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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 4,932 11,172 18,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.56% 11.38% 17.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.55% 31.62% 41.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,423 7,524 10,881
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 15,150 35,329 45,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.36% 35.99% 43.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,082 26,785 29,604
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 26 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 26 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 4,544 £75,000 +7.14% 7,087
UK excluding London -13 2,479 £60,000 - 2,780
London 0 2,296 £87,500 +2.94% 4,864
Work from Home -5 2,031 £72,500 +3.57% 3,567
North of England -18 743 £65,000 +3.53% 818
South East +1 568 £60,000 - 656
Midlands -11 411 £60,000 +4.35% 348
North West -38 410 £67,037 +6.78% 566
South West -4 309 £60,000 - 355
West Midlands +2 297 £60,000 - 208
Yorkshire -3 282 £58,750 -2.08% 164
Scotland -22 203 £62,500 +4.17% 273
East of England -5 191 £62,500 +13.64% 213
East Midlands -23 113 £65,000 +18.18% 124
North East -9 51 £65,000 +3.53% 93
Wales -26 39 £50,124 -4.06% 68
Northern Ireland -7 28 £55,000 -8.33% 99
Isle of Man +7 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
1 315 (6.39%) Apache Airflow
2 262 (5.31%) Apache
3 167 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 86 (1.74%) Confluence
5 69 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 57 (1.16%) nginx
7 39 (0.79%) IIS
8 36 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 33 (0.67%) CMS
10 25 (0.51%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.39%) Headless CMS
12 14 (0.28%) OpenStack
13 12 (0.24%) JBoss
13 12 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
13 12 (0.24%) SAS
13 12 (0.24%) WordPress
14 10 (0.20%) Camunda
15 8 (0.16%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 7 (0.14%) Drupal
Applications
1 50 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.45%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.20%) Maya
6 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.041%) Trello
10 1 (0.020%) InDesign
10 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.020%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 26 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.12%) Endur
5 6 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.10%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 5 (0.10%) Shopify
6 5 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.061%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.061%) Magento
8 3 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.061%) Sprinklr
9 2 (0.041%) Cloudability
10 1 (0.020%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.020%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.020%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.020%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2,003 (40.61%) Azure
2 1,164 (23.60%) GCP
3 695 (14.09%) Serverless
4 514 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
5 430 (8.72%) SaaS
6 379 (7.68%) Amazon S3
7 319 (6.47%) dbt
8 307 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
9 287 (5.82%) Amazon ECS
10 281 (5.70%) Snowflake
11 272 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 268 (5.43%) GitHub
13 235 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
14 234 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
15 167 (3.39%) Power Platform
16 152 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
17 151 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
18 115 (2.33%) OpenShift
19 112 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
20 103 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 293 (5.94%) Firewall
2 149 (3.02%) DNS
3 144 (2.92%) VPN
4 131 (2.66%) Network Security
5 122 (2.47%) WAN
6 114 (2.31%) TCP/IP
7 104 (2.11%) DHCP
8 88 (1.78%) LAN
9 71 (1.44%) VLAN
10 70 (1.42%) BGP
11 58 (1.18%) SD-WAN
12 54 (1.09%) OSPF
13 46 (0.93%) MPLS
14 41 (0.83%) Internet
15 39 (0.79%) SSL
16 32 (0.65%) SAN
16 32 (0.65%) Wireless
17 31 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
18 26 (0.53%) HTTP
19 24 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 354 (7.18%) MySQL
3 301 (6.10%) Amazon Athena
4 282 (5.72%) NoSQL
5 265 (5.37%) Dremio
6 261 (5.29%) Apache Iceberg
7 235 (4.76%) Data Lake
8 233 (4.72%) Apache Arrow
9 228 (4.62%) SQL Server
10 209 (4.24%) DynamoDB
11 204 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
12 196 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
12 196 (3.97%) MongoDB
13 174 (3.53%) Apache Ignite
14 151 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 143 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
16 138 (2.80%) Relational Database
17 130 (2.64%) Power BI
18 123 (2.49%) Big Data
19 119 (2.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 430 (8.72%) Git
2 365 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 202 (4.10%) GitLab
4 191 (3.87%) JIRA
5 113 (2.29%) JUnit
6 103 (2.09%) Artifactory
7 79 (1.60%) Mockito
8 56 (1.14%) IntelliJ
8 56 (1.14%) Maven
9 54 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 45 (0.91%) Bitbucket
11 42 (0.85%) Selenium
12 41 (0.83%) Cucumber
12 41 (0.83%) JMeter
13 38 (0.77%) CircleCI
14 34 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
15 31 (0.63%) Jasmine
16 29 (0.59%) Karma Test Runner
16 29 (0.59%) Postman
17 27 (0.55%) Gradle
General
1 1,348 (27.33%) Finance
2 1,338 (27.13%) Social Skills
3 554 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
4 513 (10.40%) Banking
5 398 (8.07%) Front Office
6 288 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 265 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
8 211 (4.28%) Public Sector
9 191 (3.87%) Law
10 159 (3.22%) Marketing
11 139 (2.82%) Retail
12 129 (2.62%) Investment Banking
13 125 (2.53%) Manufacturing
14 124 (2.51%) Games
15 99 (2.01%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
17 74 (1.50%) Advertising
18 71 (1.44%) Telecoms
19 58 (1.18%) Legal
20 55 (1.12%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 997 (20.21%) Senior
2 966 (19.59%) Developer
3 727 (14.74%) Software Engineer
4 595 (12.06%) Lead
5 507 (10.28%) AWS Engineer
6 410 (8.31%) Architect
7 325 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 301 (6.10%) Data Engineer
9 296 (6.00%) Python Engineer
10 286 (5.80%) IT Support
11 244 (4.95%) Senior Developer
12 212 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 205 (4.16%) Java Engineer
14 203 (4.12%) AWS Software Engineer
15 197 (3.99%) Java Developer
16 195 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
17 192 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
18 184 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
19 166 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 164 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 915 (18.55%) React
2 627 (12.71%) Node.js
3 403 (8.17%) AngularJS
4 393 (7.97%) Kafka
5 381 (7.73%) .NET
6 337 (6.83%) REST
7 283 (5.74%) Spring
8 277 (5.62%) Spring Boot
9 275 (5.58%) HTML
10 274 (5.56%) RESTful
11 258 (5.23%) CSS
12 234 (4.74%) Pandas
13 214 (4.34%) PySpark
14 196 (3.97%) Vue
15 190 (3.85%) NumPy
16 160 (3.24%) SciPy
17 147 (2.98%) GraphQL
18 141 (2.86%) Laravel
19 119 (2.41%) Web Services
20 117 (2.37%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 297 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
2 280 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 247 (5.01%) Fixed Income
4 217 (4.40%) Management Information System
5 166 (3.37%) Equities
6 162 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 162 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 162 (3.28%) Public Cloud
7 156 (3.16%) Mobile App
8 142 (2.88%) Product Ownership
9 139 (2.82%) Hedge funds
10 124 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
11 121 (2.45%) Algorithms
12 108 (2.19%) Derivative
12 108 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
13 92 (1.87%) Security Posture
14 80 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.38%) IoT
16 65 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
17 63 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 634 (12.85%) Windows
2 577 (11.70%) Linux
3 167 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.21%) Android
5 68 (1.38%) Unix
6 45 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 35 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 34 (0.69%) Windows 10
9 31 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 29 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 28 (0.57%) CentOS
12 24 (0.49%) Debian
12 24 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
13 23 (0.47%) Mac OS
14 22 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
15 13 (0.26%) AIX
15 13 (0.26%) VMS
16 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.061%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.061%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,663 (33.72%) Agile
2 1,401 (28.41%) Software Engineering
3 1,272 (25.79%) CI/CD
4 1,255 (25.45%) DevOps
5 1,034 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
6 692 (14.03%) Microservices
7 631 (12.79%) Mentoring
8 586 (11.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 543 (11.01%) Analytics
10 518 (10.50%) Containerisation
11 494 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 492 (9.98%) Roadmaps
13 480 (9.73%) Asset Management
14 466 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence
15 436 (8.84%) Computer Science
16 408 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 369 (7.48%) Machine Learning
18 357 (7.24%) Data Engineering
19 352 (7.14%) Mathematics
20 349 (7.08%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,768 (35.85%) Python
2 1,122 (22.75%) Java
3 1,001 (20.30%) JavaScript
4 853 (17.30%) SQL
5 830 (16.83%) TypeScript
6 361 (7.32%) C#
7 263 (5.33%) Go
8 238 (4.83%) PowerShell
9 203 (4.12%) PHP
10 196 (3.97%) Bash
11 109 (2.21%) C++
12 76 (1.54%) Rust
13 75 (1.52%) Scala
14 66 (1.34%) Ruby
15 60 (1.22%) Shell Script
16 54 (1.09%) R
17 36 (0.73%) T-SQL
18 32 (0.65%) C
19 27 (0.55%) Bicep
20 26 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 674 (13.67%) Degree
2 410 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 295 (5.98%) AWS Certification
4 247 (5.01%) SC Cleared
5 244 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 126 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
8 123 (2.49%) Master's Degree
9 116 (2.35%) DV Cleared
10 96 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 93 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 81 (1.64%) CISSP
13 63 (1.28%) CCNP
14 57 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 55 (1.12%) CCNA
16 47 (0.95%) PhD
17 46 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
18 42 (0.85%) CISM
19 41 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 36 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (3.99%) QA
2 138 (2.80%) GDPR
3 129 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 115 (2.33%) SLA
5 110 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 96 (1.95%) NIST
7 87 (1.76%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.71%) HIPAA
10 33 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 31 (0.63%) NCSC
12 21 (0.43%) SOC 2
13 20 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.16%) COBIT
15 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.14%) WCAG
17 6 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 5 (0.10%) HL7
18 5 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,076 (21.82%) Docker
2 218 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 177 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 123 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 37 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.34%) vSphere
8 9 (0.18%) HDFS
8 9 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 8 (0.16%) Firmware
10 7 (0.14%) Postfix
10 7 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.12%) pfSense
12 5 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 5 (0.10%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.10%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.10%) XenApp
13 4 (0.081%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,092 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 871 (17.66%) Terraform
3 413 (8.37%) Ansible
4 142 (2.88%) Grafana
5 127 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 93 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 73 (1.48%) Puppet
8 63 (1.28%) SCCM
9 57 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 39 (0.79%) Argo
11 29 (0.59%) Kibana
11 29 (0.59%) Nagios
12 25 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
13 24 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 23 (0.47%) NetBackup
15 19 (0.39%) Istio
15 19 (0.39%) Packer
16 17 (0.34%) Kustomize
17 16 (0.32%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 599 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 375 (7.60%) Google
3 251 (5.09%) VMware
4 173 (3.51%) Cisco
5 165 (3.35%) Oracle
6 144 (2.92%) Databricks
7 96 (1.95%) IBM
8 90 (1.82%) Splunk
9 88 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 76 (1.54%) Citrix
11 75 (1.52%) Red Hat
12 57 (1.16%) SAP
13 56 (1.14%) Fortinet
13 56 (1.14%) Informatica
14 55 (1.12%) SolarWinds
15 50 (1.01%) Salesforce
16 48 (0.97%) Veeam
17 45 (0.91%) Dynatrace
18 30 (0.61%) CheckPoint
18 30 (0.61%) Dell