AWS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 7,134 8,549 11,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.57% 14.74% 16.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.72% 37.82% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,194 4,155 7,015
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £81,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,005 22,607 29,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.19% 38.97% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 17,654 13,410 19,518
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,500 £70,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
North of England -6 1,724 £62,783 +0.45% 440
Scotland +1 1,647 £60,000 - 122
South East -16 1,190 £60,000 -7.69% 248
North West -6 1,005 £62,783 -3.41% 281
South West -5 953 £60,000 - 199
Midlands -12 882 £58,500 -6.40% 223
Yorkshire -3 548 £60,000 - 119
West Midlands -20 448 £60,000 -7.69% 141
East Midlands -9 432 £57,500 - 82
East of England -14 393 £55,000 -15.38% 108
Wales +2 190 £51,996 -0.01% 49
North East -5 171 £63,749 +15.91% 40
Northern Ireland +9 145 £60,000 +14.29% 66
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 6 £85,000 -
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 518 (7.26%) Apache Spark
2 287 (4.02%) ArcGIS
2 287 (4.02%) GeoServer
3 211 (2.96%) Apache
4 141 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 131 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 91 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 78 (1.09%) Confluence
8 62 (0.87%) CMS
9 57 (0.80%) OpenStack
10 55 (0.77%) IIS
11 47 (0.66%) nginx
12 40 (0.56%) WebLogic
13 37 (0.52%) Tuxedo
14 32 (0.45%) WordPress
15 17 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
16 13 (0.18%) JBoss
17 11 (0.15%) CICS
17 11 (0.15%) Tomcat
18 10 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 56 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.35%) Simulink
4 15 (0.21%) Trello
5 13 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 11 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.084%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.084%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.070%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.056%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.042%) Sketch
11 3 (0.042%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.014%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 50 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.070%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.070%) SAP PP
5 5 (0.070%) Shopify
6 4 (0.056%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.042%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.042%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 2 (0.028%) Magento
8 2 (0.028%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.028%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.028%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.014%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,447 (48.32%) Azure
2 1,130 (15.84%) GCP
3 623 (8.73%) SaaS
4 532 (7.46%) Serverless
5 416 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
6 359 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
7 314 (4.40%) Amazon S3
8 287 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
9 246 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 245 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
10 245 (3.43%) GitHub
11 238 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
12 207 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
13 181 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 160 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
15 141 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 129 (1.81%) Datadog
17 127 (1.78%) Power Platform
18 125 (1.75%) OpenShift
19 121 (1.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 377 (5.28%) Firewall
2 293 (4.11%) DNS
3 191 (2.68%) WAN
4 170 (2.38%) DHCP
5 162 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 123 (1.72%) VPN
7 103 (1.44%) Network Security
8 102 (1.43%) HTTP
9 101 (1.42%) LAN
10 91 (1.28%) SD-WAN
11 83 (1.16%) SAN
12 76 (1.07%) SSL
13 69 (0.97%) BGP
14 68 (0.95%) VLAN
14 68 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
15 63 (0.88%) Wireless
16 61 (0.86%) Internet
17 40 (0.56%) VoIP
18 34 (0.48%) AMQP
19 33 (0.46%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 693 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
2 682 (9.56%) NoSQL
3 584 (8.19%) SQL Server
4 484 (6.78%) MySQL
5 466 (6.53%) Big Data
6 436 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
7 413 (5.79%) MongoDB
8 342 (4.79%) Relational Database
9 313 (4.39%) GIS
10 294 (4.12%) Hadoop
11 284 (3.98%) QGIS
12 279 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
13 268 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
14 205 (2.87%) BigQuery
15 194 (2.72%) Looker
16 160 (2.24%) Data Lake
17 134 (1.88%) DynamoDB
17 134 (1.88%) Oracle Database
18 133 (1.86%) Apache Hive
19 121 (1.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 687 (9.63%) Git
2 371 (5.20%) Jenkins
3 269 (3.77%) JIRA
4 255 (3.57%) GitLab
5 165 (2.31%) JUnit
6 137 (1.92%) Selenium
7 109 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 89 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
9 72 (1.01%) Jasmine
10 63 (0.88%) Bitbucket
11 62 (0.87%) WebDriver
12 60 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (0.84%) Protractor
12 60 (0.84%) TeamCity
13 59 (0.83%) Cucumber
14 50 (0.70%) Postman
15 43 (0.60%) Maven
16 42 (0.59%) Visual Studio
17 39 (0.55%) SonarQube
18 37 (0.52%) CircleCI
General
1 1,828 (25.62%) Finance
2 1,352 (18.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,309 (18.35%) Social Skills
4 1,240 (17.38%) Law
5 682 (9.56%) Marketing
6 481 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
7 410 (5.75%) Legal
8 336 (4.71%) Banking
9 302 (4.23%) Public Sector
10 241 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
11 203 (2.85%) Retail
12 200 (2.80%) Investment Banking
13 176 (2.47%) Financial Institution
14 162 (2.27%) Aerospace
15 153 (2.14%) Games
16 108 (1.51%) Tech for Good
17 103 (1.44%) Billing
18 71 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
19 67 (0.94%) Telecoms
20 62 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,864 (26.13%) Software Engineer
2 1,647 (23.09%) Developer
3 1,517 (21.26%) Senior
4 1,066 (14.94%) Lead
5 840 (11.77%) Architect
6 557 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
7 452 (6.34%) Senior Software Engineer
8 444 (6.22%) Senior Developer
9 437 (6.13%) Java Engineer
10 420 (5.89%) DevOps Engineer
11 397 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
12 368 (5.16%) Data Engineer
13 357 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 355 (4.98%) Lead Software Engineer
15 344 (4.82%) .NET Developer
16 337 (4.72%) AWS Software Engineer
17 298 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 291 (4.08%) Python Engineer
19 264 (3.70%) Full Stack Developer
20 247 (3.46%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,442 (20.21%) React
2 1,037 (14.54%) .NET
3 855 (11.98%) Node.js
4 756 (10.60%) AngularJS
5 727 (10.19%) CSS
6 650 (9.11%) Spring
7 610 (8.55%) .NET Core
8 477 (6.69%) HTML
9 468 (6.56%) Vue
10 445 (6.24%) Spring Boot
11 415 (5.82%) RESTful
12 374 (5.24%) Kafka
13 352 (4.93%) .NET Framework
14 344 (4.82%) REST
15 338 (4.74%) ASP.NET
16 289 (4.05%) Laravel
17 285 (3.99%) PostGIS
18 284 (3.98%) Leaflet
18 284 (3.98%) OpenLayers
19 258 (3.62%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 677 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 674 (9.45%) Public Cloud
3 470 (6.59%) Algorithms
4 252 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 238 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
6 230 (3.22%) Management Information System
7 213 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
8 210 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 185 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 185 (2.59%) Data Structures
10 155 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
11 141 (1.98%) Private Cloud
12 135 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 135 (1.89%) IoT
13 121 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
14 109 (1.53%) PKI
15 103 (1.44%) Mobile App
16 95 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
17 73 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
18 65 (0.91%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 942 (13.20%) Linux
2 616 (8.63%) Windows
3 293 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 230 (3.22%) Unix
5 186 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 132 (1.85%) Ubuntu
7 71 (1.00%) CentOS
8 67 (0.94%) Android
9 55 (0.77%) Debian
10 52 (0.73%) Apple iOS
10 52 (0.73%) Mac OS
11 46 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
12 34 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
13 33 (0.46%) Windows 10
14 25 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
16 19 (0.27%) CoreOS
17 11 (0.15%) Solaris
18 10 (0.14%) VMS
18 10 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,457 (48.46%) Agile
2 2,489 (34.89%) Software Engineering
3 2,049 (28.72%) CI/CD
4 1,964 (27.53%) DevOps
5 1,366 (19.15%) SDLC
