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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 44 31
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 126 51 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.23% 4.38% 7.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.75% 14.74% 26.20%
Number of salaries quoted 96 38 101
10th Percentile £46,250 - £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +35.71% -19.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £96,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,375 £96,250
South East median annual salary £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -7.69%

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 638 346 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 26.51% 29.70% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 502 259 345
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -15.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Guildford -8 33 £67,500 -25.00% 21
Staines - 31 £50,000 - 7
Woking -14 17 £55,000 -45.00% 15
Reigate -8 9 £112,500 - 2
Leatherhead - 7 £35,000 - 1
Camberley - 6 £52,500 - 5
Godalming - 2 - -
Epsom -2 1 £75,000 +15.38%
Egham - 1 £50,000 - 1
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 8 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.17%) Confluence
3 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.79%) JBoss
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 58 (46.03%) Azure
2 25 (19.84%) SaaS
3 20 (15.87%) GCP
3 20 (15.87%) GitHub
4 13 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (9.52%) Snowflake
6 10 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.97%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (2.38%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 3 (2.38%) ChatGPT
12 3 (2.38%) Google Gemini
12 3 (2.38%) Prefect
13 2 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.52%) Firewall
2 11 (8.73%) VPN
3 8 (6.35%) HTTP
4 3 (2.38%) Broadband
4 3 (2.38%) Network Security
5 2 (1.59%) DNS
5 2 (1.59%) LAN
5 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.59%) WAN
6 1 (0.79%) BGP
6 1 (0.79%) DHCP
6 1 (0.79%) IPsec
6 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.79%) SNMP
6 1 (0.79%) SSL
6 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.79%) VLAN
6 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.90%) MongoDB
2 13 (10.32%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (9.52%) MySQL
4 11 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.94%) SQL Server
6 9 (7.14%) Redis
7 6 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.38%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (1.59%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.59%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.79%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 20 (15.87%) Git
2 8 (6.35%) Gatling
2 8 (6.35%) JMeter
2 8 (6.35%) LoadRunner
3 7 (5.56%) JIRA
4 4 (3.17%) GitLab
5 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.59%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 43 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (19.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.32%) Finance
6 7 (5.56%) Retail
7 6 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.97%) Games
9 3 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Legal
10 2 (1.59%) Law
11 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 39 (30.95%) Developer
2 28 (22.22%) Lead
3 23 (18.25%) Senior
3 23 (18.25%) Tester
4 16 (12.70%) .NET Developer
5 15 (11.90%) OAT Tester
6 14 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 13 (10.32%) C# Software Engineer
8 12 (9.52%) .NET Software Developer
8 12 (9.52%) .NET Software Engineer
8 12 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
8 12 (9.52%) C# Developer
8 12 (9.52%) C# Software Developer
8 12 (9.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 12 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (8.73%) Senior Tester
9 11 (8.73%) Software Developer
10 9 (7.14%) Administrator
10 9 (7.14%) Lead Developer
10 9 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.22%) Terraform
2 27 (21.43%) Vue
3 22 (17.46%) .NET
4 18 (14.29%) CSS
5 17 (13.49%) HTML
6 15 (11.90%) Node.js
7 9 (7.14%) .NET Core
7 9 (7.14%) REST
8 7 (5.56%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.56%) Spring
9 6 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (4.76%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.76%) Kafka
9 6 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (4.76%) React
10 5 (3.97%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.97%) RESTful
10 5 (3.97%) Spring Boot
11 4 (3.17%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.17%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.49%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.97%) PKI
6 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.17%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.59%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.05%) Linux
2 9 (7.14%) Windows
3 7 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (51.59%) CI/CD
2 53 (42.06%) Agile
3 50 (39.68%) AI
3 50 (39.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (29.37%) DevOps
5 34 (26.98%) Microservices
6 32 (25.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (23.81%) Software Engineering
8 29 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (15.87%) Cloud Security
10 20 (15.87%) Mentoring
10 20 (15.87%) SDLC
10 20 (15.87%) Validation
11 18 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (13.49%) Computer Science
12 17 (13.49%) Incident Response
13 16 (12.70%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (12.70%) DevSecOps
13 16 (12.70%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 49 (38.89%) Python
2 34 (26.98%) SQL
3 28 (22.22%) C#
4 21 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 18 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.32%) Bash
6 13 (10.32%) Go
7 11 (8.73%) Java
8 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.56%) PHP
10 4 (3.17%) Scala
11 3 (2.38%) C++
12 2 (1.59%) Perl
13 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (19.84%) SC Cleared
1 25 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.87%) Degree
3 16 (12.70%) AWS Certification
3 16 (12.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.35%) CEH
4 8 (6.35%) CISM
4 8 (6.35%) CISSP
5 5 (3.97%) GIAC
6 4 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.38%) CRISC
7 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) CCSP
9 1 (0.79%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.79%) SSCP
9 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (10.32%) QA
2 9 (7.14%) NIST
3 5 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.38%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.59%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (18.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (15.87%) Grafana
3 13 (10.32%) Ansible
3 13 (10.32%) Kibana
4 9 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.35%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.59%) Istio
7 1 (0.79%) Argo
7 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Google
2 10 (7.94%) VMware
3 8 (6.35%) AppDynamics
3 8 (6.35%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.35%) Splunk
4 5 (3.97%) Databricks
4 5 (3.97%) New Relic
4 5 (3.97%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.97%) Qualys
5 4 (3.17%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.17%) Zerto
6 2 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.59%) Oracle
7 1 (0.79%) Cisco
7 1 (0.79%) EMC
7 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.79%) Sparx
7 1 (0.79%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.79%) Veeam