AWS Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 217 434 489
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.41% 16.35% 17.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.77% 31.22% 34.08%
Number of salaries quoted 181 295 456
10th Percentile £58,750 £54,750 £53,875
25th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £98,750
90th Percentile £142,500 £125,000 £113,125
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -3.03%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 876 1,390 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 37.97% 52.35% 51.23%
Number of salaries quoted 689 953 1,324
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 12 (5.53%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.38%) Confluence
5 2 (0.92%) Apache
5 2 (0.92%) Luigi
6 1 (0.46%) IIS
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 96 (44.24%) Azure
2 77 (35.48%) GCP
3 33 (15.21%) SaaS
4 21 (9.68%) Serverless
5 16 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (7.37%) Snowflake
6 15 (6.91%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (6.45%) GitHub
8 12 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.07%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.30%) dbt
13 5 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (1.38%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.30%) DNS
1 5 (2.30%) WAN
2 4 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.38%) DHCP
3 3 (1.38%) LAN
3 3 (1.38%) Network Security
3 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.38%) VoIP
4 2 (0.92%) Broadband
4 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.92%) VPN
4 2 (0.92%) VSAN
5 1 (0.46%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.46%) HTTP
5 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.46%) NAS
5 1 (0.46%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.46%) SAN
5 1 (0.46%) VLAN
5 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.99%) BigQuery
3 12 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.53%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (5.07%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.15%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.15%) Power BI
5 9 (4.15%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.76%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.76%) MySQL
8 5 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.30%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.30%) Metadata
9 4 (1.84%) Tableau
10 3 (1.38%) Power Query
10 3 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 13 (5.99%) Git
2 8 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.76%) JIRA
4 5 (2.30%) GitLab
5 3 (1.38%) ESLint
6 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.92%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.92%) ERwin
6 2 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) Deequ
7 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.46%) MLflow
7 1 (0.46%) Mocha
7 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 67 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 61 (28.11%) Finance
3 19 (8.76%) Banking
4 18 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.37%) Retail
6 14 (6.45%) Legal
7 8 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.76%) Health Technology
8 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.76%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.30%) Law
10 4 (1.84%) Advertising
10 4 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.92%) Marketing
12 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (26.73%) Senior
2 42 (19.35%) Lead
3 35 (16.13%) Software Engineer
4 24 (11.06%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (9.22%) Data Engineer
5 20 (9.22%) Principal Engineer
6 19 (8.76%) Java Engineer
7 16 (7.37%) Architect
7 16 (7.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (6.91%) Developer
9 11 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Senior Java Engineer
11 9 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.69%) AWS Architect
12 8 (3.69%) Designer
12 8 (3.69%) Lead Designer
12 8 (3.69%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.28%) React
2 32 (14.75%) Node.js
3 20 (9.22%) Django
4 14 (6.45%) FastAPI
5 13 (5.99%) RESTful
6 12 (5.53%) Spring
7 11 (5.07%) Kafka
8 10 (4.61%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.23%) PySpark
9 7 (3.23%) PyTorch
9 7 (3.23%) Vue
10 6 (2.76%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.76%) Next.js
10 6 (2.76%) Web Services
11 5 (2.30%) .NET
11 5 (2.30%) .NET Core
11 5 (2.30%) CSS
11 5 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.45%) Algorithms
4 13 (5.99%) Data Structures
5 12 (5.53%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (4.61%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) IoT
7 3 (1.38%) NHS
7 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.92%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.07%) Linux
2 6 (2.76%) Unix
3 5 (2.30%) Windows
4 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.46%) AIX
6 1 (0.46%) Debian
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (29.49%) CI/CD
2 54 (24.88%) AI
3 53 (24.42%) DevOps
4 47 (21.66%) Mentoring
4 47 (21.66%) Software Engineering
5 46 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (17.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (17.05%) Analytics
8 33 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (15.21%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (15.21%) Machine Learning
9 31 (14.29%) Microservices
10 30 (13.82%) Technical Leadership
11 27 (12.44%) Agile
11 27 (12.44%) Computer Science
12 26 (11.98%) Event-Driven
13 25 (11.52%) Data Science
13 25 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (11.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 21 (9.68%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 96 (44.24%) Python
2 41 (18.89%) TypeScript
3 40 (18.43%) Java
4 32 (14.75%) SQL
5 16 (7.37%) C#
6 12 (5.53%) Bash
6 12 (5.53%) Kotlin
6 12 (5.53%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.07%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.15%) Rust
9 5 (2.30%) Go
10 4 (1.84%) Scala
11 3 (1.38%) C++
12 2 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.92%) R
12 2 (0.92%) Ruby
13 1 (0.46%) COBOL
13 1 (0.46%) Korn
13 1 (0.46%) Perl
13 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (14.75%) Degree
2 17 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 14 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.07%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.15%) CISM
5 9 (4.15%) CISSP
6 7 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.76%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.30%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.38%) SnowPro
9 3 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.92%) PhD
11 1 (0.46%) CCNP
11 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.46%) GCFE
11 1 (0.46%) GPEN
11 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.15%) GDPR
2 8 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.30%) NIST
5 4 (1.84%) QA
6 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) Basel III
7 1 (0.46%) MiFID
7 1 (0.46%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (12.90%) Docker
2 5 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.84%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.92%) vSphere
5 1 (0.46%) KVM
5 1 (0.46%) vCloud
5 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (17.97%) Kubernetes
2 36 (16.59%) Terraform
3 15 (6.91%) Ansible
4 9 (4.15%) Grafana
5 7 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.76%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.30%) Puppet
8 4 (1.84%) Argo
9 3 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.92%) SCOM
11 1 (0.46%) Ambari
11 1 (0.46%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.46%) Podman
11 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (9.68%) Google
2 8 (3.69%) Databricks
3 7 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.30%) CyberArk
5 4 (1.84%) Oracle
5 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.38%) IBM
6 3 (1.38%) Informatica
6 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.38%) Splunk
6 3 (1.38%) VMware
7 2 (0.92%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.92%) Dell
7 2 (0.92%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.92%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.46%) Aruba
8 1 (0.46%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.46%) Foundry
8 1 (0.46%) HP