The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon EC2 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Rank 638 679 789
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +110
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 225 223 92
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.208% 0.185% 0.074%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.969% 0.902% 0.389%
Number of salaries quoted 188 199 87
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +7.14%
All Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
23217 24726 23624
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 21.48% 20.49% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19723 21474 20375
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -

Amazon EC2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Amazon EC2 Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the UK.

Amazon EC2 Salary Trend

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Amazon EC2 Salary Histogram

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +8 206 £50,000 +11.11%
London +57 149 £55,000 +19.56%
City of London +23 52 £57,500 +15.00%
Yorkshire - 17 £45,000 -
North Yorkshire - 14 £45,000 -
South East -25 13 £55,000 +40.12%
Scotland - 13 £28,750 -
South West -4 9 £35,000 -
Middlesbrough - 9 £45,000 -
Edinburgh - 8 - -
North West +1 6 £47,500 +26.66%
East of England -6 6 £40,000 +14.28%
Leicestershire - 6 £32,500 -
East Midlands - 6 £32,500 -
Cambridgeshire +10 5 £40,000 +14.28%
Cambridge -2 5 £40,000 +14.28%
Surrey -4 5 £55,000 -
Manchester -21 5 £47,500 +26.66%
Oxfordshire - 5 £72,500 -
Cheltenham - 5 £35,000 -
Gloucestershire - 5 £35,000 -
Oxford - 5 £72,500 -
York - 5 £42,500 -
Glasgow - 4 £35,000 -
Feltham - 4 £56,000 -
Leatherhead -5 3 £55,000 -
Berkshire -14 3 £47,500 +25.82%
Sheffield - 3 £50,000 -
Reading - 3 £47,500 -
South Yorkshire - 3 £50,000 -

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Amazon EC2 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon EC2.

1 253 (59.95%) Linux
2 245 (58.06%) Amazon AWS
3 178 (42.18%) Java
4 176 (41.71%) MySQL
5 160 (37.91%) Web Services
6 156 (36.97%) PHP
7 126 (29.86%) Puppet
8 123 (29.15%) Apache
9 121 (28.67%) Git (software)
10 116 (27.49%) Ubuntu
11 115 (27.25%) JavaScript
12 104 (24.64%) Amazon S3
13 103 (24.41%) Python
14 99 (23.46%) Ruby
15 90 (21.33%) Red Hat
16 89 (21.09%) Continuous Integration
17 88 (20.85%) NoSQL
17 88 (20.85%) DNS
18 87 (20.62%) Bash shell
19 86 (20.38%) CSS
20 84 (19.91%) TDD
21 76 (18.01%) Debian
22 75 (17.77%) J2EE
23 73 (17.30%) .NET
24 72 (17.06%) Perl
24 72 (17.06%) Windows
24 72 (17.06%) Agile Software Development
25 71 (16.82%) HTML
26 70 (16.59%) Degree
27 69 (16.35%) VMware

