AWS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 6,999 8,786 11,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.86% 14.66% 15.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.76% 38.36% 39.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,161 4,369 7,059
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,519 22,907 28,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.13% 38.22% 40.06%
Number of salaries quoted 17,429 13,743 19,599
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in the UK excluding London

AWS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Scotland +1 1,673 £60,000 -3.23% 108
North of England -4 1,672 £62,783 +0.45% 357
South East -18 1,137 £60,000 -7.69% 230
South West -4 970 £60,000 - 214
North West -6 958 £62,783 -3.41% 209
Midlands -14 840 £57,500 -11.07% 192
Yorkshire -2 542 £60,000 - 111
West Midlands -17 442 £60,000 -7.69% 118
East Midlands -8 397 £55,000 -4.35% 74
East of England -12 389 £55,000 -18.52% 109
Wales 0 178 £50,000 -2.91% 39
North East -4 172 £62,783 +14.15% 37
Northern Ireland +5 130 £60,000 +14.29% 66
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 6 £85,000 -
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 537 (7.67%) Apache Spark
2 287 (4.10%) ArcGIS
2 287 (4.10%) GeoServer
3 209 (2.99%) Apache
4 144 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 136 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 96 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 76 (1.09%) Confluence
8 64 (0.91%) IIS
9 62 (0.89%) CMS
10 61 (0.87%) OpenStack
11 49 (0.70%) nginx
12 40 (0.57%) WebLogic
13 37 (0.53%) Tuxedo
14 30 (0.43%) WordPress
15 17 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
16 13 (0.19%) Tomcat
17 12 (0.17%) JBoss
18 11 (0.16%) CICS
18 11 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 57 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.30%) Simulink
4 16 (0.23%) Trello
5 12 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 12 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.086%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.071%) OrCAD
10 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.029%) Sketch
11 2 (0.029%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.014%) 1Password
12 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 50 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.071%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.071%) SAP PP
6 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.057%) Shopify
7 2 (0.029%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.029%) Magento
7 2 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.029%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.029%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.014%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,344 (47.78%) Azure
2 1,118 (15.97%) GCP
3 627 (8.96%) SaaS
4 537 (7.67%) Serverless
5 420 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
6 364 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
7 328 (4.69%) Amazon S3
8 296 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
9 243 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
10 242 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
11 235 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
12 234 (3.34%) GitHub
13 219 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
14 192 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 167 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
16 135 (1.93%) PaaS
17 134 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 129 (1.84%) IaaS
19 128 (1.83%) Datadog
20 122 (1.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 383 (5.47%) Firewall
2 322 (4.60%) DNS
3 203 (2.90%) DHCP
4 197 (2.81%) WAN
5 187 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 127 (1.81%) VPN
7 122 (1.74%) HTTP
8 101 (1.44%) LAN
9 100 (1.43%) Network Security
10 92 (1.31%) SD-WAN
11 82 (1.17%) SAN
12 76 (1.09%) SSL
13 73 (1.04%) BGP
14 69 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 66 (0.94%) VLAN
16 62 (0.89%) Internet
17 61 (0.87%) Wireless
18 41 (0.59%) VoIP
19 35 (0.50%) OSPF
20 34 (0.49%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 671 (9.59%) NoSQL
2 661 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
3 585 (8.36%) SQL Server
4 484 (6.92%) Big Data
5 480 (6.86%) MySQL
6 421 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
7 407 (5.82%) MongoDB
8 340 (4.86%) Relational Database
9 312 (4.46%) GIS
10 296 (4.23%) Hadoop
11 286 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
12 284 (4.06%) QGIS
13 269 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
14 207 (2.96%) BigQuery
15 196 (2.80%) Looker
16 165 (2.36%) Data Lake
17 138 (1.97%) Apache Hive
18 136 (1.94%) Oracle Database
19 112 (1.60%) DynamoDB
20 105 (1.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 694 (9.92%) Git
2 379 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 256 (3.66%) JIRA
4 251 (3.59%) GitLab
5 168 (2.40%) JUnit
6 144 (2.06%) Selenium
7 112 (1.60%) Cypress.io
8 91 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
9 72 (1.03%) Jasmine
10 70 (1.00%) Cucumber
11 62 (0.89%) WebDriver
12 60 (0.86%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (0.86%) Protractor
12 60 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 57 (0.81%) Bitbucket
14 50 (0.71%) Postman
15 49 (0.70%) Maven
16 42 (0.60%) Visual Studio
17 31 (0.44%) CircleCI
17 31 (0.44%) JMeter
General
1 1,895 (27.08%) Finance
2 1,422 (20.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,267 (18.10%) Law
4 1,226 (17.52%) Social Skills
5 703 (10.04%) Marketing
6 486 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
7 414 (5.92%) Legal
8 363 (5.19%) Banking
9 296 (4.23%) Public Sector
10 208 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
11 205 (2.93%) Retail
12 203 (2.90%) Investment Banking
13 182 (2.60%) Financial Institution
14 147 (2.10%) Games
15 141 (2.01%) Aerospace
16 106 (1.51%) Tech for Good
17 85 (1.21%) Billing
18 74 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
19 68 (0.97%) Telecoms
20 65 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1,880 (26.86%) Software Engineer
2 1,594 (22.77%) Developer
3 1,514 (21.63%) Senior
4 1,046 (14.94%) Lead
5 792 (11.32%) Architect
6 553 (7.90%) AWS Engineer
7 453 (6.47%) Java Engineer
7 453 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
8 433 (6.19%) Senior Developer
9 412 (5.89%) Java Software Engineer
10 395 (5.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 379 (5.42%) Data Engineer
12 363 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
13 356 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
14 341 (4.87%) AWS Software Engineer
15 333 (4.76%) .NET Developer
16 293 (4.19%) Python Engineer
17 289 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 252 (3.60%) Big Data Engineer
19 251 (3.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,428 (20.40%) React
2 999 (14.27%) .NET
