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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,366 17,517 36,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 17.57% 23.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.14% 40.95% 47.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,562 10,316 16,353
10th Percentile £42,250 £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 £92,125 £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 35,363 42,773 77,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,666 28,061 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,924
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
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 15 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 15 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 9,015 £70,000 -6.67% 2,447
UK excluding London -4 7,002 £60,000 -4.00% 1,437
Work from Home -3 5,129 £70,000 -6.35% 1,573
London -2 3,905 £85,000 - 1,182
North of England -4 1,688 £62,783 +0.45% 407
Scotland 0 1,674 £60,000 - 123
South East -17 1,141 £60,000 -7.69% 243
North West -6 972 £62,783 -3.41% 245
South West -5 945 £60,000 - 233
Midlands -13 841 £57,500 -8.00% 226
Yorkshire -1 544 £60,000 - 122
West Midlands -15 438 £60,000 -7.69% 138
East Midlands -7 401 £55,000 -4.35% 88
East of England -12 388 £55,000 -15.38% 105
Wales +2 181 £50,000 -4.76% 47
North East -4 172 £62,783 +14.15% 40
Northern Ireland +7 133 £60,000 +14.29% 70
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
1 708 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 674 (5.93%) Apache
3 641 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.94%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.93%) GeoServer
6 171 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 132 (1.16%) SharePoint
8 130 (1.14%) Confluence
9 93 (0.82%) CMS
10 82 (0.72%) nginx
11 75 (0.66%) IIS
12 70 (0.62%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
14 42 (0.37%) WordPress
15 37 (0.33%) Drupal
15 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
16 22 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 21 (0.18%) Umbraco
18 20 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
19 19 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 98 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 21 (0.18%) Simulink
5 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.14%) Trello
7 14 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.044%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.026%) Sketch
12 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.009%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 64 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
4 7 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.053%) Magento
5 6 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (0.053%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.044%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.044%) Shopify
6 5 (0.044%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.018%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.018%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5,164 (45.43%) Azure
2 2,286 (20.11%) GCP
3 997 (8.77%) Serverless
4 878 (7.72%) SaaS
5 693 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
6 571 (5.02%) Amazon S3
7 557 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
8 470 (4.14%) GitHub
9 442 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
10 417 (3.67%) Snowflake
11 406 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 374 (3.29%) dbt
13 355 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
14 346 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
15 345 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
16 336 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
17 278 (2.45%) PaaS
18 261 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
19 246 (2.16%) IaaS
20 238 (2.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 569 (5.01%) Firewall
2 419 (3.69%) DNS
3 261 (2.30%) WAN
4 231 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 208 (1.83%) DHCP
6 193 (1.70%) VPN
7 186 (1.64%) LAN
8 172 (1.51%) Network Security
9 117 (1.03%) HTTP
9 117 (1.03%) SD-WAN
10 108 (0.95%) SAN
11 100 (0.88%) BGP
12 98 (0.86%) SSL
13 91 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
13 91 (0.80%) Wireless
14 90 (0.79%) Internet
15 87 (0.77%) VLAN
16 57 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
17 55 (0.48%) VoIP
18 47 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,159 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 913 (8.03%) NoSQL
3 825 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 688 (6.05%) MySQL
5 646 (5.68%) Big Data
6 590 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
7 589 (5.18%) MongoDB
8 514 (4.52%) Data Lake
9 471 (4.14%) Relational Database
10 454 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
11 394 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
12 386 (3.40%) Hadoop
13 367 (3.23%) Apache Ignite
14 363 (3.19%) GIS
15 338 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
16 330 (2.90%) QGIS
17 304 (2.67%) Tableau
18 299 (2.63%) Apache Arrow
18 299 (2.63%) Dremio
19 257 (2.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,126 (9.91%) Git
2 667 (5.87%) Jenkins
3 411 (3.62%) GitLab
4 383 (3.37%) JIRA
5 197 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 186 (1.64%) JUnit
7 181 (1.59%) Selenium
8 105 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 93 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 93 (0.82%) TeamCity
10 92 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 77 (0.68%) Jasmine
12 71 (0.62%) Artifactory
13 68 (0.60%) Postman
14 65 (0.57%) Maven
15 64 (0.56%) CircleCI
16 62 (0.55%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.53%) Protractor
18 52 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,236 (28.47%) Finance
2 2,145 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 1,634 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,387 (12.20%) Law
5 960 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 936 (8.24%) Banking
7 824 (7.25%) Marketing
8 634 (5.58%) Front Office
9 514 (4.52%) Public Sector
10 485 (4.27%) Legal
11 466 (4.10%) Investment Banking
12 441 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
13 412 (3.62%) Retail
14 218 (1.92%) Financial Institution
15 208 (1.83%) Games
16 176 (1.55%) Tech for Good
17 157 (1.38%) Aerospace
18 108 (0.95%) Telecoms
19 98 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
20 92 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,806 (24.69%) Developer
2 2,656 (23.37%) Senior
3 2,648 (23.30%) Software Engineer
4 1,596 (14.04%) Lead
5 1,296 (11.40%) Architect
6 957 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
7 773 (6.80%) Senior Developer
8 723 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 686 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 627 (5.52%) Java Engineer
11 619 (5.45%) Python Engineer
12 612 (5.38%) Data Engineer
13 542 (4.77%) Java Software Engineer
14 521 (4.58%) .NET Developer
15 495 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
16 494 (4.35%) Java Developer
17 487 (4.28%) Python Software Engineer
18 466 (4.10%) AWS Software Engineer
19 454 (3.99%) Full Stack Developer
20 444 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,174 (19.13%) React
2 1,508 (13.27%) .NET
3 1,175 (10.34%) Node.js
4 1,023 (9.00%) AngularJS
5 876 (7.71%) Spring
6 863 (7.59%) CSS
7 817 (7.19%) .NET Core
8 695 (6.11%) Kafka
9 683 (6.01%) Spring Boot
10 667 (5.87%) Vue
11 598 (5.26%) HTML
12 567 (4.99%) RESTful
13 475 (4.18%) gRPC
14 454 (3.99%) ASP.NET
15 453 (3.99%) REST
16 434 (3.82%) .NET Framework
17 414 (3.64%) Protocol Buffers
18 370 (3.26%) Laravel
19 331 (2.91%) PostGIS
20 330 (2.90%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 834 (7.34%) Public Cloud
2 829 (7.29%) Cloud Native
3 592 (5.21%) Hedge funds
4 577 (5.08%) Algorithms
5 566 (4.98%) Fixed Income
6 473 (4.16%) Equities
7 414 (3.64%) Derivative
7 414 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 379 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 363 (3.19%) Management Information System
10 339 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
11 319 (2.81%) Onboarding
12 300 (2.64%) Data Centre
13 279 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
14 272 (2.39%) Data Structures
15 251 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
16 192 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
17 188 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
18 170 (1.50%) Private Cloud
19 161 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,350 (11.88%) Linux
2 887 (7.80%) Windows
3 398 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 317 (2.79%) Unix
5 227 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 147 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 110 (0.97%) Android
8 93 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 89 (0.78%) CentOS
10 63 (0.55%) Mac OS
11 62 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 58 (0.51%) Debian
13 47 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 46 (0.40%) Windows 10
15 32 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
16 25 (0.22%) Solaris
17 24 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
18 19 (0.17%) CoreOS
19 16 (0.14%) VMS
20 10 (0.088%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,003 (44.02%) Agile
2 3,891 (34.23%) Software Engineering
3 2,911 (25.61%) DevOps
4 2,853 (25.10%) CI/CD
5 2,018 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
6 1,699 (14.95%) Microservices
7 1,577 (13.87%) SDLC
8 1,514 (13.32%) Full Stack Development
9 1,474 (12.97%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,375 (12.10%) Mentoring
11 1,314 (11.56%) Machine Learning
12 1,176 (10.35%) TDD
13 1,063 (9.35%) Operational Stability
14 1,034 (9.10%) Scrum
15 1,021 (8.98%) Infrastructure as Code
16 993 (8.74%) Actionable Insight
17 940 (8.27%) Computer Science
18 929 (8.17%) Asset Management
19 887 (7.80%) Containerisation
20 882 (7.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3,839 (33.78%) Python
2 3,111 (27.37%) Java
3 2,578 (22.68%) JavaScript
4 2,381 (20.95%) SQL
5 1,664 (14.64%) TypeScript
6 1,456 (12.81%) C#
7 579 (5.09%) PHP
8 441 (3.88%) PowerShell
9 422 (3.71%) Scala
10 404 (3.55%) Go
11 389 (3.42%) Bash
12 302 (2.66%) Kotlin
13 227 (2.00%) PL/SQL
14 175 (1.54%) Ruby
15 150 (1.32%) C++
16 129 (1.13%) R
17 112 (0.99%) T-SQL
18 110 (0.97%) C
19 91 (0.80%) Shell Script
20 75 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,368 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,283 (11.29%) Degree
3 990 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 574 (5.05%) AWS Certification
5 474 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 298 (2.62%) Azure Certification
7 252 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 225 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 221 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 195 (1.72%) DBS Check
11 194 (1.71%) CISSP
12 178 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 149 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 124 (1.09%) CCNA
15 120 (1.06%) CISM
16 98 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
17 82 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 76 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 71 (0.62%) CCSP
20 60 (0.53%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 435 (3.83%) QA
2 367 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 243 (2.14%) GDPR
4 202 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 168 (1.48%) NIST
6 142 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 139 (1.22%) SLA
8 91 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 61 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 29 (0.26%) NCSC
10 29 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 23 (0.20%) PMO
12 20 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 18 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.15%) COBIT
14 17 (0.15%) WCAG
15 13 (0.11%) GRC
15 13 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1,693 (14.90%) Docker
2 479 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 358 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 271 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.09%) HDFS
6 77 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 40 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 37 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
10 35 (0.31%) vSphere
11 33 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.20%) KVM
12 23 (0.20%) XenApp
13 22 (0.19%) Firmware
14 15 (0.13%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
16 9 (0.079%) DFS Replication
17 8 (0.070%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
19 5 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,926 (16.95%) Kubernetes
2 1,796 (15.80%) Terraform
3 745 (6.55%) Ansible
4 269 (2.37%) Puppet
5 244 (2.15%) Grafana
6 236 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 124 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 116 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 89 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 55 (0.48%) SCCM
11 44 (0.39%) vCenter Server
12 40 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 40 (0.35%) Nagios
13 35 (0.31%) Kibana
14 32 (0.28%) Packer
15 31 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 31 (0.27%) ZABBIX
16 30 (0.26%) Istio
17 26 (0.23%) Consul
18 21 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,432 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 1,039 (9.14%) Google
3 587 (5.16%) Oracle
4 528 (4.65%) Databricks
5 526 (4.63%) VMware
6 333 (2.93%) ESRI
7 315 (2.77%) Cisco
8 252 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 194 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 189 (1.66%) Splunk
11 130 (1.14%) Informatica
12 115 (1.01%) IBM
13 113 (0.99%) Citrix
14 95 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.81%) Cloudera
16 76 (0.67%) Alteryx
16 76 (0.67%) Palo Alto
17 71 (0.62%) Dell
18 67 (0.59%) Bloomberg
19 66 (0.58%) SAP