AWS Engineer Jobs

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 294 345
Rank change year-on-year -36 +51 +53
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 466 1,012 883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.91% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.95% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 366 662 770
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £135,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,720 106,014 82,989
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.74% 94.81% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,910 74,937 54,295
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,734 £44,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 16 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 22 June 2025. 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 +20 433 £110,000 +29.41% 601
London +60 344 £110,000 +4.76% 329
Work from Home +13 286 £110,000 +22.22% 412
UK excluding London -129 104 £65,000 -3.70% 339
North of England +5 32 £65,000 - 107
North West -7 28 £67,500 +8.00% 75
Scotland -58 21 £100,000 +66.67% 17
Midlands +59 19 £72,500 +3.57% 34
West Midlands +54 16 £72,500 - 16
South East +41 14 £61,000 -6.15% 127
East of England +39 9 £65,000 -13.33% 20
South West +75 6 £77,500 +3.33% 24
North East +32 3 £65,000 -13.33% 7
East Midlands +21 3 £60,000 +4.35% 18
Wales - 3 £60,000 - 6
Yorkshire +52 1 - - 25

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 466 (100.00%) AWS
2 333 (71.46%) Python
3 319 (68.45%) Finance
4 316 (67.81%) Software Engineering
5 301 (64.59%) Agile
6 253 (54.29%) Amazon Athena
7 233 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 227 (48.71%) Asset Management
8 227 (48.71%) Apache Airflow
9 226 (48.50%) dbt
10 225 (48.28%) Dremio
11 224 (48.07%) Apache Arrow
11 224 (48.07%) Front Office
12 218 (46.78%) Java
13 176 (37.77%) DevOps
13 176 (37.77%) Fixed Income
14 171 (36.70%) TypeScript
15 164 (35.19%) Equities
16 163 (34.98%) Apache
17 161 (34.55%) CI/CD
18 160 (34.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 159 (34.12%) Terraform
20 158 (33.91%) JavaScript
21 156 (33.48%) Banking
22 149 (31.97%) Investment Management
23 144 (30.90%) SciPy
23 144 (30.90%) NumPy
23 144 (30.90%) Pandas
24 126 (27.04%) Kubernetes
25 119 (25.54%) Apache Ignite

