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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 455 334
Rank change year-on-year -88 -121 -15
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 406 656 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.67% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.55% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 276 489 900
10th Percentile £40,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £114,375 £105,000 £110,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +28.57%

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 35,668 42,301 80,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.92% 43.20% 48.57%
Number of salaries quoted 26,805 27,789 41,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
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% +8.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £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%

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 27 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 27 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 -92 327 £75,000 +11.11% 150
UK excluding London -47 235 £67,500 +3.85% 91
London -42 157 £90,000 +9.09% 104
Work from Home -76 150 £68,750 +1.85% 83
Scotland -37 59 £41,500 -36.15% 6
South East -25 54 £65,000 - 49
North of England +13 51 £80,000 +23.08% 17
North West -5 36 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Midlands -11 32 £72,500 +11.54% 9
West Midlands +8 29 £72,500 +20.83% 6
East of England -35 16 £34,750 -46.54% 1
South West -24 14 £63,750 +21.43% 6
Yorkshire +47 10 £80,000 +6.67% 8
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 3
North East -2 5 £62,783 -3.41%
East Midlands -26 3 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Wales - 3 £60,000 -

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 17 (4.19%) Confluence
4 14 (3.45%) SAS
5 9 (2.22%) nginx
6 8 (1.97%) OpenStack
7 7 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (1.23%) WordPress
9 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) IIS
10 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
2 264 (65.02%) Amazon S3
3 235 (57.88%) Serverless
4 227 (55.91%) AWS Lambda
5 124 (30.54%) Amazon ECS
6 113 (27.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 100 (24.63%) Amazon EKS
8 92 (22.66%) Amazon SQS
9 66 (16.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 60 (14.78%) Amazon EMR
11 58 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 49 (12.07%) Azure
13 38 (9.36%) Route 53
14 36 (8.87%) GitHub
15 35 (8.62%) Amazon Kinesis
16 34 (8.37%) OpenShift
17 31 (7.64%) Amazon ELB
18 28 (6.90%) CloudFront
19 24 (5.91%) SaaS
20 23 (5.67%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.14%) DNS
2 18 (4.43%) VPN
3 14 (3.45%) Firewall
4 12 (2.96%) HTTP
4 12 (2.96%) Network Security
4 12 (2.96%) Unified Communications
5 10 (2.46%) DHCP
6 8 (1.97%) MQTT
7 7 (1.72%) IPv4
7 7 (1.72%) IPv6
7 7 (1.72%) VoIP
8 6 (1.48%) WAN
9 5 (1.23%) AMQP
9 5 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.74%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.74%) LAN
10 3 (0.74%) SSL
10 3 (0.74%) Wireless
11 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (53.94%) Amazon RDS
2 83 (20.44%) NoSQL
3 82 (20.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 53 (13.05%) MySQL
5 52 (12.81%) Big Data
5 52 (12.81%) Electronic Patient Records
5 52 (12.81%) Hadoop
6 45 (11.08%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (10.84%) DynamoDB
8 40 (9.85%) Relational Database
9 33 (8.13%) RDBMS
10 28 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (4.43%) Tableau
12 15 (3.69%) Amazon QuickSight
13 14 (3.45%) Data Mining
14 12 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (2.22%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
17 6 (1.48%) BigQuery
17 6 (1.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 95 (23.40%) Git
2 81 (19.95%) Jenkins
3 30 (7.39%) Artifactory
4 27 (6.65%) GitLab
5 25 (6.16%) Postman
6 23 (5.67%) JIRA
7 18 (4.43%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.20%) Subversion
9 8 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.72%) JUnit
11 5 (1.23%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.99%) JMeter
12 4 (0.99%) Maven
12 4 (0.99%) Mockito
12 4 (0.99%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.99%) Sourcetree
12 4 (0.99%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.74%) Metasploit
General
1 114 (28.08%) Finance
2 87 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 69 (17.00%) Law
4 68 (16.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (12.81%) Legal
6 28 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (6.90%) Front Office
7 14 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.48%) Retail
9 4 (0.99%) Marketing
9 4 (0.99%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.74%) Japanese Language
10 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.49%) Aviation
11 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.25%) Games
12 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 154 (37.93%) AWS Engineer
2 92 (22.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (15.52%) Software Engineer
4 56 (13.79%) Lead
5 53 (13.05%) Senior
6 51 (12.56%) AWS Software Engineer
6 51 (12.56%) Big Data Engineer
6 51 (12.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 51 (12.56%) Scala Engineer
6 51 (12.56%) Scala Software Engineer
7 48 (11.82%) AWS DevOps
7 48 (11.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (11.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 44 (10.84%) Developer
10 34 (8.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 34 (8.37%) Technical Leader
11 31 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (7.64%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 24 (5.91%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (5.42%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.36%) Spring
2 36 (8.87%) JSON
3 32 (7.88%) Spring Boot
4 29 (7.14%) Node.js
5 28 (6.90%) J2EE
6 24 (5.91%) React
7 23 (5.67%) HTML
8 22 (5.42%) AngularJS
9 19 (4.68%) CSS
10 15 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (3.45%) RESTful
12 13 (3.20%) Laravel
13 12 (2.96%) Kafka
13 12 (2.96%) REST
14 10 (2.46%) .NET
15 8 (1.97%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.97%) LDAP
16 7 (1.72%) LEMP Stack
17 6 (1.48%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.56%) Algorithms
2 43 (10.59%) Data Centre
3 39 (9.61%) Cloud Native
4 28 (6.90%) Tandem
5 26 (6.40%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.19%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.20%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.46%) IoT
9 10 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.97%) PropTech
11 7 (1.72%) Clustering
11 7 (1.72%) Smartcard
12 6 (1.48%) Blog
12 6 (1.48%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.48%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 69 (17.00%) Linux
2 45 (11.08%) Windows
3 18 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.97%) Unix
6 7 (1.72%) Android
7 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.49%) Debian
9 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.49%) Solaris
9 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (52.96%) CI/CD
2 191 (47.04%) DevOps
3 162 (39.90%) Agile
4 147 (36.21%) Software Engineering
5 144 (35.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 100 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (20.20%) SDLC
8 81 (19.95%) Containerisation
9 73 (17.98%) Visualisation
10 66 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (15.02%) Risk Management
12 59 (14.53%) Computer Science
13 51 (12.56%) Operational Stability
13 51 (12.56%) Performance Tuning
14 47 (11.58%) Deployment Automation
15 42 (10.34%) Data Modelling
16 41 (10.10%) Decision-Making
16 41 (10.10%) Microservices
17 40 (9.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 179 (44.09%) Python
2 166 (40.89%) Java
3 104 (25.62%) SQL
4 55 (13.55%) Scala
5 52 (12.81%) Go
6 42 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 35 (8.62%) Bash
8 34 (8.37%) PHP
9 21 (5.17%) PowerShell
10 19 (4.68%) R
11 17 (4.19%) TypeScript
12 15 (3.69%) C#
13 14 (3.45%) MATLAB
13 14 (3.45%) Shell Script
14 10 (2.46%) Ruby
15 7 (1.72%) C++
16 6 (1.48%) Rust
17 5 (1.23%) JSX
17 5 (1.23%) VBA
18 4 (0.99%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (17.98%) AWS Certification
2 70 (17.24%) Degree
3 59 (14.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (9.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (7.88%) SC Cleared
5 32 (7.88%) Security Cleared
6 14 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.45%) NIST
2 11 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.72%) QA
4 6 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 122 (30.05%) Docker
2 19 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 181 (44.58%) Terraform
2 144 (35.47%) Kubernetes
3 53 (13.05%) Ansible
4 19 (4.68%) Puppet
5 15 (3.69%) Progress Chef
6 14 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (3.45%) Packer
7 13 (3.20%) Grafana
8 12 (2.96%) Prometheus
9 9 (2.22%) Kibana
10 7 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.48%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.74%) Autotask
12 3 (0.74%) Salt
13 1 (0.25%) Consul
13 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.25%) Rancher
13 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.17%) Oracle
3 15 (3.69%) Apple
3 15 (3.69%) Google
4 14 (3.45%) Adobe
5 11 (2.71%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.72%) Splunk
7 6 (1.48%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.48%) VMware
8 3 (0.74%) Black Duck
8 3 (0.74%) Facebook
8 3 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.74%) New Relic
8 3 (0.74%) Rackspace
8 3 (0.74%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.49%) Sage
10 1 (0.25%) IBM
10 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.25%) SAP