AWS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,107 3,524 3,428
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.02% 9.42% 11.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.47% 29.24% 29.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,545 1,837 2,455
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,621 12,052 11,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.47% 32.20% 37.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,816 6,625 9,516
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,375 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,364
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AWS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
North of England -13 778 £60,000 - 519
South East -35 441 £64,500 +7.50% 400
North West -10 360 £60,000 -1.80% 304
Yorkshire +2 347 £60,000 +1.48% 163
Midlands -28 322 £62,000 +3.33% 180
South West -20 229 £61,250 -0.64% 158
West Midlands -33 192 £60,000 - 111
East of England -21 149 £65,000 -7.14% 121
East Midlands -21 128 £63,750 -1.92% 69
Scotland -31 122 £48,000 -26.15% 69
North East +1 73 £50,000 -27.86% 56
Northern Ireland 0 64 £73,801 +0.88% 35
Wales -40 25 £70,039 +46.68% 33
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (1.66%) Apache
1 35 (1.66%) Apache Spark
2 33 (1.57%) WordPress
3 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (1.09%) Confluence
6 15 (0.71%) IIS
6 15 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 13 (0.62%) nginx
9 12 (0.57%) CMS
10 9 (0.43%) Skype for Business
11 8 (0.38%) SAS
12 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.28%) Appian
13 5 (0.24%) Drupal
13 5 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
13 5 (0.24%) JBoss
14 4 (0.19%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 73 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.14%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.095%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.095%) S-PLUS
7 2 (0.095%) Weka
8 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.33%) Magento
3 7 (0.33%) Shopify
4 6 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.047%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (58.99%) Azure
2 383 (18.18%) GCP
3 361 (17.13%) GitHub
4 253 (12.01%) Serverless
5 217 (10.30%) SaaS
6 173 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
7 164 (7.78%) Amazon S3
8 148 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 109 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
11 100 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
12 82 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
13 79 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
14 76 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (3.32%) Entra ID
16 68 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
17 53 (2.52%) Power Platform
18 47 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
19 45 (2.14%) AWS Step Functions
20 44 (2.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 241 (11.44%) Internet
2 134 (6.36%) Firewall
3 92 (4.37%) DNS
4 55 (2.61%) VPN
5 53 (2.52%) WAN
6 49 (2.33%) TCP/IP
7 44 (2.09%) LAN
8 43 (2.04%) DHCP
9 36 (1.71%) Network Security
10 29 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
11 27 (1.28%) SD-WAN
11 27 (1.28%) VLAN
12 23 (1.09%) HTTP
12 23 (1.09%) SAN
13 22 (1.04%) SSH
14 19 (0.90%) Wireless
15 17 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (0.71%) BGP
17 13 (0.62%) SSL
18 12 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (6.31%) SQL Server
3 108 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 106 (5.03%) MySQL
5 81 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 71 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (3.32%) MongoDB
8 64 (3.04%) Relational Database
9 63 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
10 45 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 40 (1.90%) Power BI
12 34 (1.61%) Redis
13 25 (1.19%) Big Data
14 22 (1.04%) Tableau
15 21 (1.00%) RDBMS
16 18 (0.85%) Metadata
17 17 (0.81%) Data Lake
18 16 (0.76%) Hadoop
19 13 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 401 (19.03%) Git
2 186 (8.83%) Jenkins
3 94 (4.46%) GitLab
4 53 (2.52%) JIRA
5 39 (1.85%) JUnit
5 39 (1.85%) Selenium
6 33 (1.57%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.33%) Maven
8 25 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 25 (1.19%) SonarQube
9 23 (1.09%) JMeter
10 22 (1.04%) Mockito
11 21 (1.00%) Robot Framework
12 20 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
12 20 (0.95%) Snyk
13 15 (0.71%) Postman
14 14 (0.66%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.66%) TeamCity
15 11 (0.52%) Vagrant
16 10 (0.47%) CircleCI
General
1 636 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 261 (12.39%) Finance
3 227 (10.77%) Multimedia
4 160 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 97 (4.60%) Law
7 83 (3.94%) Marketing
8 77 (3.65%) Retail
9 65 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (2.90%) French Language
11 57 (2.71%) Swedish Language
12 48 (2.28%) Telecoms
13 40 (1.90%) Games
14 37 (1.76%) Legal
15 34 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (1.47%) Manufacturing
17 24 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
18 21 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
19 20 (0.95%) Banking
20 19 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 505 (23.97%) Developer
2 371 (17.61%) Senior
3 233 (11.06%) Trainee
4 216 (10.25%) Architect
5 212 (10.06%) Lead
6 186 (8.83%) Software Developer
7 149 (7.07%) Software Engineer
8 139 (6.60%) Analyst
9 121 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 109 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 108 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 108 (5.13%) Trainee Developer
12 101 (4.79%) Trainee Software Developer
13 97 (4.60%) Java Developer
14 95 (4.51%) Senior Developer
15 80 (3.80%) Support Engineer
16 70 (3.32%) Data Engineer
17 69 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
18 61 (2.90%) Service Analyst
18 61 (2.90%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (15.99%) HTML
2 325 (15.42%) React
3 324 (15.38%) CSS
4 216 (10.25%) .NET
5 161 (7.64%) Node.js
6 138 (6.55%) Spring
7 134 (6.36%) RESTful
8 128 (6.07%) Spring Boot
9 114 (5.41%) REST
10 112 (5.32%) AngularJS
11 62 (2.94%) Kafka
12 61 (2.90%) Django
13 59 (2.80%) .NET Core
13 59 (2.80%) Vue
14 49 (2.33%) JSON
15 41 (1.95%) XML
16 39 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
17 37 (1.76%) Web Services
18 35 (1.66%) Hibernate
19 33 (1.57%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 219 (10.39%) Cloud Native
2 95 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 53 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 39 (1.85%) Security Posture
8 37 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 36 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 28 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 25 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.09%) Driving Licence
15 23 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
16 20 (0.95%) AI Agents
17 18 (0.85%) IoT
17 18 (0.85%) Mobile App
18 16 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 248 (11.77%) Linux
2 210 (9.97%) Windows
3 87 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.47%) Unix
5 26 (1.23%) VMS
6 21 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 18 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.57%) Debian
9 11 (0.52%) CentOS
10 10 (0.47%) Android
11 9 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.33%) Mac OS X
12 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.14%) AIX
16 3 (0.14%) Windows 10
17 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (29.52%) CI/CD
2 606 (28.76%) Agile
3 595 (28.24%) DevOps
4 559 (26.53%) Mentoring
5 401 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
6 369 (17.51%) Cybersecurity
7 329 (15.61%) Software Engineering
8 325 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 305 (14.48%) Microservices
10 304 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 257 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
12 249 (11.82%) AI
13 229 (10.87%) Containerisation
14 226 (10.73%) Roadmaps
15 200 (9.49%) ITIL
16 158 (7.50%) Test Automation
17 147 (6.98%) Computer Science
18 139 (6.60%) Machine Learning
19 135 (6.41%) Migration
20 131 (6.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 757 (35.93%) Python
2 565 (26.82%) JavaScript
3 368 (17.47%) Java
3 368 (17.47%) SQL
4 240 (11.39%) TypeScript
5 223 (10.58%) C#
6 141 (6.69%) R
7 128 (6.07%) PowerShell
8 119 (5.65%) Bash
9 73 (3.46%) PHP
10 49 (2.33%) Go
11 45 (2.14%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.38%) Groovy
13 27 (1.28%) PL/SQL
14 25 (1.19%) C++
15 23 (1.09%) Bicep
16 21 (1.00%) Scala
17 20 (0.95%) C
18 14 (0.66%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 470 (22.31%) AWS Certification
2 369 (17.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 308 (14.62%) Azure Certification
4 281 (13.34%) Security Cleared
5 275 (13.05%) Degree
6 233 (11.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 186 (8.83%) SC Cleared
8 101 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 85 (4.03%) DV Cleared
10 82 (3.89%) MCSE
11 66 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 47 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
13 46 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
14 42 (1.99%) CISSP
15 34 (1.61%) Master's Degree
16 27 (1.28%) CCNP
17 26 (1.23%) MCP
18 25 (1.19%) CISM
19 24 (1.14%) A+ Certification
20 20 (0.95%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (6.41%) QA
2 77 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 56 (2.66%) NIST
5 52 (2.47%) GDPR
6 42 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 28 (1.33%) SLA
8 26 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 24 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 22 (1.04%) Accessibility
11 15 (0.71%) NCSC
12 14 (0.66%) GRC
13 12 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.57%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.38%) WCAG
15 7 (0.33%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.24%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.24%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 381 (18.08%) Docker
2 121 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 81 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.76%) vSphere
6 12 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.28%) Firmware
9 5 (0.24%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.19%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.19%) Postfix
10 4 (0.19%) Squid
11 3 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 3 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.095%) KVM
12 2 (0.095%) ProxySG
12 2 (0.095%) vCloud
13 1 (0.047%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 363 (17.23%) Terraform
2 324 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 163 (7.74%) Ansible
4 93 (4.41%) Grafana
5 71 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.04%) Kibana
9 17 (0.81%) HP Fortify
9 17 (0.81%) Nagios
10 15 (0.71%) Argo
10 15 (0.71%) Puppet
11 12 (0.57%) ZABBIX
12 10 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
12 10 (0.47%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.43%) Nmap
14 8 (0.38%) SCCM
15 7 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
15 7 (0.33%) Nessus
16 6 (0.28%) Control-M
Vendors
1 544 (25.82%) Microsoft
2 119 (5.65%) VMware
3 112 (5.32%) Google
4 96 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 87 (4.13%) Oracle
6 52 (2.47%) Cisco
7 49 (2.33%) Splunk
8 40 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 38 (1.80%) Adobe
10 36 (1.71%) SolarWinds
11 35 (1.66%) Fortinet
12 32 (1.52%) SAP
13 31 (1.47%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.42%) Databricks
15 23 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
15 23 (1.09%) Dell
16 21 (1.00%) Informatica
16 21 (1.00%) Okta
17 19 (0.90%) Black Duck
17 19 (0.90%) MuleSoft