Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,145 18,561 34,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.37% 17.74% 22.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.65% 41.14% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,482 10,853 16,616
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS.

Salary trend for AWS in the UK

AWS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the UK 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
England -5 8,824 £70,000 -6.67% 2,300
UK excluding London -4 6,921 £60,000 -4.00% 1,339
Work from Home -3 5,021 £70,000 -3.45% 1,458
London -3 3,751 £85,000 - 1,116
North of England -4 1,655 £62,783 +2.92% 379
Scotland 0 1,649 £60,000 -6.03% 124
South East -16 1,119 £60,000 -7.69% 234
South West -5 960 £60,000 - 224
North West -6 943 £62,783 -3.41% 227
Midlands -12 840 £57,500 -8.00% 180
Yorkshire -4 542 £60,000 - 109
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% 113
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 704 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 576 (5.17%) Apache
3 522 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (3.00%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.99%) GeoServer
6 170 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 131 (1.18%) Confluence
7 131 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 97 (0.87%) CMS
9 86 (0.77%) nginx
10 80 (0.72%) IIS
11 71 (0.64%) OpenStack
12 52 (0.47%) WebLogic
13 44 (0.39%) WordPress
14 41 (0.37%) Drupal
15 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
16 23 (0.21%) Tomcat
17 20 (0.18%) Umbraco
18 19 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
19 18 (0.16%) JBoss
Applications
1 98 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.15%) Simulink
7 16 (0.14%) Trello
8 14 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
11 5 (0.045%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.036%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.027%) Sketch
14 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
15 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 64 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 13 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (0.072%) Magento
5 7 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.045%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.045%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.045%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 5 (0.045%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.045%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.045%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.036%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.036%) Shopify
8 3 (0.027%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.018%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5,048 (45.29%) Azure
2 2,212 (19.85%) GCP
3 996 (8.94%) Serverless
4 879 (7.89%) SaaS
5 693 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
6 577 (5.18%) Amazon S3
7 566 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
8 469 (4.21%) GitHub
9 444 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
10 410 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
11 367 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 351 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
12 351 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
13 344 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
14 332 (2.98%) Snowflake
15 286 (2.57%) dbt
16 275 (2.47%) PaaS
17 257 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
18 244 (2.19%) IaaS
19 237 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 570 (5.11%) Firewall
2 451 (4.05%) DNS
3 265 (2.38%) WAN
4 261 (2.34%) TCP/IP
5 248 (2.23%) DHCP
6 197 (1.77%) VPN
7 191 (1.71%) LAN
8 171 (1.53%) Network Security
9 144 (1.29%) HTTP
10 119 (1.07%) SD-WAN
11 112 (1.00%) SAN
12 103 (0.92%) BGP
13 97 (0.87%) SSL
13 97 (0.87%) Wireless
14 93 (0.83%) Internet
14 93 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
15 87 (0.78%) VLAN
16 60 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
17 53 (0.48%) VoIP
18 49 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,128 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
2 898 (8.06%) NoSQL
3 809 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 691 (6.20%) MySQL
5 623 (5.59%) Big Data
6 570 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
7 563 (5.05%) MongoDB
8 461 (4.14%) Relational Database
9 448 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
10 410 (3.68%) Data Lake
11 399 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
12 379 (3.40%) Hadoop
13 363 (3.26%) GIS
14 330 (2.96%) QGIS
15 275 (2.47%) Apache Ignite
16 260 (2.33%) Tableau
17 259 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
18 257 (2.31%) BigQuery
19 234 (2.10%) Redis
20 231 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,072 (9.62%) Git
2 678 (6.08%) Jenkins
3 393 (3.53%) GitLab
4 386 (3.46%) JIRA
5 192 (1.72%) JUnit
6 175 (1.57%) Selenium
7 172 (1.54%) Cypress.io
8 106 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 101 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 96 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
11 94 (0.84%) TeamCity
12 82 (0.74%) Jasmine
13 80 (0.72%) Artifactory
14 76 (0.68%) Maven
15 71 (0.64%) Postman
16 62 (0.56%) CircleCI
16 62 (0.56%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.54%) Protractor
18 48 (0.43%) JMeter
General
1 3,126 (28.05%) Finance
2 2,041 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 1,618 (14.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,352 (12.13%) Law
5 909 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 860 (7.72%) Banking
7 825 (7.40%) Marketing
8 547 (4.91%) Front Office
9 511 (4.59%) Public Sector
10 479 (4.30%) Legal
11 407 (3.65%) Investment Banking
12 374 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
13 371 (3.33%) Retail
14 214 (1.92%) Financial Institution
15 204 (1.83%) Games
16 177 (1.59%) Tech for Good
17 141 (1.27%) Aerospace
18 112 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 95 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
20 89 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,783 (24.97%) Developer
2 2,610 (23.42%) Senior
3 2,541 (22.80%) Software Engineer
4 1,547 (13.88%) Lead
5 1,260 (11.31%) Architect
6 905 (8.12%) AWS Engineer
7 794 (7.12%) Senior Developer
8 687 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 686 (6.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 623 (5.59%) Data Engineer
11 599 (5.37%) Java Engineer
12 563 (5.05%) Python Engineer
13 522 (4.68%) .NET Developer
14 518 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
15 504 (4.52%) Java Developer
16 483 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
17 445 (3.99%) Full Stack Developer
18 430 (3.86%) AWS Software Engineer
18 430 (3.86%) Python Software Engineer
19 421 (3.78%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,147 (19.26%) React
2 1,473 (13.22%) .NET
3 1,140 (10.23%) Node.js
4 1,032 (9.26%) AngularJS
5 880 (7.90%) Spring
6 854 (7.66%) CSS
7 808 (7.25%) .NET Core
8 696 (6.24%) Kafka
9 685 (6.15%) Spring Boot
10 663 (5.95%) Vue
11 617 (5.54%) HTML
12 567 (5.09%) RESTful
13 457 (4.10%) ASP.NET
14 449 (4.03%) REST
15 411 (3.69%) .NET Framework
16 371 (3.33%) Laravel
17 359 (3.22%) gRPC
18 331 (2.97%) PostGIS
19 330 (2.96%) Leaflet
19 330 (2.96%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 848 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 830 (7.45%) Public Cloud
3 575 (5.16%) Algorithms
4 474 (4.25%) Fixed Income
4 474 (4.25%) Hedge funds
5 384 (3.45%) Equities
6 373 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 349 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 349 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 342 (3.07%) Derivative
9 336 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
10 312 (2.80%) Onboarding
11 305 (2.74%) Data Centre
12 290 (2.60%) Data Structures
13 277 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
14 256 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
15 192 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
16 186 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
17 165 (1.48%) Private Cloud
18 159 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,352 (12.13%) Linux
2 891 (7.99%) Windows
3 397 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 317 (2.84%) Unix
5 225 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 139 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 107 (0.96%) Android
8 97 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 82 (0.74%) CentOS
10 69 (0.62%) Mac OS
11 62 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 57 (0.51%) Debian
13 47 (0.42%) Windows 10
13 47 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
14 33 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
15 27 (0.24%) CoreOS
16 25 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
17 22 (0.20%) Solaris
18 14 (0.13%) VMS
19 11 (0.099%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,831 (43.35%) Agile
2 3,754 (33.68%) Software Engineering
3 2,854 (25.61%) DevOps
4 2,824 (25.34%) CI/CD
5 1,958 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
6 1,684 (15.11%) Microservices
7 1,596 (14.32%) SDLC
8 1,472 (13.21%) Full Stack Development
9 1,426 (12.79%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,366 (12.26%) Mentoring
11 1,284 (11.52%) Machine Learning
12 1,155 (10.36%) TDD
13 1,051 (9.43%) Operational Stability
14 1,023 (9.18%) Scrum
15 1,010 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 1,005 (9.02%) Actionable Insight
17 927 (8.32%) Computer Science
18 880 (7.90%) Containerisation
19 831 (7.46%) Analytics
20 810 (7.27%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3,691 (33.12%) Python
2 2,996 (26.88%) Java
3 2,495 (22.39%) JavaScript
4 2,332 (20.92%) SQL
5 1,572 (14.10%) TypeScript
6 1,427 (12.80%) C#
7 583 (5.23%) PHP
8 447 (4.01%) PowerShell
9 411 (3.69%) Scala
10 403 (3.62%) Bash
11 390 (3.50%) Go
12 286 (2.57%) Kotlin
13 242 (2.17%) PL/SQL
14 180 (1.62%) Ruby
15 145 (1.30%) C++
16 130 (1.17%) R
17 112 (1.00%) C
18 100 (0.90%) T-SQL
19 93 (0.83%) Shell Script
20 78 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,396 (12.53%) Security Cleared
2 1,236 (11.09%) Degree
3 979 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 564 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 473 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 279 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 271 (2.43%) Azure Certification
8 234 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
9 227 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 206 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 200 (1.79%) CISSP
12 150 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 140 (1.26%) DBS Check
14 125 (1.12%) CCNA
15 118 (1.06%) CISM
16 104 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
17 90 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 78 (0.70%) CCSP
19 77 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
20 60 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (3.83%) QA
2 330 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 244 (2.19%) GDPR
4 195 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 165 (1.48%) NIST
6 141 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 134 (1.20%) SLA
8 89 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 63 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 32 (0.29%) NCSC
12 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 24 (0.22%) PMO
14 20 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 19 (0.17%) WCAG
16 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 17 (0.15%) COBIT
17 17 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,742 (15.63%) Docker
2 486 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 368 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 274 (2.46%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.11%) HDFS
6 70 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 40 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 40 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 37 (0.33%) vSphere
10 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (0.20%) Firmware
12 20 (0.18%) XenApp
13 19 (0.17%) KVM
14 12 (0.11%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.099%) DFS Replication
15 11 (0.099%) Time Sharing Option
16 8 (0.072%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
17 6 (0.054%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,922 (17.25%) Kubernetes
2 1,789 (16.05%) Terraform
3 740 (6.64%) Ansible
4 265 (2.38%) Puppet
5 241 (2.16%) Grafana
6 204 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 120 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 113 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 84 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 51 (0.46%) SCCM
11 45 (0.40%) vCenter Server
12 38 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 36 (0.32%) Kibana
13 36 (0.32%) Nagios
14 33 (0.30%) Packer
15 31 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 28 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
17 27 (0.24%) Consul
17 27 (0.24%) Istio
18 24 (0.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,427 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 1,007 (9.04%) Google
3 586 (5.26%) Oracle
4 539 (4.84%) VMware
5 491 (4.41%) Databricks
6 333 (2.99%) ESRI
7 318 (2.85%) Cisco
8 247 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 187 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 182 (1.63%) Splunk
11 137 (1.23%) Informatica
12 120 (1.08%) IBM
13 108 (0.97%) Citrix
14 94 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 93 (0.83%) Cloudera
16 79 (0.71%) Palo Alto
17 75 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 70 (0.63%) SAP
19 67 (0.60%) CheckPoint
20 65 (0.58%) Dell