Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 11 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 7,335 21,841 26,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.75% 17.43% 20.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.24% 40.61% 44.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,638 13,297 17,575
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,754 53,785 60,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.64% 42.91% 46.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,950 35,940 42,584
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,664 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 -4 6,437 £72,500 -3.33% 3,161
Work from Home 0 3,705 £70,000 -3.45% 1,874
UK excluding London -4 3,648 £60,000 -4.00% 1,871
London -2 3,142 £85,000 +3.03% 1,611
North of England -2 1,019 £61,000 -4.69% 541
South West +6 770 £60,000 - 272
South East -6 672 £65,000 - 528
North West 0 569 £60,000 -7.69% 320
Midlands -2 481 £57,500 -4.17% 221
Yorkshire -5 395 £63,750 +3.24% 160
Scotland -1 364 £60,000 - 104
West Midlands -3 288 £57,000 -5.00% 124
East Midlands -6 195 £60,000 - 97
East of England -9 174 £65,000 +8.33% 124
Wales -5 119 £57,500 +3.69% 69
Northern Ireland -1 77 £60,250 +12.62% 35
North East -3 55 £62,500 -10.71% 66
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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
1 213 (2.90%) Apache
2 204 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 196 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 141 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 121 (1.65%) Confluence
6 79 (1.08%) MS Exchange
7 69 (0.94%) IIS
8 48 (0.65%) CMS
9 43 (0.59%) nginx
10 26 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 25 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 22 (0.30%) Drupal
13 19 (0.26%) WordPress
14 17 (0.23%) JBoss
15 12 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
15 12 (0.16%) WebSphere
16 10 (0.14%) Luigi
17 9 (0.12%) Apache Solr
18 8 (0.11%) Jupyter
18 8 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 79 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.095%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.095%) PTC Creo
6 7 (0.095%) SOLIDWORKS
6 7 (0.095%) Trello
7 6 (0.082%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.055%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.041%) 3ds Max
9 3 (0.041%) Blender
9 3 (0.041%) Maya
10 2 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.027%) Sketch
10 2 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.027%) UXPin
10 2 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
1 12 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.095%) Magento
3 7 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.082%) Exstream
4 6 (0.082%) SAP Business One
4 6 (0.082%) Shopify
5 5 (0.068%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.068%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 3 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.027%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.027%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.027%) ScheduALL
9 1 (0.014%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3,603 (49.12%) Azure
2 1,896 (25.85%) GCP
3 818 (11.15%) Serverless
4 568 (7.74%) SaaS
5 455 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
6 427 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
7 418 (5.70%) GitHub
8 362 (4.94%) OpenShift
9 355 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 340 (4.64%) Amazon S3
11 322 (4.39%) PaaS
12 293 (3.99%) IaaS
13 287 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
14 276 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
15 275 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
16 196 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
17 186 (2.54%) Entra ID
18 184 (2.51%) Power Platform
19 163 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
20 132 (1.80%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 374 (5.10%) DNS
2 332 (4.53%) Firewall
3 286 (3.90%) DHCP
4 285 (3.89%) TCP/IP
5 207 (2.82%) WAN
6 203 (2.77%) VPN
7 181 (2.47%) HTTP
8 161 (2.19%) LAN
9 129 (1.76%) Network Security
10 98 (1.34%) Internet
11 93 (1.27%) SAN
12 82 (1.12%) VLAN
13 77 (1.05%) Wireless
14 62 (0.85%) SD-WAN
15 57 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 56 (0.76%) BGP
17 50 (0.68%) OSPF
18 47 (0.64%) SMTP
19 44 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
20 43 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 528 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 467 (6.37%) NoSQL
3 395 (5.39%) MySQL
4 370 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
5 329 (4.49%) MongoDB
6 324 (4.42%) SQL Server
7 307 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
8 282 (3.84%) Big Data
9 262 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
10 222 (3.03%) Data Lake
11 201 (2.74%) Relational Database
12 187 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 179 (2.44%) Hadoop
14 178 (2.43%) DynamoDB
15 162 (2.21%) Power BI
16 133 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
16 133 (1.81%) Redis
17 121 (1.65%) Tableau
18 107 (1.46%) Oracle Database
19 106 (1.45%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 687 (9.37%) Jenkins
2 591 (8.06%) Git
3 305 (4.16%) JIRA
4 285 (3.89%) GitLab
5 159 (2.17%) Maven
6 141 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 117 (1.60%) Artifactory
8 111 (1.51%) Bitbucket
9 109 (1.49%) Cypress.io
10 104 (1.42%) Selenium
11 95 (1.30%) Gradle
12 85 (1.16%) JUnit
13 77 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 75 (1.02%) CircleCI
15 67 (0.91%) IntelliJ
16 65 (0.89%) TeamCity
17 63 (0.86%) SonarQube
18 41 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
19 40 (0.55%) Mockito
20 36 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 1,700 (23.18%) Finance
2 1,414 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 531 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
4 493 (6.72%) Banking
5 471 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 372 (5.07%) Front Office
7 304 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 280 (3.82%) Retail
9 227 (3.09%) Marketing
10 187 (2.55%) Telecoms
11 161 (2.19%) Law
12 155 (2.11%) Investment Banking
13 138 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
14 117 (1.60%) Aerospace
15 89 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 86 (1.17%) Legal
17 80 (1.09%) Games
18 74 (1.01%) Tech for Good
19 64 (0.87%) Manufacturing
20 54 (0.74%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,806 (24.62%) Developer
2 1,675 (22.84%) Senior
3 954 (13.01%) Software Engineer
4 871 (11.87%) Architect
5 765 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 731 (9.97%) Lead
7 498 (6.79%) Java Developer
8 497 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
9 496 (6.76%) Senior Developer
10 429 (5.85%) Data Engineer
10 429 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
11 376 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 323 (4.40%) Full Stack Developer
13 320 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
14 276 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
15 264 (3.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 247 (3.37%) .NET Developer
17 244 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
18 234 (3.19%) Python Engineer
19 224 (3.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,057 (14.41%) React
2 716 (9.76%) .NET
3 599 (8.17%) Node.js
4 520 (7.09%) AngularJS
5 488 (6.65%) Spring
6 470 (6.41%) Kafka
7 416 (5.67%) Spring Boot
8 412 (5.62%) HTML
9 338 (4.61%) CSS
10 331 (4.51%) REST
11 299 (4.08%) RESTful
12 256 (3.49%) Vue
13 226 (3.08%) Redux
14 207 (2.82%) .NET Core
15 185 (2.52%) ASP.NET
16 172 (2.34%) JSON
17 151 (2.06%) GraphQL
18 146 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
19 144 (1.96%) Web Services
20 131 (1.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 476 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 411 (5.60%) Public Cloud
3 268 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 248 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 226 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 215 (2.93%) Fixed Income
7 212 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 181 (2.47%) Derivative
8 181 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
9 165 (2.25%) Hedge funds
10 156 (2.13%) Data Structures
11 143 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 142 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
13 133 (1.81%) Algorithms
14 130 (1.77%) Management Information System
15 129 (1.76%) Equities
16 123 (1.68%) Private Cloud
17 113 (1.54%) Onboarding
18 108 (1.47%) Cyberattack
19 107 (1.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,178 (16.06%) Linux
2 772 (10.52%) Windows
3 385 (5.25%) Windows Server
4 251 (3.42%) Unix
5 162 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 92 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 82 (1.12%) Ubuntu
8 80 (1.09%) Android
9 68 (0.93%) Windows 10
10 59 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 59 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
11 53 (0.72%) CentOS
12 49 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
13 46 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
14 33 (0.45%) Debian
15 21 (0.29%) Mac OS X
15 21 (0.29%) Solaris
16 13 (0.18%) CoreOS
17 12 (0.16%) HPUX
17 12 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,730 (37.22%) Agile
2 2,287 (31.18%) DevOps
3 1,812 (24.70%) CI/CD
4 1,608 (21.92%) Software Engineering
5 1,155 (15.75%) Microservices
6 989 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
7 913 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 720 (9.82%) Full Stack Development
9 713 (9.72%) Mentoring
10 687 (9.37%) Analytics
11 685 (9.34%) Containerisation
12 646 (8.81%) Computer Science
13 612 (8.34%) Actionable Insight
14 589 (8.03%) Scrum
15 559 (7.62%) Roadmaps
16 536 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
17 524 (7.14%) TDD
18 519 (7.08%) Migration
19 496 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence
20 488 (6.65%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 2,495 (34.01%) Python
2 2,015 (27.47%) Java
3 1,514 (20.64%) SQL
4 1,291 (17.60%) JavaScript
5 786 (10.72%) TypeScript
6 767 (10.46%) C#
7 620 (8.45%) PowerShell
8 614 (8.37%) Bash
9 325 (4.43%) Go
10 263 (3.59%) PHP
11 220 (3.00%) C++
12 214 (2.92%) Kotlin
13 181 (2.47%) Ruby
14 150 (2.04%) Scala
15 112 (1.53%) Perl
16 109 (1.49%) PL/SQL
17 92 (1.25%) Shell Script
18 74 (1.01%) R
19 70 (0.95%) Rust
20 64 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,009 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 958 (13.06%) Degree
3 577 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 441 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 378 (5.15%) AWS Certification
6 322 (4.39%) DV Cleared
7 190 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 177 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 136 (1.85%) Azure Certification
10 132 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 131 (1.79%) CISSP
12 124 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 100 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 68 (0.93%) CCNP
15 62 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
16 60 (0.82%) CCNA
17 42 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 42 (0.57%) PhD
18 41 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 40 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (4.98%) QA
2 134 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 112 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (0.97%) NIST
5 63 (0.86%) SLA
6 56 (0.76%) NCSC
7 49 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 45 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 43 (0.59%) GDPR
10 42 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.12%) PMO
14 8 (0.11%) COBIT
15 6 (0.082%) IASME
16 5 (0.068%) WCAG
17 4 (0.055%) GRC
17 4 (0.055%) Software Quality Assurance
18 3 (0.041%) NIST 800
18 3 (0.041%) PSD2
System Software
1 1,709 (23.30%) Docker
2 495 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 384 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 237 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 52 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 52 (0.71%) vSphere
6 49 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 46 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 25 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 23 (0.31%) Firmware
10 18 (0.25%) XenApp
11 17 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
12 12 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
13 10 (0.14%) DFS Replication
13 10 (0.14%) KVM
14 9 (0.12%) HDFS
15 8 (0.11%) Terminal Services
16 6 (0.082%) Varnish
16 6 (0.082%) XenDesktop
17 5 (0.068%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1,670 (22.77%) Kubernetes
2 1,446 (19.71%) Terraform
3 841 (11.47%) Ansible
4 280 (3.82%) Puppet
5 157 (2.14%) Grafana
6 122 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 111 (1.51%) SCCM
8 106 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 103 (1.40%) Prometheus
10 55 (0.75%) Packer
11 50 (0.68%) Argo
12 48 (0.65%) Kibana
13 46 (0.63%) Rancher
14 43 (0.59%) vCenter Server
15 38 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
16 36 (0.49%) Istio
17 33 (0.45%) Nagios
18 30 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 22 (0.30%) FortiGate
20 20 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 963 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 539 (7.35%) VMware
3 519 (7.08%) Google
4 345 (4.70%) Oracle
5 219 (2.99%) Cisco
6 185 (2.52%) Red Hat
7 158 (2.15%) Splunk
8 136 (1.85%) Databricks
9 116 (1.58%) Citrix
10 98 (1.34%) SAP
11 93 (1.27%) IBM
12 83 (1.13%) Palo Alto
13 75 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 74 (1.01%) Veeam
15 61 (0.83%) Atlassian
16 43 (0.59%) CheckPoint
16 43 (0.59%) HP
17 42 (0.57%) ServiceNow
18 41 (0.56%) Informatica
18 41 (0.56%) SolarWinds