AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 286 283
Rank change year-on-year -29 -3 +105
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 429 753 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.96% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.01% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 327 541 606
10th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% - -

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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer 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 September 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 18 September 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 -16 400 £110,000 +22.22% 85
London +8 312 £110,000 -2.22% 50
Work from Home -32 251 £110,000 +4.76% 37
UK excluding London -23 105 £71,250 +1.79% 59
North of England +31 34 £70,000 +7.69% 21
Midlands +38 29 £72,500 +3.57% 2
North West +20 29 £70,000 +7.69% 15
West Midlands +50 23 £72,500 - 1
Scotland -26 23 £100,000 +66.67% 2
South East +3 9 £80,000 +33.33% 29
South West +53 6 £100,000 +33.33% 2
East Midlands +16 6 £67,000 +16.52% 1
East of England -11 5 £64,000 -17.42% 1
North East +23 3 £65,000 -18.75% 3
Yorkshire +23 2 - - 3
Wales +18 2 £57,500 +35.29% 2

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 429 (100.00%) AWS
2 302 (70.40%) Python
3 275 (64.10%) Finance
4 271 (63.17%) Software Engineering
5 259 (60.37%) Agile
6 212 (49.42%) Amazon Athena
7 207 (48.25%) TypeScript
8 200 (46.62%) JavaScript
9 196 (45.69%) Investment Management
9 196 (45.69%) Apache Iceberg
10 190 (44.29%) Asset Management
10 190 (44.29%) Apache Airflow
11 188 (43.82%) Equities
12 187 (43.59%) dbt
13 186 (43.36%) Dremio
13 186 (43.36%) Apache Arrow
13 186 (43.36%) Pandas
13 186 (43.36%) Fixed Income
13 186 (43.36%) Front Office
13 186 (43.36%) SciPy
13 186 (43.36%) NumPy
14 184 (42.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 176 (41.03%) Java
16 138 (32.17%) Banking
17 127 (29.60%) DevOps
18 118 (27.51%) GCP
19 116 (27.04%) CI/CD
20 115 (26.81%) Node.js
21 111 (25.87%) PostgreSQL
22 107 (24.94%) Apache

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 190 (44.29%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (24.94%) Apache
3 21 (4.90%) Apache Spark
4 19 (4.43%) Confluence
5 7 (1.63%) nginx
6 5 (1.17%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.93%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 429 (100.00%) AWS
2 187 (43.59%) dbt
3 118 (27.51%) GCP
4 94 (21.91%) Snowflake
5 57 (13.29%) Amazon S3
6 55 (12.82%) Serverless
7 50 (11.66%) Azure
8 49 (11.42%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (10.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 44 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 43 (10.02%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (7.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (6.06%) AWS KMS
15 25 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (4.20%) Amazon ELB
17 15 (3.50%) GitHub
18 14 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
19 12 (2.80%) OpenShift
20 11 (2.56%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.39%) Firewall
2 18 (4.20%) DNS
3 14 (3.26%) VPN
4 9 (2.10%) Network Security
4 9 (2.10%) WAN
5 8 (1.86%) HTTP
5 8 (1.86%) LAN
6 7 (1.63%) FTP
6 7 (1.63%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.63%) SMTP
6 7 (1.63%) SSH
7 6 (1.40%) IMAP
7 6 (1.40%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (1.17%) BGP
8 5 (1.17%) OSPF
8 5 (1.17%) Wireless
9 4 (0.93%) IPsec
9 4 (0.93%) MPLS
9 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (49.42%) Amazon Athena
2 196 (45.69%) Apache Iceberg
3 186 (43.36%) Apache Arrow
3 186 (43.36%) Dremio
4 111 (25.87%) PostgreSQL
5 95 (22.14%) Data Lake
6 89 (20.75%) Apache Ignite
7 41 (9.56%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (5.83%) Big Data
9 15 (3.50%) NoSQL
10 13 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.86%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.86%) SQL Server
13 7 (1.63%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.40%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.17%) Apache Hudi
15 5 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.17%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 44 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 30 (6.99%) Git
3 24 (5.59%) JIRA
4 22 (5.13%) GitLab
5 18 (4.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 17 (3.96%) Vagrant
7 9 (2.10%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.40%) JUnit
9 5 (1.17%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.93%) Ant
10 4 (0.93%) Maven
10 4 (0.93%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.47%) Selenium
12 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.23%) Gradle
General
1 275 (64.10%) Finance
2 186 (43.36%) Front Office
3 138 (32.17%) Banking
4 93 (21.68%) Investment Banking
5 60 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (10.49%) Law
7 37 (8.62%) Public Sector
8 31 (7.23%) Social Skills
9 13 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (2.80%) Retail
11 8 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.40%) Advertising
12 6 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.40%) Games
13 5 (1.17%) Marketing
14 3 (0.70%) Legal
15 1 (0.23%) Billing
15 1 (0.23%) Electronics
15 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (43.36%) NumPy
1 186 (43.36%) Pandas
1 186 (43.36%) SciPy
2 115 (26.81%) Node.js
3 107 (24.94%) React
4 98 (22.84%) AngularJS
5 97 (22.61%) Vue
6 89 (20.75%) gRPC
6 89 (20.75%) Protocol Buffers
7 27 (6.29%) Kafka
8 21 (4.90%) Spring
9 18 (4.20%) Web Services
10 17 (3.96%) AWS CDK
10 17 (3.96%) REST
11 13 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (2.80%) .NET
12 12 (2.80%) Spring Boot
13 10 (2.33%) PySpark
14 9 (2.10%) Spark Streaming
15 7 (1.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 188 (43.82%) Equities
2 186 (43.36%) Fixed Income
3 184 (42.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 97 (22.61%) Derivative
5 92 (21.45%) Hedge funds
6 89 (20.75%) Pricing Data
7 28 (6.53%) Cloud Native
8 25 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (4.66%) e-Learning
10 18 (4.20%) Algorithms
11 16 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (3.73%) Replication
12 12 (2.80%) Public Cloud
13 11 (2.56%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.86%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (1.86%) Management Information System
15 6 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.40%) Product Ownership
16 4 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 4 (0.93%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 46 (10.72%) Linux
2 28 (6.53%) Windows
3 18 (4.20%) VMS
4 11 (2.56%) Unix
5 7 (1.63%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.40%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.17%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.70%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) Android
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (63.17%) Software Engineering
2 259 (60.37%) Agile
3 196 (45.69%) Investment Management
4 190 (44.29%) Asset Management
5 127 (29.60%) DevOps
6 116 (27.04%) CI/CD
7 100 (23.31%) Order Management
8 98 (22.84%) Fintech
8 98 (22.84%) Risk Management
9 97 (22.61%) Performance Attribution
10 64 (14.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 53 (12.35%) Artificial Intelligence
12 46 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (10.26%) SDLC
14 41 (9.56%) Containerisation
15 37 (8.62%) Cloud Security
15 37 (8.62%) Mentoring
16 36 (8.39%) Machine Learning
17 31 (7.23%) Platform Engineering
18 27 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 302 (70.40%) Python
2 207 (48.25%) TypeScript
3 200 (46.62%) JavaScript
4 176 (41.03%) Java
5 37 (8.62%) Bash
5 37 (8.62%) SQL
6 29 (6.76%) PowerShell
7 24 (5.59%) Groovy
8 23 (5.36%) Go
9 18 (4.20%) Scala
10 17 (3.96%) C#
11 9 (2.10%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.70%) C
12 3 (0.70%) C++
12 3 (0.70%) Perl
12 3 (0.70%) PHP
12 3 (0.70%) Ruby
13 2 (0.47%) Bicep
13 2 (0.47%) Rust
14 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 33 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.83%) AWS Certification
4 21 (4.90%) Degree
5 10 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.10%) CCNP
7 7 (1.63%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.17%) CCNA
8 5 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.93%) CCIE
9 4 (0.93%) CCSA
9 4 (0.93%) CCSE
10 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.70%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.47%) RHCE
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.23%) CCSK
12 1 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.10%) GDPR
2 7 (1.63%) QA
3 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.23%) NIST
5 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (14.22%) Docker
2 16 (3.73%) DFS Replication
3 15 (3.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.40%) Dovecot
4 6 (1.40%) Postfix
4 6 (1.40%) Squid
5 5 (1.17%) HDFS
6 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 107 (24.94%) Terraform
2 74 (17.25%) Kubernetes
3 52 (12.12%) Grafana
4 46 (10.72%) Ansible
5 37 (8.62%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.40%) Nessus
6 6 (1.40%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.17%) Istio
8 4 (0.93%) Podman
8 4 (0.93%) Puppet
9 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.47%) Argo
11 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.23%) Kibana
11 1 (0.23%) linkerd
11 1 (0.23%) logstash
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (5.36%) ServiceNow
2 18 (4.20%) IBM
3 17 (3.96%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.03%) Databricks
5 10 (2.33%) Cisco
5 10 (2.33%) Juniper
5 10 (2.33%) Ping Identity
6 9 (2.10%) Google
7 8 (1.86%) Splunk
8 6 (1.40%) Facebook
8 6 (1.40%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (1.40%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.17%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.17%) Meraki
9 5 (1.17%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.93%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.93%) Confluent
11 3 (0.70%) Citrix
11 3 (0.70%) Cribl.io