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 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 28 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 3,751 5,764 6,173
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.10% 11.97% 12.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.19% 32.80% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,642 3,339 5,119
10th Percentile £28,300 £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 £93,000 £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 18,577 17,573 19,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.16% 36.51% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,387 10,399 16,693
10th Percentile £28,900 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,376 £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 £103,850 £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 14 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 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
London -5 1,730 £85,000 - 746
North of England -11 809 £60,000 -2.44% 558
South East -36 393 £65,000 +8.33% 822
North West -12 377 £62,500 - 265
Yorkshire +2 351 £60,000 +1.89% 200
Midlands -26 330 £60,000 -4.00% 287
South West -15 240 £62,500 +2.76% 299
West Midlands -28 197 £60,000 - 126
East of England -20 149 £67,500 -3.57% 330
East Midlands -22 131 £65,000 - 155
North East +10 83 £50,000 -27.86% 95
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
1 154 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 107 (2.85%) Apache
4 39 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (0.99%) Confluence
6 33 (0.88%) WordPress
7 28 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 24 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 19 (0.51%) IIS
9 19 (0.51%) Tomcat
10 18 (0.48%) nginx
11 16 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
12 15 (0.40%) CMS
12 15 (0.40%) OpenStack
13 10 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (0.27%) SAS
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 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.67%) 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 4 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.080%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.080%) Siemens NX
9 2 (0.053%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.053%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.027%) Notion
10 1 (0.027%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.51%) Endur
4 16 (0.43%) Shopify
5 11 (0.29%) Magento
6 9 (0.24%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.19%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.080%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.053%) Lawson
9 2 (0.053%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.027%) Bloomberg AIM
10 1 (0.027%) Loan IQ
10 1 (0.027%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.027%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.027%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.027%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.027%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.027%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.027%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,974 (52.63%) Azure
2 884 (23.57%) GCP
3 488 (13.01%) GitHub
4 464 (12.37%) Serverless
5 368 (9.81%) SaaS
6 310 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
7 287 (7.65%) Amazon S3
8 259 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 195 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 170 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
11 146 (3.89%) Snowflake
12 140 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
13 135 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
14 131 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
15 127 (3.39%) dbt
16 126 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
17 117 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 109 (2.91%) Power Platform
19 92 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
20 81 (2.16%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 256 (6.82%) Internet
2 213 (5.68%) Firewall
3 118 (3.15%) WAN
4 115 (3.07%) DNS
5 104 (2.77%) VPN
6 85 (2.27%) Network Security
7 84 (2.24%) LAN
8 75 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 66 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
10 59 (1.57%) SD-WAN
11 54 (1.44%) DHCP
12 51 (1.36%) VLAN
13 42 (1.12%) BGP
14 36 (0.96%) OSPF
15 35 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (0.91%) HTTP
16 34 (0.91%) SSL
16 34 (0.91%) Wireless
17 27 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
18 26 (0.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (8.34%) PostgreSQL
2 218 (5.81%) NoSQL
3 200 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 180 (4.80%) MongoDB
5 169 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 159 (4.24%) MySQL
7 149 (3.97%) DynamoDB
8 133 (3.55%) Relational Database
9 121 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
10 120 (3.20%) Data Lake
11 104 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 90 (2.40%) Power BI
13 87 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
14 85 (2.27%) Metadata
15 84 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
16 79 (2.11%) Big Data
17 74 (1.97%) Apache Iceberg
18 61 (1.63%) Hadoop
19 55 (1.47%) Tableau
20 54 (1.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 488 (13.01%) Git
2 290 (7.73%) Jenkins
3 166 (4.43%) GitLab
4 80 (2.13%) JIRA
5 57 (1.52%) Cypress.io
6 52 (1.39%) Selenium
7 47 (1.25%) JUnit
8 39 (1.04%) Maven
9 36 (0.96%) TeamCity
10 33 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 30 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 30 (0.80%) Cucumber
11 30 (0.80%) JMeter
12 29 (0.77%) MLflow
13 25 (0.67%) Mockito
14 24 (0.64%) CircleCI
15 21 (0.56%) Robot Framework
16 18 (0.48%) Postman
16 18 (0.48%) Snyk
17 17 (0.45%) Jaeger
General
1 1,101 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 803 (21.41%) Finance
3 398 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (8.05%) Banking
5 241 (6.42%) Multimedia
6 186 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 184 (4.91%) Public Sector
8 181 (4.83%) Retail
9 173 (4.61%) Law
10 129 (3.44%) Financial Institution
11 120 (3.20%) Marketing
12 110 (2.93%) French Language
13 93 (2.48%) Swedish Language
14 88 (2.35%) Front Office
15 84 (2.24%) Telecoms
16 75 (2.00%) Games
17 74 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
18 72 (1.92%) Legal
19 58 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
20 56 (1.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 742 (19.78%) Developer
2 734 (19.57%) Senior
3 456 (12.16%) Lead
4 386 (10.29%) Software Engineer
5 381 (10.16%) Architect
6 260 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
7 242 (6.45%) Trainee
8 228 (6.08%) Software Developer
9 223 (5.95%) Analyst
10 191 (5.09%) Data Engineer
11 174 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
12 166 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
13 163 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
14 137 (3.65%) Java Developer
15 135 (3.60%) Senior Developer
16 124 (3.31%) Support Engineer
17 118 (3.15%) Senior Software Engineer
18 113 (3.01%) Trainee Developer
19 112 (2.99%) Java Engineer
20 110 (2.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 567 (15.12%) React
2 372 (9.92%) HTML
3 361 (9.62%) CSS
4 316 (8.42%) .NET
5 302 (8.05%) Node.js
6 245 (6.53%) Spring
7 214 (5.71%) Kafka
8 211 (5.63%) Spring Boot
9 206 (5.49%) AngularJS
10 203 (5.41%) REST
11 201 (5.36%) RESTful
12 129 (3.44%) Vue
13 99 (2.64%) Pandas
14 92 (2.45%) Django
15 89 (2.37%) .NET Core
16 75 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
17 74 (1.97%) FastAPI
18 69 (1.84%) NumPy
19 68 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
20 66 (1.76%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 483 (12.88%) Cloud Native
2 206 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 147 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 108 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 104 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 101 (2.69%) Public Cloud
7 96 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 83 (2.21%) Security Posture
9 81 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 79 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
11 77 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 77 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 75 (2.00%) Onboarding
13 69 (1.84%) Fixed Income
14 67 (1.79%) Equities
15 63 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
16 62 (1.65%) Data Structures
17 54 (1.44%) Hedge funds
18 47 (1.25%) Algorithms
19 41 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 404 (10.77%) Linux
2 303 (8.08%) Windows
3 114 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 98 (2.61%) Unix
5 45 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (1.12%) Android
7 31 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 30 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 29 (0.77%) Apple iOS
9 29 (0.77%) VMS
10 18 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.43%) CentOS
12 15 (0.40%) Debian
12 15 (0.40%) Windows 10
12 15 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
16 5 (0.13%) AIX
16 5 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (30.53%) CI/CD
2 1,041 (27.75%) Agile
3 952 (25.38%) DevOps
4 761 (20.29%) Mentoring
5 698 (18.61%) Software Engineering
6 697 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
7 624 (16.64%) AI
8 607 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 579 (15.44%) Microservices
10 523 (13.94%) Cybersecurity
11 491 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 456 (12.16%) Full-Stack Development
13 449 (11.97%) Containerisation
14 409 (10.90%) Roadmaps
15 397 (10.58%) Computer Science
16 361 (9.62%) Machine Learning
17 336 (8.96%) Analytics
18 307 (8.18%) ITIL
19 275 (7.33%) Data Pipeline
20 271 (7.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,399 (37.30%) Python
2 822 (21.91%) JavaScript
3 716 (19.09%) Java
4 595 (15.86%) SQL
5 543 (14.48%) TypeScript
6 317 (8.45%) C#
7 221 (5.89%) Bash
8 185 (4.93%) PowerShell
9 162 (4.32%) R
10 150 (4.00%) Go
11 97 (2.59%) PHP
12 63 (1.68%) Scala
13 54 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 48 (1.28%) C++
15 38 (1.01%) C
16 33 (0.88%) Groovy
17 31 (0.83%) Shell Script
18 25 (0.67%) Bicep
19 23 (0.61%) Rust
20 13 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 691 (18.42%) AWS Certification
2 642 (17.12%) Degree
3 431 (11.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 415 (11.06%) Security Cleared
5 394 (10.50%) Azure Certification
6 272 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 260 (6.93%) SC Cleared
8 252 (6.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 147 (3.92%) DV Cleared
10 131 (3.49%) MCSE
11 113 (3.01%) Master's Degree
12 104 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 89 (2.37%) CISSP
14 88 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
15 66 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
16 58 (1.55%) CCNP
17 44 (1.17%) CISM
18 36 (0.96%) MCP
19 35 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
20 32 (0.85%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (6.61%) QA
2 154 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 152 (4.05%) GDPR
4 122 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 115 (3.07%) NIST
6 67 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 67 (1.79%) SLA
7 52 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 38 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 34 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 32 (0.85%) NCSC
11 30 (0.80%) HIPAA
12 28 (0.75%) EU AI Act
13 27 (0.72%) SOC 2
14 24 (0.64%) PSD2
15 23 (0.61%) GRC
16 22 (0.59%) Solvency II
17 17 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.43%) PMO
19 11 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 656 (17.49%) Docker
2 135 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 105 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (1.81%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.51%) vSphere
6 13 (0.35%) 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 7 (0.19%) 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 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.080%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 677 (18.05%) Kubernetes
1 677 (18.05%) Terraform
2 296 (7.89%) Ansible
3 169 (4.51%) Grafana
4 142 (3.79%) Prometheus
5 57 (1.52%) Argo
6 42 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.61%) Kibana
8 20 (0.53%) HP Fortify
8 20 (0.53%) Nagios
8 20 (0.53%) Puppet
9 19 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (0.35%) CASB
12 13 (0.35%) Kustomize
12 13 (0.35%) SCCM
12 13 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.32%) Nmap
13 12 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 735 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 241 (6.42%) Google
3 176 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 150 (4.00%) VMware
5 123 (3.28%) Oracle
6 100 (2.67%) Cisco
7 96 (2.56%) Databricks
8 81 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 66 (1.76%) SAP
10 63 (1.68%) Splunk
11 62 (1.65%) Fortinet
12 58 (1.55%) SolarWinds
13 52 (1.39%) Palo Alto
14 50 (1.33%) Adobe
15 49 (1.31%) IBM
16 46 (1.23%) Informatica
17 42 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
18 41 (1.09%) Salesforce
19 32 (0.85%) CheckPoint
19 32 (0.85%) Dynatrace