Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,653 16,173 39,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.07% 17.06% 23.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.26% 39.58% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7,671 9,951 16,194
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +11.36%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36,127 40,865 82,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.32% 43.11% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,017 27,416 41,323
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,553 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +6.85%
75th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS.

Salary trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Top 19 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 2 June 2024. 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 -4 9,326 £70,000 -6.67% 2,605
UK excluding London -4 7,153 £60,000 -4.00% 1,400
Work from Home -2 5,264 £70,000 -6.67% 1,526
London -2 4,048 £87,500 +2.94% 1,349
North of England -7 1,743 £62,783 +0.45% 443
Scotland +2 1,621 £60,000 - 109
South East -14 1,200 £60,000 -7.69% 260
North West -8 1,018 £62,783 -3.41% 296
South West -6 949 £60,000 - 213
Midlands -13 894 £60,000 -4.00% 203
Yorkshire -6 552 £60,000 - 110
West Midlands -19 455 £60,000 -7.69% 123
East Midlands -9 437 £57,500 - 80
East of England -8 394 £55,000 -15.38% 85
Wales +2 194 £52,500 +2.73% 45
North East 0 173 £63,749 +15.91% 37
Northern Ireland +12 149 £60,000 +14.29% 62
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 6 £85,000 -

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 761 (6.53%) Apache
2 720 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
3 673 (5.78%) Apache Spark
4 334 (2.87%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.86%) GeoServer
6 173 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 130 (1.12%) Confluence
8 123 (1.06%) SharePoint
9 95 (0.82%) CMS
10 81 (0.70%) nginx
11 68 (0.58%) IIS
12 64 (0.55%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.45%) WebLogic
14 42 (0.36%) WordPress
15 37 (0.32%) Drupal
15 37 (0.32%) Tuxedo
16 24 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
17 23 (0.20%) Tomcat
18 21 (0.18%) Umbraco
19 20 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 95 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.23%) Simulink
4 25 (0.21%) Adobe XD
5 18 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.13%) Trello
7 14 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.094%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.043%) OrCAD
9 5 (0.043%) Sketch
9 5 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.034%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.026%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.009%) Revit
12 1 (0.009%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 64 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.086%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.060%) Shopify
6 6 (0.051%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.051%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.051%) Ripple
7 5 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.043%) Magento
7 5 (0.043%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.043%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.043%) SAP PP
7 5 (0.043%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.034%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.034%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 3 (0.026%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 5,269 (45.22%) Azure
2 2,347 (20.14%) GCP
3 986 (8.46%) Serverless
4 892 (7.65%) SaaS
5 679 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
6 548 (4.70%) Amazon S3
7 546 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
8 485 (4.16%) Snowflake
9 470 (4.03%) dbt
9 470 (4.03%) GitHub
10 430 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
11 416 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 355 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
12 355 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
13 352 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 328 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
15 280 (2.40%) Power Platform
16 270 (2.32%) PaaS
17 247 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
18 232 (1.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 582 (4.99%) Firewall
2 418 (3.59%) DNS
3 265 (2.27%) WAN
4 237 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 207 (1.78%) DHCP
6 195 (1.67%) VPN
7 193 (1.66%) LAN
8 183 (1.57%) Network Security
9 127 (1.09%) HTTP
10 116 (1.00%) SD-WAN
11 106 (0.91%) SAN
12 103 (0.88%) BGP
13 97 (0.83%) SSL
14 92 (0.79%) VLAN
14 92 (0.79%) Wireless
15 90 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
16 88 (0.76%) Internet
