Amazon EC2 Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 172 185
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 -18
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 15 36 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.21% 0.92% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 3.38% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £53,750 £70,750 -
25th Percentile £60,625 £71,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +23.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - £93,000 £84,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £53,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.93% -14.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

Amazon EC2 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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,594 1,065 1,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.72% 27.27% 26.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 466 740
10th Percentile £32,625 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.91% -10.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the Thames Valley

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire +4 14 £82,500 +13.79% 2
Oxfordshire -33 1 £57,500 -31.34% 1
Amazon EC2
South East

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (86.67%) Amazon EKS
2 13 (86.67%) Serverless
3 8 (53.33%) Amazon S3
4 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (46.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (46.67%) JMeter
2 7 (46.67%) JUnit
2 7 (46.67%) Mockito
3 6 (40.00%) Git
3 6 (40.00%) GitLab
3 6 (40.00%) SonarQube
4 5 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 5 (33.33%) JIRA
5 4 (26.67%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) JSON
1 10 (66.67%) REST
2 8 (53.33%) Spring
2 8 (53.33%) Terraform
3 7 (46.67%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (46.67%) Apache Camel
3 7 (46.67%) Hibernate
3 7 (46.67%) HTML
3 7 (46.67%) jQuery
3 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 7 (46.67%) WireMock
4 5 (33.33%) Web Services
4 5 (33.33%) XML
5 4 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (26.67%) YAML
6 2 (13.33%) JPA
6 2 (13.33%) Mustache
6 2 (13.33%) RESTful
7 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
1 13 (86.67%) Microservices
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (53.33%) BDD
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (53.33%) TDD
4 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 7 (46.67%) Workflow
5 6 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
5 6 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (33.33%) Process Management
6 5 (33.33%) SDLC
6 5 (33.33%) Security Hardening
7 4 (26.67%) Biometrics
7 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (26.67%) Issue Tracking
7 4 (26.67%) Secrets Management
8 3 (20.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 12 (80.00%) Java
3 9 (60.00%) Shell Script
4 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
5 6 (40.00%) Groovy
6 4 (26.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Ansible
3 7 (46.67%) Kibana
4 4 (26.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Dynatrace
1 7 (46.67%) Splunk
2 5 (33.33%) AppDynamics
3 4 (26.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Atlassian