AWS Job Trends in Cambridge

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 47 48 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 9.13% 9.96% 14.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.96% 35.29% 36.65%
Number of salaries quoted 40 17 40
10th Percentile £49,250 £57,770 £39,950
25th Percentile £51,875 £60,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £84,063 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,250 £81,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £77,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +16.67% +4.35%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 112 136 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 21.75% 28.22% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 76 59 136
10th Percentile - £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

AWS job vacancy trend in Cambridge

AWS
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing AWS

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Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Cambridge over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in Cambridge

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.40%) SaaS
2 10 (21.28%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) GitHub
4 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (8.51%) GCP
4 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.38%) CloudFront
5 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.13%) dbt
7 1 (2.13%) Fivetran
7 1 (2.13%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Firewall
1 1 (2.13%) Internet
1 1 (2.13%) iSCSI
1 1 (2.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) MySQL
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.26%) Redis
4 1 (2.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.13%) Looker
4 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.51%) Git
3 3 (6.38%) GitLab
4 2 (4.26%) JMeter
4 2 (4.26%) MSTest
4 2 (4.26%) NUnit
4 2 (4.26%) Postman
4 2 (4.26%) Selenium
4 2 (4.26%) SpecFlow
4 2 (4.26%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.26%) TestNG
5 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.13%) Law
3 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.13%) Marketing
3 1 (2.13%) Multimedia
3 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.13%) Publishing
3 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Software Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Software Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Administrator
5 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Lead
5 4 (8.51%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) React
2 5 (10.64%) .NET
3 4 (8.51%) REST
4 3 (6.38%) Kafka
4 3 (6.38%) Loki
4 3 (6.38%) Playwright
4 3 (6.38%) Spring
4 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.38%) Web Services
5 2 (4.26%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.26%) HTML
5 2 (4.26%) JSON
5 2 (4.26%) RESTful
6 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.13%) CSS
6 1 (2.13%) Jest
6 1 (2.13%) Laravel
6 1 (2.13%) NumPy
6 1 (2.13%) Pandas
6 1 (2.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (10.64%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.38%) e-Learning
5 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.26%) Educational Technology
5 2 (4.26%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.13%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.13%) Life Science
6 1 (2.13%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Windows
3 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) DevOps
2 15 (31.91%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.79%) Agile
4 12 (25.53%) Software Engineering
5 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (17.02%) Scrum
6 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (12.77%) Microservices
7 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.64%) Product Vision
8 5 (10.64%) User Experience
8 5 (10.64%) UX Design
9 4 (8.51%) Cloud Security
9 4 (8.51%) Observability
9 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (8.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) Python
2 12 (25.53%) JavaScript
3 7 (14.89%) PHP
4 6 (12.77%) Java
4 6 (12.77%) SQL
4 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.64%) Bash
5 5 (10.64%) C#
6 3 (6.38%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.26%) R
8 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) DBS Check
2 4 (8.51%) Degree
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) CDISC
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) DICOM
3 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.13%) HL7
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.77%) Terraform
3 4 (8.51%) Ansible
3 4 (8.51%) Grafana
4 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Istio
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
5 1 (2.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (4.26%) VMware
2 1 (2.13%) Alteryx
2 1 (2.13%) Google
2 1 (2.13%) HubSpot
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.13%) Talend
2 1 (2.13%) Zoho