6 1,288 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
7 1,116 (15.64%) Microservices
8 1,049 (14.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,030 (14.44%) Operational Stability
10 1,005 (14.09%) Mentoring
11 949 (13.30%) Full Stack Development
12 886 (12.42%) Machine Learning
13 810 (11.35%) Scrum
14 788 (11.05%) TDD
15 701 (9.83%) Actionable Insight
16 686 (9.62%) Community of Practice
17 655 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
18 644 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
19 563 (7.89%) Computer Science
20 549 (7.70%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,959 (27.46%) Python
2 1,903 (26.68%) Java
3 1,695 (23.76%) JavaScript
4 1,418 (19.88%) SQL
5 954 (13.37%) C#
6 874 (12.25%) TypeScript
7 454 (6.36%) PHP
8 305 (4.28%) PowerShell
9 281 (3.94%) Scala
10 247 (3.46%) Bash
11 195 (2.73%) PL/SQL
12 157 (2.20%) Go
13 81 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 71 (1.00%) C++
15 67 (0.94%) Ruby
16 61 (0.86%) C
17 59 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 48 (0.67%) COBOL
19 42 (0.59%) Groovy
19 42 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,086 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 766 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 658 (9.22%) Degree
4 386 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 292 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 229 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 214 (3.00%) Azure Certification
8 148 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 121 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 99 (1.39%) CISSP
11 96 (1.35%) CCNA
12 92 (1.29%) Master's Degree
13 74 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 66 (0.93%) CISM
15 47 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 45 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 42 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 41 (0.57%) MCSE
18 41 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
19 38 (0.53%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (4.08%) QA
2 191 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 182 (2.55%) GDPR
4 126 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 112 (1.57%) SLA
6 109 (1.53%) NIST
7 83 (1.16%) Accessibility
8 53 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (0.29%) PMO
11 15 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 14 (0.20%) NCSC
13 13 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 9 (0.13%) GRC
14 9 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.13%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.11%) PSD2
16 6 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,003 (14.06%) Docker
2 307 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 272 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 247 (3.46%) Hyper-V
5 104 (1.46%) HDFS
6 38 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 37 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (0.36%) vSphere
9 24 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 24 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.28%) Firmware
11 16 (0.22%) XenApp
12 15 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (0.15%) KVM
13 11 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
13 11 (0.15%) XenDesktop
14 5 (0.070%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.056%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.056%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,090 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 1,068 (14.97%) Terraform
3 476 (6.67%) Ansible
4 178 (2.50%) Puppet
5 157 (2.20%) Grafana
6 133 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 86 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 64 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 59 (0.83%) Progress Chef
10 35 (0.49%) SCCM
11 32 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
11 32 (0.45%) vCenter Server
12 28 (0.39%) ZABBIX
13 23 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 21 (0.29%) VxRail
15 20 (0.28%) Nagios
16 19 (0.27%) FortiGate
16 19 (0.27%) Opsgenie
17 16 (0.22%) Kibana
18 12 (0.17%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 936 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 643 (9.01%) Google
3 418 (5.86%) Oracle
4 389 (5.45%) VMware
5 316 (4.43%) Databricks
6 285 (3.99%) ESRI
7 201 (2.82%) Cisco
8 191 (2.68%) Red Hat
9 171 (2.40%) Dynatrace
10 158 (2.21%) Splunk
11 117 (1.64%) Informatica
12 84 (1.18%) IBM
13 75 (1.05%) Cloudera
14 67 (0.94%) Citrix
15 65 (0.91%) Salesforce
16 64 (0.90%) Alteryx
17 60 (0.84%) Dell
18 50 (0.70%) Sparx
19 49 (0.69%) ServiceNow
20 48 (0.67%) Veeam