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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,226 18,078 35,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 17.46% 22.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.79% 40.81% 47.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,513 10,676 16,604
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 35,310 44,297 75,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.84% 42.78% 48.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,696 29,083 41,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £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 £95,000 £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%

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 4 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 4 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 8,888 £70,000 -6.67% 2,338
UK excluding London -4 6,957 £60,000 -4.00% 1,362
Work from Home -2 5,045 £70,000 -3.45% 1,516
London -2 3,795 £85,000 - 1,136
Scotland +2 1,667 £60,000 -4.16% 128
North of England -4 1,654 £62,783 +2.09% 378
South East -16 1,127 £60,000 -7.69% 224
South West -5 973 £60,000 - 228
North West -6 946 £62,783 -3.41% 226
Midlands -12 840 £57,500 -8.00% 197
Yorkshire -2 538 £60,000 - 112
West Midlands -15 449 £60,000 -7.69% 116
East Midlands -9 392 £55,000 -4.35% 80
East of England -13 387 £55,000 -18.52% 114
Wales +1 177 £50,000 -2.91% 39
North East -5 170 £62,783 +14.15% 41
Northern Ireland +5 127 £60,000 +14.29% 67
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
1 703 (6.26%) Apache Spark
2 605 (5.39%) Apache
3 557 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.98%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.97%) GeoServer
6 172 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 131 (1.17%) Confluence
7 131 (1.17%) SharePoint
8 93 (0.83%) CMS
9 84 (0.75%) nginx
10 79 (0.70%) IIS
11 71 (0.63%) OpenStack
12 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
13 44 (0.39%) WordPress
14 40 (0.36%) Drupal
15 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
16 23 (0.20%) Tomcat
17 20 (0.18%) Umbraco
18 19 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
19 18 (0.16%) JBoss
Applications
1 98 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.17%) Simulink
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 (0.045%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.027%) Sketch
13 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 64 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.080%) Unit4 Business World
4 7 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
4 7 (0.062%) Magento
5 6 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (0.053%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 5 (0.045%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.045%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.045%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.045%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.045%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.036%) Shopify
8 2 (0.018%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.018%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 5,072 (45.18%) Azure
2 2,238 (19.94%) GCP
3 996 (8.87%) Serverless
4 880 (7.84%) SaaS
5 687 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
6 573 (5.10%) Amazon S3
7 562 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
8 472 (4.20%) GitHub
9 445 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
10 402 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
11 364 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 362 (3.22%) Snowflake
13 353 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
13 353 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
14 343 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
15 310 (2.76%) dbt
16 278 (2.48%) PaaS
17 259 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
18 246 (2.19%) IaaS
19 243 (2.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 569 (5.07%) Firewall
2 452 (4.03%) DNS
3 263 (2.34%) WAN
4 261 (2.32%) TCP/IP
5 245 (2.18%) DHCP
6 195 (1.74%) VPN
7 186 (1.66%) LAN
8 173 (1.54%) Network Security
9 147 (1.31%) HTTP
10 117 (1.04%) SD-WAN
11 110 (0.98%) SAN
12 103 (0.92%) BGP
13 97 (0.86%) SSL
14 95 (0.85%) Internet
15 93 (0.83%) Wireless
16 90 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
17 86 (0.77%) VLAN
18 60 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 53 (0.47%) VoIP
20 49 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,151 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
2 905 (8.06%) NoSQL
3 812 (7.23%) SQL Server
4 693 (6.17%) MySQL
5 629 (5.60%) Big Data
6 573 (5.10%) MongoDB
7 571 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
