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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 375 526
Rank change year-on-year -178 +151 -99
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 130 302 326
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.77% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 2.15% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 101 200 260
10th Percentile £47,000 £52,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £63,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £130,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £140,000 £113,875
UK median annual salary £62,500 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -30.56% +20.00% +7.14%

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 23,970 14,057 29,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.78% 35.83% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,694 10,107 24,225
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +7.83% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.73% +4.78% -11.54%

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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 2026. 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 -151 50 £90,000 -16.28% 44
North of England -35 27 £65,000 +6.12% 26
South West -44 24 £60,250 +0.42% 22
South East -51 18 £60,000 -4.00% 17
Yorkshire -41 13 £65,000 -7.80% 8
North West -8 8 £77,500 +34.78% 14
Midlands -54 7 £52,500 -8.70% 2
East of England -14 6 £85,000 +17.24% 1
West Midlands -41 6 £57,500 - 1
North East - 6 £49,750 - 4
East Midlands -29 1 £52,500 - 1
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 10 (7.69%) Apache
2 5 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.31%) Confluence
3 3 (2.31%) nginx
3 3 (2.31%) WordPress
4 2 (1.54%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (1.54%) IIS
4 2 (1.54%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.77%) Drupal
5 1 (0.77%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 130 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 82 (63.08%) Serverless
4 78 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (39.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 47 (36.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (28.46%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (28.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (20.00%) GitHub
8 26 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (19.23%) Datadog
10 22 (16.92%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (15.38%) Azure
12 17 (13.08%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (13.08%) CloudFront
13 13 (10.00%) SaaS
14 9 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (6.15%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 8 (6.15%) Route 53
16 7 (5.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) VPN
2 7 (5.38%) Firewall
3 6 (4.62%) SSL
4 5 (3.85%) BGP
4 5 (3.85%) DNS
4 5 (3.85%) VLAN
5 4 (3.08%) Network Security
6 3 (2.31%) AMQP
6 3 (2.31%) SSH
6 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.54%) Internet
7 2 (1.54%) IPsec
7 2 (1.54%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.54%) WAN
8 1 (0.77%) IPv4
8 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (60.77%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (19.23%) DynamoDB
3 23 (17.69%) NoSQL
4 11 (8.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (6.92%) MySQL
5 9 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.62%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.08%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.31%) Metadata
9 3 (2.31%) Redis
10 2 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.77%) Big Data
11 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.77%) GIS
11 1 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (36.92%) Jenkins
2 28 (21.54%) GitLab
3 18 (13.85%) Git
4 17 (13.08%) CircleCI
5 10 (7.69%) JIRA
6 8 (6.15%) Bitbucket
7 6 (4.62%) JUnit
7 6 (4.62%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.85%) JMeter
9 4 (3.08%) Artifactory
9 4 (3.08%) Mockito
10 3 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (1.54%) Maven
12 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.77%) Gradle
12 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.77%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.77%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 46 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.08%) Finance
3 22 (16.92%) Banking
4 18 (13.85%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.92%) Law
6 6 (4.62%) Advertising
7 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.85%) Legal
8 3 (2.31%) Back Office
8 3 (2.31%) Billing
8 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.31%) Military
8 3 (2.31%) Retail
9 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.77%) Automotive
10 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (26.15%) Senior
2 31 (23.85%) AWS Engineer
2 31 (23.85%) Developer
3 24 (18.46%) Platform Engineer
4 20 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.31%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) Java Developer
7 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.92%) Java Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Python Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.46%) RabbitMQ
2 22 (16.92%) RESTful
3 19 (14.62%) Kafka
4 16 (12.31%) gRPC
4 16 (12.31%) web3js
5 15 (11.54%) REST
5 15 (11.54%) Spring
6 14 (10.77%) JSON
6 14 (10.77%) Spring Boot
7 13 (10.00%) Web Services
8 11 (8.46%) Loki
9 8 (6.15%) Hibernate
9 8 (6.15%) YAML
10 7 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (5.38%) React
10 7 (5.38%) XML
11 6 (4.62%) HTML
12 5 (3.85%) jQuery
13 4 (3.08%) ActiveMQ
13 4 (3.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.15%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.31%) Blockchain
2 16 (12.31%) Web3
3 14 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.31%) Blog
6 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.31%) IoT
6 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.31%) Replication
6 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.54%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (31.54%) Linux
2 10 (7.69%) Windows
3 5 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.54%) AIX
5 2 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.54%) CentOS
5 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 90 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (64.62%) DevOps
4 59 (45.38%) Containerisation
5 42 (32.31%) Observability
6 35 (26.92%) Agile
6 35 (26.92%) Microservices
6 35 (26.92%) Software Engineering
7 32 (24.62%) Platform Engineering
8 30 (23.08%) Test Automation
9 28 (21.54%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (21.54%) High Availability
10 24 (18.46%) Analytics
11 23 (17.69%) Low Latency
12 21 (16.15%) Cloud Security
13 20 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
13 20 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
13 20 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 19 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 82 (63.08%) Python
2 36 (27.69%) Bash
3 32 (24.62%) Java
4 25 (19.23%) SQL
5 20 (15.38%) Go
6 17 (13.08%) JavaScript
7 14 (10.77%) PowerShell
8 13 (10.00%) Groovy
9 8 (6.15%) PHP
10 7 (5.38%) Shell Script
11 4 (3.08%) Perl
12 2 (1.54%) Rust
12 2 (1.54%) Scala
12 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.77%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.31%) Degree
3 15 (11.54%) AWS Certification
3 15 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.54%) RHCE
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.77%) CCNA
8 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.77%) OSCP
8 1 (0.77%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.69%) QA
2 7 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.62%) SOC 2
4 5 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.31%) ISO 9001
5 3 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.77%) NCSC
System Software
1 80 (61.54%) Docker
2 7 (5.38%) iptables
3 4 (3.08%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.08%) vSphere
4 3 (2.31%) Firmware
4 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.77%) Squid
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (66.92%) Terraform
2 79 (60.77%) Kubernetes
3 36 (27.69%) Prometheus
4 27 (20.77%) Ansible
5 23 (17.69%) Grafana
6 13 (10.00%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.62%) Kibana
7 6 (4.62%) Packer
8 5 (3.85%) Puppet
9 4 (3.08%) Argo
10 3 (2.31%) Scalr
10 3 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.31%) systemd
11 2 (1.54%) Netcool
12 1 (0.77%) Consul
12 1 (0.77%) Istio
12 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (5.38%) Microsoft
1 7 (5.38%) Oracle
2 5 (3.85%) AppDynamics
2 5 (3.85%) Splunk
3 4 (3.08%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.08%) IBM
3 4 (3.08%) VMware
4 3 (2.31%) Databricks
4 3 (2.31%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.54%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.54%) Snow
5 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.77%) Apple
6 1 (0.77%) Google
6 1 (0.77%) New Relic
6 1 (0.77%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.77%) Solace
6 1 (0.77%) TOWER Software