AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 288 312
Rank change year-on-year -95 +24 +64
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 285 630 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.97% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.03% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 212 526 436
10th Percentile £61,250 £54,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £79,688 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +16.13% -6.06%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.45% +5.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 48,887 61,129 48,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 94.26% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 30,843 33,997 37,695
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,656 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 1 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 1 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 -91 266 £105,000 +13.51% 55
London -66 210 £110,000 +4.76% 31
Work from Home -74 147 £110,000 +4.76% 26
UK excluding London +2 68 £70,000 +7.69% 38
Midlands +55 22 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North of England +4 21 £82,500 +26.92% 14
North West +41 18 £85,000 +30.77% 7
Scotland +25 16 £100,000 +122.22% 1
West Midlands +62 13 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands +20 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South East +17 9 £62,500 +4.17% 17
East of England +20 2 £60,000 -4.00%
Yorkshire -11 2 £67,500 +8.00% 2
North East +10 1 £55,000 -21.43% 5
South West -4 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 285 (100.00%) AWS
2 199 (69.82%) Python
3 149 (52.28%) Software Engineering
4 141 (49.47%) Agile
5 114 (40.00%) Java
6 110 (38.60%) Amazon Athena
7 108 (37.89%) JavaScript
8 107 (37.54%) Apache Iceberg
8 107 (37.54%) TypeScript
9 104 (36.49%) Investment Management
10 103 (36.14%) Apache Airflow
11 100 (35.09%) dbt
12 99 (34.74%) Asset Management
13 98 (34.39%) Apache Arrow
13 98 (34.39%) Dremio
13 98 (34.39%) NumPy
13 98 (34.39%) Pandas
13 98 (34.39%) SciPy
14 95 (33.33%) CI/CD
15 91 (31.93%) DevOps
16 69 (24.21%) Terraform
17 63 (22.11%) Apache
18 59 (20.70%) Data Lake
19 58 (20.35%) GCP
20 57 (20.00%) Node.js
20 57 (20.00%) Snowflake
21 55 (19.30%) React
22 53 (18.60%) Apache Ignite
22 53 (18.60%) gRPC
22 53 (18.60%) 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
1 103 (36.14%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (22.11%) Apache
3 17 (5.96%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.81%) Confluence
5 4 (1.40%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.05%) JBoss
6 3 (1.05%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 285 (100.00%) AWS
2 100 (35.09%) dbt
3 58 (20.35%) GCP
4 57 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 43 (15.09%) Azure
5 43 (15.09%) Serverless
6 39 (13.68%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (13.33%) Amazon S3
8 29 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (7.72%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (6.67%) GitHub
14 18 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (5.61%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (5.61%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (3.86%) AWS KMS
18 10 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.67%) Firewall
2 11 (3.86%) LAN
2 11 (3.86%) WAN
3 10 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (3.16%) VPN
5 8 (2.81%) DNS
6 7 (2.46%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (2.11%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.75%) Network Security
9 4 (1.40%) BGP
9 4 (1.40%) HTTP
9 4 (1.40%) Wireless
10 3 (1.05%) FTP
10 3 (1.05%) IMAP
10 3 (1.05%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (1.05%) SMTP
10 3 (1.05%) SSH
10 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.05%) VLAN
11 1 (0.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (38.60%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (37.54%) Apache Iceberg
3 98 (34.39%) Apache Arrow
3 98 (34.39%) Dremio
4 59 (20.70%) Data Lake
5 53 (18.60%) Apache Ignite
5 53 (18.60%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (11.23%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (8.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (5.96%) Big Data
10 10 (3.51%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.16%) Hadoop
12 8 (2.81%) Apache Hive
12 8 (2.81%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.81%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (2.11%) Flink
15 5 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.02%) Git
3 12 (4.21%) GitLab
3 12 (4.21%) JIRA
4 8 (2.81%) Vagrant
5 7 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.05%) Ant
7 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.05%) JUnit
7 3 (1.05%) Maven
7 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.35%) Deequ
