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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 11,379 17,571 37,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.39% 17.66% 23.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.11% 40.95% 47.70%
Number of salaries quoted 7,546 10,348 16,282
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 £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 35,439 42,907 78,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.11% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,676 28,199 41,290
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £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%

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 19 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 19 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 9,027 £70,000 -6.67% 2,878
UK excluding London -4 7,008 £60,000 -4.00% 1,819
Work from Home -3 5,135 £70,000 -6.67% 1,694
London -2 3,918 £85,000 - 1,564
North of England -4 1,691 £62,783 +0.45% 445
Scotland 0 1,673 £60,000 - 127
South East -18 1,144 £60,000 -7.69% 552
North West -6 978 £62,783 -3.41% 256
South West -5 945 £60,000 - 227
Midlands -14 841 £57,500 -11.07% 230
Yorkshire -3 542 £60,000 - 137
West Midlands -15 439 £60,000 -7.69% 155
East Midlands -8 400 £55,000 -4.35% 75
East of England -13 388 £55,000 -15.38% 118
Wales 0 180 £50,000 -4.76% 53
North East -4 171 £62,783 +14.15% 52
Northern Ireland +6 135 £60,000 +14.29% 85
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 (6.20%) Apache Spark
2 690 (6.06%) Apache
3 653 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
4 334 (2.94%) ArcGIS
5 333 (2.93%) GeoServer
6 168 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 132 (1.16%) Confluence
8 131 (1.15%) SharePoint
9 91 (0.80%) CMS
10 82 (0.72%) nginx
11 70 (0.62%) IIS
12 69 (0.61%) OpenStack
13 52 (0.46%) WebLogic
14 42 (0.37%) WordPress
15 37 (0.33%) Drupal
15 37 (0.33%) Tuxedo
16 22 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 21 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
18 20 (0.18%) JBoss
19 19 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 98 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 88 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 23 (0.20%) Simulink
5 20 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.18%) MS Visio
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 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.035%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.035%) Sketch
12 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.009%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.009%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.009%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 64 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
4 7 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.053%) Magento
5 6 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (0.053%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.044%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.044%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.044%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.044%) Shopify
6 5 (0.044%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.018%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.018%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.018%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.018%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 5,163 (45.37%) Azure
2 2,288 (20.11%) GCP
3 994 (8.74%) Serverless
4 876 (7.70%) SaaS
5 689 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 567 (4.98%) Amazon S3
7 555 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 471 (4.14%) GitHub
9 440 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
10 426 (3.74%) Snowflake
11 406 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 389 (3.42%) dbt
13 352 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
14 346 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
14 346 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
15 336 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 280 (2.46%) PaaS
17 261 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
18 246 (2.16%) IaaS
19 238 (2.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 565 (4.97%) Firewall
2 415 (3.65%) DNS
3 260 (2.28%) WAN
4 231 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 206 (1.81%) DHCP
6 193 (1.70%) VPN
7 187 (1.64%) LAN
8 171 (1.50%) Network Security
9 119 (1.05%) HTTP
10 116 (1.02%) SD-WAN
11 107 (0.94%) SAN
12 100 (0.88%) BGP
13 98 (0.86%) SSL
14 92 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
14 92 (0.81%) Wireless
15 90 (0.79%) Internet
16 88 (0.77%) VLAN
17 55 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
17 55 (0.48%) VoIP
18 46 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,169 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
2 916 (8.05%) NoSQL
3 821 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 683 (6.00%) MySQL
5 647 (5.69%) Big Data
6 588 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
7 586 (5.15%) MongoDB
8 526 (4.62%) Data Lake
9 473 (4.16%) Relational Database
10 455 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
11 388 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
12 384 (3.37%) Hadoop
13 374 (3.29%) Apache Ignite
14 363 (3.19%) GIS
15 348 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
16 330 (2.90%) QGIS
17 313 (2.75%) Apache Arrow
17 313 (2.75%) Dremio
18 310 (2.72%) Tableau
19 257 (2.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1,129 (9.92%) Git
2 664 (5.84%) Jenkins
3 413 (3.63%) GitLab
4 382 (3.36%) JIRA
5 199 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 187 (1.64%) JUnit
7 181 (1.59%) Selenium
8 103 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 93 (0.82%) TeamCity
10 91 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
11 88 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 77 (0.68%) Jasmine
13 71 (0.62%) Artifactory
14 69 (0.61%) Postman
15 64 (0.56%) CircleCI
15 64 (0.56%) Maven
16 62 (0.54%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
17 60 (0.53%) Protractor
18 52 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,242 (28.49%) Finance
2 2,163 (19.01%) Social Skills
3 1,632 (14.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,387 (12.19%) Law
5 961 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 951 (8.36%) Banking
7 820 (7.21%) Marketing
8 647 (5.69%) Front Office
9 511 (4.49%) Public Sector
10 484 (4.25%) Legal
11 479 (4.21%) Investment Banking
12 443 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
13 417 (3.66%) Retail
14 219 (1.92%) Financial Institution
15 207 (1.82%) Games
16 173 (1.52%) Tech for Good
17 160 (1.41%) Aerospace
18 107 (0.94%) Telecoms
19 98 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
20 95 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,794 (24.55%) Developer
2 2,667 (23.44%) Software Engineer
3 2,666 (23.43%) Senior
4 1,596 (14.03%) Lead
5 1,305 (11.47%) Architect
6 961 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
7 770 (6.77%) Senior Developer
8 733 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 684 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
10 633 (5.56%) Java Engineer
11 626 (5.50%) Python Engineer
12 607 (5.33%) Data Engineer
13 549 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
14 521 (4.58%) .NET Developer
15 494 (4.34%) Python Software Engineer
16 492 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
17 489 (4.30%) Java Developer
18 474 (4.17%) AWS Software Engineer
19 456 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
20 447 (3.93%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,174 (19.11%) React
2 1,507 (13.24%) .NET
3 1,179 (10.36%) Node.js
4 1,023 (8.99%) AngularJS
5 872 (7.66%) Spring
6 861 (7.57%) CSS
7 817 (7.18%) .NET Core
8 688 (6.05%) Kafka
9 676 (5.94%) Spring Boot
10 665 (5.84%) Vue
11 597 (5.25%) HTML
12 563 (4.95%) RESTful
13 485 (4.26%) gRPC
14 462 (4.06%) REST
15 452 (3.97%) ASP.NET
16 432 (3.80%) .NET Framework
17 424 (3.73%) Protocol Buffers
18 368 (3.23%) Laravel
19 336 (2.95%) Pandas
20 331 (2.91%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 829 (7.29%) Cloud Native
1 829 (7.29%) Public Cloud
2 605 (5.32%) Hedge funds
3 579 (5.09%) Algorithms
3 579 (5.09%) Fixed Income
4 486 (4.27%) Equities
5 427 (3.75%) Derivative
5 427 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 381 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 363 (3.19%) Management Information System
8 341 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
9 319 (2.80%) Onboarding
10 299 (2.63%) Data Centre
11 281 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
12 270 (2.37%) Data Structures
13 251 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
14 194 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
15 188 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
16 170 (1.49%) Private Cloud
17 161 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1,346 (11.83%) Linux
2 880 (7.73%) Windows
3 394 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 316 (2.78%) Unix
5 228 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 149 (1.31%) Ubuntu
7 111 (0.98%) Android
8 92 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 90 (0.79%) CentOS
10 63 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 63 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 58 (0.51%) Debian
12 48 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
