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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 7,561 7,781 24,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 13.79% 18.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.65% 32.02% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,354 5,953 13,562
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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 23,161 24,303 58,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.41% 43.08% 44.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13,365 19,028 36,874
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +8.91%

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 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Top 17 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 14 November 2024. 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 -1 6,858 £75,000 +3.45% 1,877
UK excluding London -2 3,942 £60,000 - 1,229
London -1 3,434 £90,000 +5.88% 838
Work from Home -2 3,429 £75,150 +7.36% 1,422
North of England -9 1,008 £62,500 +1.63% 376
South East +5 1,001 £60,000 -7.69% 219
North West -7 639 £62,500 +4.17% 227
South West -8 580 £62,500 +5.49% 163
Midlands -11 548 £60,000 +4.35% 162
Scotland -11 348 £65,000 +8.33% 90
West Midlands -14 314 £60,000 +6.19% 101
Yorkshire -12 285 £62,000 -0.80% 104
East of England -12 266 £70,000 +7.69% 103
East Midlands -8 232 £60,000 - 60
Wales +16 138 £50,000 -13.04% 40
North East -12 84 £72,575 +11.65% 48
Northern Ireland +11 75 £65,000 +8.33% 96

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
1 555 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
2 548 (7.25%) Apache
3 126 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 102 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 97 (1.28%) Confluence
6 65 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 54 (0.71%) CMS
8 51 (0.67%) nginx
9 35 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 32 (0.42%) SAS
11 22 (0.29%) IIS
12 20 (0.26%) Drupal
13 18 (0.24%) Moodle
13 18 (0.24%) Tomcat
14 15 (0.20%) CloudStack
15 13 (0.17%) Camunda
16 12 (0.16%) Totara
17 10 (0.13%) WordPress
18 9 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
18 9 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 54 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.34%) Simulink
4 16 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.079%) Adobe Premiere
6 6 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.066%) Trello
8 4 (0.053%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.026%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.026%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.026%) InDesign
10 2 (0.026%) Sketch
11 1 (0.013%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.013%) Elementor
11 1 (0.013%) Notion
11 1 (0.013%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 49 (0.65%) Aladdin
2 45 (0.60%) Ripple
3 42 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 27 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
5 20 (0.26%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 19 (0.25%) Shopify
7 17 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
8 7 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.066%) Magento
10 4 (0.053%) Eagle PACE
10 4 (0.053%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.053%) Markit EDM
10 4 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
11 3 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.026%) Avolution ABACUS
12 2 (0.026%) Endur
12 2 (0.026%) NetSuite
12 2 (0.026%) Oracle Cash Management
12 2 (0.026%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,075 (40.67%) Azure
2 1,885 (24.93%) GCP
3 1,004 (13.28%) Serverless
4 678 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
5 676 (8.94%) Amazon S3
6 613 (8.11%) dbt
7 583 (7.71%) GitHub
8 523 (6.92%) Snowflake
9 513 (6.78%) SaaS
10 385 (5.09%) Amazon SQS
11 381 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
12 348 (4.60%) Cloud Computing
13 335 (4.43%) Amazon Kinesis
14 332 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
15 281 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
16 280 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
17 271 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
18 241 (3.19%) Power Platform
19 176 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
20 150 (1.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 386 (5.11%) Firewall
2 240 (3.17%) Network Security
3 209 (2.76%) Broadband
4 184 (2.43%) DNS
5 149 (1.97%) LAN
5 149 (1.97%) WAN
6 147 (1.94%) VPN
7 145 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 100 (1.32%) DHCP
9 85 (1.12%) VLAN
10 84 (1.11%) Internet
11 83 (1.10%) HTTP
12 73 (0.97%) BGP
13 70 (0.93%) Wireless
14 60 (0.79%) MQTT
15 51 (0.67%) SAN
16 50 (0.66%) OSPF
17 45 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
18 42 (0.56%) MPLS
19 41 (0.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 837 (11.07%) PostgreSQL
2 563 (7.45%) Data Lake
3 488 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
4 476 (6.30%) Dremio
5 464 (6.14%) NoSQL
6 461 (6.10%) DynamoDB
7 423 (5.59%) Apache Ignite
8 422 (5.58%) MySQL
9 411 (5.44%) Apache Arrow
10 391 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
11 386 (5.11%) SQL Server
12 360 (4.76%) Redis
13 283 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
14 268 (3.54%) MongoDB
15 224 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
16 220 (2.91%) Tableau
17 217 (2.87%) Power BI
18 215 (2.84%) Relational Database
19 193 (2.55%) Big Data
20 129 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 652 (8.62%) Git
2 647 (8.56%) Jenkins
3 336 (4.44%) GitLab
4 237 (3.13%) JIRA
5 81 (1.07%) SonarQube
6 77 (1.02%) Maven
7 65 (0.86%) Artifactory
7 65 (0.86%) JUnit
8 61 (0.81%) Mockito
9 53 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 48 (0.63%) CircleCI
11 47 (0.62%) Cypress.io
11 47 (0.62%) Gatling
12 45 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 44 (0.58%) Selenium
14 43 (0.57%) Gradle
15 41 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
15 41 (0.54%) TeamCity
16 39 (0.52%) Vagrant
17 32 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,801 (23.82%) Finance
2 1,653 (21.86%) Social Skills
3 866 (11.45%) Banking
4 713 (9.43%) Front Office
5 657 (8.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 519 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
7 463 (6.12%) Investment Banking
8 394 (5.21%) Public Sector
9 374 (4.95%) Marketing
10 278 (3.68%) Advertising
11 246 (3.25%) Law
12 173 (2.29%) Retail
13 147 (1.94%) Games
14 138 (1.83%) Legal
15 137 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
16 115 (1.52%) Tech for Good
17 100 (1.32%) Manufacturing
18 96 (1.27%) Telecoms
19 93 (1.23%) Financial Institution
20 79 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,643 (21.73%) Senior
2 1,556 (20.58%) Software Engineer
3 1,506 (19.92%) Developer
4 879 (11.63%) Lead
5 791 (10.46%) Architect
6 615 (8.13%) AWS Engineer
7 477 (6.31%) DevOps Engineer
8 468 (6.19%) Python Engineer
9 453 (5.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 402 (5.32%) Analyst
11 361 (4.77%) Senior Developer
12 315 (4.17%) Java Engineer
13 309 (4.09%) Java Developer
14 299 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
15 298 (3.94%) Python Software Engineer
16 293 (3.88%) AWS Software Engineer
17 287 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 283 (3.74%) Data Engineer
19 275 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
20 245 (3.24%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,422 (18.81%) React
2 916 (12.11%) Node.js
3 747 (9.88%) AngularJS
4 680 (8.99%) REST
5 567 (7.50%) .NET
6 493 (6.52%) Pandas
7 491 (6.49%) NumPy
8 465 (6.15%) HTML
9 445 (5.89%) SciPy
10 437 (5.78%) gRPC
11 420 (5.55%) Protocol Buffers
12 417 (5.52%) CSS
13 386 (5.11%) Spring
14 371 (4.91%) RESTful
15 346 (4.58%) Kafka
16 333 (4.40%) Spring Boot
17 275 (3.64%) Tailwind CSS
18 272 (3.60%) GraphQL
19 245 (3.24%) Vue
20 228 (3.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 591 (7.82%) Fixed Income
2 512 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 497 (6.57%) Hedge funds
4 483 (6.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 468 (6.19%) Equities
6 462 (6.11%) Derivative
7 310 (4.10%) Blog
8 302 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 283 (3.74%) Product Ownership
10 255 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
11 244 (3.23%) Digital Media
12 210 (2.78%) Public Cloud
13 206 (2.72%) Management Information System
14 192 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
15 185 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
16 174 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
17 172 (2.27%) Blockchain
18 152 (2.01%) IoT
19 149 (1.97%) Onboarding
20 145 (1.92%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 849 (11.23%) Linux
2 548 (7.25%) Windows
3 251 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 124 (1.64%) Ubuntu
5 122 (1.61%) Android
6 110 (1.45%) Unix
7 106 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 92 (1.22%) CentOS
9 59 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 32 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 30 (0.40%) Windows 10
12 29 (0.38%) Debian
12 29 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
13 26 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
14 24 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
15 18 (0.24%) Solaris
16 14 (0.19%) VMS
17 10 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
17 10 (0.13%) SUSE
18 9 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,946 (38.96%) Agile
2 2,438 (32.24%) Software Engineering
3 1,853 (24.51%) DevOps
4 1,414 (18.70%) CI/CD
5 1,237 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
6 1,075 (14.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 985 (13.03%) Microservices
8 964 (12.75%) Mentoring
9 852 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 836 (11.06%) Asset Management
11 749 (9.91%) Scrum
12 744 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
13 694 (9.18%) Containerisation
14 660 (8.73%) Roadmaps
15 647 (8.56%) Analytics
16 644 (8.52%) User Experience
17 611 (8.08%) Fintech
18 572 (7.57%) TDD
19 560 (7.41%) Computer Science
20 556 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2,711 (35.86%) Python
2 1,802 (23.83%) Java
3 1,671 (22.10%) JavaScript
4 1,365 (18.05%) SQL
5 1,359 (17.97%) TypeScript
6 651 (8.61%) C#
7 343 (4.54%) PowerShell
8 303 (4.01%) Bash
9 290 (3.84%) PHP
10 230 (3.04%) Go
11 222 (2.94%) Kotlin
12 206 (2.72%) C++
13 205 (2.71%) Scala
14 94 (1.24%) C
15 92 (1.22%) R
16 90 (1.19%) Ruby
17 88 (1.16%) Rust
18 70 (0.93%) T-SQL
19 67 (0.89%) Shell Script
20 61 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 828 (10.95%) Degree
2 786 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 515 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 336 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 333 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 181 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 157 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 143 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 141 (1.86%) Master's Degree
10 113 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 98 (1.30%) DBS Check
12 93 (1.23%) CISSP
13 88 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 79 (1.04%) CCNA
15 71 (0.94%) CCNP
16 57 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
17 47 (0.62%) CISM
18 43 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 42 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
20 37 (0.49%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (3.36%) QA
2 250 (3.31%) Data Quality
2 250 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 191 (2.53%) GDPR
4 180 (2.38%) NIST
5 129 (1.71%) HIPAA
6 83 (1.10%) SLA
7 72 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 63 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 43 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 37 (0.49%) NCSC
11 33 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 21 (0.28%) HL7
13 20 (0.26%) ISO 9001
14 18 (0.24%) MiFID
14 18 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.20%) IASME
16 12 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,662 (21.98%) Docker
2 332 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 328 (4.34%) Active Directory
4 172 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 67 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (0.54%) XenApp
7 39 (0.52%) XenDesktop
8 35 (0.46%) vSphere
9 32 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 28 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 24 (0.32%) pfSense
12 23 (0.30%) Firmware
13 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
14 9 (0.12%) NDS
14 9 (0.12%) NetIQ eDirectory
15 8 (0.11%) KVM
15 8 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 7 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
17 6 (0.079%) Embedded Firmware
17 6 (0.079%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,614 (21.35%) Kubernetes
2 1,265 (16.73%) Terraform
3 537 (7.10%) Ansible
4 161 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 145 (1.92%) Puppet
6 129 (1.71%) Grafana
7 96 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 95 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 52 (0.69%) SCCM
10 50 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 42 (0.56%) Argo
12 39 (0.52%) Nagios
13 36 (0.48%) Packer
14 30 (0.40%) Kibana
15 22 (0.29%) Consul
16 19 (0.25%) Istio
16 19 (0.25%) Salt
17 16 (0.21%) ZABBIX
18 15 (0.20%) CASB
19 14 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 864 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 591 (7.82%) Google
3 434 (5.74%) VMware
4 276 (3.65%) Oracle
5 231 (3.06%) Cisco
6 226 (2.99%) Red Hat
7 167 (2.21%) IBM
8 161 (2.13%) Splunk
9 152 (2.01%) Databricks
10 121 (1.60%) Bloomberg
11 107 (1.42%) Citrix
12 95 (1.26%) Salesforce
13 92 (1.22%) ServiceNow
14 75 (0.99%) Dynatrace
15 72 (0.95%) Reuters
16 64 (0.85%) Dell
16 64 (0.85%) Palo Alto
16 64 (0.85%) SAP
17 60 (0.79%) Fortinet
17 60 (0.79%) HP