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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 2,832 7,042 8,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.28% 9.82% 14.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.37% 29.84% 38.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 4,157 4,261
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,486 23,599 22,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.81% 32.90% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,599 17,425 13,528
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,365 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -13 985 £65,000 +3.53% 1,120
North West -18 655 £67,037 +6.78% 712
South East -10 539 £57,500 -4.17% 1,423
Midlands -6 457 £60,000 +4.35% 422
West Midlands +7 316 £60,000 - 259
South West -4 308 £60,000 - 395
Yorkshire -4 279 £60,000 - 302
East of England -17 247 £62,500 +13.64% 274
Scotland -18 247 £60,000 - 240
East Midlands -41 140 £60,000 +4.35% 146
North East -10 51 £65,000 +3.53% 108
Wales -32 34 £50,761 +1.52% 62
Northern Ireland -7 28 £55,000 -8.33% 122
Isle of Man +10 1 £34,500 -25.81%
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
1 225 (7.94%) Confluence
2 55 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 37 (1.31%) Apache
4 33 (1.17%) IIS
5 28 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.67%) CMS
8 14 (0.49%) JBoss
8 14 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
9 13 (0.46%) nginx
10 12 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.39%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.32%) Headless CMS
13 8 (0.28%) SharePoint
14 5 (0.18%) Appian
14 5 (0.18%) WordPress
15 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
15 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.035%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.035%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 3 (0.11%) Sprinklr
5 2 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.035%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.035%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.035%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.035%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,457 (51.45%) Azure
2 808 (28.53%) GCP
3 396 (13.98%) Serverless
4 299 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
5 224 (7.91%) SaaS
6 172 (6.07%) Amazon S3
7 129 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
9 115 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
10 114 (4.03%) GitHub
11 101 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
12 98 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 94 (3.32%) Power Platform
14 86 (3.04%) Snowflake
15 75 (2.65%) Pulumi
16 66 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 56 (1.98%) PaaS
18 55 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
19 54 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 53 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 179 (6.32%) Firewall
2 176 (6.21%) Broadband
3 100 (3.53%) DNS
4 93 (3.28%) VPN
5 75 (2.65%) WAN
6 61 (2.15%) DHCP
6 61 (2.15%) Network Security
7 60 (2.12%) TCP/IP
8 51 (1.80%) SSL
9 49 (1.73%) SD-WAN
10 43 (1.52%) VLAN
11 35 (1.24%) LAN
11 35 (1.24%) SSH
12 27 (0.95%) BGP
12 27 (0.95%) SAN
13 25 (0.88%) OSPF
14 23 (0.81%) Internet
15 18 (0.64%) NAS
16 15 (0.53%) HTTP
17 12 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (14.09%) SQL Server
2 216 (7.63%) MySQL
3 203 (7.17%) NoSQL
4 182 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
5 147 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 102 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
7 97 (3.43%) RDBMS
8 93 (3.28%) MongoDB
9 92 (3.25%) DynamoDB
10 91 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
11 89 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
12 80 (2.82%) Data Lake
13 76 (2.68%) Power BI
14 68 (2.40%) Big Data
15 55 (1.94%) Tableau
16 44 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
17 40 (1.41%) BigQuery
18 34 (1.20%) Metadata
19 26 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
20 20 (0.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 369 (13.03%) JIRA
2 331 (11.69%) GitLab
3 277 (9.78%) Selenium
4 274 (9.68%) SonarQube
5 273 (9.64%) Maven
6 269 (9.50%) Git
7 262 (9.25%) Bitbucket
8 259 (9.15%) Cucumber
9 254 (8.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 179 (6.32%) Jenkins
11 84 (2.97%) JUnit
12 65 (2.30%) Jaeger
13 55 (1.94%) Mockito
14 30 (1.06%) Jasmine
15 24 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
16 23 (0.81%) JMeter
17 19 (0.67%) IntelliJ
17 19 (0.67%) Protractor
18 18 (0.64%) Eclipse
19 16 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 770 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 622 (21.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 605 (21.36%) Finance
4 352 (12.43%) Banking
5 351 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
6 234 (8.26%) Presentation Skills
7 178 (6.29%) Retail
8 146 (5.16%) Public Sector
9 113 (3.99%) Law
10 98 (3.46%) Investment Banking
11 90 (3.18%) Corporate Banking
12 81 (2.86%) Manufacturing
13 58 (2.05%) Games
14 45 (1.59%) Marketing
15 36 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 36 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (0.95%) Electronics
18 26 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (0.71%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 679 (23.98%) Software Engineer
2 661 (23.34%) Senior
3 481 (16.98%) Developer
4 365 (12.89%) Lead
5 271 (9.57%) IT Support
6 240 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
7 159 (5.61%) Senior Developer
8 148 (5.23%) Architect
9 130 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 119 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
11 108 (3.81%) Java Developer
12 107 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 98 (3.46%) Data Engineer
14 97 (3.43%) Team Leader
15 96 (3.39%) Software Developer
16 93 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
17 85 (3.00%) Analyst
18 71 (2.51%) Machine Learning Engineer
19 67 (2.37%) Support Engineer
20 62 (2.19%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 622 (21.96%) React
2 430 (15.18%) Node.js
3 416 (14.69%) .NET
4 400 (14.12%) Spring Boot
5 393 (13.88%) Spring
6 388 (13.70%) Kafka
7 379 (13.38%) HTML
8 377 (13.31%) CSS
9 283 (9.99%) JPA
10 272 (9.60%) RESTful
11 263 (9.29%) Redux
12 236 (8.33%) REST
13 209 (7.38%) Hibernate
14 163 (5.76%) AngularJS
15 118 (4.17%) Web Services
16 116 (4.10%) Jest
17 115 (4.06%) HTML5
18 107 (3.78%) CSS3
19 103 (3.64%) Sass
20 91 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 481 (16.98%) Enterprise Software
2 303 (10.70%) Product Ownership
3 275 (9.71%) Self-Motivation
4 236 (8.33%) Cyberattack
5 179 (6.32%) Linux Command Line
6 121 (4.27%) Cloud Native
7 98 (3.46%) Management Information System
8 88 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
9 86 (3.04%) Mobile App
10 76 (2.68%) Algorithms
11 75 (2.65%) Public Cloud
12 70 (2.47%) Data Centre
13 51 (1.80%) PKI
14 49 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
14 49 (1.73%) Onboarding
15 43 (1.52%) Private Cloud
16 42 (1.48%) IoT
17 37 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
18 34 (1.20%) Security Posture
19 33 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 539 (19.03%) Linux
2 442 (15.61%) Windows
3 103 (3.64%) Unix
4 81 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 62 (2.19%) Android
6 21 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.49%) VMS
8 13 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.28%) CentOS
11 7 (0.25%) Debian
12 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.071%) Solaris
14 2 (0.071%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,242 (43.86%) Agile
2 951 (33.58%) Software Engineering
3 926 (32.70%) DevOps
4 912 (32.20%) CI/CD
5 791 (27.93%) Microservices
6 688 (24.29%) Mentoring
7 672 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
8 555 (19.60%) Containerisation
9 531 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 422 (14.90%) Test Automation
11 392 (13.84%) User Experience
12 369 (13.03%) Machine Learning
13 357 (12.61%) Performance Optimisation
14 347 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 326 (11.51%) SDLC
16 325 (11.48%) Clean Code
17 322 (11.37%) Data Engineering
17 322 (11.37%) Scrum
18 313 (11.05%) TDD
19 306 (10.81%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 959 (33.86%) Java
2 933 (32.94%) Python
3 917 (32.38%) JavaScript
4 696 (24.58%) SQL
5 459 (16.21%) TypeScript
6 319 (11.26%) Go
7 227 (8.02%) C++
8 215 (7.59%) C#
9 212 (7.49%) Rust
10 144 (5.08%) PowerShell
11 132 (4.66%) Bash
12 130 (4.59%) PHP
13 28 (0.99%) Shell Script
14 26 (0.92%) R
15 19 (0.67%) Groovy
16 17 (0.60%) Scala
17 15 (0.53%) Bicep
17 15 (0.53%) T-SQL
18 14 (0.49%) Ruby
19 13 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 451 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 363 (12.82%) AWS Certification
3 348 (12.29%) Degree
4 263 (9.29%) DV Cleared
5 202 (7.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 175 (6.18%) AWS Certified Developer
7 162 (5.72%) SC Cleared
8 96 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 80 (2.82%) PhD
10 76 (2.68%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 36 (1.27%) CISSP
14 28 (0.99%) MCP
15 26 (0.92%) Master's Degree
16 25 (0.88%) CISM
17 24 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
18 23 (0.81%) CCNP
19 22 (0.78%) CCNA
19 22 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (12.82%) QA
2 152 (5.37%) Accessibility
3 87 (3.07%) Data Quality
4 69 (2.44%) NIST
5 64 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.59%) GDPR
7 39 (1.38%) SLA
8 22 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.71%) NCSC
10 17 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.21%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.18%) COBIT
15 5 (0.18%) HL7
16 4 (0.14%) GMP
16 4 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 791 (27.93%) Docker
2 151 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 85 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 76 (2.68%) Hyper-V
5 37 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (0.67%) vSphere
8 10 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.32%) Postfix
10 7 (0.25%) DFS Replication
10 7 (0.25%) Terminal Services
11 6 (0.21%) BitLocker
11 6 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.18%) HDFS
12 5 (0.18%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.11%) KVM
14 3 (0.11%) LXC
14 3 (0.11%) NFS
14 3 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 759 (26.80%) Kubernetes
2 456 (16.10%) Terraform
3 265 (9.36%) Ansible
4 128 (4.52%) Prometheus
5 80 (2.82%) Grafana
6 75 (2.65%) Kustomize
7 73 (2.58%) Argo
8 46 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (1.27%) Puppet
10 25 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
11 20 (0.71%) Kibana
12 17 (0.60%) SCCM
13 15 (0.53%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.42%) vMotion
15 10 (0.35%) Nagios
15 10 (0.35%) Nessus
16 9 (0.32%) Progress Chef
16 9 (0.32%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.32%) QRadar
17 8 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 265 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 246 (8.69%) Solace
3 230 (8.12%) Google
4 113 (3.99%) VMware
5 102 (3.60%) Oracle
6 91 (3.21%) Databricks
7 74 (2.61%) Cisco
8 58 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.66%) Splunk
10 43 (1.52%) IBM
11 33 (1.17%) Informatica
12 29 (1.02%) Fortinet
13 28 (0.99%) Citrix
13 28 (0.99%) Thales
14 26 (0.92%) SAP
15 25 (0.88%) Red Hat
16 23 (0.81%) Dynatrace
17 19 (0.67%) Salesforce
18 18 (0.64%) Atlassian
19 17 (0.60%) HP