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 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 291 289
Rank change year-on-year -110 -2 +86
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 264 535 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.96% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.04% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 196 446 407
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,938 £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 £135,000 £118,750 £116,875
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £143,750
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 53,514 51,675 48,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.18% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32,893 27,368 37,623
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,173 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -93 252 £100,000 +5.26% 294
London -72 185 £110,000 +4.76% 59
Work from Home -86 131 £110,000 +10.00% 142
UK excluding London -7 69 £66,250 +1.92% 269
North of England -12 22 £75,000 +15.38% 68
North West +22 19 £82,500 +22.22% 30
Midlands +29 17 £51,500 -20.77% 48
East of England +23 12 £75,000 +20.00% 38
South East +11 11 £62,500 +9.31% 59
West Midlands +35 9 £50,000 -2.44% 26
East Midlands -10 8 £70,000 +7.69% 19
Scotland +11 6 - - 16
South West +4 4 £72,500 +3.57% 31
Yorkshire -20 2 £67,500 +28.57% 33
North East +5 1 £55,000 -21.43% 5

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

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, 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.

1 264 (100.00%) AWS
2 156 (59.09%) Python
3 100 (37.88%) Software Engineering
4 91 (34.47%) Agile
5 89 (33.71%) CI/CD
6 82 (31.06%) Java
6 82 (31.06%) TypeScript
7 80 (30.30%) DevOps
8 75 (28.41%) Apache Iceberg
9 74 (28.03%) JavaScript
10 73 (27.65%) Amazon Athena
11 72 (27.27%) Investment Management
12 71 (26.89%) Apache Airflow
13 68 (25.76%) dbt
14 67 (25.38%) Asset Management
15 66 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
15 66 (25.00%) Dremio
15 66 (25.00%) NumPy
15 66 (25.00%) Pandas
15 66 (25.00%) SciPy
16 65 (24.62%) Terraform
17 57 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
18 49 (18.56%) Azure
18 49 (18.56%) Serverless
19 46 (17.42%) Apache
20 42 (15.91%) Data Lake
20 42 (15.91%) Kubernetes
20 42 (15.91%) Node.js
21 40 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
22 39 (14.77%) 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 71 (26.89%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (17.42%) Apache
3 15 (5.68%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.14%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.76%) Confluence
5 2 (0.76%) JBoss
5 2 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 264 (100.00%) AWS
2 68 (25.76%) dbt
3 49 (18.56%) Azure
3 49 (18.56%) Serverless
4 40 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (14.77%) GCP
5 39 (14.77%) Snowflake
6 32 (12.12%) Amazon S3
7 28 (10.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (10.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (9.47%) SaaS
10 23 (8.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (7.58%) GitHub
12 19 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (6.44%) Amazon Kinesis
14 16 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
14 16 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.82%) Firewall
2 17 (6.44%) LAN
2 17 (6.44%) WAN
2 17 (6.44%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (4.92%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (4.92%) Cisco Firepower
4 11 (4.17%) VPN
5 7 (2.65%) DNS
6 6 (2.27%) BGP
7 4 (1.52%) Network Security
7 4 (1.52%) Wireless
8 3 (1.14%) HTTP
8 3 (1.14%) IPsec
8 3 (1.14%) MPLS
8 3 (1.14%) NetScaler
8 3 (1.14%) OSPF
8 3 (1.14%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.14%) VLAN
8 3 (1.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (28.41%) Apache Iceberg
2 73 (27.65%) Amazon Athena
3 66 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
3 66 (25.00%) Dremio
4 42 (15.91%) Data Lake
5 38 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (14.02%) Apache Ignite
7 32 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.41%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.41%) Big Data
10 9 (3.41%) Hadoop
10 9 (3.41%) MySQL
11 8 (3.03%) Apache Hive
11 8 (3.03%) DynamoDB
12 7 (2.65%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.65%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.27%) Flink
14 3 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (7.58%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.92%) Git
3 9 (3.41%) GitLab
4 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.52%) JIRA
5 4 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.76%) Ant
6 2 (0.76%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.76%) Maven
6 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.76%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.38%) Deequ
