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 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 292 293
Rank change year-on-year -95 +1 +78
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 263 521 544
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.95% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.02% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 193 432 411
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £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 £138,750 £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 53,612 51,163 49,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.49% 93.12% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,999 26,912 38,093
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £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 £77,500
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 2 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 2 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 -86 251 £100,000 +8.11% 85
London -71 184 £110,000 +4.76% 32
Work from Home -86 128 £110,000 +10.00% 58
UK excluding London -6 69 £66,250 +1.92% 68
North of England -4 21 £80,000 +23.08% 18
North West +30 18 £85,000 +25.93% 10
Midlands +24 17 £51,500 -20.77% 10
East of England +28 13 £75,000 +20.00% 8
South East +5 11 £62,500 +9.31% 15
West Midlands +32 9 £50,000 -2.44% 9
East Midlands -19 8 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland +3 6 - - 4
South West +5 4 £72,500 +3.57% 12
Yorkshire -21 2 £67,500 +28.57% 8
North East +3 1 £55,000 -21.43%

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 263 (100.00%) AWS
2 153 (58.17%) Python
3 96 (36.50%) Software Engineering
4 90 (34.22%) CI/CD
5 87 (33.08%) Agile
6 80 (30.42%) DevOps
7 78 (29.66%) Java
7 78 (29.66%) TypeScript
8 71 (27.00%) Apache Iceberg
9 70 (26.62%) JavaScript
10 69 (26.24%) Amazon Athena
11 68 (25.86%) Investment Management
12 67 (25.48%) Apache Airflow
12 67 (25.48%) Terraform
13 64 (24.33%) dbt
14 63 (23.95%) Asset Management
15 62 (23.57%) Apache Arrow
15 62 (23.57%) Dremio
15 62 (23.57%) NumPy
15 62 (23.57%) Pandas
15 62 (23.57%) SciPy
16 59 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
17 51 (19.39%) Azure
18 50 (19.01%) Serverless
19 42 (15.97%) Apache
19 42 (15.97%) Kubernetes
19 42 (15.97%) Node.js
20 40 (15.21%) AWS Lambda
20 40 (15.21%) GCP
21 39 (14.83%) React

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 67 (25.48%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (15.97%) Apache
3 15 (5.70%) 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
1 263 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (24.33%) dbt
3 51 (19.39%) Azure
4 50 (19.01%) Serverless
5 40 (15.21%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (15.21%) GCP
6 35 (13.31%) Snowflake
7 32 (12.17%) Amazon S3
8 28 (10.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (10.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (10.27%) SaaS
10 25 (9.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (7.60%) GitHub
12 19 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (6.46%) Amazon Kinesis
14 16 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (6.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 16 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.22%) Firewall
2 18 (6.84%) LAN
2 18 (6.84%) WAN
2 18 (6.84%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (5.32%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (5.32%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (4.56%) VPN
5 7 (2.66%) BGP
5 7 (2.66%) 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 71 (27.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 69 (26.24%) Amazon Athena
3 62 (23.57%) Apache Arrow
3 62 (23.57%) Dremio
4 38 (14.45%) Data Lake
4 38 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (12.55%) Apache Ignite
6 32 (12.17%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (9.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.42%) Big Data
9 9 (3.42%) Hadoop
9 9 (3.42%) MySQL
10 8 (3.04%) Apache Hive
10 8 (3.04%) DynamoDB
11 7 (2.66%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.28%) Flink
12 6 (2.28%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (7.60%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.94%) Git
3 9 (3.42%) GitLab
4 5 (1.90%) 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
1 118 (44.87%) Finance
2 68 (25.86%) Front Office
3 48 (18.25%) Banking
4 36 (13.69%) Investment Banking
5 28 (10.65%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.32%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.56%) Law
8 11 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.04%) Retail
11 7 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.90%) Back Office
12 5 (1.90%) Games
12 5 (1.90%) Legal
12 5 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.14%) Advertising
14 2 (0.76%) Billing
14 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (23.57%) NumPy
1 62 (23.57%) Pandas
1 62 (23.57%) SciPy
2 42 (15.97%) Node.js
3 39 (14.83%) React
4 33 (12.55%) gRPC
4 33 (12.55%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (11.03%) AngularJS
5 29 (11.03%) Vue
6 19 (7.22%) Kafka
7 14 (5.32%) .NET
8 11 (4.18%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.42%) RESTful
10 8 (3.04%) boto
10 8 (3.04%) PySpark
10 8 (3.04%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (2.28%) OAuth
11 6 (2.28%) Spring
12 5 (1.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 72 (27.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 68 (25.86%) Fixed Income
3 62 (23.57%) Equities
4 41 (15.59%) Hedge funds
5 33 (12.55%) Derivative
5 33 (12.55%) Pricing Data
6 23 (8.75%) Data Centre
7 18 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (6.08%) Cloud Native
9 12 (4.56%) Management Information System
10 10 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (3.42%) Security Posture
12 8 (3.04%) e-Learning
13 5 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.90%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (1.52%) Web3
15 3 (1.14%) Clustering
15 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
16 2 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.51%) Linux
2 9 (3.42%) Unix
3 8 (3.04%) 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 96 (36.50%) Software Engineering
2 90 (34.22%) CI/CD
3 87 (33.08%) Agile
4 80 (30.42%) DevOps
5 68 (25.86%) Investment Management
6 63 (23.95%) Asset Management
7 59 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (14.07%) Fintech
9 31 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (11.79%) Risk Management
10 29 (11.03%) Order Management
10 29 (11.03%) Performance Attribution
10 29 (11.03%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (10.27%) Observability
12 24 (9.13%) Cloud Security
12 24 (9.13%) Data Engineering
13 23 (8.75%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (8.75%) ETL
14 20 (7.60%) Computer Science
14 20 (7.60%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 153 (58.17%) Python
2 78 (29.66%) Java
2 78 (29.66%) TypeScript
3 70 (26.62%) JavaScript
4 29 (11.03%) Bash
5 27 (10.27%) SQL
6 19 (7.22%) C#
7 10 (3.80%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.80%) Scala
8 8 (3.04%) Go
9 6 (2.28%) 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 26 (9.89%) Degree
2 20 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.70%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.70%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.32%) CCNP
5 14 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.80%) CCIE
6 10 (3.80%) CCNA
6 10 (3.80%) CCSA
6 10 (3.80%) CCSE
7 7 (2.66%) CISSP
8 6 (2.28%) CCSK
9 5 (1.90%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.76%) RHCE
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.56%) Data Quality
1 12 (4.56%) GDPR
2 8 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.90%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.90%) QA
3 5 (1.90%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.52%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (11.79%) Docker
2 8 (3.04%) 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 (25.48%) Terraform
2 42 (15.97%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.60%) Grafana
4 18 (6.84%) Ansible
5 11 (4.18%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.80%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.66%) 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 21 (7.98%) Cisco
2 14 (5.32%) CheckPoint
2 14 (5.32%) Fortinet
3 11 (4.18%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.42%) Databricks
5 8 (3.04%) SolarWinds
6 7 (2.66%) Google
7 6 (2.28%) 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%) 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%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.76%) SAP
10 2 (0.76%) Talend