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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,101 18,760 34,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.36% 17.75% 22.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.51% 41.25% 46.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,505 10,898 16,677
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%

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 35,226 45,481 73,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.05% 43.03% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,766 29,721 42,057
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -4 8,806 £70,000 -6.67% 2,484
UK excluding London -4 6,872 £60,000 -4.00% 1,455
Work from Home -2 5,023 £70,000 -3.45% 1,505
London -2 3,755 £85,000 - 1,216
North of England -4 1,646 £62,783 +2.92% 409
Scotland 0 1,624 £60,000 -6.03% 140
South East -14 1,124 £60,000 -7.69% 233
South West -5 952 £60,000 - 249
North West -7 937 £62,783 -3.41% 240
Midlands -12 830 £57,500 -8.00% 199
Yorkshire -3 539 £62,000 +3.33% 114
West Midlands -14 451 £60,000 -7.69% 124
East of England -15 389 £55,000 -18.52% 126
East Midlands -11 380 £55,000 -4.35% 74
Wales 0 177 £52,248 +0.48% 49
North East -4 170 £62,783 +14.15% 57
Northern Ireland +4 126 £60,000 +14.29% 69
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 7 £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
1 696 (6.27%) Apache Spark
2 570 (5.13%) Apache
3 516 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (3.01%) ArcGIS
5 333 (3.00%) GeoServer
6 168 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 130 (1.17%) SharePoint
8 129 (1.16%) Confluence
9 98 (0.88%) CMS
10 86 (0.77%) nginx
11 83 (0.75%) IIS
12 70 (0.63%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.47%) WebLogic
14 45 (0.41%) WordPress
15 43 (0.39%) Drupal
16 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
17 24 (0.22%) Tomcat
18 20 (0.18%) Umbraco
19 19 (0.17%) JBoss
20 18 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 97 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 21 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.15%) Simulink
7 16 (0.14%) Trello
8 14 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
11 5 (0.045%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.036%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.027%) Sketch
14 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
15 1 (0.009%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 64 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (0.11%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
4 8 (0.072%) Magento
5 7 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.045%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.045%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.045%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.045%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.045%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.036%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.036%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.036%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.036%) Shopify
8 2 (0.018%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.018%) R3 Corda
8 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5,045 (45.45%) Azure
2 2,225 (20.04%) GCP
3 1,000 (9.01%) Serverless
4 870 (7.84%) SaaS
5 698 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
6 578 (5.21%) Amazon S3
7 563 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
8 475 (4.28%) GitHub
9 444 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
10 413 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
11 370 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 354 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
13 351 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
14 349 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
15 318 (2.86%) Snowflake
16 281 (2.53%) dbt
17 273 (2.46%) PaaS
18 258 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
19 244 (2.20%) IaaS
20 225 (2.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 565 (5.09%) Firewall
2 449 (4.04%) DNS
3 265 (2.39%) WAN
4 259 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 247 (2.23%) DHCP
6 194 (1.75%) VPN
7 186 (1.68%) LAN
8 166 (1.50%) Network Security
9 143 (1.29%) HTTP
10 120 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 113 (1.02%) SAN
12 103 (0.93%) BGP
13 97 (0.87%) SSL
14 96 (0.86%) Wireless
15 94 (0.85%) Internet
15 94 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
16 86 (0.77%) VLAN
17 58 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
18 54 (0.49%) VoIP
19 48 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,121 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 891 (8.03%) NoSQL
3 806 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 692 (6.23%) MySQL
5 615 (5.54%) Big Data
6 557 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
7 555 (5.00%) MongoDB
8 461 (4.15%) Relational Database
9 450 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
10 408 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
11 400 (3.60%) Data Lake
12 376 (3.39%) Hadoop
13 363 (3.27%) GIS
14 330 (2.97%) QGIS
15 274 (2.47%) Apache Ignite
16 259 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
17 257 (2.32%) BigQuery
18 234 (2.11%) Redis
19 233 (2.10%) DynamoDB
20 231 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,063 (9.58%) Git
2 681 (6.13%) Jenkins
3 400 (3.60%) GitLab
4 394 (3.55%) JIRA
5 195 (1.76%) JUnit
6 177 (1.59%) Selenium
7 172 (1.55%) Cypress.io
8 107 (0.96%) Bitbucket
9 103 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 96 (0.86%) TeamCity
11 95 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
12 86 (0.77%) Artifactory
13 82 (0.74%) Jasmine
14 81 (0.73%) Maven
15 73 (0.66%) Postman
16 64 (0.58%) CircleCI
17 62 (0.56%) WebDriver
18 60 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
18 60 (0.54%) Protractor
19 51 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 3,107 (27.99%) Finance
2 2,022 (18.21%) Social Skills
3 1,581 (14.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,329 (11.97%) Law
5 888 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 852 (7.67%) Banking
7 814 (7.33%) Marketing
8 543 (4.89%) Front Office
9 511 (4.60%) Public Sector
10 472 (4.25%) Legal
11 397 (3.58%) Investment Banking
12 357 (3.22%) Retail
13 342 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
14 210 (1.89%) Financial Institution
15 203 (1.83%) Games
16 173 (1.56%) Tech for Good
17 143 (1.29%) Aerospace
18 113 (1.02%) Telecoms
19 93 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
20 86 (0.77%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,798 (25.20%) Developer
2 2,575 (23.20%) Senior
3 2,522 (22.72%) Software Engineer
4 1,538 (13.85%) Lead
5 1,240 (11.17%) Architect
6 896 (8.07%) AWS Engineer
7 789 (7.11%) Senior Developer
8 688 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 670 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
10 622 (5.60%) Data Engineer
11 588 (5.30%) Java Engineer
12 559 (5.04%) Python Engineer
13 523 (4.71%) .NET Developer
14 516 (4.65%) Java Developer
15 508 (4.58%) Java Software Engineer
16 486 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
17 449 (4.04%) Full Stack Developer
18 422 (3.80%) Python Software Engineer
19 420 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
20 419 (3.77%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,146 (19.33%) React
2 1,473 (13.27%) .NET
3 1,127 (10.15%) Node.js
4 1,036 (9.33%) AngularJS
5 879 (7.92%) Spring
6 852 (7.67%) CSS
7 809 (7.29%) .NET Core
8 689 (6.21%) Kafka
9 685 (6.17%) Spring Boot
10 662 (5.96%) Vue
11 619 (5.58%) HTML
12 569 (5.13%) RESTful
13 458 (4.13%) ASP.NET
14 450 (4.05%) REST
15 411 (3.70%) .NET Framework
16 364 (3.28%) Laravel
17 357 (3.22%) gRPC
18 331 (2.98%) PostGIS
19 330 (2.97%) Leaflet
19 330 (2.97%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 835 (7.52%) Cloud Native
2 828 (7.46%) Public Cloud
3 569 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 467 (4.21%) Fixed Income
5 461 (4.15%) Hedge funds
6 375 (3.38%) Equities
7 371 (3.34%) Product Ownership
8 341 (3.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 341 (3.07%) Management Information System
9 337 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
10 331 (2.98%) Derivative
11 309 (2.78%) Onboarding
12 301 (2.71%) Data Centre
13 289 (2.60%) Data Structures
14 275 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
15 258 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
16 188 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
17 187 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
18 166 (1.50%) Private Cloud
19 159 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,363 (12.28%) Linux
2 887 (7.99%) Windows
3 398 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 312 (2.81%) Unix
5 227 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 140 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 110 (0.99%) Android
8 101 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 82 (0.74%) CentOS
10 68 (0.61%) Mac OS
11 65 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
12 57 (0.51%) Debian
13 51 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
14 47 (0.42%) Windows 10
15 35 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
16 26 (0.23%) CoreOS
17 25 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
18 22 (0.20%) Solaris
19 14 (0.13%) Mac OS X
19 14 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,814 (43.37%) Agile
2 3,730 (33.60%) Software Engineering
3 2,847 (25.65%) DevOps
4 2,814 (25.35%) CI/CD
5 1,924 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1,686 (15.19%) Microservices
7 1,564 (14.09%) SDLC
8 1,476 (13.30%) Full Stack Development
9 1,403 (12.64%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,367 (12.31%) Mentoring
11 1,265 (11.40%) Machine Learning
12 1,163 (10.48%) TDD
13 1,032 (9.30%) Operational Stability
14 1,028 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,026 (9.24%) Scrum
16 987 (8.89%) Actionable Insight
17 919 (8.28%) Computer Science
18 881 (7.94%) Containerisation
19 802 (7.22%) Analytics
19 802 (7.22%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3,679 (33.14%) Python
2 2,991 (26.94%) Java
3 2,500 (22.52%) JavaScript
4 2,310 (20.81%) SQL
5 1,573 (14.17%) TypeScript
6 1,428 (12.86%) C#
7 580 (5.22%) PHP
8 448 (4.04%) PowerShell
9 416 (3.75%) Bash
10 405 (3.65%) Scala
11 398 (3.59%) Go
12 293 (2.64%) Kotlin
13 240 (2.16%) PL/SQL
14 183 (1.65%) Ruby
15 142 (1.28%) C++
16 127 (1.14%) R
17 108 (0.97%) C
18 98 (0.88%) T-SQL
19 96 (0.86%) Shell Script
20 84 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,396 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 1,222 (11.01%) Degree
3 978 (8.81%) SC Cleared
4 565 (5.09%) AWS Certification
5 470 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 279 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 269 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 232 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
9 225 (2.03%) Master's Degree
10 209 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 196 (1.77%) CISSP
12 149 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 124 (1.12%) CCNA
14 122 (1.10%) DBS Check
15 114 (1.03%) CISM
16 105 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
17 89 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 78 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
19 77 (0.69%) CCSP
20 60 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 436 (3.93%) QA
2 327 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 243 (2.19%) GDPR
4 198 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 162 (1.46%) NIST
6 138 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 132 (1.19%) SLA
8 87 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 64 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 32 (0.29%) NCSC
12 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 24 (0.22%) PMO
14 19 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (0.17%) WCAG
15 17 (0.15%) COBIT
15 17 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 17 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 13 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,752 (15.78%) Docker
2 483 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 367 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 275 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 122 (1.10%) HDFS
6 70 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 41 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 40 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 39 (0.35%) vSphere
11 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 22 (0.20%) Firmware
13 19 (0.17%) KVM
14 18 (0.16%) XenApp
15 11 (0.099%) DFS Replication
16 10 (0.090%) Time Sharing Option
17 9 (0.081%) XenDesktop
18 8 (0.072%) Terminal Services
19 6 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
19 6 (0.054%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,928 (17.37%) Kubernetes
2 1,794 (16.16%) Terraform
3 757 (6.82%) Ansible
4 268 (2.41%) Puppet
5 240 (2.16%) Grafana
6 199 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 124 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 115 (1.04%) Progress Chef
9 84 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 48 (0.43%) SCCM
11 44 (0.40%) vCenter Server
12 38 (0.34%) Kibana
13 37 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 37 (0.33%) Nagios
14 34 (0.31%) Packer
15 31 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 28 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
17 27 (0.24%) Consul
18 25 (0.23%) Istio
19 24 (0.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,438 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 1,008 (9.08%) Google
3 580 (5.22%) Oracle
4 543 (4.89%) VMware
5 470 (4.23%) Databricks
6 333 (3.00%) ESRI
7 313 (2.82%) Cisco
8 244 (2.20%) Red Hat
9 183 (1.65%) Dynatrace
10 181 (1.63%) Splunk
11 135 (1.22%) Informatica
12 118 (1.06%) IBM
13 104 (0.94%) Citrix
14 95 (0.86%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.83%) Cloudera
16 79 (0.71%) Palo Alto
17 74 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 73 (0.66%) SAP
19 67 (0.60%) CheckPoint
20 64 (0.58%) Atlassian