Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 455 336
Rank change year-on-year -80 -119 -5
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 405 691 1,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.67% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.56% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 282 520 904
10th Percentile £40,100 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,875 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon EC2 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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £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 £96,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2.

Salary trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England -92 322 £75,000 +7.14% 91
UK excluding London -19 232 £65,000 - 47
London -31 157 £89,750 +5.59% 42
Work from Home -59 147 £67,500 - 56
Scotland -37 59 £41,500 -36.15% 1
North of England +23 52 £80,000 +18.52% 14
South East -22 49 £67,500 +3.85% 7
North West -3 37 £80,000 +33.33% 10
Midlands +7 26 £67,500 +3.85% 9
West Midlands +21 24 £67,500 -3.57% 8
South West -15 20 £62,500 +19.05% 7
East of England -15 17 £34,750 -46.54% 5
Yorkshire +60 10 £80,000 +6.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 4
North East -3 5 £62,783 -3.41%
Wales - 3 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands -16 2 £57,500 -11.54% 1

Amazon EC2
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 63 (15.56%) Apache
2 56 (13.83%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.69%) Confluence
4 11 (2.72%) SAS
5 10 (2.47%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.98%) nginx
7 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.73%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.73%) WordPress
8 5 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) CMS
10 1 (0.25%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 404 (99.75%) AWS
2 271 (66.91%) Amazon S3
3 244 (60.25%) Serverless
4 240 (59.26%) AWS Lambda
5 131 (32.35%) Amazon ECS
6 120 (29.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 104 (25.68%) Amazon EKS
8 102 (25.19%) Amazon SQS
9 69 (17.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 58 (14.32%) Amazon EMR
11 53 (13.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 51 (12.59%) Azure
13 46 (11.36%) Route 53
14 42 (10.37%) GitHub
15 40 (9.88%) OpenShift
16 37 (9.14%) Amazon Kinesis
17 32 (7.90%) CloudFront
18 27 (6.67%) GCP
19 26 (6.42%) Amazon ELB
20 22 (5.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.41%) DNS
2 19 (4.69%) VPN
3 17 (4.20%) Firewall
4 14 (3.46%) Network Security
5 12 (2.96%) Unified Communications
6 10 (2.47%) DHCP
7 8 (1.98%) MQTT
8 7 (1.73%) HTTP
8 7 (1.73%) VoIP
9 6 (1.48%) IPv4
9 6 (1.48%) IPv6
10 5 (1.23%) AMQP
10 5 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.23%) WAN
10 5 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.99%) Internet
12 3 (0.74%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.74%) SSL
12 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (53.58%) Amazon RDS
2 87 (21.48%) Amazon Redshift
3 80 (19.75%) NoSQL
4 62 (15.31%) MySQL
5 53 (13.09%) Big Data
6 52 (12.84%) Electronic Patient Records
6 52 (12.84%) Hadoop
7 43 (10.62%) DynamoDB
8 42 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (9.88%) Relational Database
10 33 (8.15%) RDBMS
11 30 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (3.70%) Tableau
14 11 (2.72%) Amazon QuickSight
14 11 (2.72%) Data Mining
15 10 (2.47%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.98%) SQL Server
17 6 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (1.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (23.21%) Git
1 94 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 37 (9.14%) Artifactory
3 32 (7.90%) GitLab
4 28 (6.91%) JIRA
5 26 (6.42%) Postman
6 20 (4.94%) Bitbucket
7 15 (3.70%) Subversion
8 10 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.98%) JUnit
10 7 (1.73%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.48%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.23%) Mockito
13 4 (0.99%) JMeter
13 4 (0.99%) Maven
13 4 (0.99%) Sourcetree
13 4 (0.99%) Spinnaker
14 3 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
15 2 (0.49%) Metasploit
15 2 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 120 (29.63%) Finance
2 87 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 68 (16.79%) Law
4 67 (16.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (12.84%) Legal
6 36 (8.89%) Front Office
7 24 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.46%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.23%) Retail
9 5 (1.23%) Tech for Good
10 4 (0.99%) Marketing
11 3 (0.74%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.49%) Aviation
12 2 (0.49%) Games
12 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.25%) Back Office
13 1 (0.25%) Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 157 (38.77%) AWS Engineer
2 98 (24.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (15.56%) Software Engineer
4 54 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
5 52 (12.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 52 (12.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 51 (12.59%) AWS Software Engineer
6 51 (12.59%) Big Data Engineer
6 51 (12.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 51 (12.59%) Scala Engineer
6 51 (12.59%) Scala Software Engineer
7 48 (11.85%) Developer
7 48 (11.85%) Senior
8 47 (11.60%) Lead
9 39 (9.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 38 (9.38%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 33 (8.15%) Technical Leader
12 32 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (6.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (5.68%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.63%) Spring
2 34 (8.40%) J2EE
3 33 (8.15%) JSON
4 32 (7.90%) Spring Boot
5 29 (7.16%) Node.js
6 24 (5.93%) React
7 23 (5.68%) HTML
8 20 (4.94%) AngularJS
9 19 (4.69%) CSS
10 18 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
11 16 (3.95%) Laravel
12 15 (3.70%) RESTful
13 14 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (3.21%) Kafka
15 10 (2.47%) LDAP
16 9 (2.22%) REST
17 8 (1.98%) .NET
18 7 (1.73%) GraphQL
18 7 (1.73%) LEMP Stack
18 7 (1.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.59%) Algorithms
2 42 (10.37%) Data Centre
3 38 (9.38%) Cloud Native
4 34 (8.40%) Tandem
5 26 (6.42%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.46%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.21%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.47%) IoT
12 8 (1.98%) Educational Technology
13 7 (1.73%) Smartcard
14 6 (1.48%) Blog
14 6 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.48%) Private Cloud
15 5 (1.23%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 71 (17.53%) Linux
2 47 (11.60%) Windows
3 17 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.98%) Unix
5 7 (1.73%) Android
6 6 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.74%) Debian
8 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.49%) Solaris
9 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (55.80%) CI/CD
2 192 (47.41%) DevOps
3 169 (41.73%) Agile
4 150 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 148 (36.54%) Software Engineering
6 102 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (21.23%) Containerisation
8 82 (20.25%) SDLC
9 70 (17.28%) Visualisation
10 64 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (15.06%) Computer Science
12 56 (13.83%) Risk Management
13 54 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
14 51 (12.59%) Operational Stability
14 51 (12.59%) Performance Tuning
15 49 (12.10%) Decision-Making
16 45 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 41 (10.12%) Open Source
18 40 (9.88%) Data Modelling
19 39 (9.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 182 (44.94%) Python
2 173 (42.72%) Java
3 100 (24.69%) SQL
4 61 (15.06%) Go
5 55 (13.58%) Scala
6 38 (9.38%) PHP
7 37 (9.14%) JavaScript
8 36 (8.89%) Bash
9 19 (4.69%) PowerShell
10 17 (4.20%) TypeScript
11 16 (3.95%) R
12 15 (3.70%) Shell Script
13 13 (3.21%) C#
14 11 (2.72%) MATLAB
15 9 (2.22%) Ruby
16 7 (1.73%) C++
17 6 (1.48%) Rust
18 5 (1.23%) JSX
18 5 (1.23%) Perl
18 5 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (18.77%) Degree
2 71 (17.53%) AWS Certification
3 61 (15.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (9.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (9.14%) Security Cleared
6 33 (8.15%) SC Cleared
7 15 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.98%) NIST
1 8 (1.98%) QA
2 7 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.74%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 139 (34.32%) Docker
2 20 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 196 (48.40%) Terraform
2 153 (37.78%) Kubernetes
3 56 (13.83%) Ansible
4 17 (4.20%) Progress Chef
5 16 (3.95%) Packer
5 16 (3.95%) Puppet
6 14 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.21%) Grafana
8 12 (2.96%) Prometheus
9 9 (2.22%) Kibana
10 7 (1.73%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.73%) Salt
11 5 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.74%) Autotask
13 2 (0.49%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (9.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.19%) Oracle
3 15 (3.70%) Apple
3 15 (3.70%) Google
4 14 (3.46%) Adobe
4 14 (3.46%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.98%) Splunk
6 7 (1.73%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.48%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.74%) Black Duck
8 3 (0.74%) Facebook
8 3 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.74%) New Relic
8 3 (0.74%) Rackspace
8 3 (0.74%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.74%) VMware
9 2 (0.49%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.49%) IBM
9 2 (0.49%) Sage
10 1 (0.25%) Salesforce