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 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 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,335 17,730 36,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.43% 17.46% 22.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.00% 40.82% 47.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,548 10,452 16,468
10th Percentile £42,425 £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 £91,991 £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 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
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%

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 8 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 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
England -4 8,978 £70,000 -6.67% 2,539
UK excluding London -4 7,023 £60,000 -4.00% 1,463
Work from Home -2 5,108 £70,000 -3.45% 1,590
London -2 3,843 £85,000 - 1,247
Scotland +3 1,674 £60,000 -4.00% 129
North of England -4 1,672 £62,783 +0.45% 399
South East -15 1,135 £60,000 -7.69% 249
South West -4 985 £60,000 - 236
North West -6 955 £62,783 -3.41% 234
Midlands -13 845 £57,500 -8.00% 215
Yorkshire -1 545 £60,000 - 125
West Midlands -16 442 £60,000 -7.69% 127
East Midlands -5 402 £55,000 -4.35% 88
East of England -12 390 £55,000 -15.38% 129
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
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
1 706 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 640 (5.65%) Apache
3 600 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.95%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.94%) GeoServer
6 171 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 131 (1.16%) SharePoint
8 129 (1.14%) Confluence
9 93 (0.82%) CMS
10 83 (0.73%) nginx
11 80 (0.71%) IIS
12 71 (0.63%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
14 43 (0.38%) WordPress
15 39 (0.34%) Drupal
16 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
17 23 (0.20%) Tomcat
18 20 (0.18%) Umbraco
19 19 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
19 19 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 98 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 89 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.17%) Simulink
6 16 (0.14%) Trello
7 14 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.044%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.026%) Sketch
13 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.009%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 64 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.062%) Magento
6 6 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.053%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.044%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
7 5 (0.044%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.035%) Shopify
9 2 (0.018%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.018%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5,145 (45.39%) Azure
2 2,260 (19.94%) GCP
3 994 (8.77%) Serverless
4 883 (7.79%) SaaS
5 686 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
6 574 (5.06%) Amazon S3
7 562 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
8 470 (4.15%) GitHub
9 443 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
10 402 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
11 385 (3.40%) Snowflake
12 364 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 355 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
14 352 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
15 348 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
16 339 (2.99%) dbt
17 283 (2.50%) PaaS
18 261 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
19 251 (2.21%) IaaS
20 238 (2.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 570 (5.03%) Firewall
2 455 (4.01%) DNS
3 265 (2.34%) WAN
4 262 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 245 (2.16%) DHCP
6 196 (1.73%) VPN
7 188 (1.66%) LAN
8 173 (1.53%) Network Security
9 149 (1.31%) HTTP
10 118 (1.04%) SD-WAN
11 110 (0.97%) SAN
12 102 (0.90%) BGP
13 98 (0.86%) SSL
14 95 (0.84%) Internet
15 94 (0.83%) Wireless
16 90 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
17 86 (0.76%) VLAN
18 60 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 53 (0.47%) VoIP
20 48 (0.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,156 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 905 (7.98%) NoSQL
3 819 (7.23%) SQL Server
4 690 (6.09%) MySQL
5 639 (5.64%) Big Data
6 595 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
7 583 (5.14%) MongoDB
8 474 (4.18%) Data Lake
9 471 (4.16%) Relational Database
10 441 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
11 398 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
12 384 (3.39%) Hadoop
13 363 (3.20%) GIS
14 333 (2.94%) Apache Ignite
15 330 (2.91%) QGIS
16 308 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
17 285 (2.51%) Tableau
18 265 (2.34%) Apache Arrow
18 265 (2.34%) Dremio
19 257 (2.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,099 (9.70%) Git
2 671 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 402 (3.55%) GitLab
4 386 (3.41%) JIRA
5 191 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 190 (1.68%) JUnit
7 178 (1.57%) Selenium
8 105 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 95 (0.84%) Cucumber
10 94 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
11 93 (0.82%) TeamCity
12 79 (0.70%) Jasmine
13 74 (0.65%) Artifactory
14 68 (0.60%) Postman
15 66 (0.58%) Maven
16 63 (0.56%) CircleCI
17 62 (0.55%) WebDriver
18 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
18 60 (0.53%) Protractor
19 53 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,226 (28.46%) Finance
2 2,100 (18.53%) Social Skills
3 1,659 (14.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,389 (12.25%) Law
5 936 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 920 (8.12%) Banking
7 826 (7.29%) Marketing
8 603 (5.32%) Front Office
9 516 (4.55%) Public Sector
10 482 (4.25%) Legal
11 443 (3.91%) Investment Banking
12 414 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
13 392 (3.46%) Retail
14 217 (1.91%) Financial Institution
15 205 (1.81%) Games
16 176 (1.55%) Tech for Good
17 151 (1.33%) Aerospace
18 109 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 96 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
19 96 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,798 (24.68%) Developer
2 2,671 (23.56%) Senior
3 2,609 (23.02%) Software Engineer
4 1,586 (13.99%) Lead
5 1,304 (11.50%) Architect
6 934 (8.24%) AWS Engineer
7 792 (6.99%) Senior Developer
8 708 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 696 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 618 (5.45%) Data Engineer
11 617 (5.44%) Java Engineer
12 596 (5.26%) Python Engineer
13 532 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
14 521 (4.60%) .NET Developer
15 497 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
16 490 (4.32%) Java Developer
17 466 (4.11%) Python Software Engineer
