AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 302 327
Rank change year-on-year -85 +25 +53
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 283 497 640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.96% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.04% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 196 433 463
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £113,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £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 58,000 47,786 67,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36,092 24,542 52,929
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
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 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.15% +8.88% -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 1 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 1 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 -85 265 £85,000 -10.53% 100
London -75 177 £100,000 -4.76% 47
Work from Home -104 119 £100,000 -4.76% 52
UK excluding London -1 90 £70,000 +7.69% 67
North of England -18 30 £85,000 +47.83% 22
North West +27 26 £85,000 +25.93% 13
Midlands +21 22 £50,750 -21.92% 14
East of England +23 16 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South East +29 14 £65,000 +10.64% 16
West Midlands +41 13 £50,000 -2.44% 13
East Midlands -10 9 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland +2 6 - - 1
South West 0 5 £72,500 +20.83% 8
North East -4 2 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire -27 2 £67,500 +31.71% 8

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 283 (100.00%) AWS
2 133 (47.00%) Python
3 101 (35.69%) CI/CD
4 86 (30.39%) DevOps
5 78 (27.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (27.56%) Terraform
6 77 (27.21%) Software Engineering
7 68 (24.03%) Java
8 67 (23.67%) Serverless
9 60 (21.20%) Agile
10 57 (20.14%) TypeScript
11 50 (17.67%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (17.31%) Azure
13 45 (15.90%) Kubernetes
14 43 (15.19%) Platform Engineering
15 42 (14.84%) Apache Iceberg
15 42 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (14.84%) SaaS
16 41 (14.49%) Amazon S3
17 40 (14.13%) Observability
18 39 (13.78%) Amazon Athena
18 39 (13.78%) Amazon EKS
18 39 (13.78%) JavaScript
19 38 (13.43%) Amazon RDS
19 38 (13.43%) Apache Airflow
19 38 (13.43%) Investment Management
20 35 (12.37%) AWS CloudFormation
20 35 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 35 (12.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 34 (12.01%) Asset 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 38 (13.43%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (9.54%) Apache
3 19 (6.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 283 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (23.67%) Serverless
3 50 (17.67%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (17.31%) Azure
5 42 (14.84%) SaaS
6 41 (14.49%) Amazon S3
7 39 (13.78%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (12.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (12.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 33 (11.66%) dbt
10 29 (10.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 29 (10.25%) GCP
11 24 (8.48%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (8.48%) GitHub
12 20 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (6.36%) Amazon Kinesis
13 18 (6.36%) AWS Step Functions
14 17 (6.01%) Snowflake
15 14 (4.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.77%) Firewall
2 19 (6.71%) LAN
2 19 (6.71%) WAN
2 19 (6.71%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (6.36%) Cisco ASA
3 18 (6.36%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (4.59%) VPN
5 11 (3.89%) BGP
6 6 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.12%) VLAN
7 5 (1.77%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (1.77%) IPsec
7 5 (1.77%) MPLS
7 5 (1.77%) NetScaler
7 5 (1.77%) NX-OS
7 5 (1.77%) OSPF
7 5 (1.77%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.77%) VXLAN
7 5 (1.77%) WLAN
8 2 (0.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.84%) Apache Iceberg
2 39 (13.78%) Amazon Athena
3 38 (13.43%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (11.31%) Apache Arrow
4 32 (11.31%) Dremio
5 25 (8.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 25 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (7.07%) Data Lake
8 15 (5.30%) Apache Ignite
9 11 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.89%) MySQL
10 9 (3.18%) Big Data
10 9 (3.18%) DynamoDB
10 9 (3.18%) Hadoop
11 8 (2.83%) Apache Hive
12 7 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.12%) Flink
