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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing AWS 5,189 11,316 17,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.58% 11.42% 17.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.82% 31.98% 40.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,362 7,556 10,487
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £91,934 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -

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 15,341 35,389 43,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.32% 35.71% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10,892 26,740 28,532
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,788
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +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 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK

AWS
Top 18 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 9 May 2025. 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 -3 4,752 £72,500 +3.57% 6,133
UK excluding London -13 2,804 £60,000 - 3,420
Work from Home -3 2,325 £72,500 +3.57% 3,619
London -1 2,220 £87,500 +2.94% 3,797
North of England -10 981 £65,000 +3.53% 937
North West -18 645 £67,037 +6.78% 616
South East -5 547 £60,000 - 1,271
Midlands -7 467 £60,000 +4.35% 353
West Midlands +5 317 £60,000 - 199
South West -6 303 £60,000 - 324
Yorkshire -3 282 £60,000 - 238
Scotland -14 251 £65,000 +8.33% 187
East of England -25 201 £62,500 +13.64% 276
East Midlands -31 149 £62,500 +13.64% 137
North East -7 54 £65,000 +3.53% 88
Wales -25 40 £50,124 +0.25% 61
Northern Ireland -9 26 £55,000 -8.33% 87
Isle of Man +8 1 £34,500 -25.81% 2

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
1 321 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
2 258 (4.97%) Apache
3 241 (4.64%) Confluence
4 171 (3.30%) Apache Spark
5 69 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 47 (0.91%) nginx
7 42 (0.81%) IIS
8 35 (0.67%) SharePoint
9 30 (0.58%) CMS
10 26 (0.50%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.37%) Headless CMS
12 14 (0.27%) JBoss
12 14 (0.27%) OpenStack
13 13 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
13 13 (0.25%) WordPress
14 11 (0.21%) SAS
15 8 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 7 (0.13%) Jupyter
17 6 (0.12%) Drupal
18 5 (0.096%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 48 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 22 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.19%) Maya
6 8 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.058%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.019%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.019%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.019%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.15%) SAP IBP
4 7 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.12%) Endur
6 5 (0.096%) Shopify
6 5 (0.096%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.077%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.077%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 4 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.058%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.058%) Magento
8 3 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.058%) Sprinklr
9 2 (0.039%) Cloudability
10 1 (0.019%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.019%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.019%) SAP Hybris
10 1 (0.019%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,366 (45.60%) Azure
2 1,482 (28.56%) GCP
3 648 (12.49%) Serverless
4 473 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
5 433 (8.34%) SaaS
6 327 (6.30%) Amazon S3
7 324 (6.24%) dbt
8 304 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
9 291 (5.61%) Snowflake
10 284 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
11 252 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 232 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
13 227 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
14 225 (4.34%) GitHub
15 169 (3.26%) Power Platform
16 151 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
17 117 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
17 117 (2.25%) PaaS
18 107 (2.06%) OpenShift
19 106 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 298 (5.74%) Firewall
2 168 (3.24%) DNS
3 160 (3.08%) VPN
4 140 (2.70%) WAN
5 128 (2.47%) Network Security
6 112 (2.16%) TCP/IP
7 108 (2.08%) DHCP
8 88 (1.70%) LAN
9 76 (1.46%) SD-WAN
10 69 (1.33%) VLAN
11 68 (1.31%) BGP
12 55 (1.06%) OSPF
13 44 (0.85%) MPLS
14 38 (0.73%) Internet
14 38 (0.73%) SAN
14 38 (0.73%) SSL
15 32 (0.62%) Wireless
16 31 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
17 26 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
18 25 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (8.46%) SQL Server
2 409 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
3 368 (7.09%) MySQL
4 299 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
5 275 (5.30%) NoSQL
6 263 (5.07%) Dremio
7 260 (5.01%) Apache Iceberg
8 243 (4.68%) Data Lake
9 237 (4.57%) Apache Arrow
10 198 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
10 198 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
11 193 (3.72%) MongoDB
12 166 (3.20%) Apache Ignite
13 165 (3.18%) DynamoDB
14 150 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
15 145 (2.79%) Power BI
16 136 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
17 133 (2.56%) Relational Database
18 118 (2.27%) Big Data
18 118 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 449 (8.65%) Git
2 409 (7.88%) GitLab
3 399 (7.69%) JIRA
4 322 (6.21%) Jenkins
5 269 (5.18%) Maven
6 263 (5.07%) SonarQube
7 255 (4.91%) Bitbucket
8 253 (4.88%) Selenium
9 246 (4.74%) Cucumber
10 238 (4.59%) Sonatype Nexus
11 114 (2.20%) JUnit
12 93 (1.79%) Artifactory
13 78 (1.50%) Mockito
14 60 (1.16%) IntelliJ
15 41 (0.79%) JMeter
16 37 (0.71%) CircleCI
17 34 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
18 32 (0.62%) Jasmine
19 28 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
19 28 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 1,518 (29.25%) Finance
2 1,316 (25.36%) Social Skills
3 686 (13.22%) Banking
4 615 (11.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 547 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
6 372 (7.17%) Front Office
7 262 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
8 203 (3.91%) Public Sector
9 201 (3.87%) Retail
10 180 (3.47%) Investment Banking
11 172 (3.31%) Law
12 127 (2.45%) Marketing
13 126 (2.43%) Manufacturing
14 122 (2.35%) Games
15 85 (1.64%) Financial Institution
16 81 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
17 74 (1.43%) Telecoms
18 56 (1.08%) Electronics
19 55 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
20 51 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,164 (22.43%) Senior
2 1,046 (20.16%) Software Engineer
3 977 (18.83%) Developer
4 600 (11.56%) Lead
5 477 (9.19%) AWS Engineer
6 417 (8.04%) Architect
7 369 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 300 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
9 297 (5.72%) Data Engineer
10 286 (5.51%) IT Support
11 283 (5.45%) Python Engineer
12 251 (4.84%) Senior Developer
13 211 (4.07%) Java Engineer
14 203 (3.91%) AWS Software Engineer
14 203 (3.91%) Java Developer
15 190 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
16 189 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
17 185 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
18 162 (3.12%) Software Developer
19 159 (3.06%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,073 (20.68%) React
2 731 (14.09%) Node.js
3 591 (11.39%) Kafka
4 542 (10.45%) .NET
5 481 (9.27%) HTML
6 476 (9.17%) Spring
7 467 (9.00%) Spring Boot
8 465 (8.96%) CSS
9 360 (6.94%) REST
10 356 (6.86%) AngularJS
11 341 (6.57%) RESTful
12 304 (5.86%) Redux
13 247 (4.76%) JPA
14 236 (4.55%) Pandas
15 225 (4.34%) Hibernate
16 209 (4.03%) PySpark
17 204 (3.93%) Vue
18 189 (3.64%) NumPy
19 159 (3.06%) SciPy
20 143 (2.76%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 507 (9.77%) Enterprise Software
2 351 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 278 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 244 (4.70%) Fixed Income
5 231 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
6 221 (4.26%) Cyberattack
7 214 (4.12%) Management Information System
8 182 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
9 174 (3.35%) Equities
10 171 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 168 (3.24%) Data Centre
12 162 (3.12%) Public Cloud
13 155 (2.99%) Mobile App
14 136 (2.62%) Hedge funds
15 120 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
16 113 (2.18%) Algorithms
17 105 (2.02%) Derivative
18 102 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
19 80 (1.54%) Security Posture
20 75 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 738 (14.22%) Linux
2 627 (12.08%) Windows
3 172 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 105 (2.02%) Android
5 66 (1.27%) Unix
6 38 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 36 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 29 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 24 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 24 (0.46%) CentOS
10 24 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (0.37%) Mac OS
13 17 (0.33%) Debian
14 11 (0.21%) AIX
14 11 (0.21%) VMS
15 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.077%) zOS
17 3 (0.058%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,968 (37.93%) Agile
2 1,681 (32.40%) Software Engineering
3 1,489 (28.70%) CI/CD
4 1,446 (27.87%) DevOps
5 1,060 (20.43%) Microservices
6 1,007 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
7 803 (15.48%) Mentoring
8 755 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 731 (14.09%) Containerisation
10 552 (10.64%) Analytics
11 538 (10.37%) Machine Learning
12 525 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 519 (10.00%) Data Engineering
14 508 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
15 497 (9.58%) Test Automation
16 482 (9.29%) Roadmaps
17 472 (9.10%) Artificial Intelligence
18 467 (9.00%) User Experience
19 464 (8.94%) Asset Management
20 460 (8.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,913 (36.87%) Python
2 1,471 (28.35%) Java
3 1,356 (26.13%) JavaScript
4 1,092 (21.04%) SQL
5 853 (16.44%) TypeScript
6 425 (8.19%) Go
7 354 (6.82%) C#
8 279 (5.38%) C++
9 252 (4.86%) PowerShell
10 241 (4.64%) Rust
11 198 (3.82%) PHP
12 193 (3.72%) Bash
13 72 (1.39%) Scala
14 60 (1.16%) Ruby
15 58 (1.12%) Shell Script
16 54 (1.04%) R
17 41 (0.79%) Bicep
18 35 (0.67%) T-SQL
19 29 (0.56%) C
20 22 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 667 (12.85%) Degree
2 569 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 445 (8.58%) AWS Certification
4 281 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 253 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 248 (4.78%) SC Cleared
7 238 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 172 (3.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 158 (3.04%) Azure Certification
10 123 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 118 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
12 98 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 78 (1.50%) CISSP
14 65 (1.25%) CCNP
15 56 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 55 (1.06%) CCNA
17 48 (0.93%) PhD
18 45 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
19 42 (0.81%) DBS Check
20 40 (0.77%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 411 (7.92%) QA
2 147 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 135 (2.60%) GDPR
4 132 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 114 (2.20%) SLA
6 111 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 93 (1.79%) NIST
8 56 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.67%) HIPAA
10 31 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 30 (0.58%) NCSC
12 22 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.15%) COBIT
17 7 (0.13%) WCAG
18 6 (0.12%) HL7
18 6 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 5 (0.096%) GRC
System Software
1 1,229 (23.68%) Docker
2 209 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 180 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 126 (2.43%) Hyper-V
5 51 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 30 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (0.42%) vSphere
9 11 (0.21%) Firmware
10 9 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 8 (0.15%) HDFS
11 8 (0.15%) Postfix
11 8 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 7 (0.13%) BitLocker
12 7 (0.13%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.096%) Apache Flume
15 4 (0.077%) KVM
16 3 (0.058%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.058%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1,239 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 839 (16.17%) Terraform
3 406 (7.82%) Ansible
4 146 (2.81%) Grafana
5 128 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 93 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 77 (1.48%) Puppet
8 60 (1.16%) SCCM
9 53 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 40 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.67%) Argo
12 32 (0.62%) Kibana
13 30 (0.58%) Nagios
14 24 (0.46%) NetBackup
15 22 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 20 (0.39%) vCenter Server
17 17 (0.33%) Istio
17 17 (0.33%) Packer
18 16 (0.31%) FortiGate
18 16 (0.31%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 584 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 367 (7.07%) Google
3 251 (4.84%) VMware
4 219 (4.22%) Solace
5 166 (3.20%) Cisco
6 158 (3.04%) Oracle
7 154 (2.97%) Databricks
8 90 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 87 (1.68%) Splunk
10 86 (1.66%) IBM
11 72 (1.39%) Citrix
12 65 (1.25%) SAP
13 62 (1.19%) Red Hat
14 60 (1.16%) Fortinet
15 56 (1.08%) SolarWinds
16 54 (1.04%) Informatica
17 49 (0.94%) Veeam
18 47 (0.91%) Salesforce
19 44 (0.85%) Dynatrace
20 40 (0.77%) Meraki