AWS Job Trends in Watford

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 -11
Permanent jobs citing AWS 10 29 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 5.13% 16.29% 9.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.08% 34.94% 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 15
10th Percentile £49,550 £53,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £64,063 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +6.90% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £115,750 £84,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% - +16.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 71 83 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 36.41% 46.63% 28.05%
Number of salaries quoted 58 50 44
10th Percentile £39,250 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,972 £27,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +4.88% -6.82%
75th Percentile £86,563 £76,188 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,625 £82,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -2.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Watford

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Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing AWS

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Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Watford over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Watford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (30.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Trainee
3 1 (10.00%) Trainee Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) ETL Development
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Control-M
3 1 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (10.00%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (10.00%) OpenText
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler