AWS Engineer Jobs

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 351 390
Rank change year-on-year +52 +39 -176
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 985 907 1,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.96% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.05% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 612 783 1,333
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +17.86%
75th Percentile £115,313 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £138,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -3.57% +9.80% +10.87%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 -13 666 £84,000 +5.00% 87
UK excluding London +113 554 £67,500 -3.57% 37
Work from Home -19 421 £87,500 +7.69% 61
London +37 406 £100,000 +5.26% 51
Scotland +123 304 £60,000 -26.15% 4
North of England -27 76 £67,500 -3.57% 10
South East -8 65 £67,500 +3.85% 9
Midlands +18 57 £65,000 -7.14% 9
North West -42 49 £67,500 -6.90% 7
South West -36 35 £72,500 - 3
East Midlands +4 31 £57,500 +4.55% 4
West Midlands 0 26 £72,500 +3.57% 5
North East +6 22 £75,000 +9.09%
East of England -27 17 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Yorkshire +10 5 £65,000 -3.70% 3

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 985 (100.00%) AWS
2 590 (59.90%) Python
3 559 (56.75%) Agile
4 551 (55.94%) Finance
5 545 (55.33%) Software Engineering
6 481 (48.83%) CI/CD
7 411 (41.73%) Java
8 364 (36.95%) Terraform
9 315 (31.98%) DevOps
10 312 (31.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 299 (30.36%) Law
12 292 (29.64%) SDLC
13 286 (29.04%) Operational Stability
14 267 (27.11%) Kubernetes
14 267 (27.11%) SQL
15 246 (24.97%) JavaScript
16 244 (24.77%) Asset Management
17 228 (23.15%) Apache
18 222 (22.54%) NoSQL
19 214 (21.73%) Artificial Intelligence
20 210 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
21 208 (21.12%) Serverless
22 204 (20.71%) Legal
23 203 (20.61%) Risk Management
24 198 (20.10%) Visualisation
25 197 (20.00%) Machine Learning
25 197 (20.00%) Algorithms
26 194 (19.70%) Big Data
27 193 (19.59%) Apache Airflow
28 192 (19.49%) dbt

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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
1 228 (23.15%) Apache
2 193 (19.59%) Apache Airflow
3 185 (18.78%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.12%) Confluence
5 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.41%) Drupal
6 4 (0.41%) nginx
7 2 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.10%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Sketch
2 1 (0.10%) UXPin
2 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 985 (100.00%) AWS
2 208 (21.12%) Serverless
3 192 (19.49%) dbt
4 185 (18.78%) AWS Lambda
5 167 (16.95%) Snowflake
6 153 (15.53%) Amazon EC2
7 133 (13.50%) Amazon S3
8 117 (11.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 103 (10.46%) Amazon ECS
10 98 (9.95%) Amazon EKS
11 93 (9.44%) Amazon SQS
12 85 (8.63%) Azure
13 66 (6.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (6.50%) GitHub
15 61 (6.19%) GCP
16 60 (6.09%) Amazon EMR
17 48 (4.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 45 (4.57%) SaaS
19 36 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
20 35 (3.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.05%) Firewall
2 14 (1.42%) DNS
3 12 (1.22%) Network Security
4 9 (0.91%) VPN
5 4 (0.41%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) IPv4
6 3 (0.30%) MQTT
7 2 (0.20%) HTTP
7 2 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.10%) OSPF
8 1 (0.10%) SAN
8 1 (0.10%) SSL
8 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (22.54%) NoSQL
2 194 (19.70%) Big Data
3 189 (19.19%) Amazon Athena
4 180 (18.27%) Apache Arrow
4 180 (18.27%) Dremio
5 161 (16.35%) Data Lake
6 138 (14.01%) Hadoop
7 124 (12.59%) Apache Ignite
8 120 (12.18%) Amazon RDS
9 69 (7.01%) Apache Hive
10 68 (6.90%) HBase
11 58 (5.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 50 (5.08%) Electronic Patient Records
13 41 (4.16%) DynamoDB
14 33 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
15 16 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.02%) SQL Server
17 9 (0.91%) MySQL
18 8 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
19 7 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 162 (16.45%) Jenkins
2 138 (14.01%) Git
3 67 (6.80%) Bitbucket Server
4 49 (4.97%) GitLab
5 30 (3.05%) Artifactory
6 20 (2.03%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (1.42%) JIRA
9 7 (0.71%) Subversion
10 6 (0.61%) Spinnaker
11 5 (0.51%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.51%) Postman
11 5 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.41%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.20%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.20%) Metasploit
13 2 (0.20%) sqlmap
14 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
General
1 551 (55.94%) Finance
2 312 (31.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 299 (30.36%) Law
4 204 (20.71%) Legal
5 155 (15.74%) Banking
6 151 (15.33%) Front Office
7 146 (14.82%) Investment Banking
8 103 (10.46%) Social Skills
9 72 (7.31%) Marketing
10 42 (4.26%) Financial Institution
11 39 (3.96%) Games
12 26 (2.64%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.73%) Tech for Good
14 15 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
15 10 (1.02%) Retail
16 9 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.51%) Advertising
19 3 (0.30%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (18.07%) gRPC
1 178 (18.07%) Protocol Buffers
2 126 (12.79%) Pandas
3 124 (12.59%) NumPy
3 124 (12.59%) SciPy
4 45 (4.57%) Node.js
5 42 (4.26%) React
6 26 (2.64%) J2EE
7 25 (2.54%) AWS CDK
8 21 (2.13%) AngularJS
8 21 (2.13%) RESTful
9 19 (1.93%) GraphQL
9 19 (1.93%) Kafka
9 19 (1.93%) Redux
9 19 (1.93%) Vue
10 18 (1.83%) Django
10 18 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (1.83%) Spring
11 17 (1.73%) Spring Boot
12 13 (1.32%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 197 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 165 (16.75%) Hedge funds
3 128 (12.99%) Fixed Income
4 103 (10.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 100 (10.15%) Derivative
5 100 (10.15%) Equities
6 88 (8.93%) Cloud Native
7 55 (5.58%) Clustering
8 42 (4.26%) Pricing Data
9 40 (4.06%) Client/Server
10 38 (3.86%) Onboarding
11 26 (2.64%) Data Centre
11 26 (2.64%) Tandem
12 21 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.83%) Online Games
15 14 (1.42%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.32%) Blockchain
16 13 (1.32%) PropTech
17 10 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 107 (10.86%) Linux
2 70 (7.11%) Unix
3 41 (4.16%) Windows
4 16 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.10%) CentOS
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (56.75%) Agile
2 545 (55.33%) Software Engineering
3 481 (48.83%) CI/CD
4 315 (31.98%) DevOps
5 292 (29.64%) SDLC
6 286 (29.04%) Operational Stability
7 244 (24.77%) Asset Management
8 214 (21.73%) Artificial Intelligence
9 210 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 203 (20.61%) Risk Management
11 198 (20.10%) Visualisation
12 197 (20.00%) Machine Learning
13 176 (17.87%) Community of Practice
14 175 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 175 (17.77%) Investment Management
15 167 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
16 104 (10.56%) TDD
17 103 (10.46%) Test Automation
18 102 (10.36%) Open Source
19 101 (10.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 590 (59.90%) Python
2 411 (41.73%) Java
3 267 (27.11%) SQL
4 246 (24.97%) JavaScript
5 142 (14.42%) TypeScript
6 118 (11.98%) Scala
7 95 (9.64%) Go
8 69 (7.01%) Bash
9 67 (6.80%) PL/SQL
10 42 (4.26%) PowerShell
11 27 (2.74%) C#
12 15 (1.52%) Groovy
13 12 (1.22%) PHP
14 11 (1.12%) Perl
15 6 (0.61%) Ruby
16 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.41%) Rust
18 2 (0.20%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.20%) Lua
18 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (8.43%) AWS Certification
2 61 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 60 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.55%) Degree
5 25 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (2.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.83%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.41%) CISSP
10 3 (0.30%) CISM
10 3 (0.30%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.20%) CEH
12 1 (0.10%) CCSP
12 1 (0.10%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.10%) CRISC
12 1 (0.10%) GIAC
12 1 (0.10%) ISSMP
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.12%) Data Quality
2 26 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.83%) NIST
4 18 (1.83%) QA
5 4 (0.41%) NCSC
6 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.10%) COBIT
7 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 173 (17.56%) Docker
2 69 (7.01%) HDFS
3 7 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.10%) iptables
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 364 (36.95%) Terraform
2 267 (27.11%) Kubernetes
3 86 (8.73%) Ansible
4 84 (8.53%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.54%) Grafana
5 25 (2.54%) Progress Chef
6 18 (1.83%) Puppet
7 11 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (0.91%) Packer
9 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.61%) Salt
10 5 (0.51%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.41%) Istio
11 4 (0.41%) Rancher
12 3 (0.30%) Argo
12 3 (0.30%) Consul
13 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 119 (12.08%) Databricks
2 70 (7.11%) Informatica
3 41 (4.16%) Cloudera
4 21 (2.13%) Microsoft
5 18 (1.83%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.32%) Oracle
7 11 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.12%) IBM
8 9 (0.91%) Atlassian
8 9 (0.91%) VMware
9 8 (0.81%) Google
10 6 (0.61%) New Relic
11 5 (0.51%) Splunk
12 4 (0.41%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.20%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.20%) GoCardless
13 2 (0.20%) Hortonworks
13 2 (0.20%) PayPal
13 2 (0.20%) Sage
13 2 (0.20%) Sitecore