AWS Engineer Job Trends in London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 135 206
Rank change year-on-year -81 +71 +63
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 176 388 319
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 2.60% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 2.84% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 116 344 302
10th Percentile £60,625 £76,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,938 £85,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +13.16% +8.57%
75th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £100,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -17.50% +29.03% -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 14,124 13,657 20,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 91.54% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,854 16,262
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,420
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +50 31 £90,000 +20.00% 13
East London +7 14 - -
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 February 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.

1 176 (100.00%) AWS
2 90 (51.14%) Python
3 59 (33.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (32.39%) CI/CD
5 56 (31.82%) Terraform
6 50 (28.41%) Java
7 49 (27.84%) Software Engineering
8 44 (25.00%) Agile
9 42 (23.86%) Serverless
10 40 (22.73%) DevOps
11 39 (22.16%) Azure
12 38 (21.59%) TypeScript
13 36 (20.45%) SaaS
14 35 (19.89%) Platform Engineering
15 30 (17.05%) Apache Airflow
15 30 (17.05%) Degree
15 30 (17.05%) Investment Management
16 29 (16.48%) Apache Iceberg
16 29 (16.48%) GCP
16 29 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (15.91%) Computer Science
18 27 (15.34%) Amazon Athena
19 26 (14.77%) Asset Management
19 26 (14.77%) dbt
19 26 (14.77%) JavaScript
19 26 (14.77%) Observability
19 26 (14.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 25 (14.20%) AWS Lambda
20 25 (14.20%) Computer Science Degree
21 24 (13.64%) Apache Arrow

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 30 (17.05%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (11.36%) Apache
3 16 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 176 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (23.86%) Serverless
3 39 (22.16%) Azure
4 36 (20.45%) SaaS
5 29 (16.48%) GCP
6 26 (14.77%) dbt
6 26 (14.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 25 (14.20%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (13.07%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (13.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (11.93%) Amazon S3
10 16 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (7.39%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (7.39%) GitHub
12 11 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
12 11 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (6.25%) Snowflake
13 10 (5.68%) IaaS
13 10 (5.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.50%) Firewall
2 19 (10.80%) Cisco ASA
2 19 (10.80%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (10.80%) LAN
2 19 (10.80%) WAN
2 19 (10.80%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (6.82%) VPN
4 11 (6.25%) BGP
5 6 (3.41%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.41%) VLAN
6 5 (2.84%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (2.84%) IPsec
6 5 (2.84%) MPLS
6 5 (2.84%) NetScaler
6 5 (2.84%) NX-OS
6 5 (2.84%) OSPF
6 5 (2.84%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.84%) VXLAN
6 5 (2.84%) WLAN
7 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.48%) Apache Iceberg
2 27 (15.34%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (13.64%) Apache Arrow
3 24 (13.64%) Dremio
4 21 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (9.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (6.82%) Data Lake
9 10 (5.68%) Apache Ignite
10 8 (4.55%) MySQL
11 7 (3.98%) Apache Hive
11 7 (3.98%) Big Data
11 7 (3.98%) Hadoop
12 6 (3.41%) DynamoDB
12 6 (3.41%) Flink
13 4 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
13 4 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Git
2 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.84%) GitLab
4 4 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.14%) Deequ
6 1 (0.57%) Gradle
6 1 (0.57%) JUnit
6 1 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 92 (52.27%) Finance
2 31 (17.61%) Banking
3 30 (17.05%) Front Office
4 20 (11.36%) Financial Institution
5 18 (10.23%) Social Skills
6 13 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (7.39%) Law
7 12 (6.82%) Back Office
7 12 (6.82%) Retail
8 10 (5.68%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.70%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.14%) Advertising
11 2 (1.14%) Games
12 1 (0.57%) Legal
12 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.64%) NumPy
1 24 (13.64%) Pandas
1 24 (13.64%) SciPy
2 21 (11.93%) React
3 19 (10.80%) Kafka
3 19 (10.80%) Node.js
4 14 (7.95%) AngularJS
4 14 (7.95%) Vue
5 10 (5.68%) gRPC
5 10 (5.68%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (4.55%) .NET
6 8 (4.55%) RESTful
7 7 (3.98%) boto
7 7 (3.98%) PySpark
7 7 (3.98%) Spark Streaming
8 6 (3.41%) .NET Core
8 6 (3.41%) AWS CDK
9 5 (2.84%) Spring
10 4 (2.27%) pytest
11 3 (1.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 30 (17.05%) Fixed Income
3 28 (15.91%) Data Centre
4 24 (13.64%) Equities
5 23 (13.07%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (13.07%) Hedge funds
6 17 (9.66%) Cloud Native
7 15 (8.52%) Management Information System
8 11 (6.25%) Security Posture
9 10 (5.68%) Derivative
9 10 (5.68%) Pricing Data
10 9 (5.11%) Blog
10 9 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (3.98%) e-Learning
11 7 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.70%) AI Agents
13 2 (1.14%) Sports Betting
14 1 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
14 1 (0.57%) Marketing Technology
14 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.82%) Linux
2 10 (5.68%) Unix
3 2 (1.14%) Windows
4 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (33.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (32.39%) CI/CD
3 49 (27.84%) Software Engineering
4 44 (25.00%) Agile
5 40 (22.73%) DevOps
6 35 (19.89%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (17.05%) Investment Management
8 29 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (15.91%) Computer Science
10 26 (14.77%) Asset Management
10 26 (14.77%) Observability
11 24 (13.64%) Fintech
11 24 (13.64%) Process Improvement
12 23 (13.07%) Data Engineering
12 23 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (11.93%) High Availability
15 20 (11.36%) Cloud Security
16 18 (10.23%) AI
17 16 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (51.14%) Python
2 50 (28.41%) Java
3 38 (21.59%) TypeScript
4 26 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.66%) Bash
6 14 (7.95%) SQL
7 10 (5.68%) C#
7 10 (5.68%) Go
8 7 (3.98%) Scala
9 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (17.05%) Degree
2 25 (14.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.95%) AWS Certification
3 14 (7.95%) CCIE
3 14 (7.95%) CCNA
3 14 (7.95%) CCNP
3 14 (7.95%) CCSA
3 14 (7.95%) CCSE
3 14 (7.95%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (6.25%) CISSP
5 10 (5.68%) CCSK
6 9 (5.11%) Security Cleared
7 6 (3.41%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.57%) CISA
11 1 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.95%) PCI DSS
1 14 (7.95%) SOC 2
2 12 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.11%) GDPR
4 5 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (7.39%) Docker
2 7 (3.98%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 56 (31.82%) Terraform
2 24 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.95%) FortiGate
4 10 (5.68%) Ansible
5 7 (3.98%) Argo
5 7 (3.98%) Grafana
6 4 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (13.07%) Cisco
2 19 (10.80%) CheckPoint
2 19 (10.80%) Fortinet
3 10 (5.68%) Google
4 9 (5.11%) Databricks
5 8 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.84%) Meraki
7 2 (1.14%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.57%) SAP