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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 20 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 3,450 2,722 5,740
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.78% 8.02% 8.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.64% 29.38% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,611 1,567 3,785
10th Percentile £39,000 £38,750 £38,178
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,200 £85,600
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -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 17,564 9,266 21,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.33% 27.31% 30.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,461 6,459 15,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.45% -7.20%

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 19 July 2026.

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 19 July 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
North of England +2 1,313 £69,310 +6.63% 348
South East -1 716 £62,500 +4.17% 334
North West +2 703 £70,000 +7.69% 208
Midlands -9 502 £66,653 +6.64% 136
South West -11 455 £67,500 +10.20% 157
Yorkshire +11 411 £69,310 +2.68% 78
West Midlands -13 301 £69,306 +6.62% 83
East Midlands +12 200 £60,000 +1.69% 53
North East +7 199 £65,000 - 67
East of England 0 182 £60,100 +4.52% 55
Wales +13 139 £65,000 +13.04% 34
Scotland -45 77 £75,000 +22.45% 51
Northern Ireland -28 71 £60,000 +9.09% 20
Isle of Man +3 3 £35,000 +1.45% 1
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 91 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 61 (1.77%) Apache
3 61 (1.77%) Jupyter
4 50 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 49 (1.42%) Confluence
6 45 (1.30%) WordPress
7 24 (0.70%) IIS
7 24 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 22 (0.64%) CMS
9 15 (0.43%) SAS
10 10 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.29%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.20%) nginx
12 6 (0.17%) Documentum
12 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 5 (0.14%) JBoss
13 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.12%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 78 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (1.74%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.058%) Elementor
6 2 (0.058%) Lightworks
6 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
6 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (0.70%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.17%) Magento
5 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.058%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.058%) Shopify
7 1 (0.029%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.029%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.029%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.029%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.029%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.029%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,613 (46.75%) Azure
2 621 (18.00%) GCP
3 416 (12.06%) Serverless
4 326 (9.45%) GitHub
5 316 (9.16%) SaaS
6 282 (8.17%) Amazon S3
7 275 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
8 218 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
9 200 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 183 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
11 147 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
12 123 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
13 119 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
14 107 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 102 (2.96%) Snowflake
16 100 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
17 92 (2.67%) Entra ID
18 85 (2.46%) Power Platform
19 84 (2.43%) AWS Step Functions
20 72 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 254 (7.36%) Firewall
2 136 (3.94%) DNS
3 125 (3.62%) VPN
4 98 (2.84%) WAN
5 87 (2.52%) DHCP
6 85 (2.46%) LAN
7 82 (2.38%) Network Security
8 77 (2.23%) TCP/IP
9 57 (1.65%) Internet
10 50 (1.45%) VLAN
11 32 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
13 27 (0.78%) Broadband
14 23 (0.67%) SAN
15 21 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
15 21 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
16 19 (0.55%) HTTP
16 19 (0.55%) MQTT
17 17 (0.49%) Wireless
18 16 (0.46%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (6.23%) MongoDB
2 208 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
3 193 (5.59%) MySQL
4 169 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 158 (4.58%) SQL Server
6 137 (3.97%) DynamoDB
7 131 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
8 98 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
9 94 (2.72%) Relational Database
10 91 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 86 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
12 80 (2.32%) Power BI
13 62 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
14 61 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
14 61 (1.77%) Data Lake
15 45 (1.30%) BigQuery
16 43 (1.25%) Big Data
16 43 (1.25%) Tableau
17 42 (1.22%) Redis
18 30 (0.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 353 (10.23%) Git
2 234 (6.78%) Jenkins
3 203 (5.88%) GitLab
4 102 (2.96%) JIRA
5 61 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 54 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 51 (1.48%) SonarQube
8 48 (1.39%) Maven
9 41 (1.19%) Selenium
10 38 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.10%) JUnit
11 25 (0.72%) JMeter
12 23 (0.67%) Bitbucket
13 22 (0.64%) Claude Code
13 22 (0.64%) Postman
14 21 (0.61%) Mockito
15 16 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 14 (0.41%) Eclipse
16 14 (0.41%) MLflow
16 14 (0.41%) XCTest
General
1 747 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 371 (10.75%) Finance
3 334 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 273 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 137 (3.97%) Retail
7 104 (3.01%) Manufacturing
8 90 (2.61%) Law
9 61 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
10 59 (1.71%) Banking
11 48 (1.39%) Multimedia
12 44 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 43 (1.25%) Swedish Language
14 42 (1.22%) Games
15 41 (1.19%) Legal
16 37 (1.07%) Marketing
16 37 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 34 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
18 31 (0.90%) Local Government
19 25 (0.72%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 739 (21.42%) Developer
2 701 (20.32%) Senior
3 376 (10.90%) Software Engineer
4 350 (10.14%) Lead
5 340 (9.86%) Architect
6 306 (8.87%) AWS Engineer
7 237 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 225 (6.52%) Senior Developer
9 210 (6.09%) Data Engineer
