AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 291 307
Rank change year-on-year -97 +16 +61
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 266 522 540
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.96% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.03% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 196 432 407
10th Percentile £54,250 £52,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £123,125 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% - -

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 54,122 50,451 51,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 92.94% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,399 26,377 39,403
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 7 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 7 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 -77 254 £100,000 +8.11% 89
London -69 181 £110,000 +4.76% 45
Work from Home -94 128 £110,000 +10.00% 58
UK excluding London +6 75 £68,750 +5.77% 60
North of England -8 24 £82,500 +26.92% 16
North West +20 20 £85,000 +25.93% 9
Midlands +23 18 £51,500 -20.77% 8
East of England +22 14 £75,000 +17.65% 4
South East +5 11 £62,500 +9.31% 19
West Midlands +30 10 £50,000 -2.44% 8
East Midlands -1 8 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland +2 6 - - 1
South West +2 5 £72,500 +3.57% 11
North East +3 2 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire -26 2 £67,500 +28.57% 6

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 266 (100.00%) AWS
2 152 (57.14%) Python
3 95 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 92 (34.59%) CI/CD
5 85 (31.95%) Agile
6 82 (30.83%) DevOps
7 78 (29.32%) Java
8 77 (28.95%) TypeScript
9 69 (25.94%) Terraform
10 68 (25.56%) Apache Iceberg
11 67 (25.19%) JavaScript
12 66 (24.81%) Amazon Athena
13 65 (24.44%) Apache Airflow
13 65 (24.44%) Investment Management
14 62 (23.31%) Infrastructure as Code
15 61 (22.93%) dbt
16 60 (22.56%) Asset Management
17 59 (22.18%) Apache Arrow
17 59 (22.18%) Dremio
17 59 (22.18%) NumPy
17 59 (22.18%) Pandas
17 59 (22.18%) SciPy
18 53 (19.92%) Serverless
19 52 (19.55%) Azure
20 43 (16.17%) Apache
21 42 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
21 42 (15.79%) Kubernetes
22 39 (14.66%) Node.js
23 38 (14.29%) Data Lake
24 37 (13.91%) GCP

