Amazon EC2 Jobs

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 445 333
Rank change year-on-year -97 -112 -11
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 415 626 2,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.66% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.54% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 283 480 910
10th Percentile £41,050 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,125 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +23.81%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon EC2 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 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £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%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2.

Salary trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -114 337 £75,000 +11.11% 115
UK excluding London -56 246 £67,500 +3.85% 47
London -14 157 £89,750 +12.19% 72
Work from Home -80 152 £67,500 - 59
South East -25 59 £65,000 - 9
Scotland -37 59 £41,500 -36.15% 9
North of England +1 51 £80,000 +23.08% 10
Midlands -10 36 £72,500 +11.54% 10
North West -17 36 £80,000 +28.00% 4
West Midlands -5 32 £72,500 +20.83% 8
South West -27 16 £63,750 +21.43% 6
East of England -35 16 £34,750 -46.54% 1
Yorkshire +43 10 £80,000 +6.67% 6
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 2
North East -9 5 £62,783 -3.41%
East Midlands -24 4 £72,500 +11.54% 2
Wales - 3 £60,000 -

Amazon EC2
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 59 (14.22%) Apache
2 54 (13.01%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.86%) Confluence
4 14 (3.37%) SAS
5 9 (2.17%) nginx
6 8 (1.93%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.69%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (1.20%) WordPress
9 3 (0.72%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.48%) IIS
11 1 (0.24%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.24%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 415 (100.00%) AWS
2 265 (63.86%) Amazon S3
3 238 (57.35%) Serverless
4 229 (55.18%) AWS Lambda
5 122 (29.40%) Amazon ECS
6 115 (27.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 99 (23.86%) Amazon EKS
8 89 (21.45%) Amazon SQS
9 68 (16.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 63 (15.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 58 (13.98%) Amazon EMR
12 48 (11.57%) Azure
13 37 (8.92%) Route 53
14 36 (8.67%) GitHub
15 35 (8.43%) Amazon Kinesis
16 32 (7.71%) Amazon ELB
16 32 (7.71%) OpenShift
17 28 (6.75%) CloudFront
18 26 (6.27%) AWS CloudTrail
18 26 (6.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.99%) DNS
2 19 (4.58%) VPN
3 14 (3.37%) Firewall
4 13 (3.13%) HTTP
5 12 (2.89%) Network Security
5 12 (2.89%) Unified Communications
6 10 (2.41%) DHCP
7 8 (1.93%) MQTT
8 7 (1.69%) IPv4
8 7 (1.69%) IPv6
8 7 (1.69%) VoIP
8 7 (1.69%) WAN
9 5 (1.20%) AMQP
9 5 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.72%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.72%) LAN
10 3 (0.72%) SSL
10 3 (0.72%) Wireless
11 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (54.46%) Amazon RDS
2 82 (19.76%) NoSQL
3 80 (19.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 52 (12.53%) MySQL
5 50 (12.05%) Big Data
5 50 (12.05%) Electronic Patient Records
5 50 (12.05%) Hadoop
6 45 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (10.60%) DynamoDB
8 40 (9.64%) Relational Database
9 34 (8.19%) RDBMS
10 29 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (4.34%) Tableau
12 15 (3.61%) Amazon QuickSight
13 14 (3.37%) Data Mining
14 12 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (2.17%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.93%) SQL Server
17 6 (1.45%) InfluxDB
17 6 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 95 (22.89%) Git
2 80 (19.28%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.75%) Artifactory
4 27 (6.51%) GitLab
5 25 (6.02%) Postman
6 22 (5.30%) JIRA
7 17 (4.10%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.89%) Subversion
9 8 (1.93%) JUnit
10 7 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.20%) JMeter
11 5 (1.20%) Maven
11 5 (1.20%) Mockito
12 4 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.96%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.96%) Sourcetree
12 4 (0.96%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 112 (26.99%) Finance
2 88 (21.20%) Social Skills
3 67 (16.14%) Law
4 66 (15.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (12.05%) Legal
6 29 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (6.27%) Front Office
8 16 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.45%) Retail
10 4 (0.96%) Marketing
10 4 (0.96%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.72%) Banking
11 3 (0.72%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.48%) Aviation
12 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 153 (36.87%) AWS Engineer
2 92 (22.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (14.94%) Software Engineer
4 57 (13.73%) Lead
5 54 (13.01%) Senior
6 49 (11.81%) AWS Software Engineer
6 49 (11.81%) Big Data Engineer
6 49 (11.81%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 49 (11.81%) Scala Engineer
6 49 (11.81%) Scala Software Engineer
7 48 (11.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (11.33%) AWS DevOps
9 46 (11.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 45 (10.84%) Developer
11 35 (8.43%) Technical Leader
12 32 (7.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 32 (7.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 29 (6.99%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 24 (5.78%) Architect
15 23 (5.54%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.64%) Spring
2 36 (8.67%) JSON
3 34 (8.19%) Spring Boot
4 30 (7.23%) Node.js
5 26 (6.27%) J2EE
6 24 (5.78%) HTML
6 24 (5.78%) React
7 22 (5.30%) AngularJS
8 19 (4.58%) CSS
9 15 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (3.61%) RESTful
10 14 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (3.37%) Laravel
11 13 (3.13%) REST
12 12 (2.89%) Kafka
13 10 (2.41%) .NET
14 8 (1.93%) GraphQL
14 8 (1.93%) LDAP
15 7 (1.69%) LEMP Stack
15 7 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.29%) Algorithms
2 44 (10.60%) Data Centre
3 40 (9.64%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.27%) Management Information System
4 26 (6.27%) Tandem
5 17 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.65%) PropTech
9 10 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.41%) IoT
9 10 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.93%) Clustering
12 7 (1.69%) Smartcard
13 6 (1.45%) Blog
13 6 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.45%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.20%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.63%) Linux
2 45 (10.84%) Windows
3 19 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.69%) Android
5 7 (1.69%) Unix
6 3 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.24%) CentOS
8 1 (0.24%) Debian
8 1 (0.24%) Solaris
8 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (51.81%) CI/CD
2 195 (46.99%) DevOps
3 160 (38.55%) Agile
4 147 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 144 (34.70%) Software Engineering
6 102 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (20.24%) Containerisation
8 80 (19.28%) SDLC
9 71 (17.11%) Visualisation
10 63 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (14.46%) Computer Science
11 60 (14.46%) Risk Management
12 49 (11.81%) Operational Stability
12 49 (11.81%) Performance Tuning
13 48 (11.57%) Deployment Automation
14 46 (11.08%) Microservices
15 42 (10.12%) Data Modelling
16 40 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 40 (9.64%) Roadmaps
16 40 (9.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 182 (43.86%) Python
2 165 (39.76%) Java
3 102 (24.58%) SQL
4 53 (12.77%) Scala
5 50 (12.05%) Go
6 44 (10.60%) JavaScript
7 34 (8.19%) Bash
7 34 (8.19%) PHP
8 22 (5.30%) PowerShell
9 19 (4.58%) R
10 18 (4.34%) TypeScript
11 15 (3.61%) C#
12 14 (3.37%) MATLAB
12 14 (3.37%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.41%) Ruby
14 8 (1.93%) C++
15 6 (1.45%) Rust
16 5 (1.20%) JSX
16 5 (1.20%) VBA
17 4 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 78 (18.80%) AWS Certification
2 71 (17.11%) Degree
3 60 (14.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (9.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (7.71%) SC Cleared
5 32 (7.71%) Security Cleared
6 15 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.10%) NIST
2 14 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.69%) QA
4 6 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 122 (29.40%) Docker
2 20 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 179 (43.13%) Terraform
2 148 (35.66%) Kubernetes
3 54 (13.01%) Ansible
4 21 (5.06%) Puppet
5 16 (3.86%) Progress Chef
6 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.13%) Grafana
7 13 (3.13%) Packer
8 12 (2.89%) Prometheus
9 10 (2.41%) Kibana
10 7 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.72%) Autotask
13 2 (0.48%) Salt
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.24%) Rancher
14 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.06%) Oracle
3 15 (3.61%) Apple
3 15 (3.61%) Google
4 14 (3.37%) Adobe
5 10 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.93%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.93%) Splunk
7 6 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.20%) VMware
9 3 (0.72%) Black Duck
9 3 (0.72%) Facebook
9 3 (0.72%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.72%) New Relic
9 3 (0.72%) Rackspace
9 3 (0.72%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.48%) Sage
11 1 (0.24%) IBM
11 1 (0.24%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.24%) SAP