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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 3,751 6,398 6,130
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.62% 11.49% 13.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.49% 32.56% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,612 3,884 5,143
10th Percentile £32,050 £45,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +7.14% -6.04%

All Cloud 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 17,452 19,650 19,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.46% 35.29% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,307 12,045 16,433
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 1,806 £90,000 +2.86% 957
North of England -11 716 £62,500 +4.17% 770
South East -21 467 £65,000 +8.33% 989
North West -12 344 £62,873 +4.79% 410
Midlands -19 323 £65,000 +8.33% 523
Yorkshire -2 309 £65,000 +8.33% 283
South West -17 240 £62,500 - 368
West Midlands -23 194 £65,000 +8.33% 285
East Midlands -10 127 £63,750 +6.25% 217
East of England -36 120 £60,000 -12.73% 380
North East -9 65 £48,750 -30.36% 81
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
1 196 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
2 141 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 126 (3.36%) Apache
4 49 (1.31%) Confluence
5 48 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 37 (0.99%) SharePoint
7 34 (0.91%) WordPress
8 25 (0.67%) WebSphere
9 20 (0.53%) Tomcat
10 17 (0.45%) nginx
11 16 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
12 13 (0.35%) IIS
13 12 (0.32%) CMS
13 12 (0.32%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.29%) SAS
15 10 (0.27%) Anypoint
16 9 (0.24%) Headless CMS
16 9 (0.24%) Skype for Business
17 8 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
18 7 (0.19%) JBoss
Applications
1 109 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.21%) Maya
3 8 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.080%) Siemens NX
7 3 (0.080%) S-PLUS
8 2 (0.053%) Trello
9 1 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.027%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.027%) Notion
9 1 (0.027%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.53%) Shopify
4 17 (0.45%) Endur
5 11 (0.29%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.13%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.080%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.053%) Lawson
9 1 (0.027%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.027%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.027%) Magento
9 1 (0.027%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.027%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.027%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.027%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.027%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.027%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.027%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,967 (52.44%) Azure
2 991 (26.42%) GCP
3 417 (11.12%) Serverless
4 407 (10.85%) GitHub
5 367 (9.78%) SaaS
6 281 (7.49%) Amazon S3
7 271 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
8 255 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
9 191 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
10 171 (4.56%) Snowflake
11 169 (4.51%) dbt
12 164 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
13 161 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 149 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
15 129 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
16 122 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
17 120 (3.20%) Power Platform
18 116 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 83 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
20 78 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 232 (6.19%) Firewall
2 194 (5.17%) Internet
3 128 (3.41%) DNS
4 110 (2.93%) VPN
5 99 (2.64%) WAN
6 84 (2.24%) Network Security
7 81 (2.16%) LAN
8 77 (2.05%) TCP/IP
9 56 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (1.44%) DHCP
11 52 (1.39%) VLAN
12 45 (1.20%) SD-WAN
13 39 (1.04%) HTTP
14 37 (0.99%) SSL
15 36 (0.96%) SAN
16 35 (0.93%) BGP
17 31 (0.83%) Wireless
18 28 (0.75%) OSPF
19 26 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
20 25 (0.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 221 (5.89%) NoSQL
3 210 (5.60%) SQL Server
4 195 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
5 180 (4.80%) MongoDB
6 163 (4.35%) MySQL
7 148 (3.95%) DynamoDB
8 144 (3.84%) Data Lake
9 142 (3.79%) Relational Database
10 125 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
11 122 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
12 112 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
13 101 (2.69%) Metadata
14 100 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 95 (2.53%) Power BI
16 94 (2.51%) Apache Arrow
16 94 (2.51%) Dremio
17 90 (2.40%) Big Data
18 79 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
19 59 (1.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 442 (11.78%) Git
2 287 (7.65%) Jenkins
3 149 (3.97%) GitLab
4 108 (2.88%) JIRA
5 59 (1.57%) Selenium
6 54 (1.44%) JUnit
7 53 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 45 (1.20%) MLflow
9 43 (1.15%) JMeter
10 39 (1.04%) TeamCity
11 35 (0.93%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.83%) Mockito
13 30 (0.80%) Bitbucket
14 28 (0.75%) Maven
15 25 (0.67%) SonarQube
16 24 (0.64%) CircleCI
17 22 (0.59%) Postman
17 22 (0.59%) Robot Framework
17 22 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
17 22 (0.59%) Vagrant
General
1 1,139 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 931 (24.82%) Finance
3 382 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
4 326 (8.69%) Banking
5 263 (7.01%) Law
6 188 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 182 (4.85%) Multimedia
8 179 (4.77%) Public Sector
9 173 (4.61%) Retail
10 164 (4.37%) Marketing
11 159 (4.24%) Front Office
12 140 (3.73%) Financial Institution
13 94 (2.51%) French Language
14 93 (2.48%) Swedish Language
15 89 (2.37%) Legal
16 83 (2.21%) Telecoms
17 82 (2.19%) Games
18 69 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
18 69 (1.84%) Investment Banking
19 62 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 801 (21.35%) Senior
2 765 (20.39%) Developer
3 485 (12.93%) Lead
4 439 (11.70%) Software Engineer
5 409 (10.90%) Architect
6 262 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
7 198 (5.28%) Data Engineer
8 197 (5.25%) Software Developer
9 192 (5.12%) Analyst
9 192 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 188 (5.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 183 (4.88%) Trainee
