AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 February 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 304 328
Rank change year-on-year -83 +24 +50
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 288 497 641
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.98% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.07% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 199 433 466
10th Percentile £50,750 £54,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,500 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £102,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £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 59,224 46,587 70,587
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 91.89% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 36,943 24,097 55,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,520
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 7 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 7 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 -93 270 £85,000 -13.92% 104
London -81 178 £100,000 -4.76% 45
Work from Home -110 116 £100,000 -4.76% 49
UK excluding London +19 94 £70,000 +7.69% 72
North of England -26 31 £82,500 +43.48% 22
North West +25 27 £85,000 +25.93% 15
Midlands +17 23 £50,000 -23.08% 13
East of England +28 17 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South East +10 15 £65,000 +10.64% 17
West Midlands +36 14 £50,000 -2.44% 12
East Midlands -14 9 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland -7 6 - - 1
South West -4 5 £72,500 +20.83% 13
North East -7 2 £55,000 -21.43%
Yorkshire -38 2 £67,500 +31.71% 7

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 288 (100.00%) AWS
2 132 (45.83%) Python
3 103 (35.76%) CI/CD
4 88 (30.56%) DevOps
5 83 (28.82%) Terraform
6 82 (28.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (26.39%) Software Engineering
8 69 (23.96%) Java
8 69 (23.96%) Serverless
9 58 (20.14%) Agile
10 54 (18.75%) TypeScript
11 52 (18.06%) Azure
12 51 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (16.67%) Kubernetes
14 45 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
15 43 (14.93%) SaaS
16 42 (14.58%) Amazon S3
16 42 (14.58%) Observability
16 42 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
18 38 (13.19%) Apache Iceberg
19 37 (12.85%) Amazon RDS
19 37 (12.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 36 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
20 36 (12.50%) Degree
21 35 (12.15%) Amazon Athena
21 35 (12.15%) Apache Airflow
21 35 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 35 (12.15%) JavaScript
22 34 (11.81%) Investment Management

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 35 (12.15%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (9.38%) Apache
3 19 (6.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
4 1 (0.35%) SAS
4 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 288 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (23.96%) Serverless
3 52 (18.06%) Azure
4 51 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (14.93%) SaaS
6 42 (14.58%) Amazon S3
7 40 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (12.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 36 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (10.07%) dbt
12 28 (9.72%) GCP
13 24 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (8.33%) GitHub
14 20 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
16 18 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (5.21%) PaaS
17 15 (5.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.99%) Firewall
2 19 (6.60%) Cisco ASA
2 19 (6.60%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (6.60%) LAN
2 19 (6.60%) WAN
2 19 (6.60%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (4.17%) VPN
4 11 (3.82%) BGP
5 6 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.08%) VLAN
6 5 (1.74%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.74%) IPsec
6 5 (1.74%) MPLS
6 5 (1.74%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.74%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.74%) OSPF
6 5 (1.74%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.74%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.74%) WLAN
7 1 (0.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.19%) Apache Iceberg
2 37 (12.85%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (12.15%) Amazon Athena
4 28 (9.72%) Apache Arrow
4 28 (9.72%) Dremio
5 25 (8.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (7.99%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (6.60%) Data Lake
9 14 (4.86%) Apache Ignite
10 12 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (3.82%) MySQL
12 10 (3.47%) DynamoDB
13 9 (3.13%) Big Data
13 9 (3.13%) Hadoop
14 8 (2.78%) Apache Hive
14 8 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (2.43%) NoSQL
16 6 (2.08%) Flink
