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 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 302 307
Rank change year-on-year -90 +5 +59
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 284 503 612
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.95% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.03% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 200 434 448
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 £115,000 £118,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 56,751 49,013 62,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 92.29% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,238 25,292 48,562
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £29,750
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% -8.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.75% +6.10% -5.66%

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 24 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 24 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 -74 267 £90,000 -5.26% 141
London -71 183 £100,000 -4.76% 53
Work from Home -92 125 £105,000 - 62
UK excluding London +13 86 £65,000 - 110
North of England -2 29 £85,000 +34.55% 31
North West +22 25 £85,000 +25.93% 16
Midlands +21 21 £50,000 -23.08% 14
East of England +26 16 £75,000 +15.38% 12
West Midlands +46 13 £50,000 -2.44% 8
South East +30 13 £65,000 +18.18% 29
East Midlands -7 8 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Scotland -5 6 - - 1
South West +1 4 £72,500 +11.54% 20
North East -2 2 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire -33 2 £67,500 +31.71% 14

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 284 (100.00%) AWS
2 139 (48.94%) Python
3 99 (34.86%) CI/CD
4 88 (30.99%) Software Engineering
5 85 (29.93%) DevOps
6 76 (26.76%) Terraform
7 74 (26.06%) Java
8 72 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (25.00%) Agile
10 67 (23.59%) TypeScript
11 63 (22.18%) Serverless
12 53 (18.66%) Apache Iceberg
13 52 (18.31%) Azure
14 50 (17.61%) Amazon Athena
14 50 (17.61%) JavaScript
15 49 (17.25%) Investment Management
16 48 (16.90%) Apache Airflow
17 47 (16.55%) AWS Lambda
18 44 (15.49%) Asset Management
18 44 (15.49%) dbt
19 43 (15.14%) Apache Arrow
19 43 (15.14%) Dremio
19 43 (15.14%) Kubernetes
19 43 (15.14%) NumPy
19 43 (15.14%) Pandas
19 43 (15.14%) SciPy
20 41 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
21 39 (13.73%) Amazon S3
21 39 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
21 39 (13.73%) SaaS

