AWS Job Trends in Surrey

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 17 39
Rank change year-on-year -42 +22 -21
Permanent jobs citing AWS 45 109 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.40% 10.36% 5.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.78% 26.91% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 32 59 69
10th Percentile £39,100 £51,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% +9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - £96,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 778 405 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 41.52% 38.50% 33.43%
Number of salaries quoted 313 271 490
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £52,250 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -7.27%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Surrey

AWS
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Surrey

AWS
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Woking +1 10 £100,000 +33.33% 24
Guildford -15 10 £62,500 -16.67% 29
Oxted - 3 £40,000 -
Epsom +6 2 - - 3
Staines +2 2 £82,500 +111.54%
Redhill -10 2 £40,000 -20.00% 3
AWS
South East

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (11.11%) IIS
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.44%) Apache
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) SaaS
3 8 (17.78%) GitHub
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (15.56%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.11%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.22%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.22%) Datadog
8 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (24.44%) VPN
2 9 (20.00%) Firewall
3 5 (11.11%) DHCP
3 5 (11.11%) DNS
3 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.11%) WAN
4 4 (8.89%) LAN
5 3 (6.67%) Network Security
6 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
6 2 (4.44%) Unified Communications
6 2 (4.44%) VoIP
6 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (4.44%) Wireless
7 1 (2.22%) Broadband
7 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.56%) Tableau
3 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (11.11%) Big Data
4 5 (11.11%) Data Mining
4 5 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.44%) Apache Hive
5 2 (4.44%) Impala
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.44%) Parquet
5 2 (4.44%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.22%) MySQL
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Power BI
6 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
General
1 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (17.78%) Retail
2 7 (15.56%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Marketing
4 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 4 (8.89%) Local Government
5 2 (4.44%) Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Senior
2 8 (17.78%) .NET Development Manager
2 8 (17.78%) Development Manager
2 8 (17.78%) Software Development Manager
2 8 (17.78%) Software Manager
3 7 (15.56%) Lead
4 6 (13.33%) Administrator
4 6 (13.33%) DevOps Administrator
4 6 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (13.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 6 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (11.11%) Data Science Manager
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Manager
6 4 (8.89%) ICT Support
6 4 (8.89%) Support Team Leader
6 4 (8.89%) Team Leader
7 3 (6.67%) Head of IT
7 3 (6.67%) Head of IT Operations
7 3 (6.67%) Head of Operations
7 3 (6.67%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) .NET
2 5 (11.11%) Play Framework
3 2 (4.44%) PySpark
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.22%) Blazor
4 1 (2.22%) gRPC
4 1 (2.22%) Pandas
4 1 (2.22%) React
4 1 (2.22%) REST
4 1 (2.22%) Spring
4 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.22%) Spring MVC
4 1 (2.22%) Vue
4 1 (2.22%) Web Services
4 1 (2.22%) WinForms
4 1 (2.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (15.56%) Private Cloud
2 6 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 4 (8.89%) Driving Licence
5 3 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.22%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Agile
2 14 (31.11%) AI
3 12 (26.67%) Analytics
3 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (26.67%) DevOps
4 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 9 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
6 9 (20.00%) SDLC
7 8 (17.78%) Data Science
7 8 (17.78%) Machine Learning
7 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.78%) Product Vision
8 7 (15.56%) Cloud Security
8 7 (15.56%) Decision-Making
8 7 (15.56%) Mathematics
8 7 (15.56%) Observability
8 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Python
2 13 (28.89%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) C#
4 7 (15.56%) Bash
4 7 (15.56%) Go
4 7 (15.56%) Java
4 7 (15.56%) Scala
5 6 (13.33%) R
6 3 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Degree
2 10 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 8 (17.78%) Master's Degree
4 5 (11.11%) MBA
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (6.67%) CREST Certified
6 3 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (4.44%) CCNP
7 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (4.44%) PMP
8 1 (2.22%) CISM
8 1 (2.22%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) NIST
2 5 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
4 3 (6.67%) GDPR
4 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Terraform
2 8 (17.78%) Ansible
3 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) Prometheus
4 6 (13.33%) Grafana
4 6 (13.33%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.22%) Argo
5 1 (2.22%) CASB
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) VMware
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.11%) BT
3 5 (11.11%) Databricks
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.22%) Citrix
5 1 (2.22%) Okta
5 1 (2.22%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) Typelevel