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 65 (24.44%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (16.17%) Apache
3 16 (6.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.13%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.75%) Confluence
5 2 (0.75%) JBoss
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 266 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (22.93%) dbt
3 53 (19.92%) Serverless
4 52 (19.55%) Azure
5 42 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (13.91%) GCP
7 35 (13.16%) Snowflake
8 34 (12.78%) Amazon S3
9 30 (11.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (10.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 29 (10.90%) SaaS
11 28 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (10.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (7.89%) GitHub
14 18 (6.77%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (6.39%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (6.02%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
18 12 (4.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.14%) Firewall
2 18 (6.77%) LAN
2 18 (6.77%) WAN
2 18 (6.77%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (4.51%) VPN
5 7 (2.63%) BGP
5 7 (2.63%) DNS
6 4 (1.50%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (1.50%) IPsec
6 4 (1.50%) MPLS
6 4 (1.50%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.50%) Network Security
6 4 (1.50%) NX-OS
6 4 (1.50%) OSPF
6 4 (1.50%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.50%) VXLAN
6 4 (1.50%) Wireless
6 4 (1.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (25.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 66 (24.81%) Amazon Athena
3 59 (22.18%) Apache Arrow
3 59 (22.18%) Dremio
4 38 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 35 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (12.41%) Apache Ignite
7 25 (9.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.38%) Big Data
10 9 (3.38%) Hadoop
10 9 (3.38%) MySQL
11 8 (3.01%) Apache Hive
11 8 (3.01%) DynamoDB
12 7 (2.63%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.26%) Flink
13 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
14 5 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.26%) Git
3 9 (3.38%) GitLab
4 5 (1.88%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.50%) JIRA
5 4 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.75%) Ant
6 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.75%) Maven
6 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.75%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.38%) Deequ
7 1 (0.38%) Gradle
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
7 1 (0.38%) NUnit
General
1 116 (43.61%) Finance
2 65 (24.44%) Front Office
3 49 (18.42%) Banking
4 37 (13.91%) Investment Banking
5 29 (10.90%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.26%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.51%) Law
8 11 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.38%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.01%) Retail
11 7 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.26%) Games
13 5 (1.88%) Back Office
13 5 (1.88%) Legal
13 5 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.13%) Advertising
14 3 (1.13%) Billing
15 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (22.18%) NumPy
1 59 (22.18%) Pandas
1 59 (22.18%) SciPy
2 39 (14.66%) Node.js
3 36 (13.53%) React
4 33 (12.41%) gRPC
4 33 (12.41%) Protocol Buffers
5 26 (9.77%) AngularJS
5 26 (9.77%) Vue
6 20 (7.52%) Kafka
7 14 (5.26%) .NET
8 10 (3.76%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.38%) PySpark
9 9 (3.38%) RESTful
10 8 (3.01%) boto
10 8 (3.01%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (2.26%) OAuth
11 6 (2.26%) REST
11 6 (2.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 69 (25.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 65 (24.44%) Fixed Income
3 59 (22.18%) Equities
4 41 (15.41%) Hedge funds
5 33 (12.41%) Derivative
5 33 (12.41%) Pricing Data
6 23 (8.65%) Data Centre
7 19 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (6.02%) Cloud Native
9 12 (4.51%) Management Information System
10 10 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (3.76%) Security Posture
11 8 (3.01%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.88%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.50%) Web3
14 3 (1.13%) Clustering
14 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.77%) Linux
2 9 (3.38%) Unix
3 8 (3.01%) Windows
4 2 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.75%) VMS
4 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (35.71%) Software Engineering
2 92 (34.59%) CI/CD
3 85 (31.95%) Agile
4 82 (30.83%) DevOps
5 65 (24.44%) Investment Management
6 62 (23.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 60 (22.56%) Asset Management
8 34 (12.78%) Fintech
9 31 (11.65%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (10.53%) Observability
10 28 (10.53%) Risk Management
11 26 (9.77%) Order Management
11 26 (9.77%) Performance Attribution
12 25 (9.40%) Cloud Security
12 25 (9.40%) Data Engineering
13 24 (9.02%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (9.02%) ETL
14 20 (7.52%) Computer Science
14 20 (7.52%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 152 (57.14%) Python
2 78 (29.32%) Java
3 77 (28.95%) TypeScript
4 67 (25.19%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.65%) Bash
6 29 (10.90%) SQL
7 20 (7.52%) C#
8 11 (4.14%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.76%) Scala
10 8 (3.01%) Go
11 6 (2.26%) Groovy
12 3 (1.13%) Bicep
12 3 (1.13%) Rust
13 2 (0.75%) C
13 2 (0.75%) C++
13 2 (0.75%) Ruby
14 1 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (10.15%) Degree
2 21 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (6.39%) AWS Certification
5 16 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.26%) CCNP
6 14 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.76%) CCIE
7 10 (3.76%) CCNA
7 10 (3.76%) CCSA
7 10 (3.76%) CCSE
8 7 (2.63%) CISSP
9 6 (2.26%) CCSK
10 5 (1.88%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.51%) GDPR
3 8 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.88%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.88%) QA
4 5 (1.88%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.50%) NIST
6 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (11.65%) Docker
2 8 (3.01%) HDFS
3 2 (0.75%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.75%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.75%) Postfix
3 2 (0.75%) Squid
Systems Management
1 69 (25.94%) Terraform
2 42 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.89%) Grafana
4 18 (6.77%) Ansible
5 12 (4.51%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.76%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.63%) Argo
8 2 (0.75%) Kibana
8 2 (0.75%) logstash
8 2 (0.75%) Nessus
8 2 (0.75%) Podman
8 2 (0.75%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.75%) Puppet
8 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.89%) Cisco
2 14 (5.26%) CheckPoint
2 14 (5.26%) Fortinet
3 11 (4.14%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.38%) Databricks
5 8 (3.01%) SolarWinds
6 7 (2.63%) Google
7 6 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.50%) Meraki
9 3 (1.13%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.13%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.13%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.75%) Informatica
10 2 (0.75%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.75%) Okta
10 2 (0.75%) OpenText
10 2 (0.75%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.75%) SAP
10 2 (0.75%) Talend