AWS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 6,921 9,200 11,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.88% 14.89% 16.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.56% 38.51% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,128 4,508 7,128
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,772 £78,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,410 23,889 28,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.42% 38.66% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,370 14,248 19,879
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
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 AWS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
North of England -4 1,655 £62,783 +2.92% 375
Scotland 0 1,649 £60,000 -6.03% 123
South East -16 1,119 £60,000 -7.69% 233
South West -5 960 £60,000 - 223
North West -6 943 £62,783 -3.41% 224
Midlands -12 840 £57,500 -8.00% 180
Yorkshire -4 542 £60,000 - 108
West Midlands -14 451 £60,000 -7.69% 108
East Midlands -8 390 £55,000 -4.35% 71
East of England -12 388 £55,000 -18.52% 114
Wales -1 177 £51,996 -0.01% 39
North East -5 170 £62,783 +14.15% 45
Northern Ireland +5 127 £60,000 +14.29% 66
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 7 £85,000 -
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 534 (7.72%) Apache Spark
2 287 (4.15%) ArcGIS
2 287 (4.15%) GeoServer
3 206 (2.98%) Apache
4 144 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 138 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 96 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 79 (1.14%) Confluence
8 66 (0.95%) IIS
9 65 (0.94%) CMS
10 61 (0.88%) OpenStack
11 50 (0.72%) nginx
12 40 (0.58%) WebLogic
13 37 (0.53%) Tuxedo
14 30 (0.43%) WordPress
15 17 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
16 13 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 12 (0.17%) JBoss
18 11 (0.16%) CICS
18 11 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 56 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.25%) Simulink
4 16 (0.23%) Trello
5 13 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 12 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.087%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.072%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.058%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.029%) Sketch
12 2 (0.029%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.014%) 1Password
13 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 50 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.072%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.072%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.058%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.058%) Shopify
7 2 (0.029%) Magento
7 2 (0.029%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.029%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.014%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.014%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3,290 (47.54%) Azure
2 1,095 (15.82%) GCP
3 629 (9.09%) SaaS
4 530 (7.66%) Serverless
5 417 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
6 363 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
7 329 (4.75%) Amazon S3
8 294 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
9 243 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
10 239 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 237 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
12 229 (3.31%) GitHub
13 222 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
14 191 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 167 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
16 138 (1.99%) PaaS
17 134 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 131 (1.89%) IaaS
19 122 (1.76%) Datadog
20 119 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 375 (5.42%) Firewall
2 327 (4.72%) DNS
3 207 (2.99%) DHCP
4 198 (2.86%) WAN
5 187 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 127 (1.83%) VPN
7 121 (1.75%) HTTP
8 102 (1.47%) LAN
9 95 (1.37%) Network Security
10 92 (1.33%) SD-WAN
11 85 (1.23%) SAN
12 76 (1.10%) SSL
13 73 (1.05%) BGP
14 70 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
15 66 (0.95%) VLAN
16 62 (0.90%) Wireless
17 59 (0.85%) Internet
18 41 (0.59%) VoIP
19 35 (0.51%) OSPF
20 32 (0.46%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 667 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 664 (9.59%) NoSQL
3 577 (8.34%) SQL Server
4 479 (6.92%) Big Data
4 479 (6.92%) MySQL
5 408 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
6 389 (5.62%) MongoDB
