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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 9,688 12,497 39,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.72% 15.49% 22.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.83% 36.76% 46.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,278 8,815 16,183
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £56,219 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%

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 29,506 33,998 84,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.65% 42.13% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 21,274 25,227 42,049
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Top 19 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 July 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 -5 7,966 £72,500 -3.33% 880
UK excluding London -2 5,678 £60,000 -4.00% 717
Work from Home -2 4,282 £75,000 - 647
London -1 3,617 £90,000 +5.88% 359
North of England -6 1,455 £62,783 +0.45% 169
Scotland +7 1,130 £60,000 -5.88% 65
South East -13 1,005 £60,000 -11.11% 147
North West -5 918 £65,000 - 116
South West -7 768 £60,000 - 94
Midlands -12 749 £60,000 - 96
Yorkshire -8 443 £60,000 -2.44% 43
East Midlands -6 375 £57,500 -2.54% 37
West Midlands -18 371 £62,500 - 59
East of England -2 281 £57,500 -11.54% 62
Wales +10 169 £50,000 -2.16% 12
Northern Ireland +12 121 £60,000 +14.29% 99
North East -7 94 £65,465 +4.74% 11
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 -
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -

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
1 897 (9.26%) Apache
2 894 (9.23%) Apache Airflow
3 441 (4.55%) Apache Spark
4 215 (2.22%) ArcGIS
4 215 (2.22%) GeoServer
5 145 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 91 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 88 (0.91%) Confluence
8 58 (0.60%) CMS
9 56 (0.58%) nginx
10 52 (0.54%) WebLogic
11 38 (0.39%) OpenStack
12 35 (0.36%) IIS
13 30 (0.31%) SAS
13 30 (0.31%) Tuxedo
14 26 (0.27%) Drupal
15 24 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
16 18 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
16 18 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
17 16 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 66 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (0.38%) Simulink
4 20 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 16 (0.17%) Trello
6 11 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.072%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.041%) OrCAD
9 4 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.031%) Sketch
10 3 (0.031%) S-PLUS
11 2 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.010%) 1Password
12 1 (0.010%) Elementor
12 1 (0.010%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.010%) Revit
12 1 (0.010%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 65 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 45 (0.46%) Ripple
3 39 (0.40%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.10%) Shopify
7 8 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 8 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (0.062%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.062%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.062%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.052%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.052%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.052%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.041%) Eagle PACE
10 4 (0.041%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 4,188 (43.23%) Azure
2 2,181 (22.51%) GCP
3 792 (8.18%) Serverless
4 740 (7.64%) dbt
5 708 (7.31%) SaaS
6 650 (6.71%) Snowflake
7 514 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
8 487 (5.03%) Amazon S3
9 454 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
10 436 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
11 412 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
12 410 (4.23%) GitHub
13 311 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
14 298 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
15 294 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 271 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
17 236 (2.44%) Power Platform
18 213 (2.20%) PaaS
19 206 (2.13%) IaaS
20 194 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 421 (4.35%) Firewall
2 303 (3.13%) DNS
3 227 (2.34%) WAN
4 193 (1.99%) Network Security
5 175 (1.81%) LAN
6 170 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 165 (1.70%) VPN
8 135 (1.39%) DHCP
9 116 (1.20%) HTTP
10 105 (1.08%) BGP
11 91 (0.94%) SD-WAN
11 91 (0.94%) Wireless
12 84 (0.87%) SSL
13 80 (0.83%) VLAN
14 79 (0.82%) SAN
15 65 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
16 63 (0.65%) Internet
17 57 (0.59%) VoIP
18 49 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
19 48 (0.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 913 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
2 766 (7.91%) Data Lake
3 704 (7.27%) NoSQL
4 652 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
5 640 (6.61%) Apache Ignite
6 634 (6.54%) Dremio
7 606 (6.26%) Apache Arrow
8 515 (5.32%) SQL Server
9 511 (5.27%) MySQL
10 506 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
11 494 (5.10%) Big Data
12 468 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
13 384 (3.96%) Relational Database
14 381 (3.93%) MongoDB
15 338 (3.49%) Tableau
16 293 (3.02%) DynamoDB
17 245 (2.53%) Hadoop
18 235 (2.43%) GIS
19 220 (2.27%) Power BI
20 214 (2.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 906 (9.35%) Git
2 455 (4.70%) Jenkins
3 355 (3.66%) GitLab
4 307 (3.17%) JIRA
5 177 (1.83%) Cypress.io
6 141 (1.46%) Selenium
7 137 (1.41%) JUnit
8 80 (0.83%) Jasmine
9 79 (0.82%) TeamCity
10 74 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 70 (0.72%) SonarQube
12 63 (0.65%) WebDriver
13 62 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
14 61 (0.63%) Bitbucket Server
14 61 (0.63%) CircleCI
15 60 (0.62%) Protractor
16 56 (0.58%) Postman
17 54 (0.56%) Artifactory
18 48 (0.50%) Maven
19 44 (0.45%) Gatling
General
1 2,864 (29.56%) Finance
2 1,989 (20.53%) Social Skills
3 1,218 (12.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,199 (12.38%) Banking
5 943 (9.73%) Law
6 905 (9.34%) Front Office
7 784 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
8 720 (7.43%) Investment Banking
9 458 (4.73%) Marketing
10 445 (4.59%) Public Sector
11 413 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
12 402 (4.15%) Legal
13 359 (3.71%) Retail
14 169 (1.74%) Financial Institution
15 152 (1.57%) Tech for Good
16 147 (1.52%) Aerospace
17 126 (1.30%) Games
18 120 (1.24%) Billing
19 103 (1.06%) Retail Banking
20 96 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,300 (23.74%) Software Engineer
2 2,259 (23.32%) Senior
3 2,100 (21.68%) Developer
4 1,418 (14.64%) Lead
5 1,276 (13.17%) Architect
6 910 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
7 652 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
8 649 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 632 (6.52%) Python Engineer
10 541 (5.58%) Java Engineer
11 527 (5.44%) Senior Developer
12 519 (5.36%) Python Software Engineer
13 480 (4.95%) AWS Software Engineer
13 480 (4.95%) Java Software Engineer
14 451 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
15 450 (4.64%) Data Engineer
16 438 (4.52%) Analyst
17 389 (4.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 389 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
18 379 (3.91%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,677 (17.31%) React
2 1,059 (10.93%) .NET
3 927 (9.57%) Node.js
4 772 (7.97%) gRPC
5 728 (7.51%) CSS
6 707 (7.30%) Protocol Buffers
7 675 (6.97%) AngularJS
8 651 (6.72%) Spring
9 606 (6.26%) Pandas
10 579 (5.98%) NumPy
11 559 (5.77%) Kafka
12 539 (5.56%) SciPy
13 537 (5.54%) .NET Core
14 526 (5.43%) HTML
15 518 (5.35%) Spring Boot
16 459 (4.74%) RESTful
17 434 (4.48%) REST
18 399 (4.12%) Vue
19 296 (3.06%) Web Services
20 295 (3.05%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 856 (8.84%) Hedge funds
2 835 (8.62%) Fixed Income
3 724 (7.47%) Equities
4 684 (7.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 674 (6.96%) Cloud Native
6 663 (6.84%) Derivative
7 569 (5.87%) Public Cloud
8 411 (4.24%) Algorithms
9 375 (3.87%) Product Ownership
10 319 (3.29%) Management Information System
11 261 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
12 259 (2.67%) Onboarding
13 241 (2.49%) Data Centre
13 241 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
14 240 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
15 237 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
16 193 (1.99%) Data Structures
17 190 (1.96%) Blockchain
18 160 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
18 160 (1.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,062 (10.96%) Linux
2 663 (6.84%) Windows
3 307 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 220 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 216 (2.23%) Unix
6 113 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 112 (1.16%) Android
8 94 (0.97%) CentOS
9 79 (0.82%) Apple iOS
10 47 (0.49%) Debian
11 44 (0.45%) Mac OS
12 42 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
13 39 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
14 32 (0.33%) Windows 10
15 26 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
16 24 (0.25%) Solaris
17 17 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.17%) VMS
19 11 (0.11%) Kali Linux
20 9 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,357 (44.97%) Agile
2 3,390 (34.99%) Software Engineering
3 2,561 (26.43%) DevOps
4 2,208 (22.79%) CI/CD
5 1,680 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
6 1,210 (12.49%) Microservices
7 1,206 (12.45%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,183 (12.21%) Mentoring
9 1,165 (12.03%) SDLC
10 1,157 (11.94%) Full Stack Development
11 1,125 (11.61%) Asset Management
12 976 (10.07%) Machine Learning
13 940 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 890 (9.19%) Analytics
15 836 (8.63%) TDD
16 784 (8.09%) Containerisation
17 778 (8.03%) Computer Science
18 773 (7.98%) Investment Management
19 752 (7.76%) Scrum
20 732 (7.56%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 3,464 (35.76%) Python
2 2,762 (28.51%) Java
3 2,346 (24.22%) JavaScript
4 1,914 (19.76%) SQL
5 1,614 (16.66%) TypeScript
6 1,061 (10.95%) C#
7 430 (4.44%) PHP
8 373 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 367 (3.79%) Scala
10 316 (3.26%) Kotlin
11 292 (3.01%) Bash
12 289 (2.98%) Go
13 152 (1.57%) C++
14 121 (1.25%) Ruby
15 110 (1.14%) R
16 107 (1.10%) PL/SQL
17 94 (0.97%) T-SQL
18 87 (0.90%) Rust
19 74 (0.76%) C
20 64 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,128 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 1,046 (10.80%) Degree
3 812 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 470 (4.85%) AWS Certification
5 443 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 265 (2.74%) Azure Certification
7 223 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 204 (2.11%) DBS Check
9 187 (1.93%) Master's Degree
10 183 (1.89%) CISSP
11 176 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
12 134 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 111 (1.15%) CISM
13 111 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 101 (1.04%) CCNA
15 63 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
16 58 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 56 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 56 (0.58%) CCNP
18 52 (0.54%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 402 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 371 (3.83%) QA
3 202 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 168 (1.73%) GDPR
5 150 (1.55%) NIST
6 90 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 90 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 76 (0.78%) SLA
8 69 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 35 (0.36%) NCSC
10 31 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 25 (0.26%) SOC 2
12 24 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 16 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 15 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 14 (0.14%) IFRS
15 14 (0.14%) WCAG
16 13 (0.13%) MiFID
17 12 (0.12%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,429 (14.75%) Docker
2 391 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 300 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 173 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 85 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 70 (0.72%) HDFS
7 39 (0.40%) XenApp
8 38 (0.39%) vSphere
9 36 (0.37%) XenDesktop
10 31 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 28 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
12 25 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
13 22 (0.23%) VMware NSX
14 21 (0.22%) Firmware
15 16 (0.17%) KVM
16 11 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
17 7 (0.072%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.052%) Xen
19 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 4 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,683 (17.37%) Kubernetes
2 1,652 (17.05%) Terraform
3 657 (6.78%) Ansible
4 274 (2.83%) Prometheus
5 222 (2.29%) Grafana
6 209 (2.16%) Puppet
7 107 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 103 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 89 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 60 (0.62%) SCCM
11 33 (0.34%) Istio
12 31 (0.32%) vCenter Server
13 29 (0.30%) Nagios
14 28 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
15 26 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 26 (0.27%) Kibana
16 24 (0.25%) ZABBIX
17 22 (0.23%) Salt
18 21 (0.22%) Argo
19 20 (0.21%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,008 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 879 (9.07%) Google
3 448 (4.62%) Oracle
4 425 (4.39%) VMware
5 413 (4.26%) Databricks
6 292 (3.01%) Red Hat
7 261 (2.69%) Cisco
8 215 (2.22%) ESRI
9 211 (2.18%) Dynatrace
10 201 (2.07%) Splunk
11 155 (1.60%) IBM
12 128 (1.32%) Bloomberg
13 101 (1.04%) Citrix
14 98 (1.01%) Informatica
15 89 (0.92%) Salesforce
16 86 (0.89%) ServiceNow
17 75 (0.77%) Reuters
18 69 (0.71%) Palo Alto
19 65 (0.67%) Sparx
20 62 (0.64%) Dell