AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 258 303
Rank change year-on-year -93 +45 +81
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 402 502 849
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.23% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.37% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 301 448 517
10th Percentile £51,250 £60,700 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £76,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £140,000 £132,500
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 73,166 36,757 84,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 89.95% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46,994 23,163 63,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
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 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -84 384 £75,000 -28.57% 95
London -88 215 £90,000 -18.18% 39
UK excluding London -14 170 £70,000 +7.69% 71
Work from Home -146 120 £90,000 -16.28% 46
North of England -48 54 £68,750 +5.77% 27
North West -6 45 £70,000 +5.50% 20
Midlands -12 32 £67,500 +3.85% 10
South West -17 31 £75,000 +7.14% 7
South East -22 30 £65,000 +5.26% 21
West Midlands +9 25 £62,500 +21.95% 8
East of England -20 20 £75,000 +17.19% 4
East Midlands -47 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Yorkshire -60 5 £65,000 +26.83% 5
Scotland -17 4 - - 2
North East -27 4 £57,500 -11.54% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 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.

1 402 (100.00%) AWS
2 158 (39.30%) Python
3 140 (34.83%) DevOps
4 119 (29.60%) Terraform
5 113 (28.11%) CI/CD
6 106 (26.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 84 (20.90%) Azure
8 68 (16.92%) Serverless
9 64 (15.92%) Software Engineering
10 62 (15.42%) Amazon S3
10 62 (15.42%) Platform Engineering
11 59 (14.68%) Kubernetes
12 54 (13.43%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (13.43%) SaaS
13 51 (12.69%) Java
14 50 (12.44%) Degree
15 49 (12.19%) Security Cleared
16 47 (11.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 46 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (11.19%) AWS Lambda
19 44 (10.95%) Docker
19 44 (10.95%) Observability
20 43 (10.70%) SQL
21 41 (10.20%) Agile
21 41 (10.20%) Bash
22 40 (9.95%) ETL
22 40 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 39 (9.70%) Cloud Security
23 39 (9.70%) High Availability
24 38 (9.45%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 24 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.73%) Apache
3 13 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.75%) SAS
5 2 (0.50%) Confluence
5 2 (0.50%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 402 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (20.90%) Azure
3 68 (16.92%) Serverless
4 62 (15.42%) Amazon S3
5 54 (13.43%) Amazon EKS
5 54 (13.43%) SaaS
6 47 (11.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 45 (11.19%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (9.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 33 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (8.21%) GCP
10 31 (7.71%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (6.72%) GitHub
12 22 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (4.23%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (3.48%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (3.23%) PaaS
16 13 (3.23%) Snowflake
17 12 (2.99%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.22%) Firewall
2 20 (4.98%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (4.98%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (4.98%) LAN
2 20 (4.98%) WAN
2 20 (4.98%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (2.99%) BGP
3 12 (2.99%) VPN
4 7 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.49%) VLAN
6 5 (1.24%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.24%) IPsec
6 5 (1.24%) MPLS
6 5 (1.24%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.24%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.24%) OSPF
6 5 (1.24%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.24%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.24%) WLAN
7 3 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.46%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (3.98%) Apache Iceberg
3 16 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.48%) MySQL
4 14 (3.48%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 12 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.99%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.49%) Flink
9 6 (1.49%) Metadata
9 6 (1.49%) Pentaho
10 4 (1.00%) Apache Arrow
10 4 (1.00%) Apache Ignite
10 4 (1.00%) Big Data
10 4 (1.00%) Dremio
10 4 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (6.22%) Git
2 21 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.73%) GitLab
4 7 (1.74%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.24%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.75%) JIRA
6 3 (0.75%) NUnit
7 2 (0.50%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.50%) JMeter
7 2 (0.50%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.25%) Deequ