9 1 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 167 (58.60%) Finance
2 104 (36.49%) Front Office
3 82 (28.77%) Banking
4 55 (19.30%) Investment Banking
5 29 (10.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (9.82%) Law
7 24 (8.42%) Social Skills
8 16 (5.61%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.21%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.11%) Legal
12 5 (1.75%) Games
12 5 (1.75%) Retail
13 3 (1.05%) Advertising
13 3 (1.05%) Back Office
13 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.70%) Marketing
15 1 (0.35%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (34.39%) NumPy
1 98 (34.39%) Pandas
1 98 (34.39%) SciPy
2 57 (20.00%) Node.js
3 55 (19.30%) React
4 53 (18.60%) gRPC
4 53 (18.60%) Protocol Buffers
5 45 (15.79%) AngularJS
5 45 (15.79%) Vue
6 25 (8.77%) Kafka
7 13 (4.56%) Spring
8 12 (4.21%) .NET
8 12 (4.21%) AWS CDK
8 12 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (3.51%) Spark Streaming
10 9 (3.16%) RESTful
11 8 (2.81%) boto
11 8 (2.81%) PySpark
12 7 (2.46%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 104 (36.49%) Fixed Income
1 104 (36.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 100 (35.09%) Equities
3 57 (20.00%) Derivative
4 55 (19.30%) Hedge funds
5 53 (18.60%) Pricing Data
6 23 (8.07%) Cloud Native
7 22 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (4.91%) Data Centre
9 11 (3.86%) e-Learning
9 11 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (3.16%) Algorithms
11 8 (2.81%) Replication
12 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (2.11%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (1.40%) Equity Derivative
14 4 (1.40%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.40%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.47%) Linux
2 13 (4.56%) Windows
3 8 (2.81%) Unix
3 8 (2.81%) VMS
4 3 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.05%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (52.28%) Software Engineering
2 141 (49.47%) Agile
3 104 (36.49%) Investment Management
4 99 (34.74%) Asset Management
5 95 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 91 (31.93%) DevOps
7 51 (17.89%) Fintech
8 47 (16.49%) Risk Management
9 45 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (15.79%) Order Management
9 45 (15.79%) Performance Attribution
10 32 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (9.12%) AI
11 26 (9.12%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (8.77%) Data Engineering
12 25 (8.77%) SDLC
13 23 (8.07%) Containerisation
14 22 (7.72%) Mentoring
14 22 (7.72%) Platform Engineering
15 21 (7.37%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 199 (69.82%) Python
2 114 (40.00%) Java
3 108 (37.89%) JavaScript
4 107 (37.54%) TypeScript
5 28 (9.82%) SQL
6 23 (8.07%) Bash
7 16 (5.61%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.26%) Scala
9 14 (4.91%) C#
9 14 (4.91%) Go
9 14 (4.91%) Groovy
10 5 (1.75%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.05%) Bicep
11 3 (1.05%) C++
11 3 (1.05%) Ruby
11 3 (1.05%) Rust
12 2 (0.70%) C
13 1 (0.35%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (8.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.32%) Degree
4 13 (4.56%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.86%) CCNP
5 11 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.46%) CCIE
6 7 (2.46%) CCNA
6 7 (2.46%) CCSA
6 7 (2.46%) CCSE
7 6 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.05%) CISSP
8 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.70%) CCSK
9 2 (0.70%) RHCE
9 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.35%) CISA
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.51%) GDPR
2 9 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.05%) QA
4 3 (1.05%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 35 (12.28%) Docker
2 8 (2.81%) DFS Replication
2 8 (2.81%) HDFS
3 5 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.05%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.05%) Postfix
4 3 (1.05%) Squid
Systems Management
1 69 (24.21%) Terraform
2 51 (17.89%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.47%) Grafana
4 26 (9.12%) Ansible
5 18 (6.32%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.46%) Argo
7 6 (2.11%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.05%) Kibana
8 3 (1.05%) logstash
8 3 (1.05%) Nessus
8 3 (1.05%) Podman
8 3 (1.05%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.05%) Puppet
9 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (4.91%) Cisco
2 13 (4.56%) ServiceNow
3 12 (4.21%) Databricks
4 7 (2.46%) CheckPoint
4 7 (2.46%) Fortinet
5 6 (2.11%) Google
6 5 (1.75%) Juniper
6 5 (1.75%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.40%) IBM
7 4 (1.40%) Splunk
8 3 (1.05%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.05%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.05%) Facebook
8 3 (1.05%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.05%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.70%) OpenText