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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 46 25
Rank change year-on-year +16 -21 +11
Permanent jobs citing AWS 131 50 153
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.25% 4.42% 8.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.99% 13.93% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 95 34 97
10th Percentile £46,000 - £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +33.33% -19.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £105,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 624 359 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 25.02% 31.74% 29.84%
Number of salaries quoted 498 268 333
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,500 £45,000
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 £86,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £56,504
% change year-on-year +21.05% -15.94% +2.74%

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 11 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 11 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 +2 36 £67,500 -27.03% 21
Staines - 34 £50,000 - 3
Woking -12 13 £55,000 -45.00% 10
Camberley - 10 £55,000 - 8
Reigate -10 9 £112,500 - 3
Leatherhead - 7 £35,000 -
Godalming - 2 - -
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 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.58%) Confluence
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.53%) JBoss
3 2 (1.53%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (46.56%) Azure
2 23 (17.56%) GitHub
3 22 (16.79%) GCP
4 18 (13.74%) SaaS
5 15 (11.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (9.16%) Snowflake
7 11 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.82%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.05%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (3.05%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (2.29%) ChatGPT
12 3 (2.29%) Google Gemini
13 2 (1.53%) Prefect
13 2 (1.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.98%) Firewall
1 17 (12.98%) VPN
2 9 (6.87%) HTTP
3 6 (4.58%) DNS
3 6 (4.58%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.29%) Network Security
5 2 (1.53%) LAN
5 2 (1.53%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.53%) WAN
6 1 (0.76%) BGP
6 1 (0.76%) Broadband
6 1 (0.76%) DHCP
6 1 (0.76%) IPsec
6 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.76%) SNMP
6 1 (0.76%) SSL
6 1 (0.76%) VLAN
6 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.69%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (10.69%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.40%) MySQL
3 10 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.87%) Redis
5 8 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.05%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.29%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.53%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.53%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.76%) Big Data
10 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.76%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (14.50%) Git
2 9 (6.87%) Gatling
2 9 (6.87%) JIRA
2 9 (6.87%) JMeter
2 9 (6.87%) LoadRunner
3 4 (3.05%) GitLab
4 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.53%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 50 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 29 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (21.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (14.50%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.92%) Finance
6 8 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.58%) Retail
8 4 (3.05%) Games
9 3 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Legal
10 2 (1.53%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 32 (24.43%) Developer
2 30 (22.90%) Lead
3 26 (19.85%) Tester
4 23 (17.56%) Senior
5 15 (11.45%) OAT Tester
6 13 (9.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.16%) Senior Tester
8 11 (8.40%) Administrator
8 11 (8.40%) DevOps Administrator
8 11 (8.40%) Performance Tester
8 11 (8.40%) Software Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (7.63%) Architect
10 9 (6.87%) .NET Developer
10 9 (6.87%) Lead Developer
10 9 (6.87%) Lead Tester
11 8 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (6.11%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (6.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (25.19%) Terraform
2 20 (15.27%) Vue
3 16 (12.21%) .NET
3 16 (12.21%) Node.js
4 11 (8.40%) CSS
5 10 (7.63%) HTML
6 9 (6.87%) .NET Core
7 8 (6.11%) ASP.NET
7 8 (6.11%) REST
8 7 (5.34%) Kafka
8 7 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (5.34%) React
8 7 (5.34%) Spring
9 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (4.58%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.58%) RESTful
10 5 (3.82%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.82%) Spring Boot
11 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.05%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.50%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (8.40%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.34%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.82%) PKI
6 4 (3.05%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.29%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.53%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.66%) Linux
2 9 (6.87%) Windows
3 6 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (54.96%) CI/CD
2 56 (42.75%) Agile
3 54 (41.22%) AI
4 46 (35.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (32.06%) DevOps
6 32 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (21.37%) Microservices
8 26 (19.85%) Cloud Security
9 25 (19.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (18.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (16.79%) Mentoring
12 21 (16.03%) Incident Response
12 21 (16.03%) Software Engineering
13 20 (15.27%) DevSecOps
14 19 (14.50%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (14.50%) Observability
14 19 (14.50%) Validation
15 18 (13.74%) Collaborative Working
15 18 (13.74%) Vulnerability Management
16 17 (12.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 52 (39.69%) Python
2 26 (19.85%) SQL
3 22 (16.79%) C#
3 22 (16.79%) TypeScript
4 19 (14.50%) Bash
4 19 (14.50%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.92%) Go
6 10 (7.63%) Java
7 8 (6.11%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.34%) PHP
9 3 (2.29%) C++
10 2 (1.53%) Perl
10 2 (1.53%) Scala
11 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (22.14%) SC Cleared
1 29 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.50%) Degree
3 16 (12.21%) AWS Certification
4 15 (11.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.63%) CISSP
6 8 (6.11%) CEH
6 8 (6.11%) CISM
7 6 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (3.82%) GIAC
9 4 (3.05%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.29%) CCSP
10 3 (2.29%) CRISC
11 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.76%) CCNP
12 1 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.76%) SSCP
12 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (9.92%) NIST
3 12 (9.16%) QA
4 5 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.82%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.76%) GRC
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (19.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.56%) Grafana
3 19 (14.50%) Ansible
4 14 (10.69%) Kibana
5 11 (8.40%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.11%) Proxmox
7 5 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.53%) Istio
9 1 (0.76%) Argo
9 1 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 17 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.16%) Google
3 11 (8.40%) VMware
4 9 (6.87%) AppDynamics
4 9 (6.87%) Dynatrace
5 8 (6.11%) Splunk
6 5 (3.82%) Databricks
6 5 (3.82%) New Relic
6 5 (3.82%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.82%) Qualys
7 4 (3.05%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.05%) Zerto
8 2 (1.53%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.53%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.53%) Oracle
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco
9 1 (0.76%) EMC
9 1 (0.76%) Sparx