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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,232 17,730 36,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.41% 17.46% 22.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.89% 40.82% 47.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,508 10,452 16,468
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 £92,031 £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 35,219 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 28,539 41,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £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 £96,250 £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 7 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 7 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 8,892 £70,000 -6.67% 2,591
UK excluding London -4 6,961 £60,000 -4.00% 1,490
Work from Home -2 5,047 £70,000 -3.45% 1,606
London -2 3,806 £85,000 - 1,267
Scotland +3 1,667 £60,000 -4.00% 127
North of England -5 1,655 £62,783 +0.45% 414
South East -15 1,121 £60,000 -7.69% 247
South West -5 977 £60,000 - 237
North West -6 948 £62,783 -3.41% 241
Midlands -13 835 £57,500 -8.00% 225
Yorkshire -2 538 £60,000 - 132
West Midlands -17 439 £60,000 -7.69% 136
East Midlands -7 395 £55,000 -4.35% 88
East of England -13 390 £55,000 -15.38% 132
Wales +1 178 £50,000 -2.54% 47
North East -4 169 £62,783 +14.15% 42
Northern Ireland +6 128 £60,000 +14.29% 75
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
1 704 (6.27%) Apache Spark
2 636 (5.66%) Apache
3 596 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.97%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.96%) GeoServer
6 171 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 131 (1.17%) SharePoint
8 129 (1.15%) Confluence
9 92 (0.82%) CMS
10 82 (0.73%) nginx
11 80 (0.71%) IIS
12 71 (0.63%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
14 43 (0.38%) WordPress
15 39 (0.35%) 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 98 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 89 (0.79%) 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 (0.045%) 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%) Mathematica
14 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
5 7 (0.062%) Magento
6 6 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.053%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 6 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.045%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.045%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.045%) SAP IBP
7 5 (0.045%) SAP PP
7 5 (0.045%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.036%) Shopify
9 2 (0.018%) R3 Corda
9 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.018%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.018%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 5,089 (45.31%) Azure
2 2,249 (20.02%) GCP
3 990 (8.81%) Serverless
4 877 (7.81%) SaaS
5 682 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
6 566 (5.04%) Amazon S3
7 561 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
8 467 (4.16%) GitHub
9 441 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
10 399 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
11 382 (3.40%) Snowflake
12 362 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 353 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
14 348 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
15 342 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
16 336 (2.99%) dbt
17 280 (2.49%) PaaS
18 258 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
19 249 (2.22%) IaaS
20 237 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 566 (5.04%) Firewall
2 454 (4.04%) DNS
3 264 (2.35%) WAN
4 261 (2.32%) TCP/IP
5 244 (2.17%) DHCP
6 194 (1.73%) VPN
7 187 (1.66%) LAN
8 172 (1.53%) Network Security
9 148 (1.32%) HTTP
10 118 (1.05%) SD-WAN
11 110 (0.98%) SAN
12 102 (0.91%) BGP
13 97 (0.86%) SSL
14 94 (0.84%) Internet
14 94 (0.84%) Wireless
15 90 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
16 86 (0.77%) VLAN
17 59 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
18 53 (0.47%) VoIP
19 48 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,153 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
2 897 (7.99%) NoSQL
3 816 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 686 (6.11%) MySQL
5 636 (5.66%) Big Data
6 579 (5.15%) MongoDB
7 565 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
8 467 (4.16%) Relational Database
9 462 (4.11%) Data Lake
10 439 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
11 397 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
12 383 (3.41%) Hadoop
13 363 (3.23%) GIS
14 333 (2.96%) Apache Ignite
15 330 (2.94%) QGIS
16 304 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
17 271 (2.41%) Tableau
18 265 (2.36%) Apache Arrow
19 264 (2.35%) Dremio
20 257 (2.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,082 (9.63%) Git
2 664 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 396 (3.53%) GitLab
4 386 (3.44%) JIRA
5 190 (1.69%) JUnit
6 189 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 176 (1.57%) Selenium
8 103 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 95 (0.85%) Cucumber
10 94 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
11 92 (0.82%) TeamCity
12 79 (0.70%) Jasmine
13 74 (0.66%) Artifactory
14 68 (0.61%) Postman
15 66 (0.59%) Maven
16 63 (0.56%) CircleCI
17 62 (0.55%) WebDriver
18 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
18 60 (0.53%) Protractor
19 52 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,202 (28.51%) Finance
2 2,068 (18.41%) Social Skills
3 1,650 (14.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,379 (12.28%) Law
5 918 (8.17%) Banking
6 916 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
7 825 (7.35%) Marketing
8 600 (5.34%) Front Office
9 510 (4.54%) Public Sector
10 481 (4.28%) Legal
11 442 (3.94%) Investment Banking
12 391 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
13 382 (3.40%) Retail
14 217 (1.93%) Financial Institution
15 204 (1.82%) Games
16 175 (1.56%) Tech for Good
17 148 (1.32%) Aerospace
18 109 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 96 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
19 96 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,787 (24.81%) Developer
2 2,627 (23.39%) Senior
3 2,600 (23.15%) Software Engineer
4 1,579 (14.06%) Lead
5 1,280 (11.40%) Architect
6 932 (8.30%) AWS Engineer
7 787 (7.01%) Senior Developer
8 704 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
9 685 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
10 615 (5.48%) Java Engineer
11 612 (5.45%) Data Engineer
12 593 (5.28%) Python Engineer
13 531 (4.73%) Java Software Engineer
14 517 (4.60%) .NET Developer
15 492 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
16 489 (4.35%) Java Developer
17 465 (4.14%) Python Software Engineer
18 453 (4.03%) Full Stack Developer
19 447 (3.98%) AWS Software Engineer
20 437 (3.89%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,164 (19.27%) React
2 1,488 (13.25%) .NET
3 1,165 (10.37%) Node.js
4 1,016 (9.05%) AngularJS
5 870 (7.75%) Spring
6 854 (7.60%) CSS
7 812 (7.23%) .NET Core
8 686 (6.11%) Kafka
9 676 (6.02%) Spring Boot
10 662 (5.89%) Vue
11 619 (5.51%) HTML
12 558 (4.97%) RESTful
13 456 (4.06%) ASP.NET
14 445 (3.96%) REST
15 433 (3.86%) gRPC
16 425 (3.78%) .NET Framework
17 374 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
18 367 (3.27%) Laravel
19 331 (2.95%) PostGIS
20 330 (2.94%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 855 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 832 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 575 (5.12%) Algorithms
4 551 (4.91%) Hedge funds
5 535 (4.76%) Fixed Income
6 440 (3.92%) Equities
7 386 (3.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 385 (3.43%) Derivative
9 368 (3.28%) Product Ownership
10 355 (3.16%) Management Information System
11 337 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
12 314 (2.80%) Onboarding
13 304 (2.71%) Data Centre
14 292 (2.60%) Data Structures
15 274 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
16 257 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
17 195 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
18 185 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
19 168 (1.50%) Private Cloud
20 159 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,352 (12.04%) Linux
2 892 (7.94%) Windows
3 398 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 320 (2.85%) Unix
5 229 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 142 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 108 (0.96%) Android
8 94 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 86 (0.77%) CentOS
10 63 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 61 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
12 58 (0.52%) Debian
13 47 (0.42%) Windows 10
14 43 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
15 33 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
16 27 (0.24%) CoreOS
17 23 (0.20%) Solaris
17 23 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
18 15 (0.13%) VMS
19 11 (0.098%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,918 (43.79%) Agile
2 3,823 (34.04%) Software Engineering
3 2,875 (25.60%) DevOps
4 2,826 (25.16%) CI/CD
5 1,965 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
6 1,680 (14.96%) Microservices
7 1,611 (14.34%) SDLC
8 1,492 (13.28%) Full Stack Development
9 1,461 (13.01%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,365 (12.15%) Mentoring
11 1,315 (11.71%) Machine Learning
12 1,155 (10.28%) TDD
13 1,061 (9.45%) Operational Stability
14 1,031 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 1,027 (9.14%) Scrum
16 1,018 (9.06%) Actionable Insight
17 927 (8.25%) Computer Science
18 883 (7.86%) Asset Management
19 879 (7.83%) Containerisation
20 834 (7.43%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3,753 (33.41%) Python
2 3,050 (27.15%) Java
3 2,533 (22.55%) JavaScript
4 2,353 (20.95%) SQL
5 1,627 (14.49%) TypeScript
6 1,435 (12.78%) C#
7 576 (5.13%) PHP
8 446 (3.97%) PowerShell
9 413 (3.68%) Scala
10 396 (3.53%) Go
11 393 (3.50%) Bash
12 292 (2.60%) Kotlin
13 243 (2.16%) PL/SQL
14 177 (1.58%) Ruby
15 143 (1.27%) C++
16 127 (1.13%) R
17 110 (0.98%) C
18 109 (0.97%) T-SQL
19 91 (0.81%) Shell Script
20 75 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,405 (12.51%) Security Cleared
2 1,238 (11.02%) Degree
3 984 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 569 (5.07%) AWS Certification
5 468 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 286 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 271 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 232 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 222 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 207 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 199 (1.77%) CISSP
12 155 (1.38%) DBS Check
13 148 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 125 (1.11%) CCNA
15 121 (1.08%) CISM
16 101 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
17 86 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 76 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
19 74 (0.66%) CCSP
20 62 (0.55%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (3.81%) QA
2 351 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 241 (2.15%) GDPR
4 197 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 166 (1.48%) NIST
6 142 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 138 (1.23%) SLA
8 88 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 60 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 32 (0.28%) SOC 2
11 31 (0.28%) NCSC
12 28 (0.25%) 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
16 17 (0.15%) WCAG
17 16 (0.14%) COBIT
18 13 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,713 (15.25%) Docker
2 482 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 363 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 274 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.10%) HDFS
6 72 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 40 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 38 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 37 (0.33%) vSphere
11 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 22 (0.20%) KVM
13 21 (0.19%) Firmware
13 21 (0.19%) XenApp
14 13 (0.12%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.098%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.089%) DFS Replication
17 8 (0.071%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
19 5 (0.045%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,923 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 1,807 (16.09%) Terraform
3 750 (6.68%) Ansible
4 269 (2.39%) Puppet
5 240 (2.14%) Grafana
6 223 (1.99%) Prometheus
7 122 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 113 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 84 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 54 (0.48%) 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 32 (0.28%) Packer
15 30 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 30 (0.27%) Istio
15 30 (0.27%) ZABBIX
16 27 (0.24%) Consul
17 24 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 1,422 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 1,026 (9.13%) Google
3 593 (5.28%) Oracle
4 534 (4.75%) VMware
5 500 (4.45%) Databricks
6 333 (2.96%) ESRI
7 316 (2.81%) Cisco
8 251 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 192 (1.71%) Dynatrace
10 185 (1.65%) Splunk
11 132 (1.18%) Informatica
12 116 (1.03%) IBM
13 109 (0.97%) Citrix
14 95 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.82%) Cloudera
16 77 (0.69%) Palo Alto
17 76 (0.68%) Alteryx
18 67 (0.60%) CheckPoint
19 66 (0.59%) Dell
19 66 (0.59%) SAP