AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 294 329
Rank change year-on-year -92 +35 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 296 495 639
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.00% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.09% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 208 431 465
10th Percentile £51,100 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,625 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 60,248 45,561 70,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 91.75% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 37,639 23,782 55,054
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England -93 277 £82,500 -17.50% 119
London -81 180 £100,000 -4.76% 58
Work from Home -98 116 £100,000 -4.76% 44
UK excluding London +11 99 £70,000 +7.69% 75
North of England -23 32 £80,000 +45.45% 22
North West +24 28 £85,000 +25.93% 16
Midlands +24 25 £51,500 -20.77% 14
East of England +20 18 £75,000 +15.38% 5
West Midlands +27 15 £50,000 -2.44% 14
South East +10 14 £65,000 +10.64% 20
East Midlands -16 10 £72,500 +11.54% 1
South West -11 7 £75,000 +25.00% 14
Scotland -6 6 - -
North East -9 2 £55,000 -4.35%
Yorkshire -39 2 £67,500 +31.71% 6

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 296 (100.00%) AWS
2 138 (46.62%) Python
3 107 (36.15%) CI/CD
4 96 (32.43%) DevOps
5 86 (29.05%) Terraform
6 85 (28.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 79 (26.69%) Software Engineering
8 69 (23.31%) Serverless
9 68 (22.97%) Java
10 58 (19.59%) Agile
11 55 (18.58%) Azure
12 53 (17.91%) TypeScript
13 50 (16.89%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (16.89%) Kubernetes
14 45 (15.20%) Platform Engineering
15 44 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (14.86%) SaaS
16 43 (14.53%) Observability
17 41 (13.85%) Amazon EKS
17 41 (13.85%) Amazon S3
18 38 (12.84%) Apache Iceberg
18 38 (12.84%) AWS CloudFormation
19 37 (12.50%) Degree
19 37 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 36 (12.16%) Apache Airflow
20 36 (12.16%) JavaScript
21 35 (11.82%) Amazon Athena
21 35 (11.82%) Amazon RDS
21 35 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 34 (11.49%) Investment Management

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 36 (12.16%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (9.12%) Apache
3 19 (6.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) JBoss
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
4 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 296 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (23.31%) Serverless
3 55 (18.58%) Azure
4 50 (16.89%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (14.86%) SaaS
6 41 (13.85%) Amazon EKS
6 41 (13.85%) Amazon S3
7 38 (12.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 31 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (10.14%) dbt
11 29 (9.80%) GCP
12 25 (8.45%) GitHub
13 23 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (6.08%) Amazon Kinesis
15 18 (6.08%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (5.07%) Snowflake
17 14 (4.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.43%) Firewall
2 19 (6.42%) Cisco ASA
2 19 (6.42%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (6.42%) LAN
2 19 (6.42%) WAN
2 19 (6.42%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (4.05%) VPN
4 11 (3.72%) BGP
5 6 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.03%) VLAN
6 5 (1.69%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.69%) IPsec
6 5 (1.69%) MPLS
6 5 (1.69%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.69%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.69%) OSPF
6 5 (1.69%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.69%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.69%) WLAN
7 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.84%) Apache Iceberg
2 35 (11.82%) Amazon Athena
2 35 (11.82%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (9.46%) Apache Arrow
3 28 (9.46%) Dremio
4 26 (8.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (6.42%) Data Lake
8 14 (4.73%) Apache Ignite
9 12 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.72%) MySQL
11 10 (3.38%) DynamoDB
12 9 (3.04%) Big Data
12 9 (3.04%) Hadoop
12 9 (3.04%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.70%) Apache Hive
13 8 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.03%) Flink
15 5 (1.69%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 21 (7.09%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.39%) Git
3 10 (3.38%) GitLab
4 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.01%) NUnit
6 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.68%) Deequ
6 2 (0.68%) Gradle
6 2 (0.68%) JUnit
6 2 (0.68%) Maven
6 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.34%) Ant
7 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.34%) JIRA
7 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 100 (33.78%) Finance
2 43 (14.53%) Banking
3 35 (11.82%) Social Skills
4 34 (11.49%) Front Office
5 23 (7.77%) Investment Banking
5 23 (7.77%) Law
6 20 (6.76%) Financial Institution
7 13 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.05%) Retail
9 11 (3.72%) Back Office
10 6 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.69%) Advertising
11 5 (1.69%) Games
11 5 (1.69%) Legal
11 5 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.01%) Billing
13 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.46%) NumPy
1 28 (9.46%) Pandas
1 28 (9.46%) SciPy
2 27 (9.12%) React
3 26 (8.78%) Node.js
4 22 (7.43%) Kafka
5 16 (5.41%) .NET
6 15 (5.07%) PySpark
7 14 (4.73%) AngularJS
7 14 (4.73%) AWS CDK
7 14 (4.73%) gRPC
7 14 (4.73%) Protocol Buffers
7 14 (4.73%) Vue
8 12 (4.05%) RESTful
9 10 (3.38%) REST
10 9 (3.04%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.04%) OAuth
11 8 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.70%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (2.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (11.49%) Fixed Income
3 30 (10.14%) Cloud Native
4 29 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (9.46%) Equities
6 27 (9.12%) Data Centre
7 26 (8.78%) Hedge funds
8 15 (5.07%) Management Information System
9 14 (4.73%) Derivative
9 14 (4.73%) Pricing Data
10 12 (4.05%) Security Posture
11 10 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.70%) Blog
12 8 (2.70%) e-Learning
12 8 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.69%) AI Agents
15 4 (1.35%) Data Structures
16 3 (1.01%) Clustering
16 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.09%) Linux
2 11 (3.72%) Unix
3 5 (1.69%) Windows
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (36.15%) CI/CD
2 96 (32.43%) DevOps
3 85 (28.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (26.69%) Software Engineering
5 58 (19.59%) Agile
6 45 (15.20%) Platform Engineering
7 44 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (14.53%) Observability
9 35 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (11.49%) Investment Management
11 33 (11.15%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (10.81%) Data Engineering
12 32 (10.81%) ETL
12 32 (10.81%) High Availability
13 30 (10.14%) Asset Management
13 30 (10.14%) Computer Science
14 29 (9.80%) Cloud Security
15 26 (8.78%) Fintech
16 24 (8.11%) Mentoring
17 23 (7.77%) AI
Programming Languages
1 138 (46.62%) Python
2 68 (22.97%) Java
3 53 (17.91%) TypeScript
4 36 (12.16%) JavaScript
5 33 (11.15%) Bash
6 31 (10.47%) SQL
7 21 (7.09%) C#
8 14 (4.73%) Go
9 9 (3.04%) Scala
10 7 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.35%) Bicep
12 3 (1.01%) Rust
13 2 (0.68%) C
14 1 (0.34%) Groovy
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (12.50%) Degree
2 33 (11.15%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (7.43%) AWS Certification
4 22 (7.43%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.73%) CCIE
5 14 (4.73%) CCNA
5 14 (4.73%) CCNP
5 14 (4.73%) CCSA
5 14 (4.73%) CCSE
5 14 (4.73%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.38%) CISSP
7 9 (3.04%) CCSK
8 7 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.34%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.73%) GDPR
3 13 (4.39%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.39%) SOC 2
4 10 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.70%) QA
6 6 (2.03%) NIST
7 4 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.35%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (11.15%) Docker
2 8 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 86 (29.05%) Terraform
2 50 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.77%) Grafana
4 17 (5.74%) Ansible
5 14 (4.73%) FortiGate
6 13 (4.39%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.70%) Argo
8 2 (0.68%) Kibana
8 2 (0.68%) logstash
8 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Podman
9 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (7.77%) Cisco
2 19 (6.42%) CheckPoint
2 19 (6.42%) Fortinet
3 12 (4.05%) Databricks
4 11 (3.72%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.72%) SolarWinds
5 9 (3.04%) Google
6 8 (2.70%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.36%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.03%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.69%) Informatica
9 5 (1.69%) Meraki
9 5 (1.69%) Talend
10 4 (1.35%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (1.35%) SAP
11 3 (1.01%) Pega
11 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.68%) Okta
12 2 (0.68%) Ping Identity