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 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 293 311
Rank change year-on-year -79 +18 +70
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 324 607 519
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.90% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.95% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 228 506 456
10th Percentile £61,250 £58,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £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 48,105 63,733 49,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 94.54% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 30,175 35,701 38,478
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,048 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% -

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 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 -61 297 £105,000 +13.51% 120
London -52 230 £110,000 +4.76% 64
Work from Home -48 164 £110,000 +10.00% 73
UK excluding London +23 87 £72,500 +3.57% 74
Midlands +68 27 £72,500 - 4
Scotland +34 26 £100,000 +100.00% 7
North of England +28 24 £82,500 +26.92% 37
North West +45 21 £85,000 +30.77% 23
West Midlands +59 19 £72,500 - 1
South East +21 10 £65,000 +8.33% 18
East Midlands +28 8 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East of England +18 2 £60,000 -4.00% 5
Yorkshire 0 2 £67,500 +3.85% 11
North East +7 1 £55,000 -21.43% 3
South West +3 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 324 (100.00%) AWS
2 226 (69.75%) Python
3 187 (57.72%) Software Engineering
4 172 (53.09%) Agile
5 137 (42.28%) Java
6 132 (40.74%) Amazon Athena
7 126 (38.89%) Apache Iceberg
8 122 (37.65%) JavaScript
9 120 (37.04%) TypeScript
10 118 (36.42%) Apache Airflow
11 116 (35.80%) Investment Management
12 114 (35.19%) Asset Management
13 113 (34.88%) dbt
14 112 (34.57%) Apache Arrow
14 112 (34.57%) CI/CD
14 112 (34.57%) Dremio
14 112 (34.57%) NumPy
14 112 (34.57%) Pandas
14 112 (34.57%) SciPy
15 100 (30.86%) DevOps
16 89 (27.47%) Terraform
17 71 (21.91%) GCP
18 70 (21.60%) Apache
19 66 (20.37%) Node.js
19 66 (20.37%) PostgreSQL
20 64 (19.75%) React
21 63 (19.44%) Data Lake
22 62 (19.14%) Kubernetes
23 61 (18.83%) Snowflake
24 59 (18.21%) 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
1 118 (36.42%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (21.60%) Apache
3 22 (6.79%) Apache Spark
4 14 (4.32%) Confluence
5 5 (1.54%) nginx
6 4 (1.23%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.93%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 324 (100.00%) AWS
2 113 (34.88%) dbt
3 71 (21.91%) GCP
4 61 (18.83%) Snowflake
5 53 (16.36%) Amazon S3
6 49 (15.12%) Serverless
7 47 (14.51%) Azure
8 46 (14.20%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (10.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (10.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (8.95%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
12 26 (8.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (5.56%) AWS KMS
14 18 (5.56%) GitHub
15 17 (5.25%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (4.32%) Amazon ELB
16 14 (4.32%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.72%) Firewall
2 12 (3.70%) DNS
3 11 (3.40%) VPN
4 10 (3.09%) LAN
4 10 (3.09%) WAN
5 9 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.85%) HTTP
7 5 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (1.54%) FTP
7 5 (1.54%) IMAP
7 5 (1.54%) Network Security
7 5 (1.54%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (1.54%) SMTP
7 5 (1.54%) SSH
8 4 (1.23%) BGP
8 4 (1.23%) Wireless
9 3 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.93%) VLAN
10 1 (0.31%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (40.74%) Amazon Athena
2 126 (38.89%) Apache Iceberg
3 112 (34.57%) Apache Arrow
3 112 (34.57%) Dremio
4 66 (20.37%) PostgreSQL
5 63 (19.44%) Data Lake
6 57 (17.59%) Apache Ignite
7 39 (12.04%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (8.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (8.02%) Big Data
10 19 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (4.32%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (2.78%) Hadoop
14 8 (2.47%) Apache Hive
14 8 (2.47%) DynamoDB
14 8 (2.47%) SQL Server
15 7 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.85%) Apache Hudi
17 5 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (11.42%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.41%) Git
3 18 (5.56%) JIRA
4 14 (4.32%) GitLab
5 13 (4.01%) Vagrant
6 9 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.85%) JUnit
8 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.23%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.93%) Ant
9 3 (0.93%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.93%) Maven
10 2 (0.62%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.31%) Deequ
11 1 (0.31%) Gradle
11 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 201 (62.04%) Finance
2 116 (35.80%) Front Office
3 104 (32.10%) Banking
4 61 (18.83%) Investment Banking
5 51 (15.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (15.43%) Law
7 31 (9.57%) Social Skills
8 20 (6.17%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.70%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.47%) Legal
11 6 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.54%) Games
12 5 (1.54%) Retail
13 4 (1.23%) Advertising
13 4 (1.23%) Marketing
14 3 (0.93%) Back Office
15 1 (0.31%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (34.57%) NumPy
1 112 (34.57%) Pandas
1 112 (34.57%) SciPy
2 66 (20.37%) Node.js
3 64 (19.75%) React
4 57 (17.59%) gRPC
4 57 (17.59%) Protocol Buffers
5 55 (16.98%) AngularJS
5 55 (16.98%) Vue
6 29 (8.95%) Kafka
7 22 (6.79%) Spring
8 16 (4.94%) AWS CDK
9 12 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (3.70%) Spark Streaming
9 12 (3.70%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.40%) .NET
10 11 (3.40%) RESTful
11 10 (3.09%) PySpark
12 8 (2.47%) boto
12 8 (2.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 117 (36.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 116 (35.80%) Equities
2 116 (35.80%) Fixed Income
3 65 (20.06%) Derivative
4 59 (18.21%) Hedge funds
5 57 (17.59%) Pricing Data
6 34 (10.49%) Cloud Native
7 31 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (5.56%) Algorithms
9 13 (4.01%) Data Centre
9 13 (4.01%) Replication
10 11 (3.40%) e-Learning
10 11 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.78%) Public Cloud
12 8 (2.47%) Equity Derivative
13 6 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.85%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (1.23%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.23%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.57%) Linux
2 18 (5.56%) Windows
3 13 (4.01%) VMS
4 10 (3.09%) Unix
5 5 (1.54%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (57.72%) Software Engineering
2 172 (53.09%) Agile
3 116 (35.80%) Investment Management
4 114 (35.19%) Asset Management
5 112 (34.57%) CI/CD
6 100 (30.86%) DevOps
7 59 (18.21%) Fintech
8 57 (17.59%) Risk Management
9 55 (16.98%) Order Management
9 55 (16.98%) Performance Attribution
10 53 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 43 (13.27%) SDLC
12 41 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (11.73%) AI
14 34 (10.49%) Machine Learning
15 29 (8.95%) Data Pipeline
16 28 (8.64%) Containerisation
16 28 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 27 (8.33%) Analytics
17 27 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 226 (69.75%) Python
2 137 (42.28%) Java
3 122 (37.65%) JavaScript
4 120 (37.04%) TypeScript
5 32 (9.88%) SQL
6 26 (8.02%) Bash
7 23 (7.10%) PowerShell
8 19 (5.86%) Groovy
8 19 (5.86%) Scala
9 18 (5.56%) Go
10 13 (4.01%) C#
11 9 (2.78%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.93%) Bicep
12 3 (0.93%) C++
12 3 (0.93%) Ruby
12 3 (0.93%) Rust
13 2 (0.62%) C
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.79%) Degree
4 15 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.09%) CCNP
6 10 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.85%) CCIE
7 6 (1.85%) CCNA
7 6 (1.85%) CCSA
7 6 (1.85%) CCSE
7 6 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.93%) CISSP
9 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.62%) CCSK
10 2 (0.62%) RHCE
10 2 (0.62%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.31%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.09%) GDPR
2 9 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.93%) QA
4 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.62%) NIST
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (13.89%) Docker
2 13 (4.01%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.47%) HDFS
4 5 (1.54%) Dovecot
4 5 (1.54%) Postfix
4 5 (1.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 89 (27.47%) Terraform
2 62 (19.14%) Kubernetes
3 36 (11.11%) Grafana
4 34 (10.49%) Ansible
5 25 (7.72%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.54%) Argo
6 5 (1.54%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.54%) Nessus
6 5 (1.54%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.93%) Kibana
7 3 (0.93%) logstash
7 3 (0.93%) Podman
7 3 (0.93%) Puppet
8 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 15 (4.63%) Databricks
3 13 (4.01%) Cisco
4 9 (2.78%) Google
5 8 (2.47%) Juniper
6 6 (1.85%) CheckPoint
6 6 (1.85%) Facebook
6 6 (1.85%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.85%) Splunk
7 5 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (1.54%) Microsoft
7 5 (1.54%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.54%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.23%) IBM
9 3 (0.93%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.93%) Cribl.io
9 3 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.93%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.62%) OpenText