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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 28 13
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 540 1,234 1,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.62% 6.60% 11.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.48% 22.70% 32.66%
Number of salaries quoted 285 928 1,000
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £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 £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £89,300 £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 2,119 5,436 4,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 22.05% 29.09% 36.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 4,135 3,521
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £36,438 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,568 £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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -4 236 £60,000 - 750
Berkshire 0 141 £65,000 -7.14% 649
Surrey +10 97 £70,000 +27.27% 57
Hampshire -13 96 £57,500 -8.00% 149
Oxfordshire +6 61 £55,000 -8.33% 67
Kent -5 41 £42,500 -32.00% 32
Buckinghamshire -5 34 £70,000 +27.27% 38
East Sussex -1 23 £50,000 -20.00% 27
West Sussex +12 20 £30,000 -46.67% 27
Middlesex -6 18 £90,000 +157.14% 3
Sussex +4 1 £75,000 +61.29% 23
Isle of Wight - 1 £47,500 - 1
Home Counties - 1 £70,000 -
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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 19 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 17 (3.15%) IIS
3 15 (2.78%) Confluence
4 14 (2.59%) JBoss
4 14 (2.59%) Red Hat Fuse
5 7 (1.30%) Exchange Server 2013
6 6 (1.11%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.93%) Apache
8 4 (0.74%) CMS
9 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.56%) Appian
9 3 (0.56%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Strapi
Applications
1 11 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
1 1 (0.19%) Maximo
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 261 (48.33%) Azure
2 154 (28.52%) GCP
3 110 (20.37%) Serverless
4 65 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
5 60 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 48 (8.89%) SaaS
7 43 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
8 42 (7.78%) Amazon S3
9 39 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (5.19%) Snowflake
12 26 (4.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
13 25 (4.63%) Pulumi
14 17 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (3.15%) Power Platform
15 16 (2.96%) GitHub
16 15 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (2.78%) PaaS
17 13 (2.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (12.78%) Broadband
2 55 (10.19%) Firewall
3 38 (7.04%) DNS
4 30 (5.56%) DHCP
5 28 (5.19%) SSL
6 26 (4.81%) VPN
7 24 (4.44%) TCP/IP
8 19 (3.52%) SAN
8 19 (3.52%) WAN
9 18 (3.33%) VLAN
10 15 (2.78%) LAN
11 13 (2.41%) Network Security
12 11 (2.04%) SSH
13 10 (1.85%) BGP
13 10 (1.85%) OSPF
13 10 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
14 9 (1.67%) SD-WAN
14 9 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (1.48%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (14.26%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (11.85%) Relational Database
3 56 (10.37%) SQL Server
4 50 (9.26%) MySQL
5 46 (8.52%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (7.59%) Data Lake
7 41 (7.59%) RDBMS
8 38 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (5.56%) Metadata
10 23 (4.26%) DynamoDB
11 19 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (2.78%) Big Data
13 14 (2.59%) MongoDB
14 12 (2.22%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (1.30%) Power BI
17 4 (0.74%) Redis
17 4 (0.74%) SQLite
18 3 (0.56%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 73 (13.52%) Git
1 73 (13.52%) Jenkins
2 45 (8.33%) JUnit
3 29 (5.37%) JIRA
4 27 (5.00%) Mockito
5 25 (4.63%) Jaeger
6 17 (3.15%) GitLab
6 17 (3.15%) JMeter
7 16 (2.96%) Maven
7 16 (2.96%) Selenium
7 16 (2.96%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 11 (2.04%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.04%) NUnit
10 10 (1.85%) Jasmine
11 9 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (1.67%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.11%) DbUnit
13 6 (1.11%) jMock
General
1 161 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 79 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 72 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.30%) Law
5 49 (9.07%) Finance
6 41 (7.59%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.33%) Legal
8 16 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.78%) Retail
10 13 (2.41%) Banking
11 11 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.67%) Marketing
13 8 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.30%) Automotive
15 6 (1.11%) Advertising
15 6 (1.11%) Games
16 5 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.56%) Back Office
18 2 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 168 (31.11%) Developer
2 153 (28.33%) Senior
3 83 (15.37%) Lead
4 58 (10.74%) Java Developer
5 54 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (8.52%) Senior Developer
7 31 (5.74%) Team Leader
8 30 (5.56%) Software Developer
9 29 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 26 (4.81%) Architect
