Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 455 331
Rank change year-on-year -76 -124 +4
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 406 670 1,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.66% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.55% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 282 509 901
10th Percentile £41,025 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,524 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £113,625 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +20.93%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon EC2 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 35,402 43,277 76,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 42.84% 48.35%
Number of salaries quoted 26,746 28,483 41,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,790 £33,779
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%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2.

Salary trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 -77 326 £75,000 +7.14% 82
UK excluding London -48 235 £65,000 - 41
London -21 158 £89,750 +8.79% 42
Work from Home -74 152 £67,500 - 59
Scotland -30 59 £41,500 -36.15% 2
North of England +21 52 £80,000 +18.52% 11
South East -21 50 £67,500 +3.85% 7
North West -7 37 £80,000 +33.33% 7
Midlands -20 28 £70,000 +7.69% 11
West Midlands +5 26 £70,000 +5.66% 9
South West -14 20 £62,500 +19.05% 6
East of England -15 17 £42,500 -34.62% 2
Yorkshire +70 10 £80,000 +6.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 2
North East -5 5 £62,783 -3.41%
Wales - 3 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands -25 2 £67,500 +3.85% 2

Amazon EC2
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 61 (15.02%) Apache
2 56 (13.79%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.68%) Confluence
4 13 (3.20%) SAS
5 10 (2.46%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.97%) nginx
7 7 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.72%) WordPress
8 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.25%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 406 (100.00%) AWS
2 271 (66.75%) Amazon S3
3 241 (59.36%) Serverless
4 237 (58.37%) AWS Lambda
5 130 (32.02%) Amazon ECS
6 118 (29.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 100 (24.63%) Amazon EKS
8 98 (24.14%) Amazon SQS
9 68 (16.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 60 (14.78%) Amazon EMR
11 54 (13.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 49 (12.07%) Azure
13 45 (11.08%) Route 53
14 41 (10.10%) GitHub
15 38 (9.36%) OpenShift
16 36 (8.87%) Amazon Kinesis
17 32 (7.88%) CloudFront
18 27 (6.65%) Amazon ELB
18 27 (6.65%) GCP
19 22 (5.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.39%) DNS
2 19 (4.68%) VPN
3 17 (4.19%) Firewall
4 14 (3.45%) Network Security
5 12 (2.96%) Unified Communications
6 10 (2.46%) DHCP
7 9 (2.22%) HTTP
8 8 (1.97%) MQTT
9 7 (1.72%) VoIP
10 6 (1.48%) IPv4
10 6 (1.48%) IPv6
11 5 (1.23%) AMQP
11 5 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.23%) WAN
11 5 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.99%) Internet
13 3 (0.74%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.74%) LAN
13 3 (0.74%) SSL
13 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (53.45%) Amazon RDS
2 87 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 82 (20.20%) NoSQL
4 61 (15.02%) MySQL
5 53 (13.05%) Big Data
6 52 (12.81%) Electronic Patient Records
6 52 (12.81%) Hadoop
7 45 (11.08%) DynamoDB
8 44 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (9.85%) Relational Database
10 33 (8.13%) RDBMS
11 29 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (4.19%) Tableau
13 15 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (3.20%) Amazon QuickSight
14 13 (3.20%) Data Mining
15 9 (2.22%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
17 6 (1.48%) InfluxDB
17 6 (1.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (22.66%) Git
2 88 (21.67%) Jenkins
3 34 (8.37%) Artifactory
4 30 (7.39%) GitLab
5 27 (6.65%) JIRA
6 25 (6.16%) Postman
7 20 (4.93%) Bitbucket
8 15 (3.69%) Subversion
9 10 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.72%) JUnit
11 5 (1.23%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.99%) JMeter
12 4 (0.99%) Mockito
12 4 (0.99%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.99%) Sourcetree
12 4 (0.99%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.74%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.74%) Maven
13 3 (0.74%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 119 (29.31%) Finance
2 85 (20.94%) Social Skills
3 70 (17.24%) Law
4 69 (17.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (12.81%) Legal
6 32 (7.88%) Front Office
7 26 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.48%) Retail
10 5 (1.23%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.99%) Marketing
12 3 (0.74%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.49%) Aviation
13 2 (0.49%) Games
13 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
14 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 157 (38.67%) AWS Engineer
2 97 (23.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (15.52%) Software Engineer
4 52 (12.81%) AWS DevOps
4 52 (12.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 51 (12.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 51 (12.56%) AWS Software Engineer
5 51 (12.56%) Big Data Engineer
5 51 (12.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 51 (12.56%) Scala Engineer
5 51 (12.56%) Scala Software Engineer
6 49 (12.07%) Senior
7 48 (11.82%) Lead
8 47 (11.58%) Developer
9 38 (9.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 36 (8.87%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 33 (8.13%) Technical Leader
12 31 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (6.16%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (5.42%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.36%) Spring
2 32 (7.88%) J2EE
2 32 (7.88%) JSON
2 32 (7.88%) Spring Boot
3 28 (6.90%) Node.js
4 23 (5.67%) React
5 22 (5.42%) HTML
6 20 (4.93%) AngularJS
7 18 (4.43%) CSS
8 17 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (3.69%) Laravel
10 14 (3.45%) RESTful
11 13 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (2.71%) Kafka
13 10 (2.46%) LDAP
14 9 (2.22%) .NET
15 7 (1.72%) GraphQL
15 7 (1.72%) LEMP Stack
15 7 (1.72%) REST
16 6 (1.48%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.56%) Algorithms
2 44 (10.84%) Data Centre
3 37 (9.11%) Cloud Native
4 32 (7.88%) Tandem
5 26 (6.40%) Management Information System
6 19 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.94%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.20%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (2.46%) IoT
11 10 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.97%) Educational Technology
13 7 (1.72%) Smartcard
14 6 (1.48%) Blog
14 6 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.48%) Private Cloud
15 5 (1.23%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 69 (17.00%) Linux
2 46 (11.33%) Windows
3 17 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.97%) Unix
5 7 (1.72%) Android
6 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.49%) Debian
8 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.49%) Solaris
8 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (54.43%) CI/CD
2 190 (46.80%) DevOps
3 168 (41.38%) Agile
4 148 (36.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 146 (35.96%) Software Engineering
6 102 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (20.44%) Containerisation
8 82 (20.20%) SDLC
9 72 (17.73%) Visualisation
10 66 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 58 (14.29%) Risk Management
12 51 (12.56%) Deployment Automation
12 51 (12.56%) Operational Stability
12 51 (12.56%) Performance Tuning
13 47 (11.58%) Decision-Making
14 44 (10.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 42 (10.34%) Data Modelling
16 40 (9.85%) Migration
16 40 (9.85%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 181 (44.58%) Python
2 171 (42.12%) Java
3 101 (24.88%) SQL
4 59 (14.53%) Go
5 55 (13.55%) Scala
6 37 (9.11%) PHP
7 36 (8.87%) Bash
7 36 (8.87%) JavaScript
8 19 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 18 (4.43%) R
10 17 (4.19%) TypeScript
11 14 (3.45%) C#
11 14 (3.45%) Shell Script
12 13 (3.20%) MATLAB
13 9 (2.22%) Ruby
14 7 (1.72%) C++
15 6 (1.48%) Rust
16 5 (1.23%) JSX
16 5 (1.23%) VBA
17 4 (0.99%) Perl
Qualifications
1 72 (17.73%) AWS Certification
1 72 (17.73%) Degree
2 58 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (9.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 36 (8.87%) Security Cleared
5 33 (8.13%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.71%) NIST
2 8 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.72%) QA
4 3 (0.74%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 131 (32.27%) Docker
2 20 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 190 (46.80%) Terraform
2 150 (36.95%) Kubernetes
3 55 (13.55%) Ansible
4 19 (4.68%) Puppet
5 18 (4.43%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.69%) Packer
7 14 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (3.20%) Grafana
9 12 (2.96%) Prometheus
10 9 (2.22%) Kibana
11 7 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (1.72%) Salt
12 5 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.74%) Autotask
14 1 (0.25%) Consul
14 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.67%) Oracle
3 15 (3.69%) Apple
4 14 (3.45%) Adobe
4 14 (3.45%) Google
5 13 (3.20%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.72%) Splunk
7 6 (1.48%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.99%) VMware
9 3 (0.74%) Black Duck
9 3 (0.74%) Facebook
9 3 (0.74%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.74%) New Relic
9 3 (0.74%) Rackspace
9 3 (0.74%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.49%) Sage
11 1 (0.25%) IBM
11 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.25%) SAP