10 208 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
11 202 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 184 (5.33%) Analyst
13 150 (4.35%) Java Developer
14 148 (4.29%) Software Developer
15 127 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 124 (3.59%) .NET Developer
17 112 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 112 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
18 100 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
19 94 (2.72%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (14.06%) React
2 459 (13.30%) Node.js
3 314 (9.10%) .NET
4 228 (6.61%) AngularJS
5 212 (6.14%) CSS
5 212 (6.14%) REST
6 191 (5.54%) HTML
7 187 (5.42%) Spring Boot
8 174 (5.04%) Spring
9 173 (5.01%) Vue
10 145 (4.20%) RESTful
11 133 (3.86%) ASP.NET
12 121 (3.51%) Kafka
13 116 (3.36%) .NET Core
13 116 (3.36%) ASP.NET Core
14 77 (2.23%) .NET Framework
15 76 (2.20%) Middleware
15 76 (2.20%) scikit-learn
16 72 (2.09%) Pandas
17 68 (1.97%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 477 (13.83%) Cloud Native
2 174 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
3 141 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 97 (2.81%) Onboarding
5 95 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
6 83 (2.41%) Algorithms
7 77 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 63 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 62 (1.80%) Mobile App
10 61 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
11 56 (1.62%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
13 50 (1.45%) AI Agents
14 49 (1.42%) Public Cloud
14 49 (1.42%) Security Posture
15 48 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
16 46 (1.33%) Data Centre
17 45 (1.30%) Data Structures
18 37 (1.07%) PKI
19 31 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 397 (11.51%) Linux
2 282 (8.17%) Windows
3 133 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 66 (1.91%) Unix
5 39 (1.13%) Ubuntu
6 32 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 30 (0.87%) CentOS
8 22 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.35%) Debian
10 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.32%) Mac OS
12 10 (0.29%) AIX
13 9 (0.26%) Android
14 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.087%) CoreOS
16 2 (0.058%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.029%) OpenBSD
17 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,097 (31.80%) CI/CD
2 1,034 (29.97%) Agile
3 877 (25.42%) DevOps
4 662 (19.19%) Software Engineering
5 644 (18.67%) AI
6 604 (17.51%) Mentoring
7 590 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
8 586 (16.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 570 (16.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 537 (15.57%) Microservices
11 489 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 421 (12.20%) Containerisation
13 403 (11.68%) Test Automation
14 307 (8.90%) Analytics
15 305 (8.84%) Scrum
16 304 (8.81%) Machine Learning
17 299 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
18 297 (8.61%) Technical Leadership
19 283 (8.20%) Observability
20 247 (7.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (30.06%) Python
2 659 (19.10%) SQL
3 552 (16.00%) Java
4 542 (15.71%) JavaScript
5 473 (13.71%) TypeScript
6 365 (10.58%) C#
7 213 (6.17%) Bash
8 152 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 117 (3.39%) PHP
10 115 (3.33%) C++
11 84 (2.43%) Go
12 69 (2.00%) Ruby
13 57 (1.65%) Groovy
14 54 (1.57%) Kotlin
15 48 (1.39%) R
16 44 (1.28%) Rust
16 44 (1.28%) Scala
17 33 (0.96%) C
18 21 (0.61%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 521 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 379 (10.99%) Degree
3 351 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 305 (8.84%) AWS Certification
5 171 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 149 (4.32%) DV Cleared
7 129 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 116 (3.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 101 (2.93%) Azure Certification
10 90 (2.61%) CISSP
11 80 (2.32%) CISM
12 67 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
12 67 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
13 59 (1.71%) MCSE
14 54 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 47 (1.36%) DBS Check
16 42 (1.22%) Master's Degree
17 29 (0.84%) CCNA
17 29 (0.84%) CCNP
18 23 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (6.78%) QA
2 164 (4.75%) Data Quality
3 122 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 109 (3.16%) NIST
5 97 (2.81%) GDPR
6 73 (2.12%) Accessibility
7 57 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 44 (1.28%) ISO 22301
9 35 (1.01%) WCAG
10 31 (0.90%) SLA
11 26 (0.75%) NCSC
12 24 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
13 22 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 21 (0.61%) GRC
15 16 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 12 (0.35%) JSP 440
17 10 (0.29%) ISO 9001
18 9 (0.26%) HIPAA
18 9 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 9 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 637 (18.46%) Docker
2 150 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 128 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 95 (2.75%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.64%) KVM
6 21 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.55%) vSphere
8 15 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.29%) Firmware
10 9 (0.26%) iptables
11 8 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.12%) NDS
14 4 (0.12%) ProxySG
14 4 (0.12%) Squid
15 3 (0.087%) Oracle Clusterware
15 3 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 634 (18.38%) Terraform
2 529 (15.33%) Kubernetes
3 237 (6.87%) Ansible
4 126 (3.65%) Grafana
5 80 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.13%) Puppet
7 37 (1.07%) Kibana
8 35 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 26 (0.75%) Argo
9 26 (0.75%) HP Fortify
9 26 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 21 (0.61%) Proxmox
11 16 (0.46%) logstash
12 15 (0.43%) Packer
12 15 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 12 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
15 9 (0.26%) Podman
16 8 (0.23%) Graylog
17 7 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 597 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 173 (5.01%) VMware
3 130 (3.77%) Google
4 105 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 102 (2.96%) Cisco
6 101 (2.93%) Databricks
7 72 (2.09%) Oracle
8 70 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 70 (2.03%) Splunk
9 44 (1.28%) Fortinet
9 44 (1.28%) Palo Alto
10 41 (1.19%) Adobe
11 38 (1.10%) Apple
12 34 (0.99%) Dell
13 31 (0.90%) Aruba
14 30 (0.87%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.81%) Salesforce
16 25 (0.72%) Atlassian
16 25 (0.72%) SolarWinds
17 23 (0.67%) SAP