10 26 (4.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 25 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.63%) Support Engineer
12 22 (4.07%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (4.07%) Software Engineer
13 19 (3.52%) .NET Developer
14 17 (3.15%) C# Developer
15 15 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (17.04%) React
2 74 (13.70%) RESTful
3 73 (13.52%) .NET
4 71 (13.15%) Spring Boot
5 68 (12.59%) Node.js
6 64 (11.85%) Spring
7 62 (11.48%) REST
8 61 (11.30%) Web Services
9 53 (9.81%) HTML
10 46 (8.52%) AngularJS
11 43 (7.96%) Kafka
12 38 (7.04%) CSS
13 35 (6.48%) Hibernate
14 32 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
15 30 (5.56%) Apache Camel
15 30 (5.56%) Vue
16 26 (4.81%) ActiveMQ
17 25 (4.63%) ASP.NET
17 25 (4.63%) OpenTelemetry
18 23 (4.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.96%) Distributed Systems
2 39 (7.22%) Management Information System
3 35 (6.48%) Cloud Native
4 33 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (5.37%) Cyberattack
6 26 (4.81%) PKI
7 22 (4.07%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.89%) Product Ownership
9 17 (3.15%) Public Cloud
10 15 (2.78%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.41%) Clustering
12 12 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (1.85%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.48%) IoT
15 8 (1.48%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.48%) Virtual Team
16 7 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 95 (17.59%) Linux
2 52 (9.63%) Windows
3 36 (6.67%) Unix
4 31 (5.74%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.33%) Android
6 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (41.67%) Agile
2 186 (34.44%) CI/CD
3 155 (28.70%) DevOps
4 106 (19.63%) Microservices
5 104 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
6 97 (17.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 87 (16.11%) Mentoring
8 84 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 83 (15.37%) Software Engineering
10 80 (14.81%) High Availability
11 79 (14.63%) Containerisation
12 78 (14.44%) Analytics
13 76 (14.07%) Roadmaps
14 70 (12.96%) TDD
15 63 (11.67%) Data Science
16 62 (11.48%) Machine Learning
17 60 (11.11%) Scrum
18 58 (10.74%) Clean Code
18 58 (10.74%) Kanban
19 56 (10.37%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 201 (37.22%) Python
2 150 (27.78%) Java
3 141 (26.11%) JavaScript
4 123 (22.78%) SQL
5 75 (13.89%) TypeScript
6 57 (10.56%) C#
6 57 (10.56%) Go
7 39 (7.22%) Bash
8 35 (6.48%) PowerShell
9 28 (5.19%) PHP
10 22 (4.07%) Shell Script
11 21 (3.89%) C++
12 18 (3.33%) Rust
13 4 (0.74%) Bicep
13 4 (0.74%) C
13 4 (0.74%) Korn
13 4 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.74%) Ruby
14 3 (0.56%) R
14 3 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 128 (23.70%) Degree
2 104 (19.26%) Security Cleared
3 54 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 47 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 46 (8.52%) DV Cleared
6 34 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (4.81%) Master's Degree
8 25 (4.63%) PhD
9 19 (3.52%) Azure Certification
10 15 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.85%) MCP
12 8 (1.48%) CISSP
12 8 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (1.30%) A+ Certification
14 6 (1.11%) CISM
15 5 (0.93%) MCSE
16 4 (0.74%) CCNP
16 4 (0.74%) CEH
16 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.00%) QA
2 31 (5.74%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 27 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (3.52%) NIST
6 18 (3.33%) SLA
7 17 (3.15%) GDPR
8 11 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.93%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.37%) COBIT
12 2 (0.37%) GRC
12 2 (0.37%) NCSC
13 1 (0.19%) GMP
13 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 165 (30.56%) Docker
2 57 (10.56%) Active Directory
3 43 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (7.78%) Hyper-V
5 18 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (2.59%) vSphere
7 13 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.11%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.11%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 3 (0.56%) HDFS
12 2 (0.37%) Postfix
12 2 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.19%) NFS
13 1 (0.19%) vCloud
13 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 169 (31.30%) Kubernetes
2 121 (22.41%) Terraform
3 101 (18.70%) Ansible
4 51 (9.44%) Prometheus
5 26 (4.81%) Argo
5 26 (4.81%) Grafana
5 26 (4.81%) Kustomize
6 16 (2.96%) Kibana
6 16 (2.96%) Puppet
7 13 (2.41%) vCenter Server
8 12 (2.22%) vMotion
9 10 (1.85%) SCCM
10 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.30%) PowerCLI
11 7 (1.30%) vRealize
12 6 (1.11%) Nagios
13 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.74%) Nessus
13 4 (0.74%) QRadar
13 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 62 (11.48%) Google
3 48 (8.89%) VMware
4 26 (4.81%) Splunk
5 23 (4.26%) Cisco
6 16 (2.96%) Citrix
6 16 (2.96%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.78%) Thales
8 13 (2.41%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.22%) HP
10 11 (2.04%) Dell
10 11 (2.04%) Rollbar
11 8 (1.48%) Databricks
11 8 (1.48%) Solace
12 7 (1.30%) arcserve
12 7 (1.30%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.30%) Veeam
13 6 (1.11%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.11%) Juniper
13 6 (1.11%) Symantec