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 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 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,595 17,030 38,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.23% 17.53% 23.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.26% 40.51% 47.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,638 9,978 16,234
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 35,937 42,041 80,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.80% 43.27% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,911 27,490 41,315
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 £96,000 £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 29 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 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
England -4 9,250 £70,000 -6.67% 2,442
UK excluding London -4 7,134 £60,000 -4.00% 1,424
Work from Home -3 5,243 £70,000 -6.67% 1,502
London -2 4,010 £87,500 +2.94% 1,184
North of England -6 1,724 £62,783 +0.45% 441
Scotland +1 1,647 £60,000 - 120
South East -16 1,190 £60,000 -7.69% 248
North West -6 1,005 £62,783 -3.41% 282
South West -5 953 £60,000 - 197
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% 104
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
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
1 749 (6.46%) Apache
2 711 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
3 687 (5.92%) Apache Spark
4 334 (2.88%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.87%) GeoServer
6 170 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 132 (1.14%) Confluence
8 128 (1.10%) SharePoint
9 93 (0.80%) CMS
10 80 (0.69%) nginx
11 70 (0.60%) IIS
12 66 (0.57%) 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 22 (0.19%) Tomcat
18 20 (0.17%) JBoss
18 20 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 94 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 25 (0.22%) Simulink
4 20 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.13%) Trello
7 14 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.043%) OrCAD
10 5 (0.043%) Sketch
11 4 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.034%) Photoshop
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 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.086%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
5 7 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.052%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.052%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
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%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.043%) SAP PP
7 5 (0.043%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.026%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.026%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.026%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 5,262 (45.38%) Azure
2 2,335 (20.14%) GCP
3 982 (8.47%) Serverless
4 881 (7.60%) SaaS
5 677 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
6 551 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
7 549 (4.73%) Amazon S3
8 474 (4.09%) Snowflake
9 468 (4.04%) GitHub
10 449 (3.87%) dbt
11 433 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
12 408 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
13 357 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
14 356 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
15 349 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 331 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
17 272 (2.35%) Power Platform
18 271 (2.34%) PaaS
19 248 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
20 232 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 576 (4.97%) Firewall
2 420 (3.62%) DNS
3 262 (2.26%) WAN
4 238 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 208 (1.79%) DHCP
6 192 (1.66%) VPN
7 189 (1.63%) LAN
8 180 (1.55%) Network Security
9 126 (1.09%) HTTP
10 116 (1.00%) SD-WAN
11 108 (0.93%) SAN
12 102 (0.88%) BGP
13 98 (0.85%) SSL
14 92 (0.79%) Wireless
15 91 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 89 (0.77%) VLAN
17 88 (0.76%) Internet
18 59 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
19 56 (0.48%) VoIP
20 47 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,192 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 910 (7.85%) NoSQL
3 816 (7.04%) SQL Server
4 682 (5.88%) MySQL
5 639 (5.51%) Big Data
6 600 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
7 591 (5.10%) MongoDB
8 568 (4.90%) Data Lake
9 470 (4.05%) Relational Database
10 458 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
11 424 (3.66%) Apache Ignite
12 405 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
13 376 (3.24%) Hadoop
14 373 (3.22%) Dremio
15 372 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
16 368 (3.17%) Apache Arrow
17 364 (3.14%) GIS
18 340 (2.93%) Tableau
19 330 (2.85%) QGIS
20 270 (2.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1,121 (9.67%) Git
2 647 (5.58%) Jenkins
3 424 (3.66%) GitLab
4 389 (3.35%) JIRA
5 197 (1.70%) Cypress.io
6 184 (1.59%) JUnit
7 171 (1.47%) Selenium
8 104 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 91 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 89 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
11 77 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 74 (0.64%) Jasmine
13 68 (0.59%) CircleCI
14 66 (0.57%) Artifactory
14 66 (0.57%) Postman
15 62 (0.53%) SonarQube
15 62 (0.53%) WebDriver
16 61 (0.53%) Maven
17 60 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.52%) Protractor
General
1 3,260 (28.12%) Finance
2 2,233 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 1,601 (13.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,363 (11.76%) Law
5 987 (8.51%) Banking
6 954 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
7 797 (6.87%) Marketing
8 698 (6.02%) Front Office
9 520 (4.48%) Investment Banking
10 510 (4.40%) Public Sector
11 487 (4.20%) Legal
12 465 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
13 419 (3.61%) Retail
14 212 (1.83%) Financial Institution
15 211 (1.82%) Games
16 175 (1.51%) Tech for Good
17 172 (1.48%) Aerospace
18 112 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 104 (0.90%) Billing
20 98 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,846 (24.55%) Developer
2 2,718 (23.44%) Senior
3 2,696 (23.25%) Software Engineer
4 1,643 (14.17%) Lead
5 1,363 (11.76%) Architect
6 977 (8.43%) AWS Engineer
7 786 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 753 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 706 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 652 (5.62%) Python Engineer
11 636 (5.49%) Java Engineer
12 593 (5.11%) Data Engineer
13 555 (4.79%) Java Software Engineer
14 527 (4.55%) .NET Developer
15 514 (4.43%) Python Software Engineer
16 492 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
17 491 (4.23%) AWS Software Engineer
18 487 (4.20%) Java Developer
19 471 (4.06%) Full Stack Developer
20 451 (3.89%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,188 (18.87%) React
2 1,530 (13.20%) .NET
3 1,228 (10.59%) Node.js
4 1,022 (8.81%) AngularJS
5 873 (7.53%) CSS
6 853 (7.36%) Spring
7 819 (7.06%) .NET Core
8 685 (5.91%) Kafka
9 674 (5.81%) Vue
10 667 (5.75%) Spring Boot
11 603 (5.20%) HTML
12 564 (4.86%) RESTful
13 547 (4.72%) gRPC
14 483 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
14 483 (4.17%) REST
15 456 (3.93%) ASP.NET
16 438 (3.78%) .NET Framework
17 385 (3.32%) Pandas
18 374 (3.23%) Laravel
19 343 (2.96%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 835 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 822 (7.09%) Public Cloud
3 658 (5.67%) Hedge funds
4 627 (5.41%) Fixed Income
5 568 (4.90%) Algorithms
6 533 (4.60%) Equities
7 470 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 469 (4.04%) Derivative
9 395 (3.41%) Product Ownership
10 373 (3.22%) Management Information System
11 343 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
12 315 (2.72%) Onboarding
13 308 (2.66%) Data Centre
14 292 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
15 264 (2.28%) Data Structures
16 255 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
17 197 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
18 193 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
19 168 (1.45%) Private Cloud
20 163 (1.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,361 (11.74%) Linux
2 871 (7.51%) Windows
3 390 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 308 (2.66%) Unix
5 235 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 156 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 111 (0.96%) Android
8 94 (0.81%) CentOS
9 93 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 63 (0.54%) Mac OS
11 59 (0.51%) Debian
11 59 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 47 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
13 43 (0.37%) Windows 10
14 32 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 25 (0.22%) Solaris
15 25 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
16 19 (0.16%) CoreOS
17 16 (0.14%) VMS
18 10 (0.086%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,139 (44.32%) Agile
2 3,970 (34.24%) Software Engineering
3 3,013 (25.99%) DevOps
4 2,860 (24.67%) CI/CD
5 2,049 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1,705 (14.70%) Microservices
7 1,568 (13.52%) SDLC
8 1,545 (13.32%) Full Stack Development
9 1,473 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,419 (12.24%) Mentoring
11 1,296 (11.18%) Machine Learning
12 1,174 (10.13%) TDD
13 1,052 (9.07%) Scrum
14 1,049 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,041 (8.98%) Operational Stability
16 994 (8.57%) Asset Management
17 984 (8.49%) Actionable Insight
18 966 (8.33%) Computer Science
19 947 (8.17%) Analytics
20 895 (7.72%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3,919 (33.80%) Python
2 3,163 (27.28%) Java
3 2,667 (23.00%) JavaScript
4 2,347 (20.24%) SQL
5 1,741 (15.02%) TypeScript
6 1,472 (12.70%) C#
7 579 (4.99%) PHP
8 444 (3.83%) PowerShell
9 441 (3.80%) Scala
10 397 (3.42%) Go
11 378 (3.26%) Bash
12 315 (2.72%) Kotlin
13 221 (1.91%) PL/SQL
14 174 (1.50%) Ruby
15 139 (1.20%) C++
16 125 (1.08%) R
17 110 (0.95%) C
18 106 (0.91%) T-SQL
19 87 (0.75%) Shell Script
20 68 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,401 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,305 (11.25%) Degree
3 1,017 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 606 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 507 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 312 (2.69%) Azure Certification
7 270 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 231 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 217 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
10 200 (1.72%) DBS Check
11 196 (1.69%) CISSP
12 188 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 142 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 127 (1.10%) CISM
15 123 (1.06%) CCNA
16 94 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
17 77 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
18 76 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 66 (0.57%) CCSP
20 61 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (3.89%) QA
2 390 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 246 (2.12%) GDPR
4 205 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 174 (1.50%) NIST
6 141 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 133 (1.15%) SLA
8 93 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 68 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 32 (0.28%) NCSC
11 29 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 24 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 21 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 21 (0.18%) PMO
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 1,710 (14.75%) Docker
2 467 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 363 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 271 (2.34%) Hyper-V
5 120 (1.03%) HDFS
6 82 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 38 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 36 (0.31%) vSphere
10 34 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 26 (0.22%) KVM
12 25 (0.22%) XenApp
13 21 (0.18%) Firmware
14 17 (0.15%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
16 7 (0.060%) DFS Replication
16 7 (0.060%) VirtualBox
17 6 (0.052%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.052%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,932 (16.66%) Kubernetes
2 1,831 (15.79%) Terraform
3 771 (6.65%) Ansible
4 268 (2.31%) Puppet
5 243 (2.10%) Grafana
6 242 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 124 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 118 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 88 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 58 (0.50%) SCCM
11 42 (0.36%) vCenter Server
12 40 (0.34%) Nagios
13 39 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 33 (0.28%) 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 1,417 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 1,047 (9.03%) Google
3 585 (5.05%) Oracle
4 531 (4.58%) Databricks
5 527 (4.55%) VMware
6 333 (2.87%) ESRI
7 320 (2.76%) Cisco
8 261 (2.25%) Red Hat
9 198 (1.71%) Splunk
10 192 (1.66%) Dynatrace
11 129 (1.11%) Informatica
12 110 (0.95%) Citrix
13 109 (0.94%) IBM
14 95 (0.82%) Salesforce
15 91 (0.78%) Cloudera
16 82 (0.71%) ServiceNow
17 76 (0.66%) Palo Alto
18 74 (0.64%) Alteryx
19 68 (0.59%) Dell
20 65 (0.56%) Bloomberg