AWS Jobs in the South East

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 27 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 554 1,190 1,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.72% 6.75% 12.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.28% 22.58% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 291 913 1,021
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,108 5,271 5,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.77% 29.91% 36.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,250 4,062 3,588
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,875
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.51% +1.59%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in the South East.

Salary trend for AWS in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in the South East

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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 AWS within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley -8 230 £60,000 - 208
Berkshire -5 136 £64,000 -8.57% 113
Hampshire -11 104 £57,500 -8.00% 131
Surrey +13 102 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Oxfordshire -3 62 £55,000 -8.33% 82
Kent -4 43 £42,500 -34.62% 33
Buckinghamshire -8 32 £67,500 +22.73% 35
East Sussex -1 24 £50,000 -23.08% 19
West Sussex +14 22 £30,000 -45.45% 29
Middlesex -6 20 £90,000 +157.14% 10
Sussex +4 1 £75,000 +114.29% 22
Isle of Wight - 1 £47,500 - 1
Home Counties - 1 £70,000 -
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 23 (4.15%) IIS
2 17 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.89%) Confluence
4 15 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (2.53%) JBoss
5 14 (2.53%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.44%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.90%) Apache
7 5 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.72%) CMS
9 3 (0.54%) Appian
9 3 (0.54%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Strapi
Applications
1 16 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
1 1 (0.18%) Maximo
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 263 (47.47%) Azure
2 151 (27.26%) GCP
3 114 (20.58%) Serverless
4 69 (12.45%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (10.47%) Amazon EKS
6 52 (9.39%) SaaS
7 46 (8.30%) Amazon S3
8 39 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
9 38 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
11 28 (5.05%) Snowflake
12 25 (4.51%) Pulumi
12 25 (4.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (3.43%) Power Platform
14 18 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (3.07%) GitHub
16 15 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (2.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (12.45%) Broadband
2 52 (9.39%) Firewall
3 39 (7.04%) DNS
4 31 (5.60%) DHCP
5 28 (5.05%) VPN
6 26 (4.69%) SSL
7 25 (4.51%) TCP/IP
8 17 (3.07%) WAN
9 16 (2.89%) VLAN
10 15 (2.71%) SAN
11 14 (2.53%) Network Security
12 13 (2.35%) LAN
13 11 (1.99%) SSH
14 10 (1.81%) BGP
14 10 (1.81%) OSPF
15 9 (1.62%) Intrusion Detection
15 9 (1.62%) SD-WAN
16 8 (1.44%) NAS
16 8 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
17 7 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (13.36%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (11.37%) Relational Database
3 60 (10.83%) SQL Server
4 49 (8.84%) MySQL
5 47 (8.48%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (7.94%) NoSQL
7 43 (7.76%) Data Lake
8 38 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
8 38 (6.86%) RDBMS
9 31 (5.60%) Metadata
10 27 (4.87%) DynamoDB
11 21 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (2.71%) Big Data
13 13 (2.35%) MongoDB
14 12 (2.17%) Hadoop
15 9 (1.62%) Power BI
16 8 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
17 5 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 5 (0.90%) SQLite
18 4 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (13.90%) Git
2 76 (13.72%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.58%) JUnit
4 30 (5.42%) JIRA
5 25 (4.51%) Jaeger
6 24 (4.33%) Mockito
7 18 (3.25%) GitLab
8 16 (2.89%) Maven
8 16 (2.89%) Selenium
8 16 (2.89%) SonarQube
9 14 (2.53%) JMeter
10 13 (2.35%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.99%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.99%) NUnit
12 10 (1.81%) Jasmine
13 9 (1.62%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.62%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
16 6 (1.08%) DbUnit
General
1 172 (31.05%) Social Skills
2 79 (14.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 73 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.83%) Law
5 47 (8.48%) Finance
6 38 (6.86%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.25%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.71%) Legal
9 14 (2.53%) Retail
10 13 (2.35%) Banking
11 12 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.44%) Marketing
13 8 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.26%) Military
15 6 (1.08%) Games
16 5 (0.90%) Automotive
16 5 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.54%) Advertising
17 3 (0.54%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 171 (30.87%) Developer
2 160 (28.88%) Senior
3 82 (14.80%) Lead
4 57 (10.29%) Java Developer
5 53 (9.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (8.84%) Senior Developer
7 33 (5.96%) Software Developer
8 31 (5.60%) Team Leader
9 30 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 29 (5.23%) Support Engineer
11 27 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (4.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 22 (3.97%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (3.79%) IT Support
15 20 (3.61%) Architect
16 19 (3.43%) .NET Developer
16 19 (3.43%) Software Engineer
17 17 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
17 17 (3.07%) C# Developer
18 15 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (17.51%) React
2 76 (13.72%) .NET
3 72 (13.00%) Node.js
3 72 (13.00%) RESTful
4 70 (12.64%) Spring Boot
5 63 (11.37%) Spring
6 59 (10.65%) REST
6 59 (10.65%) Web Services
7 51 (9.21%) HTML
8 46 (8.30%) AngularJS
9 45 (8.12%) Kafka
10 39 (7.04%) CSS
11 34 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (5.78%) Hibernate
12 32 (5.78%) Vue
13 27 (4.87%) Apache Camel
14 25 (4.51%) OpenTelemetry
15 23 (4.15%) ActiveMQ
15 23 (4.15%) GraphQL
15 23 (4.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.12%) Management Information System
2 42 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.96%) Cloud Native
3 33 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (5.23%) Cyberattack
5 24 (4.33%) PKI
6 22 (3.97%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.25%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.71%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.53%) Clustering
11 13 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (2.17%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.81%) Client/Server
14 9 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.62%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.44%) IoT
15 8 (1.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 97 (17.51%) Linux
2 58 (10.47%) Windows
3 36 (6.50%) Unix
4 32 (5.78%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.25%) Android
6 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (39.17%) Agile
2 187 (33.75%) CI/CD
3 156 (28.16%) DevOps
4 110 (19.86%) Microservices
4 110 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (18.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 86 (15.52%) Mentoring
7 84 (15.16%) High Availability
8 82 (14.80%) Analytics
9 80 (14.44%) Software Engineering
10 78 (14.08%) Containerisation
10 78 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 73 (13.18%) Roadmaps
12 71 (12.82%) TDD
13 63 (11.37%) Scrum
14 62 (11.19%) Clean Code
14 62 (11.19%) Kanban
15 61 (11.01%) Computer Science
16 59 (10.65%) Data Science
17 58 (10.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 203 (36.64%) Python
2 149 (26.90%) Java
3 138 (24.91%) JavaScript
4 122 (22.02%) SQL
5 78 (14.08%) TypeScript
6 56 (10.11%) Go
7 55 (9.93%) C#
8 39 (7.04%) PowerShell
9 37 (6.68%) Bash
10 30 (5.42%) PHP
11 21 (3.79%) C++
12 19 (3.43%) Shell Script
13 18 (3.25%) Rust
14 5 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.72%) Bicep
15 4 (0.72%) C
15 4 (0.72%) R
15 4 (0.72%) Ruby
16 3 (0.54%) Perl
16 3 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 135 (24.37%) Degree
2 101 (18.23%) Security Cleared
3 56 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 46 (8.30%) AWS Certification
5 40 (7.22%) DV Cleared
6 37 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (4.69%) Master's Degree
8 25 (4.51%) PhD
9 17 (3.07%) Azure Certification
10 15 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.81%) MCP
12 9 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (1.44%) CISSP
13 8 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (1.26%) A+ Certification
14 7 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (1.08%) CISM
16 5 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.90%) MCSE
17 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.93%) QA
2 31 (5.60%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.42%) Data Quality
4 25 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (4.15%) SLA
6 18 (3.25%) NIST
7 16 (2.89%) GDPR
8 9 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.36%) COBIT
10 2 (0.36%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.18%) GMP
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
11 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 163 (29.42%) Docker
2 56 (10.11%) Active Directory
3 42 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (7.40%) Hyper-V
5 18 (3.25%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (2.71%) vSphere
7 12 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.08%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.08%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.54%) HDFS
11 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.36%) Postfix
11 2 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.18%) NFS
12 1 (0.18%) vCloud
12 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 166 (29.96%) Kubernetes
2 118 (21.30%) Terraform
3 102 (18.41%) Ansible
4 51 (9.21%) Prometheus
5 26 (4.69%) Argo
5 26 (4.69%) Grafana
5 26 (4.69%) Kustomize
6 16 (2.89%) Puppet
7 13 (2.35%) Kibana
7 13 (2.35%) vCenter Server
8 12 (2.17%) vMotion
9 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.44%) SCCM
10 7 (1.26%) PowerCLI
10 7 (1.26%) vRealize
11 6 (1.08%) Nagios
12 4 (0.72%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.72%) Nessus
12 4 (0.72%) QRadar
12 4 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.01%) Google
3 47 (8.48%) VMware
4 24 (4.33%) Cisco
5 21 (3.79%) Splunk
6 16 (2.89%) Citrix
7 13 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.35%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.35%) Thales
8 12 (2.17%) HP
9 11 (1.99%) Oracle
9 11 (1.99%) Rollbar
10 9 (1.62%) Dell
11 8 (1.44%) Databricks
11 8 (1.44%) Solace
12 7 (1.26%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.26%) Veeam
13 6 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.08%) Juniper
13 6 (1.08%) Symantec