AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 March 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 271 318
Rank change year-on-year -103 +47 +74
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 340 511 735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.13% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.24% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 246 452 489
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,688 £76,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £139,875 £138,750
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 66,107 41,309 78,203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 91.04% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 41,939 23,195 60,371
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £43,750 £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 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -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 8 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 8 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 -107 321 £80,000 -23.81% 84
London -83 194 £90,000 -18.18% 33
UK excluding London +17 128 £70,000 +10.67% 59
Work from Home -126 114 £90,000 -14.29% 34
North of England -33 42 £70,000 +21.74% 20
North West +10 38 £70,000 +4.60% 18
Midlands +7 28 £63,750 -1.92% 7
West Midlands +22 19 £50,000 -2.44% 6
East of England +12 19 £75,000 +15.38% 4
South West -5 19 £75,000 +30.43% 12
South East -6 18 £62,500 - 16
East Midlands -23 9 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland -8 4 - -
North East -16 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Yorkshire -47 2 £67,500 +31.71% 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 340 (100.00%) AWS
2 142 (41.76%) Python
3 114 (33.53%) DevOps
4 105 (30.88%) CI/CD
5 100 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 99 (29.12%) Terraform
7 73 (21.47%) Serverless
8 67 (19.71%) Azure
9 65 (19.12%) Software Engineering
10 56 (16.47%) Amazon S3
11 54 (15.88%) Java
12 53 (15.59%) Platform Engineering
13 51 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (14.41%) Kubernetes
14 49 (14.41%) SaaS
15 47 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
16 45 (13.24%) Agile
17 44 (12.94%) Observability
18 43 (12.65%) SQL
19 42 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
19 42 (12.35%) Degree
19 42 (12.35%) ETL
19 42 (12.35%) Security Cleared
20 40 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 39 (11.47%) AWS CloudFormation
22 37 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 37 (10.88%) Data Engineering
22 37 (10.88%) Data Pipeline
22 37 (10.88%) Docker
23 36 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 28 (8.24%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (6.76%) Apache
3 17 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 340 (100.00%) AWS
2 73 (21.47%) Serverless
3 67 (19.71%) Azure
4 56 (16.47%) Amazon S3
5 51 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (14.41%) SaaS
7 42 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
8 40 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (11.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 37 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (7.94%) GCP
12 25 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (7.06%) GitHub
14 21 (6.18%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (5.29%) AWS Step Functions
16 17 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (5.00%) dbt
17 15 (4.41%) PaaS
18 14 (4.12%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.47%) Firewall
2 19 (5.59%) Cisco ASA
2 19 (5.59%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (5.59%) LAN
2 19 (5.59%) WAN
2 19 (5.59%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.53%) VPN
4 11 (3.24%) BGP
5 6 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.76%) VLAN
6 5 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.47%) IPsec
6 5 (1.47%) MPLS
6 5 (1.47%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.47%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.47%) OSPF
6 5 (1.47%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.47%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.47%) WLAN
7 1 (0.29%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 31 (9.12%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (7.65%) Apache Iceberg
4 24 (7.06%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (3.53%) Data Lake
8 12 (3.53%) DynamoDB
8 12 (3.53%) MySQL
9 11 (3.24%) Apache Arrow
9 11 (3.24%) Dremio
10 10 (2.94%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.76%) Apache Ignite
11 6 (1.76%) Flink
11 6 (1.76%) Metadata
12 5 (1.47%) Big Data
12 5 (1.47%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.47%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 21 (6.18%) Jenkins
