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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,172 18,703 34,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.38% 17.78% 22.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.63% 41.21% 47.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,524 10,881 16,593
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 35,322 45,386 74,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.98% 43.16% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 26,781 29,602 41,844
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 £100,000
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 25 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 25 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 8,851 £70,000 -6.67% 2,433
UK excluding London -4 6,932 £60,000 -4.00% 1,421
Work from Home -3 5,038 £70,000 -3.45% 1,521
London -3 3,767 £85,000 - 1,196
North of England -4 1,663 £62,783 +2.92% 403
Scotland 0 1,647 £60,000 -7.69% 140
South East -16 1,124 £60,000 -7.69% 228
South West -5 958 £60,000 - 233
North West -6 947 £62,783 -3.41% 238
Midlands -12 838 £57,500 -8.00% 198
Yorkshire -3 545 £60,000 - 116
West Midlands -14 452 £60,000 -7.69% 123
East of England -13 390 £55,000 -18.52% 120
East Midlands -9 387 £55,000 -4.35% 74
Wales 0 178 £52,248 +0.48% 45
North East -3 171 £62,783 +14.15% 51
Northern Ireland +5 128 £60,000 +14.29% 72
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
1 707 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 579 (5.18%) Apache
3 527 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.99%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.98%) GeoServer
6 170 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 133 (1.19%) SharePoint
8 131 (1.17%) Confluence
9 96 (0.86%) CMS
10 86 (0.77%) nginx
11 81 (0.73%) IIS
12 70 (0.63%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.47%) WebLogic
14 45 (0.40%) WordPress
15 41 (0.37%) Drupal
16 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
17 24 (0.21%) Tomcat
18 20 (0.18%) Umbraco
19 19 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
19 19 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 98 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.17%) 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 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 13 (0.12%) 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%) 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%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.036%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.036%) Shopify
8 2 (0.018%) R3 Corda
8 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.018%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5,074 (45.42%) Azure
2 2,226 (19.92%) GCP
3 1,004 (8.99%) Serverless
4 879 (7.87%) SaaS
5 699 (6.26%) AWS Lambda
6 580 (5.19%) Amazon S3
7 569 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
8 470 (4.21%) GitHub
9 447 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
10 412 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
11 370 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 354 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
13 353 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
14 349 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
15 331 (2.96%) Snowflake
16 287 (2.57%) dbt
17 276 (2.47%) PaaS
18 259 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
19 246 (2.20%) IaaS
20 242 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 571 (5.11%) Firewall
2 452 (4.05%) DNS
3 264 (2.36%) WAN
4 263 (2.35%) TCP/IP
5 249 (2.23%) DHCP
6 197 (1.76%) VPN
7 190 (1.70%) LAN
8 170 (1.52%) Network Security
9 143 (1.28%) HTTP
10 119 (1.07%) SD-WAN
11 112 (1.00%) SAN
12 103 (0.92%) BGP
13 97 (0.87%) SSL
13 97 (0.87%) Wireless
14 96 (0.86%) Internet
15 94 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
16 87 (0.78%) VLAN
17 60 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
18 54 (0.48%) VoIP
19 49 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,132 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 900 (8.06%) NoSQL
3 809 (7.24%) SQL Server
4 693 (6.20%) MySQL
5 623 (5.58%) Big Data
6 570 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
7 564 (5.05%) MongoDB
8 463 (4.14%) Relational Database
9 453 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
10 412 (3.69%) Data Lake
11 406 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
12 383 (3.43%) Hadoop
13 363 (3.25%) GIS
14 330 (2.95%) QGIS
15 280 (2.51%) Apache Ignite
16 263 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
17 257 (2.30%) BigQuery
18 249 (2.23%) Tableau
19 235 (2.10%) DynamoDB
20 234 (2.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1,069 (9.57%) Git
2 683 (6.11%) Jenkins
3 398 (3.56%) GitLab
4 391 (3.50%) JIRA
5 195 (1.75%) JUnit
6 175 (1.57%) Selenium
7 172 (1.54%) Cypress.io
8 107 (0.96%) Bitbucket
9 101 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 96 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
10 96 (0.86%) TeamCity
11 84 (0.75%) Artifactory
12 82 (0.73%) Jasmine
13 81 (0.73%) Maven
14 73 (0.65%) Postman
15 63 (0.56%) CircleCI
16 62 (0.55%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.54%) Protractor
18 51 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 3,142 (28.12%) Finance
2 2,034 (18.21%) Social Skills
3 1,611 (14.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,354 (12.12%) Law
5 901 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 868 (7.77%) Banking
7 824 (7.38%) Marketing
8 551 (4.93%) Front Office
9 511 (4.57%) Public Sector
10 478 (4.28%) Legal
11 410 (3.67%) Investment Banking
12 362 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
13 359 (3.21%) Retail
14 214 (1.92%) Financial Institution
15 205 (1.83%) Games
16 175 (1.57%) Tech for Good
17 142 (1.27%) Aerospace
18 113 (1.01%) Telecoms
19 95 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
20 89 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,795 (25.02%) Developer
2 2,605 (23.32%) Senior
3 2,551 (22.83%) Software Engineer
4 1,546 (13.84%) Lead
5 1,260 (11.28%) Architect
6 910 (8.15%) AWS Engineer
7 793 (7.10%) Senior Developer
8 695 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 686 (6.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 625 (5.59%) Data Engineer
11 602 (5.39%) Java Engineer
12 566 (5.07%) Python Engineer
13 522 (4.67%) .NET Developer
14 521 (4.66%) Java Software Engineer
15 506 (4.53%) Java Developer
16 486 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
17 450 (4.03%) Full Stack Developer
18 433 (3.88%) AWS Software Engineer
19 431 (3.86%) Python Software Engineer
20 422 (3.78%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,151 (19.25%) React
2 1,473 (13.18%) .NET
3 1,140 (10.20%) Node.js
4 1,039 (9.30%) AngularJS
5 883 (7.90%) Spring
6 854 (7.64%) CSS
7 809 (7.24%) .NET Core
8 704 (6.30%) Kafka
9 688 (6.16%) Spring Boot
10 667 (5.97%) Vue
11 617 (5.52%) HTML
12 569 (5.09%) RESTful
13 457 (4.09%) ASP.NET
14 451 (4.04%) REST
15 411 (3.68%) .NET Framework
16 369 (3.30%) Laravel
17 363 (3.25%) gRPC
18 331 (2.96%) PostGIS
19 330 (2.95%) Leaflet
19 330 (2.95%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 846 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 833 (7.46%) Public Cloud
3 576 (5.16%) Algorithms
4 477 (4.27%) Fixed Income
5 474 (4.24%) Hedge funds
6 386 (3.46%) Equities
7 369 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 352 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 347 (3.11%) Management Information System
10 344 (3.08%) Derivative
11 336 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
12 310 (2.77%) Onboarding
13 303 (2.71%) Data Centre
14 290 (2.60%) Data Structures
15 279 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
16 259 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
17 191 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
18 190 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
19 166 (1.49%) Private Cloud
20 159 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,360 (12.17%) Linux
2 895 (8.01%) Windows
3 401 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 316 (2.83%) Unix
5 226 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 139 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 110 (0.98%) Android
8 100 (0.90%) Apple iOS
9 82 (0.73%) CentOS
10 69 (0.62%) Mac OS
11 65 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
12 57 (0.51%) Debian
13 51 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
14 49 (0.44%) Windows 10
15 35 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
16 26 (0.23%) CoreOS
17 25 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
18 22 (0.20%) Solaris
19 14 (0.13%) VMS
20 13 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,847 (43.39%) Agile
2 3,766 (33.71%) Software Engineering
3 2,874 (25.73%) DevOps
4 2,832 (25.35%) CI/CD
5 1,945 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
6 1,697 (15.19%) Microservices
7 1,593 (14.26%) SDLC
8 1,481 (13.26%) Full Stack Development
9 1,422 (12.73%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,372 (12.28%) Mentoring
