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

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 7,136 7,322 21,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 13.82% 17.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.12% 32.21% 40.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,153 5,578 13,099
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.04% +6.43%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

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 22,214 22,735 52,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.03% 42.91% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,943 17,864 35,548
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +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 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Top 17 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 8 December 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 0 6,487 £75,000 +3.45% 2,342
UK excluding London -1 3,718 £60,000 - 1,056
London 0 3,244 £87,500 +2.94% 1,435
Work from Home +1 3,211 £75,000 +7.14% 2,079
South East +6 966 £60,000 -7.69% 187
North of England -8 956 £60,000 - 358
North West -8 570 £60,000 - 234
South West -8 520 £62,500 +4.17% 153
Midlands -11 517 £60,000 +4.35% 122
Scotland -22 339 £65,000 +8.33% 96
West Midlands -11 324 £60,000 +6.19% 91
Yorkshire -7 301 £60,000 -7.69% 84
East of England -14 267 £70,000 +7.69% 81
East Midlands -14 191 £60,000 - 31
Wales +16 119 £47,404 -17.56% 39
North East -9 85 £70,000 +16.67% 41
Northern Ireland +6 57 £65,000 +8.33% 42

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
1 475 (6.66%) Apache Airflow
2 441 (6.18%) Apache
3 127 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 103 (1.44%) Confluence
5 101 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 56 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 54 (0.76%) nginx
8 45 (0.63%) CMS
9 35 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 33 (0.46%) SAS
11 31 (0.43%) IIS
12 23 (0.32%) Tomcat
13 18 (0.25%) Drupal
14 15 (0.21%) CloudStack
14 15 (0.21%) Moodle
15 13 (0.18%) Camunda
16 10 (0.14%) Totara
17 9 (0.13%) Jupyter
18 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
19 7 (0.098%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 64 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 20 (0.28%) Simulink
5 16 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.084%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.056%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.056%) Trello
10 3 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.028%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.028%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.028%) InDesign
12 1 (0.014%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.014%) Notion
Business Applications
1 49 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 40 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 33 (0.46%) Ripple
4 25 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 18 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 18 (0.25%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 15 (0.21%) Shopify
7 9 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.070%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.070%) Magento
8 5 (0.070%) SAP S/4HANA
9 4 (0.056%) Eagle PACE
9 4 (0.056%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.042%) Sprinklr
11 2 (0.028%) Avolution ABACUS
11 2 (0.028%) Cloudability
11 2 (0.028%) NetSuite
11 2 (0.028%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 2,836 (39.74%) Azure
2 1,783 (24.99%) GCP
3 1,042 (14.60%) Serverless
4 726 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
5 718 (10.06%) Amazon S3
6 593 (8.31%) GitHub
7 523 (7.33%) dbt
8 513 (7.19%) SaaS
9 446 (6.25%) Snowflake
10 407 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
11 388 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
12 332 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
13 331 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
14 326 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
15 313 (4.39%) Amazon Kinesis
16 285 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
17 282 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
18 202 (2.83%) Power Platform
19 163 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
20 156 (2.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 380 (5.33%) Firewall
2 229 (3.21%) Network Security
3 204 (2.86%) Broadband
4 182 (2.55%) DNS
5 143 (2.00%) VPN
6 140 (1.96%) LAN
6 140 (1.96%) WAN
7 139 (1.95%) TCP/IP
8 107 (1.50%) DHCP
9 84 (1.18%) Internet
10 82 (1.15%) VLAN
11 71 (0.99%) BGP
12 69 (0.97%) Wireless
13 67 (0.94%) HTTP
14 58 (0.81%) MQTT
15 57 (0.80%) SAN
16 46 (0.64%) OSPF
17 40 (0.56%) MPLS
18 38 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
19 36 (0.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 795 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
2 464 (6.50%) Data Lake
3 451 (6.32%) DynamoDB
4 446 (6.25%) MySQL
5 417 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
5 417 (5.84%) NoSQL
6 386 (5.41%) Dremio
7 381 (5.34%) Apache Iceberg
8 380 (5.33%) SQL Server
9 373 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
10 346 (4.85%) Apache Ignite
11 345 (4.83%) Redis
12 320 (4.48%) Apache Arrow
13 262 (3.67%) MongoDB
14 246 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
15 240 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 207 (2.90%) Relational Database
17 172 (2.41%) Big Data
18 171 (2.40%) Tableau
19 166 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 679 (9.52%) Git
2 670 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 311 (4.36%) GitLab
4 236 (3.31%) JIRA
5 81 (1.14%) Maven
6 80 (1.12%) Artifactory
6 80 (1.12%) JUnit
7 70 (0.98%) Mockito
8 66 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 55 (0.77%) Cucumber
10 49 (0.69%) Gradle
11 48 (0.67%) CircleCI
12 45 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
13 43 (0.60%) Selenium
14 41 (0.57%) Cypress.io
15 40 (0.56%) TeamCity
16 36 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
17 33 (0.46%) Bitbucket
17 33 (0.46%) Vagrant
18 32 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,718 (24.08%) Finance
2 1,628 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 764 (10.71%) Banking
4 643 (9.01%) Front Office
5 633 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 513 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
7 382 (5.35%) Public Sector
8 367 (5.14%) Investment Banking
8 367 (5.14%) Marketing
9 279 (3.91%) Advertising
10 261 (3.66%) Law
11 171 (2.40%) Games
11 171 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 161 (2.26%) Retail
13 121 (1.70%) Legal
14 111 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 109 (1.53%) Tech for Good
16 92 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 90 (1.26%) Financial Institution
18 85 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,526 (21.38%) Senior
2 1,454 (20.38%) Software Engineer
3 1,363 (19.10%) Developer
4 794 (11.13%) Lead
5 615 (8.62%) Architect
6 613 (8.59%) AWS Engineer
7 448 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 445 (6.24%) Python Engineer
9 410 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 366 (5.13%) Analyst
11 330 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 290 (4.06%) Data Engineer
13 286 (4.01%) Java Developer
14 285 (3.99%) Java Engineer
15 274 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
16 257 (3.60%) AWS Software Engineer
16 257 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
17 255 (3.57%) Python Software Engineer
18 249 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 236 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,427 (20.00%) React
2 909 (12.74%) Node.js
3 743 (10.41%) AngularJS
4 639 (8.95%) REST
5 518 (7.26%) .NET
6 466 (6.53%) HTML
7 418 (5.86%) NumPy
8 415 (5.82%) Pandas
9 408 (5.72%) CSS
10 382 (5.35%) Spring
11 367 (5.14%) RESTful
12 364 (5.10%) SciPy
13 338 (4.74%) gRPC
14 337 (4.72%) Kafka
15 331 (4.64%) Spring Boot
16 325 (4.55%) Protocol Buffers
17 269 (3.77%) Tailwind CSS
18 238 (3.34%) GraphQL
18 238 (3.34%) Vue
19 229 (3.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 499 (6.99%) Fixed Income
2 485 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 387 (5.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 385 (5.40%) Hedge funds
5 372 (5.21%) Equities
6 362 (5.07%) Derivative
7 295 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 283 (3.97%) Blog
9 249 (3.49%) Product Ownership
10 245 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
11 244 (3.42%) Digital Media
12 221 (3.10%) Public Cloud
13 214 (3.00%) Management Information System
14 197 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
15 186 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
16 181 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
17 159 (2.23%) Blockchain
18 156 (2.19%) Data Centre
19 148 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
20 147 (2.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 823 (11.53%) Linux
2 643 (9.01%) Windows
3 245 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 129 (1.81%) Android
5 113 (1.58%) Ubuntu
6 104 (1.46%) Unix
7 85 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 84 (1.18%) CentOS
9 56 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 33 (0.46%) Windows 10
11 31 (0.43%) Mac OS
12 29 (0.41%) Debian
13 25 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 25 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
14 21 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
15 16 (0.22%) VMS
16 15 (0.21%) Solaris
