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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 451 333
Rank change year-on-year -72 -118 -2
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 413 714 1,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.68% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.57% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 291 535 896
10th Percentile £41,000 £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% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

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 35,322 45,386 74,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.98% 43.16% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 26,781 29,602 41,844
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 £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%

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 25 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 25 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 -73 329 £75,000 +7.14% 105
UK excluding London -31 239 £65,000 - 42
London -32 159 £89,750 +5.59% 62
Work from Home -62 151 £67,500 - 54
Scotland -30 60 £41,500 -33.60% 6
North of England +11 54 £80,000 +14.29% 9
South East -13 47 £67,500 +3.85% 5
North West 0 37 £80,000 +33.33% 7
Midlands -3 27 £65,000 - 7
West Midlands +21 25 £67,500 +5.88% 7
South West -10 23 £60,000 +14.29% 10
East of England -2 19 £42,500 -34.62% 4
Yorkshire +68 12 £80,000 +6.67% 2
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 3
North East +1 5 £62,783 -3.41%
Wales - 3 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands -28 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 (15.50%) Apache
2 56 (13.56%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.60%) Confluence
4 11 (2.66%) SAS
5 8 (1.94%) nginx
5 8 (1.94%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.94%) WordPress
6 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.69%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.24%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.24%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 412 (99.76%) AWS
2 277 (67.07%) Amazon S3
3 250 (60.53%) Serverless
4 246 (59.56%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (32.93%) Amazon ECS
6 125 (30.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 104 (25.18%) Amazon SQS
8 102 (24.70%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (17.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 58 (14.04%) Amazon EMR
11 56 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 53 (12.83%) Azure
13 48 (11.62%) Route 53
14 44 (10.65%) GitHub
15 42 (10.17%) OpenShift
16 37 (8.96%) Amazon Kinesis
17 31 (7.51%) CloudFront
18 28 (6.78%) GCP
19 26 (6.30%) Amazon ELB
20 24 (5.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.78%) DNS
2 20 (4.84%) VPN
3 18 (4.36%) Firewall
4 14 (3.39%) Network Security
5 12 (2.91%) Unified Communications
6 10 (2.42%) DHCP
7 8 (1.94%) MQTT
8 7 (1.69%) VoIP
9 6 (1.45%) HTTP
10 5 (1.21%) AMQP
10 5 (1.21%) IPv4
10 5 (1.21%) IPv6
10 5 (1.21%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.97%) Internet
11 4 (0.97%) WAN
12 3 (0.73%) BGP
12 3 (0.73%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.73%) LAN
12 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (53.27%) Amazon RDS
2 88 (21.31%) Amazon Redshift
3 81 (19.61%) NoSQL
4 66 (15.98%) MySQL
5 53 (12.83%) Big Data
6 52 (12.59%) Electronic Patient Records
6 52 (12.59%) Hadoop
7 44 (10.65%) DynamoDB
8 43 (10.41%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (9.69%) Relational Database
10 33 (7.99%) RDBMS
11 31 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (3.87%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (3.63%) Tableau
14 11 (2.66%) Amazon QuickSight
14 11 (2.66%) Data Mining
14 11 (2.66%) MongoDB
15 8 (1.94%) SQL Server
16 7 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 100 (24.21%) Jenkins
2 97 (23.49%) Git
3 39 (9.44%) Artifactory
4 34 (8.23%) GitLab
5 29 (7.02%) JIRA
6 26 (6.30%) Postman
7 20 (4.84%) Bitbucket
8 15 (3.63%) Subversion
9 10 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.94%) JUnit
11 7 (1.69%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.45%) Maven
13 5 (1.21%) Mockito
13 5 (1.21%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.97%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.97%) JMeter
14 4 (0.97%) Sourcetree
14 4 (0.97%) Spinnaker
15 3 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
16 2 (0.48%) Travis CI
General
1 122 (29.54%) Finance
2 91 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 68 (16.46%) Law
4 67 (16.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (12.59%) Legal
6 39 (9.44%) Front Office
7 24 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.15%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.45%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.21%) 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 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.48%) Aviation
13 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.24%) Back Office
14 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 157 (38.01%) AWS Engineer
2 102 (24.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 64 (15.50%) Software Engineer
4 55 (13.32%) AWS DevOps
5 53 (12.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 53 (12.83%) Developer
6 52 (12.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (12.59%) Senior
7 51 (12.35%) AWS Software Engineer
7 51 (12.35%) Big Data Engineer
7 51 (12.35%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 51 (12.35%) Scala Engineer
7 51 (12.35%) Scala Software Engineer
8 47 (11.38%) Lead
9 42 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 40 (9.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 33 (7.99%) Technical Leader
12 32 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (6.05%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (5.81%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.44%) Spring
2 38 (9.20%) J2EE
3 34 (8.23%) JSON
4 32 (7.75%) Spring Boot
5 30 (7.26%) Node.js
6 27 (6.54%) React
7 26 (6.30%) HTML
8 22 (5.33%) AngularJS
8 22 (5.33%) CSS
9 16 (3.87%) Laravel
9 16 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (3.87%) RESTful
10 14 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (3.39%) Kafka
11 9 (2.18%) REST
12 8 (1.94%) .NET
12 8 (1.94%) LDAP
12 8 (1.94%) React Native
13 7 (1.69%) GraphQL
13 7 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.35%) Algorithms
2 40 (9.69%) Data Centre
3 38 (9.20%) Cloud Native
4 36 (8.72%) Tandem
5 26 (6.30%) Management Information System
6 21 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (3.39%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.15%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.42%) IoT
12 8 (1.94%) Educational Technology
13 7 (1.69%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.69%) Smartcard
14 6 (1.45%) Blog
14 6 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 74 (17.92%) Linux
2 44 (10.65%) Windows
3 16 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.18%) Unix
5 7 (1.69%) Android
6 6 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.45%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.97%) Debian
7 4 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.48%) CentOS
9 2 (0.48%) Solaris
9 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (55.93%) CI/CD
2 197 (47.70%) DevOps
3 173 (41.89%) Agile
4 153 (37.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 152 (36.80%) Software Engineering
6 107 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (21.31%) Containerisation
8 83 (20.10%) SDLC
9 70 (16.95%) Visualisation
10 64 (15.50%) Computer Science
10 64 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (13.56%) Deployment Automation
12 55 (13.32%) Risk Management
13 51 (12.35%) Operational Stability
13 51 (12.35%) Performance Tuning
14 49 (11.86%) Decision-Making
15 48 (11.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 42 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
16 42 (10.17%) Open Source
17 40 (9.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 191 (46.25%) Python
2 178 (43.10%) Java
3 104 (25.18%) SQL
4 64 (15.50%) Go
5 55 (13.32%) Scala
6 43 (10.41%) Bash
7 40 (9.69%) JavaScript
8 39 (9.44%) PHP
9 18 (4.36%) PowerShell
9 18 (4.36%) TypeScript
10 16 (3.87%) R
11 15 (3.63%) Shell Script
12 13 (3.15%) C#
13 11 (2.66%) MATLAB
14 10 (2.42%) Ruby
15 7 (1.69%) C++
16 6 (1.45%) Rust
17 5 (1.21%) JSX
17 5 (1.21%) Perl
17 5 (1.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (19.13%) Degree
2 70 (16.95%) AWS Certification
3 64 (15.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (9.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (8.96%) Security Cleared
6 32 (7.75%) SC Cleared
7 14 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.18%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.21%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.94%) QA
2 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.69%) NIST
3 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.73%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.73%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 148 (35.84%) Docker
2 18 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 203 (49.15%) Terraform
2 156 (37.77%) Kubernetes
3 58 (14.04%) Ansible
4 17 (4.12%) Progress Chef
5 16 (3.87%) Grafana
6 15 (3.63%) Packer
6 15 (3.63%) Prometheus
7 14 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (3.39%) Puppet
8 9 (2.18%) Kibana
9 7 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (1.69%) Salt
10 5 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.73%) Autotask
12 2 (0.48%) Consul
13 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.33%) Oracle
3 16 (3.87%) Apple
4 15 (3.63%) Google
5 14 (3.39%) Adobe
5 14 (3.39%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.94%) Splunk
7 6 (1.45%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.97%) New Relic
9 3 (0.73%) Facebook
9 3 (0.73%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.73%) Rackspace
9 3 (0.73%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.73%) VMware
10 2 (0.48%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.48%) Black Duck
10 2 (0.48%) IBM
10 2 (0.48%) Sage
11 1 (0.24%) Databricks