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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 4,875 11,249 18,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.37% 11.42% 17.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.34% 31.78% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,410 7,552 10,759
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 £113,750 £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 15,072 35,400 44,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.96% 35.94% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,031 26,787 29,292
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,670 £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 £83,738 £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 1 May 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 1 May 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 4,487 £75,000 +7.14% 5,372
UK excluding London -15 2,451 £60,000 - 3,050
London -1 2,266 £87,500 +2.94% 3,079
Work from Home -5 1,980 £72,500 +3.57% 3,054
North of England -20 747 £65,000 +3.53% 882
South East -4 548 £60,000 - 1,005
North West -40 410 £67,037 +6.78% 600
Midlands -12 408 £60,000 +4.35% 369
South West -4 310 £60,000 - 339
West Midlands 0 295 £60,000 - 191
Yorkshire -3 284 £60,000 - 198
Scotland -21 201 £60,000 - 176
East of England -20 183 £62,500 +13.64% 257
East Midlands -33 112 £65,000 +18.18% 143
North East -10 53 £65,000 +3.53% 91
Wales -23 39 £50,124 +0.25% 68
Northern Ireland -7 28 £55,000 -8.33% 57
Isle of Man +8 1 £34,500 -25.81% 3

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 (6.46%) Apache Airflow
2 260 (5.33%) Apache
3 166 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 87 (1.78%) Confluence
5 70 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 56 (1.15%) nginx
7 41 (0.84%) IIS
8 36 (0.74%) SharePoint
9 31 (0.64%) CMS
10 25 (0.51%) Tomcat
11 20 (0.41%) Headless CMS
12 14 (0.29%) OpenStack
13 13 (0.27%) WordPress
14 12 (0.25%) JBoss
14 12 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
14 12 (0.25%) SAS
15 10 (0.21%) Camunda
16 8 (0.16%) Jupyter
16 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 6 (0.12%) 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 23 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.16%) SAP IBP
4 7 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.12%) Endur
6 5 (0.10%) Shopify
6 5 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.082%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 4 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.062%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.062%) Magento
8 3 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.062%) Sprinklr
9 2 (0.041%) Cloudability
10 1 (0.021%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.021%) Eloqua
10 1 (0.021%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.021%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1,994 (40.90%) Azure
2 1,158 (23.75%) GCP
3 664 (13.62%) Serverless
4 485 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
5 423 (8.68%) SaaS
6 342 (7.02%) Amazon S3
7 320 (6.56%) dbt
8 309 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
9 287 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
10 282 (5.78%) Snowflake
11 270 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 233 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
13 231 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
14 226 (4.64%) GitHub
15 162 (3.32%) Power Platform
16 150 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
17 117 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
17 117 (2.40%) OpenShift
18 109 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
19 103 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 291 (5.97%) Firewall
2 152 (3.12%) DNS
3 143 (2.93%) VPN
4 130 (2.67%) Network Security
5 122 (2.50%) WAN
6 115 (2.36%) TCP/IP
7 108 (2.22%) DHCP
8 88 (1.81%) LAN
9 72 (1.48%) VLAN
10 69 (1.42%) BGP
11 57 (1.17%) SD-WAN
12 53 (1.09%) OSPF
13 44 (0.90%) MPLS
14 39 (0.80%) Internet
14 39 (0.80%) SSL
15 35 (0.72%) SAN
16 32 (0.66%) Wireless
17 30 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
18 27 (0.55%) HTTP
19 24 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
2 352 (7.22%) MySQL
3 301 (6.17%) Amazon Athena
4 282 (5.78%) NoSQL
5 265 (5.44%) Dremio
6 261 (5.35%) Apache Iceberg
7 235 (4.82%) Apache Arrow
8 233 (4.78%) Data Lake
9 225 (4.62%) SQL Server
10 205 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
11 196 (4.02%) MongoDB
12 193 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
13 173 (3.55%) Apache Ignite
13 173 (3.55%) DynamoDB
14 152 (3.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 147 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
16 136 (2.79%) Relational Database
17 128 (2.63%) Power BI
18 122 (2.50%) Big Data
19 118 (2.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 426 (8.74%) Git
2 323 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 201 (4.12%) GitLab
4 191 (3.92%) JIRA
5 112 (2.30%) JUnit
6 101 (2.07%) Artifactory
7 78 (1.60%) Mockito
8 57 (1.17%) IntelliJ
9 56 (1.15%) Maven
10 53 (1.09%) SonarQube
11 45 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 42 (0.86%) Selenium
13 41 (0.84%) JMeter
14 40 (0.82%) Cucumber
15 37 (0.76%) CircleCI
16 34 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
17 32 (0.66%) Jasmine
18 29 (0.59%) Karma Test Runner
19 28 (0.57%) Postman
20 27 (0.55%) Eclipse
General
1 1,336 (27.41%) Finance
2 1,333 (27.34%) Social Skills
3 549 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 503 (10.32%) Banking
5 394 (8.08%) Front Office
6 261 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
7 249 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 211 (4.33%) Public Sector
9 189 (3.88%) Law
10 140 (2.87%) Retail
11 128 (2.63%) Investment Banking
12 127 (2.61%) Games
12 127 (2.61%) Manufacturing
13 124 (2.54%) Marketing
14 101 (2.07%) Financial Institution
15 82 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
16 74 (1.52%) Telecoms
17 57 (1.17%) Electronics
17 57 (1.17%) Legal
18 48 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 995 (20.41%) Senior
2 960 (19.69%) Developer
3 691 (14.17%) Software Engineer
4 594 (12.18%) Lead
5 504 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
6 410 (8.41%) Architect
7 323 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 301 (6.17%) Data Engineer
9 293 (6.01%) Python Engineer
10 287 (5.89%) IT Support
11 246 (5.05%) Senior Developer
12 210 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 208 (4.27%) Java Engineer
14 204 (4.18%) AWS Software Engineer
15 196 (4.02%) Java Developer
16 192 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
16 192 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
17 184 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
18 166 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 164 (3.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 874 (17.93%) React
2 584 (11.98%) Node.js
3 386 (7.92%) Kafka
4 372 (7.63%) .NET
5 366 (7.51%) AngularJS
6 298 (6.11%) REST
7 281 (5.76%) RESTful
8 277 (5.68%) Spring
9 272 (5.58%) HTML
10 270 (5.54%) Spring Boot
11 256 (5.25%) CSS
12 234 (4.80%) Pandas
13 211 (4.33%) PySpark
14 198 (4.06%) Vue
15 190 (3.90%) NumPy
16 160 (3.28%) SciPy
17 146 (2.99%) GraphQL
18 140 (2.87%) Laravel
19 121 (2.48%) Web Services
20 117 (2.40%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 295 (6.05%) Enterprise Software
2 281 (5.76%) Cloud Native
3 245 (5.03%) Fixed Income
4 214 (4.39%) Management Information System
5 168 (3.45%) Equities
6 163 (3.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 160 (3.28%) Data Centre
7 160 (3.28%) Public Cloud
8 156 (3.20%) Mobile App
9 144 (2.95%) Product Ownership
10 140 (2.87%) Hedge funds
11 123 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
12 120 (2.46%) Algorithms
13 107 (2.19%) Derivative
13 107 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
14 90 (1.85%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
16 68 (1.39%) IoT
17 67 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
18 63 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 636 (13.05%) Windows
2 581 (11.92%) Linux
3 169 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 109 (2.24%) Android
5 66 (1.35%) Unix
6 46 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 38 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (0.66%) Windows 10
9 29 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 29 (0.59%) CentOS
10 27 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 25 (0.51%) Debian
12 24 (0.49%) Mac OS
13 23 (0.47%) 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 1,618 (33.19%) Agile
2 1,353 (27.75%) Software Engineering
3 1,270 (26.05%) CI/CD
4 1,246 (25.56%) DevOps
5 1,024 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
6 688 (14.11%) Microservices
7 617 (12.66%) Mentoring
8 546 (11.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 544 (11.16%) Analytics
10 517 (10.61%) Containerisation
11 492 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 487 (9.99%) Roadmaps
13 475 (9.74%) Asset Management
14 469 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
15 428 (8.78%) Computer Science
16 404 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 371 (7.61%) Machine Learning
18 356 (7.30%) Mathematics
19 353 (7.24%) Data Engineering
20 342 (7.02%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,757 (36.04%) Python
2 1,118 (22.93%) Java
3 997 (20.45%) JavaScript
4 856 (17.56%) SQL
5 793 (16.27%) TypeScript
6 356 (7.30%) C#
7 265 (5.44%) Go
8 234 (4.80%) PowerShell
9 201 (4.12%) PHP
10 194 (3.98%) Bash
11 112 (2.30%) C++
12 75 (1.54%) Rust
12 75 (1.54%) Scala
13 65 (1.33%) 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
1 671 (13.76%) Degree
2 414 (8.49%) Security Cleared
3 291 (5.97%) AWS Certification
4 250 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 240 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 140 (2.87%) Azure Certification
7 126 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
8 122 (2.50%) Master's Degree
9 118 (2.42%) DV Cleared
10 97 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 91 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 82 (1.68%) CISSP
13 64 (1.31%) CCNP
14 56 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
14 56 (1.15%) CCNA
15 48 (0.98%) PhD
16 47 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
17 42 (0.86%) CISM
18 39 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 35 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (4.10%) QA
2 138 (2.83%) GDPR
3 128 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 116 (2.38%) SLA
5 111 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 97 (1.99%) NIST
7 88 (1.81%) Accessibility
8 53 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.72%) HIPAA
10 32 (0.66%) 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 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%) GRC
18 5 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,033 (21.19%) Docker
2 217 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 178 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 129 (2.65%) Hyper-V
5 37 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
7 30 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.39%) vSphere
9 9 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 8 (0.16%) Firmware
10 8 (0.16%) HDFS
10 8 (0.16%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.14%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) BitLocker
12 6 (0.12%) pfSense
12 6 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.10%) Apache Flume
13 5 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.082%) XenApp
14 4 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,058 (21.70%) Kubernetes
2 863 (17.70%) Terraform
3 409 (8.39%) Ansible
4 143 (2.93%) Grafana
5 129 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 95 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 74 (1.52%) Puppet
8 63 (1.29%) SCCM
9 56 (1.15%) Progress Chef
10 39 (0.80%) Argo
11 30 (0.62%) Kibana
12 29 (0.59%) Nagios
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
1 595 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 373 (7.65%) Google
3 251 (5.15%) VMware
4 171 (3.51%) Cisco
5 166 (3.41%) Oracle
6 142 (2.91%) Databricks
7 96 (1.97%) IBM
8 90 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 89 (1.83%) Splunk
10 75 (1.54%) Red Hat
11 74 (1.52%) Citrix
12 61 (1.25%) SAP
13 56 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 56 (1.15%) Informatica
14 54 (1.11%) SolarWinds
15 50 (1.03%) Salesforce
16 49 (1.01%) Veeam
17 44 (0.90%) Dynatrace
18 30 (0.62%) CheckPoint
18 30 (0.62%) Dell