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 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 294 304
Rank change year-on-year -56 +10 +79
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 345 601 535
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.88% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.93% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 242 496 471
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £78,125 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%

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 47,621 64,483 50,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.87% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 29,449 36,300 38,919
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -4.66% -

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 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 16 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 14 November 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 -51 317 £106,250 +18.06% 195
London -37 245 £110,000 +4.76% 100
Work from Home -57 176 £110,000 +10.00% 139
UK excluding London +41 92 £72,500 +3.57% 107
Midlands +66 28 £72,500 - 6
Scotland +21 26 £100,000 +100.00% 5
North of England +28 25 £82,500 +26.92% 73
North West +51 22 £85,000 +44.68% 52
West Midlands +52 21 £72,500 - 3
South East -2 11 £72,500 +20.83% 19
East Midlands +18 7 £54,000 -16.92% 3
East of England +18 3 £62,500 - 2
Yorkshire -4 2 £67,500 +3.85% 20
South West +8 1 - - 2
Wales +7 1 £60,000 +41.18%
North East +6 1 £55,000 -21.43% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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.

1 345 (100.00%) AWS
2 240 (69.57%) Python
3 198 (57.39%) Software Engineering
4 182 (52.75%) Agile
5 143 (41.45%) Amazon Athena
5 143 (41.45%) Java
6 134 (38.84%) Apache Iceberg
7 132 (38.26%) JavaScript
8 129 (37.39%) TypeScript
9 127 (36.81%) Apache Airflow
10 125 (36.23%) Investment Management
11 123 (35.65%) Asset Management
12 122 (35.36%) dbt
13 121 (35.07%) Apache Arrow
13 121 (35.07%) Dremio
13 121 (35.07%) NumPy
13 121 (35.07%) Pandas
13 121 (35.07%) SciPy
14 119 (34.49%) CI/CD
15 113 (32.75%) DevOps
16 96 (27.83%) Terraform
17 76 (22.03%) GCP
18 74 (21.45%) Apache
19 73 (21.16%) PostgreSQL
20 68 (19.71%) Node.js
21 67 (19.42%) Data Lake
21 67 (19.42%) Kubernetes
21 67 (19.42%) React
22 65 (18.84%) Snowflake
23 64 (18.55%) Fintech

