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 23 March 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 257 309
Rank change year-on-year -115 +52 +84
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 369 497 805
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.17% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.30% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 278 441 509
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £76,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -4.46%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £132,500
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 70,590 38,369 82,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 90.31% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 44,954 23,205 62,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,000 £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 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 23 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 23 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 -88 351 £80,000 -23.81% 97
London -86 203 £90,000 -18.18% 40
UK excluding London -3 149 £70,000 +10.67% 70
Work from Home -134 115 £90,000 -16.28% 48
North of England -44 47 £70,000 +16.67% 21
North West -1 42 £70,000 +5.50% 17
Midlands -26 30 £65,000 - 12
South West -2 28 £75,000 +30.43% 8
West Midlands +22 23 £57,000 +11.22% 10
East of England 0 20 £75,000 +16.28% 7
South East -24 20 £65,000 +5.26% 21
East Midlands -45 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland -12 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -57 3 £66,250 +26.19% 3
North East -26 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 369 (100.00%) AWS
2 147 (39.84%) Python
3 127 (34.42%) DevOps
4 108 (29.27%) CI/CD
4 108 (29.27%) Terraform
5 100 (27.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 82 (22.22%) Azure
7 68 (18.43%) Serverless
8 62 (16.80%) Software Engineering
9 59 (15.99%) Amazon S3
9 59 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
10 55 (14.91%) Kubernetes
11 53 (14.36%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (14.09%) SaaS
13 49 (13.28%) Java
14 46 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (12.20%) Degree
16 44 (11.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 43 (11.65%) Observability
17 43 (11.65%) Security Cleared
18 42 (11.38%) Docker
18 42 (11.38%) SQL
19 41 (11.11%) ETL
20 40 (10.84%) Agile
21 39 (10.57%) Bash
22 38 (10.30%) High Availability
22 38 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 35 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 35 (9.49%) Cloud Security

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 22 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (5.42%) Apache
3 14 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.54%) Confluence
4 2 (0.54%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) Drupal
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 369 (100.00%) AWS
2 82 (22.22%) Azure
3 68 (18.43%) Serverless
4 59 (15.99%) Amazon S3
5 53 (14.36%) Amazon EKS
6 52 (14.09%) SaaS
7 45 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (11.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 35 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (8.13%) GCP
12 27 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (7.32%) GitHub
13 22 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (4.61%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (3.79%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (3.52%) PaaS
18 12 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
19 11 (2.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.78%) Firewall
2 20 (5.42%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (5.42%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (5.42%) LAN
2 20 (5.42%) WAN
2 20 (5.42%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.25%) BGP
3 12 (3.25%) VPN
4 7 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.63%) VLAN
6 5 (1.36%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.36%) IPsec
6 5 (1.36%) MPLS
6 5 (1.36%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.36%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.36%) OSPF
6 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.36%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.36%) WLAN
7 3 (0.81%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (8.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (5.15%) Apache Iceberg
4 18 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.34%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (3.79%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.52%) MySQL
9 12 (3.25%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (2.17%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.63%) Flink
13 6 (1.63%) Metadata
14 5 (1.36%) Pentaho
15 4 (1.08%) Apache Arrow
15 4 (1.08%) Apache Ignite
15 4 (1.08%) Dremio
15 4 (1.08%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (5.96%) Git
2 21 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.79%) GitLab
4 7 (1.90%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.81%) NUnit
7 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.54%) Deequ
7 2 (0.54%) JIRA
7 2 (0.54%) JMeter
8 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.27%) Gatling
8 1 (0.27%) Gradle
8 1 (0.27%) JUnit
8 1 (0.27%) Maven
8 1 (0.27%) Postman
8 1 (0.27%) Selenium
8 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 87 (23.58%) Finance
2 55 (14.91%) Banking
3 41 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 25 (6.78%) Law
5 17 (4.61%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.07%) Financial Institution
6 15 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.79%) Retail
8 13 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.25%) Back Office
10 11 (2.98%) Retail Banking
10 11 (2.98%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.71%) Front Office
12 6 (1.63%) Games
13 5 (1.36%) Advertising
13 5 (1.36%) Legal
14 4 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.81%) Billing
16 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.21%) Kafka
2 15 (4.07%) .NET
3 14 (3.79%) PySpark
4 12 (3.25%) React
5 11 (2.98%) AWS CDK
5 11 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.98%) REST
6 10 (2.71%) .NET Core
6 10 (2.71%) Node.js
6 10 (2.71%) RESTful
7 9 (2.44%) OAuth
8 8 (2.17%) Spring
9 7 (1.90%) JWT
9 7 (1.90%) Loki
9 7 (1.90%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.36%) LangChain
10 5 (1.36%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.08%) gRPC
11 4 (1.08%) Pandas
11 4 (1.08%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.18%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.86%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (4.88%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.34%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.52%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.71%) Fixed Income
8 10 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.44%) Blog
10 8 (2.17%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.08%) Derivative
12 4 (1.08%) Equities
12 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.08%) Pricing Data
13 3 (0.81%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.15%) Linux
2 12 (3.25%) Unix
3 4 (1.08%) Windows
4 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (34.42%) DevOps
2 108 (29.27%) CI/CD
3 100 (27.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (16.80%) Software Engineering
5 59 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
6 46 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (11.65%) Observability
8 41 (11.11%) ETL
9 40 (10.84%) Agile
10 38 (10.30%) High Availability
10 38 (10.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 35 (9.49%) Cloud Security
12 34 (9.21%) Computer Science
13 32 (8.67%) Containerisation
13 32 (8.67%) Data Engineering
13 32 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
14 31 (8.40%) Analytics
15 28 (7.59%) AI
16 26 (7.05%) Mentoring
16 26 (7.05%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 147 (39.84%) Python
2 49 (13.28%) Java
3 42 (11.38%) SQL
4 39 (10.57%) Bash
5 26 (7.05%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.23%) Go
7 20 (5.42%) C#
8 11 (2.98%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.08%) Scala
11 3 (0.81%) Bicep
11 3 (0.81%) PHP
12 1 (0.27%) C
12 1 (0.27%) C++
12 1 (0.27%) Ruby
12 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (12.20%) Degree
2 43 (11.65%) Security Cleared
3 31 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (7.86%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.69%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.07%) CCIE
6 15 (4.07%) CCNA
6 15 (4.07%) CCNP
6 15 (4.07%) CCSA
6 15 (4.07%) CCSE
6 15 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.25%) CISSP
8 11 (2.98%) CCSK
9 8 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.42%) SOC 2
2 19 (5.15%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.15%) PCI DSS
3 14 (3.79%) GDPR
4 11 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.44%) QA
6 6 (1.63%) NIST
7 4 (1.08%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (11.38%) Docker
2 8 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.81%) HDFS
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (29.27%) Terraform
2 55 (14.91%) Kubernetes
3 26 (7.05%) Grafana
4 18 (4.88%) Ansible
4 18 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.07%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.44%) Argo
6 9 (2.44%) Istio
7 2 (0.54%) Kibana
7 2 (0.54%) logstash
7 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) Consul
8 1 (0.27%) Packer
8 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (6.50%) Cisco
2 20 (5.42%) CheckPoint
2 20 (5.42%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.25%) Google
3 12 (3.25%) ServiceNow
4 11 (2.98%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.71%) SolarWinds
6 8 (2.17%) Confluent
6 8 (2.17%) Databricks
6 8 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.17%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.36%) Informatica
7 5 (1.36%) Meraki
7 5 (1.36%) SAP
7 5 (1.36%) Talend
8 4 (1.08%) Pega
8 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.54%) Okta
10 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity