AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 284 294
Rank change year-on-year -116 +10 +72
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 259 572 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 1.01% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.08% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 199 478 417
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £73,125 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 52,771 53,172 46,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 93.59% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,471 28,551 36,094
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 -96 247 £105,000 +13.51% 140
London -77 187 £110,000 +4.76% 46
Work from Home -90 135 £110,000 +10.00% 83
UK excluding London +10 62 £70,000 +7.69% 121
North of England +5 21 £75,000 +15.38% 23
Midlands +23 19 £70,000 +7.69% 23
North West +26 18 £82,500 +23.27% 14
South East +18 12 £63,750 +2.00% 35
West Midlands +42 10 £58,250 +13.66% 14
East Midlands -10 9 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Scotland +11 6 - - 7
East of England +23 4 £60,000 -4.00% 14
South West +4 3 £71,250 -5.00% 15
Yorkshire -25 2 £67,500 +20.00% 8
North East 0 1 £55,000 -21.43% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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.

1 259 (100.00%) AWS
2 167 (64.48%) Python
3 107 (41.31%) Software Engineering
4 103 (39.77%) Agile
5 89 (34.36%) CI/CD
6 88 (33.98%) Java
6 88 (33.98%) TypeScript
7 85 (32.82%) JavaScript
8 84 (32.43%) DevOps
9 82 (31.66%) Apache Iceberg
9 82 (31.66%) Investment Management
10 80 (30.89%) Amazon Athena
10 80 (30.89%) Apache Airflow
11 78 (30.12%) dbt
12 77 (29.73%) Asset Management
13 76 (29.34%) Apache Arrow
13 76 (29.34%) Dremio
13 76 (29.34%) NumPy
13 76 (29.34%) Pandas
13 76 (29.34%) SciPy
14 64 (24.71%) Terraform
15 53 (20.46%) Infrastructure as Code
16 50 (19.31%) Apache
17 49 (18.92%) Node.js
18 46 (17.76%) Data Lake
19 45 (17.37%) Azure
19 45 (17.37%) GCP
19 45 (17.37%) Serverless
20 44 (16.99%) Kubernetes
20 44 (16.99%) React

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 80 (30.89%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (19.31%) Apache
3 14 (5.41%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.54%) Confluence
4 4 (1.54%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.16%) JBoss
6 2 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 259 (100.00%) AWS
2 78 (30.12%) dbt
3 45 (17.37%) Azure
3 45 (17.37%) GCP
3 45 (17.37%) Serverless
4 44 (16.99%) Snowflake
5 40 (15.44%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (11.97%) Amazon S3
7 29 (11.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (8.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (7.72%) GitHub
13 19 (7.34%) SaaS
14 17 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (6.56%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (6.18%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (6.18%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (3.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.95%) Firewall
2 15 (5.79%) LAN
2 15 (5.79%) WAN
3 14 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (4.25%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (4.25%) VPN
5 10 (3.86%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (2.70%) DNS
7 6 (2.32%) BGP
8 5 (1.93%) Network Security
9 4 (1.54%) Wireless
10 3 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (1.16%) HTTP
10 3 (1.16%) IPsec
10 3 (1.16%) MPLS
10 3 (1.16%) OSPF
10 3 (1.16%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.16%) VLAN
10 3 (1.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (31.66%) Apache Iceberg
2 80 (30.89%) Amazon Athena
3 76 (29.34%) Apache Arrow
3 76 (29.34%) Dremio
4 46 (17.76%) Data Lake
5 43 (16.60%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (15.83%) Apache Ignite
7 32 (12.36%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.47%) Big Data
10 9 (3.47%) DynamoDB
10 9 (3.47%) Hadoop
11 8 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (3.09%) Apache Hive
11 8 (3.09%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.70%) MySQL
12 7 (2.70%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.32%) Flink
14 2 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (9.27%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.18%) Git
3 10 (3.86%) GitLab
4 7 (2.70%) JIRA
5 6 (2.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.93%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.54%) Vagrant
8 3 (1.16%) Ant
8 3 (1.16%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.16%) Maven
9 2 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.39%) Deequ
10 1 (0.39%) Gradle
10 1 (0.39%) JUnit
10 1 (0.39%) NUnit
10 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (50.58%) Finance
2 82 (31.66%) Front Office
3 54 (20.85%) Banking
4 42 (16.22%) Investment Banking
