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Careers and Hiring Guide:

AWS EDITION

2024

The ultimate source for the latest career insights, hiring trends and salaries within the AWS community.
Whatever the AWS role, use our guide to benchmark your salary or contact rate, or to uncover what you should be paying employees in your team.

Zoë Morris
Jefferson Frank President

Executive summary

Welcome to the 2024 edition of our Careers and Hiring Guide, featuring the latest insights and trends from the AWS community worldwide.

Every year, we explore the issues that matter most to AWS professionals to help you map out a successful career and ensure you get maximum value from this leading cloud computing platform.

Whether you’re eyeing up your dream job, looking to shine in your current role or seeking fresh talent to spearhead innovation in your team, we have all the insights you need to achieve your goals.

We aggregate our findings from two primary sources: self-reported data from an online survey of AWS professionals, customers, and partners, and statistical analysis of vacancies and placements made by Jefferson Frank. This information allows us to profile developments and sentiments across the industry, including market movement of salaries.

According to our survey, 70% of hiring managers believe there is an IT skills gap in the AWS community, with 45% of those respondents highlighting the time it takes to find talent as their main challenge to tackling this divide.

Honing in on skills development, 82% of professionals believe that certifications make you a more valuable candidate, yet only 58% hold one (down from 59% in our last survey). The tangible impact of certs shouldn’t be underestimated either, with those reporting a pay rise post-certification averaging a sizeable increase of 23%.

And employers, take note, as a lack of wage growth is the top reason for an employee seeking a job elsewhere.

Salary aside though, candidates are also looking for competitive benefits, with a generous amount of time off and home working topping our poll as the most enticing perks.

Our study also spotlighted equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and found that only 59% of employees believe their employer provides equal pay for equal work. And with just 66% of businesses investing resources into EDI initiatives—a drop of 3% since our last report—progress appears to be stagnating.

We’ll dig into these trends and much more in the rest of this guide, so please read our latest findings, commentary, and tips at your leisure.

A big thank you to everyone who took part in our survey; your insights make this publication possible. Look out for your chance to take part again next year!

Until then,

Zoë

What's in this guide?

Exploring training and certifications in the AWS universe

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Insights for employers and hiring managers:
Recruiting and keeping talent

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The digital skills gap

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Insights for candidates:
Career development and the jobs market

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Equality, diversity,
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Career spotlights

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About this guide

This report is based on over 69,000 data points, including self-reported survey information from 635 AWS professionals worldwide between April and August 2023. Respondents span a range of industries, come from diverse personal and professional backgrounds, and include a mix of professionals and hiring managers.

We’ve validated every survey response using robust statistical analysis and automated data validation rules to be included in the final results. Any data that didn’t pass our validation rules and statistical analysis or was deemed questionable, incomplete, or duplicate was removed so that the results published are meaningful and accurate.

The following should be taken into account when interpreting the data in this report:

Interested in learning more about the demographic profile and the types of organizations our respondents are from?

Our key findings report contains highlights from this year’s Careers and Hiring Guide, plus our salary tables allow you to compare your salary or benchmark your teams’ salaries no matter their role in the AWS ecosystem.

Careers and Hiring Guide

AWS Edition 2025

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Our eagerly anticipated annual deep dive into the AWS community returns with the 2025 Careers and Hiring Guide. Available in its entirety for free online, it’s packed full of unmissable insights, unique analysis, and invaluable advice for professionals and organizations working with AWS.

Today, the rate of innovation in tech has arguably never been faster. This makes it even more important to stay at the forefront of the latest trends if you want to ensure a competitive advantage in an ever-growing market. But this brings its own challenges, like how to upskill in high-demand areas or attract top talent to execute these projects.

Our key findings report makes it easier for you to keep your finger on the pulse, offering a top-level breakdown of the most important takeaways, sentiments, and trends from this year’s Careers and Hiring Guide. The report also features our much sought-after salary tables, helping you to benchmark salaries and rates for you and your teams across a range of AWS roles worldwide.

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