AWS Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 468 446
Rank change year-on-year +139 -22 -186
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 549 317 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.52% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.58% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 208 250 394
10th Percentile £51,175 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,625 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +5.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,375 £87,125
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +18.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,718 54,726 68,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,226 31,089 43,036
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Scotland +134 319 £60,000 -26.15% 1
North of England -15 75 £65,000 -7.14% 9
South East +21 55 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Midlands +23 47 £60,000 -11.11% 12
North West -12 47 £65,000 -7.14% 8
South West -37 37 £66,250 -8.62% 4
East Midlands +3 29 £57,500 -8.00% 3
North East +9 22 £75,000 +7.14%
West Midlands +12 18 £70,000 - 9
East of England -5 16 £75,000 +7.14%
Yorkshire +30 6 £62,500 -7.41% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 549 (100.00%) AWS
2 363 (66.12%) Agile
3 354 (64.48%) Software Engineering
4 350 (63.75%) CI/CD
5 321 (58.47%) Finance
6 317 (57.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 309 (56.28%) Law
8 302 (55.01%) SDLC
9 298 (54.28%) Operational Stability
10 257 (46.81%) Python
11 237 (43.17%) SQL
12 218 (39.71%) NoSQL
13 208 (37.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 207 (37.70%) Artificial Intelligence
15 206 (37.52%) Legal
16 205 (37.34%) Risk Management
16 205 (37.34%) Java
17 199 (36.25%) Algorithms
18 197 (35.88%) Visualisation
19 196 (35.70%) Machine Learning
20 184 (33.52%) Apache Spark
21 178 (32.42%) Community of Practice
22 175 (31.88%) Terraform
23 145 (26.41%) Big Data
24 142 (25.87%) Hadoop
25 130 (23.68%) DevOps
26 128 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
27 120 (21.86%) Scala
28 117 (21.31%) Databricks
29 102 (18.58%) Git

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 184 (33.52%) Apache Spark
2 102 (18.58%) Apache
3 13 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.55%) Confluence
6 2 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 549 (100.00%) AWS
2 101 (18.40%) Serverless
3 92 (16.76%) AWS Lambda
4 88 (16.03%) Amazon EC2
5 75 (13.66%) Amazon EKS
6 67 (12.20%) Amazon S3
7 66 (12.02%) Amazon ECS
8 58 (10.56%) Amazon SQS
9 53 (9.65%) Amazon EMR
10 43 (7.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (7.83%) Azure
11 35 (6.38%) GitHub
12 34 (6.19%) Cloud Computing
13 33 (6.01%) SaaS
14 31 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (4.55%) Route 53
16 23 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (3.10%) CloudFront
18 15 (2.73%) Amazon Kinesis
19 13 (2.37%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.10%) Firewall
2 6 (1.09%) Network Security
2 6 (1.09%) VPN
3 4 (0.73%) DNS
4 3 (0.55%) IPv4
5 2 (0.36%) MQTT
6 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.18%) OSPF
6 1 (0.18%) SAN
6 1 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (39.71%) NoSQL
2 145 (26.41%) Big Data
3 142 (25.87%) Hadoop
4 69 (12.57%) Apache Hive
5 68 (12.39%) HBase
6 51 (9.29%) Electronic Patient Records
7 36 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.09%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.09%) MySQL
11 4 (0.73%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.73%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.73%) Redis
12 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.36%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.36%) DocumentDB
13 2 (0.36%) Impala
Development Applications
1 102 (18.58%) Git
2 98 (17.85%) Jenkins
3 67 (12.20%) Bitbucket Server
4 14 (2.55%) GitLab
5 6 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.73%) JIRA
6 4 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.55%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.55%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.36%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.36%) sqlmap
9 1 (0.18%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.18%) Mocha
9 1 (0.18%) Redmine
9 1 (0.18%) Selenium
General
1 321 (58.47%) Finance
2 317 (57.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 309 (56.28%) Law
4 206 (37.52%) Legal
5 77 (14.03%) Marketing
6 45 (8.20%) Social Skills
7 44 (8.01%) Banking
8 42 (7.65%) Financial Institution
8 42 (7.65%) Investment Banking
9 38 (6.92%) Games
10 16 (2.91%) Public Sector
11 15 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (1.64%) Tech for Good
15 6 (1.09%) Retail
16 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
18 2 (0.36%) Advertising
18 2 (0.36%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.10%) Node.js
2 13 (2.37%) React
2 13 (2.37%) Spring
3 12 (2.19%) AWS CDK
3 12 (2.19%) Spring Boot
4 10 (1.82%) Kafka
5 6 (1.09%) .NET
6 3 (0.55%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.36%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.36%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.36%) Akka
7 2 (0.36%) JSON
7 2 (0.36%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.36%) React Native
7 2 (0.36%) REST
8 1 (0.18%) CSS3
8 1 (0.18%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 199 (36.25%) Algorithms
2 82 (14.94%) Cloud Native
3 37 (6.74%) Onboarding
4 25 (4.55%) Client/Server
5 21 (3.83%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.28%) Online Games
7 14 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.46%) Blockchain
9 8 (1.46%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.28%) IoT
11 6 (1.09%) Blog
12 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.73%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.55%) PKI
14 3 (0.55%) PMI
14 3 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (12.57%) Unix
2 46 (8.38%) Linux
3 18 (3.28%) Windows
4 10 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (66.12%) Agile
2 354 (64.48%) Software Engineering
3 350 (63.75%) CI/CD
4 302 (55.01%) SDLC
5 298 (54.28%) Operational Stability
6 208 (37.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 207 (37.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 205 (37.34%) Risk Management
9 197 (35.88%) Visualisation
10 196 (35.70%) Machine Learning
11 178 (32.42%) Community of Practice
12 130 (23.68%) DevOps
13 128 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
14 92 (16.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 88 (16.03%) Test Automation
16 79 (14.39%) TDD
17 77 (14.03%) Performance Tuning
18 72 (13.11%) Open Source
19 67 (12.20%) Batch Processing
20 66 (12.02%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 257 (46.81%) Python
2 237 (43.17%) SQL
3 205 (37.34%) Java
4 120 (21.86%) Scala
5 67 (12.20%) JavaScript
5 67 (12.20%) PL/SQL
6 33 (6.01%) Bash
7 22 (4.01%) PowerShell
7 22 (4.01%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.91%) C#
9 6 (1.09%) Groovy
9 6 (1.09%) Perl
10 5 (0.91%) PHP
11 3 (0.55%) Go
12 2 (0.36%) Ruby
12 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (7.47%) AWS Certification
2 31 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.55%) Degree
5 19 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 13 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.37%) Accessibility
2 20 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.19%) QA
4 5 (0.91%) NIST
5 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (13.48%) Docker
2 69 (12.57%) HDFS
3 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) iptables
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 175 (31.88%) Terraform
2 99 (18.03%) Kubernetes
3 39 (7.10%) Ansible
4 17 (3.10%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.09%) Puppet
8 5 (0.91%) Grafana
9 4 (0.73%) Istio
10 3 (0.55%) Argo
11 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.36%) Packer
12 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.18%) Consul
12 1 (0.18%) Kibana
12 1 (0.18%) Nagios
12 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 117 (21.31%) Databricks
2 71 (12.93%) Informatica
3 39 (7.10%) Cloudera
4 14 (2.55%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.82%) IBM
6 9 (1.64%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.09%) Splunk
8 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.36%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.36%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.36%) VMware
10 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.18%) Google
10 1 (0.18%) New Relic
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle