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 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 299 306
Rank change year-on-year -99 +7 +74
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 275 503 624
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.96% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.04% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 191 434 453
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £93,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +25.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% - -

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 56,920 48,584 64,352
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 92.29% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 35,330 24,964 50,275
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,663 £29,017
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.25%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -90 258 £85,000 -10.53% 106
London -85 176 £100,000 -4.76% 54
Work from Home -94 119 £100,000 -4.76% 62
UK excluding London -3 84 £66,250 +1.92% 70
North of England -4 29 £85,000 +47.83% 22
North West +28 25 £85,000 +25.93% 12
Midlands +23 20 £50,000 -23.08% 7
East of England +16 15 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South East +24 13 £65,000 +10.64% 21
West Midlands +38 12 £50,000 -2.44% 6
East Midlands -16 8 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland +1 6 - -
South West -4 4 £72,500 +11.54% 13
North East -3 2 £55,000 -21.43%
Yorkshire -24 2 £67,500 +31.71% 10

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 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.

1 275 (100.00%) AWS
2 131 (47.64%) Python
3 97 (35.27%) CI/CD
4 83 (30.18%) DevOps
5 81 (29.45%) Software Engineering
6 75 (27.27%) Terraform
7 73 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 71 (25.82%) Java
9 64 (23.27%) Agile
10 63 (22.91%) Serverless
11 60 (21.82%) TypeScript
12 49 (17.82%) Azure
13 47 (17.09%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (16.73%) Apache Iceberg
15 43 (15.64%) Amazon Athena
15 43 (15.64%) JavaScript
16 42 (15.27%) Investment Management
16 42 (15.27%) Kubernetes
17 41 (14.91%) Apache Airflow
17 41 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
18 40 (14.55%) SaaS
19 39 (14.18%) Platform Engineering
20 38 (13.82%) Amazon S3
21 37 (13.45%) Asset Management
21 37 (13.45%) dbt
21 37 (13.45%) Observability
22 36 (13.09%) Amazon RDS
22 36 (13.09%) Apache Arrow
22 36 (13.09%) Dremio
22 36 (13.09%) NumPy

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 41 (14.91%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (10.91%) Apache
3 18 (6.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 275 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (22.91%) Serverless
3 49 (17.82%) Azure
4 47 (17.09%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (14.55%) SaaS
6 38 (13.82%) Amazon S3
7 37 (13.45%) dbt
8 35 (12.73%) Amazon EKS
9 33 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (11.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 28 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (10.18%) GCP
12 23 (8.36%) GitHub
13 22 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (7.64%) Snowflake
15 19 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (6.55%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (6.18%) Amazon Kinesis
18 13 (4.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.00%) Firewall
2 19 (6.91%) LAN
2 19 (6.91%) WAN
2 19 (6.91%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (6.18%) Cisco ASA
3 17 (6.18%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (4.36%) VPN
5 10 (3.64%) BGP
6 5 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.82%) IPsec
6 5 (1.82%) MPLS
6 5 (1.82%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.82%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.82%) OSPF
6 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.82%) VLAN
6 5 (1.82%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.82%) WLAN
7 4 (1.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.73%) Apache Iceberg
2 43 (15.64%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (13.09%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (13.09%) Apache Arrow
3 36 (13.09%) Dremio
4 26 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (8.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 24 (8.73%) Data Lake
6 21 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (6.91%) Apache Ignite
8 11 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (4.00%) MySQL
9 9 (3.27%) Big Data
9 9 (3.27%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.91%) Apache Hive
10 8 (2.91%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.18%) Flink
11 6 (2.18%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.18%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.55%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.36%) Git
3 8 (2.91%) GitLab
4 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.09%) NUnit
6 2 (0.73%) Deequ
6 2 (0.73%) Gradle
6 2 (0.73%) JIRA
6 2 (0.73%) Maven
6 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) Ant
7 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
7 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 102 (37.09%) Finance
2 44 (16.00%) Banking
3 42 (15.27%) Front Office
4 31 (11.27%) Social Skills
5 27 (9.82%) Investment Banking
6 19 (6.91%) Financial Institution
6 19 (6.91%) Law
7 12 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.00%) Retail
9 10 (3.64%) Back Office
9 10 (3.64%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Games
11 5 (1.82%) Legal
11 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.45%) Advertising
13 3 (1.09%) Billing
14 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.09%) NumPy
1 36 (13.09%) Pandas
1 36 (13.09%) SciPy
2 29 (10.55%) React
3 28 (10.18%) Node.js
4 19 (6.91%) gRPC
4 19 (6.91%) Kafka
4 19 (6.91%) Protocol Buffers
5 17 (6.18%) .NET
5 17 (6.18%) AngularJS
5 17 (6.18%) Vue
6 13 (4.73%) AWS CDK
6 13 (4.73%) PySpark
7 11 (4.00%) RESTful
8 9 (3.27%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.27%) REST
9 8 (2.91%) boto
9 8 (2.91%) OAuth
9 8 (2.91%) Spark Streaming
10 7 (2.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 42 (15.27%) Fixed Income
3 36 (13.09%) Equities
4 29 (10.55%) Hedge funds
5 27 (9.82%) Data Centre
5 27 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (9.45%) Cloud Native
7 19 (6.91%) Derivative
7 19 (6.91%) Pricing Data
8 13 (4.73%) Management Information System
9 11 (4.00%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.91%) e-Learning
11 8 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (2.55%) Blog
13 6 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.45%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.45%) Low-Code
15 3 (1.09%) Clustering
15 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.00%) Linux
2 10 (3.64%) Unix
3 6 (2.18%) Windows
4 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (35.27%) CI/CD
2 83 (30.18%) DevOps
3 81 (29.45%) Software Engineering
4 73 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (23.27%) Agile
6 42 (15.27%) Investment Management
7 41 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (14.18%) Platform Engineering
9 37 (13.45%) Asset Management
9 37 (13.45%) Observability
10 33 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (10.55%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (10.18%) Data Engineering
13 27 (9.82%) Cloud Security
13 27 (9.82%) ETL
14 25 (9.09%) Fintech
15 24 (8.73%) Computer Science
15 24 (8.73%) High Availability
16 21 (7.64%) AI
16 21 (7.64%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 131 (47.64%) Python
2 71 (25.82%) Java
3 60 (21.82%) TypeScript
4 43 (15.64%) JavaScript
5 27 (9.82%) SQL
6 26 (9.45%) Bash
7 23 (8.36%) C#
8 11 (4.00%) Go
9 10 (3.64%) Scala
10 8 (2.91%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.09%) Bicep
11 3 (1.09%) Rust
12 2 (0.73%) C
12 2 (0.73%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (11.27%) Degree
2 26 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 17 (6.18%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.09%) CCNP
6 14 (5.09%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.36%) CCIE
7 12 (4.36%) CCNA
7 12 (4.36%) CCSA
7 12 (4.36%) CCSE
8 8 (2.91%) CISSP
9 7 (2.55%) CCSK
10 6 (2.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.45%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.00%) GDPR
3 10 (3.64%) PCI DSS
3 10 (3.64%) SOC 2
4 9 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.55%) QA
6 5 (1.82%) NIST
7 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (10.91%) Docker
2 8 (2.91%) HDFS
3 1 (0.36%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.36%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.36%) Postfix
3 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 75 (27.27%) Terraform
2 42 (15.27%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.91%) Grafana
4 17 (6.18%) Ansible
5 12 (4.36%) FortiGate
6 9 (3.27%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.55%) Argo
8 2 (0.73%) Kibana
8 2 (0.73%) logstash
8 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) Nessus
9 1 (0.36%) Podman
9 1 (0.36%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (8.36%) Cisco
2 17 (6.18%) CheckPoint
2 17 (6.18%) Fortinet
3 11 (4.00%) Databricks
3 11 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.64%) SolarWinds
5 8 (2.91%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.55%) Google
7 5 (1.82%) Meraki
7 5 (1.82%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.09%) Informatica
8 3 (1.09%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.09%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.09%) SAP
8 3 (1.09%) Talend
9 2 (0.73%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.73%) Okta
9 2 (0.73%) Pega
9 2 (0.73%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.73%) Salesforce