Amazon Linux Jobs

Amazon Linux AMI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon Linux over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 907 944
Rank change year-on-year +206 +37 +276
Permanent jobs citing Amazon Linux 10 3 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.003% 0.020%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.14% 0.022% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £57,597 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,783 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% +25.57% +5.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,968 -
90th Percentile £92,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £62,783 -
% change year-on-year +15.48% - -

All Operating Systems
UK

Amazon Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7,035 13,953 15,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.87% 13.66% 16.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,137 10,706 10,606
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

Amazon Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Linux in the UK

Amazon Linux
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Amazon Linux in the UK

Amazon Linux
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon Linux over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon Linux in the UK

Amazon Linux
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +166 10 £72,500 +15.48% 10
UK excluding London +199 8 £72,500 +15.48% 8
Midlands - 8 £72,500 - 7
West Midlands - 8 £72,500 - 7
London - 2 £90,000 - 3
Work from Home +119 1 £80,000 +27.42% 6

Amazon Linux
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 8 (80.00%) Confluence
2 3 (30.00%) nginx
3 1 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon ELB
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 8 (80.00%) AWS KMS
2 8 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon Glacier
4 5 (50.00%) Azure
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (20.00%) Route 53
6 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) SSH
2 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) FTP
2 7 (70.00%) HTTP
2 7 (70.00%) SMTP
3 2 (20.00%) IMAP
3 2 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
2 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (80.00%) JIRA
2 8 (80.00%) Vagrant
3 3 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) Laravel
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Next.js
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) VMS
3 5 (50.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (10.00%) Debian
5 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Change Management
2 8 (80.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (80.00%) Configuration Management
3 7 (70.00%) Patch Management
4 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (10.00%) Information Security
7 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (10.00%) Open Source
7 1 (10.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
7 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 1 (10.00%) Separation of Concerns
7 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Groovy
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
2 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) DFS Replication
3 2 (20.00%) Dovecot
3 2 (20.00%) Postfix
3 2 (20.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (80.00%) Grafana
2 8 (80.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (20.00%) Nessus
3 2 (20.00%) Proxmox
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat