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 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 290 308
Rank change year-on-year -80 +18 +79
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 304 627 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.93% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.98% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 221 525 443
10th Percentile £61,250 £54,050 £52,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +16.13% -6.06%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -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 47,921 63,941 49,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.47% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 30,174 35,998 38,349
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% -

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 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 -75 282 £107,500 +19.44% 50
London -56 220 £110,000 +4.76% 27
Work from Home -53 158 £110,000 +10.00% 26
UK excluding London +22 79 £72,500 +7.41% 41
Midlands +75 26 £72,500 +3.57% 4
North of England +17 23 £82,500 +26.92% 9
Scotland +29 21 £100,000 +100.00% 4
North West +47 20 £85,000 +29.43% 3
West Midlands +70 18 £72,500 - 1
South East +3 9 £63,750 +6.25% 21
East Midlands +27 8 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East of England +26 2 £60,000 -4.00%
Yorkshire -1 2 £67,500 +3.85% 3
North East +13 1 £55,000 -21.43% 3
South West +5 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 304 (100.00%) AWS
2 215 (70.72%) Python
3 169 (55.59%) Software Engineering
4 158 (51.97%) Agile
5 127 (41.78%) Java
6 122 (40.13%) Amazon Athena
7 118 (38.82%) Apache Iceberg
8 117 (38.49%) JavaScript
9 115 (37.83%) TypeScript
10 112 (36.84%) Apache Airflow
10 112 (36.84%) Investment Management
11 109 (35.86%) Asset Management
12 108 (35.53%) dbt
13 107 (35.20%) Apache Arrow
13 107 (35.20%) Dremio
13 107 (35.20%) NumPy
13 107 (35.20%) Pandas
13 107 (35.20%) SciPy
14 103 (33.88%) CI/CD
15 95 (31.25%) DevOps
16 80 (26.32%) Terraform
17 68 (22.37%) Apache
18 65 (21.38%) GCP
19 63 (20.72%) Data Lake
20 61 (20.07%) Node.js
20 61 (20.07%) Snowflake
21 59 (19.41%) PostgreSQL
21 59 (19.41%) React
22 57 (18.75%) Apache Ignite
22 57 (18.75%) gRPC

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
1 112 (36.84%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (22.37%) Apache
3 19 (6.25%) Apache Spark
4 12 (3.95%) Confluence
5 4 (1.32%) nginx
5 4 (1.32%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.99%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 304 (100.00%) AWS
2 108 (35.53%) dbt
3 65 (21.38%) GCP
4 61 (20.07%) Snowflake
5 46 (15.13%) Amazon S3
6 45 (14.80%) Azure
6 45 (14.80%) Serverless
7 42 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (10.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (9.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (8.55%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (8.55%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (7.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (5.92%) GitHub
14 16 (5.26%) AWS KMS
14 16 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (4.93%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (4.28%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.57%) Firewall
2 10 (3.29%) DNS
2 10 (3.29%) LAN
2 10 (3.29%) VPN
2 10 (3.29%) WAN
3 9 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.97%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.64%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (1.64%) HTTP
5 5 (1.64%) Network Security
6 4 (1.32%) BGP
6 4 (1.32%) FTP
6 4 (1.32%) IMAP
6 4 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.32%) SMTP
6 4 (1.32%) SSH
6 4 (1.32%) Wireless
7 3 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.99%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (40.13%) Amazon Athena
2 118 (38.82%) Apache Iceberg
3 107 (35.20%) Apache Arrow
3 107 (35.20%) Dremio
4 63 (20.72%) Data Lake
5 59 (19.41%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (18.75%) Apache Ignite
7 37 (12.17%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (6.91%) Big Data
10 19 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.62%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (2.96%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.63%) Apache Hive
13 8 (2.63%) DynamoDB
13 8 (2.63%) SQL Server
14 6 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.64%) Flink
16 4 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (11.51%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.57%) Git
3 16 (5.26%) JIRA
4 13 (4.28%) GitLab
5 12 (3.95%) Vagrant
6 9 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.32%) JUnit
8 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.99%) Ant
9 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.99%) Maven
9 3 (0.99%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.33%) Deequ
11 1 (0.33%) Gradle
General
1 185 (60.86%) Finance
2 112 (36.84%) Front Office
3 95 (31.25%) Banking
4 60 (19.74%) Investment Banking
5 40 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (12.83%) Law
7 28 (9.21%) Social Skills
8 19 (6.25%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.95%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.63%) Legal
12 5 (1.64%) Games
12 5 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.64%) Retail
13 3 (0.99%) Advertising
13 3 (0.99%) Back Office
13 3 (0.99%) Marketing
14 1 (0.33%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (35.20%) NumPy
1 107 (35.20%) Pandas
1 107 (35.20%) SciPy
2 61 (20.07%) Node.js
3 59 (19.41%) React
4 57 (18.75%) gRPC
4 57 (18.75%) Protocol Buffers
5 50 (16.45%) AngularJS
5 50 (16.45%) Vue
6 26 (8.55%) Kafka
7 17 (5.59%) Spring
8 15 (4.93%) AWS CDK
9 12 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (3.62%) .NET
10 11 (3.62%) Spark Streaming
11 10 (3.29%) RESTful
12 9 (2.96%) PySpark
12 9 (2.96%) Spring Boot
13 8 (2.63%) boto
14 7 (2.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (36.84%) Fixed Income
1 112 (36.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 110 (36.18%) Equities
3 63 (20.72%) Derivative
4 59 (19.41%) Hedge funds
5 57 (18.75%) Pricing Data
6 29 (9.54%) Cloud Native
7 26 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (4.28%) Algorithms
8 13 (4.28%) Data Centre
9 12 (3.95%) Replication
10 11 (3.62%) e-Learning
10 11 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.30%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
12 6 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.97%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.32%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.32%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.87%) Linux
2 17 (5.59%) Windows
3 12 (3.95%) VMS
4 9 (2.96%) Unix
5 4 (1.32%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (55.59%) Software Engineering
2 158 (51.97%) Agile
3 112 (36.84%) Investment Management
4 109 (35.86%) Asset Management
5 103 (33.88%) CI/CD
6 95 (31.25%) DevOps
7 54 (17.76%) Fintech
8 52 (17.11%) Risk Management
9 50 (16.45%) Order Management
9 50 (16.45%) Performance Attribution
10 49 (16.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (11.18%) SDLC
13 32 (10.53%) AI
14 27 (8.88%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (8.88%) Machine Learning
15 25 (8.22%) Containerisation
15 25 (8.22%) Data Engineering
16 24 (7.89%) Mentoring
16 24 (7.89%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 215 (70.72%) Python
2 127 (41.78%) Java
3 117 (38.49%) JavaScript
4 115 (37.83%) TypeScript
5 29 (9.54%) SQL
6 24 (7.89%) Bash
7 21 (6.91%) PowerShell
8 18 (5.92%) Groovy
9 17 (5.59%) Go
9 17 (5.59%) Scala
10 13 (4.28%) C#
11 7 (2.30%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.99%) Bicep
12 3 (0.99%) C++
12 3 (0.99%) Ruby
12 3 (0.99%) Rust
13 2 (0.66%) C
14 1 (0.33%) PHP
14 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.22%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.58%) Degree
4 14 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.29%) CCNP
6 10 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.97%) CCIE
7 6 (1.97%) CCNA
7 6 (1.97%) CCSA
7 6 (1.97%) CCSE
7 6 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.99%) CISSP
9 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.66%) CCSK
10 2 (0.66%) RHCE
10 2 (0.66%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.33%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.29%) GDPR
2 9 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.99%) QA
4 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (12.83%) Docker
2 12 (3.95%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.63%) HDFS
4 4 (1.32%) Dovecot
4 4 (1.32%) Postfix
4 4 (1.32%) Squid
Systems Management
1 80 (26.32%) Terraform
2 57 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.86%) Grafana
4 32 (10.53%) Ansible
5 23 (7.57%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.97%) Argo
7 5 (1.64%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.32%) Nessus
8 4 (1.32%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.99%) Kibana
9 3 (0.99%) logstash
9 3 (0.99%) Podman
9 3 (0.99%) Puppet
10 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (5.59%) ServiceNow
2 13 (4.28%) Cisco
2 13 (4.28%) Databricks
3 8 (2.63%) Google
3 8 (2.63%) Juniper
4 6 (1.97%) CheckPoint
4 6 (1.97%) Fortinet
5 5 (1.64%) Facebook
5 5 (1.64%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.64%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.64%) SolarWinds
5 5 (1.64%) Splunk
6 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.32%) IBM
6 4 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (0.99%) AppDynamics
7 3 (0.99%) Cribl.io
7 3 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (0.99%) Sonatype
8 2 (0.66%) OpenText