AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 299 325
Rank change year-on-year -95 +26 +56
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 287 495 639
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.97% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.05% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 197 433 465
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 58,749 46,938 69,506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 91.97% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 36,633 24,273 54,572
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,750
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 £74,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 February 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 4 February 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 -87 269 £85,000 -10.53% 103
London -82 181 £100,000 -4.76% 42
Work from Home -105 118 £100,000 -4.76% 53
UK excluding London +10 90 £70,000 +7.69% 75
North of England -20 30 £85,000 +47.83% 21
North West +14 26 £85,000 +25.93% 13
Midlands +16 22 £50,750 -21.92% 13
East of England +21 16 £75,000 +15.38% 7
South East +21 14 £65,000 +10.64% 19
West Midlands +39 13 £50,000 -2.44% 12
East Midlands -5 9 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland -15 6 - - 3
South West 0 5 £72,500 +20.83% 12
North East -9 2 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire -29 2 £67,500 +31.71% 7

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

For the 6 months to 4 February 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.

1 287 (100.00%) AWS
2 133 (46.34%) Python
3 103 (35.89%) CI/CD
4 87 (30.31%) DevOps
5 82 (28.57%) Terraform
6 81 (28.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (27.18%) Software Engineering
8 71 (24.74%) Java
9 69 (24.04%) Serverless
10 58 (20.21%) Agile
11 55 (19.16%) TypeScript
12 52 (18.12%) Azure
13 51 (17.77%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (16.03%) Kubernetes
15 44 (15.33%) Platform Engineering
16 43 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (14.98%) SaaS
17 42 (14.63%) Amazon S3
18 41 (14.29%) Observability
19 39 (13.59%) Amazon EKS
19 39 (13.59%) Apache Iceberg
20 38 (13.24%) Amazon RDS
21 37 (12.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
22 36 (12.54%) Amazon Athena
22 36 (12.54%) AWS CloudFormation
22 36 (12.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 36 (12.54%) JavaScript
23 35 (12.20%) Apache Airflow
23 35 (12.20%) Degree
23 35 (12.20%) Investment Management

