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 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 304 308
Rank change year-on-year -85 +4 +63
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 288 492 640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.95% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.03% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 200 428 462
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £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 £115,000
90th Percentile £135,250 £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 57,953 47,926 66,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 92.23% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 36,028 24,691 52,048
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £29,000
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 £79,535 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 31 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 31 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 -99 270 £85,000 -10.53% 102
London -75 181 £100,000 -4.76% 52
Work from Home -101 122 £100,000 -4.76% 47
UK excluding London +25 91 £70,000 +7.69% 64
North of England -17 30 £85,000 +47.83% 22
North West +20 26 £85,000 +25.93% 13
Midlands +22 23 £50,750 -21.92% 9
East of England +27 16 £75,000 +15.38% 6
West Midlands +35 14 £50,000 -2.44% 9
South East +26 14 £65,000 +10.64% 18
East Midlands -8 9 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland -1 6 - - 1
South West +1 5 £72,500 +20.83% 8
North East -3 2 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire -23 2 £67,500 +31.71% 8

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 288 (100.00%) AWS
2 138 (47.92%) Python
3 103 (35.76%) CI/CD
4 88 (30.56%) DevOps
5 82 (28.47%) Software Engineering
6 79 (27.43%) Terraform
7 78 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 72 (25.00%) Java
9 67 (23.26%) Serverless
10 65 (22.57%) Agile
11 61 (21.18%) TypeScript
12 50 (17.36%) AWS Lambda
12 50 (17.36%) Azure
13 46 (15.97%) Apache Iceberg
14 45 (15.63%) Kubernetes
15 43 (14.93%) Amazon Athena
15 43 (14.93%) JavaScript
15 43 (14.93%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (14.58%) Amazon S3
16 42 (14.58%) Apache Airflow
16 42 (14.58%) Investment Management
16 42 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (14.58%) SaaS
17 40 (13.89%) Observability
18 39 (13.54%) Amazon EKS
18 39 (13.54%) Amazon RDS
19 38 (13.19%) Asset Management
20 37 (12.85%) dbt
21 36 (12.50%) Apache Arrow
21 36 (12.50%) Dremio

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 42 (14.58%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (10.76%) Apache
3 19 (6.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 288 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (23.26%) Serverless
3 50 (17.36%) AWS Lambda
3 50 (17.36%) Azure
4 42 (14.58%) Amazon S3
4 42 (14.58%) SaaS
5 39 (13.54%) Amazon EKS
6 37 (12.85%) dbt
7 36 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 35 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 29 (10.07%) GCP
11 25 (8.68%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (8.33%) GitHub
13 21 (7.29%) Snowflake
14 20 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
16 18 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (4.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.99%) Firewall
2 19 (6.60%) LAN
2 19 (6.60%) WAN
2 19 (6.60%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
3 18 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (4.51%) VPN
5 11 (3.82%) BGP
6 6 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.08%) VLAN
7 5 (1.74%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (1.74%) IPsec
7 5 (1.74%) MPLS
7 5 (1.74%) NetScaler
7 5 (1.74%) NX-OS
7 5 (1.74%) OSPF
7 5 (1.74%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.74%) VXLAN
7 5 (1.74%) WLAN
8 3 (1.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (15.97%) Apache Iceberg
2 43 (14.93%) Amazon Athena
3 39 (13.54%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (12.50%) Apache Arrow
4 36 (12.50%) Dremio
5 26 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (8.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (8.33%) Data Lake
8 22 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (6.60%) Apache Ignite
10 12 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (3.82%) MySQL
12 9 (3.13%) Big Data
12 9 (3.13%) DynamoDB
12 9 (3.13%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.78%) Apache Hive
14 7 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (2.08%) Flink
15 6 (2.08%) NoSQL
16 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.51%) Git
3 9 (3.13%) GitLab
4 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.04%) NUnit
6 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.69%) Deequ
6 2 (0.69%) Gradle
6 2 (0.69%) JIRA
6 2 (0.69%) Maven
6 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 105 (36.46%) Finance
2 45 (15.63%) Banking
3 42 (14.58%) Front Office
4 33 (11.46%) Social Skills
5 27 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 20 (6.94%) Financial Institution
6 20 (6.94%) Law
7 13 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.17%) Retail
9 11 (3.82%) Back Office
10 7 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.74%) Games
11 5 (1.74%) Legal
11 5 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.39%) Advertising
13 3 (1.04%) Billing
14 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.50%) NumPy
1 36 (12.50%) Pandas
1 36 (12.50%) SciPy
2 30 (10.42%) React
3 29 (10.07%) Node.js
4 20 (6.94%) Kafka
5 19 (6.60%) gRPC
5 19 (6.60%) Protocol Buffers
6 17 (5.90%) .NET
6 17 (5.90%) AngularJS
6 17 (5.90%) Vue
7 14 (4.86%) PySpark
8 13 (4.51%) AWS CDK
9 12 (4.17%) RESTful
10 9 (3.13%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.13%) REST
11 8 (2.78%) boto
11 8 (2.78%) OAuth
11 8 (2.78%) Spark Streaming
12 7 (2.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (14.58%) Fixed Income
3 36 (12.50%) Equities
4 30 (10.42%) Hedge funds
5 29 (10.07%) Cloud Native
6 28 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (9.38%) Data Centre
8 19 (6.60%) Derivative
8 19 (6.60%) Pricing Data
9 14 (4.86%) Management Information System
10 12 (4.17%) Security Posture
11 10 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.78%) Blog
12 8 (2.78%) e-Learning
12 8 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.39%) AI Agents
15 3 (1.04%) Clustering
15 3 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 3 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.33%) Linux
2 11 (3.82%) Unix
3 6 (2.08%) Windows
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (35.76%) CI/CD
2 88 (30.56%) DevOps
3 82 (28.47%) Software Engineering
4 78 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (22.57%) Agile
6 43 (14.93%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (14.58%) Investment Management
7 42 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (13.89%) Observability
9 38 (13.19%) Asset Management
10 35 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (10.42%) Data Engineering
13 29 (10.07%) Cloud Security
13 29 (10.07%) ETL
14 27 (9.38%) High Availability
15 26 (9.03%) Computer Science
16 25 (8.68%) Fintech
17 22 (7.64%) Process Improvement
18 21 (7.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 138 (47.92%) Python
2 72 (25.00%) Java
3 61 (21.18%) TypeScript
4 43 (14.93%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.07%) Bash
5 29 (10.07%) SQL
6 23 (7.99%) C#
7 12 (4.17%) Go
8 10 (3.47%) Scala
9 8 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.04%) Bicep
10 3 (1.04%) Rust
11 2 (0.69%) C
11 2 (0.69%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) PHP
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (11.81%) Degree
2 30 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (7.64%) AWS Certification
5 20 (6.94%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.86%) CCNP
6 14 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.51%) CCIE
7 13 (4.51%) CCNA
7 13 (4.51%) CCSA
7 13 (4.51%) CCSE
8 9 (3.13%) CISSP
9 8 (2.78%) CCSK
10 6 (2.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.39%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.82%) GDPR
2 11 (3.82%) PCI DSS
2 11 (3.82%) SOC 2
3 9 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.43%) QA
5 5 (1.74%) NIST
6 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.04%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (10.76%) Docker
2 8 (2.78%) HDFS
3 1 (0.35%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.35%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.35%) Postfix
3 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 79 (27.43%) Terraform
2 45 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.29%) Grafana
4 16 (5.56%) Ansible
5 13 (4.51%) FortiGate
6 11 (3.82%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.43%) Argo
8 2 (0.69%) Kibana
8 2 (0.69%) logstash
8 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Nessus
9 1 (0.35%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (7.99%) Cisco
2 18 (6.25%) CheckPoint
2 18 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 11 (3.82%) Databricks
3 11 (3.82%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.47%) SolarWinds
5 8 (2.78%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.78%) Google
6 5 (1.74%) Meraki
6 5 (1.74%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.39%) Informatica
7 4 (1.39%) Talend
8 3 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.04%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.04%) SAP
9 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.69%) Okta
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle
9 2 (0.69%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.69%) Salesforce