AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 297 299
Rank change year-on-year -45 +2 +96
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 356 590 553
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.87% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.92% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 249 484 489
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +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 45,308 64,292 50,905
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 95.05% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,732 36,346 39,519
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,592
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,027 £42,796
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 16 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 4 November 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 -38 328 £108,750 +20.83% 67
London -26 256 £110,000 +4.76% 27
Work from Home -64 187 £110,000 +10.00% 42
UK excluding London +32 92 £72,500 - 55
Midlands +61 30 £72,500 - 4
Scotland +17 25 £100,000 +100.00% 2
North of England +8 24 £70,000 +7.69% 26
West Midlands +62 23 £72,500 - 3
North West +16 21 £85,000 +30.77% 18
South East -3 9 £80,000 +33.33% 20
East Midlands +25 7 £54,000 -16.92% 1
East of England +29 3 £62,500 -19.35% 2
South West +10 2 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Wales +9 2 £57,500 +35.29%
Yorkshire -1 2 £67,500 +3.85% 7
North East +8 1 £55,000 -26.67% 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 November 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.

1 356 (100.00%) AWS
2 249 (69.94%) Python
3 208 (58.43%) Software Engineering
4 192 (53.93%) Agile
5 152 (42.70%) Amazon Athena
6 145 (40.73%) Java
7 143 (40.17%) Apache Iceberg
8 142 (39.89%) JavaScript
9 140 (39.33%) TypeScript
10 135 (37.92%) Apache Airflow
11 134 (37.64%) Investment Management
12 133 (37.36%) Asset Management
13 131 (36.80%) dbt
14 130 (36.52%) Apache Arrow
14 130 (36.52%) Dremio
14 130 (36.52%) NumPy
14 130 (36.52%) Pandas
14 130 (36.52%) SciPy
15 119 (33.43%) CI/CD
15 119 (33.43%) DevOps
16 96 (26.97%) Terraform
17 79 (22.19%) Apache
17 79 (22.19%) GCP
17 79 (22.19%) PostgreSQL
18 73 (20.51%) Node.js
18 73 (20.51%) React
19 70 (19.66%) Data Lake
20 69 (19.38%) Kubernetes
20 69 (19.38%) Snowflake
21 67 (18.82%) Fintech

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
1 135 (37.92%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (22.19%) Apache
3 22 (6.18%) Apache Spark
4 18 (5.06%) Confluence
5 7 (1.97%) nginx
6 4 (1.12%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.84%) JBoss
8 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 356 (100.00%) AWS
2 131 (36.80%) dbt
3 79 (22.19%) GCP
4 69 (19.38%) Snowflake
5 59 (16.57%) Amazon S3
6 53 (14.89%) Serverless
7 50 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
8 47 (13.20%) Azure
9 43 (12.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (11.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 38 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (8.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (6.74%) AWS KMS
16 20 (5.62%) GitHub
17 18 (5.06%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (4.78%) Amazon ELB
19 16 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
20 12 (3.37%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.55%) Firewall
2 16 (4.49%) DNS
3 14 (3.93%) VPN
4 12 (3.37%) WAN
5 11 (3.09%) LAN
6 9 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.25%) HTTP
8 7 (1.97%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (1.97%) FTP
8 7 (1.97%) Network Security
8 7 (1.97%) SMTP
8 7 (1.97%) SSH
9 6 (1.69%) IMAP
9 6 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (1.40%) BGP
10 5 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (1.40%) Wireless
11 3 (0.84%) OSPF
12 2 (0.56%) IPsec
12 2 (0.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (42.70%) Amazon Athena
2 143 (40.17%) Apache Iceberg
3 130 (36.52%) Apache Arrow
3 130 (36.52%) Dremio
4 79 (22.19%) PostgreSQL
5 70 (19.66%) Data Lake
6 65 (18.26%) Apache Ignite
7 44 (12.36%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (7.02%) Big Data
10 18 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (3.93%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (2.81%) SQL Server
14 8 (2.25%) Apache Hive
14 8 (2.25%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.97%) MongoDB
16 6 (1.69%) Apache Hudi
16 6 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (12.36%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.15%) Git
3 22 (6.18%) JIRA
4 17 (4.78%) GitLab
5 16 (4.49%) Vagrant
6 13 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.69%) JUnit
7 6 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.12%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.12%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.84%) Ant
9 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.84%) Maven
10 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.56%) Selenium
10 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.28%) Deequ
11 1 (0.28%) Gradle
General
1 215 (60.39%) Finance
2 132 (37.08%) Front Office
3 110 (30.90%) Banking
4 69 (19.38%) Investment Banking
5 62 (17.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (14.04%) Law
7 36 (10.11%) Public Sector
8 31 (8.71%) Social Skills
9 11 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.69%) Legal
12 6 (1.69%) Retail
13 5 (1.40%) Marketing
14 4 (1.12%) Advertising
14 4 (1.12%) Games
15 2 (0.56%) Back Office
16 1 (0.28%) Electronics
16 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (36.52%) NumPy
1 130 (36.52%) Pandas
1 130 (36.52%) SciPy
2 73 (20.51%) Node.js
2 73 (20.51%) React
3 66 (18.54%) AngularJS
4 65 (18.26%) gRPC
4 65 (18.26%) Protocol Buffers
4 65 (18.26%) Vue
5 27 (7.58%) Kafka
6 22 (6.18%) Spring
7 17 (4.78%) AWS CDK
8 13 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (3.37%) .NET
9 12 (3.37%) Spark Streaming
9 12 (3.37%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.09%) PySpark
11 10 (2.81%) RESTful
11 10 (2.81%) Web Services
12 9 (2.53%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 135 (37.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 134 (37.64%) Equities
3 132 (37.08%) Fixed Income
4 73 (20.51%) Derivative
5 65 (18.26%) Hedge funds
5 65 (18.26%) Pricing Data
6 33 (9.27%) Cloud Native
7 28 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (6.46%) e-Learning
9 19 (5.34%) Algorithms
10 17 (4.78%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (4.49%) Replication
12 13 (3.65%) Data Centre
13 10 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (2.53%) Public Cloud
15 8 (2.25%) Equity Derivative
16 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
17 4 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 4 (1.12%) Low-Code
17 4 (1.12%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 40 (11.24%) Linux
2 23 (6.46%) Windows
3 17 (4.78%) VMS
4 10 (2.81%) Unix
5 7 (1.97%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.28%) Android
9 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (58.43%) Software Engineering
2 192 (53.93%) Agile
3 134 (37.64%) Investment Management
4 133 (37.36%) Asset Management
5 119 (33.43%) CI/CD
5 119 (33.43%) DevOps
6 67 (18.82%) Fintech
7 66 (18.54%) Risk Management
8 65 (18.26%) Order Management
8 65 (18.26%) Performance Attribution
9 59 (16.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (13.76%) AI
11 43 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (12.08%) SDLC
12 40 (11.24%) Mentoring
13 37 (10.39%) Machine Learning
14 35 (9.83%) Containerisation
15 31 (8.71%) Platform Engineering
16 28 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (7.87%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 249 (69.94%) Python
2 145 (40.73%) Java
3 142 (39.89%) JavaScript
4 140 (39.33%) TypeScript
5 37 (10.39%) SQL
6 34 (9.55%) Bash
7 29 (8.15%) PowerShell
8 23 (6.46%) Groovy
9 20 (5.62%) Go
10 18 (5.06%) Scala
11 13 (3.65%) C#
12 9 (2.53%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.84%) Bicep
13 3 (0.84%) C
13 3 (0.84%) C++
13 3 (0.84%) PHP
13 3 (0.84%) Ruby
13 3 (0.84%) Rust
14 2 (0.56%) Perl
15 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.83%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.46%) Degree
4 19 (5.34%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.37%) CCNP
5 12 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.25%) CCNA
8 7 (1.97%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.97%) CCIE
8 7 (1.97%) CCSA
8 7 (1.97%) CCSE
9 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.56%) RHCE
11 2 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.81%) GDPR
2 9 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.97%) QA
4 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (15.45%) Docker
2 16 (4.49%) DFS Replication
3 11 (3.09%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.25%) HDFS
5 6 (1.69%) Dovecot
5 6 (1.69%) Postfix
5 6 (1.69%) Squid
6 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (26.97%) Terraform
2 69 (19.38%) Kubernetes
3 48 (13.48%) Grafana
4 39 (10.96%) Ansible
5 32 (8.99%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.69%) Nessus
6 6 (1.69%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.40%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.84%) Argo
8 3 (0.84%) Podman
8 3 (0.84%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Kibana
9 2 (0.56%) logstash
10 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
10 1 (0.28%) linkerd
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (5.90%) ServiceNow
2 17 (4.78%) Red Hat
3 16 (4.49%) Databricks
3 16 (4.49%) IBM
4 15 (4.21%) Cisco
5 9 (2.53%) Juniper
6 8 (2.25%) Fortinet
6 8 (2.25%) Google
7 7 (1.97%) CheckPoint
7 7 (1.97%) Splunk
8 6 (1.69%) Facebook
8 6 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (1.69%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.40%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.84%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.84%) Cribl.io
11 3 (0.84%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.84%) Meraki
11 3 (0.84%) Sonatype