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 48 (16.90%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (11.97%) Apache
3 18 (6.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
4 2 (0.70%) nginx
4 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 284 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (22.18%) Serverless
3 52 (18.31%) Azure
4 47 (16.55%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (15.49%) dbt
6 39 (13.73%) Amazon S3
6 39 (13.73%) SaaS
7 35 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (11.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (11.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 31 (10.92%) GCP
11 29 (10.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (8.80%) Snowflake
13 23 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (8.10%) GitHub
14 19 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (6.34%) AWS Step Functions
16 17 (5.99%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (4.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.10%) Firewall
2 19 (6.69%) LAN
2 19 (6.69%) WAN
2 19 (6.69%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (5.99%) Cisco ASA
3 17 (5.99%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (4.23%) VPN
5 10 (3.52%) BGP
6 5 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.76%) DNS
6 5 (1.76%) IPsec
6 5 (1.76%) MPLS
6 5 (1.76%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.76%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.76%) OSPF
6 5 (1.76%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.76%) VLAN
6 5 (1.76%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.66%) Apache Iceberg
2 50 (17.61%) Amazon Athena
3 43 (15.14%) Apache Arrow
3 43 (15.14%) Dremio
4 37 (13.03%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (9.86%) Data Lake
7 24 (8.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (8.10%) Apache Ignite
9 21 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (4.58%) MySQL
11 12 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.17%) Big Data
12 9 (3.17%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.82%) Apache Hive
13 8 (2.82%) DynamoDB
14 6 (2.11%) Flink
14 6 (2.11%) NoSQL
14 6 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (7.04%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.58%) Git
3 8 (2.82%) GitLab
4 5 (1.76%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.06%) JIRA
5 3 (1.06%) NUnit
6 2 (0.70%) Deequ
6 2 (0.70%) Gradle
6 2 (0.70%) Maven
6 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.70%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (37.68%) Finance
2 49 (17.25%) Front Office
3 47 (16.55%) Banking
4 32 (11.27%) Social Skills
5 31 (10.92%) Investment Banking
6 18 (6.34%) Financial Institution
6 18 (6.34%) Law
7 12 (4.23%) Retail
8 11 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.17%) Back Office
10 8 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (2.46%) Games
12 5 (1.76%) Legal
12 5 (1.76%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.41%) Advertising
14 3 (1.06%) Billing
15 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.14%) NumPy
1 43 (15.14%) Pandas
1 43 (15.14%) SciPy
2 32 (11.27%) React
3 31 (10.92%) Node.js
4 23 (8.10%) gRPC
4 23 (8.10%) Protocol Buffers
5 20 (7.04%) AngularJS
5 20 (7.04%) Vue
6 19 (6.69%) Kafka
7 17 (5.99%) .NET
8 14 (4.93%) AWS CDK
9 13 (4.58%) PySpark
10 11 (3.87%) RESTful
11 9 (3.17%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.17%) REST
12 8 (2.82%) boto
12 8 (2.82%) OAuth
12 8 (2.82%) Spark Streaming
13 7 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 49 (17.25%) Fixed Income
3 43 (15.14%) Equities
4 33 (11.62%) Hedge funds
5 26 (9.15%) Data Centre
5 26 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (8.80%) Cloud Native
7 23 (8.10%) Derivative
7 23 (8.10%) Pricing Data
8 13 (4.58%) Management Information System
9 11 (3.87%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.82%) e-Learning
12 7 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (2.11%) Blog
13 6 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.41%) Low-Code
15 3 (1.06%) Clustering
15 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.10%) Linux
2 10 (3.52%) Unix
3 7 (2.46%) Windows
4 2 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.70%) VMS
4 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (34.86%) CI/CD
2 88 (30.99%) Software Engineering
3 85 (29.93%) DevOps
4 72 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (25.00%) Agile
6 49 (17.25%) Investment Management
7 44 (15.49%) Asset Management
8 41 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (12.68%) Observability
11 32 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 29 (10.21%) Data Pipeline
13 28 (9.86%) Cloud Security
13 28 (9.86%) Data Engineering
13 28 (9.86%) Fintech
14 27 (9.51%) ETL
15 24 (8.45%) Computer Science
15 24 (8.45%) High Availability
16 22 (7.75%) Risk Management
17 21 (7.39%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 139 (48.94%) Python
2 74 (26.06%) Java
3 67 (23.59%) TypeScript
4 50 (17.61%) JavaScript
5 30 (10.56%) SQL
6 27 (9.51%) Bash
7 23 (8.10%) C#
8 11 (3.87%) Go
9 10 (3.52%) Scala
10 9 (3.17%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.06%) Bicep
11 3 (1.06%) Groovy
11 3 (1.06%) Rust
12 2 (0.70%) C
13 1 (0.35%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (11.27%) Degree
2 27 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (7.39%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.34%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.93%) CCNP
6 14 (4.93%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.23%) CCIE
7 12 (4.23%) CCNA
7 12 (4.23%) CCSA
7 12 (4.23%) CCSE
8 8 (2.82%) CISSP
9 7 (2.46%) CCSK
10 6 (2.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.58%) GDPR
3 9 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 9 (3.17%) SOC 2
4 7 (2.46%) QA
5 5 (1.76%) NIST
6 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (11.27%) Docker
2 8 (2.82%) HDFS
3 2 (0.70%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.70%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.70%) Postfix
3 2 (0.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 76 (26.76%) Terraform
2 43 (15.14%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.39%) Grafana
4 17 (5.99%) Ansible
5 12 (4.23%) FortiGate
6 11 (3.87%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.46%) Argo
8 2 (0.70%) Kibana
8 2 (0.70%) logstash
8 2 (0.70%) Nessus
8 2 (0.70%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (8.10%) Cisco
2 17 (5.99%) CheckPoint
2 17 (5.99%) Fortinet
3 14 (4.93%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.87%) Databricks
5 10 (3.52%) SolarWinds
6 8 (2.82%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.46%) Google
8 5 (1.76%) Meraki
8 5 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.06%) Informatica
9 3 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.06%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.06%) SAP
9 3 (1.06%) Talend
10 2 (0.70%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.70%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.70%) OpenText
10 2 (0.70%) Pega
10 2 (0.70%) Salesforce