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
1 127 (36.81%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (21.45%) Apache
3 22 (6.38%) Apache Spark
4 16 (4.64%) Confluence
5 7 (2.03%) nginx
6 4 (1.16%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.87%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 345 (100.00%) AWS
2 122 (35.36%) dbt
3 76 (22.03%) GCP
4 65 (18.84%) Snowflake
5 57 (16.52%) Amazon S3
6 52 (15.07%) Serverless
7 50 (14.49%) Azure
8 49 (14.20%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (11.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 33 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (8.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 27 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (6.09%) GitHub
16 20 (5.80%) AWS KMS
17 19 (5.51%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
18 15 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (4.06%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.70%) Firewall
2 15 (4.35%) DNS
3 13 (3.77%) VPN
4 11 (3.19%) LAN
4 11 (3.19%) WAN
5 9 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (2.03%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (2.03%) HTTP
6 7 (2.03%) Network Security
7 6 (1.74%) FTP
7 6 (1.74%) IMAP
7 6 (1.74%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.74%) SMTP
7 6 (1.74%) SSH
8 5 (1.45%) BGP
8 5 (1.45%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (1.16%) Wireless
10 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.87%) VLAN
11 2 (0.58%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (41.45%) Amazon Athena
2 134 (38.84%) Apache Iceberg
3 121 (35.07%) Apache Arrow
3 121 (35.07%) Dremio
4 73 (21.16%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (19.42%) Data Lake
6 61 (17.68%) Apache Ignite
7 43 (12.46%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (8.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (7.54%) Big Data
10 19 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.35%) NoSQL
12 12 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (2.61%) DynamoDB
13 9 (2.61%) Hadoop
13 9 (2.61%) SQL Server
14 8 (2.32%) Apache Hive
15 7 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.74%) Apache Hudi
16 6 (1.74%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (11.30%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.83%) Git
3 20 (5.80%) JIRA
4 16 (4.64%) GitLab
5 14 (4.06%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.74%) JUnit
8 5 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.16%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.87%) Ant
10 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.87%) Maven
11 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.58%) Selenium
11 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.29%) Deequ
12 1 (0.29%) Gradle
General
1 210 (60.87%) Finance
2 125 (36.23%) Front Office
3 109 (31.59%) Banking
4 65 (18.84%) Investment Banking
5 56 (16.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (14.78%) Law
7 33 (9.57%) Social Skills
8 27 (7.83%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (3.48%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.32%) Legal
12 7 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.45%) Advertising
13 5 (1.45%) Retail
14 4 (1.16%) Games
14 4 (1.16%) Marketing
15 3 (0.87%) Back Office
16 1 (0.29%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (35.07%) NumPy
1 121 (35.07%) Pandas
1 121 (35.07%) SciPy
2 68 (19.71%) Node.js
3 67 (19.42%) React
4 61 (17.68%) gRPC
4 61 (17.68%) Protocol Buffers
5 60 (17.39%) AngularJS
5 60 (17.39%) Vue
6 29 (8.41%) Kafka
7 22 (6.38%) Spring
8 16 (4.64%) AWS CDK
9 13 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (3.48%) .NET
10 12 (3.48%) Spark Streaming
10 12 (3.48%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.19%) PySpark
11 11 (3.19%) RESTful
12 8 (2.32%) boto
12 8 (2.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 126 (36.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 125 (36.23%) Equities
2 125 (36.23%) Fixed Income
3 69 (20.00%) Derivative
4 62 (17.97%) Hedge funds
5 61 (17.68%) Pricing Data
6 35 (10.14%) Cloud Native
7 31 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (5.22%) Algorithms
9 17 (4.93%) e-Learning
10 14 (4.06%) Data Centre
10 14 (4.06%) Replication
11 11 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (2.61%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.32%) Equity Derivative
14 6 (1.74%) Management Information System
15 4 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (1.16%) Low-Code
15 4 (1.16%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.86%) Linux
2 20 (5.80%) Windows
3 15 (4.35%) VMS
4 10 (2.90%) Unix
5 6 (1.74%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (1.74%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (57.39%) Software Engineering
2 182 (52.75%) Agile
3 125 (36.23%) Investment Management
4 123 (35.65%) Asset Management
5 119 (34.49%) CI/CD
6 113 (32.75%) DevOps
7 64 (18.55%) Fintech
8 62 (17.97%) Risk Management
9 60 (17.39%) Order Management
9 60 (17.39%) Performance Attribution
10 59 (17.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 43 (12.46%) AI
11 43 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (12.46%) SDLC
12 36 (10.43%) Machine Learning
13 33 (9.57%) Mentoring
14 32 (9.28%) Containerisation
14 32 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
15 29 (8.41%) Data Pipeline
16 28 (8.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 240 (69.57%) Python
2 143 (41.45%) Java
3 132 (38.26%) JavaScript
4 129 (37.39%) TypeScript
5 37 (10.72%) SQL
6 31 (8.99%) Bash
7 27 (7.83%) PowerShell
8 20 (5.80%) Groovy
9 19 (5.51%) Go
9 19 (5.51%) Scala
10 13 (3.77%) C#
11 9 (2.61%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.87%) Bicep
12 3 (0.87%) C++
12 3 (0.87%) Ruby
12 3 (0.87%) Rust
13 2 (0.58%) C
13 2 (0.58%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (10.72%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.28%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.67%) Degree
4 17 (4.93%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.19%) CCNP
5 11 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.03%) CCIE
6 7 (2.03%) CCNA
6 7 (2.03%) CCSA
6 7 (2.03%) CCSE
7 6 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.58%) CISSP
9 2 (0.58%) RHCE
9 2 (0.58%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.29%) CCSK
10 1 (0.29%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.90%) GDPR
2 9 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.45%) QA
5 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.58%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (15.07%) Docker
2 14 (4.06%) DFS Replication
3 9 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.32%) HDFS
5 6 (1.74%) Dovecot
5 6 (1.74%) Postfix
5 6 (1.74%) Squid
6 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (27.83%) Terraform
2 67 (19.42%) Kubernetes
3 41 (11.88%) Grafana
4 38 (11.01%) Ansible
5 28 (8.12%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.74%) Nessus
6 6 (1.74%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.45%) Argo
7 5 (1.45%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.87%) Kibana
8 3 (0.87%) logstash
8 3 (0.87%) Podman
8 3 (0.87%) Puppet
9 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.29%) Istio
9 1 (0.29%) linkerd
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (5.80%) ServiceNow
2 16 (4.64%) Databricks
3 14 (4.06%) Cisco
4 10 (2.90%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.61%) Google
5 9 (2.61%) IBM
6 8 (2.32%) Juniper
7 7 (2.03%) CheckPoint
7 7 (2.03%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.03%) Splunk
8 6 (1.74%) Facebook
8 6 (1.74%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (1.74%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.45%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.45%) Microsoft
10 3 (0.87%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.87%) Cribl.io
10 3 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.87%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.58%) OpenText