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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 352 331
Rank change year-on-year +25 -21 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 399 649 864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.73% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.77% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 339 571 744
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 44,066 84,104 79,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.65% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,206 62,399 50,596
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £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 29 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 29 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 +46 308 £110,000 +10.00% 145
North of England +3 35 £65,000 -3.70% 151
North West -13 29 £65,000 -3.70% 84
South East +56 17 £61,000 -9.63% 156
East of England +35 11 £65,000 -13.33% 75
Midlands +16 11 £72,500 +20.83% 114
South West +88 7 £60,000 -17.24% 59
West Midlands +39 7 £73,750 +5.36% 63
East Midlands +7 4 £66,250 +15.22% 45
Yorkshire +56 3 £48,750 -25.00% 50
North East +27 3 £65,000 -13.33% 17
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 399 (100.00%) AWS
2 289 (72.43%) Python
3 267 (66.92%) Finance
4 264 (66.17%) Software Engineering
5 256 (64.16%) Agile
6 227 (56.89%) Amazon Athena
7 216 (54.14%) dbt
8 215 (53.88%) Asset Management
9 214 (53.63%) Apache Airflow
9 214 (53.63%) Dremio
9 214 (53.63%) Apache Iceberg
10 213 (53.38%) Front Office
11 211 (52.88%) Apache Arrow
12 180 (45.11%) Java
13 165 (41.35%) Apache
14 164 (41.10%) DevOps
15 152 (38.10%) Fixed Income
16 147 (36.84%) TypeScript
17 144 (36.09%) CI/CD
18 137 (34.34%) Terraform
19 133 (33.33%) JavaScript
20 132 (33.08%) Equities
21 131 (32.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 125 (31.33%) Investment Management
23 124 (31.08%) Apache Ignite
24 120 (30.08%) Pandas
24 120 (30.08%) SciPy
24 120 (30.08%) NumPy
25 114 (28.57%) Kubernetes
26 112 (28.07%) 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
1 214 (53.63%) Apache Airflow
2 165 (41.35%) Apache
3 66 (16.54%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.01%) Confluence
5 3 (0.75%) 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
1 399 (100.00%) AWS
2 216 (54.14%) dbt
3 106 (26.57%) Serverless
4 97 (24.31%) AWS Lambda
5 96 (24.06%) GCP
6 88 (22.06%) Snowflake
7 77 (19.30%) Amazon ECS
8 66 (16.54%) OpenShift
9 48 (12.03%) Amazon EC2
10 38 (9.52%) Amazon S3
10 38 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (6.52%) Azure
13 24 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (4.51%) SaaS
16 12 (3.01%) AWS KMS
16 12 (3.01%) GitHub
17 11 (2.76%) Dagster
18 10 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.27%) Firewall
2 11 (2.76%) DNS
2 11 (2.76%) VPN
3 7 (1.75%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.50%) BGP
4 6 (1.50%) OSPF
5 5 (1.25%) IPsec
6 4 (1.00%) DHCP
6 4 (1.00%) Network Security
6 4 (1.00%) WAN
7 3 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.75%) FTP
7 3 (0.75%) HTTP
7 3 (0.75%) LAN
7 3 (0.75%) NX-OS
7 3 (0.75%) SMTP
7 3 (0.75%) SSH
7 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (56.89%) Amazon Athena
2 214 (53.63%) Apache Iceberg
2 214 (53.63%) Dremio
3 211 (52.88%) Apache Arrow
4 124 (31.08%) Apache Ignite
5 69 (17.29%) PostgreSQL
6 61 (15.29%) Data Lake
7 29 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (5.01%) DynamoDB
9 19 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (4.01%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.26%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.50%) Big Data
14 4 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.00%) MySQL
14 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
16 2 (0.50%) KDB
Development Applications
1 62 (15.54%) Artifactory
2 31 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.51%) GitLab
4 13 (3.26%) Git
4 13 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (3.01%) JIRA
6 10 (2.51%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.50%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.50%) Vagrant
8 3 (0.75%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.75%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.50%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.25%) Ant
10 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.25%) Maven
10 1 (0.25%) NUnit
10 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.25%) Travis CI
General
1 267 (66.92%) Finance
2 213 (53.38%) Front Office
3 112 (28.07%) Banking
4 83 (20.80%) Investment Banking
5 35 (8.77%) Social Skills
6 23 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.26%) Law
9 12 (3.01%) Retail
10 9 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (1.75%) Advertising
12 4 (1.00%) Games
13 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Marketing
13 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Electronics
14 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.25%) Aviation
15 1 (0.25%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (30.08%) NumPy
1 120 (30.08%) Pandas
1 120 (30.08%) SciPy
2 107 (26.82%) PySpark
3 94 (23.56%) Node.js
4 79 (19.80%) React
5 76 (19.05%) Kafka
6 71 (17.79%) AngularJS
7 69 (17.29%) gRPC
7 69 (17.29%) Vue
8 65 (16.29%) Protocol Buffers
9 59 (14.79%) J2EE
10 22 (5.51%) REST
11 15 (3.76%) Web Services
12 14 (3.51%) Redux
13 7 (1.75%) RESTful
14 6 (1.50%) AWS CDK
14 6 (1.50%) GraphQL
15 5 (1.25%) .NET
15 5 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 152 (38.10%) Fixed Income
2 132 (33.08%) Equities
3 131 (32.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 86 (21.55%) Hedge funds
5 85 (21.30%) Derivative
6 40 (10.03%) Pricing Data
7 16 (4.01%) Cloud Native
8 14 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (3.01%) e-Learning
10 9 (2.26%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.01%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.50%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.25%) Replication
14 4 (1.00%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.00%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.00%) Web3
15 3 (0.75%) Legacy Code
15 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.77%) Linux
2 18 (4.51%) Windows
3 9 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.01%) VMS
5 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.00%) Unix
6 3 (0.75%) AIX
6 3 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.75%) CentOS
6 3 (0.75%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (66.17%) Software Engineering
2 256 (64.16%) Agile
3 215 (53.88%) Asset Management
4 164 (41.10%) DevOps
5 144 (36.09%) CI/CD
6 125 (31.33%) Investment Management
7 74 (18.55%) Data Engineering
7 74 (18.55%) Fintech
8 73 (18.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 71 (17.79%) Open Source
10 69 (17.29%) Performance Attribution
11 60 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 60 (15.04%) Risk Management
12 58 (14.54%) Order Management
13 38 (9.52%) Containerisation
14 37 (9.27%) Mentoring
15 35 (8.77%) Cloud Security
16 34 (8.52%) Data Management
17 29 (7.27%) Migration
18 28 (7.02%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 289 (72.43%) Python
2 180 (45.11%) Java
3 147 (36.84%) TypeScript
4 133 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 77 (19.30%) Go
6 53 (13.28%) SQL
7 16 (4.01%) Bash
8 12 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.51%) C#
10 9 (2.26%) Groovy
10 9 (2.26%) Scala
11 7 (1.75%) PHP
12 4 (1.00%) Perl
13 3 (0.75%) Ruby
14 2 (0.50%) C
14 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 24 (6.02%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.76%) Degree
4 16 (4.01%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.25%) CCNP
7 4 (1.00%) CCNA
7 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.75%) CCIE
8 3 (0.75%) CCSA
8 3 (0.75%) 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 (2.76%) QA
2 4 (1.00%) GDPR
3 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.75%) 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
1 110 (27.57%) Docker
2 9 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.25%) DFS Replication
4 5 (1.25%) 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
1 137 (34.34%) Terraform
2 114 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 33 (8.27%) Ansible
4 23 (5.76%) Grafana
5 20 (5.01%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.75%) Istio
7 4 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.75%) Consul
8 3 (0.75%) Packer
8 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.75%) 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%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.25%) Kibana
10 1 (0.25%) linkerd
10 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (3.76%) IBM
2 12 (3.01%) Ping Identity
2 12 (3.01%) Red Hat
2 12 (3.01%) ServiceNow
3 10 (2.51%) VMware
4 9 (2.26%) Cisco
5 7 (1.75%) Citrix
6 6 (1.50%) Confluent
6 6 (1.50%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.00%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.00%) Google
7 4 (1.00%) Juniper
7 4 (1.00%) Meraki
8 3 (0.75%) CheckPoint
8 3 (0.75%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.75%) Splunk
9 2 (0.50%) Cribl.io
9 2 (0.50%) F5
9 2 (0.50%) Jaspersoft