AWS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 -5
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing AWS 2,778 5,082 4,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.21% 8.11% 11.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.97% 28.95% 30.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,466 2,791 3,435
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,713 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

AWS 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,588 17,555 16,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.42% 28.03% 37.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,505 11,566 11,830
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +2.40%

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

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

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 19 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -18 938 £65,000 +4.00% 763
North West -14 670 £65,000 - 473
South East -15 613 £60,000 - 875
Midlands -2 411 £65,000 +8.33% 283
West Midlands +14 289 £67,500 +3.85% 175
South West -6 285 £60,000 - 263
Scotland -18 252 £63,750 +2.00% 197
East of England -8 243 £60,000 - 195
Yorkshire -16 220 £67,500 +12.50% 221
East Midlands -35 121 £58,000 +0.87% 102
North East 0 50 £65,000 -0.71% 76
Wales -54 26 £57,500 +10.59% 74
Northern Ireland -9 22 £55,000 -0.90% 94
Isle of Man +2 1 £34,500 -25.81%
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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
1 255 (9.18%) Confluence
2 87 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 49 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 45 (1.62%) Apache
5 34 (1.22%) IIS
6 28 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.61%) nginx
8 16 (0.58%) CMS
9 15 (0.54%) SharePoint
10 14 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
11 10 (0.36%) JBoss
11 10 (0.36%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.32%) Headless CMS
13 8 (0.29%) Appian
13 8 (0.29%) Camunda
13 8 (0.29%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
13 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
14 6 (0.22%) SAS
15 5 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 12 (0.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.11%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.072%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.072%) Shopify
4 1 (0.036%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.036%) Magento
4 1 (0.036%) Maximo
4 1 (0.036%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.036%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.036%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,605 (57.78%) Azure
2 874 (31.46%) GCP
3 365 (13.14%) Serverless
4 284 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
5 214 (7.70%) Amazon S3
6 211 (7.60%) SaaS
7 159 (5.72%) Amazon EC2
8 142 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
9 127 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
10 120 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
11 106 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (3.53%) Power Platform
13 93 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 92 (3.31%) GitHub
15 88 (3.17%) Snowflake
16 76 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 71 (2.56%) Pulumi
18 65 (2.34%) Amazon ELB
18 65 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
19 60 (2.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 225 (8.10%) Firewall
2 175 (6.30%) Broadband
3 129 (4.64%) DNS
4 83 (2.99%) VPN
5 80 (2.88%) WAN
6 61 (2.20%) SSH
7 60 (2.16%) DHCP
8 53 (1.91%) VLAN
9 52 (1.87%) SAN
10 50 (1.80%) SD-WAN
11 49 (1.76%) Network Security
12 48 (1.73%) SSL
13 46 (1.66%) TCP/IP
14 45 (1.62%) LAN
15 42 (1.51%) HTTP
16 33 (1.19%) SMTP
17 27 (0.97%) FTP
17 27 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
18 19 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
19 17 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 438 (15.77%) SQL Server
2 228 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
3 223 (8.03%) NoSQL
4 187 (6.73%) MySQL
5 161 (5.80%) Relational Database
6 133 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
7 128 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
8 126 (4.54%) MongoDB
9 109 (3.92%) RDBMS
10 95 (3.42%) DynamoDB
11 91 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
12 81 (2.92%) Big Data
13 77 (2.77%) Data Lake
14 75 (2.70%) Power BI
15 52 (1.87%) Metadata
16 51 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
17 41 (1.48%) Tableau
18 40 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
19 35 (1.26%) BigQuery
20 24 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 405 (14.58%) JIRA
2 335 (12.06%) GitLab
3 292 (10.51%) Selenium
4 290 (10.44%) Maven
5 274 (9.86%) Git
6 272 (9.79%) SonarQube
7 267 (9.61%) Bitbucket
8 262 (9.43%) Cucumber
9 260 (9.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 231 (8.32%) Jenkins
11 88 (3.17%) JUnit
12 65 (2.34%) Jaeger
13 52 (1.87%) Mockito
14 46 (1.66%) Vagrant
15 36 (1.30%) JMeter
16 24 (0.86%) TeamCity
17 21 (0.76%) MLflow
18 19 (0.68%) Postman
19 18 (0.65%) Jasmine
20 16 (0.58%) Cypress.io
General
1 691 (24.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 649 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 614 (22.10%) Finance
4 360 (12.96%) Banking
5 327 (11.77%) Analytical Skills
6 258 (9.29%) Law
7 190 (6.84%) Retail
8 175 (6.30%) Public Sector
9 124 (4.46%) Marketing
10 104 (3.74%) Investment Banking
11 90 (3.24%) Corporate Banking
12 65 (2.34%) Manufacturing
13 48 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.69%) Legal
15 46 (1.66%) Games
16 36 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 32 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
18 24 (0.86%) Automotive
18 24 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
19 21 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 701 (25.23%) Software Engineer
2 686 (24.69%) Senior
3 502 (18.07%) Developer
4 375 (13.50%) Lead
5 236 (8.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 202 (7.27%) Architect
7 149 (5.36%) Senior Developer
8 145 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 137 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 120 (4.32%) Java Developer
11 104 (3.74%) Java Engineer
12 101 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
