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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 51 30
Rank change year-on-year +21 -21 +6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 129 50 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.18% 4.34% 7.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.12% 14.29% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 98 37 100
10th Percentile £46,750 - £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +38.10% -19.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,500 £95,125
South East median annual salary £63,750 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.39% +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 641 350 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 25.74% 30.41% 28.91%
Number of salaries quoted 513 262 342
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -21.28% +6.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £89,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.16% -10.00% -

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 28 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 28 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 -6 34 £67,500 -25.00% 14
Staines - 32 £50,000 - 4
Woking -15 15 £55,000 -45.00% 6
Reigate -7 9 £112,500 - 1
Camberley - 9 £55,000 - 7
Leatherhead - 7 £35,000 -
Godalming - 2 - -
Epsom 0 1 £75,000 +15.38%
Egham - 1 £50,000 -
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 (6.20%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.55%) JBoss
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.55%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (47.29%) Azure
2 22 (17.05%) SaaS
3 21 (16.28%) GCP
3 21 (16.28%) GitHub
4 14 (10.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (9.30%) Snowflake
6 10 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.43%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.88%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (3.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.10%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 3 (2.33%) ChatGPT
11 3 (2.33%) Google Gemini
11 3 (2.33%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.63%) Firewall
2 14 (10.85%) VPN
3 9 (6.98%) HTTP
4 4 (3.10%) DNS
4 4 (3.10%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.33%) Network Security
6 2 (1.55%) LAN
6 2 (1.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.78%) BGP
7 1 (0.78%) Broadband
7 1 (0.78%) DHCP
7 1 (0.78%) IPsec
7 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.78%) SNMP
7 1 (0.78%) SSL
7 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.78%) VLAN
7 1 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.85%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (10.85%) MongoDB
2 12 (9.30%) MySQL
3 10 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.75%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.98%) Redis
5 8 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.10%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.55%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.78%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 20 (15.50%) Git
2 9 (6.98%) Gatling
2 9 (6.98%) JMeter
2 9 (6.98%) LoadRunner
3 8 (6.20%) JIRA
4 4 (3.10%) GitLab
5 3 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.55%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 48 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (20.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.08%) Finance
6 7 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.43%) Retail
7 4 (3.10%) Games
8 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.33%) Legal
9 2 (1.55%) Law
10 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 35 (27.13%) Developer
2 28 (21.71%) Lead
3 24 (18.60%) Tester
4 23 (17.83%) Senior
5 15 (11.63%) OAT Tester
6 13 (10.08%) .NET Developer
7 12 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.30%) Senior Tester
8 11 (8.53%) Software Developer
9 10 (7.75%) Administrator
9 10 (7.75%) C# Software Engineer
9 10 (7.75%) DevOps Administrator
9 10 (7.75%) Software Engineer
9 10 (7.75%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (6.98%) .NET Software Developer
10 9 (6.98%) .NET Software Engineer
10 9 (6.98%) C# Developer
10 9 (6.98%) C# Software Developer
10 9 (6.98%) Lead Developer
10 9 (6.98%) Performance Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.03%) Terraform
2 24 (18.60%) Vue
3 19 (14.73%) .NET
4 15 (11.63%) CSS
4 15 (11.63%) Node.js
5 14 (10.85%) HTML
6 9 (6.98%) .NET Core
7 8 (6.20%) REST
8 7 (5.43%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.43%) Kafka
8 7 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (5.43%) Spring
9 6 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (4.65%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.65%) React
10 5 (3.88%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.88%) RESTful
10 5 (3.88%) Spring Boot
11 4 (3.10%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.10%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.18%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (7.75%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.43%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.88%) PKI
6 4 (3.10%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.33%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.55%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.48%) Linux
2 10 (7.75%) Windows
3 7 (5.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (53.49%) CI/CD
2 55 (42.64%) Agile
3 51 (39.53%) AI
4 47 (36.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (31.78%) DevOps
6 30 (23.26%) Microservices
6 30 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (21.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
9 23 (17.83%) Cloud Security
9 23 (17.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (15.50%) Mentoring
11 19 (14.73%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (14.73%) Incident Response
11 19 (14.73%) Validation
12 18 (13.95%) DevSecOps
13 17 (13.18%) Collaborative Working
13 17 (13.18%) Computer Science
13 17 (13.18%) Observability
13 17 (13.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 51 (39.53%) Python
2 31 (24.03%) SQL
3 25 (19.38%) C#
4 21 (16.28%) TypeScript
5 18 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 17 (13.18%) Bash
7 13 (10.08%) Go
8 11 (8.53%) Java
9 8 (6.20%) PowerShell
10 7 (5.43%) PHP
11 3 (2.33%) C++
11 3 (2.33%) Scala
12 2 (1.55%) Perl
13 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (20.16%) SC Cleared
1 26 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.50%) Degree
3 16 (12.40%) AWS Certification
3 16 (12.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.98%) CISSP
5 8 (6.20%) CEH
5 8 (6.20%) CISM
6 5 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.88%) GIAC
7 4 (3.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.33%) CRISC
8 3 (2.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.55%) CCSP
10 1 (0.78%) CCNP
10 1 (0.78%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.78%) SSCP
10 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (9.30%) QA
3 11 (8.53%) NIST
4 5 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.10%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.33%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.55%) GDPR
8 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.78%) GRC
8 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.78%) SLA
8 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (18.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (34.11%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.05%) Grafana
3 16 (12.40%) Ansible
4 14 (10.85%) Kibana
5 10 (7.75%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.20%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.55%) Istio
9 1 (0.78%) Argo
9 1 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 18 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.53%) Google
2 11 (8.53%) VMware
3 9 (6.98%) AppDynamics
3 9 (6.98%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.20%) Splunk
5 5 (3.88%) Databricks
5 5 (3.88%) New Relic
5 5 (3.88%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.88%) Qualys
6 4 (3.10%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.10%) Zerto
7 2 (1.55%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.55%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.55%) Oracle
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco
8 1 (0.78%) EMC
8 1 (0.78%) Sparx
8 1 (0.78%) Veeam