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 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 293 293
Rank change year-on-year -101 0 +80
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 264 515 558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.96% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.03% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 193 429 423
10th Percentile £53,800 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +20.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 53,748 49,914 53,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 92.93% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33,232 25,949 41,098
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -86 252 £100,000 +5.26% 85
London -75 179 £105,000 - 43
Work from Home -75 126 £105,000 +5.00% 57
UK excluding London +3 75 £67,500 +3.85% 58
North of England 0 24 £85,000 +30.77% 19
North West +23 20 £85,000 +25.93% 9
Midlands +25 18 £50,750 -21.92% 6
East of England +19 14 £75,000 +17.65% 5
South East +11 11 £62,500 +9.31% 19
West Midlands +41 10 £50,000 -2.44% 5
East Midlands -10 8 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland +8 6 - - 2
South West -2 5 £72,500 +3.57% 6
North East +3 2 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Yorkshire -30 2 £67,500 +28.57% 7

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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.

1 264 (100.00%) AWS
2 144 (54.55%) Python
3 92 (34.85%) CI/CD
3 92 (34.85%) Software Engineering
4 81 (30.68%) Agile
4 81 (30.68%) DevOps
5 75 (28.41%) Java
5 75 (28.41%) TypeScript
6 67 (25.38%) Terraform
7 64 (24.24%) Apache Iceberg
8 63 (23.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 62 (23.48%) Amazon Athena
9 62 (23.48%) JavaScript
10 61 (23.11%) Apache Airflow
10 61 (23.11%) Investment Management
11 57 (21.59%) dbt
12 56 (21.21%) Asset Management
13 55 (20.83%) Apache Arrow
13 55 (20.83%) Dremio
13 55 (20.83%) NumPy
13 55 (20.83%) Pandas
13 55 (20.83%) SciPy
13 55 (20.83%) Serverless
14 50 (18.94%) Azure
15 42 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (15.91%) Kubernetes
16 39 (14.77%) Apache
17 38 (14.39%) Node.js
18 37 (14.02%) GCP
18 37 (14.02%) PostgreSQL

