AWS Job Trends in Essex

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 27 24 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 2.89% 6.94% 6.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.28% 19.83% 20.78%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 43
10th Percentile £25,000 £52,400 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £61,625 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £77,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -59.09% +81.18% -30.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £88,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £95,400 £82,500
East of England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -18.52%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 291 121 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 31.12% 34.97% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 94 88 223
10th Percentile £25,000 £21,250 £25,759
25th Percentile £27,500 £24,625 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -5.88% -17.07%
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £52,450 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +10.42% -13.64%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Essex

AWS
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Essex over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Essex

AWS
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Essex region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Basildon +2 9 £68,750 - 2
Southend-on-Sea +3 6 £30,000 - 4
Epping - 2 - -
Colchester -10 1 £62,500 +31.58% 7
Harlow - 1 - - 1
Braintree - 1 - -
Brentwood - 1 £31,000 - 4
AWS
East of England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (14.81%) Apache
1 4 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (14.81%) Apache Spark
1 4 (14.81%) WordPress
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) GitHub
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.70%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Internet
2 3 (11.11%) SSL
3 1 (3.70%) Broadband
3 1 (3.70%) HTTP
3 1 (3.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MySQL
2 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) Apache Hive
3 3 (11.11%) Impala
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 3 (11.11%) Parquet
3 3 (11.11%) Spark SQL
3 3 (11.11%) Tableau
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.70%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (7.41%) GitLab
4 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 15 (55.56%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Multimedia
3 3 (11.11%) Advertising
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Legal
4 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Games
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) PHP Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Software Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Graduate
3 6 (22.22%) Trainee
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Developer
4 5 (18.52%) C# Developer
4 5 (18.52%) C# Software Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Graduate C# Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Graduate Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Graduate Software Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 5 (18.52%) SQL Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Administrator
5 4 (14.81%) Trainee Administrator
5 4 (14.81%) Web Administrator
6 3 (11.11%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) CSS
2 8 (29.63%) HTML
3 5 (18.52%) jQuery
4 3 (11.11%) PySpark
4 3 (11.11%) React
4 3 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (7.41%) Laravel
5 2 (7.41%) Symfony
6 1 (3.70%) Apache Beam
6 1 (3.70%) Django
6 1 (3.70%) JSON
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
6 1 (3.70%) Next.js
6 1 (3.70%) Node.js
6 1 (3.70%) OAuth
6 1 (3.70%) Pandas
6 1 (3.70%) SOAP
6 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
6 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 6 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
4 6 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 5 (18.52%) MVC
5 5 (18.52%) OOP
6 4 (14.81%) AI
6 4 (14.81%) Analytics
6 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (14.81%) ETL
6 4 (14.81%) Web Development
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.11%) Data Engineering
7 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 3 (11.11%) Data Transformation
7 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (11.11%) Microservices
7 3 (11.11%) Scrum
7 3 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) SQL
3 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.93%) PHP
4 5 (18.52%) C#
4 5 (18.52%) C++
4 5 (18.52%) Java
5 4 (14.81%) Bash
5 4 (14.81%) R
6 1 (3.70%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 6 (22.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 6 (22.22%) Azure Certification
1 6 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
1 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Argo
2 2 (7.41%) Istio
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk