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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,306 17,748 36,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.42% 17.53% 22.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.02% 40.87% 47.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,551 10,517 16,453
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 £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 35,306 43,425 76,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.29%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 28,570 41,599
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,992
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 13 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 13 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 8,967 £70,000 -6.67% 2,594
UK excluding London -4 6,970 £60,000 -4.00% 1,501
Work from Home -3 5,091 £70,000 -3.45% 1,573
London -2 3,878 £85,000 - 1,269
North of England -4 1,672 £62,783 +0.45% 416
Scotland +1 1,670 £60,000 -3.23% 125
South East -17 1,134 £60,000 -7.69% 249
North West -6 960 £62,783 -3.41% 250
South West -5 954 £60,000 - 237
Midlands -14 835 £57,500 -11.07% 241
Yorkshire -2 541 £60,000 - 123
West Midlands -17 440 £60,000 -7.69% 147
East Midlands -7 394 £55,000 -4.35% 94
East of England -11 387 £55,000 -15.38% 115
Wales +1 178 £50,000 -4.76% 48
North East -3 171 £62,783 +14.15% 43
Northern Ireland +7 130 £60,000 +14.29% 82
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 (6.24%) Apache Spark
2 659 (5.83%) Apache
3 628 (5.55%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.95%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.95%) GeoServer
6 172 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 135 (1.19%) SharePoint
8 127 (1.12%) Confluence
9 93 (0.82%) CMS
10 82 (0.73%) nginx
11 74 (0.65%) 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 22 (0.19%) 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 (0.80%) 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 (0.027%) 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 (0.57%) 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%) 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 5,116 (45.25%) Azure
2 2,275 (20.12%) GCP
3 988 (8.74%) Serverless
4 879 (7.77%) SaaS
5 686 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
6 576 (5.09%) Amazon S3
7 564 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
8 469 (4.15%) GitHub
9 442 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
10 411 (3.64%) Snowflake
11 406 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
12 365 (3.23%) dbt
13 354 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
14 353 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 349 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
16 347 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
17 282 (2.49%) PaaS
18 261 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
19 249 (2.20%) IaaS
20 239 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 572 (5.06%) Firewall
2 439 (3.88%) DNS
3 260 (2.30%) WAN
4 248 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 227 (2.01%) DHCP
6 193 (1.71%) VPN
7 186 (1.65%) LAN
8 172 (1.52%) Network Security
9 132 (1.17%) HTTP
10 117 (1.03%) SD-WAN
11 108 (0.96%) SAN
12 102 (0.90%) BGP
13 98 (0.87%) SSL
14 92 (0.81%) Internet
14 92 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
15 91 (0.80%) 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 1,156 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
2 907 (8.02%) NoSQL
3 819 (7.24%) SQL Server
4 689 (6.09%) MySQL
5 647 (5.72%) Big Data
6 588 (5.20%) MongoDB
7 580 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
8 511 (4.52%) Data Lake
9 468 (4.14%) Relational Database
10 445 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
11 397 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
12 384 (3.40%) Hadoop
13 363 (3.21%) GIS
14 355 (3.14%) Apache Ignite
15 331 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
16 330 (2.92%) QGIS
17 295 (2.61%) Tableau
18 289 (2.56%) Apache Arrow
18 289 (2.56%) Dremio
19 257 (2.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,104 (9.76%) Git
2 668 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 399 (3.53%) GitLab
4 382 (3.38%) JIRA
5 196 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 189 (1.67%) JUnit
7 179 (1.58%) Selenium
8 104 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 94 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
10 93 (0.82%) Cucumber
10 93 (0.82%) TeamCity
11 77 (0.68%) Jasmine
12 74 (0.65%) Artifactory
13 67 (0.59%) Postman
14 66 (0.58%) Maven
15 63 (0.56%) CircleCI
16 62 (0.55%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.53%) Protractor
18 51 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,244 (28.69%) Finance
2 2,113 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 1,649 (14.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,385 (12.25%) Law
5 948 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 931 (8.23%) Banking
7 826 (7.31%) Marketing
8 624 (5.52%) Front Office
9 513 (4.54%) Public Sector
10 484 (4.28%) Legal
11 458 (4.05%) Investment Banking
12 435 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
13 401 (3.55%) Retail
14 218 (1.93%) Financial Institution
15 204 (1.80%) Games
16 175 (1.55%) Tech for Good
17 152 (1.34%) Aerospace
18 109 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 96 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
20 92 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,789 (24.67%) Developer
2 2,654 (23.47%) Senior
3 2,625 (23.22%) Software Engineer
4 1,585 (14.02%) Lead
5 1,274 (11.27%) Architect
6 947 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
7 773 (6.84%) Senior Developer
8 719 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 685 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
10 624 (5.52%) Java Engineer
11 613 (5.42%) Data Engineer
12 611 (5.40%) Python Engineer
13 539 (4.77%) Java Software Engineer
14 521 (4.61%) .NET Developer
15 494 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 494 (4.37%) Java Developer
16 479 (4.24%) Python Software Engineer
17 456 (4.03%) AWS Software Engineer
18 454 (4.02%) Full Stack Developer
19 441 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,164 (19.14%) React
2 1,500 (13.27%) .NET
3 1,166 (10.31%) Node.js
4 1,016 (8.99%) AngularJS
5 872 (7.71%) Spring
6 856 (7.57%) CSS
7 815 (7.21%) .NET Core
8 693 (6.13%) Kafka
9 681 (6.02%) Spring Boot
10 662 (5.86%) Vue
11 607 (5.37%) HTML
12 559 (4.94%) RESTful
13 462 (4.09%) gRPC
14 454 (4.02%) ASP.NET
15 448 (3.96%) REST
16 430 (3.80%) .NET Framework
17 402 (3.56%) Protocol Buffers
18 367 (3.25%) Laravel
19 331 (2.93%) PostGIS
20 330 (2.92%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 833 (7.37%) Public Cloud
2 832 (7.36%) Cloud Native
3 581 (5.14%) Hedge funds
4 577 (5.10%) Algorithms
5 556 (4.92%) Fixed Income
6 465 (4.11%) Equities
7 406 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 405 (3.58%) Derivative
9 375 (3.32%) Product Ownership
10 356 (3.15%) Management Information System
11 340 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
12 317 (2.80%) Onboarding
13 303 (2.68%) Data Centre
14 277 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
15 270 (2.39%) Data Structures
16 249 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
17 192 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
18 187 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
19 169 (1.49%) Private Cloud
20 161 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,346 (11.91%) Linux
2 882 (7.80%) Windows
3 396 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 321 (2.84%) Unix
5 226 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 145 (1.28%) Ubuntu
7 110 (0.97%) Android
8 93 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 90 (0.80%) CentOS
10 63 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 62 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 57 (0.50%) Debian
13 46 (0.41%) Windows 10
14 45 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
15 32 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
16 24 (0.21%) Solaris
17 22 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
18 20 (0.18%) CoreOS
19 16 (0.14%) VMS
20 10 (0.088%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,953 (43.81%) Agile
2 3,860 (34.14%) Software Engineering
3 2,882 (25.49%) DevOps
4 2,834 (25.07%) CI/CD
5 1,993 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
6 1,693 (14.97%) Microservices
7 1,590 (14.06%) SDLC
8 1,493 (13.21%) Full Stack Development
9 1,480 (13.09%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,369 (12.11%) Mentoring
11 1,322 (11.69%) Machine Learning
12 1,161 (10.27%) TDD
13 1,062 (9.39%) Operational Stability
14 1,031 (9.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,017 (9.00%) Scrum
16 983 (8.69%) Actionable Insight
17 938 (8.30%) Computer Science
18 920 (8.14%) Asset Management
19 879 (7.77%) Containerisation
20 870 (7.70%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3,814 (33.73%) Python
2 3,088 (27.31%) Java
3 2,554 (22.59%) JavaScript
4 2,372 (20.98%) SQL
5 1,649 (14.59%) TypeScript
6 1,447 (12.80%) C#
7 576 (5.09%) PHP
8 441 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 417 (3.69%) Scala
10 407 (3.60%) Go
11 389 (3.44%) Bash
12 301 (2.66%) Kotlin
13 228 (2.02%) PL/SQL
14 178 (1.57%) Ruby
15 146 (1.29%) C++
16 130 (1.15%) 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 1,380 (12.21%) Security Cleared
2 1,272 (11.25%) Degree
3 987 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 589 (5.21%) AWS Certification
5 473 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 297 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 265 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 226 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 219 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 195 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 195 (1.72%) CISSP
11 175 (1.55%) DBS Check
12 149 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 124 (1.10%) CCNA
14 120 (1.06%) CISM
15 98 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
16 83 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 72 (0.64%) CCSP
18 64 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
19 59 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (3.78%) QA
2 359 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 243 (2.15%) GDPR
4 202 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 169 (1.49%) NIST
6 142 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 139 (1.23%) SLA
8 90 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 61 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 30 (0.27%) 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 1,693 (14.97%) Docker
2 482 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 358 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 271 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.10%) HDFS
6 75 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 38 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 34 (0.30%) 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 9 (0.080%) DFS Replication
17 8 (0.071%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
19 5 (0.044%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,926 (17.04%) Kubernetes
2 1,807 (15.98%) Terraform
3 749 (6.62%) Ansible
4 269 (2.38%) Puppet
5 247 (2.18%) Grafana
6 237 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 124 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 116 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 87 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 56 (0.50%) 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 (0.27%) Istio
17 27 (0.24%) Consul
18 22 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,430 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 1,029 (9.10%) Google
3 587 (5.19%) Oracle
4 527 (4.66%) VMware
5 520 (4.60%) Databricks
6 333 (2.95%) ESRI
7 316 (2.79%) Cisco
8 250 (2.21%) Red Hat
9 194 (1.72%) Dynatrace
10 190 (1.68%) Splunk
11 130 (1.15%) Informatica
12 115 (1.02%) IBM
13 114 (1.01%) Citrix
14 95 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.81%) Cloudera
16 78 (0.69%) Palo Alto
17 76 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 70 (0.62%) Dell
19 67 (0.59%) SAP
20 66 (0.58%) Bloomberg