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 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 278 319
Rank change year-on-year -116 +41 +72
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 309 512 687
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.06% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.15% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 216 444 481
10th Percentile £50,375 £55,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £75,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £102,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +32.26% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 62,841 44,387 71,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 91.47% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 39,642 23,421 55,777
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,250
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -93 289 £80,000 -23.81% 110
London -82 177 £100,000 -6.98% 55
UK excluding London +15 113 £70,000 +7.69% 69
Work from Home -126 111 £92,500 -11.90% 43
North of England -35 37 £70,000 +30.23% 15
North West +5 33 £70,000 +4.60% 14
Midlands +16 28 £51,500 -20.77% 14
East of England +20 19 £75,000 +15.38% 3
West Midlands +20 18 £50,000 -2.44% 12
South East -12 15 £65,000 +10.64% 18
South West -5 11 £75,000 +25.00% 18
East Midlands -26 10 £72,500 +11.54% 2
Scotland +5 6 - - 1
North East -16 2 £55,000 -4.35%
Yorkshire -44 2 £67,500 +31.71% 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 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.

1 309 (100.00%) AWS
2 134 (43.37%) Python
3 108 (34.95%) CI/CD
4 104 (33.66%) DevOps
5 91 (29.45%) Terraform
6 90 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (24.60%) Software Engineering
8 70 (22.65%) Serverless
9 63 (20.39%) Java
10 61 (19.74%) Azure
11 51 (16.50%) Agile
11 51 (16.50%) Kubernetes
12 50 (16.18%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (15.53%) SaaS
14 47 (15.21%) Platform Engineering
15 45 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (14.56%) TypeScript
16 44 (14.24%) Observability
17 43 (13.92%) Amazon S3
18 41 (13.27%) Amazon EKS
19 40 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
20 39 (12.62%) Degree
20 39 (12.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 37 (11.97%) Security Cleared
22 36 (11.65%) Bash
22 36 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 34 (11.00%) Amazon RDS
23 34 (11.00%) Docker
23 34 (11.00%) ETL
23 34 (11.00%) SQL

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 29 (9.39%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (7.44%) Apache
3 19 (6.15%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.65%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) JBoss
5 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 309 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (22.65%) Serverless
3 61 (19.74%) Azure
4 50 (16.18%) AWS Lambda
5 48 (15.53%) SaaS
6 43 (13.92%) Amazon S3
7 41 (13.27%) Amazon EKS
8 40 (12.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (12.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 32 (10.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (9.39%) GCP
12 25 (8.09%) GitHub
13 23 (7.44%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (7.12%) dbt
15 21 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (6.15%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (5.83%) Amazon Kinesis
18 16 (5.18%) PaaS
19 11 (3.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.12%) Firewall
2 19 (6.15%) Cisco ASA
2 19 (6.15%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (6.15%) LAN
2 19 (6.15%) WAN
2 19 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.88%) VPN
4 11 (3.56%) BGP
5 6 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.94%) VLAN
6 5 (1.62%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.62%) IPsec
6 5 (1.62%) MPLS
6 5 (1.62%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.62%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.62%) OSPF
6 5 (1.62%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.62%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.62%) WLAN
7 1 (0.32%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.00%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (10.03%) Apache Iceberg
3 28 (9.06%) Amazon Athena
4 26 (8.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 23 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (6.47%) Apache Arrow
6 20 (6.47%) Dremio
7 19 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (4.85%) Data Lake
9 12 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.56%) MySQL
11 10 (3.24%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.24%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.91%) Apache Ignite
13 8 (2.59%) Big Data
13 8 (2.59%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (2.27%) Apache Hive
15 6 (1.94%) Flink
16 5 (1.62%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 22 (7.12%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.85%) Git