17 5 (1.74%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 20 (6.94%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.51%) Git
3 10 (3.47%) GitLab
4 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.04%) NUnit
6 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.69%) Deequ
6 2 (0.69%) Gradle
6 2 (0.69%) JUnit
6 2 (0.69%) Maven
6 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 99 (34.38%) Finance
2 42 (14.58%) Banking
3 34 (11.81%) Front Office
4 32 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 23 (7.99%) Investment Banking
6 22 (7.64%) Law
7 20 (6.94%) Financial Institution
8 13 (4.51%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (4.17%) Retail
10 11 (3.82%) Back Office
11 6 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (1.74%) Advertising
12 5 (1.74%) Games
12 5 (1.74%) Legal
12 5 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.04%) Billing
14 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.72%) NumPy
1 28 (9.72%) Pandas
1 28 (9.72%) SciPy
2 27 (9.38%) React
3 26 (9.03%) Node.js
4 21 (7.29%) Kafka
5 16 (5.56%) .NET
6 15 (5.21%) PySpark
7 14 (4.86%) AngularJS
7 14 (4.86%) AWS CDK
7 14 (4.86%) gRPC
7 14 (4.86%) Protocol Buffers
7 14 (4.86%) Vue
8 12 (4.17%) RESTful
9 9 (3.13%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.13%) REST
10 8 (2.78%) boto
10 8 (2.78%) OAuth
10 8 (2.78%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (11.81%) Fixed Income
3 29 (10.07%) Cloud Native
3 29 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (9.72%) Equities
5 27 (9.38%) Data Centre
6 26 (9.03%) Hedge funds
7 15 (5.21%) Management Information System
8 14 (4.86%) Derivative
8 14 (4.86%) Pricing Data
9 12 (4.17%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.78%) Blog
11 8 (2.78%) e-Learning
11 8 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.74%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 3 (1.04%) Clustering
15 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.64%) Linux
2 11 (3.82%) Unix
3 5 (1.74%) Windows
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (35.76%) CI/CD
2 88 (30.56%) DevOps
3 82 (28.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (26.39%) Software Engineering
5 58 (20.14%) Agile
6 45 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (14.58%) Observability
7 42 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (11.81%) Investment Management
10 32 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (10.76%) Data Engineering
11 31 (10.76%) High Availability
12 30 (10.42%) Asset Management
12 30 (10.42%) ETL
13 29 (10.07%) Computer Science
14 28 (9.72%) Cloud Security
15 24 (8.33%) Fintech
16 23 (7.99%) AI
16 23 (7.99%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 132 (45.83%) Python
2 69 (23.96%) Java
3 54 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 35 (12.15%) JavaScript
5 30 (10.42%) Bash
5 30 (10.42%) SQL
6 21 (7.29%) C#
7 13 (4.51%) Go
8 9 (3.13%) Scala
9 7 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.04%) Bicep
10 3 (1.04%) Rust
11 2 (0.69%) C
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) PHP
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (12.50%) Degree
2 30 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (7.29%) AWS Certification
4 21 (7.29%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.86%) CCIE
5 14 (4.86%) CCNA
5 14 (4.86%) CCNP
5 14 (4.86%) CCSA
5 14 (4.86%) CCSE
5 14 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.47%) CISSP
7 9 (3.13%) CCSK
8 7 (2.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 6 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.51%) GDPR
3 12 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 12 (4.17%) SOC 2
4 10 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.43%) QA
6 6 (2.08%) NIST
7 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.39%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (11.11%) Docker
2 8 (2.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 83 (28.82%) Terraform
2 48 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.29%) Grafana
4 16 (5.56%) Ansible
5 14 (4.86%) FortiGate
6 11 (3.82%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.78%) Argo
8 2 (0.69%) Kibana
8 2 (0.69%) logstash
8 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (7.99%) Cisco
2 19 (6.60%) CheckPoint
2 19 (6.60%) Fortinet
3 12 (4.17%) Databricks
4 10 (3.47%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.47%) SolarWinds
5 9 (3.13%) Google
6 8 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.08%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.74%) Informatica
8 5 (1.74%) Meraki
8 5 (1.74%) Microsoft
8 5 (1.74%) Talend
9 3 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.04%) SAP
10 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.69%) Okta
10 2 (0.69%) Oracle
10 2 (0.69%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.69%) Salesforce