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 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 291 328
Rank change year-on-year -109 +37 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 289 493 637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.97% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.05% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 199 431 463
10th Percentile £51,150 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £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 £103,750 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £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 59,148 46,920 69,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 91.95% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36,872 24,291 54,623
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,750
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
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 6 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 6 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 -86 271 £85,000 -10.53% 103
London -78 180 £100,000 -4.76% 43
Work from Home -88 116 £100,000 -4.76% 46
UK excluding London +9 93 £70,000 +7.69% 73
North of England -26 31 £82,500 +43.48% 20
North West +13 27 £85,000 +25.93% 13
Midlands +21 23 £50,000 -23.08% 14
East of England +23 17 £75,000 +15.38% 7
West Midlands +36 14 £50,000 -2.44% 13
South East +15 14 £65,000 +10.64% 18
East Midlands -17 9 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland -2 6 - - 1
South West +2 5 £72,500 +20.83% 13
North East -12 2 £55,000 -21.43%
Yorkshire -34 2 £67,500 +31.71% 7

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 289 (100.00%) AWS
2 133 (46.02%) Python
3 104 (35.99%) CI/CD
4 88 (30.45%) DevOps
5 83 (28.72%) Terraform
6 82 (28.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (26.64%) Software Engineering
8 70 (24.22%) Java
9 69 (23.88%) Serverless
10 58 (20.07%) Agile
11 55 (19.03%) TypeScript
12 51 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (17.65%) Azure
13 48 (16.61%) Kubernetes
14 45 (15.57%) Platform Engineering
15 43 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (14.88%) SaaS
16 42 (14.53%) Amazon S3
16 42 (14.53%) Observability
17 40 (13.84%) Amazon EKS
18 39 (13.49%) Apache Iceberg
19 38 (13.15%) Amazon RDS
19 38 (13.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 37 (12.80%) AWS CloudFormation
20 37 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 36 (12.46%) Amazon Athena
21 36 (12.46%) JavaScript
22 35 (12.11%) Apache Airflow
22 35 (12.11%) Degree
22 35 (12.11%) Investment Management

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 35 (12.11%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (9.34%) Apache
3 19 (6.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 289 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (23.88%) Serverless
3 51 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
3 51 (17.65%) Azure
4 43 (14.88%) SaaS
5 42 (14.53%) Amazon S3
6 40 (13.84%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (13.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 37 (12.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (10.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (10.38%) dbt
11 28 (9.69%) GCP
12 24 (8.30%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (8.30%) GitHub
13 20 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (6.23%) Amazon Kinesis
15 18 (6.23%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (5.54%) Snowflake
17 15 (5.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.96%) Firewall
2 19 (6.57%) Cisco ASA
2 19 (6.57%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (6.57%) LAN
2 19 (6.57%) WAN
2 19 (6.57%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (4.15%) VPN
4 11 (3.81%) BGP
5 6 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.08%) VLAN
6 5 (1.73%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.73%) IPsec
6 5 (1.73%) MPLS
6 5 (1.73%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.73%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.73%) OSPF
6 5 (1.73%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.73%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.73%) WLAN
7 1 (0.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.49%) Apache Iceberg
2 38 (13.15%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (12.46%) Amazon Athena
4 29 (10.03%) Apache Arrow
4 29 (10.03%) Dremio
5 24 (8.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (6.92%) Data Lake
8 15 (5.19%) Apache Ignite
9 11 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.81%) MySQL
10 9 (3.11%) Big Data
10 9 (3.11%) DynamoDB
10 9 (3.11%) Hadoop
11 8 (2.77%) Apache Hive
11 8 (2.77%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (2.42%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.08%) Flink
14 5 (1.73%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 20 (6.92%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.50%) Git
3 10 (3.46%) GitLab
4 5 (1.73%) 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%) JUnit
6 2 (0.69%) Maven
6 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 100 (34.60%) Finance
2 43 (14.88%) Banking
3 35 (12.11%) Front Office
4 33 (11.42%) Social Skills
5 24 (8.30%) Investment Banking
6 21 (7.27%) Law
7 20 (6.92%) Financial Institution
8 12 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.15%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.15%) Retail
9 11 (3.81%) Back Office
10 6 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.73%) Advertising
11 5 (1.73%) Games
11 5 (1.73%) Legal
11 5 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.04%) Billing
13 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.03%) NumPy
1 29 (10.03%) Pandas
1 29 (10.03%) SciPy
2 27 (9.34%) React
3 26 (9.00%) Node.js
4 21 (7.27%) Kafka
5 16 (5.54%) .NET
6 15 (5.19%) gRPC
6 15 (5.19%) Protocol Buffers
6 15 (5.19%) PySpark
7 14 (4.84%) AngularJS
7 14 (4.84%) AWS CDK
7 14 (4.84%) Vue
8 12 (4.15%) RESTful
9 9 (3.11%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.11%) REST
10 8 (2.77%) boto
10 8 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.77%) OAuth
10 8 (2.77%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 35 (12.11%) Fixed Income
3 29 (10.03%) Cloud Native
3 29 (10.03%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.03%) Equities
4 27 (9.34%) Data Centre
4 27 (9.34%) Hedge funds
5 15 (5.19%) Derivative
5 15 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 15 (5.19%) Pricing Data
6 13 (4.50%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.77%) Blog
8 8 (2.77%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.73%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.38%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.04%) Clustering
12 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.96%) Linux
2 12 (4.15%) Unix
3 5 (1.73%) Windows
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (35.99%) CI/CD
2 88 (30.45%) DevOps
3 82 (28.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (26.64%) Software Engineering
5 58 (20.07%) Agile
6 45 (15.57%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (14.53%) Observability
9 37 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 35 (12.11%) Investment Management
11 31 (10.73%) Asset Management
11 31 (10.73%) Data Engineering
11 31 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (10.73%) High Availability
12 29 (10.03%) Cloud Security
12 29 (10.03%) ETL
13 28 (9.69%) Computer Science
14 24 (8.30%) Fintech
15 23 (7.96%) AI
15 23 (7.96%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 133 (46.02%) Python
2 70 (24.22%) Java
3 55 (19.03%) TypeScript
4 36 (12.46%) JavaScript
5 31 (10.73%) Bash
6 29 (10.03%) SQL
7 21 (7.27%) C#
8 13 (4.50%) Go
9 9 (3.11%) Scala
10 7 (2.42%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.04%) Bicep
11 3 (1.04%) Rust
12 2 (0.69%) C
13 1 (0.35%) Groovy
13 1 (0.35%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (12.11%) Degree
2 30 (10.38%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 20 (6.92%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.84%) CCIE
6 14 (4.84%) CCNA
6 14 (4.84%) CCNP
6 14 (4.84%) CCSA
6 14 (4.84%) CCSE
6 14 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.46%) CISSP
8 9 (3.11%) CCSK
9 7 (2.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 6 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.38%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.50%) GDPR
3 12 (4.15%) PCI DSS
3 12 (4.15%) SOC 2
4 10 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.42%) QA
6 6 (2.08%) NIST
7 4 (1.38%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (11.07%) Docker
2 8 (2.77%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 83 (28.72%) Terraform
2 48 (16.61%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.27%) Grafana
4 17 (5.88%) Ansible
5 14 (4.84%) FortiGate
6 11 (3.81%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.77%) Argo
8 2 (0.69%) Kibana
8 2 (0.69%) logstash
8 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (7.96%) Cisco
2 19 (6.57%) CheckPoint
2 19 (6.57%) Fortinet
3 11 (3.81%) Databricks
4 10 (3.46%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.46%) SolarWinds
5 9 (3.11%) Google
6 8 (2.77%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.08%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.73%) Informatica
8 5 (1.73%) Meraki
8 5 (1.73%) Talend
9 4 (1.38%) Microsoft
10 3 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.04%) SAP
11 2 (0.69%) Okta
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle
11 2 (0.69%) Pega
11 2 (0.69%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.69%) Salesforce