5 26 (10.04%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.41%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.47%) Law
10 8 (3.09%) Retail
11 7 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.93%) Back Office
12 5 (1.93%) Games
12 5 (1.93%) Legal
13 3 (1.16%) Advertising
14 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.39%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (29.34%) NumPy
1 76 (29.34%) Pandas
1 76 (29.34%) SciPy
2 49 (18.92%) Node.js
3 44 (16.99%) React
4 41 (15.83%) gRPC
4 41 (15.83%) Protocol Buffers
5 35 (13.51%) AngularJS
5 35 (13.51%) Vue
6 20 (7.72%) Kafka
7 14 (5.41%) .NET
8 12 (4.63%) AWS CDK
9 10 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (3.47%) RESTful
11 8 (3.09%) boto
11 8 (3.09%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (2.32%) Spring
13 5 (1.93%) OAuth
13 5 (1.93%) PySpark
14 4 (1.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 84 (32.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 82 (31.66%) Fixed Income
3 76 (29.34%) Equities
4 46 (17.76%) Hedge funds
5 41 (15.83%) Derivative
5 41 (15.83%) Pricing Data
6 20 (7.72%) Data Centre
7 18 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (6.18%) Cloud Native
9 10 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.86%) Management Information System
10 8 (3.09%) e-Learning
11 6 (2.32%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.54%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.54%) Replication
13 4 (1.54%) Web3
14 3 (1.16%) Clustering
14 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.42%) Linux
2 10 (3.86%) Windows
3 7 (2.70%) Unix
4 4 (1.54%) VMS
5 3 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (41.31%) Software Engineering
2 103 (39.77%) Agile
3 89 (34.36%) CI/CD
4 84 (32.43%) DevOps
5 82 (31.66%) Investment Management
6 77 (29.73%) Asset Management
7 53 (20.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (16.60%) Fintech
9 37 (14.29%) Risk Management
10 35 (13.51%) Order Management
10 35 (13.51%) Performance Attribution
11 30 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (10.81%) Observability
13 27 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (8.49%) Data Engineering
14 22 (8.49%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (7.72%) Cloud Security
15 20 (7.72%) Containerisation
16 17 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 17 (6.56%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 167 (64.48%) Python
2 88 (33.98%) Java
2 88 (33.98%) TypeScript
3 85 (32.82%) JavaScript
4 27 (10.42%) Bash
5 24 (9.27%) SQL
6 18 (6.95%) C#
7 12 (4.63%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.25%) Scala
9 10 (3.86%) Go
9 10 (3.86%) Groovy
10 3 (1.16%) Bicep
10 3 (1.16%) C++
10 3 (1.16%) Ruby
10 3 (1.16%) Rust
11 2 (0.77%) C
12 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.39%) PHP
12 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (8.49%) Degree
2 21 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.18%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 13 (5.02%) CCNP
5 13 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.47%) CCIE
6 9 (3.47%) CCNA
6 9 (3.47%) CCSA
6 9 (3.47%) CCSE
7 7 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.93%) CISSP
9 4 (1.54%) CCSK
10 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.77%) RHCE
11 2 (0.77%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.86%) GDPR
2 9 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.93%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.93%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.54%) QA
6 2 (0.77%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (11.20%) Docker
2 8 (3.09%) HDFS
3 4 (1.54%) DFS Replication
4 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.77%) Dovecot
4 2 (0.77%) Postfix
4 2 (0.77%) Squid
Systems Management
1 64 (24.71%) Terraform
2 44 (16.99%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.88%) Grafana
4 21 (8.11%) Ansible
5 14 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.09%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.70%) Argo
8 3 (1.16%) Podman
8 3 (1.16%) Puppet
8 3 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.77%) Kibana
9 2 (0.77%) logstash
9 2 (0.77%) Nessus
9 2 (0.77%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 18 (6.95%) Cisco
2 11 (4.25%) CheckPoint
2 11 (4.25%) Fortinet
2 11 (4.25%) ServiceNow
3 9 (3.47%) Databricks
4 7 (2.70%) SolarWinds
5 5 (1.93%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.93%) Google
6 4 (1.54%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.16%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.16%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.16%) Meraki
7 3 (1.16%) Sonatype
8 2 (0.77%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.77%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.77%) Juniper
8 2 (0.77%) Okta
8 2 (0.77%) OpenText
8 2 (0.77%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.77%) Red Hat