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 13 March 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 270 316
Rank change year-on-year -105 +46 +84
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 343 505 749
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.16% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.28% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 253 447 507
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £76,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £140,000 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £63,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.67% -2.69% -

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 67,702 39,587 79,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 90.67% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,107 22,950 61,067
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -93 325 £80,000 -23.81% 97
London -83 197 £90,000 -18.18% 33
UK excluding London -7 129 £70,000 +10.67% 74
Work from Home -132 110 £90,000 -15.29% 46
North of England -44 42 £70,000 +21.74% 25
North West -5 37 £70,000 +4.60% 18
Midlands -9 28 £63,750 -1.92% 9
West Midlands +12 21 £51,500 +0.49% 7
East of England +2 19 £75,000 +15.38% 3
South West -9 19 £75,000 +30.43% 12
South East -19 17 £62,500 +1.21% 23
East Midlands -37 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland -15 4 - - 2
Yorkshire -65 3 £66,250 +29.27% 5
North East -25 2 £55,000 -4.35% 2

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

For the 6 months to 13 March 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.

1 343 (100.00%) AWS
2 141 (41.11%) Python
3 116 (33.82%) DevOps
4 106 (30.90%) CI/CD
5 99 (28.86%) Terraform
6 98 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (20.99%) Azure
8 71 (20.70%) Serverless
9 64 (18.66%) Software Engineering
10 61 (17.78%) Amazon S3
11 55 (16.03%) Platform Engineering
12 51 (14.87%) Java
13 50 (14.58%) SaaS
14 48 (13.99%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (13.70%) Kubernetes
16 45 (13.12%) SQL
17 44 (12.83%) Degree
18 43 (12.54%) Amazon EKS
18 43 (12.54%) ETL
19 42 (12.24%) Agile
19 42 (12.24%) Observability
19 42 (12.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 41 (11.95%) Security Cleared
21 37 (10.79%) Bash
21 37 (10.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 36 (10.50%) Data Pipeline
22 36 (10.50%) Docker
22 36 (10.50%) High Availability
23 35 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 25 (7.29%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (6.12%) Apache
3 15 (4.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 343 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (20.99%) Azure
3 71 (20.70%) Serverless
4 61 (17.78%) Amazon S3
5 50 (14.58%) SaaS
6 48 (13.99%) AWS Lambda
7 43 (12.54%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (12.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 35 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 35 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (7.58%) GitHub
12 25 (7.29%) GCP
13 22 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (4.96%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (4.66%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (3.79%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (3.79%) dbt
16 13 (3.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.71%) Firewall
2 20 (5.83%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (5.83%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (5.83%) LAN
2 20 (5.83%) WAN
2 20 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.50%) VPN
4 11 (3.21%) BGP
5 6 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.75%) VLAN
6 5 (1.46%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.46%) IPsec
6 5 (1.46%) MPLS
6 5 (1.46%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.46%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.46%) OSPF
6 5 (1.46%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.46%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.46%) WLAN
7 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 31 (9.04%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (6.71%) Apache Iceberg
4 21 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (3.79%) MySQL
7 13 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (3.50%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.92%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.92%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (2.04%) Apache Arrow
10 7 (2.04%) Dremio
11 6 (1.75%) Flink
11 6 (1.75%) Metadata
12 5 (1.46%) Apache Ignite
12 5 (1.46%) Pentaho
13 4 (1.17%) Big Data
13 4 (1.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 23 (6.71%) Git
2 21 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.50%) GitLab
4 6 (1.75%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.87%) NUnit
7 2 (0.58%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.58%) Deequ
8 1 (0.29%) Gradle
8 1 (0.29%) JIRA
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 86 (25.07%) Finance
2 49 (14.29%) Banking
3 41 (11.95%) Social Skills
4 26 (7.58%) Law
5 16 (4.66%) Financial Institution
5 16 (4.66%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.37%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.08%) Retail
8 13 (3.79%) Front Office
8 13 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.50%) Back Office
10 11 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.92%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.46%) Advertising
12 5 (1.46%) Games
12 5 (1.46%) Legal
13 4 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.87%) Billing
15 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.87%) Kafka
2 16 (4.66%) PySpark
3 14 (4.08%) .NET
3 14 (4.08%) React
4 13 (3.79%) Node.js
5 12 (3.50%) AWS CDK
6 11 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (3.21%) REST
7 10 (2.92%) .NET Core
7 10 (2.92%) RESTful
8 9 (2.62%) OAuth
8 9 (2.62%) Spring
9 7 (2.04%) JWT
9 7 (2.04%) Loki
9 7 (2.04%) NumPy
9 7 (2.04%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.04%) Pandas
9 7 (2.04%) SciPy
10 6 (1.75%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.46%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.45%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (6.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (5.54%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.66%) Management Information System
7 14 (4.08%) Security Posture
8 13 (3.79%) Fixed Income
9 10 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.62%) Blog
11 8 (2.33%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.04%) Equities
13 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.46%) Derivative
14 5 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.46%) Pricing Data
14 5 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
16 3 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.96%) Linux
2 12 (3.50%) Unix
3 3 (0.87%) Windows
4 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (33.82%) DevOps
2 106 (30.90%) CI/CD
3 98 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (18.66%) Software Engineering
5 55 (16.03%) Platform Engineering
6 48 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (12.54%) ETL
8 42 (12.24%) Agile
8 42 (12.24%) Observability
9 37 (10.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (10.50%) Data Pipeline
10 36 (10.50%) High Availability
11 35 (10.20%) Data Engineering
12 34 (9.91%) Computer Science
13 33 (9.62%) Analytics
13 33 (9.62%) Cloud Security
14 28 (8.16%) AI
15 26 (7.58%) Containerisation
15 26 (7.58%) Process Improvement
16 25 (7.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 141 (41.11%) Python
2 51 (14.87%) Java
3 45 (13.12%) SQL
4 37 (10.79%) Bash
5 29 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.54%) C#
7 16 (4.66%) Go
8 14 (4.08%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.17%) Scala
11 3 (0.87%) Bicep
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) C
13 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (12.83%) Degree
2 41 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.83%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.37%) CCIE
6 15 (4.37%) CCNA
6 15 (4.37%) CCNP
6 15 (4.37%) CCSA
6 15 (4.37%) CCSE
6 15 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.50%) CISSP
8 11 (3.21%) CCSK
9 7 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.29%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.54%) SOC 2
3 18 (5.25%) PCI DSS
4 13 (3.79%) GDPR
5 11 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.33%) QA
7 6 (1.75%) NIST
8 4 (1.17%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (10.50%) Docker
2 3 (0.87%) HDFS
3 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (28.86%) Terraform
2 47 (13.70%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.00%) Grafana
4 18 (5.25%) Ansible
5 17 (4.96%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.37%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.62%) Argo
8 3 (0.87%) Istio
9 2 (0.58%) Kibana
9 2 (0.58%) logstash
9 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (7.00%) Cisco
2 20 (5.83%) CheckPoint
2 20 (5.83%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.21%) Google
5 10 (2.92%) SolarWinds
6 9 (2.62%) Databricks
6 9 (2.62%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.33%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.33%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.46%) Informatica
8 5 (1.46%) Meraki
8 5 (1.46%) SAP
8 5 (1.46%) Talend
9 4 (1.17%) Pega
9 4 (1.17%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.58%) Confluent
11 2 (0.58%) Okta
11 2 (0.58%) Ping Identity