13 6 (2.12%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.36%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.24%) Git
3 9 (3.18%) GitLab
4 5 (1.77%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.06%) NUnit
6 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.71%) Deequ
6 2 (0.71%) Gradle
6 2 (0.71%) Maven
6 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (35.69%) Finance
2 41 (14.49%) Banking
3 38 (13.43%) Front Office
4 32 (11.31%) Social Skills
5 23 (8.13%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.07%) Financial Institution
6 20 (7.07%) Law
7 12 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.24%) Retail
8 11 (3.89%) Back Office
8 11 (3.89%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.77%) Games
10 5 (1.77%) Legal
10 5 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.41%) Advertising
12 3 (1.06%) Billing
13 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.31%) NumPy
1 32 (11.31%) Pandas
1 32 (11.31%) SciPy
2 30 (10.60%) React
3 29 (10.25%) Node.js
4 20 (7.07%) Kafka
5 17 (6.01%) AngularJS
5 17 (6.01%) Vue
6 16 (5.65%) .NET
7 15 (5.30%) gRPC
7 15 (5.30%) Protocol Buffers
8 14 (4.95%) PySpark
9 13 (4.59%) AWS CDK
10 12 (4.24%) RESTful
11 9 (3.18%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.18%) REST
12 8 (2.83%) boto
12 8 (2.83%) OAuth
12 8 (2.83%) Spark Streaming
13 7 (2.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 38 (13.43%) Fixed Income
3 32 (11.31%) Equities
4 28 (9.89%) Cloud Native
4 28 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (9.54%) Data Centre
6 26 (9.19%) Hedge funds
7 15 (5.30%) Derivative
7 15 (5.30%) Pricing Data
8 14 (4.95%) Management Information System
9 12 (4.24%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.83%) Blog
11 8 (2.83%) e-Learning
11 8 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
14 3 (1.06%) Clustering
14 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 3 (1.06%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.13%) Linux
2 11 (3.89%) Unix
3 5 (1.77%) Windows
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (35.69%) CI/CD
2 86 (30.39%) DevOps
3 78 (27.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (27.21%) Software Engineering
5 60 (21.20%) Agile
6 43 (15.19%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (14.13%) Observability
9 38 (13.43%) Investment Management
10 35 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 34 (12.01%) Asset Management
12 31 (10.95%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (10.60%) Data Engineering
14 29 (10.25%) ETL
15 28 (9.89%) Cloud Security
16 27 (9.54%) High Availability
17 26 (9.19%) Computer Science
18 25 (8.83%) Fintech
19 22 (7.77%) Process Improvement
20 21 (7.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 133 (47.00%) Python
2 68 (24.03%) Java
3 57 (20.14%) TypeScript
4 39 (13.78%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.25%) Bash
6 28 (9.89%) SQL
7 22 (7.77%) C#
8 12 (4.24%) Go
9 10 (3.53%) Scala
10 7 (2.47%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.06%) Bicep
11 3 (1.06%) Rust
12 2 (0.71%) C
13 1 (0.35%) Groovy
13 1 (0.35%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (11.66%) Degree
2 29 (10.25%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (7.42%) AWS Certification
5 19 (6.71%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.95%) CCNP
6 14 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.59%) CCIE
7 13 (4.59%) CCNA
7 13 (4.59%) CCSA
7 13 (4.59%) CCSE
8 9 (3.18%) CISSP
9 8 (2.83%) CCSK
10 6 (2.12%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.89%) GDPR
2 11 (3.89%) PCI DSS
2 11 (3.89%) SOC 2
3 9 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.47%) QA
5 5 (1.77%) NIST
6 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (10.60%) Docker
2 8 (2.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 78 (27.56%) Terraform
2 45 (15.90%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.07%) Grafana
4 16 (5.65%) Ansible
5 13 (4.59%) FortiGate
6 10 (3.53%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.47%) Argo
8 2 (0.71%) Kibana
8 2 (0.71%) logstash
8 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (8.13%) Cisco
2 18 (6.36%) CheckPoint
2 18 (6.36%) Fortinet
3 11 (3.89%) Databricks
4 10 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.53%) SolarWinds
5 8 (2.83%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.83%) Google
6 5 (1.77%) Meraki
6 5 (1.77%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.41%) Informatica
7 4 (1.41%) Talend
8 3 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.06%) SAP
9 2 (0.71%) Okta
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle
9 2 (0.71%) Pega
9 2 (0.71%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.71%) Salesforce