AWS Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 38 30
Rank change year-on-year -21 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 62 44 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 2.56% 5.07% 5.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.14% 18.64% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23 35 50
10th Percentile - £41,250 £47,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £72,246
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -10.03% +3.21%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - £86,000 £98,875
East of England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.77% +2.31%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 472 236 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 19.49% 27.19% 26.13%
Number of salaries quoted 334 197 229
10th Percentile £28,325 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £52,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -13.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £76,000 £84,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +5.56% -17.86% +9.57%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

AWS
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Hertfordshire

AWS
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Hemel Hempstead +8 29 £82,500 +43.48% 14
St Albans +3 15 £100,000 +45.45% 7
Stevenage -4 9 £50,000 -30.07% 2
Watford -17 6 £85,000 +36.00% 10
Borehamwood - 1 £45,000 - 2
AWS
East of England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (27.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.65%) Azure
2 18 (29.03%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.45%) GCP
5 3 (4.84%) GitHub
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.61%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.61%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Broadband
2 1 (1.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (8.06%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (8.06%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.61%) MySQL
5 1 (1.61%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Redis
5 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.61%) JMeter
2 1 (1.61%) PHPUnit
2 1 (1.61%) Postman
2 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.61%) Selenium
2 1 (1.61%) Vite
General
1 15 (24.19%) Finance
2 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Swedish Language
5 4 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.84%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Law
8 1 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) French Language
8 1 (1.61%) Games
8 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Data Centre Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Operations Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Service Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Service Desk Analyst
5 6 (9.68%) Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Data Centre Manager
5 6 (9.68%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 6 (9.68%) Data Manager
5 6 (9.68%) Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Implementation Manager
5 6 (9.68%) Implementation Project Manager
5 6 (9.68%) JavaScript Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Project Implementation Manager
5 6 (9.68%) Project Manager
6 5 (8.06%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) React
2 11 (17.74%) .NET
2 11 (17.74%) .NET Core
3 10 (16.13%) Node.js
4 6 (9.68%) Terraform
5 5 (8.06%) .NET Framework
5 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET
5 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (8.06%) Blazor
6 2 (3.23%) Django
6 2 (3.23%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.23%) Flask
6 2 (3.23%) REST
6 2 (3.23%) RESTful
7 1 (1.61%) D3.js
7 1 (1.61%) Kafka
7 1 (1.61%) Laravel
7 1 (1.61%) WebRTC
7 1 (1.61%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.65%) Onboarding
2 18 (29.03%) Data Centre
3 6 (9.68%) Sports Betting
4 5 (8.06%) Security Posture
5 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Robotics
8 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) Mentoring
2 21 (33.87%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (24.19%) Preventative Maintenance
4 13 (20.97%) Project Management
5 11 (17.74%) Customer Experience
6 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 8 (12.90%) ITIL
6 8 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (11.29%) Customer Service
7 7 (11.29%) ITSM
7 7 (11.29%) Performance Metrics
7 7 (11.29%) Power Management
8 6 (9.68%) Microservices
8 6 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.68%) Software Engineering
8 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (8.06%) Agile
9 5 (8.06%) AI
9 5 (8.06%) Coaching
9 5 (8.06%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) SQL
2 11 (17.74%) C#
2 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
3 9 (14.52%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.84%) Python
5 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.61%) PHP
5 1 (1.61%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (41.94%) Degree
2 10 (16.13%) AWS Certification
3 8 (12.90%) City & Guilds
4 7 (11.29%) MCSE
4 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (11.29%) NVQ Level 4
5 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
5 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.84%) CCSK
6 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.84%) CISSP
6 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.61%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) SLA
2 8 (12.90%) QA
3 3 (4.84%) NCSC
3 3 (4.84%) NIST
3 3 (4.84%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) Nessus
Vendors
1 26 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) Databricks
4 1 (1.61%) Domo
4 1 (1.61%) Plaid
4 1 (1.61%) Tenable