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 227 (48.71%) Apache Airflow
2 163 (34.98%) Apache
3 62 (13.30%) Apache Spark
4 16 (3.43%) Confluence
5 5 (1.07%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) IIS
6 1 (0.21%) JBoss
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 466 (100.00%) AWS
2 226 (48.50%) dbt
3 115 (24.68%) GCP
4 110 (23.61%) Serverless
5 100 (21.46%) AWS Lambda
6 99 (21.24%) Snowflake
7 78 (16.74%) Amazon ECS
8 63 (13.52%) Amazon S3
9 61 (13.09%) Amazon EC2
10 55 (11.80%) OpenShift
11 45 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 38 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (7.94%) Azure
14 33 (7.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (4.29%) AWS KMS
16 17 (3.65%) SaaS
17 14 (3.00%) Amazon ELB
17 14 (3.00%) GitHub
18 11 (2.36%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.08%) Firewall
2 13 (2.79%) DNS
3 10 (2.15%) VPN
4 7 (1.50%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.07%) BGP
5 5 (1.07%) FTP
5 5 (1.07%) HTTP
5 5 (1.07%) OSPF
5 5 (1.07%) SMTP
5 5 (1.07%) SSH
6 4 (0.86%) DHCP
6 4 (0.86%) IMAP
6 4 (0.86%) IPsec
6 4 (0.86%) Network Security
6 4 (0.86%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (0.86%) WAN
7 3 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.64%) NX-OS
7 3 (0.64%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (54.29%) Amazon Athena
2 233 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 225 (48.28%) Dremio
4 224 (48.07%) Apache Arrow
5 119 (25.54%) Apache Ignite
6 89 (19.10%) PostgreSQL
7 72 (15.45%) Data Lake
8 40 (8.58%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (4.51%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.29%) Big Data
12 19 (4.08%) DynamoDB
13 12 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (2.58%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.72%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
17 5 (1.07%) Apache Hudi
17 5 (1.07%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 53 (11.37%) Artifactory
2 43 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.94%) GitLab
4 22 (4.72%) Git
5 21 (4.51%) JIRA
6 16 (3.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (3.00%) Vagrant
8 13 (2.79%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.07%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.07%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.07%) JUnit
9 5 (1.07%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.43%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.43%) Selenium
11 1 (0.21%) Ant
11 1 (0.21%) Maven
11 1 (0.21%) NUnit
11 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 319 (68.45%) Finance
2 224 (48.07%) Front Office
3 156 (33.48%) Banking
4 99 (21.24%) Investment Banking
5 59 (12.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (9.87%) Law
7 40 (8.58%) Social Skills
8 32 (6.87%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.58%) Retail
10 11 (2.36%) Advertising
11 9 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.07%) Marketing
14 4 (0.86%) Games
15 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.64%) Legal
16 1 (0.21%) Electronics
16 1 (0.21%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (30.90%) NumPy
1 144 (30.90%) Pandas
1 144 (30.90%) SciPy
2 104 (22.32%) Node.js
3 99 (21.24%) PySpark
4 94 (20.17%) React
5 83 (17.81%) AngularJS
6 81 (17.38%) Vue
7 75 (16.09%) gRPC
8 74 (15.88%) Kafka
9 71 (15.24%) Protocol Buffers
10 48 (10.30%) J2EE
11 25 (5.36%) REST
12 20 (4.29%) Web Services
13 19 (4.08%) Spring
14 14 (3.00%) AWS CDK
15 11 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (2.36%) Spring Boot
16 10 (2.15%) RESTful
17 8 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 176 (37.77%) Fixed Income
2 164 (35.19%) Equities
3 160 (34.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 103 (22.10%) Derivative
5 98 (21.03%) Hedge funds
6 52 (11.16%) Pricing Data
7 33 (7.08%) Cloud Native
8 22 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (3.86%) Algorithms
10 16 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (3.22%) e-Learning
12 13 (2.79%) Public Cloud
12 13 (2.79%) Replication
13 8 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.72%) Equity Derivative
14 6 (1.29%) Product Ownership
15 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
16 4 (0.86%) Blockchain
16 4 (0.86%) Web3
17 3 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.37%) Linux
2 23 (4.94%) Windows
3 15 (3.22%) VMS
4 9 (1.93%) Unix
5 7 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.07%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.64%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
9 1 (0.21%) Android
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (67.81%) Software Engineering
2 301 (64.59%) Agile
3 227 (48.71%) Asset Management
4 176 (37.77%) DevOps
5 161 (34.55%) CI/CD
6 149 (31.97%) Investment Management
7 84 (18.03%) Fintech
8 81 (17.38%) Performance Attribution
9 78 (16.74%) Risk Management
10 76 (16.31%) Order Management
11 74 (15.88%) Infrastructure as Code
12 65 (13.95%) Data Engineering
13 62 (13.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 61 (13.09%) Open Source
15 49 (10.52%) Artificial Intelligence
16 46 (9.87%) Containerisation
16 46 (9.87%) Mentoring
17 41 (8.80%) Cloud Security
18 39 (8.37%) SDLC
19 37 (7.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 333 (71.46%) Python
2 218 (46.78%) Java
3 171 (36.70%) TypeScript
4 158 (33.91%) JavaScript
5 75 (16.09%) Go
6 59 (12.66%) SQL
7 24 (5.15%) Bash
8 21 (4.51%) PowerShell
9 20 (4.29%) Groovy
10 14 (3.00%) Scala
11 11 (2.36%) C#
12 8 (1.72%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.50%) PHP
14 6 (1.29%) Perl
15 4 (0.86%) Ruby
15 4 (0.86%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.43%) C
17 1 (0.21%) C++
17 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 40 (8.58%) Security Cleared
2 32 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.51%) Degree
4 18 (3.86%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.07%) CCNP
8 4 (0.86%) CCNA
9 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.64%) CCIE
9 3 (0.64%) CCSA
9 3 (0.64%) CCSE
10 2 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.21%) CCSK
11 1 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.79%) QA
2 4 (0.86%) GDPR
3 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) MiFID
5 1 (0.21%) NIST
5 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (25.11%) Docker
2 15 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.79%) DFS Replication
4 6 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.86%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.86%) Postfix
5 4 (0.86%) Squid
6 3 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (34.12%) Terraform
2 126 (27.04%) Kubernetes
3 45 (9.66%) Ansible
4 41 (8.80%) Grafana
5 35 (7.51%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.50%) Istio
7 4 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.86%) Nessus
7 4 (0.86%) Packer
7 4 (0.86%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.43%) Argo
8 2 (0.43%) Kibana
8 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.21%) Consul
9 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.21%) linkerd
9 1 (0.21%) logstash
9 1 (0.21%) Podman
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (4.29%) IBM
2 18 (3.86%) ServiceNow
3 15 (3.22%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.58%) Ping Identity
5 10 (2.15%) Juniper
6 9 (1.93%) Google
7 7 (1.50%) Cisco
7 7 (1.50%) Databricks
7 7 (1.50%) Splunk
7 7 (1.50%) VMware
8 6 (1.29%) Confluent
8 6 (1.29%) Facebook
9 5 (1.07%) Citrix
9 5 (1.07%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.07%) Microsoft
10 4 (0.86%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.86%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (0.86%) Meraki
11 3 (0.64%) Atlassian