AWS Engineer Job Trends in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 125 198
Rank change year-on-year -73 +73 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 227 335 385
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 2.73% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 3.03% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 169 301 347
10th Percentile £61,250 £80,000 £63,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £98,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £138,750 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £108,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year -31.03% +31.82% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 19,110 11,052 22,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 90.06% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13,058 7,184 16,617
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in London

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in London

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Central London +34 57 £90,000 +20.00% 5
East London -2 10 - - 4
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 227 (100.00%) AWS
2 111 (48.90%) Python
3 85 (37.44%) Terraform
4 75 (33.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (26.87%) DevOps
6 55 (24.23%) CI/CD
7 47 (20.70%) Serverless
8 43 (18.94%) Azure
9 41 (18.06%) SaaS
10 40 (17.62%) Software Engineering
11 37 (16.30%) Amazon S3
11 37 (16.30%) Degree
12 36 (15.86%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (15.42%) Kubernetes
14 33 (14.54%) Java
15 32 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (13.66%) Cloud Security
16 31 (13.66%) Kafka
16 31 (13.66%) SQL
17 29 (12.78%) Bash
17 29 (12.78%) Fintech
18 28 (12.33%) AI
18 28 (12.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 27 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
20 26 (11.45%) Docker
20 26 (11.45%) Observability
21 25 (11.01%) GCP
22 24 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
22 24 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
22 24 (10.57%) Containerisation

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 20 (8.81%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.73%) Apache
3 8 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) SAS
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 227 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (20.70%) Serverless
3 43 (18.94%) Azure
4 41 (18.06%) SaaS
5 37 (16.30%) Amazon S3
6 28 (12.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 27 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (11.01%) GCP
9 24 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (7.05%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.85%) Amazon EMR
12 11 (4.85%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (4.85%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.96%) Amazon MSK
13 9 (3.96%) Datadog
13 9 (3.96%) dbt
13 9 (3.96%) IaaS
13 9 (3.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.49%) Firewall
2 15 (6.61%) Cisco ASA
2 15 (6.61%) Cisco Firepower
2 15 (6.61%) LAN
2 15 (6.61%) WAN
2 15 (6.61%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (3.96%) BGP
3 9 (3.96%) VPN
4 5 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (2.20%) IPsec
4 5 (2.20%) MPLS
4 5 (2.20%) NetScaler
4 5 (2.20%) NX-OS
4 5 (2.20%) OSPF
4 5 (2.20%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.20%) VXLAN
4 5 (2.20%) WLAN
5 4 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.32%) DNS
6 3 (1.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.37%) Amazon Redshift
2 17 (7.49%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.96%) Apache Iceberg
5 9 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.96%) MySQL
6 7 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.64%) Metadata
8 5 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.88%) Apache Hudi
9 2 (0.88%) Big Data
9 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.88%) Flink
9 2 (0.88%) Redshift Spectrum
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.44%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (9.25%) Git
2 20 (8.81%) GitLab
3 13 (5.73%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.52%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.88%) Maven
7 1 (0.44%) Deequ
7 1 (0.44%) git-flow
7 1 (0.44%) Gradle
7 1 (0.44%) JIRA
7 1 (0.44%) JUnit
7 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (27.75%) Finance
2 34 (14.98%) Banking
3 17 (7.49%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.29%) Law
5 11 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.96%) Back Office
7 9 (3.96%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.96%) Retail
8 8 (3.52%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.08%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.88%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Front Office
10 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.66%) Kafka
2 11 (4.85%) .NET
3 8 (3.52%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.08%) .NET Core
4 7 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (3.08%) React
5 6 (2.64%) AWS CDK
5 6 (2.64%) LangGraph
5 6 (2.64%) PySpark
5 6 (2.64%) RESTful
6 5 (2.20%) LangChain
6 5 (2.20%) Spring
7 3 (1.32%) REST
8 2 (0.88%) CrewAI
8 2 (0.88%) Django
8 2 (0.88%) Loki
8 2 (0.88%) Node.js
8 2 (0.88%) pytest
8 2 (0.88%) YAML
9 1 (0.44%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.25%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.17%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.29%) Hedge funds
5 10 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (3.96%) Blog
6 9 (3.96%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.52%) AI Agents
8 7 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.32%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.88%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.44%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.44%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.41%) Linux
2 9 (3.96%) Unix
3 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 61 (26.87%) DevOps
3 55 (24.23%) CI/CD
4 40 (17.62%) Software Engineering
5 36 (15.86%) Platform Engineering
6 32 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (13.66%) Cloud Security
8 29 (12.78%) Fintech
9 28 (12.33%) AI
10 26 (11.45%) Observability
11 24 (10.57%) Containerisation
11 24 (10.57%) High Availability
12 23 (10.13%) Agile
12 23 (10.13%) Computer Science
12 23 (10.13%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (8.81%) Analytics
13 20 (8.81%) ETL
14 19 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 19 (8.37%) Microservices
14 19 (8.37%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 111 (48.90%) Python
2 33 (14.54%) Java
3 31 (13.66%) SQL
4 29 (12.78%) Bash
5 22 (9.69%) Go
6 15 (6.61%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.73%) C#
8 8 (3.52%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.88%) Ruby
10 1 (0.44%) Groovy
10 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (16.30%) Degree
2 19 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.49%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.61%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.61%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.41%) CCIE
5 10 (4.41%) CCNA
5 10 (4.41%) CCNP
5 10 (4.41%) CCSA
5 10 (4.41%) CCSE
5 10 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.96%) CCSK
6 9 (3.96%) CISSP
7 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.05%) PCI DSS
1 16 (7.05%) SOC 2
2 11 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (11.45%) Docker
2 8 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (37.44%) Terraform
2 35 (15.42%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.41%) Ansible
3 10 (4.41%) FortiGate
3 10 (4.41%) Grafana
3 10 (4.41%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.96%) Istio
5 4 (1.76%) Argo
6 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.44%) Packer
7 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (7.05%) Cisco
2 15 (6.61%) CheckPoint
2 15 (6.61%) Fortinet
3 9 (3.96%) Google
4 8 (3.52%) Confluent
5 6 (2.64%) Databricks
5 6 (2.64%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.64%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.64%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.20%) Meraki
6 5 (2.20%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.76%) Oracle
8 1 (0.44%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.44%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.44%) Informatica
8 1 (0.44%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.44%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.44%) Talend