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 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 356 377
Rank change year-on-year +56 +21 -160
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 975 900 1,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.92% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.01% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 598 773 1,363
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,750 £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% +22.22%
75th Percentile £115,938 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £138,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +13.04%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 28 May 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 28 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
England -22 649 £82,500 +3.13% 94
UK excluding London +148 555 £67,500 -3.57% 41
Work from Home -11 411 £87,500 +6.06% 70
London +42 395 £100,000 +5.26% 53
Scotland +142 311 £60,000 -26.15% 3
North of England -14 76 £67,500 -3.57% 18
South East +1 60 £67,500 - 9
Midlands +23 55 £60,000 -12.73% 9
North West -20 49 £67,500 -3.57% 14
South West -34 36 £72,500 -
East Midlands +4 31 £57,500 +4.55% 4
West Midlands +19 24 £70,000 - 5
North East +11 22 £75,000 +9.09%
East of England -26 17 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Yorkshire +25 5 £65,000 -3.70% 4

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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.

1 975 (100.00%) AWS
2 584 (59.90%) Python
3 560 (57.44%) Agile
4 551 (56.51%) Finance
5 542 (55.59%) Software Engineering
6 488 (50.05%) CI/CD
7 411 (42.15%) Java
8 366 (37.54%) Terraform
9 319 (32.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 314 (32.21%) DevOps
11 306 (31.38%) Law
12 299 (30.67%) SDLC
13 293 (30.05%) Operational Stability
14 272 (27.90%) SQL
15 269 (27.59%) Kubernetes
16 242 (24.82%) JavaScript
17 238 (24.41%) Asset Management
18 226 (23.18%) NoSQL
19 223 (22.87%) Apache
20 216 (22.15%) Artificial Intelligence
21 214 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
22 208 (21.33%) Serverless
23 206 (21.13%) Legal
24 205 (21.03%) Risk Management
25 201 (20.62%) Visualisation
25 201 (20.62%) Machine Learning
26 200 (20.51%) Algorithms
27 198 (20.31%) Big Data
28 189 (19.38%) Apache Spark
29 186 (19.08%) Apache Airflow