Amazon EC2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Amazon EC2 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon EC2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 160 (37.91%) Web Services
2 86 (20.38%) CSS
3 75 (17.77%) J2EE
4 73 (17.30%) .NET
5 71 (16.82%) HTML
6 59 (13.98%) Ruby on Rails
7 52 (12.32%) REST
8 51 (12.09%) HTML5
8 51 (12.09%) jQuery
9 37 (8.768%) LAMP
10 35 (8.294%) JSP
11 31 (7.346%) CSS3
12 29 (6.872%) Ajax
13 27 (6.398%) ASP.NET
14 25 (5.924%) Servlets
14 25 (5.924%) JMS
15 24 (5.687%) Spring
16 23 (5.450%) XML
17 19 (4.502%) Django
18 18 (4.265%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 245 (58.06%) Amazon AWS
2 123 (29.15%) Apache
3 104 (24.64%) Amazon S3
4 53 (12.56%) Tomcat
5 45 (10.66%) Rackspace Cloud
6 44 (10.43%) Windows Azure
6 44 (10.43%) nginx
7 38 (9.005%) Amazon ELB
8 37 (8.768%) IIS
9 30 (7.109%) RabbitMQ
10 21 (4.976%) Force.com
11 17 (4.028%) Jetty
11 17 (4.028%) Apache Solr
11 17 (4.028%) Drupal
11 17 (4.028%) CloudFront
12 14 (3.318%) MSMQ
13 12 (2.844%) Route 53
14 9 (2.133%) Magento
15 8 (1.896%) Apache Pig
15 8 (1.896%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (3.081%) Google Apps
2 8 (1.896%) MS Excel
3 5 (1.185%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.711%) MS Office
5 2 (0.474%) Office 365
5 2 (0.474%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.474%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 88 (20.85%) DNS
2 63 (14.93%) Internet
3 42 (9.953%) Firewall
4 27 (6.398%) SAN
5 25 (5.924%) AMQP
6 24 (5.687%) DHCP
7 22 (5.213%) SSH
8 20 (4.739%) TCP/IP
9 18 (4.265%) HTTP
10 17 (4.028%) BIG-IP
10 17 (4.028%) NAS
11 14 (3.318%) SSL
12 12 (2.844%) VPN
13 8 (1.896%) iSCSI
14 7 (1.659%) Network Security
15 6 (1.422%) RTP
15 6 (1.422%) RTSP
16 5 (1.185%) Wireless
17 3 (0.711%) ICMP
17 3 (0.711%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (41.71%) MySQL
2 88 (20.85%) NoSQL
3 60 (14.22%) MongoDB
4 44 (10.43%) Redis
5 43 (10.19%) SQL Server
6 33 (7.820%) Apache Cassandra
6 33 (7.820%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (7.346%) Hadoop
8 28 (6.635%) RDBMS
9 24 (5.687%) Big Data
10 20 (4.739%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (3.791%) SQL Server 2008
12 9 (2.133%) Data Mining
12 9 (2.133%) Apache Hive
12 9 (2.133%) HBase
13 8 (1.896%) SimpleDB
13 8 (1.896%) Amazon DynamoDB
14 7 (1.659%) CouchDB
15 6 (1.422%) Neo4j
15 6 (1.422%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 121 (28.67%) Git (software)
2 47 (11.14%) Jenkins
3 34 (8.057%) Maven
3 34 (8.057%) Subversion
4 19 (4.502%) TeamCity
5 18 (4.265%) Selenium
6 16 (3.791%) Ant
7 13 (3.081%) Hudson
8 11 (2.607%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 11 (2.607%) JIRA
9 9 (2.133%) GitHub
10 6 (1.422%) PhoneGap
10 6 (1.422%) Appcelerator Titanium
11 5 (1.185%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.185%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.185%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.185%) RSpec
12 4 (0.948%) JUnit
13 3 (0.711%) NUnit
13 3 (0.711%) IntelliJ
General
1 65 (15.40%) Games
2 42 (9.953%) Finance
3 29 (6.872%) Back Office
4 28 (6.635%) Investment Banking
4 28 (6.635%) Banking
5 22 (5.213%) Marketing
6 8 (1.896%) Advertising
6 8 (1.896%) Music
7 5 (1.185%) Retail
8 4 (0.948%) Online Betting
8 4 (0.948%) Music Industry
9 3 (0.711%) Automotive
9 3 (0.711%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.474%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.237%) Law
Job Titles
1 144 (34.12%) Developer
2 94 (22.27%) Administrator
3 83 (19.67%) Systems Administrator
4 81 (19.19%) Linux Administrator
5 70 (16.59%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 31 (7.346%) Systems Engineer
7 30 (7.109%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.872%) PHP Developer
9 28 (6.635%) Java Developer
10 23 (5.450%) Linux Engineer
10 23 (5.450%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (4.976%) Senior Linux Administrator
11 21 (4.976%) Software Engineer
12 19 (4.502%) Team Leader
13 18 (4.265%) Ruby Developer
14 16 (3.791%) Senior Systems Administrator
15 15 (3.555%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
15 15 (3.555%) .NET Developer
16 12 (2.844%) C# .NET Developer
16 12 (2.844%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.64%) SaaS
2 41 (9.716%) Cloud Computing
3 37 (8.768%) PaaS
4 36 (8.531%) Heroku
5 35 (8.294%) Open Source
6 32 (7.583%) Replication
7 31 (7.346%) Computer Science
8 29 (6.872%) Clustering
9 23 (5.450%) Social Media
10 21 (4.976%) Social Network
11 13 (3.081%) Blog
12 12 (2.844%) Social Gaming
13 11 (2.607%) Online Games
14 9 (2.133%) Digital Media
15 8 (1.896%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (1.659%) Statistics
16 7 (1.659%) Mobile Games
16 7 (1.659%) Taxonomies
16 7 (1.659%) IaaS
17 6 (1.422%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 253 (59.95%) Linux
2 116 (27.49%) Ubuntu
3 76 (18.01%) Debian
4 72 (17.06%) Windows
5 64 (15.17%) UNIX
5 64 (15.17%) CentOS
6 37 (8.768%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (6.161%) SUSE
8 22 (5.213%) Android
8 22 (5.213%) Solaris
9 18 (4.265%) Windows Server 2008
10 17 (4.028%) Apple iOS
11 11 (2.607%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (1.896%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.711%) Fedora
