Amazon EC2 Job Trends in England

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 372 435
Rank change year-on-year -106 +63 -19
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 131 330 241
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 1.82% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 93 217 192
10th Percentile £45,250 £60,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £72,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £107,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.88% +59.26% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £137,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £147,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -35.71% +50.00% -0.71%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,592 18,130 18,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.68% 36.56% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,337 10,828 15,884
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,440 £45,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,575 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in England

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
London -117 65 £77,500 -27.91% 92
South East +16 25 £45,000 -28.00% 102
North of England +24 19 £62,500 +4.17% 98
North West +38 16 £62,500 +4.17% 58
South West +19 16 £70,000 -5.08% 57
West Midlands +34 15 £72,500 -3.33% 48
Midlands +33 15 £72,500 - 83
East of England +15 5 £67,500 +12.20% 60
Yorkshire -5 3 £60,000 -3.23% 32
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.92%) Confluence
2 9 (6.87%) WebSphere
3 7 (5.34%) Apache
3 7 (5.34%) Tomcat
4 6 (4.58%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (3.05%) nginx
6 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.53%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (1.53%) WinCC
8 1 (0.76%) JBoss
8 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) AWS
2 87 (66.41%) Amazon S3
3 80 (61.07%) Serverless
4 65 (49.62%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (39.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 43 (32.82%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (30.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 37 (28.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (25.19%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (14.50%) Route 53
11 16 (12.21%) Azure
11 16 (12.21%) GitHub
11 16 (12.21%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (9.92%) Amazon ELB
12 13 (9.92%) AWS KMS
13 10 (7.63%) SaaS
14 8 (6.11%) Amazon Glacier
14 8 (6.11%) Snowflake
15 7 (5.34%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (5.34%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.69%) DNS
2 12 (9.16%) FTP
3 11 (8.40%) Firewall
3 11 (8.40%) HTTP
3 11 (8.40%) SMTP
3 11 (8.40%) SSH
4 9 (6.87%) SSL
5 6 (4.58%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.58%) VPN
6 5 (3.82%) AMQP
7 4 (3.05%) IMAP
7 4 (3.05%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (2.29%) BGP
8 3 (2.29%) VLAN
9 2 (1.53%) Ethernet
9 2 (1.53%) Network Security
10 1 (0.76%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.76%) NAS
10 1 (0.76%) SAN
10 1 (0.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (51.91%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (21.37%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (13.74%) Relational Database
4 13 (9.92%) DynamoDB
4 13 (9.92%) RDBMS
5 10 (7.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (7.63%) NoSQL
5 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (5.34%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (5.34%) DB2
8 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.05%) InfluxDB
9 4 (3.05%) MySQL
10 3 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.29%) Big Data
10 3 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.29%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 57 (43.51%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.50%) GitLab
3 18 (13.74%) JUnit
4 17 (12.98%) Git
5 15 (11.45%) JMeter
5 15 (11.45%) Mockito
6 13 (9.92%) JIRA
7 11 (8.40%) Vagrant
8 7 (5.34%) CircleCI
9 5 (3.82%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.29%) MLflow
11 2 (1.53%) Subversion
12 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.76%) Testinfra
General
1 41 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.32%) Finance
3 22 (16.79%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.45%) Banking
5 11 (8.40%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.29%) Advertising
8 3 (2.29%) Back Office
8 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.29%) Law
8 3 (2.29%) Marketing
8 3 (2.29%) Retail
9 2 (1.53%) Billing
9 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Automotive
10 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (18.32%) Developer
2 21 (16.03%) Java Developer
3 19 (14.50%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (14.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (14.50%) Senior
