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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 352 333
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 409 644 869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.73% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.77% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 349 567 749
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £53,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £135,000 £117,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +3.13% -3.03%

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 28 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 28 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 +64 318 £110,000 +10.00% 134
North of England 0 35 £65,000 -3.70% 58
North West -19 29 £65,000 -3.70% 44
South East +47 17 £61,000 -9.63% 42
East of England +37 11 £65,000 -13.33% 3
Midlands +17 11 £72,500 +20.83% 18
South West +89 7 £60,000 -17.24% 5
West Midlands +48 7 £75,000 +7.14% 11
East Midlands +12 4 £66,250 +15.22% 7
Yorkshire +60 3 £48,750 -25.00% 11
North East +29 3 £65,000 -13.33% 4
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 409 (100.00%) AWS
2 298 (72.86%) Python
3 278 (67.97%) Finance
4 275 (67.24%) Software Engineering
5 267 (65.28%) Agile
6 231 (56.48%) Amazon Athena
7 227 (55.50%) Asset Management
8 225 (55.01%) Front Office
9 220 (53.79%) dbt
10 218 (53.30%) Dremio
10 218 (53.30%) Apache Iceberg
10 218 (53.30%) Apache Airflow
11 215 (52.57%) Apache Arrow
12 186 (45.48%) Java
13 170 (41.56%) DevOps
14 169 (41.32%) Apache
15 156 (38.14%) Fixed Income
16 151 (36.92%) TypeScript
16 151 (36.92%) CI/CD
17 143 (34.96%) JavaScript
18 142 (34.72%) Terraform
19 135 (33.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 135 (33.01%) Equities
20 128 (31.30%) Investment Management
20 128 (31.30%) Apache Ignite
21 124 (30.32%) Pandas
21 124 (30.32%) SciPy
21 124 (30.32%) NumPy
22 121 (29.58%) Banking
22 121 (29.58%) Kubernetes

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
1 218 (53.30%) Apache Airflow
2 169 (41.32%) Apache
3 66 (16.14%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.69%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 409 (100.00%) AWS
2 220 (53.79%) dbt
3 115 (28.12%) Serverless
4 106 (25.92%) AWS Lambda
5 97 (23.72%) GCP
6 92 (22.49%) Snowflake
7 86 (21.03%) Amazon ECS
8 68 (16.63%) OpenShift
9 56 (13.69%) Amazon EC2
10 47 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (11.25%) Amazon S3
12 32 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (6.36%) Azure
14 23 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (4.40%) SaaS
17 12 (2.93%) Dagster
17 12 (2.93%) GitHub
18 11 (2.69%) AWS KMS
19 10 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.87%) Firewall
2 11 (2.69%) DNS
2 11 (2.69%) VPN
3 7 (1.71%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.47%) BGP
4 6 (1.47%) OSPF
5 5 (1.22%) IPsec
6 4 (0.98%) DHCP
6 4 (0.98%) Network Security
6 4 (0.98%) WAN
7 3 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.73%) FTP
7 3 (0.73%) HTTP
7 3 (0.73%) LAN
7 3 (0.73%) MPLS
7 3 (0.73%) NX-OS
7 3 (0.73%) SMTP
7 3 (0.73%) SSH
7 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (56.48%) Amazon Athena
2 218 (53.30%) Apache Iceberg
2 218 (53.30%) Dremio
3 215 (52.57%) Apache Arrow
4 128 (31.30%) Apache Ignite
5 69 (16.87%) PostgreSQL
6 66 (16.14%) Data Lake
7 36 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (5.13%) DynamoDB
10 16 (3.91%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.20%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.47%) Big Data
14 4 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.98%) MySQL
14 4 (0.98%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.73%) SQL Server
16 2 (0.49%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 64 (15.65%) Artifactory
2 32 (7.82%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.13%) GitLab
4 12 (2.93%) Git
4 12 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (2.69%) JIRA
6 9 (2.20%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.47%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.22%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.73%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.49%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.49%) Selenium
11 1 (0.24%) Ant
11 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.24%) Maven
11 1 (0.24%) NUnit
11 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.24%) Travis CI
General
1 278 (67.97%) Finance
2 225 (55.01%) Front Office
3 121 (29.58%) Banking
4 87 (21.27%) Investment Banking
5 35 (8.56%) Social Skills
6 22 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.93%) Law
8 12 (2.93%) Retail
9 9 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (1.71%) Advertising
11 4 (0.98%) Games
12 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Marketing
12 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Electronics
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.24%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.24%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (30.32%) NumPy
1 124 (30.32%) Pandas
1 124 (30.32%) SciPy
2 108 (26.41%) PySpark
3 94 (22.98%) Node.js
4 79 (19.32%) React
5 76 (18.58%) Kafka
6 73 (17.85%) gRPC
7 71 (17.36%) AngularJS
8 69 (16.87%) Protocol Buffers
8 69 (16.87%) Vue
9 61 (14.91%) J2EE
10 21 (5.13%) REST
11 15 (3.67%) Web Services
12 14 (3.42%) Redux
13 7 (1.71%) RESTful
14 6 (1.47%) AWS CDK
14 6 (1.47%) GraphQL
15 5 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
15 5 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 156 (38.14%) Fixed Income
2 135 (33.01%) Equities
2 135 (33.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 90 (22.00%) Hedge funds
4 89 (21.76%) Derivative
5 43 (10.51%) Pricing Data
6 15 (3.67%) Cloud Native
7 14 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.93%) e-Learning
9 9 (2.20%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.96%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.47%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.98%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.98%) Replication
12 4 (0.98%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.98%) Web3
13 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.36%) Linux
2 17 (4.16%) Windows
3 9 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.71%) VMS
5 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.73%) AIX
6 3 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.73%) CentOS
6 3 (0.73%) Unix
6 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Android
8 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (67.24%) Software Engineering
2 267 (65.28%) Agile
3 227 (55.50%) Asset Management
4 170 (41.56%) DevOps
5 151 (36.92%) CI/CD
6 128 (31.30%) Investment Management
7 81 (19.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 80 (19.56%) Fintech
9 74 (18.09%) Data Engineering
10 73 (17.85%) Open Source
11 69 (16.87%) Performance Attribution
12 60 (14.67%) Risk Management
13 59 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 58 (14.18%) Order Management
15 38 (9.29%) Mentoring
16 37 (9.05%) Containerisation
17 34 (8.31%) Cloud Security
17 34 (8.31%) Data Management
18 30 (7.33%) Migration
19 27 (6.60%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 298 (72.86%) Python
2 186 (45.48%) Java
3 151 (36.92%) TypeScript
4 143 (34.96%) JavaScript
5 79 (19.32%) Go
6 53 (12.96%) SQL
7 16 (3.91%) Bash
8 11 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.44%) C#
10 9 (2.20%) Scala
11 8 (1.96%) Groovy
12 7 (1.71%) PHP
13 4 (0.98%) Perl
14 3 (0.73%) Ruby
15 2 (0.49%) C
15 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (6.85%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.62%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.65%) Degree
4 16 (3.91%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.22%) CCNP
7 4 (0.98%) CCNA
7 4 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.73%) CCIE
8 3 (0.73%) CCSA
8 3 (0.73%) CCSE
9 2 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.24%) CCSK
10 1 (0.24%) CISSP
10 1 (0.24%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.69%) QA
2 4 (0.98%) GDPR
3 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.73%) SLA
4 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.24%) MiFID
5 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 117 (28.61%) Docker
2 8 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.98%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.49%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.49%) Postfix
6 2 (0.49%) Squid
7 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 142 (34.72%) Terraform
2 121 (29.58%) Kubernetes
3 31 (7.58%) Ansible
4 22 (5.38%) Grafana
5 19 (4.65%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.71%) Istio
7 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.73%) Consul
8 3 (0.73%) Packer
8 3 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.73%) SCCM
9 2 (0.49%) Nessus
9 2 (0.49%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.49%) Puppet
10 1 (0.24%) Argo
10 1 (0.24%) Automic
10 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.24%) linkerd
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (3.67%) IBM
2 12 (2.93%) Ping Identity
2 12 (2.93%) Red Hat
3 11 (2.69%) ServiceNow
4 10 (2.44%) VMware
5 9 (2.20%) Cisco
6 7 (1.71%) Citrix
7 6 (1.47%) Confluent
7 6 (1.47%) Microsoft
8 4 (0.98%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.98%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.98%) Google
8 4 (0.98%) Meraki
9 3 (0.73%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.73%) Juniper
9 3 (0.73%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.73%) Splunk
10 2 (0.49%) Cribl.io
10 2 (0.49%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.49%) SAP