17 62 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
18 59 (0.51%) VoIP
19 48 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,200 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
2 911 (7.82%) NoSQL
3 816 (7.00%) SQL Server
4 688 (5.90%) MySQL
5 629 (5.40%) Big Data
6 601 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
7 590 (5.06%) MongoDB
8 583 (5.00%) Data Lake
9 470 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
10 465 (3.99%) Relational Database
11 434 (3.72%) Apache Ignite
12 415 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
13 387 (3.32%) Dremio
14 382 (3.28%) Apache Arrow
15 369 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
16 368 (3.16%) Hadoop
17 364 (3.12%) GIS
18 345 (2.96%) Tableau
19 330 (2.83%) QGIS
20 279 (2.39%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1,122 (9.63%) Git
2 641 (5.50%) Jenkins
3 424 (3.64%) GitLab
4 389 (3.34%) JIRA
5 196 (1.68%) Cypress.io
6 186 (1.60%) JUnit
7 172 (1.48%) Selenium
8 105 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 91 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 88 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
11 78 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 74 (0.64%) Jasmine
13 68 (0.58%) Artifactory
13 68 (0.58%) CircleCI
14 67 (0.57%) Postman
15 63 (0.54%) SonarQube
16 62 (0.53%) Maven
16 62 (0.53%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.51%) Protractor
General
1 3,263 (28.00%) Finance
2 2,236 (19.19%) Social Skills
3 1,581 (13.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,341 (11.51%) Law
5 1,004 (8.62%) Banking
6 959 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
7 782 (6.71%) Marketing
8 711 (6.10%) Front Office
9 529 (4.54%) Investment Banking
10 511 (4.39%) Public Sector
11 486 (4.17%) Legal
12 452 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
13 421 (3.61%) Retail
14 215 (1.85%) Financial Institution
15 211 (1.81%) Games
16 175 (1.50%) Tech for Good
17 173 (1.48%) Aerospace
18 112 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 106 (0.91%) Billing
20 101 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,863 (24.57%) Developer
2 2,742 (23.53%) Senior
3 2,700 (23.17%) Software Engineer
4 1,652 (14.18%) Lead
5 1,385 (11.89%) Architect
6 985 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
7 789 (6.77%) Senior Developer
8 766 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 707 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 657 (5.64%) Python Engineer
11 635 (5.45%) Java Engineer
12 588 (5.05%) Data Engineer
13 553 (4.75%) Java Software Engineer
14 530 (4.55%) .NET Developer
15 520 (4.46%) Python Software Engineer
16 495 (4.25%) AWS Software Engineer
17 492 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
18 484 (4.15%) Java Developer
19 474 (4.07%) Full Stack Developer
20 446 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,205 (18.92%) React
2 1,537 (13.19%) .NET
3 1,236 (10.61%) Node.js
4 1,014 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 876 (7.52%) CSS
6 851 (7.30%) Spring
7 819 (7.03%) .NET Core
8 684 (5.87%) Kafka
9 672 (5.77%) Vue
10 664 (5.70%) Spring Boot
11 607 (5.21%) HTML
12 566 (4.86%) RESTful
13 559 (4.80%) gRPC
14 493 (4.23%) Protocol Buffers
15 489 (4.20%) REST
16 456 (3.91%) ASP.NET
17 439 (3.77%) .NET Framework
18 395 (3.39%) Pandas
19 377 (3.24%) Laravel
20 353 (3.03%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 828 (7.11%) Cloud Native
2 806 (6.92%) Public Cloud
3 672 (5.77%) Hedge funds
4 640 (5.49%) Fixed Income
5 563 (4.83%) Algorithms
6 546 (4.69%) Equities
7 483 (4.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 482 (4.14%) Derivative
9 397 (3.41%) Product Ownership
10 377 (3.24%) Management Information System
11 345 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
12 314 (2.69%) Onboarding
13 309 (2.65%) Data Centre
14 296 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
15 261 (2.24%) Data Structures
16 254 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
17 197 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
18 189 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
19 166 (1.42%) Private Cloud
20 164 (1.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,375 (11.80%) Linux
2 878 (7.53%) Windows
3 397 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 307 (2.63%) Unix
5 238 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 162 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 113 (0.97%) Android
8 98 (0.84%) CentOS
9 92 (0.79%) Apple iOS
10 62 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 60 (0.51%) Debian
11 60 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 47 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 45 (0.39%) Windows 10
14 30 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
15 25 (0.21%) Solaris
15 25 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
16 19 (0.16%) CoreOS