7 340 (4.91%) Relational Database
8 312 (4.51%) GIS
9 284 (4.10%) Hadoop
9 284 (4.10%) QGIS
10 281 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
11 269 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
12 206 (2.98%) BigQuery
13 196 (2.83%) Looker
14 152 (2.20%) Data Lake
15 147 (2.12%) Oracle Database
16 139 (2.01%) Apache Hive
17 115 (1.66%) DynamoDB
18 109 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 692 (10.00%) Git
2 388 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 261 (3.77%) JIRA
4 245 (3.54%) GitLab
5 169 (2.44%) JUnit
6 145 (2.10%) Selenium
7 110 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 93 (1.34%) Bitbucket Server
9 75 (1.08%) Cucumber
10 74 (1.07%) Jasmine
11 62 (0.90%) TeamCity
11 62 (0.90%) WebDriver
12 60 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (0.87%) Protractor
13 58 (0.84%) Bitbucket
14 55 (0.79%) Maven
14 55 (0.79%) Postman
15 37 (0.53%) Visual Studio
16 32 (0.46%) JMeter
17 31 (0.45%) Gradle
General
1 1,883 (27.21%) Finance
2 1,408 (20.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,252 (18.09%) Law
4 1,180 (17.05%) Social Skills
5 699 (10.10%) Marketing
6 480 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
7 413 (5.97%) Legal
8 367 (5.30%) Banking
9 287 (4.15%) Public Sector
10 204 (2.95%) Retail
11 202 (2.92%) Investment Banking
12 192 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 180 (2.60%) Financial Institution
14 147 (2.12%) Games
15 131 (1.89%) Aerospace
16 106 (1.53%) Tech for Good
17 84 (1.21%) Billing
18 74 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
19 71 (1.03%) Telecoms
20 65 (0.94%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1,867 (26.98%) Software Engineer
2 1,593 (23.02%) Developer
3 1,514 (21.88%) Senior
4 1,032 (14.91%) Lead
5 771 (11.14%) Architect
6 539 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
7 456 (6.59%) Java Engineer
8 453 (6.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 445 (6.43%) Senior Developer
10 413 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
11 380 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 376 (5.43%) Data Engineer
13 360 (5.20%) Lead Software Engineer
14 346 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
15 335 (4.84%) AWS Software Engineer
16 326 (4.71%) .NET Developer
17 292 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 291 (4.20%) Python Engineer
19 252 (3.64%) Big Data Engineer
20 251 (3.63%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,430 (20.66%) React
2 980 (14.16%) .NET
3 789 (11.40%) Node.js
4 758 (10.95%) AngularJS
5 704 (10.17%) CSS
6 671 (9.70%) Spring
7 595 (8.60%) .NET Core
8 490 (7.08%) HTML
9 466 (6.73%) Spring Boot
10 454 (6.56%) Vue
11 420 (6.07%) RESTful
12 363 (5.24%) Kafka
13 333 (4.81%) .NET Framework
14 332 (4.80%) ASP.NET
15 317 (4.58%) REST
16 285 (4.12%) PostGIS
17 284 (4.10%) Leaflet
17 284 (4.10%) OpenLayers
18 281 (4.06%) Laravel
19 243 (3.51%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 697 (10.07%) Cloud Native
2 690 (9.97%) Public Cloud
3 482 (6.96%) Algorithms
4 249 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 225 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
6 218 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 210 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 205 (2.96%) Onboarding
9 202 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
10 175 (2.53%) Data Centre
11 147 (2.12%) Private Cloud
12 146 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
13 131 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 126 (1.82%) IoT
15 109 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
16 107 (1.55%) PKI
17 93 (1.34%) Mobile App
18 74 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
19 71 (1.03%) Blockchain
20 63 (0.91%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 916 (13.24%) Linux
2 626 (9.04%) Windows
3 300 (4.33%) Windows Server
4 248 (3.58%) Unix
5 166 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 118 (1.70%) Ubuntu
7 63 (0.91%) CentOS
8 58 (0.84%) Android
9 56 (0.81%) Mac OS
10 52 (0.75%) Debian
11 51 (0.74%) Apple iOS
12 47 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
13 33 (0.48%) Windows 10
14 31 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
15 25 (0.36%) CoreOS
15 25 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
16 22 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.14%) Solaris
17 10 (0.14%) VMS
18 9 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,371 (48.71%) Agile
2 2,460 (35.54%) Software Engineering
3 2,032 (29.36%) CI/CD
4 1,817 (26.25%) DevOps
5 1,401 (20.24%) SDLC
6 1,271 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
7 1,113 (16.08%) Microservices
8 1,048 (15.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,047 (15.13%) Operational Stability
10 957 (13.83%) Mentoring
11 923 (13.34%) Full Stack Development
12 909 (13.13%) Machine Learning
13 793 (11.46%) Scrum
14 784 (11.33%) TDD
15 755 (10.91%) Actionable Insight
16 686 (9.91%) Community of Practice
17 631 (9.12%) Infrastructure as Code
18 630 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
19 540 (7.80%) Containerisation
20 514 (7.43%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,938 (28.00%) Python
2 1,905 (27.52%) Java
3 1,655 (23.91%) JavaScript
4 1,450 (20.95%) SQL
5 889 (12.84%) C#
6 859 (12.41%) TypeScript
7 446 (6.44%) PHP
8 297 (4.29%) PowerShell
9 272 (3.93%) Scala
10 254 (3.67%) Bash
11 213 (3.08%) PL/SQL
12 160 (2.31%) Go
13 77 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 73 (1.05%) C++
15 63 (0.91%) Ruby
16 61 (0.88%) C
17 53 (0.77%) Kotlin
18 48 (0.69%) COBOL
18 48 (0.69%) Shell Script
19 45 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,072 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 714 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 609 (8.80%) Degree
4 373 (5.39%) AWS Certification
5 248 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 244 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 178 (2.57%) Azure Certification
8 151 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
9 149 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 97 (1.40%) CCNA
10 97 (1.40%) CISSP
11 90 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 76 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 63 (0.91%) CISM
14 46 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
15 44 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 42 (0.61%) MCSE
16 42 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
17 40 (0.58%) CCSP
18 39 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (4.09%) QA
2 189 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 181 (2.62%) GDPR
4 115 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (1.65%) SLA
6 97 (1.40%) NIST
7 81 (1.17%) Accessibility
8 48 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 23 (0.33%) PMO
11 15 (0.22%) NCSC
12 14 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 13 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 10 (0.14%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.13%) GRC
15 9 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.12%) PSD2
17 6 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
18 5 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 999 (14.43%) Docker
2 311 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 277 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 250 (3.61%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.53%) HDFS
6 43 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 35 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (0.39%) vSphere
9 26 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 24 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 21 (0.30%) Firmware
12 15 (0.22%) XenApp
13 13 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
14 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
15 10 (0.14%) XenDesktop
16 9 (0.13%) KVM
17 7 (0.10%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
19 4 (0.058%) VMware Workstation
20 3 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,087 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 1,067 (15.42%) Terraform
3 439 (6.34%) Ansible
4 168 (2.43%) Puppet
5 153 (2.21%) Grafana
6 126 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 83 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 59 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 55 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.49%) vCenter Server
11 33 (0.48%) SCCM
12 28 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
13 26 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (0.29%) Kibana
16 19 (0.27%) Opsgenie
17 18 (0.26%) FortiGate
17 18 (0.26%) VxRail
18 16 (0.23%) Nagios
19 14 (0.20%) Consul
Vendors
1 921 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 640 (9.25%) Google
3 420 (6.07%) Oracle
4 404 (5.84%) VMware
5 319 (4.61%) Databricks
6 285 (4.12%) ESRI
7 202 (2.92%) Cisco
8 179 (2.59%) Red Hat
9 166 (2.40%) Dynatrace
10 148 (2.14%) Splunk
11 123 (1.78%) Informatica
12 90 (1.30%) IBM
13 77 (1.11%) Cloudera
14 69 (1.00%) Citrix
15 66 (0.95%) Salesforce
16 63 (0.91%) Alteryx
17 62 (0.90%) Dell
18 50 (0.72%) Sparx
19 48 (0.69%) Veeam
20 42 (0.61%) CheckPoint