Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS 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 14 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 4,874 11,216 18,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 11.40% 17.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.33% 31.72% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,403 7,536 10,762
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS 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%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Top 18 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 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 -3 4,488 £75,000 +7.14% 4,236
UK excluding London -15 2,451 £60,000 - 1,927
London -1 2,265 £87,500 +2.94% 2,506
Work from Home -4 1,984 £72,500 +3.57% 2,556
North of England -20 745 £65,000 +3.53% 708
South East -2 553 £60,000 - 350
North West -40 409 £67,037 +6.78% 499
Midlands -13 407 £60,000 +4.35% 258
South West -5 309 £60,000 - 250
West Midlands 0 294 £60,000 - 148
Yorkshire -3 284 £60,000 - 149
Scotland -21 200 £60,000 - 140
East of England -19 183 £62,500 +13.64% 131
East Midlands -31 112 £65,000 +18.18% 105
North East -9 52 £65,000 +3.53% 64
Wales -25 39 £50,124 -3.60% 53
Northern Ireland -7 28 £55,000 -8.33% 50
Isle of Man +8 1 £34,500 -25.81% 4

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
1 313 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
2 261 (5.35%) Apache
3 166 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 87 (1.78%) Confluence
5 70 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 56 (1.15%) nginx
7 39 (0.80%) IIS
8 37 (0.76%) SharePoint
9 31 (0.64%) CMS
10 25 (0.51%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.39%) Headless CMS
12 14 (0.29%) OpenStack
13 12 (0.25%) JBoss
13 12 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
13 12 (0.25%) SAS
13 12 (0.25%) WordPress
14 10 (0.21%) Camunda
15 8 (0.16%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 7 (0.14%) Drupal
Applications
1 50 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.45%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.21%) Maya
6 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.062%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.041%) Trello
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.021%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 26 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.16%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.12%) Endur
4 6 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.10%) Shopify
5 5 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.082%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 4 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.062%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.062%) Magento
7 3 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.062%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.041%) Cloudability
9 1 (0.021%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.021%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.021%) Finacle
9 1 (0.021%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,996 (40.95%) Azure
2 1,157 (23.74%) GCP
3 661 (13.56%) Serverless
4 481 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
5 425 (8.72%) SaaS
6 342 (7.02%) Amazon S3
7 317 (6.50%) dbt
8 308 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
9 287 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
10 281 (5.77%) Snowflake
11 272 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 235 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
13 232 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
14 230 (4.72%) GitHub
15 165 (3.39%) Power Platform
16 151 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
17 118 (2.42%) OpenShift
18 116 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
19 109 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
20 103 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 293 (6.01%) Firewall
2 151 (3.10%) DNS
3 144 (2.95%) VPN
4 132 (2.71%) Network Security
5 124 (2.54%) WAN
6 115 (2.36%) TCP/IP
7 107 (2.20%) DHCP
8 90 (1.85%) LAN
9 72 (1.48%) VLAN
10 70 (1.44%) BGP
11 58 (1.19%) SD-WAN
12 54 (1.11%) OSPF
13 46 (0.94%) MPLS
14 40 (0.82%) Internet
15 39 (0.80%) SSL
16 35 (0.72%) SAN
17 32 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
17 32 (0.66%) Wireless
18 27 (0.55%) HTTP
19 24 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
2 353 (7.24%) MySQL
3 299 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
4 284 (5.83%) NoSQL
5 263 (5.40%) Dremio
6 259 (5.31%) Apache Iceberg
7 233 (4.78%) Apache Arrow
8 231 (4.74%) Data Lake
9 227 (4.66%) SQL Server
10 205 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
11 197 (4.04%) MongoDB
12 193 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
13 174 (3.57%) Apache Ignite
14 173 (3.55%) DynamoDB
15 151 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 145 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
17 137 (2.81%) Relational Database
18 128 (2.63%) Power BI
19 122 (2.50%) Big Data
20 117 (2.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 425 (8.72%) Git
2 326 (6.69%) Jenkins
3 201 (4.12%) GitLab
4 192 (3.94%) JIRA
5 112 (2.30%) JUnit
6 103 (2.11%) Artifactory
7 79 (1.62%) Mockito
8 57 (1.17%) IntelliJ
9 56 (1.15%) Maven
10 53 (1.09%) SonarQube
11 45 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 41 (0.84%) Cucumber
12 41 (0.84%) JMeter
12 41 (0.84%) Selenium
13 36 (0.74%) CircleCI
14 34 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
15 31 (0.64%) Jasmine
16 29 (0.59%) Karma Test Runner
17 28 (0.57%) Postman
18 27 (0.55%) Gradle
General
1 1,339 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 1,328 (27.25%) Finance
3 550 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 507 (10.40%) Banking
5 393 (8.06%) Front Office
6 262 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 250 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 209 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 188 (3.86%) Law
10 140 (2.87%) Retail
11 128 (2.63%) Investment Banking
12 125 (2.56%) Games
12 125 (2.56%) Manufacturing
13 121 (2.48%) Marketing
14 99 (2.03%) Financial Institution
15 82 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
16 72 (1.48%) Telecoms
17 56 (1.15%) Legal
18 55 (1.13%) Electronics
19 48 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 992 (20.35%) Senior
2 961 (19.72%) Developer
3 687 (14.10%) Software Engineer
4 595 (12.21%) Lead
5 501 (10.28%) AWS Engineer
6 409 (8.39%) Architect
7 323 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 298 (6.11%) Data Engineer
9 293 (6.01%) Python Engineer
10 287 (5.89%) IT Support
11 244 (5.01%) Senior Developer
12 210 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 206 (4.23%) Java Engineer
14 202 (4.14%) AWS Software Engineer
15 195 (4.00%) Java Developer
16 192 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
17 191 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
18 183 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
19 166 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 165 (3.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 871 (17.87%) React
2 585 (12.00%) Node.js
3 388 (7.96%) Kafka
4 373 (7.65%) .NET
5 363 (7.45%) AngularJS
6 301 (6.18%) REST
7 281 (5.77%) RESTful
8 280 (5.74%) Spring
9 274 (5.62%) Spring Boot
10 271 (5.56%) HTML
11 255 (5.23%) CSS
12 232 (4.76%) Pandas
13 211 (4.33%) PySpark
14 196 (4.02%) Vue
15 188 (3.86%) NumPy
16 158 (3.24%) SciPy
17 148 (3.04%) GraphQL
18 141 (2.89%) Laravel
19 121 (2.48%) Web Services
20 118 (2.42%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 295 (6.05%) Enterprise Software
2 281 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 244 (5.01%) Fixed Income
4 217 (4.45%) Management Information System
5 166 (3.41%) Equities
6 161 (3.30%) Data Centre
6 161 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 161 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 155 (3.18%) Mobile App
8 142 (2.91%) Product Ownership
9 139 (2.85%) Hedge funds
10 123 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
11 121 (2.48%) Algorithms
12 108 (2.22%) Derivative
13 107 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
14 90 (1.85%) Security Posture
15 82 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
16 67 (1.37%) IoT
16 67 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
17 64 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 636 (13.05%) Windows
2 578 (11.86%) Linux
3 169 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.24%) Android
5 66 (1.35%) Unix
6 46 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 37 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (0.66%) Windows 10
9 29 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 27 (0.55%) CentOS
10 27 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (0.51%) Debian
12 24 (0.49%) Mac OS
13 22 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
14 20 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
15 13 (0.27%) VMS
16 12 (0.25%) AIX
17 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
18 3 (0.062%) Rocky
18 3 (0.062%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,622 (33.28%) Agile
2 1,353 (27.76%) Software Engineering
3 1,271 (26.08%) CI/CD
4 1,251 (25.67%) DevOps
5 1,029 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
6 688 (14.12%) Microservices
7 626 (12.84%) Mentoring
8 547 (11.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 542 (11.12%) Analytics
10 519 (10.65%) Containerisation
11 491 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 489 (10.03%) Roadmaps
13 475 (9.75%) Asset Management
14 467 (9.58%) Artificial Intelligence
15 433 (8.88%) Computer Science
16 406 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 369 (7.57%) Machine Learning
18 353 (7.24%) Mathematics
19 351 (7.20%) Data Engineering
20 337 (6.91%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,756 (36.03%) Python
2 1,118 (22.94%) Java
3 995 (20.41%) JavaScript
4 853 (17.50%) SQL
5 788 (16.17%) TypeScript
6 356 (7.30%) C#
7 263 (5.40%) Go
8 235 (4.82%) PowerShell
9 203 (4.16%) PHP
10 194 (3.98%) Bash
11 111 (2.28%) C++
12 75 (1.54%) Rust
12 75 (1.54%) Scala
13 66 (1.35%) Ruby
14 59 (1.21%) Shell Script
15 54 (1.11%) R
16 36 (0.74%) T-SQL
17 31 (0.64%) C
18 27 (0.55%) Bicep
19 24 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 672 (13.79%) Degree
2 412 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 294 (6.03%) AWS Certification
4 248 (5.09%) SC Cleared
5 241 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (2.91%) Azure Certification
7 127 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
8 122 (2.50%) Master's Degree
9 117 (2.40%) DV Cleared
10 99 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 92 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 82 (1.68%) CISSP
13 65 (1.33%) CCNP
14 57 (1.17%) CCNA
15 56 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
16 48 (0.98%) PhD
17 47 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
18 42 (0.86%) CISM
19 39 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 36 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (4.06%) QA
2 137 (2.81%) GDPR
3 128 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 115 (2.36%) SLA
5 112 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 96 (1.97%) NIST
7 87 (1.78%) Accessibility
8 53 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.72%) HIPAA
10 33 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 30 (0.62%) NCSC
12 21 (0.43%) SOC 2
13 19 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.16%) COBIT
17 7 (0.14%) WCAG
18 6 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 5 (0.10%) GRC
19 5 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,036 (21.26%) Docker
2 217 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 178 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 130 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 37 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 30 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (0.39%) vSphere
8 9 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 8 (0.16%) Firmware
9 8 (0.16%) HDFS
10 7 (0.14%) Postfix
10 7 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.12%) BitLocker
11 6 (0.12%) pfSense
11 6 (0.12%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.082%) XenApp
13 4 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,060 (21.75%) Kubernetes
2 862 (17.69%) Terraform
3 412 (8.45%) Ansible
4 141 (2.89%) Grafana
5 127 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 95 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 74 (1.52%) Puppet
8 64 (1.31%) SCCM
9 56 (1.15%) Progress Chef
10 38 (0.78%) Argo
11 30 (0.62%) Nagios
12 29 (0.59%) Kibana
13 25 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 23 (0.47%) NetBackup
15 19 (0.39%) Istio
15 19 (0.39%) Packer
16 18 (0.37%) vCenter Server
17 17 (0.35%) Kustomize
18 16 (0.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 599 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 373 (7.65%) Google
3 250 (5.13%) VMware
4 174 (3.57%) Cisco
5 165 (3.39%) Oracle
6 140 (2.87%) Databricks
7 96 (1.97%) IBM
8 91 (1.87%) Splunk
9 90 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 75 (1.54%) Red Hat
11 74 (1.52%) Citrix
12 58 (1.19%) SAP
13 57 (1.17%) Fortinet
14 56 (1.15%) Informatica
15 55 (1.13%) SolarWinds
16 50 (1.03%) Salesforce
17 49 (1.01%) Veeam
18 44 (0.90%) Dynatrace
19 30 (0.62%) CheckPoint
19 30 (0.62%) Dell