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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 6,245 4,148 6,814
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.98% 9.68% 10.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.38% 29.87% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,017 2,527 4,172
10th Percentile £46,217 £41,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,730 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £102,750 £125,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

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 23,671 13,886 20,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.66% 32.39% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,729 9,676 12,673
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,250 £38,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +4.00%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +3 2,721 £85,000 -8.11% 3,844
North of England -1 1,379 £70,000 +7.69% 826
South East -5 772 £65,000 +4.00% 460
North West -2 740 £72,500 +11.54% 498
South West +3 574 £70,000 +16.67% 356
Midlands -14 530 £67,500 - 307
Yorkshire +11 359 £69,607 +3.12% 193
West Midlands -16 317 £70,000 +1.82% 186
North East +21 283 £67,500 +37.76% 138
East Midlands +12 213 £58,589 +1.02% 121
East of England -20 150 £67,500 +12.50% 203
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
1 147 (2.35%) Apache Spark
2 129 (2.07%) Apache
3 119 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 92 (1.47%) Confluence
5 54 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 35 (0.56%) CMS
6 35 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 30 (0.48%) SAS
8 25 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 25 (0.40%) WordPress
9 23 (0.37%) IIS
10 20 (0.32%) nginx
11 18 (0.29%) Headless CMS
12 17 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 17 (0.27%) Anypoint
13 15 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 14 (0.22%) Mule
15 11 (0.18%) Camunda
16 10 (0.16%) Documentum
16 10 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 103 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.11%) Moqups
6 7 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.032%) Lightworks
8 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.032%) Weka
9 1 (0.016%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.016%) Elementor
9 1 (0.016%) Houdini
9 1 (0.016%) NUKE
9 1 (0.016%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.24%) Cloudability
3 11 (0.18%) Magento
4 8 (0.13%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.048%) Summit
8 2 (0.032%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.032%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.032%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.032%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.016%) Finacle
9 1 (0.016%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.016%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.016%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,571 (41.17%) Azure
2 1,391 (22.27%) GCP
3 654 (10.47%) Serverless
4 539 (8.63%) GitHub
5 489 (7.83%) SaaS
6 467 (7.48%) Amazon S3
7 441 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 435 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
9 358 (5.73%) Cloud Computing
10 285 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
11 275 (4.40%) Snowflake
12 263 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
13 256 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
14 239 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
15 225 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
16 182 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 175 (2.80%) Power Platform
18 156 (2.50%) Entra ID
19 137 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
20 126 (2.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 310 (4.96%) Firewall
2 200 (3.20%) Network Security
3 196 (3.14%) VPN
4 176 (2.82%) DNS
5 133 (2.13%) WAN
6 127 (2.03%) TCP/IP
7 125 (2.00%) Internet
8 109 (1.75%) LAN
9 105 (1.68%) DHCP
10 79 (1.27%) SD-WAN
11 68 (1.09%) BGP
12 64 (1.02%) HTTP
13 55 (0.88%) VLAN
14 47 (0.75%) Broadband
15 38 (0.61%) Wireless
16 37 (0.59%) OSPF
17 36 (0.58%) SAN
18 34 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
19 31 (0.50%) SSL
20 25 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
2 296 (4.74%) NoSQL
3 279 (4.47%) MongoDB
4 249 (3.99%) MySQL
5 226 (3.62%) SQL Server
6 191 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 188 (3.01%) DynamoDB
8 182 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
9 166 (2.66%) Power BI
10 163 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
11 156 (2.50%) Relational Database
12 146 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 132 (2.11%) Data Lake
14 108 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
15 100 (1.60%) Big Data
16 99 (1.59%) Metadata
17 98 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
18 97 (1.55%) Redis
19 86 (1.38%) Tableau
20 48 (0.77%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 575 (9.21%) Git
2 395 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 391 (6.26%) GitLab
4 173 (2.77%) JIRA
5 120 (1.92%) Claude Code
6 96 (1.54%) TeamCity
7 85 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 62 (0.99%) Maven
9 59 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 56 (0.90%) JUnit
11 55 (0.88%) Selenium
12 45 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 41 (0.66%) Postman
14 40 (0.64%) JMeter
15 39 (0.62%) SonarQube
16 38 (0.61%) Bitbucket
17 35 (0.56%) Mockito
18 26 (0.42%) Gatling
19 17 (0.27%) Vite
20 16 (0.26%) MLflow
General
1 1,529 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 1,315 (21.06%) Finance
3 692 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 597 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 491 (7.86%) Banking
6 457 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 282 (4.52%) Law
8 225 (3.60%) Retail
9 170 (2.72%) Marketing
10 144 (2.31%) Legal
11 135 (2.16%) Financial Institution
12 96 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 93 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 86 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 73 (1.17%) Games
16 72 (1.15%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.10%) Military
18 66 (1.06%) Aerospace
19 59 (0.94%) Front Office
20 52 (0.83%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,366 (21.87%) Senior
2 1,001 (16.03%) Developer
3 884 (14.16%) Architect
4 714 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 651 (10.42%) Lead
6 499 (7.99%) AWS Engineer
7 379 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 374 (5.99%) Data Engineer
9 368 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 301 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
11 291 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 252 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