3 812 (11.60%) Node.js
4 753 (10.76%) AngularJS
5 708 (10.12%) CSS
6 667 (9.53%) Spring
7 603 (8.62%) .NET Core
8 493 (7.04%) HTML
9 460 (6.57%) Vue
10 459 (6.56%) Spring Boot
11 413 (5.90%) RESTful
12 370 (5.29%) Kafka
13 347 (4.96%) .NET Framework
14 334 (4.77%) ASP.NET
15 316 (4.51%) REST
16 285 (4.07%) PostGIS
17 284 (4.06%) Leaflet
17 284 (4.06%) OpenLayers
18 280 (4.00%) Laravel
19 256 (3.66%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 704 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 692 (9.89%) Public Cloud
3 484 (6.92%) Algorithms
4 246 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 230 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 220 (3.14%) Management Information System
7 208 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 202 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
9 201 (2.87%) Data Structures
10 182 (2.60%) Data Centre
11 146 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
11 146 (2.09%) Private Cloud
12 133 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 126 (1.80%) IoT
14 111 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
15 107 (1.53%) PKI
16 94 (1.34%) Mobile App
17 73 (1.04%) Blockchain
17 73 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
18 63 (0.90%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 921 (13.16%) Linux
2 620 (8.86%) Windows
3 299 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 244 (3.49%) Unix
5 173 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 122 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 69 (0.99%) CentOS
8 63 (0.90%) Android
9 54 (0.77%) Mac OS
10 52 (0.74%) Debian
11 50 (0.71%) Apple iOS
12 48 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
13 34 (0.49%) Windows 10
14 30 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
15 23 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
17 20 (0.29%) CoreOS
18 10 (0.14%) Solaris
18 10 (0.14%) VMS
18 10 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,417 (48.82%) Agile
2 2,481 (35.45%) Software Engineering
3 2,051 (29.30%) CI/CD
4 1,860 (26.58%) DevOps
5 1,410 (20.15%) SDLC
6 1,287 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
7 1,118 (15.97%) Microservices
8 1,059 (15.13%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,055 (15.07%) Operational Stability
10 968 (13.83%) Mentoring
11 923 (13.19%) Full Stack Development
12 920 (13.14%) Machine Learning
13 798 (11.40%) Scrum
14 790 (11.29%) TDD
15 729 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
16 699 (9.99%) Community of Practice
17 655 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 650 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
19 535 (7.64%) Containerisation
20 528 (7.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,947 (27.82%) Python
2 1,909 (27.28%) Java
3 1,657 (23.67%) JavaScript
4 1,448 (20.69%) SQL
5 915 (13.07%) C#
6 853 (12.19%) TypeScript
7 448 (6.40%) PHP
8 295 (4.21%) PowerShell
9 274 (3.91%) Scala
10 252 (3.60%) Bash
11 200 (2.86%) PL/SQL
12 161 (2.30%) Go
13 84 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 79 (1.13%) C++
15 64 (0.91%) Ruby
16 61 (0.87%) C
17 56 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 48 (0.69%) COBOL
19 45 (0.64%) Groovy
19 45 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,090 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 734 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 630 (9.00%) Degree
4 392 (5.60%) AWS Certification
5 258 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 246 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 189 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 152 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
9 149 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 98 (1.40%) CISSP
11 97 (1.39%) CCNA
12 89 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 74 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 65 (0.93%) CISM
15 45 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 44 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 43 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 42 (0.60%) MCSE
19 41 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
20 39 (0.56%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (4.10%) QA
2 191 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 181 (2.59%) GDPR
4 120 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (1.67%) SLA
6 104 (1.49%) NIST
7 84 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 49 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 29 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (0.31%) PMO
11 15 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 15 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 13 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 13 (0.19%) NCSC
13 10 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.13%) GRC
14 9 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.11%) PSD2
16 6 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.057%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 982 (14.03%) Docker
2 311 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 270 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 248 (3.54%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.51%) HDFS
6 43 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 37 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 25 (0.36%) vSphere
10 22 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 20 (0.29%) Firmware
12 16 (0.23%) XenApp
13 13 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
14 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
14 11 (0.16%) XenDesktop
15 10 (0.14%) KVM
16 7 (0.10%) Terminal Services
17 5 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
18 4 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
19 3 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,086 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 1,076 (15.37%) Terraform
3 450 (6.43%) Ansible
4 172 (2.46%) Puppet
5 157 (2.24%) Grafana
6 134 (1.91%) Prometheus
7 87 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 61 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 56 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 35 (0.50%) SCCM
11 34 (0.49%) vCenter Server
12 31 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
13 26 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (0.27%) Kibana
15 19 (0.27%) Opsgenie
16 18 (0.26%) FortiGate
16 18 (0.26%) Nagios
16 18 (0.26%) VxRail
17 13 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 934 (13.34%) Microsoft
2 641 (9.16%) Google
3 419 (5.99%) Oracle
4 397 (5.67%) VMware
5 324 (4.63%) Databricks
6 285 (4.07%) ESRI
7 202 (2.89%) Cisco
8 181 (2.59%) Red Hat
9 171 (2.44%) Dynatrace
10 152 (2.17%) Splunk
11 121 (1.73%) Informatica
12 86 (1.23%) IBM
13 77 (1.10%) Cloudera
14 71 (1.01%) Citrix
15 67 (0.96%) Salesforce
16 65 (0.93%) Alteryx
17 63 (0.90%) Dell
18 50 (0.71%) Sparx
19 46 (0.66%) Veeam
20 44 (0.63%) SaltStack