AWS Job Trends

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing AWS 4,913 5,491 9,565
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.60% 12.52% 11.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.41% 33.55% 30.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,300 3,540 7,243
10th Percentile £29,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,385
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,071 16,366 31,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.36% 37.32% 37.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,973 11,127 25,702
10th Percentile £29,212 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the UK over the 6 months to 15 March 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
England -14 4,357 £70,079 -6.56% 1,992
UK excluding London -25 2,480 £60,000 - 1,496
London -3 1,964 £85,000 -2.86% 841
Work from Home -1 1,958 £75,000 +3.45% 986
North of England -15 974 £60,000 -4.00% 445
North West -16 441 £63,247 -2.70% 225
South East -35 435 £62,500 +4.17% 420
Yorkshire -2 414 £60,000 +4.35% 136
Midlands -28 376 £60,000 - 172
South West -14 303 £61,250 +2.08% 206
West Midlands -25 220 £56,900 -5.17% 100
East of England -20 183 £65,000 +4.00% 114
East Midlands -21 155 £62,500 -3.85% 72
Scotland -30 128 £55,000 -15.38% 78
North East +11 119 £47,500 -25.49% 90
Northern Ireland -9 69 £73,801 -8.89% 25
Wales -29 33 £69,479 +38.96% 50

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 184 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
2 140 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 124 (2.52%) Apache
4 82 (1.67%) WordPress
5 55 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 54 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 44 (0.90%) Confluence
8 30 (0.61%) ArcGIS
9 26 (0.53%) SharePoint
10 22 (0.45%) SAS
11 21 (0.43%) nginx
12 20 (0.41%) IIS
13 19 (0.39%) CMS
14 15 (0.31%) OpenStack
15 13 (0.26%) WebSphere
16 12 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
17 11 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
17 11 (0.22%) Tomcat
18 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
19 7 (0.14%) GeoServer
Applications
1 133 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (1.40%) Chatbot
3 39 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (0.73%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.10%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.061%) Siemens NX
9 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.041%) Weka
10 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.020%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.020%) Maya
10 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (0.49%) Endur
2 18 (0.37%) Shopify
3 14 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.24%) Magento
5 12 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.081%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.061%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.041%) Lawson
9 2 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.041%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.020%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.020%) Bloomberg AIM
10 1 (0.020%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.020%) FIS Private Capital Suite
10 1 (0.020%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.020%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.020%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 2,548 (51.86%) Azure
2 1,231 (25.06%) GCP
3 699 (14.23%) GitHub
4 602 (12.25%) Serverless
5 420 (8.55%) Amazon S3
6 414 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
7 404 (8.22%) SaaS
8 313 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 273 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 253 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
11 227 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
12 201 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
13 170 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 158 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
15 149 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
16 148 (3.01%) Snowflake
17 140 (2.85%) dbt
18 130 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
19 129 (2.63%) Entra ID
20 110 (2.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 333 (6.78%) Internet
2 310 (6.31%) Firewall
3 166 (3.38%) DNS
3 166 (3.38%) WAN
4 148 (3.01%) VPN
5 125 (2.54%) TCP/IP
6 121 (2.46%) LAN
7 108 (2.20%) Network Security
8 93 (1.89%) DHCP
9 91 (1.85%) Broadband
10 81 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
11 69 (1.40%) SD-WAN
12 57 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
12 57 (1.16%) VLAN
13 54 (1.10%) BGP
14 48 (0.98%) HTTP
15 43 (0.88%) OSPF
16 40 (0.81%) Wireless
17 34 (0.69%) Cisco Firepower
18 31 (0.63%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 266 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 199 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 197 (4.01%) MongoDB
5 194 (3.95%) MySQL
6 164 (3.34%) DynamoDB
7 159 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
8 157 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
9 140 (2.85%) Relational Database
10 131 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
11 125 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 118 (2.40%) Data Lake
13 110 (2.24%) Metadata
14 105 (2.14%) Tableau
15 90 (1.83%) Power BI
16 89 (1.81%) BigQuery
17 72 (1.47%) Redis
18 68 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
18 68 (1.38%) Big Data
19 51 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 658 (13.39%) Git
2 354 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 250 (5.09%) GitLab
4 93 (1.89%) JIRA
5 84 (1.71%) Cypress.io
6 80 (1.63%) TeamCity
7 56 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
8 51 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 49 (1.00%) Cucumber
9 49 (1.00%) Maven
10 47 (0.96%) Selenium
11 46 (0.94%) JUnit
12 44 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 43 (0.88%) Bitbucket
13 43 (0.88%) MLflow
14 37 (0.75%) JMeter
15 26 (0.53%) Robot Framework
16 25 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
17 23 (0.47%) Mockito
18 22 (0.45%) Jaeger
General
1 1,246 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 1,072 (21.82%) Finance
3 447 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
4 387 (7.88%) Banking
5 320 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 320 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 316 (6.43%) Multimedia
7 304 (6.19%) Retail
8 235 (4.78%) Law
9 135 (2.75%) Financial Institution
10 115 (2.34%) Telecoms
11 109 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
12 106 (2.16%) Marketing
13 103 (2.10%) Manufacturing
14 96 (1.95%) French Language
15 95 (1.93%) Legal
16 85 (1.73%) Front Office
17 80 (1.63%) Games
18 64 (1.30%) Swedish Language
19 61 (1.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 940 (19.13%) Senior
2 898 (18.28%) Developer
3 564 (11.48%) Lead
4 539 (10.97%) Architect
5 527 (10.73%) Software Engineer
6 371 (7.55%) Trainee
7 347 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
8 276 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 254 (5.17%) Data Engineer
10 246 (5.01%) DevOps Engineer
11 233 (4.74%) Analyst
12 221 (4.50%) Software Developer
13 214 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 182 (3.70%) Senior Developer
15 179 (3.64%) Java Developer
16 157 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 140 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
18 137 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 135 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
20 134 (2.73%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (14.39%) React
2 486 (9.89%) CSS
3 481 (9.79%) HTML
4 461 (9.38%) Node.js
5 302 (6.15%) .NET
6 281 (5.72%) Kafka
7 260 (5.29%) Spring
8 246 (5.01%) RESTful
9 242 (4.93%) Spring Boot
10 238 (4.84%) REST
11 198 (4.03%) AngularJS
12 124 (2.52%) Vue
13 122 (2.48%) Django
14 116 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
15 107 (2.18%) Pandas
16 97 (1.97%) .NET Core
17 84 (1.71%) gRPC
17 84 (1.71%) PyTorch
17 84 (1.71%) scikit-learn
18 80 (1.63%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 682 (13.88%) Cloud Native
2 292 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
3 182 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 156 (3.18%) Public Cloud
5 136 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
6 133 (2.71%) Algorithms
7 131 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 114 (2.32%) Security Posture
9 112 (2.28%) Management Information System
10 107 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 101 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
12 93 (1.89%) Onboarding
13 91 (1.85%) Data Structures
13 91 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
14 72 (1.47%) Fixed Income
15 70 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
16 65 (1.32%) Mobile App
17 56 (1.14%) PKI
18 54 (1.10%) Blog
19 52 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 488 (9.93%) Linux
2 334 (6.80%) Windows
3 145 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 129 (2.63%) Unix
5 62 (1.26%) Android
6 55 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 37 (0.75%) Windows 10
9 36 (0.73%) Ubuntu
10 35 (0.71%) Mac OS
11 32 (0.65%) CentOS
12 28 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
