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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 7,004 8,721 11,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.78% 14.79% 15.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.73% 38.39% 40.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,145 4,265 7,011
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +0.81% +12.73%
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 23,559 22,714 28,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.90% 38.52% 39.88%
Number of salaries quoted 17,428 13,539 19,500
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,298 £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 18 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 18 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 1,688 £62,783 +0.45% 423
Scotland 0 1,673 £60,000 - 126
South East -18 1,143 £60,000 -7.69% 497
North West -6 975 £62,783 -3.41% 245
South West -5 945 £60,000 - 214
Midlands -13 840 £57,500 -11.30% 220
Yorkshire -3 542 £60,000 - 132
West Midlands -13 439 £60,000 -7.69% 146
East Midlands -6 399 £55,000 -4.35% 74
East of England -12 389 £55,000 -15.38% 122
Wales +1 180 £50,000 -4.76% 52
North East -4 171 £62,783 +14.15% 46
Northern Ireland +6 135 £60,000 +14.29% 79
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 (7.67%) Apache Spark
2 287 (4.10%) ArcGIS
2 287 (4.10%) GeoServer
3 211 (3.01%) Apache
4 144 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 131 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 93 (1.33%) SharePoint
7 77 (1.10%) Confluence
8 60 (0.86%) CMS
9 59 (0.84%) OpenStack
10 55 (0.79%) 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
18 10 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 57 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.33%) Simulink
4 16 (0.23%) Trello
5 13 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 11 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.086%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.071%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.043%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.029%) Sketch
14 1 (0.014%) 1Password
14 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.014%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 50 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.071%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.071%) SAP PP
5 5 (0.071%) Shopify
6 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.029%) Magento
8 2 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.029%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.014%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,370 (48.12%) Azure
2 1,118 (15.96%) GCP
3 622 (8.88%) SaaS
4 530 (7.57%) Serverless
5 413 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
6 360 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
7 324 (4.63%) Amazon S3
8 294 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
9 240 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
10 238 (3.40%) GitHub
11 235 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
12 233 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
13 217 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
14 167 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
15 166 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 136 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 131 (1.87%) PaaS
18 129 (1.84%) Datadog
19 126 (1.80%) IaaS
19 126 (1.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 375 (5.35%) Firewall
2 288 (4.11%) DNS
3 190 (2.71%) WAN
4 169 (2.41%) DHCP
5 158 (2.26%) TCP/IP
6 125 (1.78%) VPN
7 100 (1.43%) LAN
8 99 (1.41%) Network Security
9 96 (1.37%) HTTP
10 91 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 81 (1.16%) SAN
12 76 (1.09%) SSL
13 70 (1.00%) BGP
14 69 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 67 (0.96%) VLAN
16 62 (0.89%) Wireless
17 61 (0.87%) Internet
18 41 (0.59%) VoIP
19 35 (0.50%) AMQP
20 33 (0.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 675 (9.64%) NoSQL
2 673 (9.61%) PostgreSQL
3 582 (8.31%) SQL Server
4 483 (6.90%) Big Data
5 478 (6.82%) MySQL
6 424 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
7 408 (5.83%) MongoDB
8 342 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 312 (4.45%) GIS
10 299 (4.27%) Hadoop
11 284 (4.05%) QGIS
12 283 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
13 272 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
14 207 (2.96%) BigQuery
15 196 (2.80%) Looker
16 170 (2.43%) Data Lake
17 138 (1.97%) Apache Hive
18 134 (1.91%) Oracle Database
19 118 (1.68%) DynamoDB
20 111 (1.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 694 (9.91%) Git
2 376 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 255 (3.64%) JIRA
4 251 (3.58%) GitLab
5 165 (2.36%) JUnit
6 145 (2.07%) Selenium
7 114 (1.63%) Cypress.io
8 90 (1.28%) Bitbucket Server
9 72 (1.03%) Jasmine
10 67 (0.96%) Cucumber
11 62 (0.89%) WebDriver
12 60 (0.86%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (0.86%) Protractor
12 60 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 58 (0.83%) Bitbucket
14 51 (0.73%) Postman
15 47 (0.67%) Maven
16 42 (0.60%) Visual Studio
17 32 (0.46%) CircleCI
17 32 (0.46%) JMeter
General
1 1,868 (26.67%) Finance
2 1,389 (19.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,265 (18.06%) Law
4 1,241 (17.72%) Social Skills
5 700 (9.99%) Marketing
6 487 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
7 413 (5.90%) Legal
8 359 (5.13%) Banking
9 298 (4.25%) Public Sector
10 220 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
11 206 (2.94%) Retail
12 203 (2.90%) Investment Banking
13 182 (2.60%) Financial Institution
14 150 (2.14%) Aerospace
15 149 (2.13%) Games
16 106 (1.51%) Tech for Good
17 91 (1.30%) Billing
18 75 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
19 67 (0.96%) Telecoms
20 65 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1,890 (26.98%) Software Engineer
2 1,598 (22.82%) Developer
3 1,497 (21.37%) Senior
4 1,045 (14.92%) Lead
5 797 (11.38%) Architect
6 554 (7.91%) AWS Engineer
7 454 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
8 453 (6.47%) Java Engineer
9 430 (6.14%) Senior Developer
10 411 (5.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 397 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
12 375 (5.35%) Data Engineer
13 364 (5.20%) Lead Software Engineer
14 351 (5.01%) Cloud Engineer
15 342 (4.88%) AWS Software Engineer
16 334 (4.77%) .NET Developer
17 292 (4.17%) Python Engineer
18 288 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 252 (3.60%) Big Data Engineer
20 251 (3.58%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,431 (20.43%) React
2 1,002 (14.31%) .NET
3 820 (11.71%) Node.js
4 753 (10.75%) AngularJS
5 715 (10.21%) CSS
6 665 (9.49%) Spring
7 604 (8.62%) .NET Core
8 470 (6.71%) HTML
9 462 (6.60%) Vue
10 458 (6.54%) Spring Boot
11 414 (5.91%) RESTful
12 375 (5.35%) Kafka
13 346 (4.94%) .NET Framework
14 331 (4.73%) ASP.NET
15 325 (4.64%) REST
16 285 (4.07%) PostGIS
17 284 (4.05%) Leaflet
17 284 (4.05%) OpenLayers
18 283 (4.04%) Laravel
19 256 (3.66%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 683 (9.75%) Public Cloud
2 678 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 485 (6.92%) Algorithms
4 245 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 232 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
6 226 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 209 (2.98%) Onboarding
8 204 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 192 (2.74%) Data Structures
10 178 (2.54%) Data Centre
11 145 (2.07%) Private Cloud
12 142 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
13 135 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
14 125 (1.78%) IoT
15 112 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
16 107 (1.53%) PKI
17 96 (1.37%) Mobile App
18 77 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
19 73 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
20 70 (1.00%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 921 (13.15%) Linux
2 615 (8.78%) Windows
3 294 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 239 (3.41%) Unix
5 176 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 126 (1.80%) Ubuntu
7 68 (0.97%) CentOS
8 65 (0.93%) Android
9 53 (0.76%) Debian
10 52 (0.74%) Mac OS
11 50 (0.71%) Apple iOS
12 48 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
13 34 (0.49%) Windows 10
14 33 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
15 24 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
16 20 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
17 19 (0.27%) CoreOS
18 11 (0.16%) Solaris
19 10 (0.14%) VMS
19 10 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,420 (48.83%) Agile
2 2,496 (35.64%) Software Engineering
3 2,044 (29.18%) CI/CD
4 1,885 (26.91%) DevOps
5 1,380 (19.70%) SDLC
6 1,280 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
7 1,121 (16.01%) Microservices
8 1,065 (15.21%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,055 (15.06%) Operational Stability
10 974 (13.91%) Mentoring
11 930 (13.28%) Full Stack Development
12 912 (13.02%) Machine Learning
13 795 (11.35%) Scrum
14 790 (11.28%) TDD
15 715 (10.21%) Actionable Insight
16 699 (9.98%) Community of Practice
17 649 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 632 (9.02%) Infrastructure as Code
19 541 (7.72%) Containerisation
20 540 (7.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,941 (27.71%) Python
2 1,914 (27.33%) Java
3 1,669 (23.83%) JavaScript
4 1,439 (20.55%) SQL
5 917 (13.09%) C#
6 854 (12.19%) TypeScript
7 450 (6.42%) PHP
8 294 (4.20%) PowerShell
9 280 (4.00%) Scala
10 249 (3.56%) Bash
11 200 (2.86%) PL/SQL
12 159 (2.27%) Go
13 86 (1.23%) T-SQL
14 81 (1.16%) C++
15 64 (0.91%) Ruby
16 62 (0.89%) C
17 58 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 48 (0.69%) COBOL
19 45 (0.64%) Shell Script
20 44 (0.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,058 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 739 (10.55%) SC Cleared
3 641 (9.15%) Degree
4 377 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 269 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 221 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 200 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 149 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 119 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 97 (1.38%) CISSP
11 96 (1.37%) CCNA
12 90 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 74 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 65 (0.93%) CISM
15 46 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 45 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
17 42 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 41 (0.59%) MCSE
18 41 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
19 38 (0.54%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (4.11%) QA
2 192 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 181 (2.58%) GDPR
4 121 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (1.66%) SLA
6 104 (1.48%) NIST
7 86 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 49 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 29 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (0.31%) PMO
11 15 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 13 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 12 (0.17%) NCSC
14 9 (0.13%) GRC
14 9 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.13%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.11%) PSD2
16 6 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.057%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 979 (13.98%) Docker
2 305 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 266 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 245 (3.50%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.51%) HDFS
6 37 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 25 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (0.36%) vSphere
8 22 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
9 21 (0.30%) Firmware
10 16 (0.23%) XenApp
11 14 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
12 11 (0.16%) XenDesktop
13 10 (0.14%) KVM
14 7 (0.100%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
17 3 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,085 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 1,052 (15.02%) Terraform
3 453 (6.47%) Ansible
4 174 (2.48%) Puppet
5 156 (2.23%) Grafana
6 133 (1.90%) Prometheus
7 87 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 63 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 57 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.49%) SCCM
11 33 (0.47%) vCenter Server
12 31 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
13 26 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (0.27%) Nagios
15 19 (0.27%) Opsgenie
15 19 (0.27%) VxRail
16 18 (0.26%) FortiGate
16 18 (0.26%) Kibana
17 13 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 921 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 647 (9.24%) Google
3 420 (6.00%) Oracle
4 384 (5.48%) VMware
5 325 (4.64%) Databricks
6 285 (4.07%) ESRI
7 198 (2.83%) Cisco
8 184 (2.63%) Red Hat
9 171 (2.44%) Dynatrace
10 153 (2.18%) Splunk
11 119 (1.70%) Informatica
12 86 (1.23%) IBM
13 77 (1.10%) Cloudera
14 67 (0.96%) Citrix
15 66 (0.94%) Salesforce
16 65 (0.93%) Alteryx
17 63 (0.90%) Dell
18 50 (0.71%) Sparx
19 46 (0.66%) Veeam
20 45 (0.64%) SaltStack