AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 287 290
Rank change year-on-year -104 +3 +70
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 272 516 555
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.96% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.04% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 196 430 418
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £69,063 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £91,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% +21.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

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 14 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 14 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 -92 260 £100,000 +5.26% 70
London -66 182 £105,000 - 30
Work from Home -92 126 £105,000 +5.00% 44
UK excluding London +15 80 £67,500 +3.85% 55
North of England -10 27 £85,000 +30.77% 16
North West +19 23 £90,000 +33.33% 9
Midlands +26 20 £50,000 -23.08% 4
East of England +26 14 £75,000 +15.38% 7
West Midlands +29 12 £50,000 -2.44% 3
South East +16 11 £62,500 +9.31% 20
East Midlands -11 8 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland +10 6 - - 2
South West +6 5 £72,500 +3.57% 6
North East +8 2 £55,000 -21.43%
Yorkshire -26 2 £67,500 +28.57% 7

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 272 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (52.57%) Python
3 93 (34.19%) CI/CD
4 92 (33.82%) Software Engineering
5 82 (30.15%) DevOps
6 79 (29.04%) Agile
7 77 (28.31%) Java
8 74 (27.21%) TypeScript
9 70 (25.74%) Terraform
10 66 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 61 (22.43%) Apache Iceberg
12 59 (21.69%) Amazon Athena
12 59 (21.69%) JavaScript
13 58 (21.32%) Apache Airflow
13 58 (21.32%) Investment Management
14 55 (20.22%) Serverless
15 54 (19.85%) dbt
16 53 (19.49%) Asset Management
16 53 (19.49%) Azure
17 52 (19.12%) Apache Arrow
17 52 (19.12%) Dremio
17 52 (19.12%) NumPy
17 52 (19.12%) Pandas
17 52 (19.12%) SciPy
18 43 (15.81%) Kubernetes
19 42 (15.44%) AWS Lambda
20 39 (14.34%) Apache
21 36 (13.24%) Amazon RDS
22 35 (12.87%) GCP
22 35 (12.87%) Node.js

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 58 (21.32%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (14.34%) Apache
3 16 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.10%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) JBoss
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 272 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (20.22%) Serverless
3 54 (19.85%) dbt
4 53 (19.49%) Azure
5 42 (15.44%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (12.87%) GCP
7 34 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 33 (12.13%) SaaS
9 31 (11.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (11.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 30 (11.03%) Snowflake
11 29 (10.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (10.29%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (8.09%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (7.35%) GitHub
15 18 (6.62%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (4.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.72%) Firewall
2 19 (6.99%) LAN
2 19 (6.99%) WAN
2 19 (6.99%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
3 16 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (4.41%) VPN
5 8 (2.94%) BGP
6 6 (2.21%) DNS
7 5 (1.84%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (1.84%) IPsec
7 5 (1.84%) MPLS
7 5 (1.84%) NetScaler
7 5 (1.84%) NX-OS
7 5 (1.84%) OSPF
7 5 (1.84%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.84%) VXLAN
7 5 (1.84%) WLAN
8 3 (1.10%) Network Security
8 3 (1.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (22.43%) Apache Iceberg
2 59 (21.69%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (19.12%) Apache Arrow
3 52 (19.12%) Dremio
4 36 (13.24%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (12.13%) Data Lake
7 29 (10.66%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (9.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (4.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.31%) Big Data
11 9 (3.31%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.31%) MySQL
12 8 (2.94%) Apache Hive
12 8 (2.94%) DynamoDB
13 6 (2.21%) Flink
13 6 (2.21%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (7.35%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.51%) Git
3 8 (2.94%) GitLab
4 5 (1.84%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.47%) JIRA
6 3 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.74%) Ant
7 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.74%) Maven
7 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.74%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.37%) Deequ
8 1 (0.37%) Gradle
8 1 (0.37%) JUnit
8 1 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 112 (41.18%) Finance
2 58 (21.32%) Front Office
3 49 (18.01%) Banking
4 36 (13.24%) Investment Banking
5 30 (11.03%) Social Skills
6 15 (5.51%) Financial Institution
7 13 (4.78%) Law
8 10 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.31%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.31%) Retail
10 8 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.21%) Back Office
11 6 (2.21%) Games
12 5 (1.84%) Legal
12 5 (1.84%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.47%) Advertising
14 3 (1.10%) Billing
15 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.12%) NumPy
1 52 (19.12%) Pandas
1 52 (19.12%) SciPy
2 35 (12.87%) Node.js
3 33 (12.13%) React
4 29 (10.66%) gRPC
4 29 (10.66%) Protocol Buffers
5 23 (8.46%) AngularJS
5 23 (8.46%) Vue
6 20 (7.35%) Kafka
7 13 (4.78%) .NET
8 10 (3.68%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.31%) PySpark
9 9 (3.31%) RESTful
10 8 (2.94%) boto
10 8 (2.94%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (2.21%) Loki
11 6 (2.21%) OAuth
11 6 (2.21%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 58 (21.32%) Fixed Income
3 52 (19.12%) Equities
4 38 (13.97%) Hedge funds
5 29 (10.66%) Derivative
5 29 (10.66%) Pricing Data
6 25 (9.19%) Data Centre
7 21 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (6.25%) Cloud Native
9 14 (5.15%) Management Information System
10 11 (4.04%) Security Posture
11 10 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.94%) e-Learning
13 6 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (1.47%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.47%) Low-Code
15 3 (1.10%) Clustering
15 3 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (1.10%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.19%) Linux
2 10 (3.68%) Unix
3 8 (2.94%) Windows
4 2 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
4 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.19%) CI/CD
2 92 (33.82%) Software Engineering
3 82 (30.15%) DevOps
4 79 (29.04%) Agile
5 66 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (21.32%) Investment Management
7 53 (19.49%) Asset Management
8 33 (12.13%) Platform Engineering
8 33 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (11.40%) Fintech
10 29 (10.66%) Observability
11 28 (10.29%) Cloud Security
12 26 (9.56%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (9.19%) Risk Management
14 24 (8.82%) Data Engineering
14 24 (8.82%) ETL
14 24 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 23 (8.46%) Order Management
15 23 (8.46%) Performance Attribution
16 22 (8.09%) AI
Programming Languages
1 143 (52.57%) Python
2 77 (28.31%) Java
3 74 (27.21%) TypeScript
4 59 (21.69%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.40%) Bash
6 29 (10.66%) SQL
7 19 (6.99%) C#
8 10 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.68%) Scala
9 8 (2.94%) Go
10 5 (1.84%) Groovy
11 3 (1.10%) Bicep
11 3 (1.10%) Rust
12 2 (0.74%) C
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (11.03%) Degree
2 22 (8.09%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.35%) AWS Certification
3 20 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.15%) CCNP
5 14 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (4.04%) CCIE
6 11 (4.04%) CCNA
6 11 (4.04%) CCSA
6 11 (4.04%) CCSE
7 8 (2.94%) CISSP
8 7 (2.57%) CCSK
9 5 (1.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 5 (1.84%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.78%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.41%) GDPR
3 8 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.21%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.21%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.47%) NIST
5 4 (1.47%) QA
6 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (11.76%) Docker
2 8 (2.94%) HDFS
3 2 (0.74%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.74%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.74%) Postfix
3 2 (0.74%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (25.74%) Terraform
2 43 (15.81%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.35%) Grafana
4 18 (6.62%) Ansible
5 11 (4.04%) FortiGate
5 11 (4.04%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.57%) Argo
7 2 (0.74%) Kibana
7 2 (0.74%) logstash
7 2 (0.74%) Nessus
7 2 (0.74%) Podman
7 2 (0.74%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.74%) Puppet
7 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (8.09%) Cisco
2 16 (5.88%) CheckPoint
2 16 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 12 (4.41%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.31%) Databricks
4 9 (3.31%) SolarWinds
5 8 (2.94%) Google
6 7 (2.57%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.84%) Meraki
8 3 (1.10%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.10%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.74%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.74%) Informatica
9 2 (0.74%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.74%) Okta
9 2 (0.74%) OpenText
9 2 (0.74%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.74%) SAP
9 2 (0.74%) Talend