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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,248 18,120 35,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.41% 17.46% 22.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.79% 40.81% 47.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,530 10,699 16,591
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 £91,250 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
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 £96,000 £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 3 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 3 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 8,909 £70,000 -6.67% 2,425
UK excluding London -4 6,966 £60,000 -4.00% 1,405
Work from Home -2 5,054 £70,000 -3.45% 1,498
London -2 3,805 £85,000 - 1,185
Scotland +1 1,667 £60,000 -4.00% 120
North of England -4 1,657 £62,783 +0.45% 385
South East -15 1,131 £60,000 -7.69% 237
South West -5 974 £60,000 - 231
North West -6 947 £62,783 -3.41% 229
Midlands -11 839 £57,500 -8.00% 206
Yorkshire -2 539 £60,000 - 109
West Midlands -14 448 £60,000 -7.69% 123
East Midlands -7 392 £55,000 -4.35% 82
East of England -12 389 £55,000 -18.52% 125
Wales +1 177 £50,000 -2.91% 46
North East -4 171 £62,783 +14.15% 48
Northern Ireland +5 127 £60,000 +14.29% 67
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
1 706 (6.28%) Apache Spark
2 607 (5.40%) Apache
3 558 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.97%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.96%) GeoServer
6 173 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 132 (1.17%) SharePoint
8 131 (1.16%) Confluence
9 94 (0.84%) CMS
10 84 (0.75%) nginx
11 80 (0.71%) IIS
12 71 (0.63%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
14 44 (0.39%) WordPress
15 40 (0.36%) Drupal
16 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
17 23 (0.20%) Tomcat
18 20 (0.18%) Umbraco
19 19 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
20 18 (0.16%) JBoss
Applications
1 99 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.17%) Simulink
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 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.027%) Sketch
13 2 (0.018%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.009%) UXPin
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%) Magento
5 7 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.044%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.044%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 5 (0.044%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.044%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.036%) Shopify
8 2 (0.018%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.018%) R3 Corda
8 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.018%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 5,085 (45.21%) Azure
2 2,244 (19.95%) GCP
3 1,002 (8.91%) Serverless
4 881 (7.83%) SaaS
5 690 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
6 574 (5.10%) Amazon S3
7 565 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
8 473 (4.21%) GitHub
9 445 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
10 404 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
11 367 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 362 (3.22%) Snowflake
13 354 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
13 354 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
14 344 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
15 311 (2.76%) dbt
16 278 (2.47%) PaaS
17 261 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
18 246 (2.19%) IaaS
19 244 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 572 (5.09%) Firewall
2 453 (4.03%) DNS
3 265 (2.36%) WAN
4 261 (2.32%) TCP/IP
5 245 (2.18%) DHCP
6 195 (1.73%) VPN
7 188 (1.67%) LAN
8 174 (1.55%) Network Security
9 147 (1.31%) HTTP
10 117 (1.04%) SD-WAN
11 110 (0.98%) SAN
12 103 (0.92%) BGP
13 97 (0.86%) SSL
14 95 (0.84%) Internet
15 94 (0.84%) Wireless
16 90 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
17 86 (0.76%) VLAN
18 60 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 53 (0.47%) VoIP
20 49 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,152 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 907 (8.06%) NoSQL
3 812 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 694 (6.17%) MySQL
5 630 (5.60%) Big Data
6 574 (5.10%) MongoDB
7 570 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
8 467 (4.15%) Relational Database
9 445 (3.96%) Data Lake
10 443 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
11 402 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
12 384 (3.41%) Hadoop
13 363 (3.23%) GIS
14 330 (2.93%) QGIS
15 305 (2.71%) Apache Ignite
16 282 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
17 274 (2.44%) Tableau
18 260 (2.31%) BigQuery
19 241 (2.14%) Apache Arrow
20 239 (2.12%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 1,086 (9.66%) Git
2 675 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 401 (3.57%) GitLab
4 393 (3.49%) JIRA
5 193 (1.72%) JUnit
6 180 (1.60%) Cypress.io
7 178 (1.58%) Selenium
8 105 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 100 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 95 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
11 93 (0.83%) TeamCity
12 80 (0.71%) Jasmine
13 78 (0.69%) Artifactory
14 71 (0.63%) Maven
14 71 (0.63%) Postman
15 64 (0.57%) CircleCI
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 3,176 (28.24%) Finance
2 2,069 (18.39%) Social Skills
3 1,649 (14.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,373 (12.21%) Law
5 925 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 897 (7.97%) Banking
7 828 (7.36%) Marketing
8 573 (5.09%) Front Office
9 514 (4.57%) Public Sector
10 484 (4.30%) Legal
11 430 (3.82%) Investment Banking
12 388 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
13 380 (3.38%) Retail
14 217 (1.93%) Financial Institution
15 205 (1.82%) Games
16 177 (1.57%) Tech for Good
17 146 (1.30%) Aerospace
18 110 (0.98%) Telecoms
19 96 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
19 96 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,789 (24.80%) Developer
2 2,648 (23.54%) Senior
3 2,576 (22.90%) Software Engineer
4 1,574 (13.99%) Lead
5 1,272 (11.31%) Architect
6 923 (8.21%) AWS Engineer
7 795 (7.07%) Senior Developer
8 700 (6.22%) Senior Software Engineer
9 688 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 622 (5.53%) Data Engineer
11 610 (5.42%) Java Engineer
12 583 (5.18%) Python Engineer
13 527 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
14 518 (4.61%) .NET Developer
15 500 (4.45%) Java Developer
16 492 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
17 451 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
18 449 (3.99%) Python Software Engineer
19 440 (3.91%) AWS Software Engineer
20 432 (3.84%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,151 (19.12%) React
2 1,486 (13.21%) .NET
3 1,151 (10.23%) Node.js
4 1,013 (9.01%) AngularJS
5 880 (7.82%) Spring
6 855 (7.60%) CSS
7 809 (7.19%) .NET Core
8 697 (6.20%) Kafka
9 685 (6.09%) Spring Boot
10 657 (5.84%) Vue
11 617 (5.49%) HTML
12 564 (5.01%) RESTful
13 456 (4.05%) ASP.NET
14 453 (4.03%) REST
15 421 (3.74%) .NET Framework
16 395 (3.51%) gRPC
17 372 (3.31%) Laravel
18 337 (3.00%) Protocol Buffers
19 331 (2.94%) PostGIS
20 330 (2.93%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 859 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 835 (7.42%) Public Cloud
3 577 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 517 (4.60%) Hedge funds
5 504 (4.48%) Fixed Income
6 415 (3.69%) Equities
7 374 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 372 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 369 (3.28%) Derivative
10 355 (3.16%) Management Information System
11 340 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
12 314 (2.79%) Onboarding
13 302 (2.68%) Data Centre
14 293 (2.60%) Data Structures
15 276 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
16 258 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
17 193 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
18 187 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
19 167 (1.48%) Private Cloud
20 161 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,359 (12.08%) Linux
2 899 (7.99%) Windows
3 403 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 320 (2.84%) Unix
5 229 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 142 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 109 (0.97%) Android
8 95 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 86 (0.76%) CentOS
10 64 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 62 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 57 (0.51%) Debian
13 48 (0.43%) Windows 10
14 46 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
15 33 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
16 27 (0.24%) CoreOS
17 24 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
18 22 (0.20%) Solaris
19 14 (0.12%) VMS
20 11 (0.098%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,894 (43.51%) Agile
2 3,801 (33.79%) Software Engineering
3 2,880 (25.60%) DevOps
4 2,852 (25.36%) CI/CD
5 1,979 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
6 1,690 (15.02%) Microservices
7 1,614 (14.35%) SDLC
8 1,478 (13.14%) Full Stack Development
9 1,458 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,373 (12.21%) Mentoring
11 1,313 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 1,159 (10.30%) TDD
13 1,061 (9.43%) Operational Stability
14 1,038 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,028 (9.14%) Scrum
16 1,017 (9.04%) Actionable Insight
17 941 (8.37%) Computer Science
18 888 (7.89%) Containerisation
19 846 (7.52%) Asset Management
20 838 (7.45%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3,750 (33.34%) Python
2 3,046 (27.08%) Java
3 2,511 (22.32%) JavaScript
4 2,360 (20.98%) SQL
5 1,593 (14.16%) TypeScript
6 1,436 (12.77%) C#
7 583 (5.18%) PHP
8 450 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 413 (3.67%) Scala
10 402 (3.57%) Bash
11 395 (3.51%) Go
12 292 (2.60%) Kotlin
13 243 (2.16%) PL/SQL
14 178 (1.58%) Ruby
15 147 (1.31%) C++
16 131 (1.16%) R
17 112 (1.00%) C
18 105 (0.93%) T-SQL
19 93 (0.83%) Shell Script
20 78 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,409 (12.53%) Security Cleared
2 1,258 (11.18%) Degree
3 988 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 573 (5.09%) AWS Certification
5 479 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 283 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 272 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 234 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 228 (2.03%) Master's Degree
10 209 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 201 (1.79%) CISSP
12 152 (1.35%) DBS Check
13 149 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 124 (1.10%) CCNA
15 121 (1.08%) CISM
16 102 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
17 88 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 76 (0.68%) CCSP
18 76 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
19 62 (0.55%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 433 (3.85%) QA
2 343 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 244 (2.17%) GDPR
4 198 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 168 (1.49%) NIST
6 142 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 136 (1.21%) SLA
8 88 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 62 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 32 (0.28%) NCSC
12 29 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 23 (0.20%) PMO
14 19 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 18 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.16%) WCAG
16 17 (0.15%) COBIT
17 13 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,744 (15.50%) Docker
2 484 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 368 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 277 (2.46%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.10%) HDFS
6 74 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 40 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 40 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 37 (0.33%) vSphere
10 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (0.20%) KVM
11 22 (0.20%) XenApp
12 21 (0.19%) Firmware
13 14 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 11 (0.098%) Time Sharing Option
15 10 (0.089%) DFS Replication
16 8 (0.071%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.044%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,942 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 1,818 (16.16%) Terraform
3 752 (6.69%) Ansible
4 272 (2.42%) Puppet
5 242 (2.15%) Grafana
6 215 (1.91%) Prometheus
7 123 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 115 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 84 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 53 (0.47%) SCCM
11 45 (0.40%) vCenter Server
12 38 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 36 (0.32%) Kibana
13 36 (0.32%) Nagios
14 34 (0.30%) Packer
15 31 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 30 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
17 28 (0.25%) Consul
17 28 (0.25%) Istio
18 24 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,435 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 1,032 (9.17%) Google
3 592 (5.26%) Oracle
4 539 (4.79%) VMware
5 501 (4.45%) Databricks
6 333 (2.96%) ESRI
7 317 (2.82%) Cisco
8 251 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 191 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 186 (1.65%) Splunk
11 135 (1.20%) Informatica
12 118 (1.05%) IBM
13 110 (0.98%) Citrix
14 94 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.82%) Cloudera
16 79 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 76 (0.68%) Alteryx
18 67 (0.60%) CheckPoint
18 67 (0.60%) Dell
19 66 (0.59%) SAP