AWS Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 48 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -24 -12
Permanent jobs citing AWS 201 200 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.18% 6.66% 6.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.64% 22.78% 22.65%
Number of salaries quoted 144 136 329
10th Percentile £29,225 £37,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £74,375 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.52% +6.25% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,590 878 1,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 25.15% 29.26% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 745 635 1,460
10th Percentile £27,050 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year - +9.29% -16.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,243 £75,075
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,103 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.64% +8.00% -11.54%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the East of England

AWS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in the East of England

AWS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Cambridgeshire +3 94 £62,500 -5.66% 19
Hertfordshire -32 61 £75,000 +20.00% 20
Essex -11 32 £31,000 -34.74% 10
Suffolk +9 9 £50,000 - 6
Bedfordshire +5 5 £41,000 -33.87% 6
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 18 (8.96%) Apache Spark
2 16 (7.96%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (4.48%) Apache
4 8 (3.98%) SAS
5 6 (2.99%) WordPress
6 3 (1.49%) Confluence
7 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.50%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (42.29%) Azure
2 27 (13.43%) GCP
3 18 (8.96%) GitHub
4 16 (7.96%) Serverless
5 15 (7.46%) Amazon S3
5 15 (7.46%) SaaS
6 9 (4.48%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.98%) Snowflake
8 7 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (3.48%) Boomi
8 7 (3.48%) dbt
8 7 (3.48%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.99%) AWS KMS
9 6 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.99%) Matillion
9 6 (2.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.47%) Firewall
2 10 (4.98%) Broadband
3 9 (4.48%) Internet
3 9 (4.48%) Network Security
4 6 (2.99%) DMZ
4 6 (2.99%) VPN
5 5 (2.49%) SSL
5 5 (2.49%) WAN
6 4 (1.99%) LAN
6 4 (1.99%) WLAN
7 3 (1.49%) Wireless
8 1 (0.50%) AMQP
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.50%) HTTP
8 1 (0.50%) MQTT
8 1 (0.50%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.96%) MySQL
1 16 (7.96%) Tableau
2 15 (7.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (6.47%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.97%) Big Data
4 12 (5.97%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.48%) Power BI
6 8 (3.98%) BigQuery
7 7 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.48%) Apache Hive
7 7 (3.48%) Impala
7 7 (3.48%) Oracle Database
7 7 (3.48%) Parquet
7 7 (3.48%) Spark SQL
8 6 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.99%) Looker
Development Applications
1 17 (8.46%) Git
2 7 (3.48%) IBM UrbanCode
2 7 (3.48%) JIRA
3 6 (2.99%) MLflow
4 5 (2.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.00%) GitLab
6 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.50%) JMeter
6 1 (0.50%) Postman
6 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 52 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.39%) Finance
3 19 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.45%) Law
4 14 (6.97%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.48%) Multimedia
5 9 (4.48%) Publishing
6 7 (3.48%) Banking
6 7 (3.48%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.99%) Legal
8 5 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.49%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Advertising
11 2 (1.00%) Games
11 2 (1.00%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (22.39%) Lead
2 40 (19.90%) Developer
3 30 (14.93%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (10.95%) Senior
5 19 (9.45%) Software Engineer
6 18 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (8.96%) Software Developer
7 14 (6.97%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.97%) Technical Leader
8 13 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) Lead Software Engineer
9 12 (5.97%) Team Leader
10 11 (5.47%) Architect
10 11 (5.47%) Graduate
11 10 (4.98%) C# Developer
11 10 (4.98%) C# Software Developer
11 10 (4.98%) Graduate C# Developer
11 10 (4.98%) Graduate Developer
11 10 (4.98%) Graduate Software Developer
11 10 (4.98%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.93%) React
2 20 (9.95%) CSS
3 14 (6.97%) REST
4 13 (6.47%) PySpark
4 13 (6.47%) Web Services
5 10 (4.98%) .NET
5 10 (4.98%) HTML
5 10 (4.98%) jQuery
5 10 (4.98%) Node.js
6 9 (4.48%) Kafka
6 9 (4.48%) SOAP
7 8 (3.98%) .NET Core
7 8 (3.98%) PyTorch
7 8 (3.98%) scikit-learn
7 8 (3.98%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.99%) LangChain
8 6 (2.99%) LlamaIndex
8 6 (2.99%) pgvector
9 5 (2.49%) Loki
9 5 (2.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 30 (14.93%) Product Ownership
3 17 (8.46%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (6.47%) e-Learning
4 13 (6.47%) Legacy Applications
5 11 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (4.48%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.98%) Low-Code
7 8 (3.98%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.48%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (3.48%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.99%) Blog
9 6 (2.99%) Clustering
9 6 (2.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (2.99%) PKI
9 6 (2.99%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.99%) Sports Betting
11 4 (1.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.47%) Linux
2 10 (4.98%) Windows
3 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (37.31%) Agile
2 59 (29.35%) CI/CD
3 51 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 48 (23.88%) DevOps
5 41 (20.40%) AI
5 41 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (18.91%) Software Engineering
7 36 (17.91%) ETL
8 34 (16.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (14.43%) Mentoring
9 29 (14.43%) Microservices
10 28 (13.93%) Data Engineering
11 26 (12.94%) Computer Science
11 26 (12.94%) Machine Learning
12 24 (11.94%) Analytics
12 24 (11.94%) Event-Driven
12 24 (11.94%) Scrum
13 23 (11.44%) Migration
13 23 (11.44%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 82 (40.80%) Python
2 52 (25.87%) SQL
3 38 (18.91%) JavaScript
4 29 (14.43%) Java
5 26 (12.94%) TypeScript
6 19 (9.45%) C#
7 15 (7.46%) PHP
8 14 (6.97%) C++
9 13 (6.47%) Bash
10 8 (3.98%) R
11 3 (1.49%) Go
11 3 (1.49%) Scala
12 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.50%) Clojure
13 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (24.38%) Degree
2 36 (17.91%) DBS Check
3 32 (15.92%) Security Cleared
4 27 (13.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (9.95%) AWS Certification
6 17 (8.46%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.98%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.98%) Master's Degree
8 9 (4.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.48%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.99%) CCNA
12 4 (1.99%) CCNP
12 4 (1.99%) CISSP
13 3 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.49%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.94%) QA
2 24 (11.94%) Data Quality
3 22 (10.95%) GDPR
4 15 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (7.46%) NIST
5 10 (4.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (4.48%) HIPAA
7 7 (3.48%) GRC
7 7 (3.48%) NCSC
8 6 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 6 (2.99%) JSP 440
8 6 (2.99%) PCI DSS
9 5 (2.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.99%) SLA
11 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
11 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.50%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 18 (8.96%) Docker
2 5 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.00%) vSphere
4 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (7.46%) Terraform
2 14 (6.97%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.98%) Grafana
4 5 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.00%) Argo
5 2 (1.00%) Istio
6 1 (0.50%) Ansible
6 1 (0.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.97%) SAP
3 13 (6.47%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.48%) Cisco
4 9 (4.48%) Oracle
5 8 (3.98%) Databricks
5 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.48%) Aruba
6 7 (3.48%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.48%) Informatica
6 7 (3.48%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.99%) Cloudera
7 6 (2.99%) Dell
7 6 (2.99%) Pega
7 6 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.99%) Talend
8 5 (2.49%) Google
8 5 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.49%) Workday
9 4 (1.99%) CrowdStrike