13 242 (3.88%) Python Engineer
14 234 (3.75%) AWS Architect
15 227 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
16 211 (3.38%) Consultant
17 205 (3.28%) Analyst
18 199 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 189 (3.03%) Java Engineer
20 172 (2.75%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,272 (20.37%) Terraform
2 641 (10.26%) React
3 522 (8.36%) Node.js
4 473 (7.57%) .NET
5 382 (6.12%) REST
6 356 (5.70%) Spring
7 336 (5.38%) Kafka
8 322 (5.16%) Spring Boot
9 297 (4.76%) RESTful
10 271 (4.34%) AngularJS
11 203 (3.25%) Vue
12 193 (3.09%) CSS
13 173 (2.77%) HTML
14 156 (2.50%) LangChain
15 148 (2.37%) ASP.NET
16 136 (2.18%) .NET Core
17 132 (2.11%) ASP.NET Core
18 128 (2.05%) Next.js
19 123 (1.97%) PySpark
20 112 (1.79%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1,114 (17.84%) Cloud Native
2 545 (8.73%) Onboarding
3 416 (6.66%) Distributed Systems
4 254 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 241 (3.86%) Data Centre
6 237 (3.80%) AI Agents
7 199 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 144 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 125 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 116 (1.86%) Blog
10 116 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 112 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 107 (1.71%) Management Information System
13 106 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
14 103 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
15 82 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
16 79 (1.27%) Data Structures
17 78 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
18 74 (1.18%) e-Learning
19 65 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 658 (10.54%) Linux
2 439 (7.03%) Windows
3 161 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 103 (1.65%) Unix
5 69 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 62 (0.99%) CentOS
7 42 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.34%) Android
9 21 (0.34%) macOS
10 18 (0.29%) Debian
11 17 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.080%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.064%) Solaris
16 3 (0.048%) AIX
16 3 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,163 (34.64%) CI/CD
2 1,721 (27.56%) Agile
3 1,564 (25.04%) AI
4 1,549 (24.80%) DevOps
5 1,440 (23.06%) Software Engineering
6 1,294 (20.72%) Mentoring
7 1,248 (19.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1,074 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
9 971 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 947 (15.16%) Microservices
11 794 (12.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 784 (12.55%) Roadmaps
13 744 (11.91%) Containerisation
14 716 (11.47%) Test Automation
15 713 (11.42%) Analytics
16 691 (11.06%) Machine Learning
16 691 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
17 588 (9.42%) Observability
18 545 (8.73%) Cloud Security
19 533 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,900 (30.42%) Python
2 1,072 (17.17%) Java
3 1,069 (17.12%) SQL
4 693 (11.10%) TypeScript
5 670 (10.73%) JavaScript
6 550 (8.81%) C#
7 349 (5.59%) Bash
8 235 (3.76%) PowerShell
9 208 (3.33%) Go
10 157 (2.51%) C++
11 154 (2.47%) PHP
12 93 (1.49%) Ruby
13 67 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 63 (1.01%) Scala
14 63 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 57 (0.91%) Rust
16 53 (0.85%) Groovy
17 41 (0.66%) R
18 38 (0.61%) C
19 30 (0.48%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,254 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 843 (13.50%) Degree
3 822 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 475 (7.61%) AWS Certification
5 301 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 283 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 185 (2.96%) CISSP
8 148 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
9 140 (2.24%) Master's Degree
10 139 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 132 (2.11%) Azure Certification
12 115 (1.84%) CISM
13 100 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 86 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
15 74 (1.18%) CCNP
16 59 (0.94%) PhD
17 54 (0.86%) MCSE
18 52 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 52 (0.83%) CCNA
19 41 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (5.14%) Data Quality
2 296 (4.74%) QA
3 254 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 202 (3.23%) GDPR
5 186 (2.98%) NIST
6 150 (2.40%) Accessibility
7 80 (1.28%) GRC
8 71 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 65 (1.04%) SLA
10 63 (1.01%) NCSC
11 59 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
12 47 (0.75%) SOC 2
13 35 (0.56%) WCAG
14 27 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 16 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 13 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.19%) JSP 440
19 11 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
20 9 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,062 (17.01%) Docker
2 195 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 149 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 83 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 49 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.43%) vSphere
7 20 (0.32%) Firmware
7 20 (0.32%) KVM
8 18 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.16%) NDS
11 10 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.096%) Squid
13 5 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.064%) iptables
14 4 (0.064%) ISA Server
15 3 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.032%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 2 (0.032%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1,118 (17.90%) Kubernetes
2 441 (7.06%) Ansible
3 273 (4.37%) Grafana
4 144 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 83 (1.33%) Puppet
6 70 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 56 (0.90%) Kibana
7 56 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 55 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 52 (0.83%) Argo
10 27 (0.43%) Proxmox
11 22 (0.35%) Packer
12 21 (0.34%) Nagios
13 18 (0.29%) logstash
13 18 (0.29%) ZABBIX
14 17 (0.27%) Istio
15 16 (0.26%) Cilium
16 14 (0.22%) CloudHub
16 14 (0.22%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 844 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 359 (5.75%) Google
3 224 (3.59%) Databricks
4 217 (3.47%) VMware
5 203 (3.25%) Oracle
6 141 (2.26%) Cisco
7 136 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 121 (1.94%) Red Hat
9 116 (1.86%) Splunk
10 107 (1.71%) SAP
11 83 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 81 (1.30%) Dynatrace
13 65 (1.04%) Palo Alto
14 64 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 62 (0.99%) Salesforce
16 58 (0.93%) Adobe
17 42 (0.67%) Atlassian
18 39 (0.62%) SolarWinds
19 33 (0.53%) OutSystems
20 30 (0.48%) Apple