13 3 (0.711%) Mac OS X Server
13 3 (0.711%) Windows Phone
14 2 (0.474%) Windows Mobile
15 1 (0.237%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (21.09%) Continuous Integration
2 84 (19.91%) TDD
3 72 (17.06%) Agile Software Development
4 55 (13.03%) E-Commerce
5 51 (12.09%) Scrum
6 48 (11.37%) SOA
7 40 (9.479%) MVC
7 40 (9.479%) OO
8 39 (9.242%) Load Balancing
9 33 (7.820%) Unit Testing
10 31 (7.346%) Project Management
11 28 (6.635%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 24 (5.687%) Kanban
13 22 (5.213%) ITIL
14 17 (4.028%) Configuration Management
14 17 (4.028%) Infrastructure Management
15 16 (3.791%) Pair Programming
16 15 (3.555%) OOP
16 15 (3.555%) Service Management
16 15 (3.555%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 178 (42.18%) Java
2 156 (36.97%) PHP
3 115 (27.25%) JavaScript
4 103 (24.41%) Python
5 99 (23.46%) Ruby
6 87 (20.62%) Bash shell
7 72 (17.06%) Perl
8 62 (14.69%) SQL
9 59 (13.98%) C#
10 21 (4.976%) ActionScript
11 16 (3.791%) Apex Code
12 15 (3.555%) Scala
13 14 (3.318%) Erlang
13 14 (3.318%) AspectJ
13 14 (3.318%) C++
14 13 (3.081%) PHP5
15 12 (2.844%) C
16 8 (1.896%) Shell Script
17 5 (1.185%) Clojure
18 3 (0.711%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 70 (16.59%) Degree
2 31 (7.346%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (7.346%) CCNA
3 13 (3.081%) RHCE
4 10 (2.370%) RHCT
5 2 (0.474%) MCITP
5 2 (0.474%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.635%) QA
2 7 (1.659%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.422%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (10.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (10.43%) Xen
3 38 (9.005%) Samba
4 33 (7.820%) NFS
5 22 (5.213%) Sendmail
6 11 (2.607%) Active Directory
6 11 (2.607%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 10 (2.370%) Hyper-V
8 9 (2.133%) Postfix
9 8 (1.896%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.948%) vSphere
10 4 (0.948%) Varnish
10 4 (0.948%) VMware ESX
11 2 (0.474%) OpenSSO
12 1 (0.237%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.237%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.237%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 126 (29.86%) Puppet
2 23 (5.450%) Nagios
3 10 (2.370%) Ganglia
4 9 (2.133%) Splunk
5 8 (1.896%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.422%) OpenView
7 5 (1.185%) SCCM
7 5 (1.185%) Munin
8 4 (0.948%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.711%) Zenoss
10 2 (0.474%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 90 (21.33%) Red Hat
2 69 (16.35%) VMware
3 51 (12.09%) Cisco
4 45 (10.66%) Rackspace
5 44 (10.43%) Google
5 44 (10.43%) Oracle
6 22 (5.213%) Sun
7 21 (4.976%) StorageTek
7 21 (4.976%) Zend
8 19 (4.502%) JBoss
9 18 (4.265%) NetApp
10 16 (3.791%) F5
10 16 (3.791%) Microsoft
11 15 (3.555%) Isilon
12 11 (2.607%) Twitter
13 9 (2.133%) Salesforce.com
13 9 (2.133%) Percona
14 8 (1.896%) Tripwire
15 5 (1.185%) Juniper
15 5 (1.185%) Apple
City, London
Established and successful E-Commerce Company is looking for a Systems Engineering Manager to join their team... You will be working for an Open Source company that contribute...
e-Recruiter
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Pension+Stocks+Career
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Proficient in Ruby or Python, and UNIX shell. - Unix systems administration including strong TCP/IP networking... - Experience with Amazon EC2, PaaS services (e.g. Heroku, Azure) a very...
E-synergy Solutions
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + negotiable + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
AWS EC2. Programming experience with Ruby, Clojure, Python, Java etc... Git or Subversion source control. Cisco firewalls and routers, TCP/IP subnetting etc... VMWare, Hyper-V or other...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Middlesbrough, Cleveland
A Sales and Marketing Saas business that are experiencing continued growth are looking to hire a highly technical Infrastructure Lead to take on the live production infrastructure... This...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
A Fantastic opportunity for the most exciting client in London has arisen for a Services Engineer who will be responsible for running in the Amazon EC2 environment across...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
Central London / West End
Ideally the Java Developer will have explored NoSQL methods of storing data (Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop)... Java Developer, Server, AI, Spring, NoSQL, Maven, hibernate, Python, Scala, TDD, Agile, Scrum.
DeepMind Technologies
Salary: From £40,000 to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 29 April 2013
City, London
The Web Developer Opportunity (PHP, Javascript, CSS, HTML): My client are looking for a talented web developer to join their dynamic and growing team located In London... The...
Aston Carter
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will have an in depth knowledge of linux clustering, preferably within in a HPC / scientific environment... You should also have knowledge of high performance parallel filesystems (lustre,...
Sanger Institute
Salary: From £36,825 to £46,850 per annum dependent on experience plus excelle
