AWS Job Trends in Hampshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 20 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 107 245 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 4.30% 8.97% 10.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.86% 29.91% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 96 150 170
10th Percentile £31,563 £40,000 £40,950
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £75,313 £69,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £78,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £63,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.42% -4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 513 819 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.61% 29.99% 33.21%
Number of salaries quoted 421 507 500
10th Percentile £27,250 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.54% -6.96%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £86,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Hampshire

AWS
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Hampshire over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Hampshire

AWS
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Southampton +3 27 £47,500 -13.64% 40
Basingstoke +16 24 £70,750 -5.67% 34
Eastleigh +1 9 £60,000 -22.58%
Farnborough -11 8 £77,500 -8.82% 2
Portsmouth -17 7 £78,500 +49.52% 41
Winchester -12 4 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Gosport +9 3 £33,750 -
New Milton - 2 £37,000 -
Fleet - 2 £70,000 - 1
Fareham -25 1 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Hayling Island - 1 £41,000 -
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 6 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (5.61%) Appian
2 5 (4.67%) Apache
2 5 (4.67%) IIS
3 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 63 (58.88%) Azure
2 19 (17.76%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (13.08%) GCP
4 9 (8.41%) GitHub
4 9 (8.41%) IaaS
4 9 (8.41%) PaaS
4 9 (8.41%) SaaS
5 8 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (5.61%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.61%) MinIO
6 6 (5.61%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.80%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.76%) DNS
2 15 (14.02%) Firewall
3 13 (12.15%) Network Security
4 11 (10.28%) VPN
5 9 (8.41%) PuTTY
5 9 (8.41%) SSH
6 7 (6.54%) Internet
7 6 (5.61%) DHCP
8 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
8 5 (4.67%) VLAN
9 2 (1.87%) DMZ
9 2 (1.87%) SAN
9 2 (1.87%) STUN
9 2 (1.87%) VoIP
9 2 (1.87%) VoLTE
9 2 (1.87%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.93%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Airbyte
2 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.87%) DB2
4 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.93%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (19.63%) Git
2 19 (17.76%) Robot Framework
2 19 (17.76%) Selenium
2 19 (17.76%) Snyk
3 5 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.74%) GitLab
5 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.87%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.87%) JMeter
6 2 (1.87%) JUnit
6 2 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.93%) Gradle
General
1 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.15%) Finance
4 8 (7.48%) Legal
5 5 (4.67%) Multimedia
5 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.80%) Marketing
7 2 (1.87%) Aviation
7 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Senior
2 18 (16.82%) Support Engineer
3 14 (13.08%) Technical Engineer
3 14 (13.08%) Technical Support
3 14 (13.08%) Technical Support Engineer
4 12 (11.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (10.28%) Security Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) Lead
7 9 (8.41%) Developer
7 9 (8.41%) Senior Support Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Senior Technical Support
7 9 (8.41%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Architect
9 7 (6.54%) Applications Architect
10 6 (5.61%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (5.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Administrator
11 5 (4.67%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) Kafka
2 6 (5.61%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (4.67%) CSS
3 5 (4.67%) HTML
3 5 (4.67%) Node.js
4 4 (3.74%) ARM Templates
4 4 (3.74%) React
5 3 (2.80%) .NET
5 3 (2.80%) Middleware
5 3 (2.80%) Spring
6 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.87%) FreeSWITCH
6 2 (1.87%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.87%) REST
6 2 (1.87%) RESTful
7 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.93%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.93%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (5.61%) Low-Code
4 5 (4.67%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.74%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.87%) Blog
7 2 (1.87%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.87%) PKI
7 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.93%) IoT
8 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 41 (38.32%) Windows
2 39 (36.45%) Linux
3 12 (11.21%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.41%) VMS
5 3 (2.80%) AIX
5 3 (2.80%) Unix
5 3 (2.80%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.64%) DevOps
2 31 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (25.23%) Agile
3 27 (25.23%) CI/CD
4 24 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (21.50%) Test Automation
6 21 (19.63%) DevSecOps
7 19 (17.76%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 19 (17.76%) Interactive Application Security Testing
7 19 (17.76%) Secrets Management
8 18 (16.82%) Roadmaps
8 18 (16.82%) Test Management
9 16 (14.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (14.95%) Security Operations
9 16 (14.95%) SIEM
10 15 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (13.08%) Customer Requirements
11 14 (13.08%) Scrum
12 13 (12.15%) Build Automation
12 13 (12.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.30%) SQL
2 24 (22.43%) Python
3 13 (12.15%) PowerShell
4 9 (8.41%) DCL
4 9 (8.41%) Tcl
5 8 (7.48%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.54%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (3.74%) Bicep
7 4 (3.74%) Java
8 3 (2.80%) R
9 2 (1.87%) C#
9 2 (1.87%) Go
9 2 (1.87%) PHP
10 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (36.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.43%) DV Cleared
3 21 (19.63%) SC Cleared
4 14 (13.08%) AWS Certification
5 11 (10.28%) Azure Certification
5 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.54%) Degree
7 5 (4.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.80%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.87%) CCNP
9 2 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.93%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) NCSC
1 3 (2.80%) NIST
2 2 (1.87%) GDPR
2 2 (1.87%) GRC
2 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 2 (1.87%) JSP 440
2 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) Firmware
3 1 (0.93%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (26.17%) Terraform
2 24 (22.43%) Ansible
3 9 (8.41%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.74%) Grafana
6 3 (2.80%) Netcool
7 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.87%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (17.76%) Black Duck
2 18 (16.82%) Coverity
2 18 (16.82%) VMware
3 15 (14.02%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.54%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.61%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (5.61%) UiPath
6 5 (4.67%) Blue Prism
6 5 (4.67%) Oracle
7 4 (3.74%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (3.74%) Splunk
8 3 (2.80%) IBM
8 3 (2.80%) Snow
8 3 (2.80%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.87%) Cisco
10 1 (0.93%) arcserve
10 1 (0.93%) Citrix
10 1 (0.93%) F5
10 1 (0.93%) Progress
10 1 (0.93%) Veeam