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

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,333 17,765 36,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.42% 17.53% 22.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.99% 40.89% 47.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,565 10,527 16,304
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 35,422 43,451 76,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 42.88% 48.30%
Number of salaries quoted 26,758 28,589 41,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,916
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 12 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 12 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 8,987 £70,000 -6.67% 2,292
UK excluding London -4 7,000 £60,000 -4.00% 1,297
Work from Home -3 5,095 £70,000 -4.76% 1,506
London -2 3,871 £85,000 - 1,130
North of England -4 1,676 £62,783 +0.45% 357
Scotland +1 1,673 £60,000 -3.23% 107
South East -18 1,137 £60,000 -7.69% 229
South West -5 967 £60,000 - 212
North West -6 962 £62,783 -3.41% 214
Midlands -14 839 £57,500 -11.07% 200
Yorkshire -2 542 £60,000 - 107
West Midlands -16 442 £60,000 -7.69% 120
East Midlands -8 396 £55,000 -4.35% 80
East of England -13 390 £55,000 -15.38% 96
Wales +2 178 £50,000 -4.76% 39
North East -3 172 £62,783 +14.15% 36
Northern Ireland +7 130 £60,000 +14.29% 68
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
1 705 (6.22%) Apache Spark
2 647 (5.71%) Apache
3 611 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.95%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.94%) GeoServer
6 172 (1.52%) 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 (0.79%) 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 (0.026%) 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 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.079%) 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 5,129 (45.26%) Azure
2 2,272 (20.05%) GCP
3 991 (8.74%) Serverless
4 880 (7.76%) SaaS
5 688 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
6 577 (5.09%) Amazon S3
7 566 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
8 471 (4.16%) GitHub
9 443 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
10 406 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
11 396 (3.49%) Snowflake
12 366 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 354 (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 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
19 248 (2.19%) IaaS
20 239 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 573 (5.06%) Firewall
2 453 (4.00%) DNS
3 265 (2.34%) WAN
4 261 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 241 (2.13%) DHCP
6 194 (1.71%) VPN
7 187 (1.65%) LAN
8 172 (1.52%) Network Security
9 145 (1.28%) HTTP
10 118 (1.04%) SD-WAN
11 108 (0.95%) SAN
12 102 (0.90%) BGP
13 98 (0.86%) SSL
14 95 (0.84%) Internet
15 92 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
15 92 (0.81%) Wireless
16 86 (0.76%) VLAN
17 58 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
18 55 (0.49%) VoIP
19 48 (0.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,153 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 910 (8.03%) NoSQL
3 824 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 690 (6.09%) MySQL
5 641 (5.66%) Big Data
6 588 (5.19%) MongoDB
7 583 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
8 497 (4.39%) Data Lake
9 468 (4.13%) Relational Database
10 444 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
11 397 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
12 384 (3.39%) Hadoop
13 363 (3.20%) GIS
14 343 (3.03%) Apache Ignite
15 330 (2.91%) QGIS
16 317 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
17 293 (2.59%) Tableau
18 275 (2.43%) Apache Arrow
18 275 (2.43%) Dremio
19 257 (2.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,106 (9.76%) Git
2 670 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 400 (3.53%) GitLab
4 384 (3.39%) JIRA
5 192 (1.69%) 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 3,248 (28.66%) Finance
2 2,125 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1,662 (14.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,388 (12.25%) Law
5 948 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 922 (8.14%) Banking
7 826 (7.29%) Marketing
8 615 (5.43%) Front Office
9 513 (4.53%) Public Sector
10 484 (4.27%) Legal
11 451 (3.98%) Investment Banking
12 433 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
13 399 (3.52%) Retail
14 218 (1.92%) Financial Institution
15 204 (1.80%) Games
16 176 (1.55%) Tech for Good
17 153 (1.35%) Aerospace
18 109 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 96 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
20 92 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,787 (24.59%) Developer
2 2,666 (23.52%) Senior
3 2,620 (23.12%) Software Engineer
4 1,584 (13.98%) Lead
5 1,283 (11.32%) Architect
6 944 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 776 (6.85%) Senior Developer
8 719 (6.34%) Senior Software Engineer
9 690 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 622 (5.49%) Java Engineer
11 614 (5.42%) 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
16 494 (4.36%) Java Developer
17 474 (4.18%) Python Software Engineer
18 456 (4.02%) AWS Software Engineer
19 452 (3.99%) Full Stack Developer
20 438 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,164 (19.09%) React
2 1,502 (13.25%) .NET
3 1,169 (10.32%) Node.js
4 1,016 (8.96%) AngularJS
5 874 (7.71%) Spring
6 857 (7.56%) CSS
7 816 (7.20%) .NET Core
8 693 (6.11%) Kafka
9 681 (6.01%) Spring Boot
10 663 (5.85%) Vue
11 622 (5.49%) HTML
12 559 (4.93%) RESTful
13 455 (4.01%) ASP.NET
14 448 (3.95%) REST
15 444 (3.92%) gRPC
16 431 (3.80%) .NET Framework
17 384 (3.39%) Protocol Buffers
18 367 (3.24%) Laravel
19 331 (2.92%) PostGIS
20 330 (2.91%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 843 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 838 (7.39%) Public Cloud
3 578 (5.10%) Algorithms
4 565 (4.99%) Hedge funds
5 546 (4.82%) Fixed Income
6 453 (4.00%) Equities
7 399 (3.52%) Derivative
8 398 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 375 (3.31%) Product Ownership
10 356 (3.14%) Management Information System
11 341 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
12 317 (2.80%) Onboarding
13 306 (2.70%) Data Centre
14 276 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
15 270 (2.38%) Data Structures
16 253 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
17 193 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
18 188 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
19 169 (1.49%) Private Cloud
20 161 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,351 (11.92%) Linux
2 886 (7.82%) Windows
3 399 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 321 (2.83%) 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 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 64 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 57 (0.50%) Debian
12 47 (0.41%) Windows 10
13 46 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 32 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 24 (0.21%) Solaris
16 22 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
17 20 (0.18%) CoreOS
18 16 (0.14%) VMS
19 11 (0.097%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,961 (43.77%) Agile
2 3,853 (34.00%) Software Engineering
3 2,891 (25.51%) DevOps
4 2,844 (25.09%) CI/CD
5 1,998 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
6 1,695 (14.96%) Microservices
7 1,603 (14.14%) SDLC
8 1,491 (13.16%) Full Stack Development
9 1,476 (13.02%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,370 (12.09%) Mentoring
11 1,320 (11.65%) Machine Learning
12 1,166 (10.29%) TDD
13 1,062 (9.37%) Operational Stability
14 1,046 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,019 (8.99%) Scrum
16 982 (8.66%) Actionable Insight
17 941 (8.30%) Computer Science
18 905 (7.99%) Asset Management
19 878 (7.75%) Containerisation
20 868 (7.66%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3,803 (33.56%) Python
2 3,080 (27.18%) Java
3 2,544 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 2,379 (20.99%) SQL
5 1,639 (14.46%) TypeScript
6 1,449 (12.79%) C#
7 577 (5.09%) PHP
8 444 (3.92%) PowerShell
9 417 (3.68%) Scala
10 402 (3.55%) Go
11 392 (3.46%) Bash
12 301 (2.66%) Kotlin
13 228 (2.01%) PL/SQL
14 179 (1.58%) Ruby
15 148 (1.31%) C++
16 132 (1.16%) R
17 110 (0.97%) C
17 110 (0.97%) T-SQL
18 91 (0.80%) Shell Script
19 75 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,398 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 1,274 (11.24%) Degree
3 989 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 602 (5.31%) AWS Certification
5 475 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 297 (2.62%) Azure Certification
7 277 (2.44%) 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
12 174 (1.54%) DBS Check
13 149 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 125 (1.10%) CCNA
15 120 (1.06%) CISM
16 98 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
17 83 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 72 (0.64%) CCSP
19 64 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
20 61 (0.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 429 (3.79%) QA
2 359 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 243 (2.14%) GDPR
4 202 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 169 (1.49%) NIST
6 142 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 139 (1.23%) SLA
8 90 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 61 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.26%) 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 1,701 (15.01%) Docker
2 484 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 360 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 272 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.09%) 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 1,924 (16.98%) Kubernetes
2 1,819 (16.05%) Terraform
3 752 (6.64%) Ansible
4 270 (2.38%) Puppet
5 248 (2.19%) Grafana
6 232 (2.05%) Prometheus
7 124 (1.09%) 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 (0.26%) Istio
17 27 (0.24%) Consul
18 23 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,438 (12.69%) Microsoft
2 1,026 (9.05%) Google
3 588 (5.19%) Oracle
4 534 (4.71%) VMware
5 518 (4.57%) Databricks
6 333 (2.94%) ESRI
7 317 (2.80%) Cisco
8 251 (2.21%) Red Hat
9 194 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 190 (1.68%) Splunk
11 132 (1.16%) Informatica
12 115 (1.01%) 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