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Essential Skills You will have an in depth knowledge of linux clustering, preferably within in a HPC / scientific environment... You should also have knowledge of high performance parallel...
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Salary: £36825 - £46850 per annum + plus excellent benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
Primarily you will Administrate and maintain all in-house operational support systems and infrastructure services such a web/email services, DNS, authentication servers and other operational tools. Ensure...
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
London (EC2)
You will need to be an idea driven, Junior Web Developer / Junior PHP Developer confident in their coding ability and capable of demonstrating: - Excellent knowledge of PHP5 and...
Guru Careers
Salary: £22-25k
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
You will need to be an idea driven, Junior Web Developer / Junior PHP Developer confident in their coding ability and capable of demonstrating: Excellent knowledge of PHP5 and...
Guru Careers
Salary: £22-25k
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
As a minimum experience with S3, EC2. *Deployment automation *Server configuration management *Solr deployment and optimisation *Memcache *Apache web server *Apache traffic server *HA mysql (Master to Master...
J-Com
Salary: £65000 - 80000 Per Annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside
Experience with Cloud Computing (Cloudstack, Amazon EC2, Rightscale) Vast understanding of Linux system administration - working specifically with RHEL/ OEL/ CentOS/ Ubuntu. Vmware ESXi/ Vsphere installation and administration... Advanced...
Trader Media Group Ltd
Salary: Up to £37,000 per annum plus on-call, bonus and great benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
West End, London
Hands-on practical knowledge must include: Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/Redhat) installation, administration, patching and upgrading Server security and hardening (SSH, Solaris Security Toolkit [JASS] etc.) General Unix services,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £52000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
West End, London
Hands-on practical knowledge must include: Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/Redhat) installation, administration, patching and upgrading Server security and hardening (SSH, Solaris Security Toolkit [JASS] etc.) General Unix services,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £52000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
North London
This infrastructure includes an ESX VMware cluster hosting about 100 Linux and Windows servers, 10G and 1G fiber and copper networks, Netapp SANs, Cisco firewalls, Cisco and Extreme...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
City of London
A Fantastic opportunity for the most exciting client in London has arisen for a Services Engineer who will be responsible for running in the Amazon EC2 environment across...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
They are looking for a PHP Engineer to join their highly skilled development team who can help them in scaling their infrastructure for their mobile app portfolio (iOS &...
bridgenoble
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Stock Options + Perks
Posted: 3 May 2013
South West London
Expert in QlikView 11... - Some knowledge of PHP and GIT. - Familiarity with LAMP, Amazon EC2, AtTask & Librato... - Knowledge of Data Protection Act and PCI DSS regulations... - Ability to...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Salary: £50,000 per annum c£50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Their iOS & Android App is already voted one of the top of its kind in the world within the Google Play / Apple App Store. As the Go / Java...
Bridge Noble
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Stock + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Their iOS & Android App is already voted one of the top of its kind in the world within the Google Play / Apple App Store. As the Go / Java...
bridgenoble
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Stock + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
You will define the QA and test processes including building continuous integration processes (Hudson, Jenkins); an automated test framework (Selenium or similar) and develop test scripts within a...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
You will define the QA and test processes including building continuous integration processes (Hudson, Jenkins); an automated test framework (Selenium or similar) and develop test scripts within a...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
This is a senior role requiring deep technical expertise on both Android and iOS platforms... At least 2 years’ experience in Android and iOS development... Professional experience using...
Future Games of London
Salary: Unspecified - Based on Experience
Posted: 7 May 2013
Slough, UK
Familiar with RAID levels, ISCSI and SAN technology - Database installation and configuration, preferably Microsoft SQL and Oracle - Operating system installation, configuration and management of Microsoft windows O/S...
eGain
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013