2 20 (5.88%) Git
3 11 (3.24%) GitLab
4 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.18%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.88%) NUnit
6 2 (0.59%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.59%) Deequ
6 2 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.29%) Gradle
7 1 (0.29%) JIRA
7 1 (0.29%) JUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 89 (26.18%) Finance
2 44 (12.94%) Banking
3 38 (11.18%) Social Skills
4 27 (7.94%) Law
5 17 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 17 (5.00%) Front Office
5 17 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.12%) Retail
8 13 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.53%) Back Office
10 10 (2.94%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.76%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.47%) Advertising
12 5 (1.47%) Games
12 5 (1.47%) Legal
13 3 (0.88%) Billing
13 3 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.65%) Kafka
2 18 (5.29%) React
3 17 (5.00%) PySpark
4 16 (4.71%) Node.js
5 14 (4.12%) .NET
5 14 (4.12%) AWS CDK
6 11 (3.24%) NumPy
6 11 (3.24%) Pandas
6 11 (3.24%) REST
6 11 (3.24%) SciPy
7 10 (2.94%) .NET Core
7 10 (2.94%) RESTful
8 9 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (2.65%) OAuth
9 8 (2.35%) Spring
10 7 (2.06%) JWT
10 7 (2.06%) Loki
10 7 (2.06%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.76%) gRPC
11 6 (1.76%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.24%) Data Centre
3 26 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (5.88%) Hedge funds
6 17 (5.00%) Fixed Income
7 16 (4.71%) Management Information System
8 14 (4.12%) Security Posture
9 11 (3.24%) Equities
10 9 (2.65%) Blog
10 9 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (2.06%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.76%) Derivative
12 6 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.76%) Pricing Data
12 6 (1.76%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.18%) e-Learning
14 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.29%) Linux
2 13 (3.82%) Unix
3 3 (0.88%) Windows
4 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (33.53%) DevOps
2 105 (30.88%) CI/CD
3 100 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (19.12%) Software Engineering
5 53 (15.59%) Platform Engineering
6 47 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (13.24%) Agile
8 44 (12.94%) Observability
9 42 (12.35%) ETL
10 37 (10.88%) Data Engineering
10 37 (10.88%) Data Pipeline
11 36 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 34 (10.00%) High Availability
13 33 (9.71%) Computer Science
14 31 (9.12%) Analytics
14 31 (9.12%) Cloud Security
15 27 (7.94%) AI
16 25 (7.35%) Process Improvement
17 24 (7.06%) Containerisation
17 24 (7.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 142 (41.76%) Python
2 54 (15.88%) Java
3 43 (12.65%) SQL
4 35 (10.29%) Bash
4 35 (10.29%) TypeScript
5 19 (5.59%) C#
5 19 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.29%) Go
7 6 (1.76%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.47%) Scala
9 3 (0.88%) Bicep
10 2 (0.59%) PHP
11 1 (0.29%) C
11 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (12.35%) Degree
1 42 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 29 (8.53%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.18%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.12%) CCIE
4 14 (4.12%) CCNA
4 14 (4.12%) CCNP
4 14 (4.12%) CCSA
4 14 (4.12%) CCSE
4 14 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (3.53%) CISSP
6 11 (3.24%) CCSK
7 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.29%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.71%) PCI DSS
2 16 (4.71%) SOC 2
3 12 (3.53%) GDPR
4 10 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.35%) QA
6 6 (1.76%) NIST
7 4 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (10.88%) Docker
2 4 (1.18%) HDFS
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (29.12%) Terraform
2 49 (14.41%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.06%) Grafana
4 17 (5.00%) Ansible
5 15 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.12%) FortiGate
7 8 (2.35%) Argo
8 3 (0.88%) Istio
9 2 (0.59%) Kibana
9 2 (0.59%) logstash
9 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (6.76%) Cisco
2 19 (5.59%) CheckPoint
2 19 (5.59%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.24%) Google
5 10 (2.94%) Databricks
5 10 (2.94%) SolarWinds
6 9 (2.65%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.35%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.47%) Informatica
8 5 (1.47%) Meraki
8 5 (1.47%) SAP
8 5 (1.47%) Talend
9 4 (1.18%) Pega
9 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.59%) Confluent
11 2 (0.59%) Okta
11 2 (0.59%) Ping Identity