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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 7,024 8,750 11,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.80% 14.79% 16.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.80% 38.34% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,150 4,293 7,070
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
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 £80,000
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 23,573 22,822 28,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.91% 38.59% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 17,413 13,617 19,644
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,298 £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 20 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 20 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
North of England -4 1,698 £62,783 +0.45% 469
Scotland +1 1,671 £60,000 - 138
South East -18 1,144 £60,000 -7.69% 551
North West -6 984 £62,783 -3.41% 268
South West -5 949 £60,000 - 227
Midlands -14 844 £57,500 -11.07% 243
Yorkshire -2 544 £60,000 - 146
West Midlands -15 438 £60,000 -7.69% 162
East Midlands -8 404 £55,000 -4.35% 81
East of England -13 390 £55,000 -15.38% 127
Wales +1 181 £50,000 -4.76% 58
North East -4 170 £62,783 +14.15% 55
Northern Ireland +7 136 £60,000 +14.29% 83
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
1 535 (7.62%) Apache Spark
2 287 (4.09%) ArcGIS
2 287 (4.09%) GeoServer
3 211 (3.00%) Apache
4 144 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 130 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 92 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 78 (1.11%) Confluence
8 61 (0.87%) OpenStack
9 59 (0.84%) CMS
10 55 (0.78%) IIS
11 48 (0.68%) 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%) JBoss
17 12 (0.17%) Tomcat
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 23 (0.33%) Simulink
4 16 (0.23%) Trello
5 13 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 11 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.085%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.071%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.043%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.028%) Sketch
14 1 (0.014%) 1Password
14 1 (0.014%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.014%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 50 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
3 7 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.071%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.071%) SAP PP
5 5 (0.071%) Shopify
6 4 (0.057%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.043%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.028%) Magento
8 2 (0.028%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.028%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.028%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.014%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,385 (48.19%) Azure
2 1,117 (15.90%) GCP
3 622 (8.86%) SaaS
4 531 (7.56%) Serverless
5 414 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
6 361 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
7 325 (4.63%) Amazon S3
8 293 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
9 242 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 241 (3.43%) GitHub
11 237 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
12 234 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
13 217 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
14 167 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
14 167 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 137 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 133 (1.89%) PaaS
17 129 (1.84%) Datadog
18 128 (1.82%) IaaS
19 125 (1.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 377 (5.37%) Firewall
2 289 (4.11%) DNS
3 190 (2.71%) WAN
4 169 (2.41%) DHCP
5 158 (2.25%) TCP/IP
6 125 (1.78%) VPN
7 100 (1.42%) LAN
8 98 (1.40%) Network Security
9 96 (1.37%) HTTP
10 91 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 81 (1.15%) SAN
12 76 (1.08%) SSL
13 70 (1.00%) BGP
14 69 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
15 68 (0.97%) VLAN
16 62 (0.88%) Internet
17 61 (0.87%) Wireless
18 41 (0.58%) VoIP
19 33 (0.47%) AMQP
19 33 (0.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 682 (9.71%) NoSQL
2 681 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
3 582 (8.29%) SQL Server
4 482 (6.86%) Big Data
5 476 (6.78%) MySQL
6 434 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
7 412 (5.87%) MongoDB
8 343 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 312 (4.44%) GIS
10 299 (4.26%) Hadoop
11 284 (4.04%) QGIS
12 282 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
13 272 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
14 207 (2.95%) BigQuery
15 196 (2.79%) Looker
16 170 (2.42%) Data Lake
17 137 (1.95%) Apache Hive
18 134 (1.91%) Oracle Database
19 123 (1.75%) DynamoDB
20 113 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 696 (9.91%) Git
2 376 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 256 (3.64%) JIRA
4 252 (3.59%) GitLab
5 166 (2.36%) JUnit
6 145 (2.06%) Selenium
7 114 (1.62%) Cypress.io
8 90 (1.28%) Bitbucket Server
9 72 (1.03%) Jasmine
10 66 (0.94%) Cucumber
11 62 (0.88%) WebDriver
12 60 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (0.85%) Protractor
12 60 (0.85%) TeamCity
13 59 (0.84%) Bitbucket
14 51 (0.73%) Postman
15 47 (0.67%) Maven
16 42 (0.60%) Visual Studio
17 33 (0.47%) CircleCI
18 32 (0.46%) JMeter
General
1 1,870 (26.62%) Finance
2 1,385 (19.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,265 (18.01%) Law
4 1,246 (17.74%) Social Skills
5 700 (9.97%) Marketing
6 486 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
7 413 (5.88%) Legal
8 358 (5.10%) Banking
9 301 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 230 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
11 206 (2.93%) Retail
12 204 (2.90%) Investment Banking
13 182 (2.59%) Financial Institution
14 150 (2.14%) Aerospace
15 149 (2.12%) Games
16 106 (1.51%) Tech for Good
17 94 (1.34%) Billing
18 75 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
19 67 (0.95%) Telecoms
20 65 (0.93%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1,892 (26.94%) Software Engineer
2 1,598 (22.75%) Developer
3 1,498 (21.33%) Senior
4 1,049 (14.93%) Lead
5 808 (11.50%) Architect
6 554 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
7 454 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
8 453 (6.45%) Java Engineer
9 430 (6.12%) Senior Developer
10 411 (5.85%) Java Software Engineer
11 401 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
12 375 (5.34%) Data Engineer
13 366 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 349 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
15 342 (4.87%) AWS Software Engineer
16 334 (4.76%) .NET Developer
17 293 (4.17%) Python Engineer
18 288 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 252 (3.59%) Big Data Engineer
20 251 (3.57%) Big Data Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,426 (20.30%) React
2 1,003 (14.28%) .NET
3 824 (11.73%) Node.js
4 753 (10.72%) AngularJS
5 714 (10.17%) CSS
6 663 (9.44%) Spring
7 604 (8.60%) .NET Core
8 469 (6.68%) HTML
9 461 (6.56%) Vue
10 456 (6.49%) Spring Boot
11 414 (5.89%) RESTful
12 376 (5.35%) Kafka
13 346 (4.93%) .NET Framework
14 333 (4.74%) REST
15 331 (4.71%) ASP.NET
16 285 (4.06%) PostGIS
17 284 (4.04%) Leaflet
17 284 (4.04%) OpenLayers
18 282 (4.01%) Laravel
19 256 (3.64%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 683 (9.72%) Public Cloud
2 679 (9.67%) Cloud Native
3 483 (6.88%) Algorithms
4 244 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 232 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
6 229 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 210 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 206 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
9 191 (2.72%) Data Structures
10 179 (2.55%) Data Centre
11 149 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
12 146 (2.08%) Private Cloud
13 135 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
14 125 (1.78%) IoT
15 113 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
16 107 (1.52%) PKI
17 99 (1.41%) Mobile App
18 77 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
19 73 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
20 70 (1.00%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 923 (13.14%) Linux
2 617 (8.78%) Windows
3 294 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 239 (3.40%) Unix
5 177 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 128 (1.82%) Ubuntu
7 68 (0.97%) CentOS
8 65 (0.93%) Android
9 54 (0.77%) Debian
10 53 (0.75%) Mac OS
11 50 (0.71%) Apple iOS
12 48 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
13 35 (0.50%) Windows 10
14 34 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
15 25 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
16 20 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
17 19 (0.27%) CoreOS
18 11 (0.16%) Solaris
19 10 (0.14%) VMS
19 10 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,428 (48.80%) Agile
2 2,501 (35.61%) Software Engineering
3 2,044 (29.10%) CI/CD
4 1,908 (27.16%) DevOps
5 1,380 (19.65%) SDLC
6 1,288 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
7 1,120 (15.95%) Microservices
8 1,064 (15.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,055 (15.02%) Operational Stability
10 978 (13.92%) Mentoring
11 930 (13.24%) Full Stack Development
12 911 (12.97%) Machine Learning
13 798 (11.36%) Scrum
14 788 (11.22%) TDD
15 715 (10.18%) Actionable Insight
16 699 (9.95%) Community of Practice
17 651 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 636 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
19 545 (7.76%) Computer Science
20 544 (7.74%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,944 (27.68%) Python
2 1,916 (27.28%) Java
3 1,666 (23.72%) JavaScript
4 1,436 (20.44%) SQL
5 918 (13.07%) C#
6 858 (12.22%) TypeScript
7 448 (6.38%) PHP
8 295 (4.20%) PowerShell
9 283 (4.03%) Scala
10 247 (3.52%) Bash
11 200 (2.85%) PL/SQL
12 159 (2.26%) Go
13 86 (1.22%) T-SQL
14 81 (1.15%) C++
15 64 (0.91%) Ruby
16 62 (0.88%) C
17 58 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 48 (0.68%) COBOL
19 46 (0.65%) Shell Script
20 44 (0.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,062 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 740 (10.54%) SC Cleared
3 646 (9.20%) Degree
4 377 (5.37%) AWS Certification
5 274 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 222 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 200 (2.85%) Azure Certification
8 148 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 119 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 97 (1.38%) CISSP
11 96 (1.37%) CCNA
12 90 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 74 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 65 (0.93%) CISM
15 46 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 45 (0.64%) DBS Check
17 42 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 41 (0.58%) MCSE
18 41 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
19 38 (0.54%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (4.11%) QA
2 192 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 181 (2.58%) GDPR
4 122 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (1.65%) SLA
6 106 (1.51%) NIST
7 86 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 50 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.43%) 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 9 (0.13%) GRC
13 9 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.13%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.11%) PSD2
15 6 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.057%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 982 (13.98%) Docker
2 306 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 266 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 245 (3.49%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.51%) HDFS
6 37 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 37 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 25 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (0.34%) vSphere
9 22 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 21 (0.30%) Firmware
11 16 (0.23%) XenApp
12 14 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
13 11 (0.16%) XenDesktop
14 10 (0.14%) KVM
15 7 (0.100%) Terminal Services
16 5 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
17 4 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
18 3 (0.043%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 1,088 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 1,052 (14.98%) Terraform
3 458 (6.52%) Ansible
4 175 (2.49%) Puppet
5 156 (2.22%) Grafana
6 133 (1.89%) Prometheus
7 87 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 64 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 57 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.48%) SCCM
11 33 (0.47%) vCenter Server
12 32 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
13 27 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (0.27%) Nagios
15 19 (0.27%) Opsgenie
15 19 (0.27%) VxRail
16 18 (0.26%) FortiGate
17 17 (0.24%) Kibana
18 13 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 924 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 645 (9.18%) Google
3 420 (5.98%) Oracle
4 384 (5.47%) VMware
5 325 (4.63%) Databricks
6 285 (4.06%) ESRI
7 197 (2.80%) Cisco
8 185 (2.63%) Red Hat
9 171 (2.43%) Dynatrace
10 153 (2.18%) Splunk
11 119 (1.69%) Informatica
12 85 (1.21%) IBM
13 77 (1.10%) Cloudera
14 66 (0.94%) Citrix
14 66 (0.94%) Salesforce
15 65 (0.93%) Alteryx
16 62 (0.88%) Dell
17 50 (0.71%) Sparx
18 46 (0.65%) Veeam
19 45 (0.64%) SaltStack