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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,313 17,612 36,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.42% 17.55% 23.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.04% 40.91% 47.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7,555 10,416 16,457
10th Percentile £42,250 £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 £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 35,306 43,046 77,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 28,295 41,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £96,250 £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 14 May 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 14 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
England -4 8,975 £70,000 -6.67% 2,505
UK excluding London -4 6,970 £60,000 -4.00% 1,453
Work from Home -3 5,090 £70,000 -5.08% 1,540
London -2 3,887 £85,000 - 1,222
North of England -4 1,678 £62,783 +0.45% 397
Scotland +1 1,670 £60,000 - 125
South East -18 1,132 £60,000 -7.69% 246
North West -6 966 £62,783 -3.41% 239
South West -5 953 £60,000 - 235
Midlands -14 833 £57,500 -8.00% 235
Yorkshire -1 541 £60,000 - 119
West Midlands -16 438 £60,000 -7.69% 145
East Midlands -7 394 £55,000 -4.35% 89
East of England -14 386 £55,000 -15.38% 114
Wales +2 178 £50,000 -4.76% 46
North East -4 171 £62,783 +14.15% 39
Northern Ireland +7 130 £60,000 +14.29% 70
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 6 £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
1 705 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 671 (5.93%) Apache
3 640 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.95%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.94%) GeoServer
6 170 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 133 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 128 (1.13%) Confluence
9 92 (0.81%) CMS
10 81 (0.72%) nginx
11 75 (0.66%) IIS
12 70 (0.62%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
14 42 (0.37%) WordPress
15 37 (0.33%) Drupal
15 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
16 22 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 20 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
17 20 (0.18%) Umbraco
18 19 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 100 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 21 (0.19%) Simulink
5 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 19 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.14%) Trello
8 14 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
11 5 (0.044%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.035%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.027%) Sketch
14 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
15 1 (0.009%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 64 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.053%) Magento
6 6 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.053%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.044%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
7 5 (0.044%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.035%) Shopify
9 2 (0.018%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.018%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.018%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 5,114 (45.20%) Azure
2 2,278 (20.14%) GCP
3 985 (8.71%) Serverless
4 880 (7.78%) SaaS
5 683 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
6 573 (5.06%) Amazon S3
7 561 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
8 469 (4.15%) GitHub
9 441 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
10 416 (3.68%) Snowflake
11 405 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
12 374 (3.31%) dbt
13 352 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 352 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
14 348 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
15 346 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
16 282 (2.49%) PaaS
17 261 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
18 250 (2.21%) IaaS
19 238 (2.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 568 (5.02%) Firewall
2 437 (3.86%) DNS
3 261 (2.31%) WAN
4 246 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 226 (2.00%) DHCP
6 193 (1.71%) VPN
7 186 (1.64%) LAN
8 171 (1.51%) Network Security
9 131 (1.16%) HTTP
10 117 (1.03%) SD-WAN
11 108 (0.95%) SAN
12 101 (0.89%) BGP
13 97 (0.86%) SSL
14 92 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
15 91 (0.80%) Internet
15 91 (0.80%) Wireless
16 87 (0.77%) VLAN
17 57 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
18 55 (0.49%) VoIP
19 48 (0.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,156 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
2 909 (8.04%) NoSQL
3 816 (7.21%) SQL Server
4 686 (6.06%) MySQL
5 647 (5.72%) Big Data
6 588 (5.20%) MongoDB
7 580 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
8 518 (4.58%) Data Lake
9 469 (4.15%) Relational Database
10 443 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
11 396 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
12 385 (3.40%) Hadoop
13 367 (3.24%) Apache Ignite
14 363 (3.21%) GIS
15 340 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
16 330 (2.92%) QGIS
17 299 (2.64%) Apache Arrow
17 299 (2.64%) Dremio
18 298 (2.63%) Tableau
19 257 (2.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,108 (9.79%) Git
2 666 (5.89%) Jenkins
3 400 (3.54%) GitLab
4 380 (3.36%) JIRA
5 196 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 187 (1.65%) JUnit
7 178 (1.57%) Selenium
8 103 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 93 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 93 (0.82%) TeamCity
10 92 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 77 (0.68%) Jasmine
12 72 (0.64%) Artifactory
13 67 (0.59%) Postman
14 65 (0.57%) Maven
15 63 (0.56%) CircleCI
16 62 (0.55%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.53%) Protractor
18 51 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,251 (28.74%) Finance
2 2,117 (18.71%) Social Skills
3 1,649 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,386 (12.25%) Law
5 950 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 940 (8.31%) Banking
7 826 (7.30%) Marketing
8 633 (5.60%) Front Office
9 513 (4.53%) Public Sector
10 484 (4.28%) Legal
11 466 (4.12%) Investment Banking
12 437 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
13 402 (3.55%) Retail
14 218 (1.93%) Financial Institution
15 206 (1.82%) Games
16 176 (1.56%) Tech for Good
17 152 (1.34%) Aerospace
18 109 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 97 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
20 92 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,794 (24.70%) Developer
2 2,659 (23.50%) Senior
3 2,633 (23.27%) Software Engineer
4 1,588 (14.04%) Lead
5 1,274 (11.26%) Architect
6 952 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
7 773 (6.83%) Senior Developer
8 722 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 685 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 627 (5.54%) Java Engineer
11 616 (5.45%) Python Engineer
12 610 (5.39%) Data Engineer