8 1 (0.25%) Gradle
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) Selenium
8 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 88 (21.89%) Finance
2 58 (14.43%) Banking
3 39 (9.70%) Social Skills
4 25 (6.22%) Law
5 19 (4.73%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.73%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.73%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.48%) Retail
8 13 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.23%) Retail Banking
9 12 (2.99%) Back Office
9 12 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.74%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.49%) Front Office
12 7 (1.74%) Games
13 6 (1.49%) Advertising
14 5 (1.24%) Legal
15 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.75%) Billing
17 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.96%) Kafka
2 14 (3.48%) .NET
3 13 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.99%) PySpark
4 12 (2.99%) React
4 12 (2.99%) REST
5 11 (2.74%) AWS CDK
6 10 (2.49%) .NET Core
6 10 (2.49%) Node.js
7 9 (2.24%) OAuth
7 9 (2.24%) RESTful
8 8 (1.99%) Spring
9 7 (1.74%) JWT
9 7 (1.74%) Loki
9 7 (1.74%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.74%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.00%) gRPC
10 4 (1.00%) LangChain
10 4 (1.00%) Pandas
10 4 (1.00%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 59 (14.68%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.21%) Data Centre
3 25 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (4.48%) Hedge funds
6 16 (3.98%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.23%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.49%) Fixed Income
8 10 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.24%) Blog
10 5 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.24%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.00%) Derivative
11 4 (1.00%) Equities
11 4 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.00%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.72%) Linux
2 12 (2.99%) Unix
3 5 (1.24%) Windows
4 3 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (34.83%) DevOps
2 113 (28.11%) CI/CD
3 106 (26.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (15.92%) Software Engineering
5 62 (15.42%) Platform Engineering
6 46 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (10.95%) Observability
8 41 (10.20%) Agile
9 40 (9.95%) ETL
9 40 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 39 (9.70%) Cloud Security
10 39 (9.70%) High Availability
11 34 (8.46%) Computer Science
12 33 (8.21%) Containerisation
13 32 (7.96%) AI
13 32 (7.96%) Data Engineering
13 32 (7.96%) Data Pipeline
14 29 (7.21%) Analytics
15 27 (6.72%) Microservices
15 27 (6.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 158 (39.30%) Python
2 51 (12.69%) Java
3 43 (10.70%) SQL
4 41 (10.20%) Bash
5 28 (6.97%) TypeScript
6 23 (5.72%) C#
6 23 (5.72%) Go
7 12 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.24%) C++
10 4 (1.00%) Scala
11 3 (0.75%) PHP
12 2 (0.50%) Bicep
12 2 (0.50%) Groovy
12 2 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 50 (12.44%) Degree
2 49 (12.19%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (7.71%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.22%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.73%) CCIE
6 15 (3.73%) CCNA
6 15 (3.73%) CCNP
6 15 (3.73%) CCSA
6 15 (3.73%) CCSE
6 15 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.99%) CISSP
8 11 (2.74%) CCSK
9 8 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.75%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.22%) SOC 2
2 19 (4.73%) PCI DSS
3 15 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.48%) GDPR
5 12 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.49%) QA
7 8 (1.99%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.49%) NIST
9 4 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.50%) SLA
11 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (10.95%) Docker
2 8 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.75%) HDFS
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 119 (29.60%) Terraform
2 59 (14.68%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.22%) Grafana
4 20 (4.98%) Ansible
5 18 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.73%) FortiGate
7 10 (2.49%) Argo
8 9 (2.24%) Istio
9 2 (0.50%) Kibana
9 2 (0.50%) logstash
9 2 (0.50%) Packer
9 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) Consul
10 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (5.97%) Cisco
2 20 (4.98%) CheckPoint
2 20 (4.98%) Fortinet
3 13 (3.23%) Google
4 12 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.49%) Databricks
5 10 (2.49%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.24%) SolarWinds
7 8 (1.99%) Confluent
7 8 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.99%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.49%) Informatica
8 6 (1.49%) Talend
9 5 (1.24%) Meraki
9 5 (1.24%) SAP
10 4 (1.00%) Pega
10 4 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.50%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.50%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.50%) Oracle