AWS Engineer Jobs

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 330 406
Rank change year-on-year +56 +76 -158
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 910 835 1,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.03% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.13% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 608 726 1,330
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £104,375
90th Percentile £148,750 £138,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +3.70% +12.50%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -9 685 £90,000 +12.50% 24
Work from Home +24 465 £100,000 +21.21% 22
London +31 445 £105,000 +10.53% 16
UK excluding London +85 434 £68,750 -1.79% 19
Scotland +119 203 £60,000 -11.11% 4
South East +25 73 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Midlands 0 56 £70,000 -
North of England -54 46 £65,000 -7.14% 2
South West +3 44 £75,000 +3.45% 5
North West -50 36 £63,750 -15.00% 1
East Midlands -14 32 £57,500 +4.55%
West Midlands +4 24 £72,500 +3.57%
East of England -26 10 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Yorkshire +36 7 £65,000 - 1
North East -14 3 £77,000 +2.67%
Wales +27 2 £42,500 -50.00%

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 910 (100.00%) AWS
2 588 (64.62%) Python
3 568 (62.42%) Agile
4 520 (57.14%) Finance
5 517 (56.81%) Software Engineering
6 448 (49.23%) Java
7 353 (38.79%) CI/CD
8 325 (35.71%) JavaScript
9 317 (34.84%) Asset Management
10 299 (32.86%) Terraform
11 283 (31.10%) Amazon Athena
12 274 (30.11%) Apache
13 273 (30.00%) dbt
14 272 (29.89%) Apache Airflow
15 271 (29.78%) Apache Arrow
16 269 (29.56%) Dremio
16 269 (29.56%) gRPC
16 269 (29.56%) Protocol Buffers
17 262 (28.79%) DevOps
18 254 (27.91%) Hedge funds
19 252 (27.69%) Snowflake
20 248 (27.25%) TypeScript
21 246 (27.03%) Data Lake
22 244 (26.81%) Banking
23 236 (25.93%) Investment Management
24 229 (25.16%) Front Office
25 225 (24.73%) Kubernetes
26 224 (24.62%) Investment Banking
27 223 (24.51%) Fixed Income
28 217 (23.85%) SDLC

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 274 (30.11%) Apache
2 272 (29.89%) Apache Airflow
3 126 (13.85%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.55%) nginx
6 3 (0.33%) Camunda
6 3 (0.33%) Confluence
7 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.11%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
2 1 (0.11%) UXPin
2 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 910 (100.00%) AWS
2 273 (30.00%) dbt
3 252 (27.69%) Snowflake
4 152 (16.70%) Serverless
5 137 (15.05%) Amazon EC2
6 130 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 105 (11.54%) Amazon S3
8 88 (9.67%) Amazon ECS
9 87 (9.56%) Azure
10 85 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
11 83 (9.12%) GCP
12 81 (8.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 56 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
14 55 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
16 39 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 37 (4.07%) GitHub
17 37 (4.07%) SaaS
18 36 (3.96%) IBM Cloud
19 31 (3.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.19%) Firewall
2 14 (1.54%) DNS
3 10 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
4 9 (0.99%) Network Security
5 4 (0.44%) DHCP
5 4 (0.44%) MQTT
6 2 (0.22%) VLAN
6 2 (0.22%) VPN
6 2 (0.22%) WAN
7 1 (0.11%) HTTP
7 1 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
7 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.11%) SSL
7 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (31.10%) Amazon Athena
2 271 (29.78%) Apache Arrow
3 269 (29.56%) Dremio
4 246 (27.03%) Data Lake
5 215 (23.63%) Apache Ignite
6 161 (17.69%) NoSQL
7 148 (16.26%) Big Data
8 105 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
9 90 (9.89%) Hadoop
10 62 (6.81%) Apache Hive
11 61 (6.70%) HBase
12 35 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (3.52%) DynamoDB
14 30 (3.30%) Electronic Patient Records
15 19 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.99%) MySQL
18 8 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
18 8 (0.88%) MongoDB
19 5 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 122 (13.41%) Git
2 111 (12.20%) Jenkins
3 60 (6.59%) Bitbucket Server
4 57 (6.26%) GitLab
5 12 (1.32%) Artifactory
6 7 (0.77%) JIRA
7 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.55%) Spinnaker
9 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.44%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.33%) NUnit
10 3 (0.33%) Postman
11 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.22%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.22%) sqlmap
12 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.11%) Selenium
12 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 520 (57.14%) Finance
2 244 (26.81%) Banking
3 229 (25.16%) Front Office
4 224 (24.62%) Investment Banking
5 211 (23.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 203 (22.31%) Law
7 143 (15.71%) Legal
8 112 (12.31%) Social Skills
9 51 (5.60%) Public Sector
10 43 (4.73%) Marketing
11 27 (2.97%) Tech for Good
12 26 (2.86%) Financial Institution
13 21 (2.31%) Games
14 17 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
16 5 (0.55%) Advertising
17 4 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.33%) Japanese Language
19 2 (0.22%) Automotive
19 2 (0.22%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (29.56%) gRPC
1 269 (29.56%) Protocol Buffers
2 216 (23.74%) Pandas
3 215 (23.63%) NumPy
3 215 (23.63%) SciPy
4 62 (6.81%) React
5 40 (4.40%) Node.js
6 36 (3.96%) PySpark
7 27 (2.97%) AngularJS
7 27 (2.97%) HTML
8 26 (2.86%) CSS
9 24 (2.64%) RESTful
10 22 (2.42%) Vue
11 20 (2.20%) Redux
12 19 (2.09%) GraphQL
12 19 (2.09%) Kafka
13 18 (1.98%) Django
14 17 (1.87%) AWS CDK
15 15 (1.65%) Spring
16 14 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 254 (27.91%) Hedge funds
2 223 (24.51%) Fixed Income
3 196 (21.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 193 (21.21%) Derivative
4 193 (21.21%) Equities
5 143 (15.71%) Algorithms
6 72 (7.91%) Pricing Data
7 55 (6.04%) Clustering
8 49 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 46 (5.05%) Cloud Native
10 37 (4.07%) Blockchain
11 28 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (2.97%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.87%) PropTech
15 14 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.43%) Data Centre
16 13 (1.43%) Product Ownership
17 12 (1.32%) e-Learning
18 11 (1.21%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 95 (10.44%) Linux
2 61 (6.70%) Unix
3 23 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (2.53%) Windows
4 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) CentOS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (62.42%) Agile
2 517 (56.81%) Software Engineering
3 353 (38.79%) CI/CD
4 317 (34.84%) Asset Management
5 262 (28.79%) DevOps
6 236 (25.93%) Investment Management
7 217 (23.85%) SDLC
8 194 (21.32%) Artificial Intelligence
9 189 (20.77%) Operational Stability
10 188 (20.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 145 (15.93%) Visualisation
12 144 (15.82%) Machine Learning
12 144 (15.82%) Risk Management
13 139 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
14 136 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 125 (13.74%) Community of Practice
16 102 (11.21%) Test Automation
17 95 (10.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 94 (10.33%) TDD
19 87 (9.56%) Greeks
Programming Languages
1 588 (64.62%) Python
2 448 (49.23%) Java
3 325 (35.71%) JavaScript
4 248 (27.25%) TypeScript
5 213 (23.41%) SQL
6 73 (8.02%) Go
7 67 (7.36%) Scala
8 60 (6.59%) PL/SQL
9 45 (4.95%) Bash
10 35 (3.85%) C#
10 35 (3.85%) PowerShell
11 19 (2.09%) Perl
12 11 (1.21%) Groovy
13 6 (0.66%) PHP
13 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.33%) Lua
15 2 (0.22%) Rust
16 1 (0.11%) Ruby
16 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (7.36%) AWS Certification
2 36 (3.96%) Security Cleared
3 33 (3.63%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.08%) Degree
5 19 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.98%) DBS Check
7 16 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.33%) CISSP
11 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.11%) CCSK
11 1 (0.11%) CEH
11 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.11%) CISM
11 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.11%) GIAC
11 1 (0.11%) ISSMP
11 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (10.88%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (2.53%) NIST
4 13 (1.43%) QA
5 10 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.66%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.44%) NCSC
8 2 (0.22%) MiFID
9 1 (0.11%) COBIT
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 148 (16.26%) Docker
2 62 (6.81%) HDFS
3 13 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.10%) XenApp
4 10 (1.10%) XenDesktop
5 5 (0.55%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) iptables
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 299 (32.86%) Terraform
2 225 (24.73%) Kubernetes
3 80 (8.79%) Ansible
4 79 (8.68%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.42%) Progress Chef
6 17 (1.87%) Puppet
7 13 (1.43%) Grafana
7 13 (1.43%) Salt
8 11 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.44%) Istio
11 3 (0.33%) Argo
11 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.11%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.11%) Kibana
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 107 (11.76%) Databricks
2 63 (6.92%) Informatica
3 46 (5.05%) Red Hat
4 37 (4.07%) IBM
5 33 (3.63%) Cloudera
6 30 (3.30%) Bloomberg
6 30 (3.30%) Reuters
7 25 (2.75%) Microsoft
8 16 (1.76%) VMware
9 12 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.10%) Citrix
11 9 (0.99%) New Relic
11 9 (0.99%) Oracle
12 7 (0.77%) Google
13 5 (0.55%) Splunk
14 4 (0.44%) SolarWinds
15 3 (0.33%) Atlassian
16 2 (0.22%) ForgeRock
16 2 (0.22%) Sitecore
17 1 (0.11%) PayPal