13 27 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
14 21 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
15 18 (0.37%) VMS
16 7 (0.14%) Debian
17 3 (0.061%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.061%) Solaris
17 3 (0.061%) SUSE
17 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,602 (32.61%) CI/CD
2 1,296 (26.38%) Agile
3 1,275 (25.95%) DevOps
4 993 (20.21%) Mentoring
5 944 (19.21%) Software Engineering
6 886 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
7 860 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 802 (16.32%) AI
9 721 (14.68%) Microservices
10 679 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 623 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
12 616 (12.54%) Full-Stack Development
13 613 (12.48%) Containerisation
14 494 (10.05%) Analytics
15 461 (9.38%) Computer Science
16 459 (9.34%) Machine Learning
17 451 (9.18%) Test Automation
18 432 (8.79%) Roadmaps
19 372 (7.57%) Observability
20 361 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,935 (39.39%) Python
2 998 (20.31%) JavaScript
3 929 (18.91%) Java
4 707 (14.39%) SQL
5 644 (13.11%) TypeScript
6 332 (6.76%) C#
7 331 (6.74%) Bash
8 294 (5.98%) Go
9 217 (4.42%) R
10 208 (4.23%) PowerShell
11 131 (2.67%) PHP
12 94 (1.91%) C++
13 90 (1.83%) Scala
14 76 (1.55%) Kotlin
15 60 (1.22%) Rust
16 52 (1.06%) C
17 37 (0.75%) Shell Script
18 34 (0.69%) Groovy
19 30 (0.61%) Bicep
20 29 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 831 (16.91%) AWS Certification
2 746 (15.18%) Degree
3 625 (12.72%) Security Cleared
4 481 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 474 (9.65%) Azure Certification
6 392 (7.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 377 (7.67%) SC Cleared
8 319 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 184 (3.75%) DV Cleared
10 134 (2.73%) CISSP
11 119 (2.42%) MCSE
12 116 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
13 108 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 108 (2.20%) Master's Degree
14 75 (1.53%) CISM
15 72 (1.47%) CCNP
16 58 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
17 51 (1.04%) CCIE
18 49 (1.00%) OSCP
19 48 (0.98%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (6.07%) QA
2 196 (3.99%) GDPR
3 187 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 185 (3.77%) Data Quality
5 160 (3.26%) NIST
6 97 (1.97%) PCI DSS
7 95 (1.93%) Accessibility
8 68 (1.38%) SLA
9 62 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 56 (1.14%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.88%) GRC
12 42 (0.85%) HIPAA
13 39 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 35 (0.71%) NCSC
15 29 (0.59%) EU AI Act
16 24 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 23 (0.47%) PSD2
18 22 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
18 22 (0.45%) Solvency II
19 18 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 877 (17.85%) Docker
2 201 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 115 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 108 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.47%) vSphere
6 21 (0.43%) KVM
7 14 (0.28%) ProxySG
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.14%) Firmware
10 7 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 4 (0.081%) iptables
13 3 (0.061%) HDFS
13 3 (0.061%) IAG
13 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.061%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 965 (19.64%) Terraform
2 872 (17.75%) Kubernetes
3 375 (7.63%) Ansible
4 284 (5.78%) Grafana
5 190 (3.87%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.55%) Argo
7 68 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 45 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (0.75%) HP Fortify
10 27 (0.55%) Kibana
11 22 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (0.41%) Puppet
13 19 (0.39%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.39%) Kustomize
14 18 (0.37%) Nagios
15 17 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
16 16 (0.33%) CASB
17 14 (0.28%) Istio
18 13 (0.26%) Progress Chef
19 12 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 883 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 327 (6.66%) Google
3 176 (3.58%) ServiceNow
4 170 (3.46%) VMware
5 160 (3.26%) Oracle
6 136 (2.77%) Cisco
7 126 (2.56%) Databricks
8 106 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 82 (1.67%) Fortinet
10 78 (1.59%) Splunk
11 72 (1.47%) Salesforce
12 69 (1.40%) Palo Alto
13 67 (1.36%) SAP
14 60 (1.22%) Dell
15 58 (1.18%) SolarWinds
16 55 (1.12%) Informatica
17 53 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
18 46 (0.94%) CheckPoint
19 40 (0.81%) Atlassian
19 40 (0.81%) OpenAI