AWS Engineer Jobs in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 320 300
Rank change year-on-year -8 -20 +75
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 439 724 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.84% 0.83% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.88% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 363 619 710
10th Percentile £65,000 £57,350 £53,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £148,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +25.71% +9.38% -3.61%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 47,456 82,605 68,469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.31% 94.69% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 26,456 59,020 47,752
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. 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
London +34 348 £110,000 +4.76% 56
North of England +27 34 £67,500 +3.85% 22
North West -5 29 £70,000 +12.00% 14
Midlands +34 23 £72,500 +3.57% 14
West Midlands +46 19 £72,500 - 9
South East +10 14 £61,750 -5.00% 14
South West +52 6 £77,500 +3.33% 4
East of England +21 6 £64,000 -14.67% 4
East Midlands +15 4 £57,000 -0.87% 4
North East +28 3 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Yorkshire +34 2 - - 8
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, 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 across the England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 439 (100.00%) AWS
2 323 (73.58%) Python
3 298 (67.88%) Finance
4 291 (66.29%) Software Engineering
5 276 (62.87%) Agile
6 239 (54.44%) Amazon Athena
7 226 (51.48%) Apache Airflow
7 226 (51.48%) Apache Iceberg
8 225 (51.25%) Asset Management
9 223 (50.80%) dbt
10 222 (50.57%) Dremio
10 222 (50.57%) Apache Arrow
10 222 (50.57%) Front Office
11 195 (44.42%) Java
12 192 (43.74%) Fixed Income
13 186 (42.37%) Equities
14 182 (41.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 182 (41.46%) TypeScript
15 172 (39.18%) JavaScript
16 165 (37.59%) Investment Management
17 160 (36.45%) SciPy
17 160 (36.45%) NumPy
17 160 (36.45%) Pandas
18 152 (34.62%) DevOps
19 149 (33.94%) Apache
20 147 (33.49%) Banking
21 133 (30.30%) Terraform
22 130 (29.61%) CI/CD
23 116 (26.42%) Derivative
24 112 (25.51%) Snowflake

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 226 (51.48%) Apache Airflow
2 149 (33.94%) Apache
3 39 (8.88%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.87%) Confluence
5 5 (1.14%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) JBoss
6 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 439 (100.00%) AWS
2 223 (50.80%) dbt
3 112 (25.51%) Snowflake
4 111 (25.28%) GCP
5 78 (17.77%) Serverless
6 68 (15.49%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (12.98%) Amazon ECS
8 55 (12.53%) Amazon EC2
9 47 (10.71%) Amazon S3
10 38 (8.66%) OpenShift
11 37 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (8.20%) Azure
13 33 (7.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (5.01%) AWS KMS
15 15 (3.42%) Amazon ELB
15 15 (3.42%) GitHub
15 15 (3.42%) SaaS
16 11 (2.51%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.52%) Firewall
2 14 (3.19%) DNS
3 12 (2.73%) VPN
4 8 (1.82%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.37%) BGP
5 6 (1.37%) Network Security
5 6 (1.37%) OSPF
5 6 (1.37%) WAN
6 5 (1.14%) FTP
6 5 (1.14%) HTTP
6 5 (1.14%) IPsec
6 5 (1.14%) LAN
6 5 (1.14%) SMTP
6 5 (1.14%) SSH
7 4 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (0.91%) DHCP
7 4 (0.91%) IMAP
7 4 (0.91%) MPLS
7 4 (0.91%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (54.44%) Amazon Athena
2 226 (51.48%) Apache Iceberg
3 222 (50.57%) Apache Arrow
3 222 (50.57%) Dremio
4 108 (24.60%) Apache Ignite
5 96 (21.87%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (19.13%) Data Lake
7 35 (7.97%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (4.10%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (3.42%) Big Data
10 15 (3.42%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.37%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.91%) KDB
14 4 (0.91%) MySQL
14 4 (0.91%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (9.79%) Jenkins
2 34 (7.74%) Artifactory
3 23 (5.24%) GitLab
4 22 (5.01%) Git
5 21 (4.78%) JIRA
6 18 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (3.42%) Vagrant
8 11 (2.51%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.14%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.91%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.46%) Ant
12 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.46%) Maven
12 2 (0.46%) Selenium
12 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.23%) NUnit
General
1 298 (67.88%) Finance
2 222 (50.57%) Front Office
3 147 (33.49%) Banking
4 108 (24.60%) Investment Banking
5 40 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (9.11%) Social Skills
6 33 (7.52%) Public Sector
7 25 (5.69%) Law
8 12 (2.73%) Retail
9 10 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (1.82%) Advertising
11 6 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.14%) Marketing
13 4 (0.91%) Games
14 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.68%) Legal
15 1 (0.23%) Electronics
15 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (36.45%) NumPy
1 160 (36.45%) Pandas
1 160 (36.45%) SciPy
2 105 (23.92%) Node.js
3 95 (21.64%) React
4 86 (19.59%) AngularJS
5 84 (19.13%) Vue
6 82 (18.68%) gRPC
7 80 (18.22%) PySpark
8 78 (17.77%) Protocol Buffers
9 47 (10.71%) Kafka
10 30 (6.83%) J2EE
11 23 (5.24%) REST
12 20 (4.56%) Web Services
13 12 (2.73%) AWS CDK
14 11 (2.51%) Spring
15 9 (2.05%) .NET
16 8 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
17 7 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
18 6 (1.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 192 (43.74%) Fixed Income
2 186 (42.37%) Equities
3 182 (41.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 116 (26.42%) Derivative
5 111 (25.28%) Hedge funds
6 65 (14.81%) Pricing Data
7 23 (5.24%) Cloud Native
8 16 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (3.42%) e-Learning
10 14 (3.19%) Replication
11 10 (2.28%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
13 7 (1.59%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.37%) Management Information System
15 5 (1.14%) Algorithms
15 5 (1.14%) Product Ownership
15 5 (1.14%) Web3
16 4 (0.91%) Blockchain
17 3 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.43%) Linux
2 24 (5.47%) Windows
3 16 (3.64%) VMS
4 7 (1.59%) Unix
5 6 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.68%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) Android
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (66.29%) Software Engineering
2 276 (62.87%) Agile
3 225 (51.25%) Asset Management
4 165 (37.59%) Investment Management
5 152 (34.62%) DevOps
6 130 (29.61%) CI/CD
7 87 (19.82%) Fintech
7 87 (19.82%) Risk Management
8 85 (19.36%) Order Management
9 84 (19.13%) Performance Attribution
10 67 (15.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (10.93%) Containerisation
12 45 (10.25%) Artificial Intelligence
12 45 (10.25%) Data Engineering
13 43 (9.79%) Cloud Security
14 42 (9.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 41 (9.34%) Open Source
16 35 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (7.52%) Machine Learning
17 33 (7.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 323 (73.58%) Python
2 195 (44.42%) Java
3 182 (41.46%) TypeScript
4 172 (39.18%) JavaScript
5 58 (13.21%) SQL
6 51 (11.62%) Go
7 24 (5.47%) PowerShell
8 22 (5.01%) Bash
9 21 (4.78%) Groovy
10 14 (3.19%) C#
10 14 (3.19%) Scala
11 9 (2.05%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.59%) PHP
13 4 (0.91%) Perl
13 4 (0.91%) Ruby
14 2 (0.46%) C
14 2 (0.46%) C++
14 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.23%) Bicep
15 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (8.66%) Security Cleared
2 33 (7.52%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.78%) Degree
4 18 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.59%) CCNP
7 6 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.14%) CCNA
9 4 (0.91%) CCIE
9 4 (0.91%) CCSA
9 4 (0.91%) CCSE
10 2 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.46%) RHCE
10 2 (0.46%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) CCSK
11 1 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.59%) QA
2 3 (0.68%) GDPR
2 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.23%) MiFID
4 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (21.18%) Docker
2 16 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.19%) DFS Replication
4 6 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.91%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.91%) Postfix
5 4 (0.91%) Squid
6 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 133 (30.30%) Terraform
2 99 (22.55%) Kubernetes
3 43 (9.79%) Ansible
4 42 (9.57%) Grafana
5 37 (8.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.59%) Istio
7 4 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.91%) Nessus
7 4 (0.91%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.46%) Kibana
8 2 (0.46%) Packer
8 2 (0.46%) Podman
8 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) Argo
9 1 (0.23%) Consul
9 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.23%) linkerd
9 1 (0.23%) logstash
9 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (4.33%) ServiceNow
2 18 (4.10%) IBM
3 17 (3.87%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.73%) Ping Identity
5 11 (2.51%) Juniper
6 8 (1.82%) Cisco
6 8 (1.82%) Splunk
7 6 (1.37%) Confluent
7 6 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.37%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.14%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.14%) Meraki
9 4 (0.91%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.91%) Citrix
9 4 (0.91%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (0.91%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.68%) Google
10 3 (0.68%) VMware
11 2 (0.46%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.46%) F5