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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 263 323
Rank change year-on-year +18 +60 -22
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 56 14 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.37% 0.18% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.20% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 55 9 57
10th Percentile £50,750 £36,250 £51,852
25th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -6.15% -7.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 14,272 6,909 17,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 87.17% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10,072 3,691 12,526
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 23 June 2026.

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 23 June 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
Thames Valley +36 31 £65,000 -21.21% 6
Oxfordshire +18 23 £65,000 -22.39% 4
Hampshire -24 17 £65,000 +40.54%
Berkshire +17 6 £65,000 -23.53% 2
East Sussex - 5 £50,000 -
Surrey -17 3 £80,000 -
Buckinghamshire -3 2 £80,000 +28.00%
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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 South East region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (33.93%) Python
3 18 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (30.36%) C#
4 17 (30.36%) C++
4 17 (30.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (30.36%) Degree
5 14 (25.00%) Azure
5 14 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 12 (21.43%) Linux
6 12 (21.43%) Terraform
7 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
8 10 (17.86%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
8 10 (17.86%) Finite Element Analysis
9 9 (16.07%) DevOps
10 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (12.50%) Agile
11 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
11 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (10.71%) AI
12 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
13 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
13 5 (8.93%) Ansible
13 5 (8.93%) Containerisation
13 5 (8.93%) DevSecOps
13 5 (8.93%) Docker
13 5 (8.93%) E-Commerce
13 5 (8.93%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 5 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (7.14%) Cybersecurity

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 2 (3.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (8.93%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 5 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (7.14%) Datadog
4 4 (7.14%) SaaS
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.57%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.79%) Git
1 1 (1.79%) GitLab
1 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
1 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (8.93%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.36%) Aerospace
2 3 (5.36%) Automotive
3 2 (3.57%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) Django
1 3 (5.36%) Vue
2 2 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.79%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (8.93%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Life Science
4 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 10 (17.86%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
3 10 (17.86%) Finite Element Analysis
4 9 (16.07%) DevOps
5 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (12.50%) Agile
6 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.71%) AI
8 5 (8.93%) Containerisation
8 5 (8.93%) DevSecOps
8 5 (8.93%) E-Commerce
9 4 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (7.14%) FinOps
10 3 (5.36%) Bioinformatics
10 3 (5.36%) Biotechnology
10 3 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (5.36%) Machine Learning
10 3 (5.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) Python
2 17 (30.36%) C#
2 17 (30.36%) C++
3 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.79%) Groovy
5 1 (1.79%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (30.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 17 (30.36%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.36%) PhD
3 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (21.43%) Terraform
2 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.93%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) Nagios
5 1 (1.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) VMware
3 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.79%) IBM
3 1 (1.79%) New Relic