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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 6,958 8,928 11,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.89% 14.56% 15.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.64% 38.17% 39.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,137 4,442 7,150
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 £75,750 £78,750 £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 23,477 23,392 28,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.35% 38.14% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 14,038 19,888
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 5 May 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 5 May 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
Scotland +1 1,667 £60,000 -4.00% 135
North of England -4 1,655 £62,783 +2.09% 400
South East -16 1,127 £60,000 -7.69% 264
South West -5 973 £60,000 - 241
North West -6 946 £62,783 -3.41% 235
Midlands -12 840 £57,500 -8.00% 203
Yorkshire -2 539 £60,000 - 123
West Midlands -14 449 £60,000 -7.69% 120
East Midlands -7 392 £55,000 -4.35% 83
East of England -12 387 £55,000 -16.98% 120
Wales 0 177 £50,000 -2.91% 44
North East -6 170 £62,783 +14.15% 43
Northern Ireland +5 127 £60,000 +14.29% 75
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 6 £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
1 536 (7.70%) Apache Spark
2 287 (4.12%) ArcGIS
2 287 (4.12%) GeoServer
3 209 (3.00%) Apache
4 145 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 139 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 96 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 78 (1.12%) Confluence
8 65 (0.93%) IIS
9 62 (0.89%) CMS
10 61 (0.88%) OpenStack
11 49 (0.70%) nginx
12 40 (0.57%) WebLogic
13 37 (0.53%) Tuxedo
14 30 (0.43%) WordPress
15 17 (0.24%) 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 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.27%) Simulink
4 16 (0.23%) Trello
5 12 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 12 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.086%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.072%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.029%) Sketch
11 2 (0.029%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.014%) 1Password
12 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.014%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 50 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.072%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.072%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.057%) Shopify
7 2 (0.029%) Magento
7 2 (0.029%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.014%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.014%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.014%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,307 (47.53%) Azure
2 1,112 (15.98%) GCP
3 629 (9.04%) SaaS
4 535 (7.69%) Serverless
5 418 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
6 362 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
7 329 (4.73%) Amazon S3
8 296 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
9 246 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
10 242 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
11 232 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
12 231 (3.32%) GitHub
13 222 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
14 186 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 169 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
16 137 (1.97%) PaaS
17 133 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 130 (1.87%) IaaS
19 126 (1.81%) Datadog
20 122 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 380 (5.46%) Firewall
2 325 (4.67%) DNS
3 206 (2.96%) DHCP
4 196 (2.82%) WAN
5 187 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 126 (1.81%) VPN
7 124 (1.78%) HTTP
8 99 (1.42%) LAN
9 98 (1.41%) Network Security
10 92 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 84 (1.21%) SAN
12 76 (1.09%) SSL
13 73 (1.05%) BGP
14 69 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 66 (0.95%) VLAN
16 62 (0.89%) Internet
16 62 (0.89%) Wireless
17 41 (0.59%) VoIP
18 35 (0.50%) OSPF
19 33 (0.47%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 673 (9.67%) PostgreSQL
2 671 (9.64%) NoSQL
3 580 (8.34%) SQL Server
4 481 (6.91%) MySQL
5 480 (6.90%) Big Data
6 410 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
7 394 (5.66%) MongoDB
8 345 (4.96%) Relational Database
9 312 (4.48%) GIS
10 290 (4.17%) Hadoop
11 284 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
11 284 (4.08%) QGIS
12 267 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
13 207 (2.97%) BigQuery
14 196 (2.82%) Looker
15 155 (2.23%) Data Lake
16 147 (2.11%) Oracle Database
17 139 (2.00%) Apache Hive
18 115 (1.65%) DynamoDB
19 110 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 695 (9.99%) Git
2 382 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 262 (3.77%) JIRA
4 249 (3.58%) GitLab
5 170 (2.44%) JUnit
6 146 (2.10%) Selenium
7 110 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 92 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
9 74 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 74 (1.06%) Jasmine
10 62 (0.89%) WebDriver
11 61 (0.88%) TeamCity
12 60 (0.86%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (0.86%) Protractor
13 57 (0.82%) Bitbucket
14 55 (0.79%) Postman
15 51 (0.73%) Maven
16 42 (0.60%) Visual Studio
17 31 (0.45%) CircleCI
17 31 (0.45%) JMeter
General
1 1,892 (27.19%) Finance
2 1,425 (20.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,264 (18.17%) Law
4 1,187 (17.06%) Social Skills
5 702 (10.09%) Marketing
6 484 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
7 414 (5.95%) Legal
8 369 (5.30%) Banking
9 290 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 204 (2.93%) Investment Banking
10 204 (2.93%) Retail
11 194 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 182 (2.62%) Financial Institution
13 148 (2.13%) Games
14 136 (1.95%) Aerospace
15 105 (1.51%) Tech for Good
16 84 (1.21%) Billing
17 74 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
18 69 (0.99%) Telecoms
19 66 (0.95%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1,877 (26.98%) Software Engineer
2 1,603 (23.04%) Developer
3 1,527 (21.95%) Senior
4 1,043 (14.99%) Lead
5 772 (11.10%) Architect
6 549 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
7 454 (6.52%) Java Engineer
7 454 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 449 (6.45%) Senior Developer
9 412 (5.92%) Java Software Engineer
10 382 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 380 (5.46%) Data Engineer
12 363 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
13 350 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
14 340 (4.89%) AWS Software Engineer
15 328 (4.71%) .NET Developer
16 294 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 291 (4.18%) Python Engineer
18 252 (3.62%) Big Data Engineer
19 251 (3.61%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,431 (20.57%) React
2 994 (14.29%) .NET
3 801 (11.51%) Node.js
4 749 (10.76%) AngularJS
5 707 (10.16%) CSS
6 669 (9.61%) Spring
7 598 (8.59%) .NET Core
8 492 (7.07%) HTML
9 463 (6.65%) Spring Boot
10 454 (6.52%) Vue
11 420 (6.04%) RESTful
12 368 (5.29%) Kafka
13 341 (4.90%) .NET Framework
14 335 (4.81%) ASP.NET
15 321 (4.61%) REST
16 285 (4.10%) PostGIS
17 284 (4.08%) Leaflet
17 284 (4.08%) OpenLayers
18 282 (4.05%) Laravel
19 250 (3.59%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 704 (10.12%) Cloud Native
2 691 (9.93%) Public Cloud
3 484 (6.96%) Algorithms
4 246 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 230 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
6 220 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 211 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 209 (3.00%) Onboarding
9 200 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
10 178 (2.56%) Data Centre
11 148 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
12 147 (2.11%) Private Cloud
13 133 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
14 124 (1.78%) IoT
15 110 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
16 106 (1.52%) PKI
17 92 (1.32%) Mobile App
18 74 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
19 73 (1.05%) Blockchain
20 63 (0.91%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 922 (13.25%) Linux
2 627 (9.01%) Windows
3 300 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 246 (3.54%) Unix
5 171 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 121 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 66 (0.95%) CentOS
8 60 (0.86%) Android
9 54 (0.78%) Mac OS
10 52 (0.75%) Debian
11 50 (0.72%) Apple iOS
12 47 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
13 33 (0.47%) Windows 10
14 29 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
15 25 (0.36%) CoreOS
16 24 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
17 21 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
18 10 (0.14%) Solaris
18 10 (0.14%) VMS
19 9 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,394 (48.78%) Agile
2 2,476 (35.58%) Software Engineering
3 2,045 (29.39%) CI/CD
4 1,831 (26.32%) DevOps
5 1,415 (20.34%) SDLC
6 1,278 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 1,111 (15.97%) Microservices
8 1,061 (15.25%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,055 (15.16%) Operational Stability
10 964 (13.85%) Mentoring
11 923 (13.27%) Full Stack Development
12 919 (13.21%) Machine Learning
13 796 (11.44%) Scrum
14 785 (11.28%) TDD
15 758 (10.89%) Actionable Insight
16 694 (9.97%) Community of Practice
17 644 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
18 643 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
19 541 (7.78%) Containerisation
20 519 (7.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,946 (27.97%) Python
2 1,915 (27.52%) Java
3 1,659 (23.84%) JavaScript
4 1,462 (21.01%) SQL
5 904 (12.99%) C#
6 855 (12.29%) TypeScript
7 447 (6.42%) PHP
8 300 (4.31%) PowerShell
9 274 (3.94%) Scala
10 255 (3.66%) Bash
11 213 (3.06%) PL/SQL
12 159 (2.29%) Go
13 82 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 76 (1.09%) C++
15 64 (0.92%) Ruby
16 62 (0.89%) C
17 54 (0.78%) Kotlin
18 48 (0.69%) COBOL
19 47 (0.68%) Shell Script
20 45 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,087 (15.62%) Security Cleared
2 724 (10.41%) SC Cleared
3 618 (8.88%) Degree
4 377 (5.42%) AWS Certification
5 252 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 249 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 178 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 154 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
9 149 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 99 (1.42%) CISSP
11 97 (1.39%) CCNA
12 89 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 75 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 65 (0.93%) CISM
15 46 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 44 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 42 (0.60%) MCSE
18 41 (0.59%) DBS Check
18 41 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
19 40 (0.57%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (4.14%) QA
2 190 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 180 (2.59%) GDPR
4 117 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (1.65%) SLA
6 101 (1.45%) NIST
7 84 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 48 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 29 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (0.32%) PMO
11 15 (0.22%) NCSC
12 14 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 13 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 11 (0.16%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.13%) GRC
15 9 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.11%) PSD2
17 6 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
18 4 (0.057%) NIST 800
System Software
1 997 (14.33%) Docker
2 312 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 276 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 252 (3.62%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.52%) HDFS
6 43 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 36 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (0.37%) vSphere
9 22 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (0.29%) Firmware
11 16 (0.23%) XenApp
12 13 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
13 11 (0.16%) XenDesktop
14 10 (0.14%) KVM
15 7 (0.10%) Terminal Services
16 5 (0.072%) Embedded Firmware
17 4 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
18 3 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,094 (15.72%) Kubernetes
2 1,073 (15.42%) Terraform
3 448 (6.44%) Ansible
4 173 (2.49%) Puppet
5 153 (2.20%) Grafana
6 129 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 86 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 59 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 56 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.49%) SCCM
10 34 (0.49%) vCenter Server
11 30 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
12 26 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 19 (0.27%) Kibana
14 19 (0.27%) Opsgenie
15 18 (0.26%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.26%) VxRail
16 16 (0.23%) Nagios
17 14 (0.20%) Consul
Vendors
1 922 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 646 (9.28%) Google
3 424 (6.09%) Oracle
4 403 (5.79%) VMware
5 322 (4.63%) Databricks
6 285 (4.10%) ESRI
7 202 (2.90%) Cisco
8 183 (2.63%) Red Hat
9 169 (2.43%) Dynatrace
10 149 (2.14%) Splunk
11 122 (1.75%) Informatica
12 89 (1.28%) IBM
13 77 (1.11%) Cloudera
14 70 (1.01%) Citrix
15 66 (0.95%) Salesforce
16 65 (0.93%) Alteryx
17 63 (0.91%) Dell
18 50 (0.72%) Sparx
19 47 (0.68%) Veeam
20 43 (0.62%) SaltStack