4 16 (12.21%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (9.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 13 (9.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 12 (9.16%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Applications Support
8 9 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.79%) Spring
1 22 (16.79%) Spring Boot
2 20 (15.27%) Hibernate
3 18 (13.74%) JSON
3 18 (13.74%) REST
4 17 (12.98%) XML
5 15 (11.45%) ActiveMQ
5 15 (11.45%) Apache Camel
5 15 (11.45%) HTML
5 15 (11.45%) jQuery
5 15 (11.45%) Web Services
5 15 (11.45%) WireMock
6 11 (8.40%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (8.40%) RESTful
7 10 (7.63%) LDAP
7 10 (7.63%) React
8 9 (6.87%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (6.11%) AWS CDK
9 8 (6.11%) WebSphere MQ
10 7 (5.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.21%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.82%) Replication
4 5 (3.82%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.29%) Animation
6 3 (2.29%) Blockchain
6 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.29%) Life Science
6 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.29%) Web3
7 2 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.53%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) SCADA
8 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 54 (41.22%) Linux
2 22 (16.79%) Windows
3 15 (11.45%) Unix
4 14 (10.69%) VMS
5 9 (6.87%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (6.11%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.05%) Debian
8 3 (2.29%) AIX
8 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (65.65%) CI/CD
2 59 (45.04%) DevOps
3 57 (43.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (25.19%) Agile
5 30 (22.90%) Containerisation
5 30 (22.90%) Microservices
6 26 (19.85%) Software Engineering
7 25 (19.08%) Cloud Security
7 25 (19.08%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (16.03%) Change Management
9 20 (15.27%) Configuration Management
10 19 (14.50%) Observability
10 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (14.50%) SDLC
11 18 (13.74%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (11.45%) BDD
12 15 (11.45%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (11.45%) TDD
12 15 (11.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 89 (67.94%) Python
2 46 (35.11%) Java
3 28 (21.37%) Bash
3 28 (21.37%) JavaScript
3 28 (21.37%) SQL
4 19 (14.50%) Shell Script
5 17 (12.98%) PowerShell
6 11 (8.40%) Go
6 11 (8.40%) Groovy
7 8 (6.11%) Perl
7 8 (6.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.82%) Scala
9 3 (2.29%) C#
9 3 (2.29%) C++
10 2 (1.53%) Ruby
11 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (29.77%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.90%) AWS Certification
3 25 (19.08%) Degree
4 20 (15.27%) SC Cleared
5 10 (7.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.11%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.58%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (3.82%) Azure Certification
9 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.29%) SnowPro
11 2 (1.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.76%) CCNA
12 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.76%) MCSE
12 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (4.58%) SLA
2 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.05%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) NIST
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 61 (46.56%) Docker
2 10 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.82%) DFS Replication
4 4 (3.05%) Dovecot
4 4 (3.05%) Postfix
4 4 (3.05%) Squid
4 4 (3.05%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.05%) vSphere
5 2 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.76%) Firmware
6 1 (0.76%) iptables
6 1 (0.76%) vCloud
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (48.09%) Terraform
2 55 (41.98%) Kubernetes
3 33 (25.19%) Prometheus
4 30 (22.90%) Grafana
5 21 (16.03%) Ansible
6 18 (13.74%) Kibana
7 5 (3.82%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.05%) Nessus
8 4 (3.05%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.29%) Argo
9 3 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (2.29%) Kubeflow
9 3 (2.29%) Netcool
10 2 (1.53%) AssetCenter
10 2 (1.53%) Istio
10 2 (1.53%) Nagios
10 2 (1.53%) SCCM
11 1 (0.76%) Puppet
11 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Splunk
2 16 (12.21%) ServiceNow
3 15 (11.45%) Dynatrace
4 12 (9.16%) IBM
5 10 (7.63%) VMware
6 8 (6.11%) Oracle
6 8 (6.11%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.05%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (2.29%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.29%) Snow
8 3 (2.29%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.53%) Cisco
9 2 (1.53%) Google
9 2 (1.53%) Kepware
9 2 (1.53%) Rockwell
9 2 (1.53%) Siemens
10 1 (0.76%) Databricks
10 1 (0.76%) Dell
10 1 (0.76%) Informatica
10 1 (0.76%) Nimble Storage