12 101 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
12 101 (3.64%) Support Engineer
13 99 (3.56%) Software Developer
14 92 (3.31%) Analyst
15 91 (3.28%) Data Engineer
16 88 (3.17%) Team Leader
17 87 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
18 85 (3.06%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 573 (20.63%) React
2 442 (15.91%) Spring
3 441 (15.87%) .NET
4 423 (15.23%) Spring Boot
5 397 (14.29%) Kafka
6 387 (13.93%) Node.js
7 381 (13.71%) HTML
8 359 (12.92%) CSS
9 309 (11.12%) RESTful
10 271 (9.76%) JPA
11 261 (9.40%) Redux
12 248 (8.93%) REST
13 221 (7.96%) Hibernate
14 159 (5.72%) AngularJS
15 120 (4.32%) Web Services
16 118 (4.25%) HTML5
17 116 (4.18%) Jest
18 110 (3.96%) CSS3
19 103 (3.71%) Sass
20 88 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 341 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 291 (10.48%) Self-Motivation
3 263 (9.47%) Enterprise Software
4 237 (8.53%) Cyberattack
5 201 (7.24%) Linux Command Line
6 196 (7.06%) Cloud Native
7 98 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
8 94 (3.38%) Management Information System
9 72 (2.59%) Public Cloud
10 68 (2.45%) Mobile App
11 66 (2.38%) Algorithms
12 63 (2.27%) Onboarding
13 57 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
14 54 (1.94%) Data Centre
15 51 (1.84%) PKI
16 48 (1.73%) Replication
17 41 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
19 36 (1.30%) IoT
20 35 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 590 (21.24%) Linux
2 313 (11.27%) Windows
3 126 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 124 (4.46%) Unix
5 63 (2.27%) Android
6 51 (1.84%) VMS
7 29 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (0.97%) Ubuntu
9 26 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
10 17 (0.61%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.40%) CentOS
12 10 (0.36%) Debian
12 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.18%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.11%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.072%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,375 (49.50%) Agile
2 1,013 (36.47%) CI/CD
3 979 (35.24%) DevOps
4 933 (33.59%) Software Engineering
5 766 (27.57%) Microservices
6 731 (26.31%) Mentoring
7 611 (21.99%) Containerisation
8 523 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
9 508 (18.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 466 (16.77%) Machine Learning
11 461 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 434 (15.62%) User Experience
13 412 (14.83%) Test Automation
14 405 (14.58%) SDLC
15 371 (13.35%) Roadmaps
16 366 (13.17%) Data Engineering
17 363 (13.07%) Performance Optimisation
18 334 (12.02%) Clean Code
18 334 (12.02%) Cloud Security
19 326 (11.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,029 (37.04%) Python
2 994 (35.78%) Java
3 898 (32.33%) JavaScript
4 813 (29.27%) SQL
5 410 (14.76%) TypeScript
6 324 (11.66%) Go
7 247 (8.89%) C#
8 222 (7.99%) C++
9 211 (7.60%) Rust
10 188 (6.77%) PowerShell
11 163 (5.87%) Bash
12 67 (2.41%) PHP
13 51 (1.84%) Groovy
14 39 (1.40%) Shell Script
15 28 (1.01%) Perl
16 22 (0.79%) R
17 20 (0.72%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.61%) Bicep
18 17 (0.61%) Scala
19 15 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 521 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 410 (14.76%) AWS Certification
3 367 (13.21%) Degree
4 291 (10.48%) DV Cleared
5 218 (7.85%) SC Cleared
6 213 (7.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 175 (6.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 113 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 111 (4.00%) Azure Certification
10 77 (2.77%) PhD
11 67 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 50 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
13 39 (1.40%) Master's Degree
14 30 (1.08%) CCNP
14 30 (1.08%) MCSE
14 30 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
15 29 (1.04%) CISSP
16 25 (0.90%) CCNA
17 24 (0.86%) MCSA
18 23 (0.83%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (13.93%) QA
2 143 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 98 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 83 (2.99%) NIST
5 76 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (2.34%) GDPR
7 27 (0.97%) HIPAA
8 24 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 22 (0.79%) SLA
10 17 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.40%) NCSC
13 10 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.22%) HL7
15 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 4 (0.14%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.11%) COBIT
18 2 (0.072%) GRC
18 2 (0.072%) JTAG
System Software
1 851 (30.63%) Docker
2 195 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 108 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 89 (3.20%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (1.04%) DFS Replication
7 26 (0.94%) vSphere
8 24 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.58%) Postfix
10 12 (0.43%) Dovecot
11 11 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.29%) Firmware
13 8 (0.29%) HDFS
13 8 (0.29%) Squid
14 6 (0.22%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.22%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.18%) vCloud
16 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 839 (30.20%) Kubernetes
2 523 (18.83%) Terraform
3 296 (10.66%) Ansible
4 184 (6.62%) Prometheus
5 134 (4.82%) Grafana
6 74 (2.66%) Argo
7 70 (2.52%) Kustomize
8 58 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 41 (1.48%) Puppet
10 32 (1.15%) SCCM
11 28 (1.01%) Kibana
12 25 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 18 (0.65%) Kubeflow
14 17 (0.61%) Nagios
15 16 (0.58%) vCenter Server
16 15 (0.54%) Nessus
17 14 (0.50%) Proxmox
18 12 (0.43%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.43%) Progress Chef
18 12 (0.43%) vMotion
Vendors
1 323 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 246 (8.86%) Solace
3 232 (8.35%) Google
4 157 (5.65%) Oracle
5 146 (5.26%) VMware
6 118 (4.25%) Databricks
7 91 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 81 (2.92%) Splunk
9 69 (2.48%) Cisco
10 44 (1.58%) Red Hat
11 36 (1.30%) Dynatrace
12 33 (1.19%) Thales
13 32 (1.15%) Citrix
14 31 (1.12%) Fortinet
15 29 (1.04%) SAP
16 27 (0.97%) Salesforce
17 26 (0.94%) Informatica
18 24 (0.86%) SolarWinds
19 23 (0.83%) Dell
20 22 (0.79%) Atlassian