AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 289 302
Rank change year-on-year -89 +13 +69
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 276 509 597
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.96% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.04% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 195 433 441
10th Percentile £51,450 £54,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% - -

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 55,891 49,062 59,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.63% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 34,637 25,329 46,560
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,097
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.90% -8.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -84 262 £90,000 -5.26% 137
London -73 180 £100,000 -4.76% 53
Work from Home -94 120 £105,000 - 56
UK excluding London +26 84 £68,750 +5.77% 105
North of England 0 28 £85,000 +34.55% 31
North West +23 24 £90,000 +33.33% 16
Midlands +29 21 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East of England +17 15 £75,000 +15.38% 15
West Midlands +34 13 £50,000 -2.44% 5
South East +14 12 £65,000 +13.68% 27
East Midlands -11 8 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Scotland +2 6 - - 1
South West +8 5 £72,500 +11.54% 17
North East +4 2 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire -27 2 £67,500 +31.71% 14

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

For the 6 months to 21 January 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.

1 276 (100.00%) AWS
2 138 (50.00%) Python
3 94 (34.06%) CI/CD
4 86 (31.16%) Software Engineering
5 83 (30.07%) DevOps
6 72 (26.09%) Java
7 71 (25.72%) Agile
7 71 (25.72%) Terraform
8 68 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 67 (24.28%) TypeScript
10 60 (21.74%) Serverless
11 53 (19.20%) Apache Iceberg
11 53 (19.20%) Azure
12 51 (18.48%) Amazon Athena
13 50 (18.12%) Investment Management
13 50 (18.12%) JavaScript
14 49 (17.75%) Apache Airflow
15 46 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
16 45 (16.30%) Asset Management
16 45 (16.30%) dbt
17 44 (15.94%) Apache Arrow
17 44 (15.94%) Dremio
17 44 (15.94%) NumPy
17 44 (15.94%) Pandas
17 44 (15.94%) SciPy
18 42 (15.22%) Kubernetes
19 37 (13.41%) Amazon S3
19 37 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
20 36 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
21 35 (12.68%) Apache

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 49 (17.75%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (12.68%) Apache
3 17 (6.16%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.09%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.72%) Confluence
5 2 (0.72%) JBoss
5 2 (0.72%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 276 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (21.74%) Serverless
3 53 (19.20%) Azure
4 46 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 45 (16.30%) dbt
6 37 (13.41%) Amazon S3
7 34 (12.32%) SaaS
8 32 (11.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (11.23%) GCP
9 31 (11.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 29 (10.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 29 (10.51%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (9.42%) Snowflake
12 22 (7.97%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (7.61%) GitHub
14 18 (6.52%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (6.16%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (4.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.33%) Firewall
2 20 (7.25%) LAN
2 20 (7.25%) WAN
2 20 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (6.16%) Cisco ASA
3 17 (6.16%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (4.35%) VPN
5 8 (2.90%) BGP
6 6 (2.17%) DNS
7 5 (1.81%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (1.81%) IPsec
7 5 (1.81%) MPLS
7 5 (1.81%) NetScaler
7 5 (1.81%) NX-OS
7 5 (1.81%) OSPF
7 5 (1.81%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.81%) VXLAN
7 5 (1.81%) WLAN
8 3 (1.09%) Network Security
8 3 (1.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (19.20%) Apache Iceberg
2 51 (18.48%) Amazon Athena
3 44 (15.94%) Apache Arrow
3 44 (15.94%) Dremio
4 36 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (10.51%) Data Lake
7 24 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (8.70%) Apache Ignite
8 22 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.99%) MySQL
11 9 (3.26%) Big Data
11 9 (3.26%) Hadoop
12 8 (2.90%) Apache Hive
12 8 (2.90%) DynamoDB
13 6 (2.17%) Flink
13 6 (2.17%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (7.25%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.80%) Git
3 7 (2.54%) GitLab
4 5 (1.81%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.45%) JIRA
6 3 (1.09%) Maven
7 2 (0.72%) Ant
7 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.72%) Gradle
7 2 (0.72%) NUnit
7 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.72%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.36%) Deequ
8 1 (0.36%) JUnit
General
1 106 (38.41%) Finance
2 50 (18.12%) Front Office
3 45 (16.30%) Banking
4 32 (11.59%) Investment Banking
5 30 (10.87%) Social Skills
6 15 (5.43%) Financial Institution
7 14 (5.07%) Law
8 10 (3.62%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.26%) Retail
10 8 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.54%) Games
12 6 (2.17%) Back Office
13 5 (1.81%) Legal
13 5 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.45%) Advertising
15 3 (1.09%) Billing
16 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
17 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.94%) NumPy
1 44 (15.94%) Pandas
1 44 (15.94%) SciPy
2 31 (11.23%) Node.js
2 31 (11.23%) React
3 24 (8.70%) gRPC
3 24 (8.70%) Protocol Buffers
4 20 (7.25%) AngularJS
4 20 (7.25%) Kafka
4 20 (7.25%) Vue
5 15 (5.43%) .NET
6 12 (4.35%) PySpark
7 11 (3.99%) AWS CDK
8 9 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.26%) RESTful
9 8 (2.90%) boto
9 8 (2.90%) Spark Streaming
10 7 (2.54%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.54%) OAuth
10 7 (2.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 50 (18.12%) Fixed Income
3 44 (15.94%) Equities
4 34 (12.32%) Hedge funds
5 26 (9.42%) Data Centre
6 24 (8.70%) Derivative
6 24 (8.70%) Pricing Data
7 22 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (6.52%) Cloud Native
9 14 (5.07%) Management Information System
10 11 (3.99%) Security Posture
11 10 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.90%) e-Learning
13 6 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (1.45%) AI Agents
15 4 (1.45%) Low-Code
16 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
16 3 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 3 (1.09%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.06%) Linux
2 10 (3.62%) Unix
3 8 (2.90%) Windows
4 2 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.72%) VMS
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (34.06%) CI/CD
2 86 (31.16%) Software Engineering
3 83 (30.07%) DevOps
4 71 (25.72%) Agile
5 68 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (18.12%) Investment Management
7 45 (16.30%) Asset Management
8 37 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (11.96%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (10.51%) Observability
11 28 (10.14%) Cloud Security
11 28 (10.14%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (10.14%) Fintech
11 28 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (9.78%) Data Engineering
13 26 (9.42%) ETL
14 24 (8.70%) High Availability
15 23 (8.33%) Computer Science
16 22 (7.97%) AI
16 22 (7.97%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 138 (50.00%) Python
2 72 (26.09%) Java
3 67 (24.28%) TypeScript
4 50 (18.12%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.23%) SQL
6 30 (10.87%) Bash
7 21 (7.61%) C#
8 10 (3.62%) Scala
9 9 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.90%) Go
11 4 (1.45%) Groovy
12 3 (1.09%) Bicep
12 3 (1.09%) Rust
13 2 (0.72%) C
14 1 (0.36%) PHP
14 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (11.23%) Degree
2 25 (9.06%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (6.88%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.52%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.43%) CCNP
6 15 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.35%) CCIE
7 12 (4.35%) CCNA
7 12 (4.35%) CCSA
7 12 (4.35%) CCSE
8 8 (2.90%) CISSP
9 7 (2.54%) CCSK
10 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.45%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.71%) GDPR
3 9 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.17%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.81%) NIST
5 5 (1.81%) QA
6 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.09%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (11.96%) Docker
2 8 (2.90%) HDFS
3 2 (0.72%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.72%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.72%) Postfix
3 2 (0.72%) Squid
Systems Management
1 71 (25.72%) Terraform
2 42 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.25%) Grafana
4 19 (6.88%) Ansible
5 12 (4.35%) FortiGate
6 10 (3.62%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.72%) Kibana
8 2 (0.72%) logstash
8 2 (0.72%) Nessus
8 2 (0.72%) Podman
8 2 (0.72%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.72%) Puppet
8 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (8.70%) Cisco
2 17 (6.16%) CheckPoint
2 17 (6.16%) Fortinet
3 13 (4.71%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.99%) Databricks
5 10 (3.62%) SolarWinds
6 8 (2.90%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.54%) Google
8 5 (1.81%) Meraki
9 4 (1.45%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.09%) Informatica
10 3 (1.09%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.09%) Microsoft
10 3 (1.09%) Talend
11 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.72%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.72%) Okta
11 2 (0.72%) OpenText
11 2 (0.72%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.72%) SAP