AWS Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 306 322 496
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 7.92% 14.92% 15.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.84% 29.81% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 220 256 375
10th Percentile £64,850 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £88,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +10.94% -3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,232 1,080 1,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 31.89% 50.05% 49.25%
Number of salaries quoted 922 871 1,228
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -1.02%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,250
90th Percentile £106,125 £117,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.85% +4.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Central London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Central London

AWS
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
City of London -1 294 £90,000 +5.88% 181
City of Westminster +14 13 £50,000 +53.85% 22
West End of London +3 3 £82,500 -19.51% 2
Lambeth -3 3 - - 1
Southwark -4 1 £72,500 +33.03%
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £130,000 -
AWS
London

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.29%) Anypoint
2 7 (2.29%) Mule
3 5 (1.63%) WordPress
4 2 (0.65%) Apache
4 2 (0.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) CICS
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 9 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (37.58%) Azure
2 91 (29.74%) GCP
3 22 (7.19%) SaaS
4 19 (6.21%) Serverless
5 15 (4.90%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.90%) Snowflake
6 11 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (3.59%) dbt
6 11 (3.59%) GitHub
7 8 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.29%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.96%) Heroku
10 5 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.63%) PaaS
11 4 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.92%) Broadband
2 7 (2.29%) Network Security
2 7 (2.29%) SSL
3 5 (1.63%) Firewall
4 4 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.31%) VPN
5 3 (0.98%) DNS
5 3 (0.98%) WAN
6 2 (0.65%) BGP
6 2 (0.65%) DHCP
6 2 (0.65%) LAN
6 2 (0.65%) NGFW
6 2 (0.65%) OSPF
7 1 (0.33%) AMQP
7 1 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.33%) HSRP
7 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.33%) VLAN
7 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.19%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (6.21%) BigQuery
2 19 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.25%) Power BI
4 12 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.61%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.29%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (2.29%) Tableau
8 6 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.96%) Looker
9 4 (1.31%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.31%) MySQL
9 4 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.98%) Big Data
10 3 (0.98%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.65%) Redis
11 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.23%) Git
2 7 (2.29%) GitLab
2 7 (2.29%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.29%) MLflow
3 5 (1.63%) JIRA
4 3 (0.98%) TestRail
4 3 (0.98%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.65%) JMeter
5 2 (0.65%) Vite
6 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.33%) JUnit
6 1 (0.33%) Maven
6 1 (0.33%) Mockito
6 1 (0.33%) Postman
6 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (23.20%) Finance
2 37 (12.09%) Social Skills
3 32 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.80%) Banking
5 20 (6.54%) Law
6 8 (2.61%) Advertising
6 8 (2.61%) Front Office
7 7 (2.29%) Games
7 7 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.96%) Legal
8 6 (1.96%) Legal Technology
9 5 (1.63%) French Language
9 5 (1.63%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.33%) iGaming
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 68 (22.22%) Senior
2 51 (16.67%) Architect
3 49 (16.01%) Developer
4 39 (12.75%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (10.46%) Software Engineer
6 27 (8.82%) Lead
6 27 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (6.54%) AWS Architect
7 20 (6.54%) Python Engineer
7 20 (6.54%) Senior Manager
8 17 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
9 16 (5.23%) Consultant
10 15 (4.90%) AWS Solution Architect
11 14 (4.58%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.58%) Software Engineering Manager
11 14 (4.58%) Software Manager
12 13 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (3.92%) Senior Architect
14 11 (3.59%) Java Engineer
14 11 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.46%) React
2 22 (7.19%) Spring Boot
3 20 (6.54%) .NET
3 20 (6.54%) REST
4 18 (5.88%) LangChain
5 16 (5.23%) Django
5 16 (5.23%) Kafka
5 16 (5.23%) Node.js
5 16 (5.23%) Spring
6 12 (3.92%) RESTful
7 11 (3.59%) PyTorch
8 10 (3.27%) gRPC
8 10 (3.27%) LlamaIndex
8 10 (3.27%) OAuth
8 10 (3.27%) TensorFlow
9 9 (2.94%) OAuth2
10 8 (2.61%) JWT
10 8 (2.61%) scikit-learn
11 7 (2.29%) MUnit
11 7 (2.29%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 42 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.19%) Algorithms
4 19 (6.21%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (5.88%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.90%) Data Structures
7 12 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.92%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.92%) Video\Live Streaming
8 9 (2.94%) Over-the-Top Content
9 8 (2.61%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.29%) Clustering
11 6 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.96%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.96%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.63%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.31%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.98%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.54%) Linux
2 10 (3.27%) Windows
3 3 (0.98%) Unix
4 1 (0.33%) Android
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) VMS
4 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (33.01%) Software Engineering
2 81 (26.47%) CI/CD
3 65 (21.24%) DevOps
4 63 (20.59%) Microservices
5 47 (15.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (15.36%) Mentoring
6 46 (15.03%) Agile
7 44 (14.38%) Containerisation
8 42 (13.73%) AI
9 40 (13.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (12.75%) Machine Learning
11 38 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (12.09%) Test Automation
13 33 (10.78%) Computer Science
13 33 (10.78%) Roadmaps
14 32 (10.46%) Data Science
15 29 (9.48%) Analytics
16 28 (9.15%) Generative AI
17 26 (8.50%) Platform Engineering
18 23 (7.52%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 111 (36.27%) Python
2 52 (16.99%) Java
3 32 (10.46%) C#
3 32 (10.46%) SQL
4 31 (10.13%) TypeScript
5 24 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.19%) Go
7 13 (4.25%) Bash
8 10 (3.27%) Rust
8 10 (3.27%) Scala
9 9 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.94%) Ruby
10 7 (2.29%) C++
10 7 (2.29%) DataWeave
11 6 (1.96%) VBA
12 4 (1.31%) C
12 4 (1.31%) PHP
13 3 (0.98%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.98%) Perl
14 2 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (12.75%) Degree
2 35 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.17%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (5.23%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.61%) CISSP
7 7 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.31%) CFA
10 3 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.98%) CCSAM
10 3 (0.98%) CISM
10 3 (0.98%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.98%) GIAC
10 3 (0.98%) GPEN
10 3 (0.98%) GXPN
10 3 (0.98%) OSCE
10 3 (0.98%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.94%) Data Quality
1 9 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (2.94%) QA
2 8 (2.61%) GDPR
3 7 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 7 (2.29%) SLA
4 6 (1.96%) NIST
5 3 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.65%) NCSC
6 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.33%) COBIT
7 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (10.46%) Docker
2 6 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 47 (15.36%) Terraform
2 42 (13.73%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.90%) Ansible
4 10 (3.27%) Grafana
5 8 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.29%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.33%) Cilium
7 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.33%) Puppet
7 1 (0.33%) QRadar
7 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (9.15%) Google
2 18 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.56%) Databricks
4 12 (3.92%) SAP
5 10 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.27%) Splunk
6 9 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.94%) Typelevel
7 8 (2.61%) Dell
7 8 (2.61%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.96%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.96%) Oracle
9 5 (1.63%) Cisco
9 5 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.98%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.98%) VMware
12 2 (0.65%) LogRhythm
12 2 (0.65%) NEC
12 2 (0.65%) Sony