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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,730 15,964 40,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.87% 17.03% 23.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.15% 39.50% 48.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,723 9,822 16,313
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 36,490 40,418 83,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 43.13% 48.67%
Number of salaries quoted 27,172 27,178 41,673
10th Percentile £30,250 £34,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 7 June 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 7 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 -4 9,441 £70,000 -6.67% 2,241
UK excluding London -4 7,183 £60,000 -4.00% 1,325
Work from Home -2 5,331 £70,000 -6.67% 1,370
London -2 4,093 £87,500 +2.94% 1,047
North of England -7 1,762 £62,783 +0.45% 441
Scotland +2 1,578 £60,000 - 98
South East -15 1,215 £60,000 -7.69% 226
North West -8 1,035 £62,783 -3.41% 288
South West -5 963 £60,000 - 203
Midlands -14 909 £60,000 -1.23% 198
Yorkshire -6 554 £60,000 - 112
West Midlands -21 463 £60,000 -7.69% 118
East Midlands -10 444 £57,500 - 80
East of England -8 399 £55,000 -16.98% 81
Wales +3 198 £51,996 +1.74% 42
North East -2 173 £64,000 +16.36% 41
Northern Ireland +14 151 £60,000 +14.29% 59
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
1 802 (6.84%) Apache
2 763 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
3 656 (5.59%) Apache Spark
4 333 (2.84%) ArcGIS
5 332 (2.83%) GeoServer
6 179 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 126 (1.07%) Confluence
8 124 (1.06%) SharePoint
9 93 (0.79%) CMS
10 81 (0.69%) nginx
11 67 (0.57%) IIS
12 63 (0.54%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.44%) WebLogic
14 41 (0.35%) WordPress
15 37 (0.32%) Tuxedo
16 36 (0.31%) Drupal
17 24 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
18 22 (0.19%) Tomcat
18 22 (0.19%) Umbraco
19 20 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 95 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.23%) Simulink
4 24 (0.20%) Adobe XD
5 18 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.14%) Trello
7 14 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.10%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.043%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.043%) OrCAD
9 5 (0.043%) Sketch
9 5 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.034%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.026%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.009%) Revit
12 1 (0.009%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 64 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.10%) Ripple
4 11 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.068%) Shopify
6 7 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.051%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.051%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 6 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.051%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 5 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.043%) Magento
8 5 (0.043%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.043%) SAP IBP
8 5 (0.043%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.043%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.034%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 5,289 (45.09%) Azure
2 2,386 (20.34%) GCP
3 978 (8.34%) Serverless
4 898 (7.66%) SaaS
5 670 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 556 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
7 546 (4.65%) Amazon S3
8 524 (4.47%) Snowflake
9 517 (4.41%) dbt
10 462 (3.94%) GitHub
11 431 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
12 425 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
13 355 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 355 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
14 350 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
15 331 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
16 283 (2.41%) Power Platform
17 266 (2.27%) PaaS
18 241 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
19 230 (1.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 596 (5.08%) Firewall
2 418 (3.56%) DNS
3 268 (2.28%) WAN
4 238 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 207 (1.76%) DHCP
6 200 (1.71%) VPN
7 197 (1.68%) LAN
8 196 (1.67%) Network Security
9 130 (1.11%) HTTP
10 116 (0.99%) SD-WAN
11 107 (0.91%) BGP
12 106 (0.90%) SAN
13 100 (0.85%) SSL
14 98 (0.84%) VLAN
15 96 (0.82%) Wireless
16 91 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
17 85 (0.72%) Internet
18 65 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
19 62 (0.53%) VoIP
20 52 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,204 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 886 (7.55%) NoSQL
3 826 (7.04%) SQL Server
4 690 (5.88%) MySQL
5 619 (5.28%) Data Lake
6 617 (5.26%) Big Data
7 598 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
8 594 (5.06%) MongoDB
9 476 (4.06%) Apache Ignite
10 471 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
11 461 (3.93%) Relational Database
12 457 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
13 433 (3.69%) Dremio
14 426 (3.63%) Apache Arrow
15 369 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
16 364 (3.10%) Hadoop
17 363 (3.09%) GIS
18 346 (2.95%) Tableau
19 330 (2.81%) QGIS
20 283 (2.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1,118 (9.53%) Git
2 623 (5.31%) Jenkins
3 424 (3.61%) GitLab
4 386 (3.29%) JIRA
5 197 (1.68%) Cypress.io
6 184 (1.57%) JUnit
7 168 (1.43%) Selenium
8 104 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 93 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 85 (0.72%) Bitbucket Server
11 74 (0.63%) Jasmine
12 73 (0.62%) Cucumber
13 67 (0.57%) Artifactory
13 67 (0.57%) Postman
14 66 (0.56%) CircleCI
15 62 (0.53%) WebDriver
16 61 (0.52%) Maven
17 60 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.51%) Protractor
17 60 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 3,272 (27.89%) Finance
2 2,250 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 1,538 (13.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,297 (11.06%) Law
5 1,043 (8.89%) Banking
6 966 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
7 757 (6.45%) Marketing
8 753 (6.42%) Front Office
9 562 (4.79%) Investment Banking
10 504 (4.30%) Public Sector
11 484 (4.13%) Legal
12 448 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
13 424 (3.61%) Retail
14 213 (1.82%) Financial Institution
15 209 (1.78%) Games
16 177 (1.51%) Tech for Good
17 173 (1.47%) Aerospace
18 118 (1.01%) Telecoms
19 109 (0.93%) Billing
20 103 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,884 (24.59%) Developer
2 2,781 (23.71%) Senior
3 2,692 (22.95%) Software Engineer
4 1,662 (14.17%) Lead
5 1,410 (12.02%) Architect
6 988 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
7 798 (6.80%) Senior Developer
8 776 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 707 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 672 (5.73%) Python Engineer
11 629 (5.36%) Java Engineer
12 582 (4.96%) Data Engineer
13 547 (4.66%) Java Software Engineer
14 534 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
15 530 (4.52%) .NET Developer
16 504 (4.30%) AWS Software Engineer
17 490 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
18 479 (4.08%) Java Developer
19 470 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
20 450 (3.84%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,220 (18.93%) React
2 1,545 (13.17%) .NET
3 1,248 (10.64%) Node.js
4 1,006 (8.58%) AngularJS
5 878 (7.49%) CSS
6 835 (7.12%) Spring
7 823 (7.02%) .NET Core
8 690 (5.88%) Kafka
9 676 (5.76%) Vue
10 654 (5.58%) Spring Boot
11 608 (5.18%) HTML
12 601 (5.12%) gRPC
13 561 (4.78%) RESTful
14 535 (4.56%) Protocol Buffers
15 486 (4.14%) REST
16 458 (3.90%) ASP.NET
17 440 (3.75%) .NET Framework
18 432 (3.68%) Pandas
19 393 (3.35%) NumPy
20 382 (3.26%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 814 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 791 (6.74%) Public Cloud
3 714 (6.09%) Hedge funds
4 683 (5.82%) Fixed Income
5 586 (5.00%) Equities
6 549 (4.68%) Algorithms
7 526 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 523 (4.46%) Derivative
9 393 (3.35%) Product Ownership
10 381 (3.25%) Management Information System
11 348 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
12 313 (2.67%) Data Centre
13 310 (2.64%) Onboarding
14 297 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
15 261 (2.23%) Data Structures
16 247 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
17 199 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
18 190 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
19 168 (1.43%) IoT
20 165 (1.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,385 (11.81%) Linux
2 895 (7.63%) Windows
3 408 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 298 (2.54%) Unix
5 236 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 164 (1.40%) Ubuntu
7 113 (0.96%) Android
8 99 (0.84%) CentOS
9 94 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 63 (0.54%) Mac OS
11 61 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
12 57 (0.49%) Debian
13 48 (0.41%) Windows 10
13 48 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
14 31 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
15 25 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
16 24 (0.20%) Solaris
17 19 (0.16%) CoreOS
18 15 (0.13%) VMS
19 10 (0.085%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,160 (43.99%) Agile
2 3,976 (33.90%) Software Engineering
3 3,040 (25.92%) DevOps
4 2,795 (23.83%) CI/CD
5 2,067 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
6 1,688 (14.39%) Microservices
7 1,549 (13.21%) Full Stack Development
8 1,506 (12.84%) SDLC
9 1,438 (12.26%) Mentoring
10 1,431 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
11 1,244 (10.61%) Machine Learning
12 1,172 (9.99%) TDD
13 1,055 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 1,045 (8.91%) Asset Management
15 1,041 (8.87%) Scrum
16 985 (8.40%) Computer Science
17 981 (8.36%) Actionable Insight
18 971 (8.28%) Operational Stability
19 965 (8.23%) Analytics
20 891 (7.60%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3,983 (33.96%) Python
2 3,157 (26.91%) Java
3 2,742 (23.38%) JavaScript
4 2,345 (19.99%) SQL
5 1,807 (15.40%) TypeScript
6 1,498 (12.77%) C#
7 588 (5.01%) PHP
8 458 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 430 (3.67%) Scala
10 388 (3.31%) Go
11 381 (3.25%) Bash
12 320 (2.73%) Kotlin
13 214 (1.82%) PL/SQL
14 173 (1.47%) Ruby
15 141 (1.20%) C++
16 121 (1.03%) R
17 109 (0.93%) C
18 107 (0.91%) T-SQL
19 83 (0.71%) Shell Script
20 77 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,408 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 1,311 (11.18%) Degree
3 1,021 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 607 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 521 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 306 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 279 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 233 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 223 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 203 (1.73%) CISSP
11 198 (1.69%) DBS Check
12 189 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 142 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 133 (1.13%) CISM
15 129 (1.10%) CCNA
16 95 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
17 76 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
18 73 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 64 (0.55%) CCNP
19 64 (0.55%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 450 (3.84%) QA
2 406 (3.46%) Data Quality
3 244 (2.08%) GDPR
4 215 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 178 (1.52%) NIST
6 135 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 129 (1.10%) SLA
8 94 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 69 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 33 (0.28%) NCSC
11 29 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 22 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 21 (0.18%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 18 (0.15%) PMO
15 18 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.14%) COBIT
16 17 (0.14%) WCAG
17 13 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,713 (14.60%) Docker
2 483 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 375 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 268 (2.28%) Hyper-V
5 112 (0.95%) HDFS
6 85 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 39 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 36 (0.31%) vSphere
10 35 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 34 (0.29%) VMware NSX
12 30 (0.26%) XenApp
13 26 (0.22%) KVM
14 22 (0.19%) XenDesktop
15 20 (0.17%) Firmware
16 11 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
17 7 (0.060%) DFS Replication
17 7 (0.060%) VirtualBox
18 6 (0.051%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.051%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1,929 (16.45%) Kubernetes
2 1,831 (15.61%) Terraform
3 771 (6.57%) Ansible
4 267 (2.28%) Puppet
5 242 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 237 (2.02%) Grafana
7 134 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 114 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 92 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 60 (0.51%) SCCM
11 41 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 40 (0.34%) Nagios
13 38 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 33 (0.28%) ZABBIX
15 32 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 32 (0.27%) Kibana
16 30 (0.26%) Packer
17 29 (0.25%) Istio
18 22 (0.19%) Consul
19 21 (0.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,426 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 1,041 (8.87%) Google
3 588 (5.01%) Oracle
4 534 (4.55%) VMware
5 511 (4.36%) Databricks
6 335 (2.86%) Cisco
7 333 (2.84%) ESRI
8 273 (2.33%) Red Hat
9 196 (1.67%) Splunk
10 193 (1.65%) Dynatrace
11 126 (1.07%) Informatica
12 114 (0.97%) Citrix
13 107 (0.91%) IBM
14 84 (0.72%) Cloudera
14 84 (0.72%) Salesforce
15 83 (0.71%) ServiceNow
16 79 (0.67%) Palo Alto
17 76 (0.65%) Bloomberg
18 71 (0.61%) Alteryx
18 71 (0.61%) Dell