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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,425 17,347 37,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.42% 17.58% 23.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.24% 40.81% 47.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,570 10,183 16,283
10th Percentile £42,475 £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 £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 35,438 42,509 79,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.41% 43.08% 48.55%
Number of salaries quoted 26,663 27,856 41,318
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,852
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 £98,750
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 22 May 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 22 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 -4 9,074 £70,000 -6.67% 2,452
UK excluding London -4 7,035 £60,000 -4.00% 1,448
Work from Home -3 5,163 £70,000 -6.04% 1,497
London -2 3,933 £87,500 +2.94% 1,220
North of England -4 1,706 £62,783 +0.45% 422
Scotland +1 1,668 £60,000 - 133
South East -18 1,146 £60,000 -7.69% 234
North West -6 990 £62,783 -3.41% 264
South West -5 950 £60,000 - 213
Midlands -13 848 £57,500 -8.00% 228
Yorkshire -3 546 £60,000 - 115
West Midlands -16 442 £60,000 -7.69% 146
East Midlands -7 404 £57,500 - 82
East of England -13 391 £55,000 -15.38% 97
Wales +3 180 £50,000 -4.76% 52
North East -3 170 £62,783 +14.15% 43
Northern Ireland +7 135 £60,000 +14.29% 86
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 6 £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
1 717 (6.28%) Apache
2 702 (6.14%) Apache Spark
3 683 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.92%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.91%) GeoServer
6 167 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 134 (1.17%) Confluence
8 129 (1.13%) SharePoint
9 90 (0.79%) CMS
10 82 (0.72%) nginx
11 69 (0.60%) IIS
11 69 (0.60%) OpenStack
12 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
13 41 (0.36%) WordPress
14 37 (0.32%) Drupal
14 37 (0.32%) Tuxedo
15 23 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
16 21 (0.18%) Tomcat
17 20 (0.18%) JBoss
18 19 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 96 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 86 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 23 (0.20%) Simulink
5 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.14%) Trello
7 14 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.044%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.035%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.035%) Sketch
12 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 64 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
4 7 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.053%) Magento
5 6 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (0.053%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.044%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.044%) Shopify
6 5 (0.044%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.018%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.018%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.018%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.018%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 5,182 (45.36%) Azure
2 2,308 (20.20%) GCP
3 987 (8.64%) Serverless
4 874 (7.65%) SaaS
5 684 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
6 561 (4.91%) Amazon S3
7 550 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
8 471 (4.12%) GitHub
9 448 (3.92%) Snowflake
10 439 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
11 415 (3.63%) dbt
12 406 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
13 357 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
14 355 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
15 346 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 340 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
17 281 (2.46%) PaaS
18 257 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
19 254 (2.22%) Power Platform
20 245 (2.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 565 (4.95%) Firewall
2 420 (3.68%) DNS
3 259 (2.27%) WAN
4 233 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 206 (1.80%) DHCP
6 193 (1.69%) VPN
7 187 (1.64%) LAN
8 171 (1.50%) Network Security
9 122 (1.07%) HTTP
10 115 (1.01%) SD-WAN
11 107 (0.94%) SAN
12 99 (0.87%) BGP
12 99 (0.87%) SSL
13 92 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
14 91 (0.80%) Wireless
15 89 (0.78%) Internet
15 89 (0.78%) VLAN
16 55 (0.48%) VoIP
17 53 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
18 46 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,175 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 914 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 807 (7.06%) SQL Server
4 675 (5.91%) MySQL
5 649 (5.68%) Big Data
6 596 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
7 587 (5.14%) MongoDB
8 548 (4.80%) Data Lake
9 472 (4.13%) Relational Database
10 454 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
11 395 (3.46%) Apache Ignite
12 382 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
13 380 (3.33%) Hadoop
14 374 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
15 363 (3.18%) GIS
16 339 (2.97%) Dremio
17 337 (2.95%) Apache Arrow
18 330 (2.89%) QGIS
19 327 (2.86%) Tableau
20 257 (2.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1,127 (9.86%) Git
2 672 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 419 (3.67%) GitLab
4 393 (3.44%) JIRA
5 202 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 184 (1.61%) JUnit
7 178 (1.56%) Selenium
8 103 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 93 (0.81%) TeamCity
10 90 (0.79%) Bitbucket Server
11 84 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 76 (0.67%) Jasmine
13 69 (0.60%) Artifactory
14 68 (0.60%) Postman
15 66 (0.58%) CircleCI
16 62 (0.54%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.53%) Maven
17 60 (0.53%) Protractor
17 60 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 3,262 (28.55%) Finance
2 2,167 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 1,627 (14.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,388 (12.15%) Law
5 970 (8.49%) Banking
6 956 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
7 818 (7.16%) Marketing
8 668 (5.85%) Front Office
9 514 (4.50%) Public Sector
10 496 (4.34%) Investment Banking
11 483 (4.23%) Legal
12 457 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
13 420 (3.68%) Retail
14 217 (1.90%) Financial Institution
15 208 (1.82%) Games
16 172 (1.51%) Tech for Good
17 165 (1.44%) Aerospace
18 110 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 96 (0.84%) Billing
19 96 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,797 (24.48%) Developer
2 2,688 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 2,685 (23.50%) Senior
4 1,609 (14.08%) Lead
5 1,315 (11.51%) Architect
6 969 (8.48%) AWS Engineer
7 774 (6.77%) Senior Developer
8 741 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 702 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 642 (5.62%) Python Engineer
11 633 (5.54%) Java Engineer
12 601 (5.26%) Data Engineer
13 551 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
14 520 (4.55%) .NET Developer
15 505 (4.42%) Python Software Engineer
16 490 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
17 484 (4.24%) Java Developer
18 480 (4.20%) AWS Software Engineer
19 456 (3.99%) Full Stack Developer
20 453 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,174 (19.03%) React
2 1,508 (13.20%) .NET
3 1,202 (10.52%) Node.js
4 1,017 (8.90%) AngularJS
5 862 (7.54%) CSS
5 862 (7.54%) Spring
6 816 (7.14%) .NET Core
7 684 (5.99%) Kafka
8 674 (5.90%) Spring Boot
9 663 (5.80%) Vue
10 595 (5.21%) HTML
11 556 (4.87%) RESTful
12 515 (4.51%) gRPC
13 473 (4.14%) REST
14 454 (3.97%) Protocol Buffers
15 451 (3.95%) ASP.NET
16 435 (3.81%) .NET Framework
17 367 (3.21%) Laravel
18 357 (3.12%) Pandas
19 331 (2.90%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 840 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 830 (7.26%) Public Cloud
3 628 (5.50%) Hedge funds
4 596 (5.22%) Fixed Income
5 575 (5.03%) Algorithms
6 504 (4.41%) Equities
7 441 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 440 (3.85%) Derivative
9 391 (3.42%) Product Ownership
10 366 (3.20%) Management Information System
11 335 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
12 319 (2.79%) Onboarding
13 301 (2.63%) Data Centre
14 284 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
15 269 (2.35%) Data Structures
16 255 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
17 193 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
18 191 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
19 172 (1.51%) Private Cloud
20 161 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,344 (11.76%) Linux
2 872 (7.63%) Windows
3 392 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 315 (2.76%) Unix
5 230 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 149 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 109 (0.95%) Android
8 91 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 89 (0.78%) CentOS
10 64 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 61 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
12 58 (0.51%) Debian
13 48 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
14 44 (0.39%) Windows 10
15 32 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
16 25 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
17 24 (0.21%) Solaris
18 19 (0.17%) CoreOS
19 16 (0.14%) VMS
20 10 (0.088%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,079 (44.46%) Agile
2 3,943 (34.51%) Software Engineering
3 2,967 (25.97%) DevOps
4 2,869 (25.11%) CI/CD
5 2,028 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
6 1,698 (14.86%) Microservices
7 1,582 (13.85%) SDLC
8 1,520 (13.30%) Full Stack Development
9 1,483 (12.98%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,394 (12.20%) Mentoring
11 1,319 (11.54%) Machine Learning
12 1,173 (10.27%) TDD
13 1,063 (9.30%) Operational Stability
14 1,053 (9.22%) Scrum
15 1,046 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 986 (8.63%) Actionable Insight
17 968 (8.47%) Asset Management
18 950 (8.32%) Computer Science
19 916 (8.02%) Analytics
20 898 (7.86%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3,891 (34.06%) Python
2 3,143 (27.51%) Java
3 2,625 (22.98%) JavaScript
4 2,355 (20.61%) SQL
5 1,703 (14.91%) TypeScript
6 1,449 (12.68%) C#
7 573 (5.02%) PHP
8 438 (3.83%) Scala
9 435 (3.81%) PowerShell
10 403 (3.53%) Go
11 381 (3.33%) Bash
12 309 (2.70%) Kotlin
13 226 (1.98%) PL/SQL
14 173 (1.51%) Ruby
15 144 (1.26%) C++
16 126 (1.10%) R
17 108 (0.95%) C
18 103 (0.90%) T-SQL
19 90 (0.79%) Shell Script
20 72 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,390 (12.17%) Security Cleared
2 1,289 (11.28%) Degree
3 1,006 (8.81%) SC Cleared
4 597 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 488 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 309 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 261 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 226 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 217 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 201 (1.76%) DBS Check
11 189 (1.65%) CISSP
12 181 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 145 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 121 (1.06%) CCNA
15 119 (1.04%) CISM
16 96 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
17 77 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 76 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 67 (0.59%) CCSP
20 59 (0.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 443 (3.88%) QA
2 378 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 245 (2.14%) GDPR
4 200 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 168 (1.47%) NIST
6 145 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 136 (1.19%) SLA
8 92 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 63 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 31 (0.27%) NCSC
11 29 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 26 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 23 (0.20%) PMO
14 20 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 18 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.15%) COBIT
16 17 (0.15%) WCAG
17 13 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,708 (14.95%) Docker
2 468 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 359 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 272 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 123 (1.08%) HDFS
6 82 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 37 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 36 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 35 (0.31%) vSphere
11 34 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
12 24 (0.21%) KVM
12 24 (0.21%) XenApp
13 21 (0.18%) Firmware
14 16 (0.14%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
16 7 (0.061%) DFS Replication
16 7 (0.061%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.044%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,940 (16.98%) Kubernetes
2 1,823 (15.96%) Terraform
3 763 (6.68%) Ansible
4 266 (2.33%) Puppet
5 245 (2.14%) Grafana
6 243 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 123 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 116 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 91 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 57 (0.50%) SCCM
11 44 (0.39%) vCenter Server
12 40 (0.35%) Nagios
13 39 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 34 (0.30%) Kibana
15 32 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
15 32 (0.28%) Packer
15 32 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 29 (0.25%) Istio
17 24 (0.21%) Consul
18 19 (0.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1,413 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 1,037 (9.08%) Google
3 586 (5.13%) Oracle
4 539 (4.72%) Databricks
5 523 (4.58%) VMware
6 333 (2.91%) ESRI
7 315 (2.76%) Cisco
8 256 (2.24%) Red Hat
9 194 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 190 (1.66%) Splunk
11 129 (1.13%) Informatica
12 112 (0.98%) IBM
13 108 (0.95%) Citrix
14 94 (0.82%) Salesforce
15 93 (0.81%) Cloudera
16 77 (0.67%) Palo Alto
16 77 (0.67%) ServiceNow
17 76 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 69 (0.60%) Dell
19 66 (0.58%) Bloomberg