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 9 January 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 299 295
Rank change year-on-year -98 -4 +85
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 264 514 547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.96% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.03% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 193 428 414
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £122,500 £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 54,127 49,926 51,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 92.94% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 33,436 25,964 39,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,250
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 9 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 9 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 -90 252 £100,000 +6.67% 87
London -63 178 £105,000 - 42
Work from Home -82 124 £105,000 +5.00% 59
UK excluding London +10 76 £68,750 +5.77% 61
North of England -8 25 £82,500 +26.92% 20
North West +21 21 £85,000 +25.93% 9
Midlands +30 18 £51,500 -20.77% 5
East of England +20 14 £75,000 +17.65% 5
South East +7 11 £62,500 +9.31% 21
West Midlands +31 10 £50,000 -2.44% 4
East Midlands -8 8 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland +11 6 - - 2
South West -3 5 £72,500 +3.57% 7
North East +5 2 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Yorkshire -22 2 £67,500 +28.57% 8

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 264 (100.00%) AWS
2 147 (55.68%) Python
3 92 (34.85%) Software Engineering
4 91 (34.47%) CI/CD
5 81 (30.68%) Agile
5 81 (30.68%) DevOps
6 75 (28.41%) Java
6 75 (28.41%) TypeScript
7 67 (25.38%) Terraform
8 64 (24.24%) Apache Iceberg
9 63 (23.86%) JavaScript
10 62 (23.48%) Amazon Athena
11 61 (23.11%) Apache Airflow
11 61 (23.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 61 (23.11%) Investment Management
12 57 (21.59%) dbt
13 56 (21.21%) Asset Management
14 55 (20.83%) Apache Arrow
14 55 (20.83%) Dremio
14 55 (20.83%) NumPy
14 55 (20.83%) Pandas
14 55 (20.83%) SciPy
15 52 (19.70%) Serverless
16 51 (19.32%) Azure
17 42 (15.91%) Kubernetes
18 41 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
19 39 (14.77%) Apache
19 39 (14.77%) Node.js
20 37 (14.02%) GCP
21 36 (13.64%) PostgreSQL

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 61 (23.11%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (14.77%) Apache
3 16 (6.06%) 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 57 (21.59%) dbt
3 52 (19.70%) Serverless
4 51 (19.32%) Azure
5 41 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (14.02%) GCP
7 33 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 31 (11.74%) Snowflake
9 29 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (10.98%) SaaS
10 28 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (7.58%) GitHub
13 18 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
14 16 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
14 16 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.20%) Firewall
2 18 (6.82%) LAN
2 18 (6.82%) WAN
2 18 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (5.30%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (5.30%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (4.55%) VPN
5 7 (2.65%) BGP
5 7 (2.65%) DNS
6 4 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (1.52%) IPsec
6 4 (1.52%) MPLS
6 4 (1.52%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.52%) Network Security
6 4 (1.52%) NX-OS
6 4 (1.52%) OSPF
6 4 (1.52%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.52%) VXLAN
6 4 (1.52%) Wireless
6 4 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (24.24%) Apache Iceberg
2 62 (23.48%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (20.83%) Apache Arrow
3 55 (20.83%) Dremio
4 36 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (12.88%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (12.88%) Data Lake
6 29 (10.98%) Apache Ignite
7 25 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (8.71%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.79%) 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
13 6 (2.27%) Flink
13 6 (2.27%) SQL Server
14 5 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (7.58%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.30%) 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
1 112 (42.42%) Finance
2 61 (23.11%) Front Office
3 45 (17.05%) Banking
4 33 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 29 (10.98%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.30%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.55%) Law
8 11 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.41%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.03%) Retail
11 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.27%) Games
13 5 (1.89%) Back Office
13 5 (1.89%) Legal
13 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.14%) Advertising
14 3 (1.14%) Billing
15 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.83%) NumPy
1 55 (20.83%) Pandas
1 55 (20.83%) SciPy
2 39 (14.77%) Node.js
3 36 (13.64%) React
4 29 (10.98%) gRPC
4 29 (10.98%) Protocol Buffers
5 26 (9.85%) AngularJS
5 26 (9.85%) Vue
6 20 (7.58%) Kafka
7 14 (5.30%) .NET
8 10 (3.79%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.41%) PySpark
9 9 (3.41%) RESTful
10 8 (3.03%) boto
10 8 (3.03%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (2.27%) OAuth
11 6 (2.27%) REST
11 6 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (24.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 61 (23.11%) Fixed Income
3 55 (20.83%) Equities
4 37 (14.02%) Hedge funds
5 29 (10.98%) Derivative
5 29 (10.98%) Pricing Data
6 23 (8.71%) Data Centre
7 19 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (6.06%) Cloud Native
9 12 (4.55%) Management Information System
10 10 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (3.79%) Security Posture
11 8 (3.03%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.89%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.52%) Web3
14 3 (1.14%) Clustering
14 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.09%) Linux
2 9 (3.41%) Unix
3 8 (3.03%) Windows
4 2 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.76%) VMS
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.85%) Software Engineering
2 91 (34.47%) CI/CD
3 81 (30.68%) Agile
3 81 (30.68%) DevOps
4 61 (23.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (23.11%) Investment Management
5 56 (21.21%) Asset Management
6 34 (12.88%) Fintech
7 31 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
7 31 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (10.61%) Observability
8 28 (10.61%) Risk Management
9 26 (9.85%) Order Management
9 26 (9.85%) Performance Attribution
10 25 (9.47%) Cloud Security
10 25 (9.47%) Data Engineering
10 25 (9.47%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (9.09%) ETL
12 20 (7.58%) AI
12 20 (7.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 147 (55.68%) Python
2 75 (28.41%) Java
2 75 (28.41%) TypeScript
3 63 (23.86%) JavaScript
4 30 (11.36%) Bash
5 29 (10.98%) SQL
6 20 (7.58%) C#
7 11 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.79%) Scala
9 8 (3.03%) Go
10 6 (2.27%) Groovy
11 3 (1.14%) Bicep
11 3 (1.14%) Rust
12 2 (0.76%) C
12 2 (0.76%) C++
12 2 (0.76%) Ruby
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (10.23%) Degree
2 21 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (6.44%) AWS Certification
5 16 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.30%) CCNP
6 14 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.79%) CCIE
7 10 (3.79%) CCNA
7 10 (3.79%) CCSA
7 10 (3.79%) CCSE
8 7 (2.65%) CISSP
9 6 (2.27%) CCSK
10 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.55%) GDPR
3 8 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.89%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.52%) NIST
5 4 (1.52%) QA
6 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
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 67 (25.38%) 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 2 (0.76%) Kibana
8 2 (0.76%) logstash
8 2 (0.76%) Nessus
8 2 (0.76%) Podman
8 2 (0.76%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.76%) Puppet
8 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.95%) Cisco
2 14 (5.30%) CheckPoint
2 14 (5.30%) Fortinet
3 11 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.41%) Databricks
5 8 (3.03%) SolarWinds
6 7 (2.65%) Google
7 6 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.52%) Meraki
9 3 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.14%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.76%) Cribl.io
10 2 (0.76%) Informatica
10 2 (0.76%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.76%) Okta
10 2 (0.76%) OpenText
10 2 (0.76%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.76%) SAP
10 2 (0.76%) Talend