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
1 223 (22.87%) Apache
2 189 (19.38%) Apache Spark
3 186 (19.08%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.23%) Confluence
5 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.41%) Drupal
6 4 (0.41%) nginx
7 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.10%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Sketch
2 1 (0.10%) UXPin
2 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 975 (100.00%) AWS
2 208 (21.33%) Serverless
3 185 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
3 185 (18.97%) dbt
4 159 (16.31%) Snowflake
5 153 (15.69%) Amazon EC2
6 132 (13.54%) Amazon S3
7 115 (11.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 104 (10.67%) Amazon ECS
9 99 (10.15%) Amazon EKS
10 94 (9.64%) Amazon SQS
11 86 (8.82%) Azure
12 66 (6.77%) GitHub
13 63 (6.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 62 (6.36%) GCP
15 61 (6.26%) Amazon EMR
16 47 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 44 (4.51%) SaaS
18 36 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
19 35 (3.59%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.08%) Firewall
2 15 (1.54%) DNS
3 12 (1.23%) Network Security
4 9 (0.92%) VPN
5 4 (0.41%) DHCP
6 3 (0.31%) IPv4
6 3 (0.31%) MQTT
7 2 (0.21%) HTTP
7 2 (0.21%) VLAN
8 1 (0.10%) OSPF
8 1 (0.10%) SAN
8 1 (0.10%) SSL
8 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (23.18%) NoSQL
2 198 (20.31%) Big Data
3 182 (18.67%) Amazon Athena
4 173 (17.74%) Apache Arrow
4 173 (17.74%) Dremio
5 152 (15.59%) Data Lake
6 140 (14.36%) Hadoop
7 119 (12.21%) Amazon RDS
8 117 (12.00%) Apache Ignite
9 69 (7.08%) Apache Hive
10 68 (6.97%) HBase
11 57 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 51 (5.23%) Electronic Patient Records
13 41 (4.21%) DynamoDB
14 33 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.03%) SQL Server
17 8 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
17 8 (0.82%) MySQL
18 7 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 164 (16.82%) Jenkins
2 139 (14.26%) Git
3 67 (6.87%) Bitbucket Server
4 50 (5.13%) GitLab
5 30 (3.08%) Artifactory
6 20 (2.05%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 15 (1.54%) JIRA
9 8 (0.82%) Subversion
10 6 (0.62%) 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 (0.21%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.21%) Metasploit
13 2 (0.21%) sqlmap
14 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
General
1 551 (56.51%) Finance
2 319 (32.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 306 (31.38%) Law
4 206 (21.13%) Legal
5 149 (15.28%) Banking
6 144 (14.77%) Front Office
7 140 (14.36%) Investment Banking
8 101 (10.36%) Social Skills
9 75 (7.69%) Marketing
10 43 (4.41%) Financial Institution
11 39 (4.00%) Games
12 26 (2.67%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.74%) Tech for Good
14 15 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
15 11 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.03%) Retail
17 6 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.51%) Advertising
19 3 (0.31%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (17.54%) gRPC
1 171 (17.54%) Protocol Buffers
2 119 (12.21%) Pandas
3 117 (12.00%) NumPy
3 117 (12.00%) SciPy
4 44 (4.51%) Node.js
5 41 (4.21%) React
6 26 (2.67%) J2EE
7 25 (2.56%) AWS CDK
8 21 (2.15%) AngularJS
9 20 (2.05%) RESTful
10 19 (1.95%) GraphQL
10 19 (1.95%) Kafka
10 19 (1.95%) Redux
10 19 (1.95%) Vue
11 18 (1.85%) Django
11 18 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (1.85%) Spring
12 17 (1.74%) Spring Boot
13 13 (1.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 200 (20.51%) Algorithms
2 157 (16.10%) Hedge funds
3 120 (12.31%) Fixed Income
4 95 (9.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 92 (9.44%) Cloud Native
5 92 (9.44%) Derivative
5 92 (9.44%) Equities
6 55 (5.64%) Clustering
7 40 (4.10%) Client/Server
8 38 (3.90%) Onboarding
9 36 (3.69%) Pricing Data
10 26 (2.67%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.67%) Tandem
11 22 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.85%) Online Games
14 14 (1.44%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.33%) Blockchain
16 10 (1.03%) e-Learning
16 10 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 108 (11.08%) Linux
2 70 (7.18%) Unix
3 41 (4.21%) Windows
4 17 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) CentOS
7 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (57.44%) Agile
2 542 (55.59%) Software Engineering
3 488 (50.05%) CI/CD
4 314 (32.21%) DevOps
5 299 (30.67%) SDLC
6 293 (30.05%) Operational Stability
7 238 (24.41%) Asset Management
8 216 (22.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 214 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (21.03%) Risk Management
11 201 (20.62%) Machine Learning
11 201 (20.62%) Visualisation
12 180 (18.46%) Community of Practice
13 174 (17.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 167 (17.13%) Investment Management
14 167 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
15 104 (10.67%) TDD
15 104 (10.67%) Test Automation
16 103 (10.56%) Open Source
17 100 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 584 (59.90%) Python
2 411 (42.15%) Java
3 272 (27.90%) SQL
4 242 (24.82%) JavaScript
5 135 (13.85%) TypeScript
6 123 (12.62%) Scala
7 95 (9.74%) Go
8 69 (7.08%) Bash
9 67 (6.87%) PL/SQL
10 42 (4.31%) PowerShell
11 27 (2.77%) C#
12 15 (1.54%) Groovy
13 12 (1.23%) Perl
14 11 (1.13%) PHP
15 7 (0.72%) Ruby
16 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.41%) Rust
18 2 (0.21%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.21%) Lua
18 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (8.31%) AWS Certification
2 63 (6.46%) Security Cleared
3 60 (6.15%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.49%) Degree
5 25 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (2.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.85%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.41%) CISSP
10 3 (0.31%) CISM
10 3 (0.31%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.21%) CEH
12 1 (0.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.10%) CCSP
12 1 (0.10%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.10%) GIAC
12 1 (0.10%) ISSMP
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 27 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.85%) QA
5 15 (1.54%) NIST
6 4 (0.41%) NCSC
7 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.10%) COBIT
8 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 175 (17.95%) Docker
2 69 (7.08%) HDFS
3 7 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.10%) iptables
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 366 (37.54%) Terraform
2 269 (27.59%) Kubernetes
3 88 (9.03%) Ansible
4 84 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.77%) Progress Chef
6 25 (2.56%) Grafana
7 20 (2.05%) Puppet
8 11 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (1.03%) Packer
10 8 (0.82%) Salt
11 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.51%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.41%) Istio
13 4 (0.41%) Rancher
14 3 (0.31%) Argo
14 3 (0.31%) Consul
15 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
15 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
16 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 119 (12.21%) Databricks
2 70 (7.18%) Informatica
3 41 (4.21%) Cloudera
4 21 (2.15%) Microsoft
5 18 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.33%) Oracle
7 11 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.13%) IBM
8 10 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 9 (0.92%) VMware
10 8 (0.82%) Google
11 5 (0.51%) New Relic
11 5 (0.51%) Splunk
12 4 (0.41%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.21%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.21%) Hortonworks
13 2 (0.21%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.21%) PayPal
13 2 (0.21%) Sage
13 2 (0.21%) Sitecore