AWS Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 3,776 5,771 6,152
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.11% 11.97% 12.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.29% 32.74% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,656 3,353 5,086
10th Percentile £28,750 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,614 17,629 19,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.06% 36.56% 40.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,405 10,454 16,588
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS job vacancy trend in England

AWS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in England

AWS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London -5 1,735 £85,000 - 744
North of England -11 816 £60,000 -2.44% 557
South East -37 393 £65,000 +8.33% 820
North West -12 379 £62,500 - 265
Yorkshire +2 355 £60,000 +1.48% 200
Midlands -26 333 £60,000 - 287
South West -17 243 £62,500 +1.39% 299
West Midlands -30 199 £60,000 - 126
East of England -17 152 £67,500 -3.57% 330
East Midlands -26 132 £65,000 - 155
North East +4 84 £50,000 -27.86% 94
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 153 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 108 (2.86%) Apache
4 40 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 39 (1.03%) Confluence
6 33 (0.87%) WordPress
7 29 (0.77%) SharePoint
8 24 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 19 (0.50%) IIS
9 19 (0.50%) nginx
9 19 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 16 (0.42%) CMS
10 16 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
11 15 (0.40%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.29%) SAS
13 10 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 9 (0.24%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.21%) Skype for Business
16 6 (0.16%) JBoss
17 5 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 128 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.19%) Maya
6 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.079%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.053%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.026%) Notion
11 1 (0.026%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.53%) Endur
3 17 (0.45%) Shopify
4 11 (0.29%) Magento
5 9 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 7 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.079%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.053%) Lawson
8 2 (0.053%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.026%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.026%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.026%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.026%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.026%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.026%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,985 (52.57%) Azure
2 895 (23.70%) GCP
3 491 (13.00%) GitHub
4 468 (12.39%) Serverless
5 368 (9.75%) SaaS
6 314 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
7 290 (7.68%) Amazon S3
8 260 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
9 197 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 170 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
11 147 (3.89%) Snowflake
12 140 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
13 137 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
14 132 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
15 128 (3.39%) dbt
16 126 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
17 116 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 111 (2.94%) Power Platform
19 92 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
20 81 (2.15%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 256 (6.78%) Internet
2 218 (5.77%) Firewall
3 120 (3.18%) WAN
4 117 (3.10%) DNS
5 103 (2.73%) VPN
6 86 (2.28%) Network Security
7 84 (2.22%) LAN
8 77 (2.04%) TCP/IP
9 68 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
10 59 (1.56%) SD-WAN
11 54 (1.43%) DHCP
12 51 (1.35%) VLAN
13 42 (1.11%) BGP
14 36 (0.95%) HTTP
14 36 (0.95%) OSPF
15 35 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (0.90%) SSL
16 34 (0.90%) Wireless
17 27 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
18 26 (0.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 216 (5.72%) NoSQL
3 198 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 176 (4.66%) MongoDB
5 169 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
6 158 (4.18%) MySQL
7 150 (3.97%) DynamoDB
8 134 (3.55%) Relational Database
9 121 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
9 121 (3.20%) Data Lake
10 106 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 92 (2.44%) Power BI
12 89 (2.36%) Metadata
13 87 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
14 83 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
15 80 (2.12%) Big Data
16 74 (1.96%) Apache Iceberg
17 61 (1.62%) Hadoop
18 55 (1.46%) Tableau
19 54 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 488 (12.92%) Git
2 293 (7.76%) Jenkins
3 168 (4.45%) GitLab
4 82 (2.17%) JIRA
5 57 (1.51%) Cypress.io
6 51 (1.35%) Selenium
7 47 (1.24%) JUnit
8 39 (1.03%) Maven
9 37 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 34 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 31 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 30 (0.79%) Bitbucket
12 30 (0.79%) JMeter
13 29 (0.77%) MLflow
14 25 (0.66%) CircleCI
14 25 (0.66%) Mockito
15 20 (0.53%) Robot Framework
16 18 (0.48%) Postman
16 18 (0.48%) Vite
17 17 (0.45%) Jaeger
General
1 1,107 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 809 (21.42%) Finance
3 401 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 304 (8.05%) Banking
5 241 (6.38%) Multimedia
6 194 (5.14%) Public Sector
7 190 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 182 (4.82%) Retail
9 180 (4.77%) Law
10 129 (3.42%) Financial Institution
11 119 (3.15%) Marketing
12 110 (2.91%) French Language
13 93 (2.46%) Swedish Language
14 88 (2.33%) Front Office
15 85 (2.25%) Telecoms
16 75 (1.99%) Games
16 75 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
17 72 (1.91%) Legal
18 58 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
19 56 (1.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 742 (19.65%) Senior
2 737 (19.52%) Developer
3 457 (12.10%) Lead
4 390 (10.33%) Software Engineer
5 386 (10.22%) Architect
6 261 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
7 242 (6.41%) Trainee
8 225 (5.96%) Analyst
8 225 (5.96%) Software Developer
9 194 (5.14%) Data Engineer
10 175 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 168 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 165 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