13 542 (4.79%) Java Software Engineer
14 520 (4.60%) .NET Developer
15 494 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 494 (4.37%) Java Developer
16 484 (4.28%) Python Software Engineer
17 463 (4.09%) AWS Software Engineer
18 453 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
19 441 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,167 (19.15%) React
2 1,502 (13.28%) .NET
3 1,169 (10.33%) Node.js
4 1,017 (8.99%) AngularJS
5 873 (7.72%) Spring
6 858 (7.58%) CSS
7 816 (7.21%) .NET Core
8 694 (6.13%) Kafka
9 682 (6.03%) Spring Boot
10 665 (5.88%) Vue
11 609 (5.38%) HTML
12 557 (4.92%) RESTful
13 474 (4.19%) gRPC
14 453 (4.00%) ASP.NET
15 449 (3.97%) REST
16 430 (3.80%) .NET Framework
17 414 (3.66%) Protocol Buffers
18 369 (3.26%) Laravel
19 331 (2.93%) PostGIS
20 330 (2.92%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 833 (7.36%) Cloud Native
1 833 (7.36%) Public Cloud
2 590 (5.22%) Hedge funds
3 577 (5.10%) Algorithms
4 566 (5.00%) Fixed Income
5 473 (4.18%) Equities
6 414 (3.66%) Derivative
7 413 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 377 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 357 (3.16%) Management Information System
10 339 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
11 317 (2.80%) Onboarding
12 302 (2.67%) Data Centre
13 277 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
14 270 (2.39%) Data Structures
15 248 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
16 192 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
17 187 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
18 170 (1.50%) Private Cloud
19 161 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,344 (11.88%) Linux
2 883 (7.81%) Windows
3 397 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 321 (2.84%) Unix
5 225 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 146 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 109 (0.96%) Android
8 92 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 89 (0.79%) CentOS
10 63 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 62 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 57 (0.50%) Debian
13 46 (0.41%) Windows 10
13 46 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 32 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 25 (0.22%) Solaris
16 23 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 20 (0.18%) CoreOS
18 16 (0.14%) VMS
19 10 (0.088%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,966 (43.90%) Agile
2 3,870 (34.21%) Software Engineering
3 2,882 (25.48%) DevOps
4 2,830 (25.02%) CI/CD
5 1,994 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
6 1,695 (14.98%) Microservices
7 1,591 (14.06%) SDLC
8 1,493 (13.20%) Full Stack Development
9 1,476 (13.05%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,369 (12.10%) Mentoring
11 1,320 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 1,164 (10.29%) TDD
13 1,062 (9.39%) Operational Stability
14 1,031 (9.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,018 (9.00%) Scrum
16 985 (8.71%) Actionable Insight
17 937 (8.28%) Computer Science
18 929 (8.21%) Asset Management
19 884 (7.81%) Containerisation
20 870 (7.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3,822 (33.78%) Python
2 3,096 (27.37%) Java
3 2,568 (22.70%) JavaScript
4 2,371 (20.96%) SQL
5 1,661 (14.68%) TypeScript
6 1,450 (12.82%) C#
7 578 (5.11%) PHP
8 440 (3.89%) PowerShell
9 416 (3.68%) Scala
10 405 (3.58%) Go
11 387 (3.42%) Bash
12 298 (2.63%) Kotlin
13 227 (2.01%) PL/SQL
14 177 (1.56%) Ruby
15 147 (1.30%) C++
16 130 (1.15%) R
17 111 (0.98%) T-SQL
18 110 (0.97%) C
19 91 (0.80%) Shell Script
20 75 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,378 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 1,270 (11.23%) Degree
3 988 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 588 (5.20%) AWS Certification
5 473 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 298 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 265 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 224 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 219 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 194 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 194 (1.71%) CISSP
11 177 (1.56%) DBS Check
12 149 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 123 (1.09%) CCNA
14 120 (1.06%) CISM
15 98 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
16 82 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 71 (0.63%) CCSP
18 64 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
19 59 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (3.77%) QA
2 367 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 243 (2.15%) GDPR
4 202 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 168 (1.49%) NIST
6 142 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 139 (1.23%) SLA
8 90 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 61 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 29 (0.26%) NCSC
10 29 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 23 (0.20%) PMO
12 20 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 18 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.15%) COBIT
14 17 (0.15%) WCAG
15 13 (0.11%) GRC
15 13 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1,688 (14.92%) Docker
2 481 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 358 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 271 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.10%) HDFS
6 75 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 38 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 34 (0.30%) vSphere
11 32 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.20%) KVM
12 23 (0.20%) XenApp
13 21 (0.19%) Firmware
14 15 (0.13%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
16 9 (0.080%) DFS Replication
17 8 (0.071%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
19 5 (0.044%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,921 (16.98%) Kubernetes
2 1,807 (15.97%) Terraform
3 744 (6.58%) Ansible
4 269 (2.38%) Puppet
5 246 (2.17%) Grafana
6 237 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 124 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 117 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 87 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 55 (0.49%) SCCM
11 44 (0.39%) vCenter Server
12 39 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 39 (0.34%) Nagios
13 35 (0.31%) Kibana
14 32 (0.28%) Packer
15 31 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 31 (0.27%) ZABBIX
16 30 (0.27%) Istio
17 26 (0.23%) Consul
18 21 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,425 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 1,030 (9.10%) Google
3 583 (5.15%) Oracle
4 525 (4.64%) VMware
5 519 (4.59%) Databricks
6 333 (2.94%) ESRI
7 314 (2.78%) Cisco
8 250 (2.21%) Red Hat
9 194 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 188 (1.66%) Splunk
11 130 (1.15%) Informatica
12 114 (1.01%) IBM
13 113 (1.00%) Citrix
14 94 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.81%) Cloudera
16 76 (0.67%) Alteryx
16 76 (0.67%) Palo Alto
17 70 (0.62%) Dell
18 67 (0.59%) Bloomberg
18 67 (0.59%) SAP