Amazon EC2 Jobs

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 461 332
Rank change year-on-year -76 -129 -4
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 425 611 2,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.66% 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.52% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 290 468 901
10th Percentile £41,225 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,938 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £100,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +19.05%

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 36,452 40,083 83,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.61% 43.06% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 27,130 27,066 41,503
10th Percentile £30,140 £34,182 £33,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -88 352 £75,000 +11.11% 92
UK excluding London -79 246 £67,500 +3.85% 47
London -45 167 £97,500 +21.88% 50
Work from Home -53 160 £70,000 +3.70% 54
South East -21 63 £65,000 - 8
Scotland -38 55 £41,500 -38.52% 6
North of England -6 50 £80,000 +23.08% 13
Midlands -25 37 £72,500 +20.83% 9
North West -22 35 £80,000 +23.08% 7
West Midlands +1 33 £72,500 +20.83% 5
South West -30 16 £63,750 +21.43% 8
East of England -45 16 £34,750 -46.54%
Yorkshire +46 10 £80,000 +6.67% 6
Northern Ireland - 7 £77,500 - 2
North East -14 5 £62,783 -3.41%
East Midlands -38 4 £72,500 +11.54% 4
Wales - 3 £60,000 - 1

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 67 (15.76%) Apache
2 50 (11.76%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (4.24%) SAS
5 13 (3.06%) Confluence
6 9 (2.12%) nginx
7 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.88%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.88%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (1.18%) WordPress
9 3 (0.71%) IIS
9 3 (0.71%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.24%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.24%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 425 (100.00%) AWS
2 265 (62.35%) Amazon S3
3 227 (53.41%) Serverless
4 218 (51.29%) AWS Lambda
5 127 (29.88%) Amazon ECS
6 113 (26.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 105 (24.71%) Amazon EKS
8 82 (19.29%) Amazon SQS
9 67 (15.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 64 (15.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 54 (12.71%) Amazon EMR
12 46 (10.82%) Azure
13 35 (8.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 35 (8.24%) Route 53
14 34 (8.00%) GCP
15 33 (7.76%) GitHub
16 32 (7.53%) Amazon ELB
17 30 (7.06%) OpenShift
18 28 (6.59%) SaaS
19 27 (6.35%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.06%) DNS
2 20 (4.71%) VPN
3 14 (3.29%) Firewall
3 14 (3.29%) HTTP
4 12 (2.82%) Network Security
4 12 (2.82%) Unified Communications
5 10 (2.35%) DHCP
6 8 (1.88%) MQTT
6 8 (1.88%) WAN
7 7 (1.65%) IPv4
7 7 (1.65%) IPv6
7 7 (1.65%) VoIP
8 6 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.18%) AMQP
9 5 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (0.94%) LAN
10 4 (0.94%) SSL
11 3 (0.71%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.71%) VLAN
11 3 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (52.94%) Amazon RDS
2 82 (19.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 82 (19.29%) NoSQL
3 49 (11.53%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (11.29%) MySQL
5 46 (10.82%) Big Data
5 46 (10.82%) DynamoDB
5 46 (10.82%) Electronic Patient Records
5 46 (10.82%) Hadoop
6 39 (9.18%) Relational Database
7 34 (8.00%) RDBMS
8 28 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (5.18%) Tableau
10 19 (4.47%) Amazon QuickSight
11 18 (4.24%) Data Mining
12 16 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (3.53%) Apache Arrow
14 14 (3.29%) Data Lake
14 14 (3.29%) Dremio
15 12 (2.82%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 91 (21.41%) Git
2 76 (17.88%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.12%) Artifactory
3 26 (6.12%) GitLab
4 25 (5.88%) Postman
5 20 (4.71%) JIRA
6 15 (3.53%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.35%) Subversion
8 8 (1.88%) JUnit
9 5 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.18%) JMeter
9 5 (1.18%) Maven
9 5 (1.18%) Mockito
9 5 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.94%) Sourcetree
10 4 (0.94%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.71%) Metasploit
General
1 117 (27.53%) Finance
2 88 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 61 (14.35%) Law
4 60 (14.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (10.82%) Legal
6 36 (8.47%) Front Office
7 32 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (3.76%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.53%) Banking
10 13 (3.06%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.41%) Retail
12 4 (0.94%) Marketing
12 4 (0.94%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.71%) Japanese Language
13 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.47%) Aviation
14 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (35.29%) AWS Engineer
2 87 (20.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 64 (15.06%) Software Engineer
4 63 (14.82%) Lead
5 57 (13.41%) Senior
6 51 (12.00%) AWS Software Engineer
7 49 (11.53%) Developer
8 45 (10.59%) Big Data Engineer
8 45 (10.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 45 (10.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 45 (10.59%) Scala Engineer
8 45 (10.59%) Scala Software Engineer
9 43 (10.12%) AWS DevOps
10 42 (9.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 35 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 34 (8.00%) Technical Leader
13 31 (7.29%) Architect
14 30 (7.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 27 (6.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 23 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.41%) Spring
2 36 (8.47%) JSON
3 34 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 29 (6.82%) Node.js
5 24 (5.65%) HTML
5 24 (5.65%) J2EE
5 24 (5.65%) React
6 21 (4.94%) AngularJS
7 19 (4.47%) CSS
8 17 (4.00%) gRPC
9 15 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (3.53%) RESTful
10 14 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (3.06%) Kafka
11 13 (3.06%) Laravel
11 13 (3.06%) REST
12 12 (2.82%) NumPy
12 12 (2.82%) Pandas
12 12 (2.82%) Protocol Buffers
12 12 (2.82%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.06%) Algorithms
2 45 (10.59%) Data Centre
3 41 (9.65%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.12%) Management Information System
5 24 (5.65%) Tandem
6 21 (4.94%) Onboarding
7 17 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.53%) Fixed Income
8 15 (3.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (3.06%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.82%) Derivative
11 12 (2.82%) Equities
11 12 (2.82%) Hedge funds
11 12 (2.82%) PropTech
12 10 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (2.35%) IoT
12 10 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (2.12%) Clustering
14 7 (1.65%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.47%) Linux
2 46 (10.82%) Windows
3 20 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.65%) Android
6 6 (1.41%) Unix
7 3 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (48.71%) CI/CD
2 194 (45.65%) DevOps
3 164 (38.59%) Agile
4 151 (35.53%) Software Engineering
5 145 (34.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 103 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (19.06%) Containerisation
8 77 (18.12%) SDLC
9 71 (16.71%) Visualisation
10 60 (14.12%) Computer Science
11 58 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (13.41%) Risk Management
13 46 (10.82%) Data Modelling
13 46 (10.82%) Deployment Automation
14 45 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 45 (10.59%) Migration
14 45 (10.59%) Operational Stability
14 45 (10.59%) Performance Tuning
15 44 (10.35%) Microservices
16 40 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 193 (45.41%) Python
2 167 (39.29%) Java
3 113 (26.59%) SQL
4 56 (13.18%) JavaScript
5 49 (11.53%) Scala
6 46 (10.82%) Go
7 33 (7.76%) Bash
7 33 (7.76%) PHP
8 30 (7.06%) TypeScript
9 24 (5.65%) PowerShell
10 23 (5.41%) R
11 18 (4.24%) MATLAB
12 15 (3.53%) C#
13 13 (3.06%) Shell Script
14 10 (2.35%) Ruby
15 8 (1.88%) C++
16 6 (1.41%) Rust
17 5 (1.18%) JSX
17 5 (1.18%) VBA
18 4 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 78 (18.35%) AWS Certification
2 70 (16.47%) Degree
3 60 (14.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (9.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (7.76%) SC Cleared
5 33 (7.76%) Security Cleared
6 15 (3.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.24%) NIST
2 15 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.65%) QA
4 6 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 116 (27.29%) Docker
2 22 (5.18%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 173 (40.71%) Terraform
2 146 (34.35%) Kubernetes
3 53 (12.47%) Ansible
4 21 (4.94%) Puppet
5 15 (3.53%) Progress Chef
6 14 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.06%) Grafana
8 12 (2.82%) Prometheus
9 11 (2.59%) Packer
10 10 (2.35%) Kibana
11 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (1.65%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.71%) Autotask
15 1 (0.24%) Consul
15 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
15 1 (0.24%) Rancher
15 1 (0.24%) Salt
15 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.41%) Oracle
3 16 (3.76%) Apple
4 15 (3.53%) Google
5 14 (3.29%) Adobe
6 12 (2.82%) Bloomberg
6 12 (2.82%) Reuters
7 9 (2.12%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.88%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.88%) Splunk
9 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.94%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.94%) VMware
11 3 (0.71%) Black Duck
11 3 (0.71%) Facebook
11 3 (0.71%) New Relic
11 3 (0.71%) Rackspace
11 3 (0.71%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.47%) Sage
12 2 (0.47%) SAP