17 10 (0.14%) SUSE
18 9 (0.13%) AIX
18 9 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,660 (37.28%) Agile
2 2,310 (32.37%) Software Engineering
3 1,669 (23.39%) DevOps
4 1,389 (19.46%) CI/CD
5 1,216 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
6 1,031 (14.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 954 (13.37%) Microservices
8 926 (12.98%) Mentoring
9 811 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 751 (10.52%) Asset Management
11 733 (10.27%) Artificial Intelligence
12 717 (10.05%) Scrum
13 684 (9.59%) Roadmaps
14 678 (9.50%) Containerisation
15 594 (8.32%) User Experience
16 586 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 580 (8.13%) Analytics
18 577 (8.09%) Fintech
19 540 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
20 536 (7.51%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2,555 (35.80%) Python
2 1,612 (22.59%) Java
3 1,574 (22.06%) JavaScript
4 1,317 (18.46%) TypeScript
5 1,267 (17.76%) SQL
6 592 (8.30%) C#
7 325 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 305 (4.27%) Bash
9 297 (4.16%) PHP
10 229 (3.21%) Go
11 198 (2.77%) C++
12 160 (2.24%) Kotlin
13 150 (2.10%) Scala
14 97 (1.36%) C
15 91 (1.28%) R
16 85 (1.19%) Ruby
17 76 (1.07%) Rust
18 71 (0.99%) T-SQL
19 66 (0.92%) Shell Script
20 54 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 816 (11.43%) Degree
2 691 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 458 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 318 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 292 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 169 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
7 141 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 140 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 135 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 108 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 91 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 87 (1.22%) CISSP
13 81 (1.14%) DBS Check
14 79 (1.11%) CCNA
15 78 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
16 75 (1.05%) CCNP
17 52 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 35 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 34 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
20 33 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 227 (3.18%) QA
3 212 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 206 (2.89%) GDPR
5 172 (2.41%) NIST
6 133 (1.86%) HIPAA
7 92 (1.29%) SLA
8 79 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 58 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 40 (0.56%) Accessibility
11 33 (0.46%) NCSC
12 31 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 21 (0.29%) HL7
14 20 (0.28%) ISO 9001
14 20 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.24%) MiFID
16 16 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 14 (0.20%) IASME
17 14 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 9 (0.13%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,629 (22.83%) Docker
2 331 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 323 (4.53%) Active Directory
4 185 (2.59%) Hyper-V
5 61 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (0.49%) XenApp
7 34 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 33 (0.46%) vSphere
8 33 (0.46%) XenDesktop
9 28 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 24 (0.34%) pfSense
11 23 (0.32%) Firmware
12 10 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.14%) VMware NSX
13 9 (0.13%) NDS
13 9 (0.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
14 8 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
15 6 (0.084%) KVM
16 5 (0.070%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,596 (22.37%) Kubernetes
2 1,218 (17.07%) Terraform
3 501 (7.02%) Ansible
4 165 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 133 (1.86%) Grafana
6 130 (1.82%) Puppet
7 97 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 94 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 53 (0.74%) SCCM
10 45 (0.63%) Argo
11 43 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 38 (0.53%) Nagios
13 35 (0.49%) Packer
14 30 (0.42%) Kibana
15 22 (0.31%) Consul
16 21 (0.29%) Istio
17 20 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
17 20 (0.28%) CASB
18 19 (0.27%) Salt
19 16 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 852 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 556 (7.79%) Google
3 432 (6.05%) VMware
4 266 (3.73%) Oracle
5 219 (3.07%) Cisco
6 208 (2.91%) Red Hat
7 179 (2.51%) IBM
8 154 (2.16%) Splunk
9 142 (1.99%) Databricks
10 110 (1.54%) Citrix
11 109 (1.53%) Bloomberg
12 90 (1.26%) Salesforce
13 82 (1.15%) ServiceNow
14 75 (1.05%) Dynatrace
15 65 (0.91%) Palo Alto
15 65 (0.91%) SAP
16 61 (0.85%) Reuters
17 58 (0.81%) TikTok
18 57 (0.80%) Fortinet
19 54 (0.76%) Atlassian