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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 53 27
Rank change year-on-year +21 -26 +5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 133 50 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 5.31% 4.37% 7.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.75% 14.16% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 100 36 99
10th Percentile £47,250 - £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 £99,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,625 £95,250
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 641 353 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 25.58% 30.88% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 516 263 334
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,750 £36,975
25th Percentile £38,375 £34,250 £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 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.35% -10.91% -

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 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 1 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 -3 36 £67,500 -16.92% 27
Staines - 33 £50,000 - 1
Woking -12 15 £55,000 -45.00% 9
Camberley - 10 £55,000 - 7
Reigate -6 9 £112,500 - 1
Leatherhead - 7 £35,000 -
Godalming - 2 - -
Epsom -1 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 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.76%) 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 21 (15.79%) SaaS
5 16 (12.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (9.77%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (9.02%) Snowflake
8 7 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.76%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.01%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (3.01%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (2.26%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 3 (2.26%) ChatGPT
12 3 (2.26%) Google Gemini
12 3 (2.26%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.53%) Firewall
2 17 (12.78%) VPN
3 9 (6.77%) HTTP
4 5 (3.76%) DNS
4 5 (3.76%) 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 12 (9.02%) MySQL
3 10 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.77%) Redis
5 8 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.51%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.01%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.26%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.50%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.75%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.75%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 20 (15.04%) Git
2 9 (6.77%) Gatling
2 9 (6.77%) JMeter
2 9 (6.77%) LoadRunner
3 8 (6.02%) JIRA
4 4 (3.01%) GitLab
5 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.50%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 49 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.80%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (20.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (13.53%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.77%) Finance
6 7 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.26%) Retail
7 4 (3.01%) Games
8 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Legal
9 2 (1.50%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 34 (25.56%) Developer
2 29 (21.80%) Lead
3 25 (18.80%) Tester
4 24 (18.05%) Senior
5 15 (11.28%) OAT Tester
6 12 (9.02%) .NET Developer
6 12 (9.02%) Administrator
6 12 (9.02%) DevOps Administrator
6 12 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (9.02%) Senior Tester
6 12 (9.02%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (8.27%) Software Developer
8 10 (7.52%) Performance Tester
9 9 (6.77%) Architect
9 9 (6.77%) C# Software Engineer
9 9 (6.77%) Lead Developer
9 9 (6.77%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (6.77%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 9 (6.77%) Software Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.56%) Terraform
2 23 (17.29%) Vue
3 18 (13.53%) .NET
4 15 (11.28%) Node.js
5 14 (10.53%) CSS
6 13 (9.77%) HTML
7 9 (6.77%) .NET Core
8 8 (6.02%) REST
9 7 (5.26%) ASP.NET
9 7 (5.26%) Kafka
9 7 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (5.26%) Spring
10 6 (4.51%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (4.51%) FastAPI
10 6 (4.51%) React
11 5 (3.76%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.76%) RESTful
11 5 (3.76%) Spring Boot
12 4 (3.01%) .NET Framework
12 4 (3.01%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (11.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (9.02%) 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 53 (39.85%) AI
4 47 (35.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (32.33%) DevOps
6 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (22.56%) Microservices
8 27 (20.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 26 (19.55%) Cloud Security
10 25 (18.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (18.05%) Software Engineering
12 21 (15.79%) Mentoring
13 20 (15.04%) Incident Response
14 19 (14.29%) DevSecOps
14 19 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (14.29%) Observability
14 19 (14.29%) Validation
15 18 (13.53%) Collaborative Working
16 17 (12.78%) Computer Science
16 17 (12.78%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (39.85%) Python
2 30 (22.56%) SQL
3 24 (18.05%) C#
4 21 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.29%) Bash
6 18 (13.53%) JavaScript
7 14 (10.53%) Go
8 11 (8.27%) Java
9 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
10 7 (5.26%) PHP
11 3 (2.26%) C++
11 3 (2.26%) Scala
12 2 (1.50%) Perl
13 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (20.30%) SC Cleared
1 27 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.04%) Degree
3 17 (12.78%) AWS Certification
4 16 (12.03%) 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
10 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
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 18 (13.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (9.02%) NIST
2 12 (9.02%) QA
3 5 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.76%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.26%) 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 25 (18.80%) 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 24 (18.05%) Grafana
3 19 (14.29%) Ansible
4 14 (10.53%) Kibana
5 12 (9.02%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.77%) Proxmox
7 4 (3.01%) 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%) VMware
3 11 (8.27%) Google
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