AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 282 317
Rank change year-on-year -115 +35 +75
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 303 504 667
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.02% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.12% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 212 437 477
10th Percentile £50,750 £54,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £75,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £100,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +29.03% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £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 61,931 45,044 70,794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 91.56% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 38,987 23,380 55,351
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,250 £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 18 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 18 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 -86 283 £82,500 -17.50% 106
London -90 178 £100,000 -6.98% 55
Work from Home -116 114 £100,000 -4.76% 39
UK excluding London +10 106 £70,000 +7.69% 66
North of England -27 35 £70,000 +30.23% 15
North West +14 31 £80,000 +19.54% 14
Midlands +22 26 £51,500 -20.77% 15
East of England +21 19 £75,000 +15.38% 3
West Midlands +28 16 £50,000 -2.44% 13
South East +15 15 £65,000 +10.64% 19
East Midlands -17 10 £72,500 +11.54% 2
South West +2 8 £78,750 +31.25% 14
Scotland -3 6 - -
North East -8 2 £55,000 -4.35%
Yorkshire -40 2 £67,500 +31.71% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 303 (100.00%) AWS
2 136 (44.88%) Python
3 107 (35.31%) CI/CD
4 102 (33.66%) DevOps
5 89 (29.37%) Terraform
6 88 (29.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (25.74%) Software Engineering
8 69 (22.77%) Serverless
9 63 (20.79%) Java
10 59 (19.47%) Azure
11 55 (18.15%) Agile
12 50 (16.50%) AWS Lambda
12 50 (16.50%) Kubernetes
13 49 (16.17%) TypeScript
14 47 (15.51%) SaaS
15 46 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
16 44 (14.52%) Observability
16 44 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (14.19%) Amazon S3
18 41 (13.53%) Amazon EKS
19 39 (12.87%) AWS CloudFormation
20 38 (12.54%) Degree
20 38 (12.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 37 (12.21%) Security Cleared
22 36 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 35 (11.55%) Apache Iceberg
24 34 (11.22%) Amazon RDS
24 34 (11.22%) Bash
24 34 (11.22%) ETL
25 33 (10.89%) Apache Airflow

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 33 (10.89%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.92%) Apache
3 19 (6.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.66%) SAS
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 303 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (22.77%) Serverless
3 59 (19.47%) Azure
4 50 (16.50%) AWS Lambda
5 47 (15.51%) SaaS
6 43 (14.19%) Amazon S3
7 41 (13.53%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (12.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (12.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 32 (10.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 30 (9.90%) GCP
12 26 (8.58%) dbt
13 25 (8.25%) GitHub
14 23 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (6.93%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (6.27%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (5.94%) Amazon Kinesis
18 15 (4.95%) PaaS
19 11 (3.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.26%) Firewall
2 19 (6.27%) Cisco ASA
2 19 (6.27%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (6.27%) LAN
2 19 (6.27%) WAN
2 19 (6.27%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.96%) VPN
4 11 (3.63%) BGP
5 6 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.98%) VLAN
6 5 (1.65%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.65%) IPsec
6 5 (1.65%) MPLS
6 5 (1.65%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.65%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.65%) OSPF
6 5 (1.65%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.65%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.65%) WLAN
7 1 (0.33%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.55%) Apache Iceberg
2 34 (11.22%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (10.56%) Amazon Athena
4 26 (8.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 24 (7.92%) Apache Arrow
5 24 (7.92%) Dremio
6 23 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (5.28%) Data Lake
9 12 (3.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.63%) MySQL
11 10 (3.30%) Apache Ignite
11 10 (3.30%) DynamoDB
12 9 (2.97%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.64%) Big Data
13 8 (2.64%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.64%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (2.31%) Apache Hive
15 6 (1.98%) Flink
16 5 (1.65%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 21 (6.93%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.95%) Git
3 9 (2.97%) GitLab
4 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.99%) NUnit
6 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.66%) Deequ
6 2 (0.66%) Maven
6 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.33%) Ant
7 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.33%) Gradle
7 1 (0.33%) JIRA
7 1 (0.33%) JUnit
7 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 97 (32.01%) Finance
2 41 (13.53%) Banking
3 36 (11.88%) Social Skills
4 30 (9.90%) Front Office
5 25 (8.25%) Law
6 20 (6.60%) Financial Institution
7 19 (6.27%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.62%) Public Sector
9 13 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.29%) Retail
10 12 (3.96%) Back Office
11 8 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.65%) Advertising
13 5 (1.65%) Games
13 5 (1.65%) Legal
14 4 (1.32%) Billing
15 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.91%) React
2 26 (8.58%) Node.js
3 24 (7.92%) NumPy
3 24 (7.92%) Pandas
3 24 (7.92%) SciPy
4 22 (7.26%) Kafka
5 16 (5.28%) .NET
6 15 (4.95%) PySpark
7 14 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 14 (4.62%) AWS CDK
7 14 (4.62%) Vue
8 12 (3.96%) RESTful
9 11 (3.63%) REST
10 10 (3.30%) gRPC
10 10 (3.30%) Protocol Buffers
11 9 (2.97%) .NET Core
11 9 (2.97%) OAuth
12 8 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (2.31%) Loki
13 7 (2.31%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (10.89%) Cloud Native
3 30 (9.90%) Fixed Income
4 29 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (9.24%) Data Centre
6 24 (7.92%) Equities
7 23 (7.59%) Hedge funds
8 16 (5.28%) Management Information System
9 13 (4.29%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.30%) Derivative
10 10 (3.30%) Pricing Data
11 9 (2.97%) Blog
11 9 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (2.31%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.65%) AI Agents
15 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 4 (1.32%) Low-Code
16 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.93%) Linux
2 12 (3.96%) Unix
3 5 (1.65%) Windows
4 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (35.31%) CI/CD
2 102 (33.66%) DevOps
3 88 (29.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (25.74%) Software Engineering
5 55 (18.15%) Agile
6 46 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
7 44 (14.52%) Observability
7 44 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (11.22%) ETL
10 33 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
11 32 (10.56%) Data Engineering
11 32 (10.56%) High Availability
12 31 (10.23%) Computer Science
13 30 (9.90%) Cloud Security
13 30 (9.90%) Investment Management
14 26 (8.58%) Asset Management
14 26 (8.58%) Fintech
15 24 (7.92%) AI
15 24 (7.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 136 (44.88%) Python
2 63 (20.79%) Java
3 49 (16.17%) TypeScript
4 34 (11.22%) Bash
5 33 (10.89%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.89%) SQL
6 21 (6.93%) C#
7 14 (4.62%) Go
8 8 (2.64%) Scala
9 7 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.32%) Bicep
11 3 (0.99%) Rust
12 2 (0.66%) C
12 2 (0.66%) PHP
13 1 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (12.54%) Degree
2 37 (12.21%) Security Cleared
3 28 (9.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (8.25%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.26%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.62%) CCIE
6 14 (4.62%) CCNA
6 14 (4.62%) CCNP
6 14 (4.62%) CCSA
6 14 (4.62%) CCSE
6 14 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (3.63%) CISSP
8 10 (3.30%) CCSK
9 7 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.99%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.62%) PCI DSS
2 14 (4.62%) SOC 2
3 13 (4.29%) GDPR
4 10 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.64%) QA
6 6 (1.98%) NIST
7 5 (1.65%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.32%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (10.89%) Docker
2 7 (2.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 89 (29.37%) Terraform
2 50 (16.50%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.26%) Grafana
4 17 (5.61%) Ansible
5 14 (4.62%) FortiGate
6 13 (4.29%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.64%) Argo
8 2 (0.66%) Kibana
8 2 (0.66%) logstash
8 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.33%) Istio
9 1 (0.33%) Podman
9 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (7.59%) Cisco
2 19 (6.27%) CheckPoint
2 19 (6.27%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.96%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.63%) Databricks
4 11 (3.63%) SolarWinds
5 10 (3.30%) Google
6 8 (2.64%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.64%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.31%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.65%) Informatica
8 5 (1.65%) Meraki
8 5 (1.65%) SAP
8 5 (1.65%) Talend
9 4 (1.32%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.32%) Pega
9 4 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.66%) Okta
10 2 (0.66%) Ping Identity