Amazon EC2 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 409 516
Rank change year-on-year -73 +107 -62
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 114 137 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.67% 1.61% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 87 78 160
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £48,625 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.08% +7.92% +1.92%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £94,125 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% -3.33% +11.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,890 8,525 23,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.32% 28.77% 31.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,990 5,790 17,803
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.35%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
North of England -7 44 £62,500 - 21
South East -37 26 £60,000 -17.24% 12
South West -45 25 £60,000 - 17
Yorkshire -31 20 £65,000 -7.80% 7
North East -29 14 £53,750 -25.86% 3
North West -16 10 £74,750 +24.58% 11
Midlands -70 9 £52,500 -27.59% 7
Wales -37 5 £43,000 -25.22% 1
West Midlands -58 5 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Scotland -4 4 - -
East of England -19 4 £85,000 +21.43% 2
East Midlands -25 4 £52,500 - 1
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.40%) Apache
1 13 (11.40%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.89%) Jupyter
3 8 (7.02%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.39%) Confluence
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (1.75%) IIS
6 1 (0.88%) Drupal
6 1 (0.88%) nginx
6 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (67.54%) Amazon S3
3 59 (51.75%) Serverless
4 52 (45.61%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (30.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 35 (30.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 32 (28.07%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
8 25 (21.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (18.42%) GitHub
9 21 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (13.16%) Azure
11 13 (11.40%) SaaS
12 11 (9.65%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (7.89%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (7.89%) CloudFront
14 6 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) DNS
2 5 (4.39%) Firewall
3 4 (3.51%) IPv4
3 4 (3.51%) Network Security
3 4 (3.51%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (3.51%) SSL
4 3 (2.63%) BGP
4 3 (2.63%) Internet
4 3 (2.63%) IPsec
4 3 (2.63%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.63%) SSH
4 3 (2.63%) VLAN
4 3 (2.63%) VPN
4 3 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (40.35%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (13.16%) DynamoDB
3 14 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (8.77%) Relational Database
5 9 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (7.89%) MySQL
6 8 (7.02%) NoSQL
7 7 (6.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.39%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.63%) Big Data
10 3 (2.63%) Redis
11 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.75%) GIS
11 2 (1.75%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.88%) Flink
Development Applications
1 36 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 21 (18.42%) Git
3 20 (17.54%) GitLab
4 13 (11.40%) JIRA
5 8 (7.02%) Bitbucket
5 8 (7.02%) JMeter
6 7 (6.14%) JUnit
6 7 (6.14%) Mockito
7 6 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 5 (4.39%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.51%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (1.75%) Claude Code
11 2 (1.75%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.88%) Gatling
12 1 (0.88%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.88%) Storybook
12 1 (0.88%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.30%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.02%) Finance
5 6 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Legal
6 5 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.51%) Advertising
7 4 (3.51%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.63%) Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.63%) Law
9 2 (1.75%) Billing
9 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
1 19 (16.67%) Senior
2 18 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (13.16%) Developer
3 15 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.02%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Lead
10 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.91%) REST
2 15 (13.16%) Web Services
3 12 (10.53%) Spring
4 11 (9.65%) Spring Boot
5 10 (8.77%) JSON
6 9 (7.89%) HTML
6 9 (7.89%) jQuery
7 7 (6.14%) .NET
7 7 (6.14%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (6.14%) Apache Camel
7 7 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.14%) Hibernate
7 7 (6.14%) Loki
7 7 (6.14%) WireMock
7 7 (6.14%) YAML
8 6 (5.26%) boto
8 6 (5.26%) PySpark
8 6 (5.26%) RESTful
9 5 (4.39%) React
9 5 (4.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.14%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.39%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.63%) IoT
7 3 (2.63%) Replication
8 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (39.47%) Linux
2 16 (14.04%) Windows
3 5 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.51%) Unix
5 3 (2.63%) AIX
5 3 (2.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (74.56%) CI/CD
2 64 (56.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (50.88%) DevOps
4 46 (40.35%) Containerisation
5 37 (32.46%) Agile
6 25 (21.93%) Mentoring
7 22 (19.30%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (18.42%) Microservices
8 21 (18.42%) Software Engineering
9 19 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (15.79%) Data Engineering
10 18 (15.79%) Observability
11 17 (14.91%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (14.04%) AI
13 15 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (13.16%) Workflow
14 14 (12.28%) Data Modelling
14 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure Automation
14 14 (12.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (66.67%) Python
2 29 (25.44%) Bash
3 26 (22.81%) Java
3 26 (22.81%) SQL
4 18 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 18 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 16 (14.04%) Groovy
6 13 (11.40%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.02%) PHP
8 4 (3.51%) C#
8 4 (3.51%) Perl
8 4 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.63%) Scala
10 2 (1.75%) Rust
11 1 (0.88%) Dart
11 1 (0.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.04%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.26%) Degree
6 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.51%) CCNA
7 4 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.51%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.51%) OSCP
7 4 (3.51%) RHCE
7 4 (3.51%) RHCSA
8 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.28%) QA
2 11 (9.65%) Data Quality
3 8 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.63%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.63%) SLA
4 3 (2.63%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 66 (57.89%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.14%) iptables
3 6 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 6 (5.26%) vSphere
4 4 (3.51%) Squid
5 3 (2.63%) Firmware
5 3 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (57.89%) Terraform
2 56 (49.12%) Kubernetes
3 23 (20.18%) Ansible
4 15 (13.16%) Grafana
4 15 (13.16%) Progress Chef
4 15 (13.16%) Prometheus
5 9 (7.89%) Packer
6 7 (6.14%) Kibana
7 5 (4.39%) Puppet
8 4 (3.51%) Argo
8 4 (3.51%) Control-M
8 4 (3.51%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.63%) Netcool
9 3 (2.63%) Scalr
9 3 (2.63%) systemd
10 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.88%) Consul
11 1 (0.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) Oracle
1 11 (9.65%) Splunk
2 7 (6.14%) Dynatrace
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.26%) VMware
4 5 (4.39%) AppDynamics
5 4 (3.51%) IBM
5 4 (3.51%) Informatica
5 4 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.63%) Snow
6 3 (2.63%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) Google
8 1 (0.88%) TOWER Software