12 155 (4.13%) Senior Developer
13 149 (3.97%) Java Engineer
13 149 (3.97%) Python Engineer
14 139 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
15 135 (3.60%) Java Developer
16 134 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
17 131 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
18 128 (3.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 621 (16.56%) React
2 347 (9.25%) Node.js
3 327 (8.72%) .NET
4 322 (8.58%) HTML
5 301 (8.02%) CSS
6 268 (7.14%) Kafka
7 260 (6.93%) Spring
8 232 (6.19%) AngularJS
9 226 (6.03%) RESTful
10 219 (5.84%) Spring Boot
11 204 (5.44%) REST
12 161 (4.29%) Vue
13 155 (4.13%) Pandas
14 126 (3.36%) NumPy
15 96 (2.56%) SciPy
16 94 (2.51%) Django
16 94 (2.51%) GraphQL
17 89 (2.37%) .NET Core
18 81 (2.16%) gRPC
19 74 (1.97%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 500 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 208 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 138 (3.68%) Fixed Income
5 118 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 117 (3.12%) Public Cloud
7 115 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 113 (3.01%) Equities
9 96 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
10 91 (2.43%) Data Centre
11 90 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 87 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
13 77 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
14 74 (1.97%) Hedge funds
15 73 (1.95%) Onboarding
16 72 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
17 67 (1.79%) Security Posture
18 63 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
19 58 (1.55%) Derivative
20 53 (1.41%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 423 (11.28%) Linux
2 339 (9.04%) Windows
3 123 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 108 (2.88%) Unix
5 60 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (0.96%) VMS
7 30 (0.80%) Android
7 30 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 20 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 20 (0.53%) CentOS
10 18 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
11 16 (0.43%) Debian
12 10 (0.27%) Windows 10
12 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.21%) AIX
15 7 (0.19%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (32.02%) Agile
2 1,186 (31.62%) CI/CD
3 993 (26.47%) DevOps
4 780 (20.79%) Software Engineering
5 707 (18.85%) Mentoring
6 704 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
7 646 (17.22%) AI
8 594 (15.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 589 (15.70%) Microservices
10 512 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 476 (12.69%) Containerisation
12 459 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
13 442 (11.78%) Cybersecurity
14 429 (11.44%) Machine Learning
15 428 (11.41%) Roadmaps
16 364 (9.70%) Analytics
17 362 (9.65%) Computer Science
18 303 (8.08%) ITIL
19 298 (7.94%) Data Pipeline
20 287 (7.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,456 (38.82%) Python
2 810 (21.59%) JavaScript
3 762 (20.31%) Java
4 655 (17.46%) SQL
5 565 (15.06%) TypeScript
6 337 (8.98%) C#
7 215 (5.73%) PowerShell
8 213 (5.68%) Bash
9 154 (4.11%) Go
10 124 (3.31%) R
11 89 (2.37%) PHP
12 65 (1.73%) Scala
13 60 (1.60%) Kotlin
14 49 (1.31%) Shell Script
15 46 (1.23%) C++
16 43 (1.15%) Groovy
17 24 (0.64%) C
18 22 (0.59%) Bicep
19 19 (0.51%) Perl
20 18 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 608 (16.21%) Degree
2 603 (16.08%) AWS Certification
3 415 (11.06%) Security Cleared
4 354 (9.44%) Azure Certification
5 350 (9.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 262 (6.98%) SC Cleared
7 243 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 193 (5.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 155 (4.13%) DV Cleared
10 116 (3.09%) MCSE
11 107 (2.85%) Master's Degree
12 102 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 87 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
14 79 (2.11%) CISSP
15 56 (1.49%) CCNP
16 54 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
17 41 (1.09%) CISM
18 30 (0.80%) PMI Certification
19 29 (0.77%) CCNA
19 29 (0.77%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (6.72%) QA
2 156 (4.16%) GDPR
3 141 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 124 (3.31%) Data Quality
5 107 (2.85%) NIST
6 59 (1.57%) SLA
7 48 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 46 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 42 (1.12%) Accessibility
10 34 (0.91%) HIPAA
11 30 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 28 (0.75%) EU AI Act
13 24 (0.64%) PSD2
13 24 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 22 (0.59%) Solvency II
15 20 (0.53%) NCSC
16 18 (0.48%) GRC
17 9 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 8 (0.21%) EMIR
18 8 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 691 (18.42%) Docker
2 166 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 112 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 73 (1.95%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.56%) vSphere
7 15 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.35%) DFS Replication
10 11 (0.29%) HDFS
11 10 (0.27%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.21%) Firmware
13 6 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 6 (0.16%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.16%) Postfix
14 5 (0.13%) KVM
14 5 (0.13%) Squid
14 5 (0.13%) vCloud
15 4 (0.11%) ProxySG
15 4 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 746 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 698 (18.61%) Terraform
3 299 (7.97%) Ansible
4 175 (4.67%) Grafana
5 133 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 50 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (1.12%) Argo
8 35 (0.93%) Kibana
9 34 (0.91%) Kubeflow
10 26 (0.69%) Puppet
11 21 (0.56%) SCCM
12 20 (0.53%) Progress Chef
13 19 (0.51%) Nagios
14 17 (0.45%) ZABBIX
15 16 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.40%) FortiGate
17 13 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
18 12 (0.32%) Nmap
19 9 (0.24%) Nessus
19 9 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 678 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 249 (6.64%) Google
3 170 (4.53%) VMware
4 162 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 142 (3.79%) Oracle
6 133 (3.55%) Databricks
7 95 (2.53%) Red Hat
8 87 (2.32%) Cisco
9 82 (2.19%) Splunk
10 73 (1.95%) SAP
11 58 (1.55%) IBM
12 55 (1.47%) Fortinet
13 53 (1.41%) Palo Alto
14 48 (1.28%) Informatica
15 46 (1.23%) SolarWinds
16 38 (1.01%) Dynatrace
17 34 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
18 31 (0.83%) Dell
18 31 (0.83%) Talend
19 29 (0.77%) Salesforce