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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 15 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 3,667 9,126 10,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.67% 13.88% 15.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.28% 36.11% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,529 5,278 7,501
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,250 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,575 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% +7.69%

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 12,526 25,275 27,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 39.87% 38.43% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,483 16,784 20,885
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 -2 987 £60,000 -5.51% 550
South West +7 773 £60,000 - 224
South East -6 671 £65,000 - 538
North West 0 549 £60,000 -7.69% 312
Midlands 0 485 £57,500 -7.26% 205
Scotland +1 414 £60,000 - 99
Yorkshire -4 384 £65,000 +7.44% 171
West Midlands -2 286 £56,500 -8.87% 115
East Midlands -4 201 £60,000 - 89
East of England -9 168 £65,000 +8.33% 135
Wales -6 119 £57,500 +4.55% 57
Northern Ireland -4 76 £60,000 +9.09% 35
North East -5 54 £60,000 -14.29% 71
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 - 1
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 89 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 77 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.64%) Apache
4 57 (1.55%) IIS
5 54 (1.47%) MS Exchange
6 35 (0.95%) CMS
7 33 (0.90%) Confluence
8 21 (0.57%) nginx
8 21 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 17 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
11 15 (0.41%) Drupal
12 12 (0.33%) JBoss
12 12 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
13 8 (0.22%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.19%) SAS
14 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.19%) WordPress
15 5 (0.14%) Mule
15 5 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 48 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.19%) PTC Creo
5 7 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
5 7 (0.19%) Trello
6 6 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.082%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.055%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
2 6 (0.16%) Exstream
3 5 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.14%) Shopify
4 4 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.082%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.055%) Magento
6 2 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,943 (52.99%) Azure
2 834 (22.74%) GCP
3 421 (11.48%) Serverless
4 387 (10.55%) SaaS
5 253 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
6 213 (5.81%) PaaS
7 211 (5.75%) OpenShift
8 201 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
9 186 (5.07%) IaaS
10 173 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
11 172 (4.69%) GitHub
12 169 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 164 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
14 157 (4.28%) Amazon S3
15 154 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
16 111 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
17 109 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
18 100 (2.73%) Entra ID
19 72 (1.96%) Power Platform
20 62 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 263 (7.17%) DNS
2 223 (6.08%) DHCP
3 210 (5.73%) TCP/IP
4 179 (4.88%) Firewall
5 148 (4.04%) HTTP
6 144 (3.93%) WAN
7 130 (3.55%) VPN
8 101 (2.75%) LAN
9 66 (1.80%) Internet
10 60 (1.64%) SAN
11 50 (1.36%) Network Security
12 47 (1.28%) VLAN
13 41 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
14 40 (1.09%) Wireless
15 35 (0.95%) SMTP
16 30 (0.82%) FTP
16 30 (0.82%) SSH
16 30 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
17 29 (0.79%) IPv4
18 28 (0.76%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
2 267 (7.28%) NoSQL
3 245 (6.68%) MySQL
4 203 (5.54%) SQL Server
5 202 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
6 185 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
7 180 (4.91%) MongoDB
8 150 (4.09%) Big Data
9 137 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
10 113 (3.08%) Data Lake
11 106 (2.89%) Relational Database
12 85 (2.32%) DynamoDB
13 84 (2.29%) Oracle Database
14 67 (1.83%) Power BI
15 63 (1.72%) Oracle Database 11g
16 59 (1.61%) Hadoop
17 57 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
18 55 (1.50%) Redis
19 27 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 27 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 415 (11.32%) Jenkins
2 366 (9.98%) Git
3 160 (4.36%) GitLab
4 158 (4.31%) JIRA
5 107 (2.92%) Maven
6 86 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 72 (1.96%) Selenium
8 47 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 44 (1.20%) JUnit
10 43 (1.17%) IntelliJ
11 40 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 39 (1.06%) Artifactory
13 34 (0.93%) TeamCity
14 28 (0.76%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.74%) Gradle
16 20 (0.55%) CircleCI
16 20 (0.55%) Postman
17 18 (0.49%) SoapUI
18 16 (0.44%) JMeter
18 16 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 658 (17.94%) Social Skills
2 639 (17.43%) Finance
3 322 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 218 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 189 (5.15%) Banking
6 164 (4.47%) Retail
7 162 (4.42%) Law
8 156 (4.25%) Marketing
9 146 (3.98%) Public Sector
10 129 (3.52%) Telecoms
11 103 (2.81%) Aerospace
12 64 (1.75%) Legal
13 55 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 52 (1.42%) Financial Institution
15 44 (1.20%) Tech for Good
16 42 (1.15%) Manufacturing
17 31 (0.85%) Games
18 29 (0.79%) Automotive
19 25 (0.68%) Aviation
20 21 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 828 (22.58%) Senior
2 810 (22.09%) Developer
3 557 (15.19%) Software Engineer
4 484 (13.20%) Architect
5 378 (10.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 344 (9.38%) Lead
7 254 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
8 251 (6.84%) Senior Developer
9 231 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 205 (5.59%) Java Developer
11 189 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
12 169 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
13 160 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
14 142 (3.87%) Enterprise Architect
15 140 (3.82%) Data Engineer
16 123 (3.35%) Full Stack Developer
17 120 (3.27%) Java Engineer
18 102 (2.78%) Software Developer
19 95 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
20 94 (2.56%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (12.57%) React
2 343 (9.35%) .NET
3 323 (8.81%) Node.js
4 284 (7.74%) AngularJS
5 283 (7.72%) HTML
6 274 (7.47%) Spring
7 237 (6.46%) CSS
8 214 (5.84%) Spring Boot
9 175 (4.77%) Kafka
10 170 (4.64%) REST
11 157 (4.28%) RESTful
12 111 (3.03%) OpenID
13 110 (3.00%) JSON
14 106 (2.89%) Vue
15 104 (2.84%) .NET Core
16 90 (2.45%) Web Services
17 85 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
18 80 (2.18%) Laravel
19 78 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
20 75 (2.05%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 288 (7.85%) Public Cloud
2 272 (7.42%) Cloud Native
3 165 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 114 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 110 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 103 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 103 (2.81%) Data Structures
7 98 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
8 89 (2.43%) Private Cloud
9 74 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 65 (1.77%) Mainframe
11 63 (1.72%) Cyberattack
12 62 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
13 60 (1.64%) Blockchain
13 60 (1.64%) Management Information System
14 50 (1.36%) Onboarding
15 45 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
16 43 (1.17%) IoT
16 43 (1.17%) NHS
17 37 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 684 (18.65%) Linux
2 482 (13.14%) Windows
3 246 (6.71%) Windows Server
4 153 (4.17%) Unix
5 90 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 54 (1.47%) Mac OS
7 48 (1.31%) Ubuntu
8 38 (1.04%) Android
9 35 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 32 (0.87%) Apple iOS
11 30 (0.82%) CentOS
11 30 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
12 28 (0.76%) Windows 10
13 27 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
14 24 (0.65%) Debian
15 9 (0.25%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.19%) Solaris
17 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
18 5 (0.14%) zOS
19 4 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,528 (41.67%) Agile
2 1,183 (32.26%) DevOps
3 915 (24.95%) CI/CD
4 843 (22.99%) Software Engineering
5 624 (17.02%) Microservices
6 554 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
7 481 (13.12%) Actionable Insight
8 479 (13.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 401 (10.94%) Scrum
10 337 (9.19%) Mentoring
11 335 (9.14%) Containerisation
12 316 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
12 316 (8.62%) Full Stack Development
13 304 (8.29%) Machine Learning
14 302 (8.24%) Artificial Intelligence
15 295 (8.04%) Computer Science
16 291 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 288 (7.85%) Roadmaps
18 249 (6.79%) SDLC
19 243 (6.63%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,165 (31.77%) Python
2 1,072 (29.23%) Java
3 786 (21.43%) SQL
4 663 (18.08%) JavaScript
5 333 (9.08%) Bash
5 333 (9.08%) C#
6 313 (8.54%) PowerShell
7 275 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 174 (4.75%) PHP
9 152 (4.15%) Go
10 119 (3.25%) C++
11 86 (2.35%) PL/SQL
12 78 (2.13%) Ruby
13 62 (1.69%) Shell Script
14 61 (1.66%) Perl
15 60 (1.64%) Scala
16 50 (1.36%) Kotlin
17 47 (1.28%) Groovy
18 40 (1.09%) C
19 35 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 692 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 439 (11.97%) Degree
3 357 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 241 (6.57%) DV Cleared
5 218 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 210 (5.73%) AWS Certification
7 135 (3.68%) TOGAF Certification
8 81 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 54 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 32 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 30 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 29 (0.79%) CCNP
15 26 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 24 (0.65%) CCNA
17 21 (0.57%) CISSP
17 21 (0.57%) MCSE
18 17 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (4.04%) QA
2 52 (1.42%) SLA
3 45 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 28 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 27 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.46%) NCSC
7 14 (0.38%) NIST
8 12 (0.33%) GDPR
9 8 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.22%) PMO
10 4 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.055%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.055%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.055%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.027%) GLBA
12 1 (0.027%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.027%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.027%) PSD2
12 1 (0.027%) RMADS
System Software
1 874 (23.83%) Docker
2 301 (8.21%) Active Directory
3 252 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 173 (4.72%) Hyper-V
5 40 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 37 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 37 (1.01%) vSphere
7 22 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.38%) Firmware
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.22%) HDFS
11 8 (0.22%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.11%) KVM
13 4 (0.11%) XenApp
13 4 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.082%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.082%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.082%) LXC
Systems Management
1 861 (23.48%) Kubernetes
2 675 (18.41%) Terraform
3 410 (11.18%) Ansible
4 162 (4.42%) Puppet
5 71 (1.94%) SCCM
6 70 (1.91%) Grafana
7 49 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 43 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 40 (1.09%) Prometheus
10 35 (0.95%) vCenter Server
11 23 (0.63%) Packer
12 21 (0.57%) Istio
13 18 (0.49%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (0.46%) Nagios
15 15 (0.41%) Kustomize
15 15 (0.41%) SCOM
15 15 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
16 14 (0.38%) Kibana
17 11 (0.30%) Nessus
Vendors
1 514 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 371 (10.12%) VMware
3 222 (6.05%) Google
4 201 (5.48%) Oracle
5 126 (3.44%) Cisco
6 108 (2.95%) Red Hat
7 78 (2.13%) Databricks
8 66 (1.80%) Splunk
9 61 (1.66%) Citrix
10 51 (1.39%) Veeam
11 46 (1.25%) IBM
11 46 (1.25%) SAP
12 37 (1.01%) HP
13 36 (0.98%) Salesforce
14 30 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 26 (0.71%) Dell
15 26 (0.71%) Nimble Storage
16 25 (0.68%) Palo Alto
17 24 (0.65%) CheckPoint
17 24 (0.65%) Mitel