Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 449 334
Rank change year-on-year -86 -115 -9
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 407 651 1,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.67% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.55% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 276 485 900
10th Percentile £40,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £88,125 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,125 £103,500 £110,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +28.57%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon EC2 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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2.

Salary trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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 -93 329 £75,000 +11.11% 106
UK excluding London -49 236 £67,500 +3.85% 53
London -13 157 £89,750 +8.79% 62
Work from Home -62 151 £68,750 +1.85% 62
Scotland -30 58 £41,500 -36.15% 10
South East -21 55 £65,000 - 10
North of England +14 51 £80,000 +23.08% 15
North West -7 36 £80,000 +33.33% 7
Midlands -6 33 £72,500 +11.54% 10
West Midlands +17 30 £72,500 +20.83% 7
East of England -39 16 £34,750 -46.54% 1
South West -26 14 £63,750 +21.43% 5
Yorkshire +57 10 £80,000 +6.67% 8
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 2
North East -5 5 £62,783 -3.41%
East Midlands -23 3 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Wales - 3 £60,000 -

Amazon EC2
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 60 (14.74%) Apache
2 55 (13.51%) Apache Spark
3 17 (4.18%) Confluence
4 14 (3.44%) SAS
5 9 (2.21%) nginx
6 8 (1.97%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (1.23%) WordPress
9 3 (0.74%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) IIS
10 1 (0.25%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 407 (100.00%) AWS
2 263 (64.62%) Amazon S3
3 234 (57.49%) Serverless
4 226 (55.53%) AWS Lambda
5 122 (29.98%) Amazon ECS
6 113 (27.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 99 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
8 89 (21.87%) Amazon SQS
9 67 (16.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 60 (14.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 59 (14.50%) Amazon EMR
12 49 (12.04%) Azure
13 38 (9.34%) Route 53
14 36 (8.85%) GitHub
15 35 (8.60%) Amazon Kinesis
16 32 (7.86%) OpenShift
17 31 (7.62%) Amazon ELB
18 28 (6.88%) CloudFront
19 24 (5.90%) AWS CloudTrail
19 24 (5.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.13%) DNS
2 18 (4.42%) VPN
3 14 (3.44%) Firewall
4 12 (2.95%) HTTP
4 12 (2.95%) Network Security
4 12 (2.95%) Unified Communications
5 10 (2.46%) DHCP
6 8 (1.97%) MQTT
7 7 (1.72%) IPv4
7 7 (1.72%) IPv6
7 7 (1.72%) VoIP
8 6 (1.47%) WAN
9 5 (1.23%) AMQP
9 5 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.74%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.74%) LAN
10 3 (0.74%) SSL
10 3 (0.74%) Wireless
11 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (53.81%) Amazon RDS
2 82 (20.15%) NoSQL
3 80 (19.66%) Amazon Redshift
4 53 (13.02%) MySQL
5 51 (12.53%) Big Data
5 51 (12.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 51 (12.53%) Hadoop
6 45 (11.06%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (10.81%) DynamoDB
8 40 (9.83%) Relational Database
9 33 (8.11%) RDBMS
10 28 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (4.42%) Tableau
12 15 (3.69%) Amazon QuickSight
13 14 (3.44%) Data Mining
14 12 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (2.21%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
17 6 (1.47%) BigQuery
17 6 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 95 (23.34%) Git
2 79 (19.41%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.88%) Artifactory
4 27 (6.63%) GitLab
5 25 (6.14%) Postman
6 23 (5.65%) JIRA
7 18 (4.42%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.19%) Subversion
9 8 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.72%) JUnit
11 5 (1.23%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.23%) Maven
12 4 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.98%) JMeter
12 4 (0.98%) Mockito
12 4 (0.98%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.98%) Sourcetree
12 4 (0.98%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.74%) Metasploit
General
1 111 (27.27%) Finance
2 87 (21.38%) Social Skills
3 68 (16.71%) Law
4 67 (16.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (12.53%) Legal
6 28 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (6.39%) Front Office
8 14 (3.44%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.47%) Retail
10 4 (0.98%) Marketing
10 4 (0.98%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.74%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.49%) Aviation
12 2 (0.49%) Banking
12 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 153 (37.59%) AWS Engineer
2 91 (22.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (15.23%) Software Engineer
4 56 (13.76%) Lead
5 54 (13.27%) Senior
6 50 (12.29%) AWS Software Engineer
6 50 (12.29%) Big Data Engineer
6 50 (12.29%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 50 (12.29%) Scala Engineer
6 50 (12.29%) Scala Software Engineer
7 48 (11.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (11.55%) AWS DevOps
9 46 (11.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 44 (10.81%) Developer
11 34 (8.35%) Technical Leader
12 32 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 32 (7.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 29 (7.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 24 (5.90%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (5.41%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.58%) Spring
2 36 (8.85%) JSON
3 33 (8.11%) Spring Boot
4 29 (7.13%) Node.js
5 26 (6.39%) J2EE
6 24 (5.90%) React
7 23 (5.65%) HTML
8 22 (5.41%) AngularJS
9 19 (4.67%) CSS
10 15 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (3.69%) RESTful
11 14 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (3.19%) Laravel
13 12 (2.95%) Kafka
13 12 (2.95%) REST
14 10 (2.46%) .NET
15 8 (1.97%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.97%) LDAP
16 7 (1.72%) LEMP Stack
17 6 (1.47%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.29%) Algorithms
2 43 (10.57%) Data Centre
3 39 (9.58%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.39%) Management Information System
4 26 (6.39%) Tandem
5 17 (4.18%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.46%) IoT
8 10 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.21%) PropTech
10 7 (1.72%) Clustering
10 7 (1.72%) Smartcard
11 6 (1.47%) Blog
11 6 (1.47%) Educational Technology
11 6 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.47%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.95%) Linux
2 45 (11.06%) Windows
3 18 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.97%) Unix
6 7 (1.72%) Android
7 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.49%) Debian
9 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.49%) Solaris
9 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (52.58%) CI/CD
2 191 (46.93%) DevOps
3 159 (39.07%) Agile
4 145 (35.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 144 (35.38%) Software Engineering
6 100 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (19.90%) Containerisation
7 81 (19.90%) SDLC
8 72 (17.69%) Visualisation
9 65 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (14.74%) Risk Management
11 59 (14.50%) Computer Science
12 50 (12.29%) Operational Stability
12 50 (12.29%) Performance Tuning
13 46 (11.30%) Deployment Automation
14 43 (10.57%) Microservices
15 42 (10.32%) Data Modelling
16 40 (9.83%) Technical Leadership
17 39 (9.58%) Decision-Making
18 38 (9.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 178 (43.73%) Python
2 164 (40.29%) Java
3 103 (25.31%) SQL
4 54 (13.27%) Scala
5 50 (12.29%) Go
6 42 (10.32%) JavaScript
7 35 (8.60%) Bash
8 34 (8.35%) PHP
9 21 (5.16%) PowerShell
10 19 (4.67%) R
11 17 (4.18%) TypeScript
12 15 (3.69%) C#
13 14 (3.44%) MATLAB
13 14 (3.44%) Shell Script
14 10 (2.46%) Ruby
15 7 (1.72%) C++
16 6 (1.47%) Rust
17 5 (1.23%) JSX
17 5 (1.23%) VBA
18 4 (0.98%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (18.43%) AWS Certification
2 70 (17.20%) Degree
3 59 (14.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (9.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (7.86%) SC Cleared
5 32 (7.86%) Security Cleared
6 15 (3.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.69%) NIST
2 12 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.72%) QA
4 6 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 120 (29.48%) Docker
2 19 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 179 (43.98%) Terraform
2 144 (35.38%) Kubernetes
3 54 (13.27%) Ansible
4 20 (4.91%) Puppet
5 16 (3.93%) Progress Chef
6 14 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (3.44%) Packer
7 13 (3.19%) Grafana
8 12 (2.95%) Prometheus
9 9 (2.21%) Kibana
10 7 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.74%) Autotask
12 3 (0.74%) Salt
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.25%) Rancher
13 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.16%) Oracle
3 15 (3.69%) Apple
3 15 (3.69%) Google
4 14 (3.44%) Adobe
5 11 (2.70%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.72%) Splunk
7 6 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.47%) VMware
8 3 (0.74%) Black Duck
8 3 (0.74%) Facebook
8 3 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.74%) New Relic
8 3 (0.74%) Rackspace
8 3 (0.74%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.49%) Sage
10 1 (0.25%) IBM
10 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.25%) SAP