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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 51 23
Rank change year-on-year +22 -28 +14
Permanent jobs citing AWS 133 50 150
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.33% 4.41% 8.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.25% 14.01% 28.41%
Number of salaries quoted 97 36 98
10th Percentile £46,500 - £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 £105,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% +4.17% -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 626 357 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 25.08% 31.45% 29.51%
Number of salaries quoted 501 268 334
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,675 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £33,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 0 36 £67,500 -27.03% 16
Staines - 34 £50,000 - 1
Woking -11 14 £55,000 -45.00% 6
Camberley - 10 £55,000 - 6
Reigate -10 9 £112,500 - 2
Leatherhead - 7 £35,000 -
Godalming - 2 - -
Epsom 0 1 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Egham - 1 £50,000 - 4
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 7 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.51%) Confluence
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.50%) JBoss
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.50%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (46.62%) Azure
2 23 (17.29%) GitHub
3 22 (16.54%) GCP
4 19 (14.29%) SaaS
5 15 (11.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (9.02%) Snowflake
7 11 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.76%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.01%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (3.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.01%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.26%) ChatGPT
11 3 (2.26%) Google Gemini
12 2 (1.50%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.50%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.53%) Firewall
2 17 (12.78%) VPN
3 9 (6.77%) HTTP
4 6 (4.51%) DNS
4 6 (4.51%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.26%) Network Security
6 2 (1.50%) LAN
6 2 (1.50%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.50%) WAN
7 1 (0.75%) BGP
7 1 (0.75%) Broadband
7 1 (0.75%) DHCP
7 1 (0.75%) IPsec
7 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.75%) SNMP
7 1 (0.75%) SSL
7 1 (0.75%) VLAN
7 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.27%) MySQL
2 11 (8.27%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.77%) Redis
5 8 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.01%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.26%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.50%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.50%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.75%) Big Data
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.75%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (14.29%) Git
2 9 (6.77%) Gatling
2 9 (6.77%) JIRA
2 9 (6.77%) JMeter
2 9 (6.77%) LoadRunner
3 4 (3.01%) GitLab
4 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.50%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 51 (38.35%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.80%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.77%) Finance
6 8 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.51%) Retail
8 4 (3.01%) Games
9 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Legal
10 2 (1.50%) Law
11 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 33 (24.81%) Developer
2 30 (22.56%) Lead
3 26 (19.55%) Tester
4 23 (17.29%) Senior
5 15 (11.28%) OAT Tester
6 13 (9.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.02%) Senior Tester
8 11 (8.27%) Administrator
8 11 (8.27%) DevOps Administrator
8 11 (8.27%) Performance Tester
8 11 (8.27%) Software Developer
8 11 (8.27%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (7.52%) .NET Developer
9 10 (7.52%) Architect
10 9 (6.77%) Lead Developer
10 9 (6.77%) Lead Tester
11 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (6.02%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.56%) Terraform
2 21 (15.79%) Vue
3 17 (12.78%) .NET
4 16 (12.03%) Node.js
5 12 (9.02%) CSS
6 11 (8.27%) HTML
7 9 (6.77%) .NET Core
8 8 (6.02%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.02%) REST
9 7 (5.26%) Kafka
9 7 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (5.26%) React
9 7 (5.26%) Spring
10 6 (4.51%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (4.51%) FastAPI
10 6 (4.51%) RESTful
11 5 (3.76%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.76%) Spring Boot
12 4 (3.01%) PySpark
12 4 (3.01%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (8.27%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.76%) PKI
6 4 (3.01%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.26%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.50%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.31%) Linux
2 10 (7.52%) Windows
3 7 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (54.14%) CI/CD
2 56 (42.11%) Agile
3 54 (40.60%) AI
4 47 (35.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (32.33%) DevOps
6 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (21.80%) Microservices
8 27 (20.30%) Cloud Security
9 26 (19.55%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (18.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (17.29%) Mentoring
12 22 (16.54%) Software Engineering
13 21 (15.79%) Incident Response
14 20 (15.04%) DevSecOps
14 20 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (14.29%) Observability
15 19 (14.29%) Validation
16 18 (13.53%) Collaborative Working
16 18 (13.53%) Vulnerability Management
17 17 (12.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 52 (39.10%) Python
2 27 (20.30%) SQL
3 23 (17.29%) C#
4 22 (16.54%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.29%) Bash
5 19 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 13 (9.77%) Go
7 10 (7.52%) Java
8 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.26%) PHP
10 3 (2.26%) C++
11 2 (1.50%) Perl
11 2 (1.50%) Scala
12 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (21.80%) SC Cleared
1 29 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.29%) Degree
3 16 (12.03%) AWS Certification
4 15 (11.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.52%) CISSP
6 8 (6.02%) CEH
6 8 (6.02%) CISM
7 6 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (3.76%) GIAC
9 4 (3.01%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.26%) CCSP
10 3 (2.26%) CRISC
11 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.75%) CCNP
12 1 (0.75%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.75%) SSCP
12 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (9.77%) NIST
3 12 (9.02%) QA
4 5 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.76%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) GRC
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (19.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (34.59%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.29%) Grafana
3 19 (14.29%) Ansible
4 14 (10.53%) Kibana
5 11 (8.27%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.02%) Proxmox
7 5 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.50%) Istio
9 1 (0.75%) Argo
9 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 18 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.02%) Google
3 11 (8.27%) VMware
4 9 (6.77%) AppDynamics
4 9 (6.77%) Dynatrace
5 8 (6.02%) Splunk
6 5 (3.76%) Databricks
6 5 (3.76%) New Relic
6 5 (3.76%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.76%) Qualys
7 4 (3.01%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.01%) Zerto
8 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.50%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle
9 1 (0.75%) Cisco
9 1 (0.75%) EMC
9 1 (0.75%) Sparx
9 1 (0.75%) Veeam