17 16 (0.14%) VMS
18 10 (0.086%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,152 (44.21%) Agile
2 3,977 (34.13%) Software Engineering
3 3,035 (26.04%) DevOps
4 2,844 (24.41%) CI/CD
5 2,053 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
6 1,707 (14.65%) Microservices
7 1,552 (13.32%) Full Stack Development
8 1,545 (13.26%) SDLC
9 1,463 (12.55%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,431 (12.28%) Mentoring
11 1,282 (11.00%) Machine Learning
12 1,179 (10.12%) TDD
13 1,055 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 1,041 (8.93%) Scrum
15 1,015 (8.71%) Operational Stability
16 1,008 (8.65%) Asset Management
17 980 (8.41%) Actionable Insight
18 976 (8.38%) Computer Science
19 956 (8.20%) Analytics
20 894 (7.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3,939 (33.80%) Python
2 3,160 (27.12%) Java
3 2,686 (23.05%) JavaScript
4 2,349 (20.16%) SQL
5 1,759 (15.09%) TypeScript
6 1,483 (12.73%) C#
7 582 (4.99%) PHP
8 445 (3.82%) PowerShell
9 437 (3.75%) Scala
10 394 (3.38%) Go
11 376 (3.23%) Bash
12 320 (2.75%) Kotlin
13 218 (1.87%) PL/SQL
14 172 (1.48%) Ruby
15 143 (1.23%) C++
16 124 (1.06%) R
17 109 (0.94%) C
18 106 (0.91%) T-SQL
19 87 (0.75%) Shell Script
20 73 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,400 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 1,303 (11.18%) Degree
3 1,021 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 609 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 515 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 309 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 271 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 233 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 220 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
10 200 (1.72%) DBS Check
11 199 (1.71%) CISSP
12 187 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 139 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 129 (1.11%) CISM
15 126 (1.08%) CCNA
16 95 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
17 76 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
18 75 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 65 (0.56%) CCSP
20 61 (0.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (3.87%) QA
2 395 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 246 (2.11%) GDPR
4 209 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 176 (1.51%) NIST
6 139 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 132 (1.13%) SLA
8 93 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 69 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 32 (0.27%) NCSC
11 29 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 23 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 22 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 20 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 20 (0.17%) PMO
15 18 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.15%) COBIT
16 17 (0.15%) WCAG
17 13 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,717 (14.73%) Docker
2 473 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 369 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 270 (2.32%) Hyper-V
5 118 (1.01%) HDFS
6 83 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 36 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 36 (0.31%) vSphere
10 34 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 27 (0.23%) XenApp
12 26 (0.22%) KVM
13 20 (0.17%) Firmware
14 19 (0.16%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
16 7 (0.060%) DFS Replication
16 7 (0.060%) VirtualBox
17 6 (0.051%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.051%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,936 (16.61%) Kubernetes
2 1,840 (15.79%) Terraform
3 771 (6.62%) Ansible
4 267 (2.29%) Puppet
5 242 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 241 (2.07%) Grafana
7 130 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 116 (1.00%) Progress Chef
9 89 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 58 (0.50%) SCCM
11 41 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 40 (0.34%) Nagios
13 38 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 33 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 32 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 32 (0.27%) Kibana
16 31 (0.27%) Packer
17 29 (0.25%) Istio
18 23 (0.20%) Consul
19 21 (0.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,422 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 1,042 (8.94%) Google
3 584 (5.01%) Oracle
4 530 (4.55%) VMware
5 523 (4.49%) Databricks
6 333 (2.86%) ESRI
7 324 (2.78%) Cisco
8 266 (2.28%) Red Hat
9 196 (1.68%) Splunk
10 193 (1.66%) Dynatrace
11 128 (1.10%) Informatica
12 111 (0.95%) Citrix
13 108 (0.93%) IBM
14 89 (0.76%) Cloudera
15 84 (0.72%) Salesforce
16 82 (0.70%) ServiceNow
17 77 (0.66%) Palo Alto
18 73 (0.63%) Alteryx
19 68 (0.58%) Dell
20 65 (0.56%) Bloomberg