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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 7,023 8,795 11,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.90% 14.60% 15.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.82% 38.24% 39.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,154 4,353 7,104
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,188
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 23,551 23,002 28,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.19% 38.17% 40.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,426 13,785 19,710
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £67,500 £71,250 £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% +8.70%

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 8 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 8 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
Scotland +3 1,674 £60,000 -4.00% 129
North of England -4 1,672 £62,783 +0.45% 398
South East -15 1,135 £60,000 -7.69% 251
South West -4 985 £60,000 - 238
North West -6 955 £62,783 -3.41% 233
Midlands -13 845 £57,500 -8.00% 219
Yorkshire -1 545 £60,000 - 125
West Midlands -16 442 £60,000 -7.69% 129
East Midlands -5 402 £55,000 -4.35% 90
East of England -12 390 £55,000 -15.38% 128
Wales 0 181 £50,000 -2.54% 46
North East -4 172 £62,783 +14.15% 40
Northern Ireland +5 131 £60,000 +14.29% 74
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
1 538 (7.66%) Apache Spark
2 287 (4.09%) ArcGIS
2 287 (4.09%) GeoServer
3 210 (2.99%) Apache
4 144 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 138 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 96 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 77 (1.10%) Confluence
8 65 (0.93%) IIS
9 63 (0.90%) CMS
10 61 (0.87%) OpenStack
11 49 (0.70%) nginx
12 40 (0.57%) WebLogic
13 37 (0.53%) Tuxedo
14 30 (0.43%) WordPress
15 17 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
16 13 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 12 (0.17%) JBoss
18 11 (0.16%) CICS
18 11 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 56 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.27%) Simulink
4 16 (0.23%) Trello
5 12 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 12 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.085%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.071%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.028%) Sketch
11 2 (0.028%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.014%) 1Password
12 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.014%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 50 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.071%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.071%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.057%) Shopify
7 2 (0.028%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.028%) Magento
7 2 (0.028%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.028%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.028%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.014%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,359 (47.83%) Azure
2 1,111 (15.82%) GCP
3 630 (8.97%) SaaS
4 535 (7.62%) Serverless
5 419 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
6 361 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
7 325 (4.63%) Amazon S3
8 296 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
9 244 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
10 243 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
11 232 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
12 231 (3.29%) GitHub
13 219 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
14 188 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 168 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
16 137 (1.95%) PaaS
17 132 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 130 (1.85%) IaaS
19 128 (1.82%) Datadog
20 126 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 384 (5.47%) Firewall
2 326 (4.64%) DNS
3 207 (2.95%) DHCP
4 197 (2.81%) WAN
5 189 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 128 (1.82%) VPN
7 126 (1.79%) HTTP
8 101 (1.44%) LAN
9 100 (1.42%) Network Security
10 92 (1.31%) SD-WAN
11 83 (1.18%) SAN
12 76 (1.08%) SSL
13 73 (1.04%) BGP
14 69 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
15 66 (0.94%) VLAN
16 63 (0.90%) Internet
16 63 (0.90%) Wireless
17 41 (0.58%) VoIP
18 35 (0.50%) OSPF
19 34 (0.48%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (9.54%) NoSQL
2 667 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
3 584 (8.32%) SQL Server
4 483 (6.88%) Big Data
5 480 (6.83%) MySQL
6 431 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
7 403 (5.74%) MongoDB
8 343 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 312 (4.44%) GIS
10 295 (4.20%) Hadoop
11 285 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
12 284 (4.04%) QGIS
13 266 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
14 207 (2.95%) BigQuery
15 196 (2.79%) Looker
16 165 (2.35%) Data Lake
17 148 (2.11%) Oracle Database
18 139 (1.98%) Apache Hive
19 112 (1.59%) DynamoDB
20 106 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 694 (9.88%) Git
2 381 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 257 (3.66%) JIRA
4 252 (3.59%) GitLab
5 169 (2.41%) JUnit
6 144 (2.05%) Selenium
7 111 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 91 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
9 74 (1.05%) Jasmine
10 71 (1.01%) Cucumber
11 62 (0.88%) WebDriver
12 60 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (0.85%) Protractor
12 60 (0.85%) TeamCity
13 56 (0.80%) Bitbucket
14 52 (0.74%) Postman
15 48 (0.68%) Maven
16 43 (0.61%) Visual Studio
17 31 (0.44%) CircleCI
17 31 (0.44%) JMeter
General
1 1,898 (27.03%) Finance
2 1,423 (20.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,268 (18.05%) Law
4 1,213 (17.27%) Social Skills
5 703 (10.01%) Marketing
6 485 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
7 414 (5.89%) Legal
8 368 (5.24%) Banking
9 296 (4.21%) Public Sector
10 208 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
11 205 (2.92%) Retail
12 203 (2.89%) Investment Banking
13 182 (2.59%) Financial Institution
14 148 (2.11%) Games
15 141 (2.01%) Aerospace
16 106 (1.51%) Tech for Good
17 84 (1.20%) Billing
18 74 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
19 69 (0.98%) Telecoms
20 65 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1,879 (26.75%) Software Engineer
2 1,606 (22.87%) Developer
3 1,542 (21.96%) Senior
4 1,047 (14.91%) Lead
5 800 (11.39%) Architect
6 552 (7.86%) AWS Engineer
7 455 (6.48%) Java Engineer
8 453 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 449 (6.39%) Senior Developer
10 413 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 395 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
12 382 (5.44%) Data Engineer
13 363 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
14 354 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 341 (4.86%) AWS Software Engineer
16 331 (4.71%) .NET Developer
17 293 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 291 (4.14%) Python Engineer
19 252 (3.59%) Big Data Engineer
20 251 (3.57%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,435 (20.43%) React
2 998 (14.21%) .NET
3 811 (11.55%) Node.js
4 755 (10.75%) AngularJS
5 709 (10.10%) CSS
6 669 (9.53%) Spring
7 603 (8.59%) .NET Core
8 494 (7.03%) HTML
9 460 (6.55%) Spring Boot
9 460 (6.55%) Vue
10 416 (5.92%) RESTful
11 371 (5.28%) Kafka
12 347 (4.94%) .NET Framework
13 335 (4.77%) ASP.NET
14 319 (4.54%) REST
15 285 (4.06%) PostGIS
16 284 (4.04%) Leaflet
16 284 (4.04%) OpenLayers
17 281 (4.00%) Laravel
18 255 (3.63%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 715 (10.18%) Cloud Native
2 693 (9.87%) Public Cloud
3 482 (6.86%) Algorithms
4 246 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 229 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
6 222 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 212 (3.02%) Data Structures
8 209 (2.98%) Onboarding
9 201 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
10 181 (2.58%) Data Centre
11 147 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
11 147 (2.09%) Private Cloud
12 134 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 125 (1.78%) IoT
14 109 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
15 107 (1.52%) PKI
16 93 (1.32%) Mobile App
17 74 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
18 73 (1.04%) Blockchain
19 63 (0.90%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 932 (13.27%) Linux
2 630 (8.97%) Windows
3 300 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 250 (3.56%) Unix
5 173 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 121 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 67 (0.95%) CentOS
8 60 (0.85%) Android
9 53 (0.75%) Debian
9 53 (0.75%) Mac OS
10 50 (0.71%) Apple iOS
11 48 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
12 34 (0.48%) Windows 10
13 30 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
14 25 (0.36%) CoreOS
15 23 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.14%) Solaris
17 10 (0.14%) VMS
17 10 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,428 (48.81%) Agile
2 2,479 (35.30%) Software Engineering
3 2,049 (29.18%) CI/CD
4 1,861 (26.50%) DevOps
5 1,414 (20.13%) SDLC
6 1,288 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
7 1,119 (15.93%) Microservices
8 1,070 (15.24%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,055 (15.02%) Operational Stability
10 973 (13.85%) Mentoring
11 925 (13.17%) Full Stack Development
12 916 (13.04%) Machine Learning
13 808 (11.51%) Scrum
14 786 (11.19%) TDD
15 762 (10.85%) Actionable Insight
16 699 (9.95%) Community of Practice
17 650 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
18 648 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
19 541 (7.70%) Containerisation
20 526 (7.49%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,949 (27.75%) Python
2 1,912 (27.22%) Java
3 1,663 (23.68%) JavaScript
4 1,459 (20.77%) SQL
5 910 (12.96%) C#
6 857 (12.20%) TypeScript
7 448 (6.38%) PHP
8 302 (4.30%) PowerShell
9 274 (3.90%) Scala
10 257 (3.66%) Bash
11 213 (3.03%) PL/SQL
12 158 (2.25%) Go
13 83 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 76 (1.08%) C++
15 64 (0.91%) Ruby
16 61 (0.87%) C
17 54 (0.77%) Kotlin
18 48 (0.68%) COBOL
19 45 (0.64%) Groovy
19 45 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,097 (15.62%) Security Cleared
2 730 (10.39%) SC Cleared
3 621 (8.84%) Degree
4 389 (5.54%) AWS Certification
5 254 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 252 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 189 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 154 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 149 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 100 (1.42%) CISSP
11 97 (1.38%) CCNA
12 90 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 75 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 65 (0.93%) CISM
15 51 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
16 45 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 45 (0.64%) DBS Check
17 44 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 42 (0.60%) MCSE
19 40 (0.57%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (4.10%) QA
2 191 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 181 (2.58%) GDPR
4 117 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 117 (1.67%) SLA
5 102 (1.45%) NIST
6 84 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 49 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (0.31%) PMO
10 15 (0.21%) HIPAA
10 15 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 14 (0.20%) NCSC
12 13 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 11 (0.16%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.13%) GRC
14 9 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.11%) PSD2
16 6 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.057%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 998 (14.21%) Docker
2 311 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 275 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 251 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.51%) HDFS
6 43 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 37 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (0.37%) vSphere
9 22 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (0.28%) Firmware
11 15 (0.21%) XenApp
12 13 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
14 10 (0.14%) KVM
14 10 (0.14%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.100%) Terminal Services
16 5 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
17 4 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
18 3 (0.043%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 1,097 (15.62%) Kubernetes
2 1,079 (15.36%) Terraform
3 455 (6.48%) Ansible
4 175 (2.49%) Puppet
5 158 (2.25%) Grafana
6 135 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 86 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 59 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 55 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.48%) SCCM
10 34 (0.48%) vCenter Server
11 31 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
12 26 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 19 (0.27%) Kibana
14 19 (0.27%) Opsgenie
15 18 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.26%) Nagios
15 18 (0.26%) VxRail
16 14 (0.20%) Consul
Vendors
1 933 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 644 (9.17%) Google
3 428 (6.09%) Oracle
4 402 (5.72%) VMware
5 324 (4.61%) Databricks
6 285 (4.06%) ESRI
7 204 (2.90%) Cisco
8 184 (2.62%) Red Hat
9 171 (2.43%) Dynatrace
10 153 (2.18%) Splunk
11 121 (1.72%) Informatica
12 88 (1.25%) IBM
13 77 (1.10%) Cloudera
14 70 (1.00%) Citrix
15 67 (0.95%) Salesforce
16 65 (0.93%) Alteryx
17 62 (0.88%) Dell
18 50 (0.71%) Sparx
19 47 (0.67%) Veeam
20 44 (0.63%) SaltStack