Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 442 342
Rank change year-on-year -81 -100 -8
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 411 708 1,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.68% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.57% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 289 531 907
10th Percentile £40,800 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -2.10%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,750 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon EC2 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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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 £95,000 £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%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2.

Salary trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -80 327 £75,000 +7.14% 84
UK excluding London -24 237 £65,000 - 45
London -28 159 £89,750 +5.59% 39
Work from Home -68 149 £67,500 - 55
Scotland -33 60 £41,500 -33.60% 5
North of England +23 54 £80,000 +14.29% 11
South East -1 48 £67,500 +3.85% 6
North West +2 37 £80,000 +42.22% 7
Midlands -3 26 £62,500 -3.85% 7
West Midlands +27 24 £67,500 +5.88% 7
South West +7 21 £62,500 +19.05% 11
East of England -17 19 £42,500 -34.62% 4
Yorkshire +74 12 £80,000 +6.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 3
North East -1 5 £62,783 -3.41%
Wales - 3 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands -26 2 £57,500 -11.54%

Amazon EC2
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 64 (15.57%) Apache
2 56 (13.63%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.62%) Confluence
4 11 (2.68%) SAS
5 10 (2.43%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.95%) nginx
7 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.70%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.70%) WordPress
8 5 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.24%) CMS
10 1 (0.24%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.24%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 410 (99.76%) AWS
2 276 (67.15%) Amazon S3
3 247 (60.10%) Serverless
4 243 (59.12%) AWS Lambda
5 135 (32.85%) Amazon ECS
6 124 (30.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 104 (25.30%) Amazon EKS
7 104 (25.30%) Amazon SQS
8 71 (17.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 58 (14.11%) Amazon EMR
10 55 (13.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (12.41%) Azure
12 48 (11.68%) Route 53
13 43 (10.46%) GitHub
14 42 (10.22%) OpenShift
15 37 (9.00%) Amazon Kinesis
16 33 (8.03%) CloudFront
17 28 (6.81%) GCP
18 26 (6.33%) Amazon ELB
19 24 (5.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.81%) DNS
2 20 (4.87%) VPN
3 18 (4.38%) Firewall
4 14 (3.41%) Network Security
5 12 (2.92%) Unified Communications
6 10 (2.43%) DHCP
7 8 (1.95%) MQTT
8 7 (1.70%) VoIP
9 6 (1.46%) HTTP
10 5 (1.22%) AMQP
10 5 (1.22%) IPv4
10 5 (1.22%) IPv6
10 5 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.97%) Internet
11 4 (0.97%) WAN
12 3 (0.73%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.73%) LAN
12 3 (0.73%) SSL
12 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (53.53%) Amazon RDS
2 89 (21.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 81 (19.71%) NoSQL
4 65 (15.82%) MySQL
5 53 (12.90%) Big Data
6 52 (12.65%) Electronic Patient Records
6 52 (12.65%) Hadoop
7 43 (10.46%) DynamoDB
8 42 (10.22%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (9.73%) Relational Database
10 33 (8.03%) RDBMS
11 30 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (3.65%) Tableau
14 11 (2.68%) Amazon QuickSight
14 11 (2.68%) Data Mining
14 11 (2.68%) MongoDB
15 8 (1.95%) SQL Server
16 7 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 99 (24.09%) Jenkins
2 95 (23.11%) Git
3 39 (9.49%) Artifactory
4 33 (8.03%) GitLab
5 28 (6.81%) JIRA
6 26 (6.33%) Postman
7 20 (4.87%) Bitbucket
8 15 (3.65%) Subversion
9 10 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.95%) JUnit
11 7 (1.70%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.46%) Maven
13 5 (1.22%) Mockito
13 5 (1.22%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.97%) JMeter
14 4 (0.97%) Sourcetree
14 4 (0.97%) Spinnaker
15 3 (0.73%) CircleCI
15 3 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
16 2 (0.49%) git-flow
General
1 122 (29.68%) Finance
2 90 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 68 (16.55%) Law
4 67 (16.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (12.65%) Legal
6 39 (9.49%) Front Office
7 24 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.16%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.46%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.22%) Retail
11 4 (0.97%) Marketing
12 3 (0.73%) Banking
12 3 (0.73%) Games
12 3 (0.73%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.49%) Aviation
13 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.24%) Advertising
14 1 (0.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 157 (38.20%) AWS Engineer
2 102 (24.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 64 (15.57%) Software Engineer