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 61 (23.11%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (14.77%) Apache
3 16 (6.06%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.14%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.76%) Confluence
5 2 (0.76%) JBoss
5 2 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 264 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (21.59%) dbt
3 55 (20.83%) Serverless
4 50 (18.94%) Azure
5 42 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (14.02%) GCP
7 34 (12.88%) Amazon S3
8 31 (11.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (11.36%) Snowflake
10 29 (10.98%) SaaS
11 28 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (10.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (7.58%) GitHub
15 18 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
18 12 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.20%) Firewall
2 17 (6.44%) LAN
2 17 (6.44%) WAN
2 17 (6.44%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (5.30%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (5.30%) Cisco Firepower
4 11 (4.17%) VPN
5 7 (2.65%) BGP
6 6 (2.27%) DNS
7 4 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (1.52%) IPsec
7 4 (1.52%) MPLS
7 4 (1.52%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.52%) NX-OS
7 4 (1.52%) OSPF
7 4 (1.52%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.52%) VXLAN
7 4 (1.52%) WLAN
8 3 (1.14%) Network Security
8 3 (1.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (24.24%) Apache Iceberg
2 62 (23.48%) Amazon Athena
3 55 (20.83%) Apache Arrow
3 55 (20.83%) Dremio
4 37 (14.02%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (13.26%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (12.50%) Data Lake
7 29 (10.98%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (3.79%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.41%) Big Data
11 9 (3.41%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.41%) MySQL
12 8 (3.03%) Apache Hive
12 8 (3.03%) DynamoDB
13 6 (2.27%) Flink
13 6 (2.27%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (7.58%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.68%) Git
3 8 (3.03%) GitLab
4 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.52%) JIRA
6 3 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.76%) Ant
7 2 (0.76%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.76%) Maven
7 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.76%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.38%) Deequ
8 1 (0.38%) Gradle
8 1 (0.38%) JUnit
8 1 (0.38%) NUnit
General
1 111 (42.05%) Finance
2 61 (23.11%) Front Office
3 46 (17.42%) Banking
4 34 (12.88%) Investment Banking
5 29 (10.98%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.30%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.55%) Law
8 10 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.41%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.03%) Retail
11 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.27%) Games
13 5 (1.89%) Back Office
13 5 (1.89%) Legal
13 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.52%) Advertising
15 3 (1.14%) Billing
16 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
17 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.83%) NumPy
1 55 (20.83%) Pandas
1 55 (20.83%) SciPy
2 38 (14.39%) Node.js
3 36 (13.64%) React
4 29 (10.98%) gRPC
4 29 (10.98%) Protocol Buffers
5 26 (9.85%) AngularJS
5 26 (9.85%) Vue
6 20 (7.58%) Kafka
7 13 (4.92%) .NET
8 10 (3.79%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.41%) PySpark
9 9 (3.41%) RESTful
10 8 (3.03%) boto
10 8 (3.03%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (2.27%) OAuth
11 6 (2.27%) REST
11 6 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (24.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 61 (23.11%) Fixed Income
3 55 (20.83%) Equities
4 37 (14.02%) Hedge funds
5 29 (10.98%) Derivative
5 29 (10.98%) Pricing Data
6 22 (8.33%) Data Centre
7 19 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (6.06%) Cloud Native
9 12 (4.55%) Management Information System
10 10 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (3.79%) Security Posture
11 8 (3.03%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.52%) Low-Code
14 3 (1.14%) Clustering
14 3 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.14%) Web3
15 2 (0.76%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.09%) Linux
2 9 (3.41%) Unix
3 8 (3.03%) Windows
4 2 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.76%) VMS
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.85%) CI/CD
1 92 (34.85%) Software Engineering
2 81 (30.68%) Agile
2 81 (30.68%) DevOps
3 63 (23.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (23.11%) Investment Management
5 56 (21.21%) Asset Management
6 34 (12.88%) Fintech
7 32 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
9 28 (10.61%) Risk Management
10 27 (10.23%) Observability
11 26 (9.85%) Order Management
11 26 (9.85%) Performance Attribution
12 25 (9.47%) Cloud Security
12 25 (9.47%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (9.09%) Data Engineering
13 24 (9.09%) ETL
14 20 (7.58%) Computer Science
14 20 (7.58%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 144 (54.55%) Python
2 75 (28.41%) Java
2 75 (28.41%) TypeScript
3 62 (23.48%) JavaScript
4 29 (10.98%) Bash
5 28 (10.61%) SQL
6 19 (7.20%) C#
7 10 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.79%) Scala
8 8 (3.03%) Go
9 5 (1.89%) Groovy
10 3 (1.14%) Bicep
10 3 (1.14%) Rust
11 2 (0.76%) C
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (10.23%) Degree
2 21 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.58%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.92%) CCNP
6 13 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.79%) CCIE
7 10 (3.79%) CCNA
7 10 (3.79%) CCSA
7 10 (3.79%) CCSE
8 7 (2.65%) CISSP
9 6 (2.27%) CCSK
10 5 (1.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.55%) GDPR
3 8 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.89%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.52%) NIST
5 4 (1.52%) QA
6 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (12.12%) Docker
2 8 (3.03%) HDFS
3 2 (0.76%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.76%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.76%) Postfix
3 2 (0.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 67 (25.38%) Terraform
2 42 (15.91%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.20%) Grafana
4 18 (6.82%) Ansible
5 10 (3.79%) FortiGate
5 10 (3.79%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.65%) Argo
7 2 (0.76%) Kibana
7 2 (0.76%) logstash
7 2 (0.76%) Nessus
7 2 (0.76%) Podman
7 2 (0.76%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.76%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (7.58%) Cisco
2 14 (5.30%) CheckPoint
2 14 (5.30%) Fortinet
3 11 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.41%) Databricks
5 8 (3.03%) SolarWinds
6 7 (2.65%) Google
7 6 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.52%) Meraki
9 3 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.14%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.76%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.76%) Informatica
10 2 (0.76%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.76%) Okta
10 2 (0.76%) OpenText
10 2 (0.76%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.76%) SAP
10 2 (0.76%) Talend