AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 284 316
Rank change year-on-year -91 +32 +84
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 322 508 702
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.07% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.17% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 229 442 480
10th Percentile £50,600 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £76,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £123,000 £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 63,671 43,489 71,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 91.35% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 40,181 23,175 55,274
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -92 302 £80,000 -23.81% 100
London -80 185 £100,000 -6.98% 54
UK excluding London +15 118 £70,000 +7.69% 57
Work from Home -117 116 £90,000 -14.29% 41
North of England -24 40 £70,000 +30.23% 16
North West +4 36 £75,000 +12.07% 16
Midlands +20 28 £51,500 -20.77% 7
East of England +12 19 £75,000 +15.38% 3
West Midlands +32 18 £50,000 -2.44% 6
South East -8 16 £65,000 +5.26% 15
South West -6 12 £75,000 +25.00% 16
East Midlands -23 10 £72,500 +11.54% 1
Scotland -8 6 - -
North East -5 2 £55,000 -4.35%
Yorkshire -58 2 £67,500 +31.71%

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 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.

1 322 (100.00%) AWS
2 140 (43.48%) Python
3 109 (33.85%) CI/CD
3 109 (33.85%) DevOps
4 95 (29.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (29.19%) Terraform
6 75 (23.29%) Software Engineering
7 72 (22.36%) Serverless
8 62 (19.25%) Azure
9 61 (18.94%) Java
10 54 (16.77%) Agile
11 52 (16.15%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (15.84%) Kubernetes
12 51 (15.84%) Platform Engineering
13 48 (14.91%) Amazon S3
13 48 (14.91%) SaaS
14 46 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (13.66%) Observability
15 44 (13.66%) TypeScript
16 42 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
17 41 (12.73%) Degree
18 40 (12.42%) AWS CloudFormation
18 40 (12.42%) Security Cleared
18 40 (12.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 38 (11.80%) SQL
20 37 (11.49%) Bash
21 36 (11.18%) ETL
21 36 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 35 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 35 (10.87%) Data Pipeline

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 32 (9.94%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.76%) Apache
3 19 (5.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.62%) SAS
5 1 (0.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.31%) JBoss
5 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 322 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (22.36%) Serverless
3 62 (19.25%) Azure
4 52 (16.15%) AWS Lambda
5 48 (14.91%) Amazon S3
5 48 (14.91%) SaaS
6 42 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (12.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 40 (12.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 35 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (9.01%) GCP
10 26 (8.07%) GitHub
11 24 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (6.83%) dbt
12 22 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (6.52%) AWS Step Functions
14 18 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (5.59%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (4.97%) PaaS
16 12 (3.73%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.83%) Firewall
2 19 (5.90%) Cisco ASA
2 19 (5.90%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (5.90%) LAN
2 19 (5.90%) WAN
2 19 (5.90%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.73%) VPN
4 11 (3.42%) BGP
5 6 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.86%) VLAN
6 5 (1.55%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.55%) IPsec
6 5 (1.55%) MPLS
6 5 (1.55%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.55%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.55%) OSPF
6 5 (1.55%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.55%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.55%) WLAN
7 1 (0.31%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (9.32%) Apache Iceberg
3 28 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
3 28 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 23 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (5.90%) Apache Arrow
6 19 (5.90%) Dremio
7 14 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 13 (4.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.42%) DynamoDB
9 11 (3.42%) MySQL
10 10 (3.11%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (2.48%) Apache Ignite
13 7 (2.17%) Big Data
13 7 (2.17%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.86%) Apache Hive
14 6 (1.86%) Flink
15 5 (1.55%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 22 (6.83%) Jenkins
2 19 (5.90%) Git
3 11 (3.42%) GitLab
4 4 (1.24%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.93%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.93%) NUnit
6 2 (0.62%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.62%) Deequ
6 2 (0.62%) JIRA
6 2 (0.62%) Maven
6 2 (0.62%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.31%) Ant
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) Gradle
7 1 (0.31%) JUnit
7 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 96 (29.81%) Finance
2 41 (12.73%) Banking
3 37 (11.49%) Social Skills
4 26 (8.07%) Law
5 25 (7.76%) Front Office
6 19 (5.90%) Financial Institution
7 17 (5.28%) Investment Banking
8 15 (4.66%) Public Sector
9 14 (4.35%) Retail
10 13 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (3.73%) Back Office
12 11 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (1.86%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.55%) Advertising
14 5 (1.55%) Games
14 5 (1.55%) Legal
15 4 (1.24%) Billing
15 4 (1.24%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.45%) React
2 23 (7.14%) Kafka
2 23 (7.14%) Node.js
3 19 (5.90%) NumPy
3 19 (5.90%) Pandas
3 19 (5.90%) SciPy
4 16 (4.97%) .NET
4 16 (4.97%) PySpark
5 14 (4.35%) AWS CDK
6 12 (3.73%) RESTful
7 11 (3.42%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.42%) REST
7 11 (3.42%) Vue
8 9 (2.80%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (2.80%) OAuth
9 8 (2.48%) gRPC
9 8 (2.48%) Protocol Buffers
9 8 (2.48%) Spring
10 7 (2.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.42%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 28 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.76%) Fixed Income
5 22 (6.83%) Hedge funds
6 19 (5.90%) Equities
7 17 (5.28%) Management Information System
8 14 (4.35%) Security Posture
9 9 (2.80%) Blog
9 9 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.48%) Derivative
10 8 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.48%) Pricing Data
11 6 (1.86%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.86%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.24%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.24%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.52%) Linux
2 13 (4.04%) Unix
3 5 (1.55%) Windows
4 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (33.85%) CI/CD
1 109 (33.85%) DevOps
2 95 (29.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 75 (23.29%) Software Engineering
4 54 (16.77%) Agile
5 51 (15.84%) Platform Engineering
6 46 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (13.66%) Observability
8 36 (11.18%) ETL
8 36 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 35 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
10 34 (10.56%) Data Engineering
11 33 (10.25%) Computer Science
11 33 (10.25%) High Availability
12 31 (9.63%) Cloud Security
13 26 (8.07%) AI
13 26 (8.07%) Fintech
14 25 (7.76%) Analytics
14 25 (7.76%) Investment Management
14 25 (7.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 140 (43.48%) Python
2 61 (18.94%) Java
3 44 (13.66%) TypeScript
4 38 (11.80%) SQL
5 37 (11.49%) Bash
6 28 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.52%) C#
8 15 (4.66%) Go
9 7 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.17%) Scala
10 4 (1.24%) Bicep
11 3 (0.93%) Rust
12 2 (0.62%) C
12 2 (0.62%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (12.73%) Degree
2 40 (12.42%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (8.39%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.83%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.35%) CCIE
6 14 (4.35%) CCNA
6 14 (4.35%) CCNP
6 14 (4.35%) CCSA
6 14 (4.35%) CCSE
6 14 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.73%) CISSP
8 11 (3.42%) CCSK
9 7 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.66%) PCI DSS
2 15 (4.66%) SOC 2
3 13 (4.04%) GDPR
4 10 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.48%) QA
6 6 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.86%) NIST
7 4 (1.24%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (10.87%) Docker
2 6 (1.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 94 (29.19%) Terraform
2 51 (15.84%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.14%) Grafana
4 18 (5.59%) Ansible
5 14 (4.35%) FortiGate
5 14 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.48%) Argo
7 2 (0.62%) Kibana
7 2 (0.62%) logstash
7 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.31%) Istio
8 1 (0.31%) Podman
8 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (7.14%) Cisco
2 19 (5.90%) CheckPoint
2 19 (5.90%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.73%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.42%) Databricks
4 11 (3.42%) Google
4 11 (3.42%) SolarWinds
5 8 (2.48%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.48%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.48%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.55%) Informatica
6 5 (1.55%) Meraki
6 5 (1.55%) SAP
6 5 (1.55%) Talend
7 4 (1.24%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.24%) Pega
7 4 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.62%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.62%) Okta
8 2 (0.62%) Ping Identity