3 10 (3.24%) GitLab
4 4 (1.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.97%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.97%) NUnit
6 2 (0.65%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.65%) Deequ
6 2 (0.65%) Maven
6 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Ant
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) Gradle
7 1 (0.32%) JIRA
7 1 (0.32%) JUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 94 (30.42%) Finance
2 40 (12.94%) Banking
3 37 (11.97%) Social Skills
4 26 (8.41%) Front Office
5 25 (8.09%) Law
6 20 (6.47%) Financial Institution
7 18 (5.83%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.53%) Public Sector
9 13 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.21%) Retail
10 12 (3.88%) Back Office
11 8 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.62%) Advertising
13 5 (1.62%) Games
13 5 (1.62%) Legal
14 4 (1.29%) Billing
15 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.77%) React
2 23 (7.44%) Kafka
2 23 (7.44%) Node.js
3 20 (6.47%) NumPy
3 20 (6.47%) Pandas
3 20 (6.47%) SciPy
4 16 (5.18%) .NET
5 15 (4.85%) PySpark
6 14 (4.53%) AWS CDK
7 12 (3.88%) RESTful
8 11 (3.56%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.56%) REST
8 11 (3.56%) Vue
9 9 (2.91%) .NET Core
9 9 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (2.91%) gRPC
9 9 (2.91%) OAuth
9 9 (2.91%) Protocol Buffers
10 8 (2.59%) Spring
11 7 (2.27%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 29 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (9.06%) Data Centre
5 26 (8.41%) Fixed Income
6 23 (7.44%) Hedge funds
7 20 (6.47%) Equities
8 17 (5.50%) Management Information System
9 14 (4.53%) Security Posture
10 9 (2.91%) Blog
10 9 (2.91%) Derivative
10 9 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.91%) Pricing Data
11 7 (2.27%) e-Learning
12 6 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.62%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.29%) Low-Code
15 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.80%) Linux
2 13 (4.21%) Unix
3 5 (1.62%) Windows
4 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (34.95%) CI/CD
2 104 (33.66%) DevOps
3 90 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (24.60%) Software Engineering
5 51 (16.50%) Agile
6 47 (15.21%) Platform Engineering
7 45 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (14.24%) Observability
9 36 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (11.00%) ETL
11 33 (10.68%) Data Engineering
11 33 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (10.68%) High Availability
12 32 (10.36%) Computer Science
13 31 (10.03%) Cloud Security
14 26 (8.41%) Investment Management
15 25 (8.09%) AI
15 25 (8.09%) Fintech
15 25 (8.09%) Mentoring
15 25 (8.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 134 (43.37%) Python
2 63 (20.39%) Java
3 45 (14.56%) TypeScript
4 36 (11.65%) Bash
5 34 (11.00%) SQL
6 29 (9.39%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.80%) C#
8 15 (4.85%) Go
9 8 (2.59%) Scala
10 7 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.29%) Bicep
12 3 (0.97%) Rust
13 2 (0.65%) C
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (12.62%) Degree
2 37 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (8.09%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.12%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.53%) CCIE
6 14 (4.53%) CCNA
6 14 (4.53%) CCNP
6 14 (4.53%) CCSA
6 14 (4.53%) CCSE
6 14 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.88%) CISSP
8 11 (3.56%) CCSK
9 7 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.97%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.85%) PCI DSS
2 15 (4.85%) SOC 2
3 14 (4.53%) GDPR
4 10 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.59%) QA
6 6 (1.94%) NIST
7 5 (1.62%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.29%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (11.00%) Docker
2 7 (2.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 91 (29.45%) Terraform
2 51 (16.50%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.44%) Grafana
4 18 (5.83%) Ansible
5 14 (4.53%) FortiGate
5 14 (4.53%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.59%) Argo
7 2 (0.65%) Kibana
7 2 (0.65%) logstash
7 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.32%) Istio
8 1 (0.32%) Podman
8 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (7.44%) Cisco
2 19 (6.15%) CheckPoint
2 19 (6.15%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.88%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.56%) Databricks
4 11 (3.56%) Google
4 11 (3.56%) SolarWinds
5 8 (2.59%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.59%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.27%) Microsoft
7 5 (1.62%) Informatica
7 5 (1.62%) Meraki
7 5 (1.62%) SAP
7 5 (1.62%) Talend
8 4 (1.29%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.29%) Pega
8 4 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.65%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.65%) Okta
9 2 (0.65%) Ping Identity