13 46 (0.40%) Windows 10
14 32 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 25 (0.22%) Solaris
16 24 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
17 19 (0.17%) CoreOS
18 16 (0.14%) VMS
19 10 (0.088%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,035 (44.25%) Agile
2 3,911 (34.37%) Software Engineering
3 2,920 (25.66%) DevOps
4 2,851 (25.05%) CI/CD
5 2,024 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
6 1,704 (14.97%) Microservices
7 1,581 (13.89%) SDLC
8 1,518 (13.34%) Full Stack Development
9 1,480 (13.01%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,375 (12.08%) Mentoring
11 1,318 (11.58%) Machine Learning
12 1,174 (10.32%) TDD
13 1,063 (9.34%) Operational Stability
14 1,035 (9.10%) Scrum
15 1,028 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
16 999 (8.78%) Actionable Insight
17 951 (8.36%) Computer Science
18 943 (8.29%) Asset Management
19 896 (7.87%) Analytics
20 889 (7.81%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 3,852 (33.85%) Python
2 3,122 (27.44%) Java
3 2,592 (22.78%) JavaScript
4 2,382 (20.93%) SQL
5 1,670 (14.68%) TypeScript
6 1,452 (12.76%) C#
7 577 (5.07%) PHP
8 434 (3.81%) PowerShell
9 431 (3.79%) Scala
10 400 (3.52%) Go
11 386 (3.39%) Bash
12 309 (2.72%) Kotlin
13 227 (1.99%) PL/SQL
14 175 (1.54%) Ruby
15 150 (1.32%) C++
16 130 (1.14%) R
17 114 (1.00%) T-SQL
18 111 (0.98%) C
19 90 (0.79%) Shell Script
20 73 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,368 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 1,296 (11.39%) Degree
3 989 (8.69%) SC Cleared
4 579 (5.09%) AWS Certification
5 486 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 294 (2.58%) Azure Certification
7 256 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 223 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 220 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 199 (1.75%) DBS Check
11 190 (1.67%) CISSP
12 179 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 145 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 123 (1.08%) CCNA
15 119 (1.05%) CISM
16 95 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
17 79 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 76 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 69 (0.61%) CCSP
20 59 (0.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 439 (3.86%) QA
2 369 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 245 (2.15%) GDPR
4 201 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 167 (1.47%) NIST
6 144 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 138 (1.21%) SLA
8 90 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 61 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 29 (0.25%) NCSC
11 27 (0.24%) SOC 2
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 (14.88%) Docker
2 470 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 356 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 270 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 124 (1.09%) HDFS
6 81 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 37 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 37 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 35 (0.31%) vSphere
10 33 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (0.21%) XenApp
12 23 (0.20%) KVM
13 22 (0.19%) Firmware
14 16 (0.14%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
16 8 (0.070%) DFS Replication
16 8 (0.070%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.053%) VirtualBox
18 5 (0.044%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,921 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 1,803 (15.84%) Terraform
3 744 (6.54%) Ansible
4 266 (2.34%) Puppet
5 244 (2.14%) Grafana
6 236 (2.07%) Prometheus
7 125 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 117 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 90 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 57 (0.50%) SCCM
11 43 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 39 (0.34%) Nagios
13 38 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 35 (0.31%) Kibana
15 32 (0.28%) Packer
16 31 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
16 31 (0.27%) ZABBIX
17 30 (0.26%) Istio
18 26 (0.23%) Consul
19 19 (0.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1,420 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 1,043 (9.17%) Google
3 588 (5.17%) Oracle
4 534 (4.69%) Databricks
5 521 (4.58%) VMware
6 333 (2.93%) ESRI
7 315 (2.77%) Cisco
8 252 (2.21%) Red Hat
9 194 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 189 (1.66%) Splunk
11 130 (1.14%) Informatica
12 115 (1.01%) IBM
13 110 (0.97%) Citrix
14 95 (0.83%) Salesforce
15 92 (0.81%) Cloudera
16 77 (0.68%) Palo Alto
17 76 (0.67%) Alteryx
18 71 (0.62%) Dell
19 67 (0.59%) Bloomberg
20 66 (0.58%) Atlassian