18 454 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
19 447 (3.94%) AWS Software Engineer
20 439 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,174 (19.18%) React
2 1,500 (13.23%) .NET
3 1,170 (10.32%) Node.js
4 1,020 (9.00%) AngularJS
5 874 (7.71%) Spring
6 857 (7.56%) CSS
7 816 (7.20%) .NET Core
8 690 (6.09%) Kafka
9 678 (5.98%) Spring Boot
10 664 (5.86%) Vue
11 622 (5.49%) HTML
12 559 (4.93%) RESTful
13 457 (4.03%) ASP.NET
14 448 (3.95%) REST
15 434 (3.83%) gRPC
16 431 (3.80%) .NET Framework
17 374 (3.30%) Protocol Buffers
18 368 (3.25%) Laravel
19 331 (2.92%) PostGIS
20 330 (2.91%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 869 (7.67%) Cloud Native
2 839 (7.40%) Public Cloud
3 576 (5.08%) Algorithms
4 553 (4.88%) Hedge funds
5 535 (4.72%) Fixed Income
6 442 (3.90%) Equities
7 388 (3.42%) Derivative
8 387 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 371 (3.27%) Product Ownership
10 358 (3.16%) Management Information System
11 339 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
12 318 (2.81%) Onboarding
13 306 (2.70%) Data Centre
14 294 (2.59%) Data Structures
15 276 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
16 257 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
17 196 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
18 185 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
19 171 (1.51%) Private Cloud
20 160 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,368 (12.07%) Linux
2 898 (7.92%) Windows
3 400 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 327 (2.88%) Unix
5 231 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 142 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 108 (0.95%) Android
8 94 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 87 (0.77%) CentOS
10 63 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 62 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 58 (0.51%) Debian
13 47 (0.41%) Windows 10
14 44 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
15 33 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
16 27 (0.24%) CoreOS
17 23 (0.20%) Solaris
17 23 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.14%) VMS
19 11 (0.097%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,969 (43.84%) Agile
2 3,838 (33.86%) Software Engineering
3 2,902 (25.60%) DevOps
4 2,843 (25.08%) CI/CD
5 1,991 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
6 1,694 (14.94%) Microservices
7 1,613 (14.23%) SDLC
8 1,497 (13.21%) Full Stack Development
9 1,475 (13.01%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,377 (12.15%) Mentoring
11 1,317 (11.62%) Machine Learning
12 1,160 (10.23%) TDD
13 1,062 (9.37%) Operational Stability
14 1,045 (9.22%) Scrum
15 1,043 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
16 1,032 (9.10%) Actionable Insight
17 933 (8.23%) Computer Science
18 892 (7.87%) Asset Management
19 889 (7.84%) Containerisation
20 858 (7.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3,787 (33.41%) Python
2 3,067 (27.06%) Java
3 2,543 (22.43%) JavaScript
4 2,379 (20.99%) SQL
5 1,634 (14.42%) TypeScript
6 1,446 (12.76%) C#
7 578 (5.10%) PHP
8 452 (3.99%) PowerShell
9 413 (3.64%) Scala
10 398 (3.51%) Bash
11 397 (3.50%) Go
12 295 (2.60%) Kotlin
13 243 (2.14%) PL/SQL
14 177 (1.56%) Ruby
15 145 (1.28%) C++
16 131 (1.16%) R
17 110 (0.97%) C
18 109 (0.96%) T-SQL
19 91 (0.80%) Shell Script
20 76 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,414 (12.47%) Security Cleared
2 1,255 (11.07%) Degree
3 989 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 586 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 469 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 288 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 285 (2.51%) Azure Certification
8 232 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
9 223 (1.97%) Master's Degree
10 208 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 200 (1.76%) CISSP
12 167 (1.47%) DBS Check
13 149 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 125 (1.10%) CCNA
15 121 (1.07%) CISM
16 101 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
17 88 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
18 86 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 74 (0.65%) CCSP
20 62 (0.55%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 431 (3.80%) QA
2 355 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 242 (2.13%) GDPR
4 199 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 167 (1.47%) NIST
6 142 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 140 (1.24%) SLA
8 89 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 61 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 32 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 31 (0.27%) NCSC
12 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 23 (0.20%) PMO
14 20 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 18 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.15%) WCAG
17 16 (0.14%) COBIT
18 13 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,725 (15.22%) Docker
2 483 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 364 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 275 (2.43%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.09%) HDFS
6 74 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 40 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 38 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 37 (0.33%) vSphere
11 32 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 22 (0.19%) KVM
13 21 (0.19%) Firmware
13 21 (0.19%) XenApp
14 13 (0.11%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.088%) DFS Replication
17 8 (0.071%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
19 5 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,935 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 1,822 (16.07%) Terraform
3 757 (6.68%) Ansible
4 271 (2.39%) Puppet
5 247 (2.18%) Grafana
6 231 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 122 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 114 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 85 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 54 (0.48%) SCCM
11 45 (0.40%) vCenter Server
12 39 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 39 (0.34%) Nagios
13 36 (0.32%) Kibana
14 32 (0.28%) Packer
15 31 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 31 (0.27%) ZABBIX
16 30 (0.26%) Istio
17 27 (0.24%) Consul
18 24 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,433 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 1,030 (9.09%) Google
3 599 (5.28%) Oracle
4 536 (4.73%) VMware
5 511 (4.51%) Databricks
6 333 (2.94%) ESRI
7 318 (2.81%) Cisco
8 253 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 194 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 190 (1.68%) Splunk
11 132 (1.16%) Informatica
12 116 (1.02%) IBM
13 110 (0.97%) Citrix
14 95 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.81%) Cloudera
16 79 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 76 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 67 (0.59%) CheckPoint
19 66 (0.58%) Dell
19 66 (0.58%) SAP