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 35 (12.20%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (9.41%) Apache
3 19 (6.62%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 287 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (24.04%) Serverless
3 52 (18.12%) Azure
4 51 (17.77%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (14.98%) SaaS
6 42 (14.63%) Amazon S3
7 39 (13.59%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (12.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 36 (12.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (10.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (10.45%) dbt
11 28 (9.76%) GCP
12 24 (8.36%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (8.36%) GitHub
13 20 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (6.27%) Amazon Kinesis
15 18 (6.27%) AWS Step Functions
16 17 (5.92%) Snowflake
17 15 (5.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.01%) Firewall
2 20 (6.97%) LAN
2 20 (6.97%) WAN
2 20 (6.97%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (6.62%) Cisco ASA
3 19 (6.62%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (4.53%) VPN
5 11 (3.83%) BGP
6 6 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.09%) VLAN
7 5 (1.74%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (1.74%) IPsec
7 5 (1.74%) MPLS
7 5 (1.74%) NetScaler
7 5 (1.74%) NX-OS
7 5 (1.74%) OSPF
7 5 (1.74%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.74%) VXLAN
7 5 (1.74%) WLAN
8 2 (0.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.59%) Apache Iceberg
2 38 (13.24%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (12.54%) Amazon Athena
4 29 (10.10%) Apache Arrow
4 29 (10.10%) Dremio
5 25 (8.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (7.67%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (6.97%) Data Lake
8 15 (5.23%) Apache Ignite
9 11 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.83%) MySQL
10 10 (3.48%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.14%) Big Data
11 9 (3.14%) Hadoop
12 8 (2.79%) Apache Hive
13 7 (2.44%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.09%) Flink
15 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (6.62%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.18%) Git
3 10 (3.48%) GitLab
4 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.05%) NUnit
6 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.70%) Deequ
6 2 (0.70%) Gradle
6 2 (0.70%) JUnit
6 2 (0.70%) Maven
6 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 100 (34.84%) Finance
2 42 (14.63%) Banking
3 35 (12.20%) Front Office
4 33 (11.50%) Social Skills
5 23 (8.01%) Investment Banking
6 20 (6.97%) Financial Institution
6 20 (6.97%) Law
7 12 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.18%) Retail
8 11 (3.83%) Back Office
8 11 (3.83%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.74%) Games
10 5 (1.74%) Legal
10 5 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.39%) Advertising
12 3 (1.05%) Billing
13 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.10%) NumPy
1 29 (10.10%) Pandas
1 29 (10.10%) SciPy
2 27 (9.41%) React
3 26 (9.06%) Node.js
4 21 (7.32%) Kafka
5 16 (5.57%) .NET
6 15 (5.23%) gRPC
6 15 (5.23%) Protocol Buffers
7 14 (4.88%) AngularJS
7 14 (4.88%) AWS CDK
7 14 (4.88%) PySpark
7 14 (4.88%) Vue
8 12 (4.18%) RESTful
9 9 (3.14%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.14%) REST
10 8 (2.79%) boto
10 8 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.79%) OAuth
10 8 (2.79%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 35 (12.20%) Fixed Income
3 29 (10.10%) Cloud Native
3 29 (10.10%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.10%) Equities
4 28 (9.76%) Data Centre
5 27 (9.41%) Hedge funds
6 15 (5.23%) Derivative
6 15 (5.23%) Management Information System
6 15 (5.23%) Pricing Data
7 13 (4.53%) Security Posture
8 10 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.79%) Blog
9 8 (2.79%) e-Learning
9 8 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.74%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.05%) Clustering
12 3 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.01%) Linux
2 12 (4.18%) Unix
3 5 (1.74%) Windows
4 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (35.89%) CI/CD
2 87 (30.31%) DevOps
3 81 (28.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (27.18%) Software Engineering
5 58 (20.21%) Agile
6 44 (15.33%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (14.29%) Observability
9 36 (12.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 35 (12.20%) Investment Management
11 31 (10.80%) Asset Management
11 31 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (10.45%) Data Engineering
13 29 (10.10%) Cloud Security
13 29 (10.10%) ETL
13 29 (10.10%) High Availability
14 28 (9.76%) Computer Science
15 24 (8.36%) AI
15 24 (8.36%) Process Improvement
16 23 (8.01%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 133 (46.34%) Python
2 71 (24.74%) Java
3 55 (19.16%) TypeScript
4 36 (12.54%) JavaScript
5 31 (10.80%) Bash
6 29 (10.10%) SQL
7 22 (7.67%) C#
8 13 (4.53%) Go
9 10 (3.48%) Scala
10 7 (2.44%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.05%) Bicep
11 3 (1.05%) Rust
12 2 (0.70%) C
13 1 (0.35%) Groovy
13 1 (0.35%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (12.20%) Degree
2 29 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (7.32%) AWS Certification
5 19 (6.62%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.23%) CCNP
6 15 (5.23%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (4.88%) CCIE
7 14 (4.88%) CCNA
7 14 (4.88%) CCSA
7 14 (4.88%) CCSE
8 10 (3.48%) CISSP
9 9 (3.14%) CCSK
10 6 (2.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.39%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.18%) GDPR
2 12 (4.18%) PCI DSS
2 12 (4.18%) SOC 2
3 9 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.44%) QA
5 5 (1.74%) NIST
6 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.05%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (10.80%) Docker
2 8 (2.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 82 (28.57%) Terraform
2 46 (16.03%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.32%) Grafana
4 17 (5.92%) Ansible
5 14 (4.88%) FortiGate
6 11 (3.83%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.44%) Argo
8 2 (0.70%) Kibana
8 2 (0.70%) logstash
8 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (8.36%) Cisco
2 19 (6.62%) CheckPoint
2 19 (6.62%) Fortinet
3 11 (3.83%) Databricks
4 10 (3.48%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.48%) SolarWinds
5 9 (3.14%) Google
6 8 (2.79%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.74%) Meraki
7 5 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.39%) Informatica
8 4 (1.39%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.39%) Talend
9 3 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.05%) SAP
10 2 (0.70%) Okta
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle
10 2 (0.70%) Pega
10 2 (0.70%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.70%) Salesforce