AWS Engineer Jobs in the South East

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > South East

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the South East is £61,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 340 343
Rank change year-on-year +56 +3 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 17 60 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.34% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.37% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11 52 46
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,435 £56,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £76,875 £74,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £110,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +3.13% -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 8,283 16,379 12,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.89% 94.08% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,409 11,667 8,026
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the South East

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer 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 29 May 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 29 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
Thames Valley +48 8 £82,500 +26.92% 7
Hampshire +72 5 £55,000 -42.11% 1
Berkshire +38 5 £85,000 +3.03% 4
Surrey +51 2 - -
Oxfordshire +43 2 £83,750 +28.85% 5
Kent +36 1 £45,000 -59.09% 3
Buckinghamshire +28 1 £62,500 +8.70%
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 29 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 South East region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (70.59%) Python
3 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 8 (47.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (47.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (47.06%) Terraform
5 7 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
5 7 (41.18%) Serverless
6 6 (35.29%) Linux
6 6 (35.29%) Migration
6 6 (35.29%) Amazon S3
6 6 (35.29%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (29.41%) Ansible
7 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
7 5 (29.41%) Firewall
7 5 (29.41%) VPN
7 5 (29.41%) SaaS
8 4 (23.53%) Docker
8 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
8 4 (23.53%) Microservices
8 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
8 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
8 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (17.65%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (47.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (41.18%) Serverless
4 6 (35.29%) Amazon S3
5 5 (29.41%) SaaS
6 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (17.65%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (17.65%) AWS CodeCommit
7 3 (17.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 3 (17.65%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (11.76%) Alation
8 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (11.76%) dbt
9 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Fabric
9 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
1 5 (29.41%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) BGP
3 2 (11.76%) Internet
3 2 (11.76%) IPsec
3 2 (11.76%) OSPF
3 2 (11.76%) SSL
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) VoIP
4 1 (5.88%) Bluetooth
4 1 (5.88%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (17.65%) MySQL
2 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) LAMP
2 2 (11.76%) PySpark
2 2 (11.76%) YAML
3 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) pytest
3 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) IoT
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (17.65%) High Availability
5 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
5 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Threat Detection
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Change Management
6 2 (11.76%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Bash
2 3 (17.65%) Go
2 3 (17.65%) Perl
2 3 (17.65%) PHP
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) C
3 2 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Ansible
3 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
1 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco
1 1 (5.88%) IBM
1 1 (5.88%) Juniper
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft