AWS Engineer Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 297 341
Rank change year-on-year +1 +44 -24
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 510 427 681
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.08% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.20% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 408 354 599
10th Percentile £52,500 £64,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £118,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £109,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -31.19% +32.12% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 77,479 35,491 87,063
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.92% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53,666 20,523 64,895
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in England

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in England

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

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 8 June 2026. 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 -77 228 £90,000 -18.18% 26
North of England +12 90 £70,000 +7.69% 17
North West +35 69 £70,000 +3.70% 12
Midlands +8 57 £70,000 -3.45% 17
South East +8 52 £65,000 +6.56% 7
South West -8 51 £75,000 -3.23% 4
West Midlands +1 45 £68,750 -5.17% 8
East of England -9 29 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire -25 14 £80,000 +77.78% 4
East Midlands -23 12 £80,000 +20.75% 9
North East -37 7 £60,000 -7.69% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2026, 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 England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 510 (100.00%) AWS
2 181 (35.49%) Python
3 141 (27.65%) DevOps
4 139 (27.25%) Terraform
5 123 (24.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 115 (22.55%) CI/CD
7 88 (17.25%) Azure
8 77 (15.10%) Software Engineering
9 72 (14.12%) Amazon S3
10 71 (13.92%) Security Cleared
11 67 (13.14%) Serverless
12 65 (12.75%) SQL
13 58 (11.37%) Kubernetes
13 58 (11.37%) SaaS
14 57 (11.18%) Degree
15 54 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
16 53 (10.39%) Docker
17 50 (9.80%) Bash
18 48 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
19 47 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 46 (9.02%) Cloud Security
21 45 (8.82%) ETL
22 44 (8.63%) AI
22 44 (8.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 43 (8.43%) Data Pipeline
23 43 (8.43%) SC Cleared
24 42 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
25 40 (7.84%) Containerisation
26 39 (7.65%) Agile
26 39 (7.65%) Amazon EC2

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 24 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.14%) Apache
3 10 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.98%) SAS
5 4 (0.78%) IIS
6 2 (0.39%) Confluence
6 2 (0.39%) nginx
6 2 (0.39%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 510 (100.00%) AWS
2 88 (17.25%) Azure
3 72 (14.12%) Amazon S3
4 67 (13.14%) Serverless
5 58 (11.37%) SaaS
6 44 (8.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 42 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (7.65%) Amazon EC2
8 39 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 31 (6.08%) GCP
12 19 (3.73%) Snowflake
13 16 (3.14%) GitHub
14 15 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (2.94%) dbt
15 14 (2.75%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (2.75%) Datadog
15 14 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.16%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.53%) Firewall
2 12 (2.35%) Cisco ASA
2 12 (2.35%) Cisco Firepower
2 12 (2.35%) LAN
2 12 (2.35%) WAN
2 12 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.57%) BGP
3 8 (1.57%) VPN
4 5 (0.98%) DNS
5 4 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (0.78%) IPsec
5 4 (0.78%) MPLS
5 4 (0.78%) NetScaler
5 4 (0.78%) NX-OS
5 4 (0.78%) OSPF
5 4 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.78%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.78%) WLAN
6 3 (0.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.55%) Apache Iceberg
6 11 (2.16%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (1.96%) DynamoDB
8 9 (1.76%) MySQL
8 9 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (1.57%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.37%) Metadata
11 5 (0.98%) Data Vault
11 5 (0.98%) Power BI
12 4 (0.78%) Big Data
12 4 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.78%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (5.69%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.49%) Git
2 28 (5.49%) GitLab
3 8 (1.57%) CircleCI
4 3 (0.59%) JIRA
4 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.39%) JMeter
5 2 (0.39%) Maven
5 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.20%) Deequ
6 1 (0.20%) Gatling
6 1 (0.20%) git-flow
6 1 (0.20%) Gradle
6 1 (0.20%) Postman
6 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 63 (12.35%) Finance
2 49 (9.61%) Banking
3 36 (7.06%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.86%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.92%) Law
6 17 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.94%) Retail Banking
9 13 (2.55%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.16%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.96%) Retail
12 9 (1.76%) Back Office
12 9 (1.76%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.57%) Games
14 7 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.37%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.78%) Advertising
15 4 (0.78%) Billing
16 3 (0.59%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.59%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.08%) Kafka
2 17 (3.33%) React
3 13 (2.55%) .NET
3 13 (2.55%) PySpark
4 11 (2.16%) RESTful
5 10 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.76%) AWS CDK
6 9 (1.76%) REST
6 9 (1.76%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.37%) .NET Core
7 7 (1.37%) Node.js
8 6 (1.18%) LangGraph
8 6 (1.18%) Spring
9 5 (0.98%) Django
9 5 (0.98%) LangChain
10 4 (0.78%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.78%) Loki
10 4 (0.78%) SOAP
11 3 (0.59%) pytest
11 3 (0.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 86 (16.86%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.12%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.16%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.96%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.96%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.76%) Blog
9 8 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.37%) Sports Betting
11 5 (0.98%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.98%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.78%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.59%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.39%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.69%) Linux
2 8 (1.57%) Unix
3 7 (1.37%) Windows
4 5 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (27.65%) DevOps
2 123 (24.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 115 (22.55%) CI/CD
4 77 (15.10%) Software Engineering
5 54 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
6 48 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 46 (9.02%) Cloud Security
9 45 (8.82%) ETL
10 44 (8.63%) AI
11 43 (8.43%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (7.84%) Containerisation
13 39 (7.65%) Agile
13 39 (7.65%) Observability
14 38 (7.45%) Data Engineering
15 37 (7.25%) Analytics
16 36 (7.06%) High Availability
17 33 (6.47%) Full-Stack Development
17 33 (6.47%) Mentoring
18 31 (6.08%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 181 (35.49%) Python
2 65 (12.75%) SQL
3 50 (9.80%) Bash
4 38 (7.45%) Java
5 31 (6.08%) C#
6 30 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.49%) Go
8 25 (4.90%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.94%) C++
10 9 (1.76%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.78%) Groovy
12 3 (0.59%) PHP
13 2 (0.39%) Bicep
13 2 (0.39%) Ruby
14 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 57 (11.18%) Degree
3 43 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (1.76%) CISSP
6 9 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.57%) CCIE
7 8 (1.57%) CCNA
7 8 (1.57%) CCNP
7 8 (1.57%) CCSA
7 8 (1.57%) CCSE
7 8 (1.57%) CCSK
7 8 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.31%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.73%) SOC 2
3 18 (3.53%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.55%) GDPR
5 12 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.76%) QA
7 8 (1.57%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.18%) NIST
9 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.78%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 53 (10.39%) Docker
2 10 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 139 (27.25%) Terraform
2 58 (11.37%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.92%) Grafana
4 19 (3.73%) Ansible
4 19 (3.73%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.96%) Argo
6 9 (1.76%) Istio
7 8 (1.57%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.98%) Packer
9 4 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.39%) Nagios
11 1 (0.20%) Consul
11 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (4.31%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.55%) Cisco
3 12 (2.35%) CheckPoint
3 12 (2.35%) Fortinet
4 11 (2.16%) Google
5 9 (1.76%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.57%) Confluent
6 8 (1.57%) Databricks
6 8 (1.57%) Informatica
6 8 (1.57%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.57%) Oracle
6 8 (1.57%) Talend
7 6 (1.18%) SolarWinds
8 5 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.78%) Cloudera
9 4 (0.78%) Meraki
9 4 (0.78%) Pega
9 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.78%) SAP
10 3 (0.59%) VMware