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 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 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,542 17,098 38,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.25% 17.56% 23.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.22% 40.63% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,614 10,026 16,335
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 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%

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 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%

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 28 May 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 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 -4 9,203 £70,000 -6.67% 2,516
UK excluding London -4 7,099 £60,000 -4.00% 1,467
Work from Home -3 5,230 £70,000 -6.67% 1,530
London -2 3,991 £87,500 +2.94% 1,224
North of England -6 1,716 £62,783 +0.45% 446
Scotland +1 1,646 £60,000 - 119
South East -16 1,175 £60,000 -7.69% 264
North West -6 998 £62,783 -3.41% 287
South West -5 953 £60,000 - 200
Midlands -12 878 £58,500 -6.40% 226
Yorkshire -3 547 £60,000 - 121
West Midlands -19 449 £60,000 -7.69% 143
East Midlands -7 427 £57,500 - 83
East of England -14 393 £55,000 -15.38% 109
Wales +2 185 £50,000 -3.85% 51
North East -6 171 £63,749 +15.91% 38
Northern Ireland +9 143 £60,000 +14.29% 76
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
1 750 (6.50%) Apache
2 712 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
3 688 (5.96%) Apache Spark
4 334 (2.89%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.89%) GeoServer
6 170 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 132 (1.14%) Confluence
8 127 (1.10%) SharePoint
9 91 (0.79%) CMS
10 80 (0.69%) nginx
11 70 (0.61%) IIS
12 68 (0.59%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.45%) WebLogic
14 41 (0.36%) WordPress
15 37 (0.32%) Tuxedo
16 36 (0.31%) Drupal
17 24 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
18 22 (0.19%) Tomcat
19 20 (0.17%) JBoss
19 20 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 94 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 84 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 25 (0.22%) Simulink
4 20 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.13%) Trello
7 14 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 13 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
11 5 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.043%) OrCAD
11 5 (0.043%) Sketch
12 4 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.035%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 64 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
5 7 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.052%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.052%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.052%) Shopify
7 5 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.043%) Magento
7 5 (0.043%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.043%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.043%) SAP PP
7 5 (0.043%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.026%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.026%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.026%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.017%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5,242 (45.42%) Azure
2 2,322 (20.12%) GCP
3 982 (8.51%) Serverless
4 878 (7.61%) SaaS
5 675 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
6 550 (4.77%) Amazon S3
7 549 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 472 (4.09%) Snowflake
9 464 (4.02%) GitHub
10 450 (3.90%) dbt
11 435 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
12 407 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
13 360 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
14 356 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
15 348 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 333 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
17 272 (2.36%) PaaS
18 270 (2.34%) Power Platform
19 249 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
20 234 (2.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 575 (4.98%) Firewall
2 420 (3.64%) DNS
3 261 (2.26%) WAN
4 236 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 208 (1.80%) DHCP
6 190 (1.65%) VPN
7 187 (1.62%) LAN
8 176 (1.52%) Network Security
9 126 (1.09%) HTTP
10 116 (1.01%) SD-WAN
11 108 (0.94%) SAN
12 102 (0.88%) BGP
13 98 (0.85%) SSL
14 92 (0.80%) Wireless
15 91 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
16 88 (0.76%) Internet
17 87 (0.75%) VLAN
18 58 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
19 57 (0.49%) VoIP
20 47 (0.41%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,190 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 912 (7.90%) NoSQL
3 814 (7.05%) SQL Server
4 678 (5.87%) MySQL
5 638 (5.53%) Big Data
6 595 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
7 588 (5.09%) MongoDB
8 568 (4.92%) Data Lake
9 468 (4.05%) Relational Database
10 456 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
11 425 (3.68%) Apache Ignite
12 405 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
13 376 (3.26%) Hadoop
14 374 (3.24%) Dremio
15 372 (3.22%) Elasticsearch
16 369 (3.20%) Apache Arrow
17 364 (3.15%) GIS
18 338 (2.93%) Tableau
19 330 (2.86%) QGIS
20 267 (2.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1,120 (9.70%) Git
2 650 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 424 (3.67%) GitLab
4 392 (3.40%) JIRA
5 197 (1.71%) Cypress.io
6 183 (1.59%) JUnit
7 170 (1.47%) Selenium
8 103 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 91 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 89 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
11 76 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 74 (0.64%) Jasmine
13 67 (0.58%) CircleCI
13 67 (0.58%) Postman
14 66 (0.57%) Artifactory
15 62 (0.54%) Maven
15 62 (0.54%) WebDriver
16 61 (0.53%) SonarQube
17 60 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.52%) Protractor
General
1 3,262 (28.26%) Finance
2 2,215 (19.19%) Social Skills
3 1,601 (13.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,366 (11.84%) Law
5 987 (8.55%) Banking
6 952 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
7 800 (6.93%) Marketing
8 699 (6.06%) Front Office
9 521 (4.51%) Investment Banking
10 506 (4.38%) Public Sector
11 485 (4.20%) Legal
12 465 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
13 418 (3.62%) Retail
14 212 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 211 (1.83%) Games
16 175 (1.52%) Tech for Good
17 172 (1.49%) Aerospace
18 112 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 103 (0.89%) Billing
20 98 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,828 (24.50%) Developer
2 2,708 (23.46%) Senior
3 2,696 (23.36%) Software Engineer
4 1,637 (14.18%) Lead
5 1,351 (11.71%) Architect
6 975 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
7 778 (6.74%) Senior Developer
8 753 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 697 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 652 (5.65%) Python Engineer
11 637 (5.52%) Java Engineer
12 591 (5.12%) Data Engineer
13 556 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
14 527 (4.57%) .NET Developer
15 514 (4.45%) Python Software Engineer
16 493 (4.27%) AWS Software Engineer
17 492 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
18 481 (4.17%) Java Developer
19 463 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
20 449 (3.89%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,181 (18.90%) React
2 1,525 (13.21%) .NET
3 1,220 (10.57%) Node.js
4 1,023 (8.86%) AngularJS
5 869 (7.53%) CSS
6 853 (7.39%) Spring
7 820 (7.10%) .NET Core
8 682 (5.91%) Kafka
9 672 (5.82%) Vue
10 666 (5.77%) Spring Boot
11 599 (5.19%) HTML
12 566 (4.90%) RESTful
13 547 (4.74%) gRPC
14 484 (4.19%) Protocol Buffers
15 483 (4.18%) REST
16 455 (3.94%) ASP.NET
17 439 (3.80%) .NET Framework
18 386 (3.34%) Pandas
19 369 (3.20%) Laravel
20 344 (2.98%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 838 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 823 (7.13%) Public Cloud
3 658 (5.70%) Hedge funds
4 627 (5.43%) Fixed Income
5 569 (4.93%) Algorithms
6 533 (4.62%) Equities
7 470 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 469 (4.06%) Derivative
9 391 (3.39%) Product Ownership
10 369 (3.20%) Management Information System
11 340 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
12 313 (2.71%) Onboarding
13 307 (2.66%) Data Centre
14 293 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
15 264 (2.29%) Data Structures
16 256 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
17 196 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
18 192 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
19 169 (1.46%) Private Cloud
20 161 (1.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,355 (11.74%) Linux
2 872 (7.56%) Windows
3 389 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 311 (2.69%) Unix
5 235 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 155 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 110 (0.95%) Android
8 94 (0.81%) CentOS
9 92 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 63 (0.55%) Mac OS
11 60 (0.52%) Debian
12 59 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
13 47 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 43 (0.37%) Windows 10
15 32 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
16 26 (0.23%) Solaris