4 55 (13.38%) AWS DevOps
5 53 (12.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 52 (12.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (12.65%) Senior
7 51 (12.41%) AWS Software Engineer
7 51 (12.41%) Big Data Engineer
7 51 (12.41%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 51 (12.41%) Developer
7 51 (12.41%) Scala Engineer
7 51 (12.41%) Scala Software Engineer
8 47 (11.44%) Lead
9 42 (10.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 40 (9.73%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 33 (8.03%) Technical Leader
12 32 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (6.08%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (5.60%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.49%) Spring
2 38 (9.25%) J2EE
3 33 (8.03%) JSON
4 32 (7.79%) Spring Boot
5 29 (7.06%) Node.js
6 26 (6.33%) React
7 25 (6.08%) HTML
8 22 (5.35%) AngularJS
9 21 (5.11%) CSS
10 18 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
11 16 (3.89%) Laravel
12 15 (3.65%) RESTful
13 14 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (3.41%) Kafka
14 10 (2.43%) LDAP
15 9 (2.19%) REST
16 8 (1.95%) .NET
16 8 (1.95%) React Native
17 7 (1.70%) GraphQL
17 7 (1.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.41%) Algorithms
2 42 (10.22%) Data Centre
3 38 (9.25%) Cloud Native
4 36 (8.76%) Tandem
5 26 (6.33%) Management Information System
6 21 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (3.41%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.16%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.43%) IoT
12 8 (1.95%) Educational Technology
13 7 (1.70%) Smartcard
14 6 (1.46%) Blog
14 6 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (18.25%) Linux
2 46 (11.19%) Windows
3 16 (3.89%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.19%) Unix
5 7 (1.70%) Android
6 6 (1.46%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.97%) Debian
8 4 (0.97%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.49%) Solaris
10 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.24%) CentOS
11 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (55.96%) CI/CD
2 195 (47.45%) DevOps
3 171 (41.61%) Agile
4 151 (36.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 151 (36.74%) Software Engineering
5 106 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (21.17%) Containerisation
7 83 (20.19%) SDLC
8 70 (17.03%) Visualisation
9 64 (15.57%) Computer Science
9 64 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (13.63%) Deployment Automation
11 55 (13.38%) Risk Management
12 51 (12.41%) Decision-Making
12 51 (12.41%) Operational Stability
12 51 (12.41%) Performance Tuning
13 48 (11.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 42 (10.22%) Open Source
15 41 (9.98%) Continuous Integration
16 40 (9.73%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 188 (45.74%) Python
2 177 (43.07%) Java
3 103 (25.06%) SQL
4 64 (15.57%) Go
5 55 (13.38%) Scala
6 41 (9.98%) Bash
7 39 (9.49%) JavaScript
8 38 (9.25%) PHP
9 18 (4.38%) PowerShell
10 17 (4.14%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.89%) R
12 15 (3.65%) Shell Script
13 13 (3.16%) C#
14 11 (2.68%) MATLAB
15 10 (2.43%) Ruby
16 7 (1.70%) C++
17 6 (1.46%) Rust
18 5 (1.22%) JSX
18 5 (1.22%) Perl
18 5 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (19.22%) Degree
2 69 (16.79%) AWS Certification
3 64 (15.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (9.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (9.00%) Security Cleared
6 32 (7.79%) SC Cleared
7 14 (3.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.22%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.95%) QA
2 7 (1.70%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.70%) NIST
3 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.73%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.73%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 147 (35.77%) Docker
2 20 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 201 (48.91%) Terraform
2 157 (38.20%) Kubernetes
3 57 (13.87%) Ansible
4 17 (4.14%) Progress Chef
5 16 (3.89%) Grafana
6 15 (3.65%) Packer
6 15 (3.65%) Prometheus
7 14 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (3.41%) Puppet
8 8 (1.95%) Kibana
9 7 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (1.70%) Salt
10 5 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.73%) Autotask
12 2 (0.49%) Consul
13 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (9.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.11%) Oracle
3 15 (3.65%) Apple
3 15 (3.65%) Google
4 14 (3.41%) Adobe
4 14 (3.41%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.95%) Splunk
6 6 (1.46%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.46%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.73%) Facebook
7 3 (0.73%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.73%) New Relic
7 3 (0.73%) Rackspace
7 3 (0.73%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.73%) VMware
8 2 (0.49%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.49%) Black Duck
8 2 (0.49%) IBM
8 2 (0.49%) Sage
9 1 (0.24%) SAP