AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 307 307
Rank change year-on-year -51 0 +77
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 343 589 543
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.87% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.92% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 240 485 478
10th Percentile £61,125 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £77,188 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 45,855 63,874 51,205
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.02% 94.86% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 28,423 35,882 39,632
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,436 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 9 November 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 9 November 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 -55 315 £107,500 +19.44% 277
London -29 245 £110,000 +4.76% 121
Work from Home -57 174 £110,000 +10.00% 208
UK excluding London +32 91 £72,500 +3.57% 206
Midlands +61 28 £72,500 - 4
North of England +26 25 £75,000 +15.38% 99
Scotland +25 25 £100,000 +100.00% 10
North West +28 22 £82,500 +40.43% 75
West Midlands +51 21 £72,500 - 1
South East +2 10 £80,000 +33.33% 77
East Midlands +15 7 £54,000 -16.92% 3
East of England +23 3 £62,500 - 5
Wales +8 2 £57,500 +35.29%
Yorkshire +5 2 £67,500 +3.85% 23
North East +6 1 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South West +6 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, 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.

1 343 (100.00%) AWS
2 238 (69.39%) Python
3 200 (58.31%) Software Engineering
4 183 (53.35%) Agile
5 142 (41.40%) Amazon Athena
6 141 (41.11%) Java
7 134 (39.07%) Apache Iceberg
8 132 (38.48%) JavaScript
9 131 (38.19%) TypeScript
10 126 (36.73%) Apache Airflow
10 126 (36.73%) Investment Management
11 123 (35.86%) Asset Management
12 122 (35.57%) dbt
13 121 (35.28%) Apache Arrow
13 121 (35.28%) Dremio
13 121 (35.28%) NumPy
13 121 (35.28%) Pandas
13 121 (35.28%) SciPy
14 117 (34.11%) CI/CD
15 113 (32.94%) DevOps
16 94 (27.41%) Terraform
17 74 (21.57%) Apache
17 74 (21.57%) GCP
18 73 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
19 70 (20.41%) Node.js
20 67 (19.53%) React
21 66 (19.24%) Data Lake
22 65 (18.95%) Kubernetes
22 65 (18.95%) Snowflake
23 62 (18.08%) Fintech

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
1 126 (36.73%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (21.57%) Apache
3 22 (6.41%) Apache Spark
4 16 (4.66%) Confluence
5 7 (2.04%) nginx
6 4 (1.17%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.87%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 343 (100.00%) AWS
2 122 (35.57%) dbt
3 74 (21.57%) GCP
4 65 (18.95%) Snowflake
5 57 (16.62%) Amazon S3
6 52 (15.16%) Serverless
7 49 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (13.99%) Azure
9 40 (11.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (11.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (9.91%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (9.33%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (8.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 27 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (6.12%) GitHub
16 20 (5.83%) AWS KMS
17 17 (4.96%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (4.37%) Amazon ELB
18 15 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (3.50%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.75%) Firewall
2 15 (4.37%) DNS
3 13 (3.79%) VPN
4 11 (3.21%) LAN
4 11 (3.21%) WAN
5 9 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (2.04%) HTTP
6 7 (2.04%) Network Security
7 6 (1.75%) FTP
7 6 (1.75%) IMAP
7 6 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.75%) SMTP
7 6 (1.75%) SSH
8 5 (1.46%) BGP
8 5 (1.46%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (1.17%) Wireless
10 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.87%) VLAN
11 2 (0.58%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (41.40%) Amazon Athena
2 134 (39.07%) Apache Iceberg
3 121 (35.28%) Apache Arrow
3 121 (35.28%) Dremio
4 73 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (19.24%) Data Lake
6 61 (17.78%) Apache Ignite
7 42 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (8.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (7.29%) Big Data
10 18 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (4.08%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (2.62%) SQL Server
14 8 (2.33%) Apache Hive
14 8 (2.33%) Hadoop
15 7 (2.04%) DynamoDB
16 6 (1.75%) Apache Hudi
16 6 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.87%) Git
3 20 (5.83%) JIRA
4 16 (4.66%) GitLab
5 14 (4.08%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.75%) JUnit
8 5 (1.46%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.17%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.87%) Ant
10 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.87%) Maven
11 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.58%) Selenium
11 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.29%) Deequ
12 1 (0.29%) Gradle
General
1 209 (60.93%) Finance
2 124 (36.15%) Front Office
3 108 (31.49%) Banking
4 65 (18.95%) Investment Banking
5 59 (17.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (14.87%) Law
7 31 (9.04%) Social Skills
8 30 (8.75%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.50%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.04%) Retail
12 6 (1.75%) Legal
13 5 (1.46%) Advertising
14 4 (1.17%) Games
14 4 (1.17%) Marketing
15 3 (0.87%) Back Office
16 1 (0.29%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (35.28%) NumPy
1 121 (35.28%) Pandas
1 121 (35.28%) SciPy
2 70 (20.41%) Node.js
3 67 (19.53%) React
4 61 (17.78%) gRPC
4 61 (17.78%) Protocol Buffers
5 60 (17.49%) AngularJS
5 60 (17.49%) Vue
6 28 (8.16%) Kafka
7 22 (6.41%) Spring
8 16 (4.66%) AWS CDK
9 12 (3.50%) .NET
9 12 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (3.50%) Spark Streaming
9 12 (3.50%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.21%) PySpark
10 11 (3.21%) RESTful
11 10 (2.92%) Web Services
12 8 (2.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 126 (36.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 125 (36.44%) Equities
3 124 (36.15%) Fixed Income
4 69 (20.12%) Derivative
5 61 (17.78%) Hedge funds
5 61 (17.78%) Pricing Data
6 35 (10.20%) Cloud Native
7 31 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (5.83%) e-Learning
9 18 (5.25%) Algorithms
10 14 (4.08%) Data Centre
10 14 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (4.08%) Replication
11 10 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (2.62%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (1.46%) Management Information System
15 4 (1.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
15 4 (1.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.91%) Linux
2 19 (5.54%) Windows
3 15 (4.37%) VMS
4 9 (2.62%) Unix
5 6 (1.75%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (58.31%) Software Engineering
2 183 (53.35%) Agile
3 126 (36.73%) Investment Management
4 123 (35.86%) Asset Management
5 117 (34.11%) CI/CD
6 113 (32.94%) DevOps
7 62 (18.08%) Fintech
8 61 (17.78%) Risk Management
9 60 (17.49%) Order Management
9 60 (17.49%) Performance Attribution
10 58 (16.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 45 (13.12%) AI
12 43 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (12.54%) SDLC
13 36 (10.50%) Machine Learning
13 36 (10.50%) Mentoring
14 33 (9.62%) Containerisation
15 31 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
16 28 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 238 (69.39%) Python
2 141 (41.11%) Java
3 132 (38.48%) JavaScript
4 131 (38.19%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.50%) SQL
6 31 (9.04%) Bash
7 26 (7.58%) PowerShell
8 20 (5.83%) Groovy
9 19 (5.54%) Go
10 18 (5.25%) Scala
11 13 (3.79%) C#
12 9 (2.62%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.87%) Bicep
13 3 (0.87%) C++
13 3 (0.87%) Ruby
13 3 (0.87%) Rust
14 2 (0.58%) C
14 2 (0.58%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (10.50%) Security Cleared
2 31 (9.04%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.12%) Degree
4 17 (4.96%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.21%) CCNP
5 11 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.04%) CCIE
7 7 (2.04%) CCNA
7 7 (2.04%) CCSA
7 7 (2.04%) CCSE
8 6 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.58%) RHCE
10 2 (0.58%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.92%) GDPR
2 9 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.75%) QA
4 5 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (14.87%) Docker
2 14 (4.08%) DFS Replication
3 9 (2.62%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.33%) HDFS
5 6 (1.75%) Dovecot
5 6 (1.75%) Postfix
5 6 (1.75%) Squid
6 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 94 (27.41%) Terraform
2 65 (18.95%) Kubernetes
3 42 (12.24%) Grafana
4 38 (11.08%) Ansible
5 29 (8.45%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.75%) Nessus
6 6 (1.75%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.46%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.17%) Argo
9 3 (0.87%) Podman
9 3 (0.87%) Puppet
10 2 (0.58%) Kibana
10 2 (0.58%) logstash
11 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.29%) Istio
11 1 (0.29%) linkerd
11 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (5.83%) ServiceNow
2 16 (4.66%) Databricks
3 14 (4.08%) Cisco
4 13 (3.79%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.50%) IBM
6 8 (2.33%) Google
6 8 (2.33%) Juniper
7 7 (2.04%) CheckPoint
7 7 (2.04%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.04%) Splunk
8 6 (1.75%) Facebook
8 6 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (1.75%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.46%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.46%) Microsoft
10 3 (0.87%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.87%) Cribl.io
10 3 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.87%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.58%) Ping Identity