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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,317 17,658 36,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 17.50% 22.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.97% 40.87% 47.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,564 10,453 16,346
10th Percentile £42,250 £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 £91,991 £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 35,399 43,201 76,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.67% 42.82% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 26,752 28,421 41,369
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £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 £96,250 £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 11 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 11 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 8,976 £70,000 -6.67% 2,239
UK excluding London -4 6,992 £60,000 -4.00% 1,281
Work from Home -3 5,083 £70,000 -3.45% 1,411
London -2 3,864 £85,000 - 1,097
North of England -4 1,672 £62,783 +0.45% 350
Scotland +1 1,671 £60,000 -3.23% 107
South East -18 1,136 £60,000 -7.69% 227
South West -5 968 £60,000 - 210
North West -6 959 £62,783 -3.41% 208
Midlands -13 839 £57,500 -11.54% 194
Yorkshire -2 541 £60,000 - 107
West Midlands -18 442 £60,000 -7.69% 116
East Midlands -7 396 £55,000 -4.35% 78
East of England -13 390 £55,000 -15.38% 101
Wales 0 177 £50,000 -3.85% 38
North East -4 172 £62,783 +14.15% 35
Northern Ireland +6 129 £60,000 +14.29% 66
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 (6.22%) Apache Spark
2 647 (5.72%) Apache
3 611 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.95%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.94%) GeoServer
6 173 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 135 (1.19%) SharePoint
8 128 (1.13%) Confluence
9 93 (0.82%) CMS
10 82 (0.72%) nginx
11 79 (0.70%) IIS
12 71 (0.63%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
14 42 (0.37%) WordPress
15 38 (0.34%) Drupal
16 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
17 23 (0.20%) Tomcat
18 20 (0.18%) Umbraco
19 19 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
19 19 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 100 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 21 (0.19%) Simulink
5 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 19 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.14%) Trello
8 14 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 6 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
11 5 (0.044%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.035%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.027%) Sketch
14 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
15 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 8 (0.071%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.053%) Magento
6 6 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.053%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.044%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
7 5 (0.044%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.035%) Shopify
9 2 (0.018%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.018%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5,119 (45.23%) Azure
2 2,272 (20.08%) GCP
3 991 (8.76%) Serverless
4 880 (7.78%) SaaS
5 688 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
6 575 (5.08%) Amazon S3
7 567 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
8 471 (4.16%) GitHub
9 443 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
10 406 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
11 396 (3.50%) Snowflake
12 366 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 353 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
14 351 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
15 350 (3.09%) dbt
16 349 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
17 281 (2.48%) PaaS
18 261 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
19 249 (2.20%) IaaS
20 239 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 574 (5.07%) Firewall
2 453 (4.00%) DNS
3 266 (2.35%) WAN
4 261 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 242 (2.14%) DHCP
6 195 (1.72%) VPN
7 188 (1.66%) LAN
8 173 (1.53%) Network Security
9 145 (1.28%) HTTP
10 118 (1.04%) SD-WAN
11 109 (0.96%) SAN
12 102 (0.90%) BGP
13 98 (0.87%) SSL
14 95 (0.84%) Internet
15 93 (0.82%) Wireless
16 92 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
17 86 (0.76%) VLAN
18 58 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
19 55 (0.49%) VoIP
20 48 (0.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,152 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
2 909 (8.03%) NoSQL
3 823 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 690 (6.10%) MySQL
5 639 (5.65%) Big Data
6 588 (5.20%) MongoDB
7 570 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
8 485 (4.29%) Data Lake
9 468 (4.14%) Relational Database
10 444 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
11 397 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
12 384 (3.39%) Hadoop
13 363 (3.21%) GIS
14 343 (3.03%) Apache Ignite
15 330 (2.92%) QGIS
16 315 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
17 290 (2.56%) Tableau
18 275 (2.43%) Apache Arrow
18 275 (2.43%) Dremio
19 257 (2.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,104 (9.76%) Git
2 670 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 400 (3.53%) GitLab
4 385 (3.40%) JIRA
5 192 (1.70%) Cypress.io
6 189 (1.67%) JUnit
7 179 (1.58%) Selenium
8 105 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 94 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
9 94 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 93 (0.82%) TeamCity
11 77 (0.68%) Jasmine
12 74 (0.65%) Artifactory
13 67 (0.59%) Maven
13 67 (0.59%) Postman
14 63 (0.56%) CircleCI
15 62 (0.55%) WebDriver
16 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
16 60 (0.53%) Protractor
17 52 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,237 (28.60%) Finance
2 2,120 (18.73%) Social Skills
3 1,662 (14.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,388 (12.26%) Law
5 945 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
6 924 (8.16%) Banking
7 826 (7.30%) Marketing
8 615 (5.43%) Front Office
9 513 (4.53%) Public Sector
10 484 (4.28%) Legal
11 451 (3.99%) Investment Banking
12 419 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
13 397 (3.51%) Retail
14 218 (1.93%) Financial Institution
15 204 (1.80%) Games
16 176 (1.56%) Tech for Good
17 151 (1.33%) Aerospace
18 109 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 96 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
20 92 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,785 (24.61%) Developer
2 2,648 (23.40%) Senior
3 2,620 (23.15%) Software Engineer
4 1,583 (13.99%) Lead
5 1,283 (11.34%) Architect
6 944 (8.34%) AWS Engineer
7 774 (6.84%) Senior Developer
8 718 (6.34%) Senior Software Engineer
9 691 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 622 (5.50%) Java Engineer
11 614 (5.43%) Data Engineer
12 607 (5.36%) Python Engineer
13 538 (4.75%) Java Software Engineer
14 521 (4.60%) .NET Developer
15 496 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
16 492 (4.35%) Java Developer
17 474 (4.19%) Python Software Engineer
18 456 (4.03%) AWS Software Engineer
19 452 (3.99%) Full Stack Developer
20 438 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,164 (19.12%) React
2 1,501 (13.26%) .NET
3 1,169 (10.33%) Node.js
4 1,017 (8.99%) AngularJS
5 874 (7.72%) Spring
6 857 (7.57%) CSS
7 816 (7.21%) .NET Core
8 691 (6.11%) Kafka
9 678 (5.99%) Spring Boot
10 663 (5.86%) Vue
11 622 (5.50%) HTML
12 558 (4.93%) RESTful
13 455 (4.02%) ASP.NET
14 447 (3.95%) REST
15 444 (3.92%) gRPC
16 431 (3.81%) .NET Framework
17 384 (3.39%) Protocol Buffers
18 367 (3.24%) Laravel
19 331 (2.92%) PostGIS
20 330 (2.92%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 843 (7.45%) Cloud Native
2 838 (7.40%) Public Cloud
3 578 (5.11%) Algorithms
4 565 (4.99%) Hedge funds
5 546 (4.82%) Fixed Income
6 453 (4.00%) Equities
7 399 (3.53%) Derivative
8 396 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 374 (3.30%) Product Ownership
10 356 (3.15%) Management Information System
11 341 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
12 316 (2.79%) Onboarding
13 306 (2.70%) Data Centre
14 276 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
15 270 (2.39%) Data Structures
16 255 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
17 193 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
18 188 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
19 169 (1.49%) Private Cloud
20 161 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,352 (11.95%) Linux
2 887 (7.84%) Windows
3 400 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 321 (2.84%) Unix
5 228 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 145 (1.28%) Ubuntu
7 112 (0.99%) Android
8 95 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 91 (0.80%) CentOS
10 64 (0.57%) Mac OS
10 64 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 57 (0.50%) Debian
12 47 (0.42%) Windows 10
13 46 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 33 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
15 24 (0.21%) Solaris
16 23 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 20 (0.18%) CoreOS
18 16 (0.14%) VMS
19 11 (0.097%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,960 (43.83%) Agile
2 3,853 (34.05%) Software Engineering
3 2,891 (25.55%) DevOps
4 2,844 (25.13%) CI/CD
5 1,996 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
6 1,693 (14.96%) Microservices
7 1,604 (14.17%) SDLC
8 1,494 (13.20%) Full Stack Development
9 1,464 (12.94%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,371 (12.11%) Mentoring
11 1,321 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 1,166 (10.30%) TDD
13 1,062 (9.38%) Operational Stability
14 1,046 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,020 (9.01%) Scrum
16 984 (8.69%) Actionable Insight
17 938 (8.29%) Computer Science
18 905 (8.00%) Asset Management
19 878 (7.76%) Containerisation
20 864 (7.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3,801 (33.59%) Python
2 3,076 (27.18%) Java
3 2,545 (22.49%) JavaScript
4 2,376 (20.99%) SQL
5 1,638 (14.47%) TypeScript
6 1,449 (12.80%) C#
7 577 (5.10%) PHP
8 445 (3.93%) PowerShell
9 415 (3.67%) Scala
10 402 (3.55%) Go
11 392 (3.46%) Bash
12 300 (2.65%) Kotlin
13 228 (2.01%) PL/SQL
14 179 (1.58%) Ruby
15 148 (1.31%) C++
16 130 (1.15%) R
17 110 (0.97%) C
17 110 (0.97%) T-SQL
18 91 (0.80%) Shell Script
19 77 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,400 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 1,269 (11.21%) Degree
3 988 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 590 (5.21%) AWS Certification
5 474 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 285 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 278 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 228 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 220 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 208 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 196 (1.73%) CISSP
12 172 (1.52%) DBS Check
13 149 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 125 (1.10%) CCNA
15 120 (1.06%) CISM
16 98 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
17 83 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 72 (0.64%) CCSP
19 64 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
20 61 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 429 (3.79%) QA
2 359 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 243 (2.15%) GDPR
4 202 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 169 (1.49%) NIST
6 142 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 140 (1.24%) SLA
8 89 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 61 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.27%) SOC 2
11 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 29 (0.26%) NCSC
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 1,699 (15.01%) Docker
2 485 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 361 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 272 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.10%) HDFS
6 75 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 42 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 38 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 36 (0.32%) vSphere
11 32 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.20%) KVM
12 23 (0.20%) XenApp
13 21 (0.19%) Firmware
14 15 (0.13%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.088%) DFS Replication
17 8 (0.071%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
19 5 (0.044%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,921 (16.97%) Kubernetes
2 1,820 (16.08%) Terraform
3 753 (6.65%) Ansible
4 270 (2.39%) Puppet
5 248 (2.19%) Grafana
6 232 (2.05%) Prometheus
7 124 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 117 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 87 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 56 (0.49%) SCCM
11 45 (0.40%) vCenter Server
12 39 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 39 (0.34%) Nagios
13 36 (0.32%) Kibana
14 32 (0.28%) Packer
15 31 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 31 (0.27%) ZABBIX
16 30 (0.27%) Istio
17 27 (0.24%) Consul
18 23 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,438 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 1,026 (9.07%) Google
3 588 (5.20%) Oracle
4 535 (4.73%) VMware
5 516 (4.56%) Databricks
6 333 (2.94%) ESRI
7 317 (2.80%) Cisco
8 251 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 194 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 190 (1.68%) Splunk
11 132 (1.17%) Informatica
12 115 (1.02%) IBM
13 114 (1.01%) Citrix
14 95 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.81%) Cloudera
16 79 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 76 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 70 (0.62%) Dell
19 67 (0.59%) SAP
20 66 (0.58%) CheckPoint