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 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 349 324
Rank change year-on-year +3 -25 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 404 652 870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.73% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.77% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 340 574 749
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £53,750
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 £109,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +32.12% +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 44,450 84,705 79,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.67% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 23,451 62,722 50,420
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,070 £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 £96,952 £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 30 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 30 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 +58 313 £110,000 +10.00% 103
North of England +11 36 £65,000 -7.14% 161
North West -11 30 £67,500 -3.57% 87
South East +43 17 £61,000 -9.63% 176
Midlands +43 12 £72,500 +20.83% 126
East of England +40 10 £65,000 -13.33% 87
West Midlands +42 8 £72,500 +3.57% 69
South West +76 7 £60,000 -17.24% 73
East Midlands +19 4 £66,250 +15.22% 50
Yorkshire +58 3 £48,750 -25.00% 56
North East +28 3 £65,000 -13.33% 18
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 404 (100.00%) AWS
2 291 (72.03%) Python
3 272 (67.33%) Finance
4 269 (66.58%) Software Engineering
5 259 (64.11%) Agile
6 227 (56.19%) Amazon Athena
7 216 (53.47%) dbt
8 215 (53.22%) Apache Iceberg
8 215 (53.22%) Apache Airflow
8 215 (53.22%) Asset Management
9 214 (52.97%) Dremio
10 213 (52.72%) Front Office
11 211 (52.23%) Apache Arrow
12 182 (45.05%) Java
13 165 (40.84%) Apache
13 165 (40.84%) DevOps
14 152 (37.62%) Fixed Income
15 147 (36.39%) TypeScript
15 147 (36.39%) CI/CD
16 140 (34.65%) Terraform
17 133 (32.92%) JavaScript
18 132 (32.67%) Equities
19 131 (32.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 125 (30.94%) Investment Management
21 124 (30.69%) Apache Ignite
22 120 (29.70%) Pandas
22 120 (29.70%) SciPy
22 120 (29.70%) NumPy
23 118 (29.21%) Kubernetes
24 116 (28.71%) Banking

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
1 215 (53.22%) Apache Airflow
2 165 (40.84%) Apache
3 66 (16.34%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.22%) Confluence
5 3 (0.74%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 404 (100.00%) AWS
2 216 (53.47%) dbt
3 107 (26.49%) Serverless
4 98 (24.26%) AWS Lambda
5 95 (23.51%) GCP
6 87 (21.53%) Snowflake
7 78 (19.31%) Amazon ECS
8 66 (16.34%) OpenShift
9 48 (11.88%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (9.90%) Amazon S3
11 38 (9.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (6.44%) Azure
14 25 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (4.46%) SaaS
17 13 (3.22%) AWS KMS
18 12 (2.97%) GitHub
19 11 (2.72%) Dagster
20 10 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.44%) Firewall
2 11 (2.72%) DNS
2 11 (2.72%) VPN
3 7 (1.73%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.49%) BGP
4 6 (1.49%) OSPF
5 5 (1.24%) IPsec
6 4 (0.99%) DHCP
6 4 (0.99%) Network Security
6 4 (0.99%) WAN
7 3 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.74%) FTP
7 3 (0.74%) HTTP
7 3 (0.74%) LAN
7 3 (0.74%) NX-OS
7 3 (0.74%) SMTP
7 3 (0.74%) SSH
7 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.74%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (56.19%) Amazon Athena
2 215 (53.22%) Apache Iceberg
3 214 (52.97%) Dremio
4 211 (52.23%) Apache Arrow
5 124 (30.69%) Apache Ignite
6 69 (17.08%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (15.10%) Data Lake
8 30 (7.43%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (4.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (4.70%) DynamoDB
10 17 (4.21%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.23%) Big Data
11 9 (2.23%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.99%) MySQL
14 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
16 2 (0.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 62 (15.35%) Artifactory
2 32 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.45%) GitLab
4 13 (3.22%) Git
4 13 (3.22%) JIRA
4 13 (3.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (2.48%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.73%) Vagrant
7 6 (1.49%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.74%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.50%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.25%) Travis CI
General
1 272 (67.33%) Finance
2 213 (52.72%) Front Office
3 116 (28.71%) Banking
4 83 (20.54%) Investment Banking
5 35 (8.66%) Social Skills
6 25 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.46%) Law
9 12 (2.97%) Retail
10 9 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (1.73%) Advertising
12 4 (0.99%) Games
12 4 (0.99%) Marketing
13 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Electronics
14 2 (0.50%) Legal
14 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (29.70%) NumPy
1 120 (29.70%) Pandas
1 120 (29.70%) SciPy
2 108 (26.73%) PySpark
3 93 (23.02%) Node.js
4 79 (19.55%) React
5 76 (18.81%) Kafka
6 71 (17.57%) AngularJS
7 69 (17.08%) gRPC
7 69 (17.08%) Vue
8 65 (16.09%) Protocol Buffers
9 59 (14.60%) J2EE
10 22 (5.45%) REST
11 17 (4.21%) Web Services
12 14 (3.47%) Redux
13 7 (1.73%) AWS CDK
13 7 (1.73%) RESTful
13 7 (1.73%) Spring
14 6 (1.49%) GraphQL
15 5 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 152 (37.62%) Fixed Income
2 132 (32.67%) Equities
3 131 (32.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 87 (21.53%) Derivative
5 86 (21.29%) Hedge funds
6 40 (9.90%) Pricing Data
7 18 (4.46%) Cloud Native
8 14 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.97%) e-Learning
10 9 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.98%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.49%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.49%) Replication
13 5 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.99%) Blockchain
14 4 (0.99%) Equity Derivative
14 4 (0.99%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.99%) Web3
15 3 (0.74%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.93%) Linux
2 19 (4.70%) Windows
3 9 (2.23%) VMS
3 9 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.99%) Unix
5 3 (0.74%) AIX
5 3 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (0.74%) CentOS
5 3 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (66.58%) Software Engineering
2 259 (64.11%) Agile
3 215 (53.22%) Asset Management
4 165 (40.84%) DevOps
5 147 (36.39%) CI/CD
6 125 (30.94%) Investment Management
7 74 (18.32%) Data Engineering
7 74 (18.32%) Fintech
8 72 (17.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 70 (17.33%) Open Source
10 69 (17.08%) Performance Attribution
11 61 (15.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 60 (14.85%) Risk Management
13 58 (14.36%) Order Management
14 39 (9.65%) Containerisation
15 37 (9.16%) Mentoring
16 36 (8.91%) Cloud Security
17 34 (8.42%) Data Management
18 30 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence
18 30 (7.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 291 (72.03%) Python
2 182 (45.05%) Java
3 147 (36.39%) TypeScript
4 133 (32.92%) JavaScript
5 77 (19.06%) Go
6 53 (13.12%) SQL
7 16 (3.96%) Bash
8 13 (3.22%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.48%) C#
9 10 (2.48%) Groovy
9 10 (2.48%) Scala
10 7 (1.73%) PHP
11 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.99%) Perl
12 3 (0.74%) Ruby
13 2 (0.50%) C
14 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (7.18%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.94%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.70%) Degree
4 16 (3.96%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.24%) CCNP
6 5 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.99%) CCNA
8 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.74%) CCIE
8 3 (0.74%) CCSA
8 3 (0.74%) CCSE
9 2 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.25%) CCSK
10 1 (0.25%) CISSP
10 1 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.72%) QA
2 4 (0.99%) GDPR
3 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.74%) SLA
4 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.25%) MiFID
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 113 (27.97%) Docker
2 10 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.49%) DFS Replication
3 6 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.50%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.50%) Postfix
5 2 (0.50%) Squid
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 140 (34.65%) Terraform
2 118 (29.21%) Kubernetes
3 34 (8.42%) Ansible
4 25 (6.19%) Grafana
5 22 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.73%) Istio
7 4 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.74%) Consul
8 3 (0.74%) Packer
8 3 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.74%) SCCM
9 2 (0.50%) Nessus
9 2 (0.50%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.50%) Puppet
10 1 (0.25%) Argo
10 1 (0.25%) Automic
10 1 (0.25%) linkerd
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.25%) Podman
10 1 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (3.71%) IBM
2 13 (3.22%) ServiceNow
3 12 (2.97%) Ping Identity
3 12 (2.97%) Red Hat
4 10 (2.48%) VMware
5 9 (2.23%) Cisco
6 7 (1.73%) Citrix
7 6 (1.49%) Confluent
7 6 (1.49%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.24%) Juniper
9 4 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.99%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.99%) Meraki
9 4 (0.99%) Splunk
10 3 (0.74%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.74%) Google
10 3 (0.74%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.50%) F5
11 2 (0.50%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.50%) SAP