AWS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 6,970 8,825 11,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.84% 14.68% 16.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.72% 38.32% 40.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,145 4,392 7,083
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,450 23,032 28,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.10% 38.32% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 17,378 13,810 19,656
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
North of England -4 1,672 £62,783 +0.45% 411
Scotland +1 1,670 £60,000 -3.23% 127
South East -17 1,134 £60,000 -7.69% 251
North West -6 960 £62,783 -3.41% 246
South West -5 954 £60,000 - 240
Midlands -14 835 £57,500 -11.07% 240
Yorkshire -2 541 £60,000 - 123
West Midlands -17 440 £60,000 -7.69% 147
East Midlands -7 394 £55,000 -4.35% 93
East of England -11 387 £55,000 -15.38% 115
Wales +1 178 £50,000 -4.76% 47
North East -3 171 £62,783 +14.15% 42
Northern Ireland +7 130 £60,000 +14.29% 82
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 6 £85,000 -
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 537 (7.70%) Apache Spark
2 287 (4.12%) ArcGIS
2 287 (4.12%) GeoServer
3 209 (3.00%) Apache
4 144 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 135 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 96 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 75 (1.08%) Confluence
8 62 (0.89%) CMS
9 61 (0.88%) OpenStack
10 59 (0.85%) IIS
11 49 (0.70%) nginx
12 40 (0.57%) WebLogic
13 37 (0.53%) Tuxedo
14 30 (0.43%) WordPress
15 17 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
16 12 (0.17%) JBoss
16 12 (0.17%) Tomcat
17 11 (0.16%) CICS
17 11 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 57 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.30%) Simulink
4 16 (0.23%) Trello
5 12 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 12 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.086%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.072%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.029%) Sketch
11 2 (0.029%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.014%) 1Password
12 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 50 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.072%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.072%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.057%) Shopify
7 2 (0.029%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.029%) Magento
7 2 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.029%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.014%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,330 (47.78%) Azure
2 1,116 (16.01%) GCP
3 625 (8.97%) SaaS
4 535 (7.68%) Serverless
5 419 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
6 362 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
7 327 (4.69%) Amazon S3
8 295 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
9 242 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
10 238 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
11 235 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
12 233 (3.34%) GitHub
13 219 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
14 179 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 167 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
16 136 (1.95%) PaaS
17 135 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 129 (1.85%) IaaS
19 128 (1.84%) Datadog
20 121 (1.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 381 (5.47%) Firewall
2 308 (4.42%) DNS
3 192 (2.75%) WAN
4 188 (2.70%) DHCP
5 173 (2.48%) TCP/IP
6 125 (1.79%) VPN
7 109 (1.56%) HTTP
8 100 (1.43%) LAN
9 99 (1.42%) Network Security
10 92 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 81 (1.16%) SAN
12 76 (1.09%) SSL
13 73 (1.05%) BGP
14 69 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 66 (0.95%) VLAN
16 61 (0.88%) Internet
17 60 (0.86%) Wireless
18 41 (0.59%) VoIP
19 35 (0.50%) OSPF
20 34 (0.49%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (9.61%) NoSQL
2 663 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
3 580 (8.32%) SQL Server
4 484 (6.94%) Big Data
5 479 (6.87%) MySQL
6 419 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
7 407 (5.84%) MongoDB
8 340 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 312 (4.48%) GIS
10 296 (4.25%) Hadoop
11 286 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
12 284 (4.07%) QGIS
13 270 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
14 207 (2.97%) BigQuery
15 196 (2.81%) Looker
16 175 (2.51%) Data Lake
17 138 (1.98%) Apache Hive
18 135 (1.94%) Oracle Database
19 113 (1.62%) DynamoDB
20 107 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 691 (9.91%) Git
2 376 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 254 (3.64%) JIRA
4 250 (3.59%) GitLab
5 168 (2.41%) JUnit
6 144 (2.07%) Selenium
7 112 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 91 (1.31%) Bitbucket Server
9 72 (1.03%) Jasmine
10 70 (1.00%) Cucumber
11 62 (0.89%) WebDriver
12 60 (0.86%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (0.86%) Protractor
12 60 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 57 (0.82%) Bitbucket
14 50 (0.72%) Postman
15 48 (0.69%) Maven
16 41 (0.59%) Visual Studio
17 31 (0.44%) CircleCI
17 31 (0.44%) JMeter
General
1 1,890 (27.12%) Finance
2 1,409 (20.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,265 (18.15%) Law
4 1,217 (17.46%) Social Skills
5 703 (10.09%) Marketing
6 485 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
7 414 (5.94%) Legal
8 362 (5.19%) Banking
9 296 (4.25%) Public Sector
10 218 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 205 (2.94%) Retail
12 203 (2.91%) Investment Banking
13 182 (2.61%) Financial Institution
14 147 (2.11%) Games
15 142 (2.04%) Aerospace
16 105 (1.51%) Tech for Good
17 87 (1.25%) Billing
18 74 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
19 68 (0.98%) Telecoms
20 65 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1,879 (26.96%) Software Engineer
2 1,593 (22.86%) Developer
3 1,505 (21.59%) Senior
4 1,044 (14.98%) Lead
5 770 (11.05%) Architect
6 553 (7.93%) AWS Engineer
7 453 (6.50%) Java Engineer
7 453 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 432 (6.20%) Senior Developer
9 411 (5.90%) Java Software Engineer
10 391 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
11 377 (5.41%) Data Engineer
12 362 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
13 356 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
14 341 (4.89%) AWS Software Engineer
15 333 (4.78%) .NET Developer
16 292 (4.19%) Python Engineer
17 287 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 252 (3.62%) Big Data Engineer
19 251 (3.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,424 (20.43%) React
2 997 (14.30%) .NET
3 811 (11.64%) Node.js
4 752 (10.79%) AngularJS
5 708 (10.16%) CSS
6 664 (9.53%) Spring
7 602 (8.64%) .NET Core
8 479 (6.87%) HTML
9 460 (6.60%) Vue
10 459 (6.59%) Spring Boot
11 414 (5.94%) RESTful
12 370 (5.31%) Kafka
13 346 (4.96%) .NET Framework
14 333 (4.78%) ASP.NET
15 318 (4.56%) REST
16 285 (4.09%) PostGIS
17 284 (4.07%) Leaflet
17 284 (4.07%) OpenLayers
18 280 (4.02%) Laravel
19 255 (3.66%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 688 (9.87%) Public Cloud
2 683 (9.80%) Cloud Native
3 484 (6.94%) Algorithms
4 246 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 231 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
6 220 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 209 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 203 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 191 (2.74%) Data Structures
10 181 (2.60%) Data Centre
11 145 (2.08%) Private Cloud
12 142 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
13 134 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
14 126 (1.81%) IoT
15 111 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
16 107 (1.54%) PKI
17 94 (1.35%) Mobile App
18 73 (1.05%) Blockchain
18 73 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
19 63 (0.90%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 918 (13.17%) Linux
2 616 (8.84%) Windows
3 297 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 244 (3.50%) Unix
5 172 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 122 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 68 (0.98%) CentOS
8 63 (0.90%) Android
9 53 (0.76%) Mac OS
10 52 (0.75%) Debian
11 50 (0.72%) Apple iOS
12 47 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
13 34 (0.49%) Windows 10
14 30 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
15 22 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
16 20 (0.29%) CoreOS
16 20 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.14%) Solaris
17 10 (0.14%) VMS
17 10 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,394 (48.69%) Agile
2 2,481 (35.60%) Software Engineering
3 2,044 (29.33%) CI/CD
4 1,852 (26.57%) DevOps
5 1,395 (20.01%) SDLC
6 1,281 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
7 1,119 (16.05%) Microservices
8 1,069 (15.34%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,055 (15.14%) Operational Stability
10 967 (13.87%) Mentoring
11 920 (13.20%) Full Stack Development
12 919 (13.19%) Machine Learning
13 787 (11.29%) Scrum
14 786 (11.28%) TDD
15 713 (10.23%) Actionable Insight
16 699 (10.03%) Community of Practice
17 650 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 641 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
19 536 (7.69%) Containerisation
20 529 (7.59%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,942 (27.86%) Python
2 1,905 (27.33%) Java
3 1,654 (23.73%) JavaScript
4 1,441 (20.67%) SQL
5 913 (13.10%) C#
6 852 (12.22%) TypeScript
7 447 (6.41%) PHP
8 293 (4.20%) PowerShell
9 276 (3.96%) Scala
10 250 (3.59%) Bash
11 200 (2.87%) PL/SQL
12 160 (2.30%) Go
13 84 (1.21%) T-SQL
14 78 (1.12%) C++
15 65 (0.93%) Ruby
16 61 (0.88%) C
17 56 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 48 (0.69%) COBOL
19 45 (0.65%) Groovy
19 45 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,069 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 732 (10.50%) SC Cleared
3 632 (9.07%) Degree
4 389 (5.58%) AWS Certification
5 260 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 232 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 199 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 151 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
9 136 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 98 (1.41%) CISSP
11 97 (1.39%) CCNA
12 89 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 74 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 65 (0.93%) CISM
15 45 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 43 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 43 (0.62%) DBS Check
17 42 (0.60%) MCSE
18 39 (0.56%) CCSP
19 35 (0.50%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (4.09%) QA
2 191 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 181 (2.60%) GDPR
4 120 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (1.66%) SLA
6 104 (1.49%) NIST
7 85 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 49 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 29 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (0.32%) PMO
11 15 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 13 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 13 (0.19%) NCSC
13 10 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.13%) GRC
14 9 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.11%) PSD2
16 6 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.057%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 976 (14.00%) Docker
2 310 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 267 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 247 (3.54%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.52%) HDFS
6 39 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 37 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (0.33%) vSphere
10 22 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 20 (0.29%) Firmware
12 16 (0.23%) XenApp
13 13 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
14 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
14 11 (0.16%) XenDesktop
15 10 (0.14%) KVM
16 7 (0.10%) Terminal Services
17 5 (0.072%) Embedded Firmware
18 4 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
19 3 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,083 (15.54%) Kubernetes
2 1,061 (15.22%) Terraform
3 450 (6.46%) Ansible
4 172 (2.47%) Puppet
5 156 (2.24%) Grafana
6 133 (1.91%) Prometheus
7 87 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 61 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 56 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 35 (0.50%) SCCM
11 34 (0.49%) vCenter Server
12 31 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
13 26 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (0.27%) Kibana
15 19 (0.27%) Opsgenie
16 18 (0.26%) FortiGate
16 18 (0.26%) Nagios
16 18 (0.26%) VxRail
17 13 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 927 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 641 (9.20%) Google
3 418 (6.00%) Oracle
4 389 (5.58%) VMware
5 324 (4.65%) Databricks
6 285 (4.09%) ESRI
7 201 (2.88%) Cisco
8 181 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 171 (2.45%) Dynatrace
10 152 (2.18%) Splunk
11 119 (1.71%) Informatica
12 86 (1.23%) IBM
13 77 (1.10%) Cloudera
14 71 (1.02%) Citrix
15 67 (0.96%) Salesforce
16 65 (0.93%) Alteryx
17 63 (0.90%) Dell
18 50 (0.72%) Sparx
19 46 (0.66%) Veeam
20 44 (0.63%) SaltStack