AWS Job Trends in East London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East 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 14 17 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -23
Permanent jobs citing AWS 42 19 16
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 17.72% 10.16% 5.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.11% 39.58% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 28 6 16
10th Percentile £32,000 £71,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £78,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £87,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +52.17% -23.33%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £58,750
90th Percentile - £100,000 £61,875
London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £85,000

All Cloud Computing Skills
East 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 East London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 135 48 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 56.96% 25.67% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 43 23 80
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,050 £32,650
25th Percentile £32,005 £38,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% +7.55% -15.20%
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £89,000 £80,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

AWS job vacancy trend in East London

AWS
Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in East London

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

Salary histogram for AWS in East London

AWS
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the East London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Docklands, London -1 31 £96,250 +14.93%
Hackney +2 6 £38,250 -
Havering -6 2 £30,000 - 4
Redbridge - 1 £30,000 - 4
Bexley - 1 - -
Dagenham - 1 - - 5
AWS
London

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 6 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 6 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 6 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.76%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 19 (45.24%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) Serverless
3 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (14.29%) Route 53
4 6 (14.29%) SaaS
4 6 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.14%) IaaS
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.14%) PaaS
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (33.33%) Firewall
1 14 (33.33%) LAN
1 14 (33.33%) WAN
2 11 (26.19%) Cisco ASA
2 11 (26.19%) Cisco Firepower
2 11 (26.19%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (14.29%) SSL
4 3 (7.14%) Broadband
4 3 (7.14%) DHCP
4 3 (7.14%) DNS
4 3 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.14%) Unified Communications
4 3 (7.14%) VLAN
4 3 (7.14%) VoIP
4 3 (7.14%) VPN
5 2 (4.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (14.29%) DB2
1 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) Jaeger
General
1 31 (73.81%) Finance
2 16 (38.10%) Banking
3 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Billing
6 2 (4.76%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Architect
1 11 (26.19%) AWS Engineer
1 11 (26.19%) Azure Engineer
1 11 (26.19%) Cisco Engineer
1 11 (26.19%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 11 (26.19%) LAN Engineer
1 11 (26.19%) LAN/WAN Engineer
1 11 (26.19%) Network Engineer
1 11 (26.19%) WAN Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure Architect
3 9 (21.43%) Linux Support
4 6 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Applications Support
4 6 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (11.90%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Linux Specialist
6 4 (9.52%) Unix Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) LAPP Stack
1 6 (14.29%) LDAP
1 6 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (4.76%) CSS
2 2 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.38%) React
3 1 (2.38%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 16 (38.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (26.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (23.81%) Public Cloud
5 6 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (9.52%) Clustering
7 3 (7.14%) Social Media
8 1 (2.38%) IoT
8 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 1 (2.38%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.19%) Linux
1 11 (26.19%) Unix
2 10 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (21.43%) Windows
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) High Availability
1 12 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 11 (26.19%) Computer Science
2 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (26.19%) Process Improvement
3 10 (23.81%) Change Management
3 10 (23.81%) Cloud Security
3 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (23.81%) ITIL
3 10 (23.81%) Product Roadmap
3 10 (23.81%) Security Architecture
3 10 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 6 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (14.29%) Release Management
4 6 (14.29%) Service Management
4 6 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (9.52%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (4.76%) R
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) Java
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (47.62%) Degree
2 17 (40.48%) AWS Certification
3 11 (26.19%) CCIE
3 11 (26.19%) CCNA
3 11 (26.19%) CCNP
3 11 (26.19%) CCSA
3 11 (26.19%) CCSE
3 11 (26.19%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (26.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (23.81%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (11.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) Docker
4 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Ansible
2 11 (26.19%) FortiGate
3 3 (7.14%) Autotask
4 1 (2.38%) Argo
4 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.38%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) CheckPoint
1 11 (26.19%) Cisco
1 11 (26.19%) Fortinet
2 10 (23.81%) Red Hat
3 7 (16.67%) VMware
4 6 (14.29%) IBM
5 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
6 4 (9.52%) Symantec
7 3 (7.14%) Datto
8 1 (2.38%) Google