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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 -10
Permanent jobs citing AWS 109 56 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.84% 4.88% 6.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.44% 15.69% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 85 42 116
10th Percentile £40,000 £52,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -21.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,063 £74,688
90th Percentile £92,500 £104,250 £96,250
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -11.11%

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 663 357 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 29.43% 31.12% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 478 270 435
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £85,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -4.76% -8.70%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -10 26 £67,500 -10.00% 9
Staines +8 18 £50,000 +28.21% 1
Woking -11 15 £55,000 -35.29% 5
Reigate -3 11 £101,250 - 2
Leatherhead - 6 £35,000 -
Camberley - 5 £53,750 - 1
Oxted - 4 £40,000 -
Epsom -2 3 £75,000 +15.38%
Redhill +3 1 - -
Godalming - 1 - -
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 11 (10.09%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.75%) Confluence
4 2 (1.83%) Apache
4 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.92%) JBoss
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (46.79%) Azure
2 24 (22.02%) SaaS
3 19 (17.43%) GCP
4 14 (12.84%) GitHub
5 10 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (9.17%) Snowflake
6 8 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (5.50%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.59%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.67%) Prefect
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.75%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.83%) ChatGPT
11 2 (1.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) DHCP
1 6 (5.50%) DNS
1 6 (5.50%) Firewall
1 6 (5.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.59%) VPN
3 4 (3.67%) Broadband
4 2 (1.83%) HTTP
4 2 (1.83%) LAN
4 2 (1.83%) Network Security
4 2 (1.83%) WAN
5 1 (0.92%) BGP
5 1 (0.92%) IPsec
5 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.92%) SNMP
5 1 (0.92%) SSL
5 1 (0.92%) VLAN
5 1 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.76%) MongoDB
2 11 (10.09%) MySQL
2 11 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.42%) Redis
5 6 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.50%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.75%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.83%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.83%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.83%) Impala
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.83%) Parquet
9 2 (1.83%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.83%) Tableau
10 1 (0.92%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 21 (19.27%) Git
2 5 (4.59%) JIRA
3 4 (3.67%) GitLab
4 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.83%) Gatling
5 2 (1.83%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (1.83%) JMeter
5 2 (1.83%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.83%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 35 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.84%) Finance
4 13 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.59%) Games
6 5 (4.59%) Local Government
7 4 (3.67%) Legal
7 4 (3.67%) Retail
8 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.92%) Law
10 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.92%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 36 (33.03%) Developer
2 26 (23.85%) Lead
3 16 (14.68%) .NET Developer
4 14 (12.84%) Senior
4 14 (12.84%) Software Engineer
5 13 (11.93%) C# Software Engineer
6 12 (11.01%) .NET Software Developer
6 12 (11.01%) .NET Software Engineer
6 12 (11.01%) C# .NET Developer
6 12 (11.01%) C# Developer
6 12 (11.01%) C# Software Developer
6 12 (11.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 11 (10.09%) Tester
8 10 (9.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (8.26%) Data Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) OAT Tester
9 9 (8.26%) Software Developer
10 7 (6.42%) Analyst
10 7 (6.42%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.50%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.94%) Vue
2 20 (18.35%) .NET
3 18 (16.51%) CSS
4 17 (15.60%) HTML
5 13 (11.93%) Node.js
6 8 (7.34%) REST
7 7 (6.42%) .NET Core
8 6 (5.50%) ASP.NET
8 6 (5.50%) FastAPI
8 6 (5.50%) PySpark
8 6 (5.50%) React
9 5 (4.59%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (4.59%) Kafka
9 5 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.59%) Spring
10 4 (3.67%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.67%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.67%) Laravel
10 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.59%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.59%) PKI
3 5 (4.59%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.67%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.67%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.83%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.84%) Linux
2 12 (11.01%) Windows
3 10 (9.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.12%) CI/CD
2 45 (41.28%) AI
3 42 (38.53%) Agile
4 38 (34.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (27.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (26.61%) Microservices
6 29 (26.61%) Software Engineering
7 27 (24.77%) DevOps
8 26 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (18.35%) SDLC
10 19 (17.43%) Machine Learning
11 17 (15.60%) Computer Science
11 17 (15.60%) Mentoring
12 15 (13.76%) Cloud Security
12 15 (13.76%) Validation
13 14 (12.84%) Generative AI
13 14 (12.84%) Incident Response
13 14 (12.84%) Information Security
14 13 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 46 (42.20%) Python
2 35 (32.11%) SQL
3 26 (23.85%) C#
4 19 (17.43%) TypeScript
5 16 (14.68%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.09%) Java
7 8 (7.34%) Bash
7 8 (7.34%) Go
8 7 (6.42%) PHP
8 7 (6.42%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.59%) Scala
10 3 (2.75%) C++
11 2 (1.83%) Perl
12 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (22.02%) Degree
2 16 (14.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (11.01%) AWS Certification
3 12 (11.01%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.01%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.50%) CISM
4 6 (5.50%) CISSP
5 5 (4.59%) CEH
6 4 (3.67%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.75%) GIAC
8 2 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.83%) CRISC
9 1 (0.92%) CCNP
9 1 (0.92%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.92%) HND
9 1 (0.92%) SSCP
9 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (8.26%) QA
3 6 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.50%) NIST
4 4 (3.67%) GDPR
4 4 (3.67%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.83%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (17.43%) Docker
2 6 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (25.69%) Kubernetes
2 21 (19.27%) Terraform
3 8 (7.34%) Grafana
4 7 (6.42%) Kibana
5 6 (5.50%) Ansible
6 4 (3.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.67%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.92%) Argo
7 1 (0.92%) CASB
7 1 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.92%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.34%) Google
3 6 (5.50%) VMware
4 5 (4.59%) Databricks
4 5 (4.59%) Splunk
5 4 (3.67%) New Relic
5 4 (3.67%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.75%) Qualys
6 3 (2.75%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.75%) Zerto
7 2 (1.83%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.83%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.83%) Oracle
7 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.92%) Cisco
8 1 (0.92%) EMC
8 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.92%) Sparx
8 1 (0.92%) Veeam