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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 11 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 7,415 22,271 26,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.77% 17.62% 20.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.27% 40.79% 44.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,720 13,353 17,527
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £72,647 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% +3.78% +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 22,975 54,604 60,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.66% 43.21% 46.73%
Number of salaries quoted 18,185 36,102 42,496
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,575 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% +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 30 November 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 30 November 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 6,528 £72,500 -3.33% 3,215
Work from Home 0 3,770 £70,000 -3.45% 1,971
UK excluding London -4 3,663 £60,000 -4.00% 1,901
London -2 3,192 £85,000 +3.03% 1,731
North of England -3 1,040 £61,000 -4.79% 535
South West +5 771 £60,000 - 284
South East -6 682 £65,000 - 554
North West -3 580 £60,000 -7.69% 321
Midlands -2 484 £57,500 -4.17% 205
Yorkshire -5 404 £65,000 +7.44% 153
Scotland -2 340 £60,000 - 105
West Midlands -3 291 £57,000 -5.00% 119
East Midlands -5 195 £60,000 - 86
East of England -9 176 £65,000 +8.33% 142
Wales -5 121 £57,500 +4.55% 70
Northern Ireland -2 78 £60,250 +12.62% 36
North East -3 56 £63,750 -8.93% 65
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
1 217 (2.93%) Apache
2 211 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 192 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 135 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 122 (1.65%) Confluence
6 81 (1.09%) MS Exchange
7 70 (0.94%) IIS
8 49 (0.66%) CMS
9 44 (0.59%) nginx
10 27 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 27 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 22 (0.30%) Drupal
12 19 (0.26%) WordPress
13 18 (0.24%) JBoss
14 13 (0.18%) WebSphere
15 12 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
16 10 (0.13%) Luigi
17 9 (0.12%) Apache Solr
18 8 (0.11%) Jupyter
18 8 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 81 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.094%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.094%) PTC Creo
5 7 (0.094%) SOLIDWORKS
5 7 (0.094%) Trello
6 6 (0.081%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.054%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.040%) 3ds Max
8 3 (0.040%) Blender
8 3 (0.040%) Maya
9 2 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.027%) Sketch
9 2 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.027%) UXPin
9 2 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.094%) Magento
3 7 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.081%) Exstream
4 6 (0.081%) SAP Business One
4 6 (0.081%) Shopify
5 5 (0.067%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.067%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.054%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.054%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.040%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.040%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.027%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.027%) ScheduALL
9 1 (0.013%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3,653 (49.27%) Azure
2 1,926 (25.97%) GCP
3 833 (11.23%) Serverless
4 572 (7.71%) SaaS
5 452 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
6 434 (5.85%) GitHub
7 433 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
8 365 (4.92%) OpenShift
9 358 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 342 (4.61%) Amazon S3
11 328 (4.42%) PaaS
12 300 (4.05%) IaaS
13 292 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
14 289 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
15 278 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
16 196 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
17 190 (2.56%) Power Platform
18 188 (2.54%) Entra ID
19 161 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
20 135 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 375 (5.06%) DNS
2 336 (4.53%) Firewall
3 289 (3.90%) DHCP
4 286 (3.86%) TCP/IP
5 210 (2.83%) WAN
6 206 (2.78%) VPN
7 183 (2.47%) HTTP
8 164 (2.21%) LAN
9 127 (1.71%) Network Security
10 99 (1.34%) Internet
11 94 (1.27%) SAN
12 84 (1.13%) VLAN
13 78 (1.05%) Wireless
14 63 (0.85%) SD-WAN
15 58 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
16 56 (0.76%) BGP
17 50 (0.67%) OSPF
18 47 (0.63%) SMTP
19 46 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
20 43 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 540 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 463 (6.24%) NoSQL
3 397 (5.35%) MySQL
4 372 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
5 330 (4.45%) MongoDB
6 329 (4.44%) SQL Server
7 311 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
8 276 (3.72%) Big Data
9 261 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
10 224 (3.02%) Data Lake
11 200 (2.70%) Relational Database
12 191 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 183 (2.47%) DynamoDB
14 177 (2.39%) Hadoop
15 167 (2.25%) Power BI
16 140 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
17 132 (1.78%) Redis
18 127 (1.71%) Tableau
19 113 (1.52%) Apache Ignite
20 109 (1.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 708 (9.55%) Jenkins
2 610 (8.23%) Git
3 314 (4.23%) JIRA
4 288 (3.88%) GitLab
5 174 (2.35%) Maven
6 143 (1.93%) Cucumber
7 118 (1.59%) Selenium
8 117 (1.58%) Artifactory
9 116 (1.56%) Bitbucket
10 109 (1.47%) Cypress.io
11 97 (1.31%) Gradle
12 88 (1.19%) JUnit
13 79 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 78 (1.05%) CircleCI
15 67 (0.90%) IntelliJ
16 65 (0.88%) TeamCity
17 64 (0.86%) SonarQube
18 40 (0.54%) Mockito
18 40 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
19 36 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 1,705 (22.99%) Finance
2 1,436 (19.37%) Social Skills
3 536 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 493 (6.65%) Banking
5 447 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 382 (5.15%) Front Office
7 306 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 284 (3.83%) Retail
9 214 (2.89%) Marketing
10 189 (2.55%) Telecoms
11 152 (2.05%) Investment Banking
12 136 (1.83%) Law
13 132 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 117 (1.58%) Aerospace
15 89 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 84 (1.13%) Legal
17 80 (1.08%) Games
18 76 (1.02%) Tech for Good
19 65 (0.88%) Manufacturing
20 54 (0.73%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,826 (24.63%) Developer
2 1,696 (22.87%) Senior
3 944 (12.73%) Software Engineer
4 883 (11.91%) Architect
5 779 (10.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 731 (9.86%) Lead
7 503 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 502 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
9 498 (6.72%) Java Developer
10 433 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
11 430 (5.80%) Data Engineer
12 377 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 323 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
14 322 (4.34%) Full Stack Developer
15 279 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
16 271 (3.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 251 (3.39%) .NET Developer
18 249 (3.36%) AWS DevOps
19 233 (3.14%) Python Engineer
20 229 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,069 (14.42%) React
2 728 (9.82%) .NET
3 630 (8.50%) Node.js
4 514 (6.93%) AngularJS
5 482 (6.50%) Spring
6 477 (6.43%) Kafka
7 413 (5.57%) HTML
8 411 (5.54%) Spring Boot
9 337 (4.54%) CSS
10 333 (4.49%) REST
11 299 (4.03%) RESTful
12 255 (3.44%) Vue
13 230 (3.10%) Redux
14 210 (2.83%) .NET Core
15 185 (2.49%) ASP.NET
16 184 (2.48%) JSON
17 152 (2.05%) GraphQL
18 148 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
19 144 (1.94%) Web Services
20 133 (1.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 478 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 407 (5.49%) Public Cloud
3 267 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 263 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 230 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
6 218 (2.94%) Fixed Income
7 211 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
8 188 (2.54%) Derivative
9 181 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
10 167 (2.25%) Hedge funds
11 155 (2.09%) Data Structures
12 145 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 145 (1.96%) Management Information System
13 144 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
14 131 (1.77%) Equities
15 127 (1.71%) Algorithms
16 120 (1.62%) Private Cloud
17 116 (1.56%) Onboarding
18 108 (1.46%) Cyberattack
18 108 (1.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,206 (16.26%) Linux
2 782 (10.55%) Windows
3 393 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 256 (3.45%) Unix
5 165 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 93 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 85 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 80 (1.08%) Android
9 69 (0.93%) Windows 10
10 60 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
11 59 (0.80%) Apple iOS
12 55 (0.74%) CentOS
13 49 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
14 47 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
15 34 (0.46%) Debian
16 21 (0.28%) Mac OS X
16 21 (0.28%) Solaris
17 13 (0.18%) CoreOS
17 13 (0.18%) HPUX
17 13 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,755 (37.15%) Agile
2 2,332 (31.45%) DevOps
3 1,820 (24.54%) CI/CD
4 1,599 (21.56%) Software Engineering
5 1,159 (15.63%) Microservices
6 1,000 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
7 935 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 723 (9.75%) Full Stack Development
9 720 (9.71%) Mentoring
10 710 (9.58%) Analytics
11 704 (9.49%) Containerisation
12 652 (8.79%) Computer Science
13 625 (8.43%) Actionable Insight
14 583 (7.86%) Scrum
15 565 (7.62%) Roadmaps
16 538 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
17 528 (7.12%) Migration
18 525 (7.08%) TDD
19 496 (6.69%) Fintech
20 484 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2,532 (34.15%) Python
2 2,022 (27.27%) Java
3 1,524 (20.55%) SQL
4 1,317 (17.76%) JavaScript
5 801 (10.80%) TypeScript
6 778 (10.49%) C#
7 631 (8.51%) Bash
8 626 (8.44%) PowerShell
9 329 (4.44%) Go
10 274 (3.70%) PHP
11 223 (3.01%) C++
12 216 (2.91%) Kotlin
13 200 (2.70%) Ruby
14 142 (1.92%) Scala
15 111 (1.50%) Perl
16 107 (1.44%) PL/SQL
17 96 (1.29%) Shell Script
18 75 (1.01%) R
19 70 (0.94%) Rust
20 64 (0.86%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,016 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 952 (12.84%) Degree
3 583 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 443 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 379 (5.11%) AWS Certification
6 323 (4.36%) DV Cleared
7 191 (2.58%) Master's Degree
8 176 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
9 135 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 134 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 134 (1.81%) CISSP
11 123 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 99 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 68 (0.92%) CCNP
14 62 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
15 60 (0.81%) CCNA
16 42 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 42 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 42 (0.57%) CISM
16 42 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (4.94%) QA
2 137 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 125 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 72 (0.97%) NIST
5 62 (0.84%) SLA
6 57 (0.77%) NCSC
7 47 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 46 (0.62%) GDPR
9 45 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 44 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.24%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.12%) COBIT
13 9 (0.12%) PMO
14 6 (0.081%) IASME
15 5 (0.067%) GRC
15 5 (0.067%) WCAG
16 4 (0.054%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.054%) Software Quality Assurance
17 3 (0.040%) PSD2
System Software
1 1,739 (23.45%) Docker
2 502 (6.77%) Active Directory
3 390 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 239 (3.22%) Hyper-V
5 53 (0.71%) vSphere
6 52 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 49 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 34 (0.46%) Firmware
10 26 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 18 (0.24%) XenApp
12 17 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
13 15 (0.20%) LXC
14 12 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
15 10 (0.13%) DFS Replication
15 10 (0.13%) KVM
16 8 (0.11%) Terminal Services
17 7 (0.094%) HDFS
18 6 (0.081%) Varnish
18 6 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1,703 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 1,463 (19.73%) Terraform
3 868 (11.71%) Ansible
4 284 (3.83%) Puppet
5 158 (2.13%) Grafana
6 122 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 122 (1.65%) Progress Chef
7 111 (1.50%) SCCM
8 105 (1.42%) Prometheus
9 55 (0.74%) Packer
10 50 (0.67%) Argo
10 50 (0.67%) Kibana
11 46 (0.62%) Rancher
12 45 (0.61%) Nagios
13 42 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
13 42 (0.57%) vCenter Server
14 36 (0.49%) Istio
15 30 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 24 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
16 24 (0.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 994 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 545 (7.35%) VMware
3 529 (7.13%) Google
4 348 (4.69%) Oracle
5 223 (3.01%) Cisco
6 188 (2.54%) Red Hat
7 171 (2.31%) Splunk
8 131 (1.77%) Databricks
9 117 (1.58%) Citrix
10 103 (1.39%) SAP
11 96 (1.29%) IBM
12 84 (1.13%) Palo Alto
13 75 (1.01%) Veeam
14 67 (0.90%) Salesforce
15 61 (0.82%) Atlassian
16 44 (0.59%) HP
16 44 (0.59%) ServiceNow
17 43 (0.58%) CheckPoint
18 42 (0.57%) Informatica
19 41 (0.55%) TOWER Software