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 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 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,369 17,485 37,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.38% 17.63% 23.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.10% 40.94% 47.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7,545 10,280 16,277
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 £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +0.81% +12.73%

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 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £96,000 £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 18 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 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
England -4 9,017 £70,000 -6.67% 2,647
UK excluding London -4 7,004 £60,000 -4.00% 1,687
Work from Home -3 5,134 £70,000 -6.67% 1,666
London -2 3,911 £85,000 - 1,412
North of England -4 1,688 £62,783 +0.45% 413
Scotland 0 1,673 £60,000 - 126
South East -18 1,143 £60,000 -7.69% 491
North West -6 975 £62,783 -3.41% 238
South West -5 945 £60,000 - 213
Midlands -13 840 £57,500 -11.30% 215
Yorkshire -3 542 £60,000 - 129
West Midlands -13 439 £60,000 -7.69% 142
East Midlands -6 399 £55,000 -4.35% 73
East of England -12 389 £55,000 -15.38% 120
Wales +1 180 £50,000 -4.76% 51
North East -4 171 £62,783 +14.15% 46
Northern Ireland +6 135 £60,000 +14.29% 77
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
1 704 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 689 (6.06%) Apache
3 652 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.94%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.93%) GeoServer
6 168 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 132 (1.16%) Confluence
8 131 (1.15%) SharePoint
9 91 (0.80%) CMS
10 82 (0.72%) nginx
11 70 (0.62%) IIS
12 68 (0.60%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
14 42 (0.37%) WordPress
15 37 (0.33%) Drupal
15 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
16 22 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 21 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
18 19 (0.17%) JBoss
18 19 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 98 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (0.77%) 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%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.009%) UXPin
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 (0.062%) 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%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.018%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5,162 (45.40%) Azure
2 2,285 (20.10%) GCP
3 992 (8.73%) Serverless
4 876 (7.71%) SaaS
5 688 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
6 566 (4.98%) Amazon S3
7 555 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 470 (4.13%) GitHub
9 439 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
10 426 (3.75%) Snowflake
11 406 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 389 (3.42%) dbt
13 352 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
14 346 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
15 345 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
16 336 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
17 280 (2.46%) PaaS
18 261 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
19 246 (2.16%) IaaS
20 238 (2.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 566 (4.98%) Firewall
2 415 (3.65%) DNS
3 260 (2.29%) WAN
4 231 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 206 (1.81%) DHCP
6 194 (1.71%) VPN
7 187 (1.64%) LAN
8 171 (1.50%) Network Security
9 119 (1.05%) HTTP
10 116 (1.02%) SD-WAN
11 107 (0.94%) SAN
12 100 (0.88%) BGP
13 98 (0.86%) SSL
14 93 (0.82%) Wireless
15 92 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
16 90 (0.79%) Internet
17 88 (0.77%) VLAN
18 55 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
18 55 (0.48%) VoIP
19 46 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,165 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
2 913 (8.03%) NoSQL
3 821 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 683 (6.01%) MySQL
5 647 (5.69%) Big Data
6 588 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
7 586 (5.15%) MongoDB
8 526 (4.63%) Data Lake
9 472 (4.15%) Relational Database
10 455 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
11 388 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
12 384 (3.38%) Hadoop
13 374 (3.29%) Apache Ignite
14 363 (3.19%) GIS
15 348 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
16 330 (2.90%) QGIS
17 313 (2.75%) Apache Arrow
17 313 (2.75%) Dremio
18 308 (2.71%) Tableau
19 257 (2.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,128 (9.92%) Git
2 663 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 412 (3.62%) GitLab
4 382 (3.36%) JIRA
5 199 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 186 (1.64%) JUnit
7 181 (1.59%) Selenium
8 103 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 93 (0.82%) TeamCity
10 91 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
11 88 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 77 (0.68%) Jasmine
13 71 (0.62%) Artifactory
14 69 (0.61%) Postman
15 64 (0.56%) CircleCI
15 64 (0.56%) Maven
16 62 (0.55%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.53%) Protractor
18 52 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,242 (28.52%) Finance
2 2,157 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 1,632 (14.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,387 (12.20%) Law
5 960 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 951 (8.36%) Banking
7 820 (7.21%) Marketing
8 647 (5.69%) Front Office
9 511 (4.49%) Public Sector
10 484 (4.26%) Legal
11 479 (4.21%) Investment Banking
12 441 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
13 415 (3.65%) Retail
14 219 (1.93%) Financial Institution
15 207 (1.82%) Games
16 173 (1.52%) Tech for Good
17 160 (1.41%) Aerospace
18 107 (0.94%) Telecoms
19 98 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
20 95 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,793 (24.57%) Developer
2 2,663 (23.42%) Senior
3 2,662 (23.41%) Software Engineer
4 1,594 (14.02%) Lead
5 1,305 (11.48%) Architect
6 960 (8.44%) AWS Engineer
7 770 (6.77%) Senior Developer
8 732 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 684 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 633 (5.57%) Java Engineer
11 626 (5.51%) Python Engineer
12 606 (5.33%) Data Engineer
13 549 (4.83%) Java Software Engineer
14 521 (4.58%) .NET Developer
15 494 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
16 492 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
17 488 (4.29%) Java Developer
18 474 (4.17%) AWS Software Engineer
19 455 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
20 445 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,174 (19.12%) React
2 1,507 (13.26%) .NET
3 1,178 (10.36%) Node.js
4 1,022 (8.99%) AngularJS
5 871 (7.66%) Spring
6 861 (7.57%) CSS
7 817 (7.19%) .NET Core
8 688 (6.05%) Kafka
9 675 (5.94%) Spring Boot
10 665 (5.85%) Vue
11 597 (5.25%) HTML
12 563 (4.95%) RESTful
13 485 (4.27%) gRPC
14 457 (4.02%) REST
15 452 (3.98%) ASP.NET
16 432 (3.80%) .NET Framework
17 424 (3.73%) Protocol Buffers
18 368 (3.24%) Laravel
19 336 (2.96%) Pandas
20 331 (2.91%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 830 (7.30%) Public Cloud
2 829 (7.29%) Cloud Native
3 605 (5.32%) Hedge funds
4 579 (5.09%) Algorithms
4 579 (5.09%) Fixed Income
5 486 (4.27%) Equities
6 427 (3.76%) Derivative
6 427 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 381 (3.35%) Product Ownership
8 362 (3.18%) Management Information System
9 341 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
10 318 (2.80%) Onboarding
11 299 (2.63%) Data Centre
12 279 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
13 270 (2.37%) Data Structures
14 247 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
15 194 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
16 188 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
17 170 (1.50%) Private Cloud
18 161 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,345 (11.83%) Linux
2 880 (7.74%) Windows
3 394 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 316 (2.78%) Unix
5 228 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 149 (1.31%) Ubuntu
7 111 (0.98%) Android
8 92 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 90 (0.79%) CentOS
10 63 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 63 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 58 (0.51%) Debian
12 48 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
13 46 (0.40%) Windows 10
14 32 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 25 (0.22%) Solaris
16 24 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
17 19 (0.17%) CoreOS
18 16 (0.14%) VMS
19 10 (0.088%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,027 (44.22%) Agile
2 3,906 (34.36%) Software Engineering
3 2,916 (25.65%) DevOps
4 2,847 (25.04%) CI/CD
5 2,021 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 1,700 (14.95%) Microservices
7 1,581 (13.91%) SDLC
8 1,516 (13.33%) Full Stack Development
9 1,480 (13.02%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,373 (12.08%) Mentoring
11 1,317 (11.58%) Machine Learning
12 1,173 (10.32%) TDD
13 1,063 (9.35%) Operational Stability
14 1,032 (9.08%) Scrum
15 1,026 (9.02%) Infrastructure as Code
16 997 (8.77%) Actionable Insight
17 948 (8.34%) Computer Science
18 943 (8.29%) Asset Management
19 891 (7.84%) Analytics
20 889 (7.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3,848 (33.85%) Python
2 3,116 (27.41%) Java
3 2,591 (22.79%) JavaScript
4 2,380 (20.93%) SQL
5 1,670 (14.69%) TypeScript
6 1,451 (12.76%) C#
7 577 (5.08%) PHP
8 433 (3.81%) PowerShell
9 425 (3.74%) Scala
10 399 (3.51%) Go
11 386 (3.40%) Bash
12 306 (2.69%) Kotlin
13 227 (2.00%) PL/SQL
14 174 (1.53%) Ruby
15 150 (1.32%) C++
16 130 (1.14%) R
17 114 (1.00%) T-SQL
18 111 (0.98%) C
19 90 (0.79%) Shell Script
20 73 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,367 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 1,290 (11.35%) Degree
3 989 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 579 (5.09%) AWS Certification
5 483 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 294 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 256 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 222 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 221 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
10 198 (1.74%) DBS Check
11 190 (1.67%) CISSP
12 179 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 145 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 123 (1.08%) CCNA
15 119 (1.05%) CISM
16 95 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
17 79 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 76 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 69 (0.61%) CCSP
20 59 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 437 (3.84%) QA
2 369 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 245 (2.15%) GDPR
4 201 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 167 (1.47%) NIST
6 144 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 138 (1.21%) SLA
8 90 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 61 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 29 (0.26%) NCSC
11 27 (0.24%) SOC 2
12 23 (0.20%) PMO
13 20 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 18 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 18 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.15%) COBIT
15 17 (0.15%) WCAG
16 13 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 13 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,690 (14.86%) Docker
2 470 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 357 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 270 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.09%) HDFS
6 79 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 37 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 37 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 36 (0.32%) vSphere
10 33 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (0.21%) XenApp
12 23 (0.20%) KVM
13 22 (0.19%) Firmware
14 16 (0.14%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
16 8 (0.070%) DFS Replication
16 8 (0.070%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,920 (16.89%) Kubernetes
2 1,801 (15.84%) Terraform
3 743 (6.54%) Ansible
4 266 (2.34%) Puppet
5 244 (2.15%) Grafana
6 236 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 125 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 117 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 90 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 57 (0.50%) SCCM
11 43 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 39 (0.34%) Nagios
13 38 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 35 (0.31%) Kibana
15 32 (0.28%) Packer
16 31 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
16 31 (0.27%) ZABBIX
17 30 (0.26%) Istio
18 26 (0.23%) Consul
19 19 (0.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1,418 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 1,041 (9.16%) Google
3 588 (5.17%) Oracle
4 531 (4.67%) Databricks
5 522 (4.59%) VMware
6 333 (2.93%) ESRI
7 316 (2.78%) Cisco
8 252 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 194 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 189 (1.66%) Splunk
11 130 (1.14%) Informatica
12 115 (1.01%) IBM
13 110 (0.97%) Citrix
14 95 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.81%) Cloudera
16 77 (0.68%) Palo Alto
17 76 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 71 (0.62%) Dell
19 67 (0.59%) Bloomberg
20 66 (0.58%) Atlassian