AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 253 311
Rank change year-on-year -114 +58 +87
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 381 496 818
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.21% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.34% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 286 443 514
10th Percentile £50,375 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £76,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £111,875
90th Percentile £102,875 £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 71,222 36,907 83,204
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 90.09% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,433 22,994 62,996
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £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 £79,648 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
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 26 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 26 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 -92 363 £75,000 -28.57% 95
London -82 207 £90,000 -18.18% 39
UK excluding London -12 157 £70,000 +10.67% 71
Work from Home -147 116 £90,000 -16.28% 46
North of England -53 48 £68,750 +14.58% 27
North West -12 42 £70,000 +5.50% 20
Midlands -22 32 £63,750 -1.92% 10
South West -9 28 £75,000 +30.43% 7
West Midlands +16 25 £62,500 +21.95% 8
South East -19 25 £63,750 +3.24% 21
East of England -13 20 £75,000 +16.28% 4
East Midlands -47 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland -24 4 - - 2
North East -26 3 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Yorkshire -57 3 £66,250 +26.19% 5

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 381 (100.00%) AWS
2 151 (39.63%) Python
3 132 (34.65%) DevOps
4 113 (29.66%) Terraform
5 108 (28.35%) CI/CD
6 100 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 83 (21.78%) Azure
8 68 (17.85%) Serverless
9 62 (16.27%) Software Engineering
10 61 (16.01%) Amazon S3
11 58 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
12 56 (14.70%) Kubernetes
13 54 (14.17%) SaaS
14 53 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
15 48 (12.60%) Java
16 47 (12.34%) Degree
17 46 (12.07%) Security Cleared
18 45 (11.81%) AWS Lambda
18 45 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (11.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 43 (11.29%) Observability
19 43 (11.29%) SQL
20 42 (11.02%) Agile
20 42 (11.02%) Docker
21 41 (10.76%) ETL
22 40 (10.50%) Bash
23 39 (10.24%) High Availability
23 39 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 37 (9.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 36 (9.45%) Cloud Security

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 23 (6.04%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.25%) Apache
3 14 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.79%) SAS
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 381 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (21.78%) Azure
3 68 (17.85%) Serverless
4 61 (16.01%) Amazon S3
5 54 (14.17%) SaaS
6 53 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (11.81%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (11.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 37 (9.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 34 (8.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (8.14%) GCP
11 28 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (7.35%) GitHub
12 23 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (3.67%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (3.41%) PaaS
17 12 (3.15%) Amazon EMR
17 12 (3.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.56%) Firewall
2 20 (5.25%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (5.25%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (5.25%) LAN
2 20 (5.25%) WAN
2 20 (5.25%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.15%) BGP
3 12 (3.15%) VPN
4 7 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.57%) VLAN
6 5 (1.31%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.31%) IPsec
6 5 (1.31%) MPLS
6 5 (1.31%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.31%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.31%) OSPF
6 5 (1.31%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.31%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.31%) WLAN
7 3 (0.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.66%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (7.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (4.72%) Apache Iceberg
4 17 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (3.67%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.41%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.41%) MySQL
9 12 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (2.10%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.57%) Flink
12 6 (1.57%) Metadata
12 6 (1.57%) Pentaho
13 4 (1.05%) Apache Arrow
13 4 (1.05%) Apache Ignite
13 4 (1.05%) Big Data
13 4 (1.05%) Dremio
13 4 (1.05%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (6.30%) Git
2 22 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.67%) GitLab
4 7 (1.84%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.31%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.79%) NUnit
7 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.52%) Deequ
7 2 (0.52%) JIRA
7 2 (0.52%) JMeter
7 2 (0.52%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.26%) Gatling
8 1 (0.26%) git-flow
8 1 (0.26%) Gradle
8 1 (0.26%) Postman
8 1 (0.26%) Selenium
8 1 (0.26%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 88 (23.10%) Finance
2 56 (14.70%) Banking
3 40 (10.50%) Social Skills
4 25 (6.56%) Law
5 18 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.94%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.67%) Retail
8 13 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.15%) Back Office
9 12 (3.15%) Retail Banking
10 11 (2.89%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.62%) Front Office
12 6 (1.57%) Advertising
12 6 (1.57%) Games
13 5 (1.31%) Legal
14 4 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.79%) Billing
16 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.19%) Kafka
2 14 (3.67%) .NET
3 13 (3.41%) PySpark
4 12 (3.15%) React
5 11 (2.89%) AWS CDK
5 11 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.89%) REST
6 10 (2.62%) .NET Core
6 10 (2.62%) Node.js
7 9 (2.36%) OAuth
7 9 (2.36%) RESTful
8 8 (2.10%) Spring
9 7 (1.84%) JWT
9 7 (1.84%) Loki
9 7 (1.84%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.31%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.05%) gRPC
11 4 (1.05%) Pandas
11 4 (1.05%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (1.05%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.96%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.61%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (4.72%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.20%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.41%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.62%) Fixed Income
8 10 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.36%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.36%) Blog
10 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.31%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.05%) Derivative
11 4 (1.05%) Equities
11 4 (1.05%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.05%) Pricing Data
12 3 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.77%) Linux
2 12 (3.15%) Unix
3 4 (1.05%) Windows
4 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (34.65%) DevOps
2 108 (28.35%) CI/CD
3 100 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (16.27%) Software Engineering
5 58 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
6 45 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (11.29%) Observability
8 42 (11.02%) Agile
9 41 (10.76%) ETL
10 39 (10.24%) High Availability
10 39 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (9.45%) Cloud Security
12 34 (8.92%) Computer Science
13 33 (8.66%) Data Engineering
13 33 (8.66%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (8.40%) Containerisation
15 31 (8.14%) Analytics
16 29 (7.61%) AI
17 26 (6.82%) Mentoring
17 26 (6.82%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 151 (39.63%) Python
2 48 (12.60%) Java
3 43 (11.29%) SQL
4 40 (10.50%) Bash
5 27 (7.09%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.04%) Go
7 21 (5.51%) C#
8 12 (3.15%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.10%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.05%) Scala
11 3 (0.79%) Bicep
11 3 (0.79%) C++
11 3 (0.79%) PHP
12 1 (0.26%) C
12 1 (0.26%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (12.34%) Degree
2 46 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (8.14%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.94%) CCIE
6 15 (3.94%) CCNA
6 15 (3.94%) CCNP
6 15 (3.94%) CCSA
6 15 (3.94%) CCSE
6 15 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.15%) CISSP
8 11 (2.89%) CCSK
9 8 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.25%) SOC 2
2 19 (4.99%) PCI DSS
3 17 (4.46%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.67%) GDPR
5 11 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.36%) QA
7 8 (2.10%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.57%) NIST
9 4 (1.05%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.26%) NCSC
10 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (11.02%) Docker
2 8 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.79%) HDFS
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 113 (29.66%) Terraform
2 56 (14.70%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.56%) Grafana
4 19 (4.99%) Ansible
5 18 (4.72%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.94%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.36%) Argo
7 9 (2.36%) Istio
8 2 (0.52%) Kibana
8 2 (0.52%) logstash
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) Consul
9 1 (0.26%) Packer
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (6.30%) Cisco
2 20 (5.25%) CheckPoint
2 20 (5.25%) Fortinet
3 13 (3.41%) Google
4 12 (3.15%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.89%) Microsoft
6 10 (2.62%) SolarWinds
7 9 (2.36%) Databricks
8 8 (2.10%) Confluent
8 8 (2.10%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.10%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.57%) Informatica
9 6 (1.57%) Talend
10 5 (1.31%) Meraki
10 5 (1.31%) SAP
11 4 (1.05%) Pega
11 4 (1.05%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.79%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (0.52%) Okta
13 2 (0.52%) Ping Identity