AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 258 314
Rank change year-on-year -116 +56 +80
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 360 490 791
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.16% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.28% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 269 435 506
10th Percentile £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £76,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +40.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £109,375
90th Percentile £103,600 £140,000 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £63,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.67% -2.69% -

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 69,843 38,164 81,143
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.98% 90.31% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 44,555 23,016 61,790
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,408 £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 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,263
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 March 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 March 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 -100 342 £76,250 -27.38% 89
London -88 200 £90,000 -18.18% 38
UK excluding London -7 143 £70,000 +10.67% 63
Work from Home -133 115 £90,000 -16.28% 44
North of England -54 45 £70,000 +16.67% 18
North West -5 40 £70,000 +5.50% 14
Midlands -5 30 £65,000 - 9
South West -12 26 £75,000 +30.43% 10
West Midlands +17 23 £57,000 +11.22% 7
East of England -5 19 £75,000 +16.28% 2
South East -17 19 £63,750 +3.24% 23
East Midlands -51 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland -13 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -53 3 £66,250 +26.19% 3
North East -26 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 March 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.

1 360 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (39.72%) Python
3 126 (35.00%) DevOps
4 107 (29.72%) CI/CD
5 106 (29.44%) Terraform
6 99 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 81 (22.50%) Azure
8 69 (19.17%) Serverless
9 61 (16.94%) Software Engineering
10 60 (16.67%) Amazon S3
11 57 (15.83%) Platform Engineering
12 54 (15.00%) Kubernetes
13 52 (14.44%) Amazon EKS
14 51 (14.17%) SaaS
15 49 (13.61%) Java
16 47 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
17 46 (12.78%) AWS Lambda
18 44 (12.22%) Degree
18 44 (12.22%) Security Cleared
19 43 (11.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 42 (11.67%) Docker
20 42 (11.67%) Observability
20 42 (11.67%) SQL
21 41 (11.39%) ETL
22 40 (11.11%) Agile
23 39 (10.83%) Bash
23 39 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 37 (10.28%) High Availability
25 35 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 35 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation

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 22 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.56%) Apache
3 14 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.56%) Confluence
4 2 (0.56%) SAS
5 1 (0.28%) Drupal
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 360 (100.00%) AWS
2 81 (22.50%) Azure
3 69 (19.17%) Serverless
4 60 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 52 (14.44%) Amazon EKS
6 51 (14.17%) SaaS
7 46 (12.78%) AWS Lambda
8 43 (11.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 35 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 35 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (8.33%) GCP
11 28 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (7.50%) GitHub
13 22 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (4.72%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (3.89%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (3.61%) PaaS
18 12 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
19 11 (3.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.67%) Firewall
2 20 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (5.56%) LAN
2 20 (5.56%) WAN
2 20 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.33%) VPN
4 11 (3.06%) BGP
5 6 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.67%) VLAN
6 5 (1.39%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.39%) IPsec
6 5 (1.39%) MPLS
6 5 (1.39%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.39%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.39%) OSPF
6 5 (1.39%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.39%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.39%) WLAN
7 1 (0.28%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.17%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (5.28%) Apache Iceberg
4 18 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (3.89%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.61%) MySQL
9 12 (3.33%) DynamoDB
10 11 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (2.22%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.67%) Flink
13 6 (1.67%) Metadata
14 5 (1.39%) Pentaho
15 4 (1.11%) Apache Arrow
15 4 (1.11%) Apache Ignite
15 4 (1.11%) Dremio
15 4 (1.11%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (6.11%) Git
2 21 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.89%) GitLab
4 7 (1.94%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.83%) NUnit
7 2 (0.56%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.56%) Deequ
7 2 (0.56%) JIRA
7 2 (0.56%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) Gatling
8 1 (0.28%) Gradle
8 1 (0.28%) JUnit
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 87 (24.17%) Finance
2 54 (15.00%) Banking
3 42 (11.67%) Social Skills
4 25 (6.94%) Law
5 17 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 15 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.89%) Retail
8 13 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.33%) Back Office
10 11 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.78%) Front Office
11 10 (2.78%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.67%) Games
13 5 (1.39%) Advertising
13 5 (1.39%) Legal
14 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.83%) Billing
16 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.44%) Kafka
2 15 (4.17%) .NET
3 14 (3.89%) PySpark
4 12 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (3.33%) React
5 11 (3.06%) AWS CDK
5 11 (3.06%) REST
6 10 (2.78%) .NET Core
6 10 (2.78%) Node.js
6 10 (2.78%) RESTful
7 9 (2.50%) OAuth
8 8 (2.22%) Spring
9 7 (1.94%) JWT
9 7 (1.94%) Loki
9 7 (1.94%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.39%) LangChain
10 5 (1.39%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.11%) gRPC
11 4 (1.11%) LangGraph
11 4 (1.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (5.00%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.89%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.78%) Fixed Income
8 10 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.50%) Blog
10 8 (2.22%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.11%) Derivative
12 4 (1.11%) Equities
12 4 (1.11%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.11%) Pricing Data
13 3 (0.83%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.28%) Linux
2 12 (3.33%) Unix
3 4 (1.11%) Windows
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (35.00%) DevOps
2 107 (29.72%) CI/CD
3 99 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (16.94%) Software Engineering
5 57 (15.83%) Platform Engineering
6 47 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (11.67%) Observability
8 41 (11.39%) ETL
9 40 (11.11%) Agile
10 39 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 37 (10.28%) High Availability
12 35 (9.72%) Cloud Security
13 34 (9.44%) Computer Science
14 32 (8.89%) Containerisation
14 32 (8.89%) Data Engineering
14 32 (8.89%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (8.61%) Analytics
16 28 (7.78%) AI
17 26 (7.22%) Mentoring
17 26 (7.22%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 143 (39.72%) Python
2 49 (13.61%) Java
3 42 (11.67%) SQL
4 39 (10.83%) Bash
5 25 (6.94%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.39%) Go
7 19 (5.28%) C#
8 11 (3.06%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.22%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.11%) Scala
11 3 (0.83%) Bicep
11 3 (0.83%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) C
12 1 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (12.22%) Degree
1 44 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 15 (4.17%) CCIE
5 15 (4.17%) CCNA
5 15 (4.17%) CCNP
5 15 (4.17%) CCSA
5 15 (4.17%) CCSE
5 15 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (3.33%) CISSP
7 11 (3.06%) CCSK
8 8 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.56%) SOC 2
2 19 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.28%) PCI DSS
3 14 (3.89%) GDPR
4 11 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.50%) QA
6 6 (1.67%) NIST
7 4 (1.11%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (11.67%) Docker
2 8 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.83%) HDFS
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 106 (29.44%) Terraform
2 54 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.94%) Grafana
4 19 (5.28%) Ansible
5 18 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.17%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.50%) Argo
7 9 (2.50%) Istio
8 2 (0.56%) Kibana
8 2 (0.56%) logstash
8 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.28%) Consul
9 1 (0.28%) Packer
9 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (6.67%) Cisco
2 20 (5.56%) CheckPoint
2 20 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.33%) Google
3 12 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.06%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.78%) SolarWinds
6 8 (2.22%) Confluent
6 8 (2.22%) Databricks
6 8 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.22%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.39%) Informatica
7 5 (1.39%) Meraki
7 5 (1.39%) SAP
7 5 (1.39%) Talend
8 4 (1.11%) Pega
8 4 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.56%) Okta
10 2 (0.56%) Ping Identity