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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 534 458
Rank change year-on-year +93 -76 -123
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 284 408 647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.40% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.14% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 170 277 483
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,600 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £105,313 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £113,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.44% +3.85% -3.70%

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 15,281 35,941 42,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.80% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,069 26,912 27,490
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,225 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -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 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 16 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 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
England +93 263 £75,000 - 880
London +98 144 £95,000 +5.85% 120
UK excluding London +91 133 £70,500 +4.44% 870
Work from Home +83 114 £70,000 +1.82% 779
South East +75 42 £72,500 +11.54% 251
Midlands +89 36 £72,500 - 163
West Midlands +61 33 £72,500 - 94
South West +109 20 £60,000 -5.88% 109
North of England +18 17 £62,500 -21.88% 186
Scotland +73 13 £70,000 +68.67% 27
North West -18 9 £57,500 -28.13% 90
Yorkshire +57 7 £70,500 -11.88% 73
East of England +35 4 £70,000 +101.44% 121
East Midlands +46 3 - - 59
Wales +46 2 £57,500 -4.17% 23
North East +43 1 £72,500 +15.48% 23

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 26 (9.15%) Confluence
2 19 (6.69%) Apache
3 16 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.46%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.76%) nginx
5 5 (1.76%) SAS
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.06%) WordPress
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 277 (97.54%) AWS
2 193 (67.96%) Amazon S3
3 139 (48.94%) Serverless
4 120 (42.25%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (23.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 64 (22.54%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (19.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 50 (17.61%) Amazon ECS
9 37 (13.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (11.62%) AWS KMS
11 30 (10.56%) Route 53
12 26 (9.15%) Azure
13 24 (8.45%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (8.10%) Datadog
14 23 (8.10%) GitHub
15 19 (6.69%) Amazon ELB
15 19 (6.69%) GCP
16 16 (5.63%) Amazon Glacier
17 14 (4.93%) SaaS
17 14 (4.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.15%) Firewall
2 15 (5.28%) VPN
3 14 (4.93%) DNS
4 10 (3.52%) SSL
5 9 (3.17%) Internet
6 8 (2.82%) HTTP
7 7 (2.46%) FTP
7 7 (2.46%) SMTP
7 7 (2.46%) SSH
8 6 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.76%) MQTT
9 5 (1.76%) SMS
10 4 (1.41%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.41%) LAN
10 4 (1.41%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.41%) VLAN
10 4 (1.41%) WAN
11 3 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.70%) IMAP
12 2 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (40.85%) Amazon RDS
2 75 (26.41%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (18.66%) DynamoDB
4 35 (12.32%) NoSQL
5 24 (8.45%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (8.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (7.75%) Data Lake
7 20 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (6.69%) MySQL
9 18 (6.34%) Relational Database
10 14 (4.93%) RDBMS
11 13 (4.58%) Apache Iceberg
11 13 (4.58%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.87%) Apache Arrow
12 11 (3.87%) Apache Ignite
12 11 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (3.87%) Dremio
13 9 (3.17%) SQL Server
13 9 (3.17%) Tableau
14 7 (2.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 95 (33.45%) Jenkins
2 80 (28.17%) Git
3 48 (16.90%) GitLab
4 42 (14.79%) JUnit
5 39 (13.73%) Mockito
6 37 (13.03%) JIRA
7 35 (12.32%) IntelliJ
8 29 (10.21%) Maven
9 18 (6.34%) Vagrant
10 17 (5.99%) Cucumber
11 15 (5.28%) SonarQube
12 13 (4.58%) Bitbucket Server
12 13 (4.58%) CircleCI
12 13 (4.58%) JMeter
13 11 (3.87%) DbUnit
13 11 (3.87%) jMock
14 5 (1.76%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (1.06%) gulp
15 3 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 89 (31.34%) Finance
2 71 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.90%) Public Sector
4 34 (11.97%) Banking
5 24 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (5.28%) Marketing
8 13 (4.58%) Investment Banking
9 11 (3.87%) Front Office
10 10 (3.52%) Law
10 10 (3.52%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.82%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.46%) Advertising
13 6 (2.11%) Electronics
14 5 (1.76%) Retail
14 5 (1.76%) Retail Banking
15 4 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
16 3 (1.06%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 80 (28.17%) Developer
2 75 (26.41%) Senior
3 55 (19.37%) AWS Engineer
4 43 (15.14%) Java Developer
5 41 (14.44%) Java Engineer
6 36 (12.68%) Software Engineer
7 31 (10.92%) Lead
8 28 (9.86%) AWS DevOps
9 27 (9.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 25 (8.80%) Senior Developer
11 24 (8.45%) AWS Developer
11 24 (8.45%) Senior Java Engineer
12 17 (5.99%) Data Engineer
12 17 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (5.63%) Architect
13 16 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (5.28%) AWS Software Engineer
14 15 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (5.28%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (5.28%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (23.24%) React
2 55 (19.37%) Spring
3 53 (18.66%) RESTful
4 49 (17.25%) REST
4 49 (17.25%) Spring Boot
5 40 (14.08%) ActiveMQ
6 27 (9.51%) Web Services
7 25 (8.80%) Hibernate
8 24 (8.45%) gRPC
9 23 (8.10%) HTML
10 20 (7.04%) AngularJS
11 19 (6.69%) Kafka
12 17 (5.99%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (5.63%) Node.js
13 16 (5.63%) PySpark
14 15 (5.28%) jQuery
15 14 (4.93%) JMS
15 14 (4.93%) Pandas
16 13 (4.58%) Apache Camel
16 13 (4.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.69%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.93%) Credit Derivative
4 14 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (4.93%) Hedge funds
5 13 (4.58%) Derivative
6 12 (4.23%) Replication
7 11 (3.87%) Equities
7 11 (3.87%) Fixed Income
7 11 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (3.52%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.82%) Blockchain
9 8 (2.82%) Web3
10 7 (2.46%) IoT
11 6 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.76%) Distributed Applications
12 5 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.76%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 87 (30.63%) Linux
2 31 (10.92%) Windows
3 18 (6.34%) VMS
4 11 (3.87%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.82%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.41%) Unix
6 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.06%) CentOS
7 3 (1.06%) Debian
8 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (39.44%) Agile
2 107 (37.68%) CI/CD
3 105 (36.97%) DevOps
4 84 (29.58%) Containerisation
5 76 (26.76%) Software Engineering
6 72 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 68 (23.94%) Microservices
8 64 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (18.31%) TDD
10 46 (16.20%) Analytics
11 41 (14.44%) Scrum
12 33 (11.62%) Cloud Security
12 33 (11.62%) Test Automation
13 30 (10.56%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (10.56%) Open Source
13 30 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (10.21%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (9.86%) Configuration Management
15 28 (9.86%) Mentoring
16 25 (8.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 124 (43.66%) Python
2 115 (40.49%) Java
3 61 (21.48%) JavaScript
4 50 (17.61%) SQL
5 35 (12.32%) TypeScript
6 27 (9.51%) PowerShell
7 24 (8.45%) Bash
8 21 (7.39%) Groovy
9 20 (7.04%) Shell Script
10 15 (5.28%) Go
11 14 (4.93%) C++
12 13 (4.58%) C#
13 12 (4.23%) Perl
14 9 (3.17%) PHP
14 9 (3.17%) R
15 5 (1.76%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.76%) Scala
16 4 (1.41%) Ruby
17 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.35%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 57 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 35 (12.32%) Degree
4 25 (8.80%) AWS Certification
5 22 (7.75%) Master's Degree
6 16 (5.63%) PhD
7 11 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.52%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.82%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.69%) QA
2 5 (1.76%) NIST
3 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.41%) GMP
4 3 (1.06%) GDPR
4 3 (1.06%) SEPA
5 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.70%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 126 (44.37%) Docker
2 24 (8.45%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.87%) DFS Replication
4 8 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.11%) Postfix
7 2 (0.70%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 93 (32.75%) Kubernetes
2 87 (30.63%) Terraform
3 44 (15.49%) Ansible
4 39 (13.73%) Prometheus
5 38 (13.38%) Grafana
6 16 (5.63%) Kibana
7 5 (1.76%) Nessus
7 5 (1.76%) Proxmox
8 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.06%) Argo
9 3 (1.06%) Nagios
9 3 (1.06%) Packer
9 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.06%) Puppet
10 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.70%) logstash
11 1 (0.35%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (6.69%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.34%) Splunk
3 17 (5.99%) IBM
4 15 (5.28%) Atlassian
4 15 (5.28%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.58%) Cisco
5 13 (4.58%) Dynatrace
6 11 (3.87%) Google
7 10 (3.52%) Juniper
7 10 (3.52%) Oracle
8 7 (2.46%) Databricks
8 7 (2.46%) SAP
9 6 (2.11%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (1.76%) Intel
11 4 (1.41%) Apple
11 4 (1.41%) Meraki
11 4 (1.41%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.06%) AppDynamics
12 3 (1.06%) Concur
12 3 (1.06%) HubSpot