13 136 (3.60%) Java Developer
13 136 (3.60%) Senior Developer
14 124 (3.28%) Support Engineer
15 118 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
16 113 (2.99%) Trainee Developer
17 112 (2.97%) Java Engineer
18 109 (2.89%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 568 (15.04%) React
2 375 (9.93%) HTML
3 364 (9.64%) CSS
4 313 (8.29%) .NET
5 302 (8.00%) Node.js
6 244 (6.46%) Spring
7 213 (5.64%) Kafka
8 210 (5.56%) Spring Boot
9 205 (5.43%) REST
10 203 (5.38%) AngularJS
11 199 (5.27%) RESTful
12 127 (3.36%) Vue
13 99 (2.62%) Pandas
14 90 (2.38%) Django
15 86 (2.28%) .NET Core
16 79 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
17 73 (1.93%) FastAPI
18 69 (1.83%) NumPy
19 67 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
20 66 (1.75%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 488 (12.92%) Cloud Native
2 208 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 148 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 108 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 106 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 105 (2.78%) Public Cloud
7 100 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 84 (2.22%) Security Posture
9 81 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 81 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 79 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 77 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 75 (1.99%) Onboarding
13 69 (1.83%) Fixed Income
14 67 (1.77%) Equities
15 63 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
16 62 (1.64%) Data Structures
17 55 (1.46%) Hedge funds
18 46 (1.22%) Algorithms
19 41 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 408 (10.81%) Linux
2 303 (8.02%) Windows
3 114 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 99 (2.62%) Unix
5 44 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (1.11%) Android
7 31 (0.82%) Mac OS
7 31 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 29 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.77%) VMS
9 19 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.42%) CentOS
10 16 (0.42%) Windows 10
10 16 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.40%) Debian
12 12 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.13%) AIX
15 5 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,158 (30.67%) CI/CD
2 1,044 (27.65%) Agile
3 963 (25.50%) DevOps
4 762 (20.18%) Mentoring
5 703 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
6 702 (18.59%) Software Engineering
7 624 (16.53%) AI
8 612 (16.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 576 (15.25%) Microservices
10 524 (13.88%) Cybersecurity
11 501 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 458 (12.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 454 (12.02%) Containerisation
14 407 (10.78%) Roadmaps
15 401 (10.62%) Computer Science
16 361 (9.56%) Machine Learning
17 337 (8.92%) Analytics
18 308 (8.16%) ITIL
19 276 (7.31%) Data Pipeline
20 275 (7.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,411 (37.37%) Python
2 826 (21.88%) JavaScript
3 720 (19.07%) Java
4 595 (15.76%) SQL
5 546 (14.46%) TypeScript
6 315 (8.34%) C#
7 226 (5.99%) Bash
8 186 (4.93%) PowerShell
9 162 (4.29%) R
10 152 (4.03%) Go
11 97 (2.57%) PHP
12 63 (1.67%) Scala
13 54 (1.43%) Kotlin
14 49 (1.30%) C++
15 39 (1.03%) C
16 33 (0.87%) Groovy
17 32 (0.85%) Shell Script
18 25 (0.66%) Bicep
19 24 (0.64%) Rust
20 13 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 693 (18.35%) AWS Certification
2 646 (17.11%) Degree
3 429 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 422 (11.18%) Security Cleared
5 395 (10.46%) Azure Certification
6 275 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 261 (6.91%) SC Cleared
8 252 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 148 (3.92%) DV Cleared
10 130 (3.44%) MCSE
11 111 (2.94%) Master's Degree
12 104 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 89 (2.36%) CISSP
14 87 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
15 67 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
16 57 (1.51%) CCNP
17 44 (1.17%) CISM
18 36 (0.95%) MCP
19 35 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
20 32 (0.85%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (6.67%) QA
2 155 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 153 (4.05%) GDPR
4 123 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 114 (3.02%) NIST
6 68 (1.80%) PCI DSS
7 67 (1.77%) SLA
8 52 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 39 (1.03%) Accessibility
10 34 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 32 (0.85%) NCSC
12 30 (0.79%) HIPAA
13 28 (0.74%) EU AI Act
14 27 (0.72%) SOC 2
15 24 (0.64%) PSD2
16 23 (0.61%) GRC
17 22 (0.58%) Solvency II
18 17 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
19 16 (0.42%) PMO
20 11 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 659 (17.45%) Docker
2 135 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 105 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.50%) vSphere
6 13 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.32%) ProxySG
7 12 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.24%) HDFS
8 9 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.21%) KVM
10 5 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.11%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.11%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.11%) Firmware
11 4 (0.11%) Postfix
11 4 (0.11%) Squid
12 3 (0.079%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.079%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 689 (18.25%) Terraform
2 683 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 303 (8.02%) Ansible
4 174 (4.61%) Grafana
5 145 (3.84%) Prometheus
6 57 (1.51%) Argo
7 43 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (0.64%) Kibana
9 21 (0.56%) Puppet
10 20 (0.53%) HP Fortify
10 20 (0.53%) Nagios
11 19 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.40%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.34%) CASB
13 13 (0.34%) Kustomize
13 13 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.32%) Nmap
14 12 (0.32%) SCCM
14 12 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 735 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 246 (6.51%) Google
3 179 (4.74%) ServiceNow
4 149 (3.95%) VMware
5 123 (3.26%) Oracle
6 100 (2.65%) Cisco
7 99 (2.62%) Databricks
8 80 (2.12%) Red Hat
9 67 (1.77%) SAP
10 63 (1.67%) Splunk
11 62 (1.64%) Fortinet
12 58 (1.54%) SolarWinds
13 52 (1.38%) Palo Alto
14 50 (1.32%) Adobe
15 49 (1.30%) IBM
16 46 (1.22%) Informatica
17 43 (1.14%) Salesforce
18 42 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
19 33 (0.87%) OpenAI
20 32 (0.85%) CheckPoint