Amazon EC2 Jobs

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 520 450
Rank change year-on-year +123 -70 -115
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 315 412 703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.42% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 1.17% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 213 290 528
10th Percentile £51,500 £40,900 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,375 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon EC2 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2.

Salary trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +149 298 £90,000 +20.00% 319
London +132 201 £107,500 +19.78% 224
Work from Home +190 164 £98,750 +46.30% 159
UK excluding London +91 118 £62,500 -3.85% 102
South East +113 48 £62,500 -7.41% 21
South West +115 21 £67,500 +8.00% 14
Midlands +52 18 £46,750 -28.08% 12
West Midlands +41 15 £46,750 -30.74% 10
North of England +44 14 £61,250 -23.44% 38
Scotland +79 11 £70,500 +69.88% 4
North West +4 8 £57,500 -28.13% 26
East of England +46 7 £72,500 +70.59% 7
Yorkshire +64 6 £70,500 -11.88% 10
East Midlands +50 3 - - 2

Amazon EC2
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 39 (12.38%) Apache
1 39 (12.38%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.22%) Confluence
3 7 (2.22%) SAS
4 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.95%) WordPress
6 2 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.95%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 308 (97.78%) AWS
2 206 (65.40%) Amazon S3
3 174 (55.24%) Serverless
4 149 (47.30%) AWS Lambda
5 107 (33.97%) Amazon ECS
6 91 (28.89%) Amazon EKS
7 68 (21.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (16.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 49 (15.56%) Amazon SQS
10 45 (14.29%) GCP
11 38 (12.06%) Snowflake
12 34 (10.79%) Dagster
12 34 (10.79%) dbt
13 24 (7.62%) Azure
14 23 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (6.98%) Datadog
16 16 (5.08%) SaaS
17 14 (4.44%) GitHub
18 11 (3.49%) OpenShift
18 11 (3.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.49%) VPN
2 10 (3.17%) Firewall
3 9 (2.86%) Internet
4 8 (2.54%) SSL
5 6 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.59%) MQTT
6 5 (1.59%) SMS
7 4 (1.27%) DNS
7 4 (1.27%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.27%) LAN
7 4 (1.27%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.27%) VLAN
7 4 (1.27%) WAN
8 3 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.32%) HTTP
9 1 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (37.46%) Amazon RDS
2 67 (21.27%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (20.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 48 (15.24%) Data Lake
5 41 (13.02%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (13.02%) DynamoDB
6 39 (12.38%) NoSQL
7 34 (10.79%) Apache Arrow
7 34 (10.79%) Apache Iceberg
7 34 (10.79%) Apache Ignite
7 34 (10.79%) Dremio
8 24 (7.62%) MySQL
9 22 (6.98%) Relational Database
10 18 (5.71%) RDBMS
11 16 (5.08%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (3.17%) Tableau
14 9 (2.86%) Big Data
14 9 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 83 (26.35%) Jenkins
2 55 (17.46%) Git
3 51 (16.19%) GitLab
4 38 (12.06%) JUnit
5 37 (11.75%) Mockito
6 31 (9.84%) IntelliJ
7 19 (6.03%) Maven
8 18 (5.71%) Cucumber
8 18 (5.71%) JMeter
9 16 (5.08%) JIRA
10 15 (4.76%) Artifactory
11 11 (3.49%) CircleCI
12 9 (2.86%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.59%) DbUnit
13 5 (1.59%) jMock
14 3 (0.95%) Babel
14 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
14 3 (0.95%) Vagrant
14 3 (0.95%) webpack
15 2 (0.63%) Spinnaker
General
1 133 (42.22%) Finance
2 78 (24.76%) Banking
3 70 (22.22%) Front Office
4 56 (17.78%) Social Skills
5 36 (11.43%) Investment Banking
5 36 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 13 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.17%) Electronics
9 10 (3.17%) Marketing
10 7 (2.22%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.90%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.27%) Advertising
12 4 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.27%) Retail
12 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Law
15 1 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 101 (32.06%) AWS Engineer
2 86 (27.30%) Senior
3 71 (22.54%) Developer
4 57 (18.10%) AWS DevOps
5 56 (17.78%) Software Engineer
6 53 (16.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 43 (13.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 43 (13.65%) Java Engineer
8 40 (12.70%) Java Developer
8 40 (12.70%) Python Engineer
9 38 (12.06%) AWS Software Engineer
10 29 (9.21%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (8.25%) DevOps Manager
11 26 (8.25%) Finance Manager
11 26 (8.25%) Senior Java Engineer
12 24 (7.62%) Architect
12 24 (7.62%) Senior Developer
13 23 (7.30%) Java Software Engineer
14 20 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (6.03%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (19.37%) React
2 48 (15.24%) REST
3 46 (14.60%) Spring
4 44 (13.97%) gRPC
5 42 (13.33%) RESTful
6 39 (12.38%) PySpark
7 38 (12.06%) Spring Boot
8 37 (11.75%) ActiveMQ
8 37 (11.75%) Pandas
9 34 (10.79%) NumPy
9 34 (10.79%) Protocol Buffers
9 34 (10.79%) SciPy
10 26 (8.25%) HTML
11 23 (7.30%) Hibernate
11 23 (7.30%) Web Services
12 19 (6.03%) Apache Camel
13 18 (5.71%) jQuery
13 18 (5.71%) WireMock
14 15 (4.76%) Node.js
14 15 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.43%) Hedge funds
2 35 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.11%) Derivative
2 35 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (10.79%) Equities
3 34 (10.79%) Fixed Income
4 27 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.08%) Management Information System
6 14 (4.44%) Credit Derivative
6 14 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.49%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.17%) Tandem
9 7 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (2.22%) IoT
10 6 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.90%) Molecular Biology
11 5 (1.59%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.59%) Web3
12 4 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 56 (17.78%) Linux
2 20 (6.35%) Windows
3 7 (2.22%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.27%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.95%) Unix
6 3 (0.95%) VMS
7 2 (0.63%) CentOS
7 2 (0.63%) Debian
7 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (52.38%) Agile
2 133 (42.22%) CI/CD
3 128 (40.63%) Software Engineering
4 111 (35.24%) DevOps
5 77 (24.44%) Asset Management
6 61 (19.37%) Containerisation
6 61 (19.37%) Microservices
7 60 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (15.24%) TDD
9 46 (14.60%) Migration
10 45 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (13.65%) Analytics
12 42 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 35 (11.11%) Fintech
14 34 (10.79%) Open Source
15 33 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
16 32 (10.16%) Deployment Automation
17 31 (9.84%) Scrum
17 31 (9.84%) SDLC
18 28 (8.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 168 (53.33%) Python
2 134 (42.54%) Java
3 116 (36.83%) JavaScript
4 64 (20.32%) TypeScript
5 49 (15.56%) SQL
6 26 (8.25%) Shell Script
7 23 (7.30%) Go
8 17 (5.40%) Bash
8 17 (5.40%) C#
9 14 (4.44%) C++
10 10 (3.17%) PHP
11 9 (2.86%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.86%) R
12 7 (2.22%) Groovy
12 7 (2.22%) MATLAB
12 7 (2.22%) Perl
13 6 (1.90%) Scala
14 3 (0.95%) Ruby
15 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.32%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 41 (13.02%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.94%) Degree
4 21 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 21 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 16 (5.08%) PhD
6 12 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.44%) QA
2 4 (1.27%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.27%) GMP
2 4 (1.27%) NIST
3 3 (0.95%) GDPR
3 3 (0.95%) SEPA
4 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.32%) SLA
5 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 146 (46.35%) Docker
2 13 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 136 (43.17%) Kubernetes
2 103 (32.70%) Terraform
3 40 (12.70%) Ansible
4 19 (6.03%) Kibana
5 13 (4.13%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.81%) Grafana
7 6 (1.90%) Kustomize
7 6 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.27%) Packer
10 3 (0.95%) Argo
10 3 (0.95%) Nagios
10 3 (0.95%) Nessus
10 3 (0.95%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.95%) Puppet
11 1 (0.32%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.32%) logstash
11 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 21 (6.67%) Splunk
2 18 (5.71%) Dynatrace
2 18 (5.71%) IBM
3 14 (4.44%) Cisco
4 11 (3.49%) Google
5 8 (2.54%) Oracle
6 7 (2.22%) SAP
7 6 (1.90%) Sawtooth Software
8 5 (1.59%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.59%) Databricks
8 5 (1.59%) Intel
9 4 (1.27%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.27%) Apple
9 4 (1.27%) Meraki
9 4 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.95%) Concur
10 3 (0.95%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.95%) Juniper
11 2 (0.63%) Hitachi