17 25 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
18 19 (0.16%) CoreOS
19 16 (0.14%) VMS
20 10 (0.087%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,134 (44.48%) Agile
2 3,963 (34.34%) Software Engineering
3 2,997 (25.97%) DevOps
4 2,852 (24.71%) CI/CD
5 2,040 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1,699 (14.72%) Microservices
7 1,565 (13.56%) SDLC
8 1,533 (13.28%) Full Stack Development
9 1,469 (12.73%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,406 (12.18%) Mentoring
11 1,296 (11.23%) Machine Learning
12 1,173 (10.16%) TDD
13 1,053 (9.12%) Scrum
14 1,050 (9.10%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,042 (9.03%) Operational Stability
16 995 (8.62%) Asset Management
17 983 (8.52%) Actionable Insight
18 965 (8.36%) Computer Science
19 941 (8.15%) Analytics
20 896 (7.76%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3,914 (33.91%) Python
2 3,154 (27.33%) Java
3 2,666 (23.10%) JavaScript
4 2,347 (20.33%) SQL
5 1,734 (15.02%) TypeScript
6 1,469 (12.73%) C#
7 572 (4.96%) PHP
8 444 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 441 (3.82%) Scala
10 398 (3.45%) Go
11 379 (3.28%) Bash
12 313 (2.71%) Kotlin
13 221 (1.91%) PL/SQL
14 175 (1.52%) Ruby
15 138 (1.20%) C++
16 125 (1.08%) R
17 108 (0.94%) C
18 105 (0.91%) T-SQL
19 89 (0.77%) Shell Script
20 67 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,396 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,299 (11.25%) Degree
3 1,011 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 604 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 504 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 313 (2.71%) Azure Certification
7 267 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 231 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 214 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 199 (1.72%) DBS Check
11 194 (1.68%) CISSP
12 187 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 142 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
14 125 (1.08%) CISM
15 122 (1.06%) CCNA
16 92 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
17 76 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
18 75 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 65 (0.56%) CCSP
20 61 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 447 (3.87%) QA
2 389 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 245 (2.12%) GDPR
4 204 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 173 (1.50%) NIST
6 140 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 136 (1.18%) SLA
8 92 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 66 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 31 (0.27%) NCSC
11 29 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 24 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 22 (0.19%) PMO
14 20 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 20 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 18 (0.16%) 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 1,701 (14.74%) Docker
2 466 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 364 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 273 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 120 (1.04%) HDFS
6 82 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 37 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 35 (0.30%) vSphere
11 34 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
12 26 (0.23%) KVM
13 25 (0.22%) XenApp
14 21 (0.18%) Firmware
15 17 (0.15%) XenDesktop
16 11 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
17 7 (0.061%) DFS Replication
17 7 (0.061%) VirtualBox
18 6 (0.052%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,929 (16.71%) Kubernetes
2 1,826 (15.82%) Terraform
3 769 (6.66%) Ansible
4 267 (2.31%) Puppet
5 243 (2.11%) Grafana
6 242 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 124 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 116 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 88 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 58 (0.50%) SCCM
11 42 (0.36%) vCenter Server
12 40 (0.35%) Nagios
13 39 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 33 (0.29%) ZABBIX
15 32 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
16 31 (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 1,416 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 1,045 (9.05%) Google
3 584 (5.06%) Oracle
4 530 (4.59%) Databricks
5 528 (4.57%) VMware
6 333 (2.89%) ESRI
7 319 (2.76%) Cisco
8 261 (2.26%) Red Hat
9 197 (1.71%) Splunk
10 192 (1.66%) Dynatrace
11 129 (1.12%) Informatica
12 110 (0.95%) Citrix
13 109 (0.94%) IBM
14 93 (0.81%) Salesforce
15 91 (0.79%) Cloudera
16 81 (0.70%) ServiceNow
17 79 (0.68%) Palo Alto
18 74 (0.64%) Alteryx
19 69 (0.60%) Dell
20 65 (0.56%) Bloomberg