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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 456 341
Rank change year-on-year -73 -115 -12
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 406 660 1,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.67% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.55% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 281 499 895
10th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

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 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
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%

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 18 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 18 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 -90 326 £75,000 +7.14% 111
UK excluding London -65 235 £65,000 - 60
London -30 158 £89,750 +8.79% 66
Work from Home -69 150 £67,500 - 78
Scotland -35 59 £41,500 -36.15% 4
North of England +21 52 £80,000 +20.75% 16
South East -25 51 £66,250 +1.92% 20
North West -8 37 £80,000 +28.00% 8
Midlands -13 29 £71,250 +9.62% 11
West Midlands +17 27 £71,250 +16.33% 9
South West -21 19 £62,500 +19.05% 5
East of England -29 16 £34,750 -46.54% 1
Yorkshire +64 10 £80,000 +6.67% 8
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 3
North East -5 5 £62,783 -3.41%
Wales - 3 £60,000 -
East Midlands -17 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 20 (4.93%) Confluence
4 14 (3.45%) SAS
5 8 (1.97%) nginx
5 8 (1.97%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.72%) WordPress
7 2 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 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
2 268 (66.01%) Amazon S3
3 241 (59.36%) Serverless
4 235 (57.88%) AWS Lambda
5 127 (31.28%) Amazon ECS
6 116 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 98 (24.14%) Amazon EKS
8 96 (23.65%) Amazon SQS
9 67 (16.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 60 (14.78%) Amazon EMR
11 55 (13.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 50 (12.32%) Azure
13 43 (10.59%) Route 53
14 41 (10.10%) GitHub
15 36 (8.87%) Amazon Kinesis
15 36 (8.87%) OpenShift
16 30 (7.39%) CloudFront
17 27 (6.65%) Amazon ELB
18 26 (6.40%) GCP
19 23 (5.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.64%) DNS
2 19 (4.68%) VPN
3 16 (3.94%) Firewall
4 14 (3.45%) Network Security
5 12 (2.96%) Unified Communications
6 10 (2.46%) DHCP
6 10 (2.46%) HTTP
7 8 (1.97%) MQTT
8 7 (1.72%) VoIP
9 6 (1.48%) IPv4
9 6 (1.48%) IPv6
9 6 (1.48%) WAN
10 5 (1.23%) AMQP
10 5 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.99%) Internet
12 3 (0.74%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.74%) SSL
12 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (53.69%) Amazon RDS
2 84 (20.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 83 (20.44%) NoSQL
4 60 (14.78%) MySQL
5 53 (13.05%) Big Data
6 52 (12.81%) Electronic Patient Records
6 52 (12.81%) Hadoop
7 47 (11.58%) DynamoDB
8 45 (11.08%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (9.85%) Relational Database
10 33 (8.13%) RDBMS
11 29 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (4.43%) Tableau
13 15 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
14 14 (3.45%) Data Mining
15 9 (2.22%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
17 6 (1.48%) BigQuery
17 6 (1.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (23.15%) Git
2 85 (20.94%) Jenkins
3 32 (7.88%) 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%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.74%) sqlmap
General
1 117 (28.82%) 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 30 (7.39%) Front Office
7 28 (6.90%) 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%) Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (38.67%) AWS Engineer
2 94 (23.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (15.52%) Software Engineer
4 53 (13.05%) Cloud 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 50 (12.32%) AWS DevOps
6 50 (12.32%) Lead
6 50 (12.32%) Senior
7 49 (12.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 47 (11.58%) Developer
9 35 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 34 (8.37%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 34 (8.37%) Technical Leader
11 32 (7.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 26 (6.40%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (5.42%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.36%) Spring
2 34 (8.37%) JSON
3 32 (7.88%) Spring Boot
4 30 (7.39%) J2EE
5 28 (6.90%) Node.js
6 24 (5.91%) React
7 22 (5.42%) AngularJS
7 22 (5.42%) HTML
8 18 (4.43%) CSS
9 15 (3.69%) Laravel
9 15 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (3.45%) RESTful
11 13 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (2.71%) Kafka
13 10 (2.46%) REST
14 9 (2.22%) .NET
15 8 (1.97%) LDAP
16 7 (1.72%) GraphQL
16 7 (1.72%) LEMP Stack
17 6 (1.48%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.56%) Algorithms
2 42 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 39 (9.61%) Cloud Native
4 30 (7.39%) Tandem
5 26 (6.40%) Management Information System
6 19 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (4.19%) 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%) Clustering
14 6 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.48%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.48%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 69 (17.00%) Linux
2 45 (11.08%) Windows
3 18 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.22%) 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
1 219 (53.94%) CI/CD
2 189 (46.55%) DevOps
3 168 (41.38%) Agile
4 149 (36.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 144 (35.47%) Software Engineering
6 103 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (20.94%) Containerisation
8 82 (20.20%) SDLC
9 73 (17.98%) Visualisation
10 66 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (14.53%) Risk Management
12 58 (14.29%) Computer Science
13 51 (12.56%) Operational Stability
13 51 (12.56%) Performance Tuning
14 49 (12.07%) Deployment Automation
15 43 (10.59%) Data Modelling
15 43 (10.59%) Decision-Making
16 41 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (9.85%) Mentoring
18 39 (9.61%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 181 (44.58%) Python
2 171 (42.12%) Java
3 104 (25.62%) SQL
4 56 (13.79%) Go
5 55 (13.55%) Scala
6 38 (9.36%) JavaScript
7 37 (9.11%) PHP
8 35 (8.62%) Bash
9 20 (4.93%) PowerShell
10 19 (4.68%) R
11 17 (4.19%) TypeScript
12 14 (3.45%) C#
12 14 (3.45%) MATLAB
12 14 (3.45%) Shell Script
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
2 71 (17.49%) Degree
3 58 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (9.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (8.37%) Security Cleared
6 33 (8.13%) SC Cleared
7 14 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.96%) NIST
2 9 (2.22%) 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
1 130 (32.02%) Docker
2 19 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 187 (46.06%) Terraform
2 147 (36.21%) Kubernetes
3 53 (13.05%) Ansible
4 19 (4.68%) Puppet
5 17 (4.19%) 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
12 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (1.48%) Salt
13 5 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.74%) Autotask
15 1 (0.25%) Consul
15 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.91%) 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%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.25%) SAP