AWS Job Trends in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,132 2,321 3,648
As % of all permanent jobs in London 11.02% 17.98% 15.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.26% 40.61% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,315 1,664 2,999
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,813 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £136,250
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,045 5,716 10,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.41% 44.27% 43.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,525 4,145 8,184
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

AWS job vacancy trend in London

AWS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in London

AWS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Central London -4 316 £98,750 +9.72% 254
West London -2 56 £80,750 +28.17% 39
East London -2 43 £87,500 -2.78% 41
South London -20 27 £43,350 -35.78% 10
North London -9 1 £72,500 +48.72% 9
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 113 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.67%) Apache
4 26 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.80%) Confluence
6 16 (0.75%) WordPress
7 13 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
8 10 (0.47%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.19%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.14%) IIS
12 2 (0.094%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.094%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.094%) Camunda
12 2 (0.094%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.094%) SAS
12 2 (0.094%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 33 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.23%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.23%) DaVinci Resolve
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.094%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.047%) Maya
8 1 (0.047%) Notion
8 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.75%) Endur
2 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.38%) Shopify
3 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.094%) Lawson
5 2 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.047%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.047%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.047%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.047%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.047%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 985 (46.20%) Azure
2 749 (35.13%) GCP
3 201 (9.43%) GitHub
4 196 (9.19%) Serverless
5 164 (7.69%) SaaS
6 153 (7.18%) Amazon S3
7 147 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
8 138 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 136 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
10 91 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
11 78 (3.66%) dbt
12 77 (3.61%) Snowflake
13 71 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
14 60 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 58 (2.72%) Power Platform
16 49 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
17 47 (2.20%) Datadog
17 47 (2.20%) OpenShift
17 47 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 43 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 128 (6.00%) Firewall
2 86 (4.03%) WAN
3 76 (3.56%) Broadband
4 69 (3.24%) Network Security
5 64 (3.00%) LAN
6 60 (2.81%) DNS
7 56 (2.63%) VPN
8 54 (2.53%) TCP/IP
9 53 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (2.39%) Internet
11 50 (2.35%) SD-WAN
12 38 (1.78%) DHCP
13 37 (1.74%) HTTP
14 30 (1.41%) BGP
15 26 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
16 24 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
17 23 (1.08%) VLAN
18 21 (0.98%) OSPF
19 20 (0.94%) WLAN
20 17 (0.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (5.82%) NoSQL
2 114 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
4 73 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 66 (3.10%) DynamoDB
7 64 (3.00%) Data Lake
7 64 (3.00%) MongoDB
7 64 (3.00%) Tableau
8 62 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
9 58 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 55 (2.58%) Metadata
11 54 (2.53%) SQL Server
12 53 (2.49%) Relational Database
13 52 (2.44%) Power BI
14 47 (2.20%) MySQL
15 34 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
16 30 (1.41%) RDBMS
17 27 (1.27%) Redis
18 26 (1.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 177 (8.30%) Git
2 139 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 112 (5.25%) GitLab
4 77 (3.61%) TeamCity
5 37 (1.74%) CircleCI
6 33 (1.55%) MLflow
7 31 (1.45%) JIRA
8 21 (0.98%) JMeter
9 19 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 17 (0.80%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.75%) Cucumber
11 16 (0.75%) IBM UrbanCode
11 16 (0.75%) Jaeger
12 13 (0.61%) Vite
13 11 (0.52%) JUnit
13 11 (0.52%) Selenium
14 10 (0.47%) Maven
15 9 (0.42%) Gatling
15 9 (0.42%) LoadRunner
16 8 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 641 (30.07%) Finance
2 485 (22.75%) Social Skills
3 355 (16.65%) Banking
4 209 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 179 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 174 (8.16%) Retail
7 172 (8.07%) Law
8 108 (5.07%) Financial Institution
9 95 (4.46%) Public Sector
10 76 (3.56%) Front Office
10 76 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
11 66 (3.10%) Back Office
12 53 (2.49%) Legal
13 45 (2.11%) Marketing
14 41 (1.92%) Multimedia
15 38 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (1.69%) Tech for Good
17 35 (1.64%) Telecoms
18 34 (1.59%) Investment Banking
19 31 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 464 (21.76%) Senior
2 318 (14.92%) Software Engineer
3 292 (13.70%) Lead
4 276 (12.95%) Developer
5 274 (12.85%) Architect
6 225 (10.55%) AWS Engineer
7 133 (6.24%) Data Engineer
8 129 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 115 (5.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 95 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
11 93 (4.36%) Java Engineer
12 92 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
13 87 (4.08%) Analyst
14 85 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
15 84 (3.94%) AWS Architect
16 81 (3.80%) Security Engineer
17 78 (3.66%) Python Engineer
18 70 (3.28%) Lead Developer
19 64 (3.00%) Lead Software Engineer
20 59 (2.77%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (13.18%) React
2 211 (9.90%) Kafka
3 192 (9.01%) Node.js
4 105 (4.92%) RESTful
5 89 (4.17%) Spring
6 88 (4.13%) REST
7 86 (4.03%) CSS
8 84 (3.94%) HTML
9 76 (3.56%) .NET
10 72 (3.38%) gRPC
11 70 (3.28%) LangChain
12 69 (3.24%) Spring Boot
13 59 (2.77%) Redux
14 51 (2.39%) GraphQL
15 50 (2.35%) Django
16 48 (2.25%) PyTorch
17 46 (2.16%) PySpark
18 43 (2.02%) TensorFlow
19 39 (1.83%) AngularJS
20 38 (1.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 399 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 180 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (4.41%) Public Cloud
4 90 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 85 (3.99%) Security Posture
6 79 (3.71%) Data Centre
7 60 (2.81%) Fixed Income
8 58 (2.72%) Management Information System
9 55 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
10 54 (2.53%) Data Structures
11 52 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
12 46 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
13 45 (2.11%) Blog
13 45 (2.11%) Video\Live Streaming
14 44 (2.06%) Algorithms
15 41 (1.92%) AI Agents
15 41 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
16 36 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
17 27 (1.27%) Clustering
17 27 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 166 (7.79%) Linux
2 121 (5.68%) Windows
3 55 (2.58%) Unix
4 44 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.64%) Android
6 27 (1.27%) Mac OS
7 26 (1.22%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.80%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 14 (0.66%) Ubuntu
14 13 (0.61%) CentOS
15 6 (0.28%) VMS
16 3 (0.14%) SUSE
17 2 (0.094%) Rocky
17 2 (0.094%) Solaris
18 1 (0.047%) CoreOS
18 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (35.13%) CI/CD
2 548 (25.70%) Software Engineering
3 511 (23.97%) Agile
4 508 (23.83%) DevOps
5 408 (19.14%) AI
6 403 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 351 (16.46%) Microservices
8 342 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
9 335 (15.71%) Mentoring
10 278 (13.04%) Analytics
11 274 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 261 (12.24%) Containerisation
13 256 (12.01%) Roadmaps
14 252 (11.82%) Machine Learning
15 251 (11.77%) Full-Stack Development
16 237 (11.12%) Computer Science
17 219 (10.27%) Test Automation
18 205 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
19 200 (9.38%) Cloud Security
20 197 (9.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 830 (38.93%) Python
2 469 (22.00%) Java
3 302 (14.17%) TypeScript
4 285 (13.37%) JavaScript
5 278 (13.04%) SQL
6 232 (10.88%) Go
7 129 (6.05%) Bash
8 90 (4.22%) C#
9 86 (4.03%) PowerShell
10 58 (2.72%) Scala
11 46 (2.16%) C++
12 37 (1.74%) Rust
13 36 (1.69%) R
14 31 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 27 (1.27%) PHP
16 12 (0.56%) Ruby
17 11 (0.52%) C
18 8 (0.38%) Bicep
19 7 (0.33%) Perl
20 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 355 (16.65%) Degree
2 230 (10.79%) Security Cleared
3 208 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 155 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 142 (6.66%) SC Cleared
6 115 (5.39%) Azure Certification
7 82 (3.85%) CISSP
8 75 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 74 (3.47%) DV Cleared
10 66 (3.10%) Master's Degree
11 56 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 56 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (2.20%) CISM
13 43 (2.02%) OSCP
14 33 (1.55%) CCNP
15 32 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (1.27%) CCIE
17 26 (1.22%) CCNA
18 24 (1.13%) MCSE
19 19 (0.89%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.96%) GDPR
2 105 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (4.92%) NIST
3 82 (3.85%) QA
4 72 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 59 (2.77%) PCI DSS
6 50 (2.35%) SOC 2
7 44 (2.06%) Accessibility
8 32 (1.50%) HIPAA
9 29 (1.36%) GRC
10 28 (1.31%) EU AI Act
11 25 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 25 (1.17%) SLA
12 23 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.94%) PSD2
13 20 (0.94%) Solvency II
14 14 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 12 (0.56%) NCSC
16 11 (0.52%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 347 (16.28%) Docker
2 61 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.42%) vSphere
7 7 (0.33%) IAG
8 6 (0.28%) KVM
8 6 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.19%) Firmware
11 3 (0.14%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.094%) HDFS
13 1 (0.047%) NLBS
13 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 482 (22.61%) Terraform
2 461 (21.62%) Kubernetes
3 130 (6.10%) Ansible
4 121 (5.68%) Grafana
5 76 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 50 (2.35%) Argo
7 31 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (0.75%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.70%) Istio
11 13 (0.61%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.56%) Cilium
12 12 (0.56%) Kibana
13 11 (0.52%) SCCM
14 10 (0.47%) CASB
14 10 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.42%) Nagios
16 7 (0.33%) Podman
17 6 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 224 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 178 (8.35%) Google
3 76 (3.56%) Databricks
4 61 (2.86%) Cisco
4 61 (2.86%) Oracle
5 50 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 49 (2.30%) Fortinet
7 46 (2.16%) Red Hat
8 44 (2.06%) VMware
9 41 (1.92%) Splunk
10 36 (1.69%) Typelevel
11 34 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 34 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 31 (1.45%) CheckPoint
13 30 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
14 26 (1.22%) SolarWinds
15 25 (1.17%) Dynatrace
15 25 (1.17%) Salesforce
16 22 (1.03%) Dell
17 21 (0.98%) Meraki