AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 260 318
Rank change year-on-year -125 +58 +78
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 350 500 769
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.17% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.29% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 259 445 502
10th Percentile £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £76,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £63,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.67% -2.69% -

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 68,785 38,695 80,406
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.46% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,819 23,042 61,532
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,500 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -99 332 £78,750 -25.00% 85
London -90 197 £90,000 -18.18% 35
UK excluding London -10 136 £70,000 +10.67% 60
Work from Home -133 113 £90,000 -16.28% 40
North of England -46 44 £70,000 +21.74% 20
North West -4 39 £70,000 +4.60% 12
Midlands -6 28 £63,750 -1.92% 6
South West -10 24 £75,000 +30.43% 9
West Midlands +17 21 £51,500 +0.49% 5
East of England -11 19 £75,000 +15.38% 1
South East -7 17 £62,500 +1.21% 23
East Midlands -40 7 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland -17 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -56 3 £66,250 +29.27% 7
North East -22 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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.

1 350 (100.00%) AWS
2 141 (40.29%) Python
3 123 (35.14%) DevOps
4 105 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 102 (29.14%) Terraform
6 98 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (22.00%) Azure
8 70 (20.00%) Serverless
9 61 (17.43%) Software Engineering
10 60 (17.14%) Amazon S3
11 56 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
12 51 (14.57%) Kubernetes
13 50 (14.29%) SaaS
14 49 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
14 49 (14.00%) Java
15 47 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
16 45 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (12.57%) Degree
18 42 (12.00%) ETL
18 42 (12.00%) Observability
18 42 (12.00%) Security Cleared
18 42 (12.00%) SQL
18 42 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 41 (11.71%) Docker
20 39 (11.14%) Agile
21 37 (10.57%) Bash
21 37 (10.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 36 (10.29%) High Availability
23 35 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 34 (9.71%) AWS CloudFormation

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 22 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (5.43%) Apache
3 14 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.57%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 350 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (22.00%) Azure
3 70 (20.00%) Serverless
4 60 (17.14%) Amazon S3
5 50 (14.29%) SaaS
6 49 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 35 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (9.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (8.00%) GCP
12 27 (7.71%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (7.14%) GitHub
14 21 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (4.86%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
17 14 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
18 13 (3.71%) PaaS
19 12 (3.43%) Amazon EMR
20 11 (3.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.57%) Firewall
2 20 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (5.71%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (5.71%) LAN
2 20 (5.71%) WAN
2 20 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.43%) VPN
4 11 (3.14%) BGP
5 6 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.71%) VLAN
6 5 (1.43%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.43%) IPsec
6 5 (1.43%) MPLS
6 5 (1.43%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.43%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.43%) OSPF
6 5 (1.43%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.43%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.43%) WLAN
7 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.14%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (8.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (5.43%) Apache Iceberg
3 19 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (4.57%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (3.71%) MySQL
6 13 (3.71%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.43%) DynamoDB
8 11 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (2.29%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.71%) Flink
11 6 (1.71%) Metadata
12 5 (1.43%) Pentaho
13 4 (1.14%) Apache Ignite
13 4 (1.14%) Big Data
13 4 (1.14%) Dremio
13 4 (1.14%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (6.57%) Git
2 20 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.43%) GitLab
4 6 (1.71%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.86%) NUnit
7 2 (0.57%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.57%) Deequ
8 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.29%) Gradle
8 1 (0.29%) JIRA
8 1 (0.29%) JMeter
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) Maven
8 1 (0.29%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
General
1 86 (24.57%) Finance
2 53 (15.14%) Banking
3 41 (11.71%) Social Skills
4 26 (7.43%) Law
5 16 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.29%) Financial Institution
7 14 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.00%) Retail
8 13 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.43%) Back Office
10 11 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.86%) Front Office
11 10 (2.86%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.43%) Advertising
12 5 (1.43%) Games
12 5 (1.43%) Legal
13 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Billing
15 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.43%) Kafka
2 14 (4.00%) .NET
2 14 (4.00%) PySpark
3 12 (3.43%) React
4 11 (3.14%) AWS CDK
4 11 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (3.14%) REST
5 10 (2.86%) .NET Core
5 10 (2.86%) Node.js
5 10 (2.86%) RESTful
6 9 (2.57%) OAuth
7 8 (2.29%) Spring
8 7 (2.00%) JWT
8 7 (2.00%) Loki
8 7 (2.00%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.43%) LangChain
9 5 (1.43%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.14%) gRPC
10 4 (1.14%) Pandas
10 4 (1.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.29%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (5.14%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.57%) Management Information System
7 14 (4.00%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.86%) Fixed Income
8 10 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.57%) Blog
10 8 (2.29%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.14%) Derivative
12 4 (1.14%) Equities
12 4 (1.14%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.14%) Pricing Data
13 3 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.86%) Linux
2 12 (3.43%) Unix
3 3 (0.86%) Windows
4 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (35.14%) DevOps
2 105 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 98 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (17.43%) Software Engineering
5 56 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
6 45 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (12.00%) ETL
7 42 (12.00%) Observability
8 39 (11.14%) Agile
9 37 (10.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (10.29%) High Availability
11 34 (9.71%) Computer Science
12 33 (9.43%) Cloud Security
12 33 (9.43%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (9.14%) Data Engineering
14 31 (8.86%) Analytics
14 31 (8.86%) Containerisation
15 28 (8.00%) AI
16 26 (7.43%) Process Improvement
17 24 (6.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 141 (40.29%) Python
2 49 (14.00%) Java
3 42 (12.00%) SQL
4 37 (10.57%) Bash
5 26 (7.43%) TypeScript
6 22 (6.29%) Go
7 19 (5.43%) C#
8 11 (3.14%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.14%) Scala
11 3 (0.86%) Bicep
12 2 (0.57%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) C
13 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (12.57%) Degree
2 42 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.43%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.29%) CCIE
6 15 (4.29%) CCNA
6 15 (4.29%) CCNP
6 15 (4.29%) CCSA
6 15 (4.29%) CCSE
6 15 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.43%) CISSP
8 11 (3.14%) CCSK
9 7 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.29%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.43%) SOC 2
3 18 (5.14%) PCI DSS
4 13 (3.71%) GDPR
5 11 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.57%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.57%) QA
7 6 (1.71%) NIST
8 4 (1.14%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (11.71%) Docker
2 8 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 102 (29.14%) Terraform
2 51 (14.57%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.86%) Grafana
4 17 (4.86%) Ansible
4 17 (4.86%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.29%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.57%) Argo
6 9 (2.57%) Istio
7 2 (0.57%) Kibana
7 2 (0.57%) logstash
7 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (6.86%) Cisco
2 20 (5.71%) CheckPoint
2 20 (5.71%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.43%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.14%) Google
5 10 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 9 (2.57%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.29%) Confluent
7 8 (2.29%) Databricks
7 8 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.29%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.43%) Informatica
8 5 (1.43%) Meraki
8 5 (1.43%) SAP
8 5 (1.43%) Talend
9 4 (1.14%) Pega
9 4 (1.14%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.86%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.57%) Okta
11 2 (0.57%) Ping Identity