AWS Engineer Job Trends in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in London is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 134 191
Rank change year-on-year -66 +57 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 182 382 296
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.29% 2.46% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 2.66% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 133 335 279
10th Percentile £61,500 £68,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £105,000 £97,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.25% +7.78%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +22.58% -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 12,862 14,378 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.68% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,531 8,295 13,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +53 24 £85,000 +13.33% 10
East London +2 11 - -
West London - 1 £62,500 - 1
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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.

1 182 (100.00%) AWS
2 108 (59.34%) Python
3 72 (39.56%) Software Engineering
4 69 (37.91%) Agile
5 64 (35.16%) TypeScript
6 62 (34.07%) Java
7 58 (31.87%) Investment Management
8 56 (30.77%) Apache Iceberg
9 55 (30.22%) Amazon Athena
9 55 (30.22%) Apache Airflow
9 55 (30.22%) JavaScript
10 54 (29.67%) CI/CD
11 53 (29.12%) Asset Management
11 53 (29.12%) dbt
12 52 (28.57%) Apache Arrow
12 52 (28.57%) Dremio
12 52 (28.57%) NumPy
12 52 (28.57%) Pandas
12 52 (28.57%) SciPy
13 45 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (24.18%) Terraform
15 43 (23.63%) DevOps
16 37 (20.33%) Apache
17 36 (19.78%) Azure
18 35 (19.23%) Serverless
19 33 (18.13%) GCP
20 31 (17.03%) Data Lake
21 30 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
21 30 (16.48%) Snowflake
22 29 (15.93%) Apache Ignite

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 55 (30.22%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (20.33%) Apache
3 15 (8.24%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 182 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (29.12%) dbt
3 36 (19.78%) Azure
4 35 (19.23%) Serverless
5 33 (18.13%) GCP
6 30 (16.48%) Snowflake
7 25 (13.74%) SaaS
8 24 (13.19%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (9.89%) Amazon S3
12 16 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (8.79%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (7.14%) GitHub
14 12 (6.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (4.40%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.44%) LAN
1 19 (10.44%) WAN
1 19 (10.44%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (9.89%) Firewall
3 16 (8.79%) Cisco ASA
3 16 (8.79%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (6.59%) VPN
5 8 (4.40%) BGP
6 5 (2.75%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (2.75%) IPsec
6 5 (2.75%) MPLS
6 5 (2.75%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.75%) NX-OS
6 5 (2.75%) OSPF
6 5 (2.75%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.75%) VXLAN
6 5 (2.75%) WLAN
7 3 (1.65%) DNS
7 3 (1.65%) Network Security
7 3 (1.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (30.77%) Apache Iceberg
2 55 (30.22%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (28.57%) Apache Arrow
3 52 (28.57%) Dremio
4 31 (17.03%) Data Lake
5 30 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (15.93%) Apache Ignite
7 21 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.40%) Apache Hive
10 8 (4.40%) Big Data
10 8 (4.40%) Hadoop
11 7 (3.85%) MySQL
12 6 (3.30%) Flink
13 5 (2.75%) DynamoDB
14 3 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
16 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (4.95%) Git
2 7 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.75%) GitLab
4 4 (2.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.55%) Ant
6 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.55%) Deequ
6 1 (0.55%) Gradle
6 1 (0.55%) JIRA
6 1 (0.55%) JUnit
6 1 (0.55%) Maven
General
1 109 (59.89%) Finance
2 58 (31.87%) Front Office
3 42 (23.08%) Banking
4 29 (15.93%) Investment Banking
5 16 (8.79%) Social Skills
6 15 (8.24%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.85%) Retail
9 6 (3.30%) Back Office
9 6 (3.30%) Law
10 2 (1.10%) Advertising
10 2 (1.10%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) Legal
11 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (28.57%) NumPy
1 52 (28.57%) Pandas
1 52 (28.57%) SciPy
2 29 (15.93%) gRPC
2 29 (15.93%) Node.js
2 29 (15.93%) Protocol Buffers
3 28 (15.38%) React
4 23 (12.64%) AngularJS
4 23 (12.64%) Vue
5 18 (9.89%) Kafka
6 8 (4.40%) boto
6 8 (4.40%) Spark Streaming
7 7 (3.85%) .NET
8 5 (2.75%) PySpark
8 5 (2.75%) RESTful
9 4 (2.20%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.20%) AWS CDK
9 4 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.20%) Spring
10 3 (1.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 63 (34.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 58 (31.87%) Fixed Income
3 52 (28.57%) Equities
4 38 (20.88%) Hedge funds
5 29 (15.93%) Derivative
5 29 (15.93%) Pricing Data
6 25 (13.74%) Data Centre
7 17 (9.34%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (7.14%) Management Information System
9 10 (5.49%) Cloud Native
10 9 (4.95%) Security Posture
11 8 (4.40%) e-Learning
11 8 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (1.65%) Blog
13 3 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (1.65%) Low-Code
13 3 (1.65%) Web3
14 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
14 2 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.69%) Linux
2 8 (4.40%) Unix
3 3 (1.65%) Windows
4 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (39.56%) Software Engineering
2 69 (37.91%) Agile
3 58 (31.87%) Investment Management
4 54 (29.67%) CI/CD
5 53 (29.12%) Asset Management
6 45 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (23.63%) DevOps
8 29 (15.93%) Fintech
9 26 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (13.74%) Risk Management
11 23 (12.64%) Order Management
11 23 (12.64%) Performance Attribution
11 23 (12.64%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (11.54%) Computer Science
12 21 (11.54%) Data Engineering
12 21 (11.54%) Process Improvement
13 19 (10.44%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (9.89%) Cloud Security
15 17 (9.34%) Observability
16 16 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (59.34%) Python
2 64 (35.16%) TypeScript
3 62 (34.07%) Java
4 55 (30.22%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.89%) Bash
6 12 (6.59%) SQL
7 10 (5.49%) C#
8 9 (4.95%) Scala
9 4 (2.20%) Go
10 2 (1.10%) Groovy
10 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.55%) C++
11 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (12.64%) Degree
2 19 (10.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.69%) CCNP
3 14 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.04%) CCIE
5 11 (6.04%) CCNA
5 11 (6.04%) CCSA
5 11 (6.04%) CCSE
6 8 (4.40%) CISSP
7 7 (3.85%) CCSK
8 6 (3.30%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.65%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.55%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.95%) Data Quality
1 9 (4.95%) GDPR
2 6 (3.30%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.30%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.10%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (7.69%) Docker
2 8 (4.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (24.18%) Terraform
2 21 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.59%) Ansible
4 11 (6.04%) FortiGate
5 9 (4.95%) Grafana
6 6 (3.30%) Argo
7 4 (2.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Podman
8 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (12.09%) Cisco
2 16 (8.79%) CheckPoint
2 16 (8.79%) Fortinet
3 9 (4.95%) Databricks
4 8 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.85%) Google
5 7 (3.85%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.75%) Meraki
7 2 (1.10%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.55%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.55%) IBM
8 1 (0.55%) OpenText
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle
8 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.55%) SAP
8 1 (0.55%) Sonatype