AWS Jobs in Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 28 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 41 96 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 5.11% 6.25% 11.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.29% 19.47% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15 86 47
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £35,625 £50,000 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +73.33% -46.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £56,875
90th Percentile £111,000 £82,500 £68,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -7.14%

All Cloud 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 140 493 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 17.43% 32.12% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 95 420 221
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,675 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £49,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +15.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67,375 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £72,250 £70,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,875
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.51% +1.59%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Kent

AWS
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in Kent.

Salary trend for AWS in Kent

AWS
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Kent over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
Dartford -4 5 £45,000 +12.50% 215
Tunbridge Wells +10 3 £37,500 -37.50% 2
Chatham +9 3 £110,000 +27.91% 5
Canterbury +8 3 - - 1
Maidstone +10 1 £60,000 -7.69% 219
Sittingbourne - 1 £40,000 - 1
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.88%) CMS
1 2 (4.88%) Confluence
1 2 (4.88%) IIS
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) Serverless
3 9 (21.95%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (14.63%) GCP
5 4 (9.76%) SaaS
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.32%) GitHub
6 3 (7.32%) Pulumi
6 3 (7.32%) Route 53
6 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.88%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.88%) npm
7 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.83%) Broadband
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) SSH
2 3 (7.32%) SSL
3 2 (4.88%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (4.88%) iSCSI
3 2 (4.88%) NAS
3 2 (4.88%) SAN
3 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.44%) Bluetooth
4 1 (2.44%) DHCP
4 1 (2.44%) MQTT
4 1 (2.44%) VLAN
4 1 (2.44%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.76%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.32%) RDBMS
3 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) JIRA
3 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.32%) Jaeger
3 3 (7.32%) PHPUnit
4 2 (4.88%) ER Studio
4 2 (4.88%) GitLab
4 2 (4.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (4.88%) Vite
5 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) Maven
5 1 (2.44%) Selenium
5 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Finance
4 7 (17.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (12.20%) Automotive
6 2 (4.88%) Advertising
6 2 (4.88%) Back Office
6 2 (4.88%) Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Developer
2 8 (19.51%) Senior
3 7 (17.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) IT Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) SaaS Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior IT Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Team Leader
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) React
2 8 (19.51%) CSS
2 8 (19.51%) HTML
2 8 (19.51%) RESTful
3 5 (12.20%) .NET
4 4 (9.76%) Jest
4 4 (9.76%) Laravel
5 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (7.32%) GraphQL
5 3 (7.32%) jQuery
5 3 (7.32%) LAMP
5 3 (7.32%) Node.js
5 3 (7.32%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (7.32%) Pandas
5 3 (7.32%) REST
5 3 (7.32%) Web Services
6 2 (4.88%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.88%) Kafka
6 2 (4.88%) Sass
6 2 (4.88%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cyberattack
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.32%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.32%) PKI
3 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.88%) IoT
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Android
2 3 (7.32%) Unix
2 3 (7.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) CI/CD
2 15 (36.59%) Agile
3 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (29.27%) Mentoring
5 11 (26.83%) DevOps
6 9 (21.95%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (21.95%) Roadmaps
7 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
7 8 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (17.07%) OOP
8 7 (17.07%) Software Engineering
9 6 (14.63%) Clean Code
9 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
9 6 (14.63%) Design Patterns
10 5 (12.20%) Cloud Security
10 5 (12.20%) Line Management
10 5 (12.20%) Mathematics
10 5 (12.20%) Microservices
10 5 (12.20%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) Python
2 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
3 9 (21.95%) Java
4 7 (17.07%) Go
5 6 (14.63%) SQL
5 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.76%) C#
6 4 (9.76%) PHP
7 3 (7.32%) Bash
7 3 (7.32%) C++
7 3 (7.32%) Rust
8 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 7 (17.07%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) PhD
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.32%) NIST
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (26.83%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Terraform
2 11 (26.83%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.63%) Ansible
4 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.32%) Argo
5 3 (7.32%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.44%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (2.44%) Grafana
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Google
2 3 (7.32%) Databricks
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Thales
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco
4 1 (2.44%) Dell
4 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.44%) Solace
4 1 (2.44%) Veeam
4 1 (2.44%) Zerto