AWS Engineer Jobs in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in England is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 366 345
Rank change year-on-year +91 -21 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 485 591 899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.05% 0.69% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 0.73% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 434 520 776
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £76,563 £64,688 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -0.93%
75th Percentile £135,000 £112,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £107,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +34.38% - -

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 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +84 364 £110,000 +12.82% 121
North of England +67 57 £65,000 - 55
North West +25 40 £66,350 +2.08% 46
South East +73 18 £58,000 -14.07% 44
East of England +55 14 £64,000 -14.67% 4
Midlands +49 14 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Yorkshire +81 11 £50,000 -20.00% 6
South West +80 10 £80,000 +20.75% 5
East Midlands +31 10 £65,000 +13.04% 4
North East +34 6 £65,000 -13.33% 4
West Midlands +36 4 £51,250 -26.79%
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 485 (100.00%) AWS
2 339 (69.90%) Python
3 332 (68.45%) Software Engineering
4 331 (68.25%) Agile
5 320 (65.98%) Finance
6 273 (56.29%) Front Office
6 273 (56.29%) Asset Management
7 248 (51.13%) Amazon Athena
8 244 (50.31%) dbt
9 242 (49.90%) Dremio
10 237 (48.87%) Apache Airflow
10 237 (48.87%) Apache Iceberg
11 235 (48.45%) Apache Arrow
12 226 (46.60%) Java
13 206 (42.47%) DevOps
14 204 (42.06%) Apache
15 189 (38.97%) JavaScript
16 186 (38.35%) CI/CD
17 173 (35.67%) TypeScript
18 172 (35.46%) Terraform
19 167 (34.43%) Serverless
20 166 (34.23%) Apache Ignite
21 164 (33.81%) Fixed Income
22 157 (32.37%) AWS Lambda
23 156 (32.16%) Kubernetes
24 155 (31.96%) Docker
25 153 (31.55%) Banking
26 143 (29.48%) Amazon ECS
27 141 (29.07%) PySpark
28 136 (28.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

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
1 237 (48.87%) Apache Airflow
2 204 (42.06%) Apache
3 78 (16.08%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.65%) Camunda
4 8 (1.65%) nginx
5 6 (1.24%) Confluence
6 1 (0.21%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 485 (100.00%) AWS
2 244 (50.31%) dbt
3 167 (34.43%) Serverless
4 157 (32.37%) AWS Lambda
5 143 (29.48%) Amazon ECS
6 110 (22.68%) Snowflake
7 108 (22.27%) GCP
8 97 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
9 95 (19.59%) OpenShift
10 82 (16.91%) Amazon S3
11 76 (15.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 55 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (8.66%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (7.01%) Dagster
15 29 (5.98%) SaaS
16 22 (4.54%) Azure
17 14 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (2.47%) IBM Cloud
19 11 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
19 11 (2.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.15%) Firewall
2 5 (1.03%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.82%) DHCP
3 4 (0.82%) DNS
3 4 (0.82%) VPN
4 3 (0.62%) BGP
4 3 (0.62%) IPsec
4 3 (0.62%) OSPF
4 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.41%) Internet
5 2 (0.41%) SSL
5 2 (0.41%) VoIP
6 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.21%) LAN
6 1 (0.21%) MPLS
6 1 (0.21%) Network Security
6 1 (0.21%) WAN
6 1 (0.21%) WLAN
6 1 (0.21%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (51.13%) Amazon Athena
2 242 (49.90%) Dremio
3 237 (48.87%) Apache Iceberg
4 235 (48.45%) Apache Arrow
5 166 (34.23%) Apache Ignite
6 94 (19.38%) Data Lake
7 65 (13.40%) Amazon RDS
8 58 (11.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 50 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (6.60%) DynamoDB
11 25 (5.15%) MongoDB
12 22 (4.54%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.65%) Big Data
15 8 (1.65%) Oracle Database
16 5 (1.03%) MySQL
16 5 (1.03%) Power BI
17 4 (0.82%) Hadoop
18 3 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 82 (16.91%) Artifactory
2 38 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.12%) GitLab
4 7 (1.44%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.44%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.03%) JIRA
7 4 (0.82%) Git
7 4 (0.82%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.82%) Storybook
8 2 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.41%) NUnit
8 2 (0.41%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.21%) JMeter
9 1 (0.21%) Maven
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 320 (65.98%) Finance
2 273 (56.29%) Front Office
3 153 (31.55%) Banking
4 105 (21.65%) Investment Banking
5 35 (7.22%) Social Skills
6 31 (6.39%) Law
7 17 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.06%) Retail
10 8 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.03%) Advertising
11 5 (1.03%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.82%) Games
12 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.82%) Publishing
12 4 (0.82%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.21%) Local Government
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.21%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (29.07%) PySpark
2 132 (27.22%) NumPy
2 132 (27.22%) Pandas
2 132 (27.22%) SciPy
3 99 (20.41%) gRPC
4 98 (20.21%) Node.js
5 95 (19.59%) Protocol Buffers
6 90 (18.56%) Kafka
7 85 (17.53%) React
8 81 (16.70%) J2EE
9 60 (12.37%) AngularJS
10 59 (12.16%) Vue
11 26 (5.36%) Redux
12 17 (3.51%) REST
13 12 (2.47%) RESTful
14 11 (2.27%) GraphQL
14 11 (2.27%) Web Services
15 10 (2.06%) .NET
16 9 (1.86%) Swagger
17 8 (1.65%) KeystoneJS
Miscellaneous
1 164 (33.81%) Fixed Income
2 136 (28.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 134 (27.63%) Equities
4 109 (22.47%) Hedge funds
5 105 (21.65%) Derivative
6 39 (8.04%) Pricing Data
7 21 (4.33%) Security Posture
8 17 (3.51%) Cloud Security Posture
9 16 (3.30%) Blockchain
10 15 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (2.89%) Legacy Code
12 12 (2.47%) Cloud Native
12 12 (2.47%) e-Learning
13 10 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (2.06%) Tandem
14 8 (1.65%) Data Centre
15 7 (1.44%) Product Ownership
16 6 (1.24%) Management Information System
17 5 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
18 4 (0.82%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.92%) Linux
2 8 (1.65%) Windows
3 7 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.62%) AIX
4 3 (0.62%) CentOS
4 3 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (68.45%) Software Engineering
2 331 (68.25%) Agile
3 273 (56.29%) Asset Management
4 206 (42.47%) DevOps
5 186 (38.35%) CI/CD
6 120 (24.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 112 (23.09%) Investment Management
8 106 (21.86%) Data Engineering
9 95 (19.59%) Open Source
10 94 (19.38%) Fintech
11 59 (12.16%) Performance Attribution
12 54 (11.13%) Mentoring
13 53 (10.93%) Migration
14 48 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 44 (9.07%) Cloud Security
16 42 (8.66%) Risk Management
17 40 (8.25%) Order Management
18 39 (8.04%) Data Management
19 36 (7.42%) Containerisation
20 35 (7.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 339 (69.90%) Python
2 226 (46.60%) Java
3 189 (38.97%) JavaScript
4 173 (35.67%) TypeScript
5 97 (20.00%) Go
6 55 (11.34%) SQL
7 17 (3.51%) C#
8 9 (1.86%) Scala
9 8 (1.65%) Lua
10 5 (1.03%) Bash
10 5 (1.03%) PHP
11 4 (0.82%) Ruby
12 3 (0.62%) Groovy
13 2 (0.41%) C
13 2 (0.41%) Perl
14 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (6.39%) AWS Certification
1 31 (6.39%) Security Cleared
2 17 (3.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 17 (3.51%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.68%) Degree
4 5 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.62%) RHCE
7 2 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.41%) CCNP
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.21%) CCIE
8 1 (0.21%) CCNA
8 1 (0.21%) CCSA
8 1 (0.21%) CCSE
8 1 (0.21%) CCSK
8 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.21%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.68%) QA
2 5 (1.03%) GDPR
3 4 (0.82%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.62%) SLA
5 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.41%) MiFID
5 2 (0.41%) NIST
5 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 155 (31.96%) Docker
2 6 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 172 (35.46%) Terraform
2 156 (32.16%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.54%) Ansible
4 15 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.44%) Grafana
5 7 (1.44%) Istio
6 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.62%) Argo
7 3 (0.62%) Consul
7 3 (0.62%) Packer
7 3 (0.62%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.62%) SCCM
8 2 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) Automic
9 1 (0.21%) Kibana
9 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (3.30%) IBM
2 15 (3.09%) Red Hat
3 11 (2.27%) Oracle
4 10 (2.06%) Ping Identity
5 8 (1.65%) VMware
6 7 (1.44%) Citrix
7 6 (1.24%) Confluent
7 6 (1.24%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.03%) Cisco
8 5 (1.03%) Microsoft
9 4 (0.82%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.62%) Google
10 3 (0.62%) Splunk
11 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.41%) Cribl.io
12 1 (0.21%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.21%) Meraki
12 1 (0.21%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.21%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.21%) StreamSets