AWS Job Trends in Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 32 26
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 43 30 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 2.97% 4.56% 6.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.03% 22.39% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15 15 92
10th Percentile £25,000 £33,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,625 £33,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £42,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -33.33% +70.00%
75th Percentile £36,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £39,500 £111,000 £77,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 390 134 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 26.92% 20.36% 31.87%
Number of salaries quoted 209 100 432
10th Percentile £26,650 £27,450 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £29,750 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £72,475
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Kent

AWS
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Kent over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Kent

AWS
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Kent region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Sittingbourne +8 6 £34,500 -13.75% 1
Chatham -18 3 - -
Maidstone -4 2 £25,000 -58.33%
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) Azure
2 21 (48.84%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (20.93%) GCP
4 7 (16.28%) Nutanix
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.33%) dbt
6 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) DHCP
1 8 (18.60%) DNS
2 7 (16.28%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (13.95%) Firewall
3 6 (13.95%) LAN
3 6 (13.95%) VPN
3 6 (13.95%) WAN
4 4 (9.30%) NAS
4 4 (9.30%) SAN
5 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.98%) MySQL
2 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) JUnit
1 3 (6.98%) Mockito
General
1 26 (60.47%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) French Language
4 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Swedish Language
7 1 (2.33%) Local Government
7 1 (2.33%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Service Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Service Desk Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Support Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) IT Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) IT Support
3 8 (18.60%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Graduate
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Business IT Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Graduate C# Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 3 (6.98%) IT Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) .NET
1 4 (9.30%) CSS
1 4 (9.30%) jQuery
1 4 (9.30%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (9.30%) Visualforce
2 3 (6.98%) Hibernate
2 3 (6.98%) JPA
2 3 (6.98%) RESTful
2 3 (6.98%) Spring
2 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.98%) Web Services
2 3 (6.98%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (16.28%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (41.86%) Windows
2 12 (27.91%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.30%) Linux
3 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Disaster Recovery
1 17 (39.53%) ITIL
1 17 (39.53%) ITSM
2 13 (30.23%) Business Continuity
3 11 (25.58%) Agile
3 11 (25.58%) Mentoring
3 11 (25.58%) Performance Metrics
4 10 (23.26%) Customer Service
5 8 (18.60%) Coaching
6 7 (16.28%) Business Strategy
6 7 (16.28%) Change Management
6 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
6 7 (16.28%) DevOps
6 7 (16.28%) High Availability
6 7 (16.28%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (16.28%) TDD
6 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
6 7 (16.28%) User Stories
6 7 (16.28%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) Java
2 5 (11.63%) Python
3 4 (9.30%) Apex Code
3 4 (9.30%) C#
3 4 (9.30%) C++
3 4 (9.30%) PHP
3 4 (9.30%) Ruby
3 4 (9.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (44.19%) Degree
2 10 (23.26%) AWS Certification
2 10 (23.26%) MCSE
2 10 (23.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (13.95%) CCNA
3 6 (13.95%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (32.56%) QA
2 7 (16.28%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Active Directory
2 13 (30.23%) Hyper-V
2 13 (30.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (48.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (39.53%) VMware
3 10 (23.26%) Salesforce
3 10 (23.26%) ServiceNow
4 7 (16.28%) Dell
4 7 (16.28%) Dell Compellent
4 7 (16.28%) HP
4 7 (16.28%) Nimble Storage
5 6 (13.95%) Citrix
5 6 (13.95%) Google
6 4 (9.30%) Facebook
6 4 (9.30%) Instagram