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 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 268 317
Rank change year-on-year -105 +49 +81
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 340 508 747
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.16% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.28% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 248 450 503
10th Percentile £50,000 £59,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £76,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £140,000 £138,750
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 67,520 39,640 79,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 90.72% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 42,919 22,979 60,984
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £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 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,983 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.06% +9.97% -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 12 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 12 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 -110 322 £80,000 -23.81% 83
London -74 195 £90,000 -18.18% 30
UK excluding London -4 128 £70,000 +10.67% 62
Work from Home -145 106 £90,000 -14.29% 37
North of England -40 42 £70,000 +21.74% 19
North West +1 38 £70,000 +4.60% 17
Midlands -5 28 £65,000 - 8
West Midlands +21 20 £50,750 -0.98% 7
East of England +5 19 £75,000 +15.38% 5
South West -12 19 £75,000 +30.43% 12
South East -17 17 £62,500 - 18
East Midlands -39 8 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland -11 4 - -
North East -20 2 £55,000 -4.35%
Yorkshire -60 2 £67,500 +31.71% 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 340 (100.00%) AWS
2 139 (40.88%) Python
3 115 (33.82%) DevOps
4 104 (30.59%) CI/CD
5 99 (29.12%) Terraform
6 98 (28.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (21.18%) Serverless
8 70 (20.59%) Azure
9 62 (18.24%) Software Engineering
10 59 (17.35%) Amazon S3
11 53 (15.59%) Platform Engineering
12 51 (15.00%) Java
13 49 (14.41%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (14.41%) SaaS
14 48 (14.12%) Kubernetes
14 48 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (12.94%) Degree
15 44 (12.94%) SQL
16 43 (12.65%) Agile
16 43 (12.65%) ETL
17 42 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (12.35%) Observability
18 41 (12.06%) Security Cleared
18 41 (12.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 37 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 37 (10.88%) AWS CloudFormation
20 36 (10.59%) Bash
20 36 (10.59%) Docker
20 36 (10.59%) High Availability
20 36 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 24 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (6.18%) Apache
3 15 (4.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 340 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (21.18%) Serverless
3 70 (20.59%) Azure
4 59 (17.35%) Amazon S3
5 49 (14.41%) AWS Lambda
5 49 (14.41%) SaaS
6 42 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (12.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 37 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 37 (10.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (7.65%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (7.35%) GCP
10 25 (7.35%) GitHub
11 21 (6.18%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (4.71%) Amazon Kinesis
12 16 (4.71%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (4.12%) PaaS
14 13 (3.82%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (3.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.76%) Firewall
2 20 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
2 20 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (5.88%) LAN
2 20 (5.88%) WAN
2 20 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.53%) VPN
4 11 (3.24%) BGP
5 6 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.76%) VLAN
6 5 (1.47%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.47%) IPsec
6 5 (1.47%) MPLS
6 5 (1.47%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.47%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.47%) OSPF
6 5 (1.47%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.47%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.47%) WLAN
7 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.12%) Amazon RDS
1 31 (9.12%) Amazon Redshift
2 23 (6.76%) Apache Iceberg
3 20 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (3.53%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.53%) MySQL
6 12 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (2.06%) Apache Arrow
8 7 (2.06%) Dremio
9 6 (1.76%) Flink
9 6 (1.76%) Metadata
10 5 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
10 5 (1.47%) Pentaho
11 4 (1.18%) Big Data
11 4 (1.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 23 (6.76%) Git
2 22 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.82%) GitLab
4 6 (1.76%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.88%) NUnit
7 2 (0.59%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.59%) Deequ
8 1 (0.29%) Gradle
8 1 (0.29%) JIRA
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) Maven
8 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 86 (25.29%) Finance
2 48 (14.12%) Banking
3 40 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 26 (7.65%) Law
5 16 (4.71%) Financial Institution
5 16 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.12%) Retail
8 13 (3.82%) Front Office
8 13 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.53%) Back Office
10 11 (3.24%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.65%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.47%) Advertising
12 5 (1.47%) Games
12 5 (1.47%) Legal
13 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.88%) Billing
15 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.94%) Kafka
2 16 (4.71%) PySpark
3 15 (4.41%) React
4 14 (4.12%) .NET
5 13 (3.82%) Node.js
6 12 (3.53%) AWS CDK
7 11 (3.24%) REST
8 10 (2.94%) .NET Core
8 10 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (2.94%) RESTful
9 9 (2.65%) OAuth
10 8 (2.35%) Spring
11 7 (2.06%) JWT
11 7 (2.06%) Loki
11 7 (2.06%) NumPy
11 7 (2.06%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.06%) Pandas
11 7 (2.06%) SciPy
12 6 (1.76%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.47%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.53%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (6.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (5.59%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.71%) Management Information System
7 14 (4.12%) Security Posture
8 13 (3.82%) Fixed Income
9 10 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.65%) Blog
11 8 (2.35%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.06%) Equities
13 6 (1.76%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.47%) Derivative
14 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.47%) Pricing Data
14 5 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
16 3 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.00%) Linux
2 12 (3.53%) Unix
3 3 (0.88%) Windows
4 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (33.82%) DevOps
2 104 (30.59%) CI/CD
3 98 (28.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (18.24%) Software Engineering
5 53 (15.59%) Platform Engineering
6 48 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (12.65%) Agile
7 43 (12.65%) ETL
8 42 (12.35%) Observability
9 36 (10.59%) High Availability
9 36 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 35 (10.29%) Data Engineering
10 35 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 32 (9.41%) Analytics
12 32 (9.41%) Cloud Security
13 27 (7.94%) AI
14 26 (7.65%) Containerisation
14 26 (7.65%) Microservices
14 26 (7.65%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 139 (40.88%) Python
2 51 (15.00%) Java
3 44 (12.94%) SQL
4 36 (10.59%) Bash
5 29 (8.53%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.59%) C#
7 17 (5.00%) Go
8 14 (4.12%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.76%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.18%) Scala
11 3 (0.88%) Bicep
12 2 (0.59%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) C
13 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 44 (12.94%) Degree
2 41 (12.06%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (7.94%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.41%) CCIE
6 15 (4.41%) CCNA
6 15 (4.41%) CCNP
6 15 (4.41%) CCSA
6 15 (4.41%) CCSE
6 15 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.53%) CISSP
8 11 (3.24%) CCSK
9 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.29%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.29%) PCI DSS
2 18 (5.29%) SOC 2
3 13 (3.82%) GDPR
4 10 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.35%) QA
6 6 (1.76%) NIST
7 4 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (10.59%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) HDFS
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (29.12%) Terraform
2 48 (14.12%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.06%) Grafana
4 18 (5.29%) Ansible
5 17 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.41%) FortiGate
7 8 (2.35%) Argo
8 3 (0.88%) Istio
9 2 (0.59%) Kibana
9 2 (0.59%) logstash
9 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (7.06%) Cisco
2 20 (5.88%) CheckPoint
2 20 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.24%) Google
5 10 (2.94%) SolarWinds
6 9 (2.65%) Databricks
6 9 (2.65%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.35%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.47%) Informatica
8 5 (1.47%) Meraki
8 5 (1.47%) SAP
8 5 (1.47%) Talend
9 4 (1.18%) Pega
9 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.59%) Confluent
11 2 (0.59%) Okta
11 2 (0.59%) Ping Identity