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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 31 27
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 -18
Permanent jobs citing AWS 387 222 320
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.10% 6.69% 6.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.06% 26.78% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 279 170 236
10th Percentile £43,500 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £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 1,678 829 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.11% 24.98% 28.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,082 690 973
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,756 £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 £78,750 £69,875 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%

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 13 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 13 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 +1 302 £75,000 +7.14% 115
South Yorkshire -17 45 £65,000 -15.31% 28
East Yorkshire -2 17 £47,000 +16.05% 4
North Yorkshire +4 5 £65,000 +18.18% 15
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 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.03%) Apache
3 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.78%) WordPress
5 2 (0.52%) CMS
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.26%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 114 (29.46%) Azure
2 103 (26.61%) Serverless
3 88 (22.74%) AWS CloudFormation
3 88 (22.74%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (19.12%) Amazon ECS
4 74 (19.12%) Amazon S3
5 72 (18.60%) GitHub
6 55 (14.21%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (13.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 52 (13.44%) GCP
9 40 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (6.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 27 (6.98%) SaaS
12 22 (5.68%) Amazon ECR
12 22 (5.68%) Apigee
13 19 (4.91%) Datadog
14 18 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.58%) DNS
2 9 (2.33%) Firewall
2 9 (2.33%) LAN
3 8 (2.07%) DHCP
3 8 (2.07%) VPN
3 8 (2.07%) WAN
4 6 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.78%) Network Security
6 2 (0.52%) BGP
6 2 (0.52%) OSPF
6 2 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.26%) SAN
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (13.95%) DynamoDB
2 29 (7.49%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.20%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (6.20%) MySQL
4 21 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (4.65%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.62%) Relational Database
8 12 (3.10%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (2.58%) MariaDB
10 9 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.33%) Metadata
10 9 (2.33%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.07%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.81%) Spark SQL
13 5 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.03%) Power BI
15 3 (0.78%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 74 (19.12%) Jenkins
2 41 (10.59%) Git
3 40 (10.34%) GitLab
4 22 (5.68%) Cypress.io
5 16 (4.13%) SonarQube
6 14 (3.62%) Maven
7 11 (2.84%) JIRA
8 6 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.29%) JMeter
10 4 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.03%) Postman
11 3 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.52%) Selenium
13 1 (0.26%) Appium
13 1 (0.26%) MLflow
13 1 (0.26%) Ranorex
13 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 73 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 38 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.72%) Finance
5 14 (3.62%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (3.10%) Law
7 9 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.07%) Local Government
9 6 (1.55%) Banking
9 6 (1.55%) Legal
10 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Billing
12 2 (0.52%) Games
12 2 (0.52%) Publishing
12 2 (0.52%) Retail
13 1 (0.26%) Advertising
13 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (31.01%) Developer
2 107 (27.65%) Senior
3 67 (17.31%) Java Developer
4 45 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 44 (11.37%) Senior Developer
6 41 (10.59%) Architect
7 38 (9.82%) Software Engineer
8 32 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (8.27%) Data Engineer
9 31 (8.01%) AWS Developer
10 30 (7.75%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (7.75%) Lead
11 28 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 28 (7.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 22 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (5.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 19 (4.91%) Senior Java Developer
15 16 (4.13%) Angular Developer
15 16 (4.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 16 (4.13%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (20.16%) Terraform
2 74 (19.12%) AngularJS
3 72 (18.60%) Node.js
4 48 (12.40%) Spring Boot
5 44 (11.37%) React
6 39 (10.08%) Spring
7 29 (7.49%) .NET
8 26 (6.72%) Gherkin
9 24 (6.20%) CSS
10 19 (4.91%) Web Services
11 18 (4.65%) REST
12 17 (4.39%) Vue
13 16 (4.13%) HTML
14 15 (3.88%) Jest
15 13 (3.36%) RESTful
16 11 (2.84%) .NET Core
16 11 (2.84%) PySpark
17 10 (2.58%) Middleware
18 7 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
19 6 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.07%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.81%) NHS
7 7 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.55%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.29%) Blog
9 5 (1.29%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.03%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.03%) PKI
11 3 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.89%) Linux
2 22 (5.68%) Windows
3 14 (3.62%) Unix
4 6 (1.55%) CentOS
4 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) AIX
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (41.09%) CI/CD
2 116 (29.97%) Agile
3 111 (28.68%) DevOps
4 88 (22.74%) Mentoring
5 86 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 78 (20.16%) Software Engineering
7 72 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 58 (14.99%) Microservices
9 55 (14.21%) Coaching
10 54 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (12.92%) AI
12 48 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (10.85%) Analytics
14 42 (10.85%) Decision-Making
15 41 (10.59%) Containerisation
16 35 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
16 35 (9.04%) Scrum
16 35 (9.04%) Test Automation
17 33 (8.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 125 (32.30%) Java
2 84 (21.71%) Python
2 84 (21.71%) SQL
3 82 (21.19%) TypeScript
4 62 (16.02%) JavaScript
5 43 (11.11%) Groovy
6 31 (8.01%) C#
7 29 (7.49%) Kotlin
8 25 (6.46%) Bash
9 24 (6.20%) PHP
10 7 (1.81%) Scala
11 6 (1.55%) C++
12 3 (0.78%) Bicep
12 3 (0.78%) Ruby
13 2 (0.52%) Go
13 2 (0.52%) Perl
13 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 54 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.82%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.17%) AWS Certification
4 18 (4.65%) Degree
5 11 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.55%) CISM
7 6 (1.55%) CISSP
7 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (1.29%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CCNA
11 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.13%) GDPR
3 11 (2.84%) QA
4 10 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.78%) WCAG
7 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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 95 (24.55%) Docker
2 9 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Clusterware
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.39%) Progress Chef
3 13 (3.36%) Ansible
3 13 (3.36%) HP Fortify
4 8 (2.07%) Argo
5 3 (0.78%) Packer
6 2 (0.52%) Kibana
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (0.52%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.52%) SCCM
6 2 (0.52%) SCOM
6 2 (0.52%) WSUS
7 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 34 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.62%) Google
3 13 (3.36%) Databricks
4 7 (1.81%) Oracle
5 6 (1.55%) SAP
6 5 (1.29%) Adobe
6 5 (1.29%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.29%) Foundry
6 5 (1.29%) IBM
7 4 (1.03%) Pega
8 3 (0.78%) Cisco
8 3 (0.78%) Informatica
8 3 (0.78%) VMware
9 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.52%) Zoho
10 1 (0.26%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.26%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.26%) Dell
10 1 (0.26%) Palantir
10 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds