AWS Engineer Jobs in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 205 238
Rank change year-on-year +73 +33 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 336 372 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.60% 1.58% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.89% 1.68% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 306 338 493
10th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £98,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £143,750 £142,500
England median annual salary £107,500 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +31.90% +1.88% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,643 22,208 32,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.16% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,236 16,616 23,854
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in London.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in London

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
Central London +15 11 £75,000 -21.05% 11
East London -20 1 £85,000 +47.83% 4
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 336 (100.00%) AWS
2 276 (82.14%) Python
3 273 (81.25%) Finance
4 267 (79.46%) Software Engineering
5 261 (77.68%) Agile
6 242 (72.02%) Asset Management
6 242 (72.02%) Front Office
7 230 (68.45%) Amazon Athena
8 228 (67.86%) Dremio
8 228 (67.86%) dbt
9 226 (67.26%) Apache Iceberg
9 226 (67.26%) Apache Airflow
10 224 (66.67%) Apache Arrow
11 187 (55.65%) Java
12 182 (54.17%) Apache
13 157 (46.73%) Fixed Income
14 147 (43.75%) Apache Ignite
15 143 (42.56%) JavaScript
16 138 (41.07%) TypeScript
17 136 (40.48%) DevOps
18 135 (40.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 133 (39.58%) Equities
20 127 (37.80%) Banking
20 127 (37.80%) CI/CD
21 126 (37.50%) PySpark
22 125 (37.20%) Pandas
22 125 (37.20%) SciPy
22 125 (37.20%) NumPy
23 122 (36.31%) Kubernetes
24 121 (36.01%) Terraform

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 226 (67.26%) Apache Airflow
2 182 (54.17%) Apache
3 67 (19.94%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.19%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 336 (100.00%) AWS
2 228 (67.86%) dbt
3 113 (33.63%) Amazon ECS
4 112 (33.33%) Serverless
5 111 (33.04%) AWS Lambda
6 99 (29.46%) Snowflake
7 96 (28.57%) GCP
8 78 (23.21%) OpenShift
9 61 (18.15%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (12.20%) Amazon S3
12 28 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (7.74%) Dagster
14 20 (5.95%) Azure
15 19 (5.65%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 6 (1.79%) Amazon MSK
19 4 (1.19%) AWS Direct Connect
19 4 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.08%) Firewall
2 6 (1.79%) VPN
3 4 (1.19%) BGP
3 4 (1.19%) Network Security
3 4 (1.19%) OSPF
3 4 (1.19%) WAN
4 3 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (0.89%) IPsec
4 3 (0.89%) LAN
4 3 (0.89%) MPLS
4 3 (0.89%) NX-OS
4 3 (0.89%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.89%) VXLAN
4 3 (0.89%) WLAN
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) SAN
5 1 (0.30%) SNMP
5 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (68.45%) Amazon Athena
2 228 (67.86%) Dremio
3 226 (67.26%) Apache Iceberg
4 224 (66.67%) Apache Arrow
5 147 (43.75%) Apache Ignite
6 74 (22.02%) Data Lake
7 54 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (9.82%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (8.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (4.76%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.89%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.60%) Power BI
14 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
14 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 73 (21.73%) Artifactory
2 19 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.76%) GitLab
4 8 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.19%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.89%) JIRA
7 3 (0.89%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.60%) Git
8 2 (0.60%) Maven
8 2 (0.60%) NUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Ant
9 1 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 273 (81.25%) Finance
2 242 (72.02%) Front Office
3 127 (37.80%) Banking
4 96 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 20 (5.95%) Social Skills
6 9 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.79%) Retail
9 3 (0.89%) Advertising
9 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Publishing
10 2 (0.60%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.30%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.30%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (37.50%) PySpark
2 125 (37.20%) NumPy
2 125 (37.20%) Pandas
2 125 (37.20%) SciPy
3 85 (25.30%) Kafka
4 84 (25.00%) gRPC
5 80 (23.81%) Protocol Buffers
6 71 (21.13%) J2EE
6 71 (21.13%) Node.js
7 67 (19.94%) React
8 62 (18.45%) AngularJS
9 61 (18.15%) Vue
10 16 (4.76%) Redux
11 13 (3.87%) REST
12 6 (1.79%) RESTful
12 6 (1.79%) Web Services
13 4 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (1.19%) web3js
14 3 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
14 3 (0.89%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 157 (46.73%) Fixed Income
2 135 (40.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 133 (39.58%) Equities
4 99 (29.46%) Hedge funds
5 96 (28.57%) Derivative
6 38 (11.31%) Pricing Data
7 10 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.68%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.08%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.08%) e-Learning
10 4 (1.19%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.19%) Tandem
10 4 (1.19%) Web3
11 3 (0.89%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.89%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.30%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.30%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.46%) Linux
2 6 (1.79%) Windows
3 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.89%) AIX
4 3 (0.89%) CentOS
4 3 (0.89%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.60%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (79.46%) Software Engineering
2 261 (77.68%) Agile
3 242 (72.02%) Asset Management
4 136 (40.48%) DevOps
5 127 (37.80%) CI/CD
6 109 (32.44%) Investment Management
7 91 (27.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 81 (24.11%) Open Source
9 79 (23.51%) Fintech
10 77 (22.92%) Data Engineering
11 61 (18.15%) Performance Attribution
12 50 (14.88%) Risk Management
13 45 (13.39%) Order Management
14 34 (10.12%) Data Management
15 33 (9.82%) Migration
16 31 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
17 30 (8.93%) Containerisation
18 21 (6.25%) Mentoring
19 16 (4.76%) Credit Risk Analysis
20 15 (4.46%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 276 (82.14%) Python
2 187 (55.65%) Java
3 143 (42.56%) JavaScript
4 138 (41.07%) TypeScript
5 85 (25.30%) Go
6 44 (13.10%) SQL
7 8 (2.38%) Bash
8 4 (1.19%) Groovy
9 3 (0.89%) C#
9 3 (0.89%) PHP
9 3 (0.89%) Ruby
10 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 9 (2.68%) Degree
3 8 (2.38%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.08%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.89%) CCIE
6 3 (0.89%) CCNA
6 3 (0.89%) CCNP
6 3 (0.89%) CCSA
6 3 (0.89%) CCSE
7 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.60%) RHCE
8 1 (0.30%) CCSK
8 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.89%) GDPR
1 3 (0.89%) QA
1 3 (0.89%) SLA
2 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.60%) MiFID
2 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 118 (35.12%) Docker
2 6 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 122 (36.31%) Kubernetes
2 121 (36.01%) Terraform
3 19 (5.65%) Ansible
4 12 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.68%) Grafana
6 8 (2.38%) Istio
7 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.89%) Puppet
8 3 (0.89%) SCCM
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
10 1 (0.30%) Consul
10 1 (0.30%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.30%) linkerd
10 1 (0.30%) Packer
10 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (2.98%) Red Hat
2 9 (2.68%) IBM
3 7 (2.08%) Cisco
4 6 (1.79%) Confluent
4 6 (1.79%) Ping Identity
4 6 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.19%) Meraki
5 4 (1.19%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.19%) VMware
6 3 (0.89%) CheckPoint
6 3 (0.89%) Citrix
6 3 (0.89%) Fortinet
6 3 (0.89%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.60%) Cribl.io
7 2 (0.60%) F5
7 2 (0.60%) Google
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle
8 1 (0.30%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.30%) StreamSets