AWS Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 -15
Permanent jobs citing AWS 74 20 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 6.16% 6.99% 5.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.00% 19.80% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 61 17 15
10th Percentile £54,000 £48,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -18.75% +18.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £92,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £126,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -10.26% +15.56%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 296 101 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 24.63% 35.31% 41.96%
Number of salaries quoted 221 68 146
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £43,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £91,625
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £58,750 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +23.68% -5.94% -12.17%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

AWS
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Milton Keynes

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 5 (6.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Finacle
1 1 (1.35%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.35%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (66.22%) Azure
2 22 (29.73%) SaaS
3 14 (18.92%) Azure Sentinel
4 13 (17.57%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (14.86%) GCP
6 8 (10.81%) Cloudflare
7 6 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (8.11%) Serverless
8 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (5.41%) GitHub
9 4 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.70%) Datadog
10 2 (2.70%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.35%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (25.68%) Firewall
2 13 (17.57%) VPN
3 5 (6.76%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (6.76%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (6.76%) DNS
3 5 (6.76%) LAN
3 5 (6.76%) Network Security
3 5 (6.76%) NGFW
3 5 (6.76%) SD-WAN
3 5 (6.76%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.41%) MySQL
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.70%) Redis
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Yeoman
2 6 (8.11%) JIRA
3 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.05%) JUnit
5 1 (1.35%) Postman
5 1 (1.35%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.35%) Storybook
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Finance
3 8 (10.81%) Local Government
4 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.05%) Banking
6 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.05%) Law
6 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 36 (48.65%) Senior
2 23 (31.08%) Software Engineer
3 12 (16.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Architect
4 11 (14.86%) Developer
4 11 (14.86%) Lead
5 10 (13.51%) Senior Developer
6 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) C++ Developer
7 8 (10.81%) Lead Software Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Network Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Senior C++ Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Network Architect
8 5 (6.76%) Security Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Senior Architect
8 5 (6.76%) Senior Network Architect
8 5 (6.76%) SOC Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.03%) React
2 12 (16.22%) .NET
3 11 (14.86%) Node.js
4 7 (9.46%) REST
5 6 (8.11%) MFC
6 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.41%) CSS
6 4 (5.41%) HTML
6 4 (5.41%) JSON
6 4 (5.41%) JWT
6 4 (5.41%) Kafka
6 4 (5.41%) Middleware
6 4 (5.41%) OAuth
6 4 (5.41%) OAuth2
6 4 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.41%) SOAP
6 4 (5.41%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.41%) XML
7 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (4.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.38%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.81%) NHS
2 8 (10.81%) PKI
3 6 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.76%) CSOC
4 5 (6.76%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.76%) Private Cloud
4 5 (6.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (33.78%) Windows
2 20 (27.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (52.70%) Agile
2 32 (43.24%) Mentoring
2 32 (43.24%) Software Engineering
3 22 (29.73%) CI/CD
3 22 (29.73%) Event-Driven
4 16 (21.62%) Microservices
5 15 (20.27%) Containerisation
5 15 (20.27%) DevOps
5 15 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (20.27%) Test Automation
6 14 (18.92%) Decision-Making
6 14 (18.92%) SIEM
7 13 (17.57%) AI
7 13 (17.57%) Vulnerability Management
7 13 (17.57%) Zero Trust
8 12 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (16.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 12 (16.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 10 (13.51%) Migration
9 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (39.19%) C#
2 17 (22.97%) Python
3 13 (17.57%) Bash
3 13 (17.57%) PowerShell
4 12 (16.22%) SQL
5 9 (12.16%) Java
6 8 (10.81%) C++
7 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.76%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) Degree
4 5 (6.76%) CCNA CyberOps
4 5 (6.76%) CCNP
4 5 (6.76%) CEH
4 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.76%) CISSP
4 5 (6.76%) CompTIA CySA+
4 5 (6.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.76%) GCIA
4 5 (6.76%) GIAC
4 5 (6.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) NCSC
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) Docker
2 8 (10.81%) Hyper-V
2 8 (10.81%) KVM
2 8 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.76%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) Graylog
1 8 (10.81%) Kubernetes
1 8 (10.81%) Proxmox
1 8 (10.81%) ZABBIX
2 2 (2.70%) Grafana
2 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (17.57%) VMware
3 10 (13.51%) Cisco
4 8 (10.81%) Veeam
5 6 (8.11%) Fortinet
6 5 (6.76%) Palo Alto
7 4 (5.41%) IBM
8 3 (4.05%) Oracle
9 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.70%) Workday
10 1 (1.35%) FIS
10 1 (1.35%) Juniper
10 1 (1.35%) Temenos