11 1,283 (11.48%) Machine Learning
12 1,162 (10.40%) TDD
13 1,050 (9.40%) Operational Stability
14 1,023 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 1,023 (9.16%) Scrum
15 993 (8.89%) Actionable Insight
16 925 (8.28%) Computer Science
17 883 (7.90%) Containerisation
18 821 (7.35%) Analytics
19 817 (7.31%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3,700 (33.12%) Python
2 3,010 (26.94%) Java
3 2,508 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 2,330 (20.86%) SQL
5 1,584 (14.18%) TypeScript
6 1,425 (12.76%) C#
7 583 (5.22%) PHP
8 451 (4.04%) PowerShell
9 414 (3.71%) Bash
10 412 (3.69%) Scala
11 396 (3.54%) Go
12 292 (2.61%) Kotlin
13 242 (2.17%) PL/SQL
14 185 (1.66%) Ruby
15 144 (1.29%) C++
16 128 (1.15%) R
17 109 (0.98%) C
18 99 (0.89%) T-SQL
19 92 (0.82%) Shell Script
20 82 (0.73%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,396 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1,231 (11.02%) Degree
3 979 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 563 (5.04%) AWS Certification
5 471 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 278 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 271 (2.43%) Azure Certification
8 234 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
9 227 (2.03%) Master's Degree
10 205 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 200 (1.79%) CISSP
12 149 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 126 (1.13%) DBS Check
14 125 (1.12%) CCNA
15 117 (1.05%) CISM
16 104 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
17 90 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 78 (0.70%) CCSP
18 78 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
19 60 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (3.87%) QA
2 330 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 244 (2.18%) GDPR
4 199 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 165 (1.48%) NIST
6 138 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 134 (1.20%) SLA
8 89 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 64 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 33 (0.30%) NCSC
12 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 24 (0.21%) PMO
14 20 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 19 (0.17%) WCAG
16 18 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 17 (0.15%) COBIT
17 17 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.12%) GRC
18 13 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1,754 (15.70%) Docker
2 490 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 370 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 276 (2.47%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.11%) HDFS
6 70 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 41 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 40 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 37 (0.33%) vSphere
11 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 22 (0.20%) Firmware
13 20 (0.18%) XenApp
14 19 (0.17%) KVM
15 11 (0.098%) DFS Replication
15 11 (0.098%) Time Sharing Option
15 11 (0.098%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.072%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
17 6 (0.054%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,931 (17.28%) Kubernetes
2 1,801 (16.12%) Terraform
3 751 (6.72%) Ansible
4 266 (2.38%) Puppet
5 243 (2.18%) Grafana
6 204 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 122 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 114 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 84 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 51 (0.46%) SCCM
11 45 (0.40%) vCenter Server
12 38 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 38 (0.34%) Kibana
13 37 (0.33%) Nagios
14 33 (0.30%) Packer
15 31 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 28 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
17 27 (0.24%) Consul
17 27 (0.24%) Istio
18 24 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,435 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 1,011 (9.05%) Google
3 584 (5.23%) Oracle
4 542 (4.85%) VMware
5 479 (4.29%) Databricks
6 333 (2.98%) ESRI
7 319 (2.86%) Cisco
8 247 (2.21%) Red Hat
9 187 (1.67%) Dynatrace
10 184 (1.65%) Splunk
11 137 (1.23%) Informatica
12 119 (1.07%) IBM
13 107 (0.96%) Citrix
14 95 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 93 (0.83%) Cloudera
16 79 (0.71%) Palo Alto
17 75 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 72 (0.64%) SAP
19 67 (0.60%) CheckPoint
20 64 (0.57%) Atlassian