8 468 (4.17%) Relational Database
9 443 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
9 443 (3.95%) Data Lake
10 398 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
11 381 (3.39%) Hadoop
12 363 (3.23%) GIS
13 330 (2.94%) QGIS
14 302 (2.69%) Apache Ignite
15 281 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
16 275 (2.45%) Tableau
17 260 (2.32%) BigQuery
18 241 (2.15%) Apache Arrow
19 239 (2.13%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 1,084 (9.66%) Git
2 676 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 400 (3.56%) GitLab
4 393 (3.50%) JIRA
5 192 (1.71%) JUnit
6 180 (1.60%) Cypress.io
7 178 (1.59%) Selenium
8 105 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 99 (0.88%) Cucumber
10 95 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
11 93 (0.83%) TeamCity
12 80 (0.71%) Jasmine
13 78 (0.69%) Artifactory
14 71 (0.63%) Postman
15 70 (0.62%) Maven
16 63 (0.56%) CircleCI
17 62 (0.55%) WebDriver
18 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
18 60 (0.53%) Protractor
19 52 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,174 (28.27%) Finance
2 2,063 (18.38%) Social Skills
3 1,650 (14.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,372 (12.22%) Law
5 922 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 896 (7.98%) Banking
7 827 (7.37%) Marketing
8 572 (5.10%) Front Office
9 515 (4.59%) Public Sector
10 484 (4.31%) Legal
11 429 (3.82%) Investment Banking
12 388 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
13 381 (3.39%) Retail
14 217 (1.93%) Financial Institution
15 205 (1.83%) Games
16 177 (1.58%) Tech for Good
17 146 (1.30%) Aerospace
18 110 (0.98%) Telecoms
19 96 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
19 96 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,785 (24.81%) Developer
2 2,641 (23.53%) Senior
3 2,573 (22.92%) Software Engineer
4 1,574 (14.02%) Lead
5 1,268 (11.30%) Architect
6 923 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
7 796 (7.09%) Senior Developer
8 699 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 684 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 620 (5.52%) Data Engineer
11 609 (5.42%) Java Engineer
12 581 (5.18%) Python Engineer
13 526 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
14 516 (4.60%) .NET Developer
15 499 (4.45%) Java Developer
16 492 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
17 449 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
18 448 (3.99%) Python Software Engineer
19 440 (3.92%) AWS Software Engineer
20 432 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,150 (19.15%) React
2 1,482 (13.20%) .NET
3 1,151 (10.25%) Node.js
4 1,012 (9.01%) AngularJS
5 879 (7.83%) Spring
6 853 (7.60%) CSS
7 808 (7.20%) .NET Core
8 691 (6.16%) Kafka
9 684 (6.09%) Spring Boot
10 656 (5.84%) Vue
11 616 (5.49%) HTML
12 564 (5.02%) RESTful
13 456 (4.06%) ASP.NET
14 451 (4.02%) REST
15 421 (3.75%) .NET Framework
16 395 (3.52%) gRPC
17 371 (3.30%) Laravel
18 337 (3.00%) Protocol Buffers
19 331 (2.95%) PostGIS
20 330 (2.94%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 857 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 835 (7.44%) Public Cloud
3 577 (5.14%) Algorithms
4 517 (4.61%) Hedge funds
5 504 (4.49%) Fixed Income
6 415 (3.70%) Equities
7 373 (3.32%) Product Ownership
8 371 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 369 (3.29%) Derivative
10 356 (3.17%) Management Information System
11 340 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
12 315 (2.81%) Onboarding
13 302 (2.69%) Data Centre
14 293 (2.61%) Data Structures
15 275 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
16 258 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
17 194 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
18 187 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
19 167 (1.49%) Private Cloud
20 160 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,356 (12.08%) Linux
2 896 (7.98%) Windows
3 400 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 320 (2.85%) Unix
5 228 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 142 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 109 (0.97%) Android
8 95 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 86 (0.77%) CentOS
10 64 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 62 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 57 (0.51%) Debian
13 47 (0.42%) Windows 10
14 45 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
15 32 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
16 27 (0.24%) CoreOS
17 24 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
18 22 (0.20%) Solaris
19 14 (0.12%) VMS
20 11 (0.098%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,886 (43.52%) Agile
2 3,798 (33.83%) Software Engineering
3 2,871 (25.57%) DevOps
4 2,844 (25.33%) CI/CD
5 1,973 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
6 1,685 (15.01%) Microservices
7 1,613 (14.37%) SDLC
8 1,476 (13.15%) Full Stack Development
9 1,458 (12.99%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,368 (12.19%) Mentoring
11 1,310 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 1,157 (10.31%) TDD
13 1,061 (9.45%) Operational Stability
14 1,033 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,027 (9.15%) Scrum
16 1,018 (9.07%) Actionable Insight
17 937 (8.35%) Computer Science
18 885 (7.88%) Containerisation
19 845 (7.53%) Asset Management
20 840 (7.48%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3,740 (33.32%) Python
2 3,040 (27.08%) Java
3 2,508 (22.34%) JavaScript
4 2,357 (21.00%) SQL
5 1,591 (14.17%) TypeScript
6 1,432 (12.76%) C#
7 582 (5.18%) PHP
8 450 (4.01%) PowerShell
9 413 (3.68%) Scala
10 400 (3.56%) Bash
11 395 (3.52%) Go
12 291 (2.59%) Kotlin
13 243 (2.16%) PL/SQL
14 178 (1.59%) Ruby
15 147 (1.31%) C++
16 130 (1.16%) R
17 112 (1.00%) C
18 105 (0.94%) T-SQL
19 93 (0.83%) Shell Script
20 77 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,407 (12.53%) Security Cleared
2 1,248 (11.12%) Degree
3 987 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 571 (5.09%) AWS Certification
5 475 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 283 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 272 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 233 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 225 (2.00%) Master's Degree
10 209 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 201 (1.79%) CISSP
12 152 (1.35%) DBS Check
13 149 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
14 124 (1.10%) CCNA
15 121 (1.08%) CISM
16 102 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
17 88 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 76 (0.68%) CCSP
18 76 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
19 61 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (3.85%) QA
2 342 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 243 (2.16%) GDPR
4 197 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 168 (1.50%) NIST
6 143 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 136 (1.21%) SLA
8 88 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 60 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 32 (0.29%) NCSC
12 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 23 (0.20%) PMO
14 19 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 18 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.16%) WCAG
16 17 (0.15%) COBIT
17 13 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,738 (15.48%) Docker
2 483 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 367 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 277 (2.47%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.10%) HDFS
6 74 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 40 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 38 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 36 (0.32%) vSphere
11 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 22 (0.20%) KVM
12 22 (0.20%) XenApp
13 21 (0.19%) Firmware
14 14 (0.12%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.098%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.089%) DFS Replication
17 8 (0.071%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
19 5 (0.045%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,937 (17.25%) Kubernetes
2 1,812 (16.14%) Terraform
3 750 (6.68%) Ansible
4 271 (2.41%) Puppet
5 242 (2.16%) Grafana
6 216 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 123 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 115 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 84 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 53 (0.47%) SCCM
11 45 (0.40%) vCenter Server
12 38 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 36 (0.32%) Kibana
13 36 (0.32%) Nagios
14 34 (0.30%) Packer
15 31 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 30 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
17 28 (0.25%) Consul
17 28 (0.25%) Istio
18 24 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,427 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 1,027 (9.15%) Google
3 593 (5.28%) Oracle
4 538 (4.79%) VMware
5 502 (4.47%) Databricks
6 333 (2.97%) ESRI
7 316 (2.81%) Cisco
8 251 (2.24%) Red Hat
9 192 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 186 (1.66%) Splunk
11 135 (1.20%) Informatica
12 118 (1.05%) IBM
13 110 (0.98%) Citrix
14 93 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.82%) Cloudera
16 78 (0.69%) Palo Alto
17 76 (0.68%) Alteryx
18 67 (0.60%) CheckPoint
18 67 (0.60%) Dell
18 67 (0.60%) SAP