7 1 (0.38%) Gradle
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
7 1 (0.38%) NUnit
General
1 121 (45.83%) Finance
2 72 (27.27%) Front Office
3 52 (19.70%) Banking
4 40 (15.15%) Investment Banking
5 28 (10.61%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.30%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.17%) Law
8 8 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.03%) Retail
9 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.89%) Back Office
10 5 (1.89%) Games
10 5 (1.89%) Legal
10 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.14%) Advertising
12 2 (0.76%) Billing
12 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (25.00%) NumPy
1 66 (25.00%) Pandas
1 66 (25.00%) SciPy
2 42 (15.91%) Node.js
3 39 (14.77%) React
4 37 (14.02%) gRPC
4 37 (14.02%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (10.98%) AngularJS
5 29 (10.98%) Vue
6 19 (7.20%) Kafka
7 14 (5.30%) .NET
8 11 (4.17%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.41%) RESTful
10 8 (3.03%) boto
10 8 (3.03%) Spark Streaming
11 7 (2.65%) PySpark
12 6 (2.27%) OAuth
12 6 (2.27%) Spring
13 5 (1.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 76 (28.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 72 (27.27%) Fixed Income
3 66 (25.00%) Equities
4 44 (16.67%) Hedge funds
5 37 (14.02%) Derivative
5 37 (14.02%) Pricing Data
6 22 (8.33%) Data Centre
7 18 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (6.06%) Cloud Native
9 10 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.79%) Management Information System
10 8 (3.03%) e-Learning
10 8 (3.03%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.89%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.52%) Web3
13 3 (1.14%) Clustering
13 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.47%) Linux
2 8 (3.03%) Unix
2 8 (3.03%) Windows
3 2 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.76%) VMS
3 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (37.88%) Software Engineering
2 91 (34.47%) Agile
3 89 (33.71%) CI/CD
4 80 (30.30%) DevOps
5 72 (27.27%) Investment Management
6 67 (25.38%) Asset Management
7 57 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (14.02%) Fintech
9 31 (11.74%) Risk Management
10 30 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (10.98%) Order Management
11 29 (10.98%) Performance Attribution
11 29 (10.98%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (10.23%) Observability
13 23 (8.71%) Data Engineering
13 23 (8.71%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (8.33%) Cloud Security
14 22 (8.33%) ETL
15 19 (7.20%) Computer Science
15 19 (7.20%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 156 (59.09%) Python
2 82 (31.06%) Java
2 82 (31.06%) TypeScript
3 74 (28.03%) JavaScript
4 28 (10.61%) Bash
5 26 (9.85%) SQL
6 19 (7.20%) C#
7 10 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.79%) Scala
8 8 (3.03%) Go
9 6 (2.27%) Groovy
10 3 (1.14%) Bicep
10 3 (1.14%) Rust
11 2 (0.76%) C
11 2 (0.76%) C++
11 2 (0.76%) Ruby
12 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (9.47%) Degree
2 19 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.30%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.30%) CCNP
4 14 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.79%) CCIE
5 10 (3.79%) CCNA
5 10 (3.79%) CCSA
5 10 (3.79%) CCSE
6 6 (2.27%) CISSP
7 5 (1.89%) CCSK
7 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.76%) RHCE
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 11 (4.17%) GDPR
2 7 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.89%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.89%) QA
3 5 (1.89%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.14%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (11.36%) Docker
2 8 (3.03%) HDFS
3 2 (0.76%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.76%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.76%) Postfix
3 2 (0.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 65 (24.62%) Terraform
2 42 (15.91%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.58%) Grafana
4 18 (6.82%) Ansible
5 11 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.79%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.65%) Argo
8 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.76%) Kibana
9 2 (0.76%) logstash
9 2 (0.76%) Nessus
9 2 (0.76%) Podman
9 2 (0.76%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (7.58%) Cisco
2 13 (4.92%) CheckPoint
2 13 (4.92%) Fortinet
3 10 (3.79%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.41%) Databricks
5 7 (2.65%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.27%) Google
7 5 (1.89%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.14%) Meraki
8 3 (1.14%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.76%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.76%) Cribl.io
9 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.76%) Okta
9 2 (0.76%) OpenText
9 2 (0.76%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.76%) SAP
9 2 (0.76%) Sonatype