11%) Oracle
6 4 (1.11%) Pega
7 3 (0.84%) Cisco
7 3 (0.84%) Palantir
7 3 (0.84%) VMware
8 2 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.56%) Zoho
9 1 (0.28%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.28%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.28%) Varonis