AWS Engineer Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon Web Services Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in Birmingham is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 6 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.35% - 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £44,750 - £47,750
25th Percentile £48,125 - £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.34%
75th Percentile £54,375 - £79,375
90th Percentile £62,250 - £84,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -28.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,603 1,795 1,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.82% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,150 899 997
10th Percentile £31,175 £36,713 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,991 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £87,500 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in Birmingham

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 27 December 2025, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Docker
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Confluence
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) DFS Replication
4 2 (33.33%) DNS

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) IMAP
1 2 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (33.33%) SMTP
1 2 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 2 (33.33%) VMS
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) DFS Replication
2 2 (33.33%) Dovecot
2 2 (33.33%) Postfix
2 2 (33.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Nessus
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (33.33%) Proxmox
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk