AWS Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > South East

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the South East is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 268 252
Rank change year-on-year -3 -16 +138
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 9 46 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.10% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 23
10th Percentile £48,125 £51,852 £59,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £91,875 £82,188 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,125 £85,625 £86,000
England median annual salary £108,750 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% +12.50% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 8,017 10,908 7,313
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 96.38% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,786 6,058 5,216
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +0.43% -0.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,250
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 the South East.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the South East

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the South East

AWS Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Thames Valley +7 5 £85,000 +3.03% 3
Hampshire +13 3 £60,000 +7.28% 2
Berkshire +5 3 £85,000 +3.03% 2
Oxfordshire +25 2 £83,750 -10.67% 1
Surrey +26 1 - -
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, 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 South East region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (66.67%) Serverless
4 5 (55.56%) Python
4 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
4 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
5 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (44.44%) Bash
5 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 4 (44.44%) Firewall
5 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
6 3 (33.33%) Ansible
6 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (33.33%) DNS
6 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
6 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (33.33%) Terraform
6 3 (33.33%) Threat Detection
6 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
5 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (33.33%) Threat Detection
5 2 (22.22%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
5 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 2 (22.22%) LLM
5 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 1 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) C
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes