Amazon EC2 Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 223 337
Rank change year-on-year -41 +114 -30
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 18 50 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.13% 0.65% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 2.36% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 41
10th Percentile £48,000 £48,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £48,375 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £78,925 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% +7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,669 2,120 5,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.58% 27.47% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,210 1,360 4,019
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% -11.54%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Thames Valley -10 11 £82,500 +26.92% 3
Berkshire -17 11 £82,500 +26.92% 2
Hampshire -17 7 £52,500 +7.69% 3
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (11.11%) Apache Qpid
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (77.78%) Serverless
3 12 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 12 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 10 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (27.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (16.67%) Azure
7 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) Datadog
7 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) BGP
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
1 2 (11.11%) IPsec
1 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
1 2 (11.11%) SSL
1 2 (11.11%) VLAN
1 2 (11.11%) VPN
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.11%) Redis
4 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 7 (38.89%) Git
3 6 (33.33%) GitLab
3 6 (33.33%) JIRA
3 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 5 (27.78%) Cucumber
5 4 (22.22%) Artifactory
5 4 (22.22%) JMeter
5 4 (22.22%) JUnit
5 4 (22.22%) Mockito
6 3 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (5.56%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Java Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) JSON
1 9 (50.00%) REST
2 7 (38.89%) YAML
3 5 (27.78%) Spring
4 4 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (22.22%) Apache Camel
4 4 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (22.22%) Hibernate
4 4 (22.22%) HTML
4 4 (22.22%) jQuery
4 4 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 4 (22.22%) Web Services
4 4 (22.22%) WireMock
4 4 (22.22%) XML
5 3 (16.67%) Loki
5 3 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (11.11%) Kafka
6 2 (11.11%) React
7 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (72.22%) Agile
3 11 (61.11%) Microservices
4 10 (55.56%) DevOps
5 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (38.89%) TDD
7 6 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
7 6 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 5 (27.78%) BDD
8 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
8 5 (27.78%) Security Hardening
9 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (22.22%) Issue Tracking
9 4 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (22.22%) Observability
9 4 (22.22%) Process Management
9 4 (22.22%) Scrum
9 4 (22.22%) SDLC
9 4 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) Groovy
3 6 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
5 4 (22.22%) Perl
6 3 (16.67%) Bash
7 2 (11.11%) Rust
8 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (50.00%) Terraform
3 6 (33.33%) Ansible
4 4 (22.22%) Kibana
4 4 (22.22%) Packer
5 3 (16.67%) Grafana
5 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (16.67%) Scalr
6 2 (11.11%) Netcool
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) AppDynamics
2 4 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 4 (22.22%) IBM
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Snow
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian