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 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 297 307
Rank change year-on-year -52 +10 +86
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 358 591 552
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.87% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.91% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 251 485 487
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -3.32%
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 45,700 64,689 50,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 95.04% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,478 36,679 39,389
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,219 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 7 November 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 7 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 -38 330 £110,000 +22.22% 295
London -22 257 £110,000 +4.76% 132
Work from Home -65 185 £110,000 +10.00% 222
UK excluding London +16 93 £72,500 +3.57% 207
Midlands +59 30 £72,500 - 5
Scotland +19 25 £100,000 +100.00% 7
North of England +10 25 £75,000 +15.38% 111
West Midlands +58 23 £72,500 - 2
North West +29 22 £82,500 +57.14% 90
South East -6 10 £80,000 +33.33% 63
East Midlands +23 7 £54,000 -16.92% 3
East of England +29 3 £62,500 - 4
Wales +10 2 £57,500 +35.29%
Yorkshire +7 2 £67,500 +3.85% 20
South West +14 1 - - 5
North East +8 1 £55,000 -21.43% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 358 (100.00%) AWS
2 250 (69.83%) Python
3 209 (58.38%) Software Engineering
4 193 (53.91%) Agile
5 152 (42.46%) Amazon Athena
6 147 (41.06%) Java
7 143 (39.94%) Apache Iceberg
8 142 (39.66%) JavaScript
9 140 (39.11%) TypeScript
10 135 (37.71%) Apache Airflow
10 135 (37.71%) Investment Management
11 133 (37.15%) Asset Management
12 131 (36.59%) dbt
13 130 (36.31%) Apache Arrow
13 130 (36.31%) Dremio
13 130 (36.31%) NumPy
13 130 (36.31%) Pandas
13 130 (36.31%) SciPy
14 120 (33.52%) CI/CD
14 120 (33.52%) DevOps
15 96 (26.82%) Terraform
16 79 (22.07%) Apache
16 79 (22.07%) GCP
17 78 (21.79%) PostgreSQL
18 75 (20.95%) Node.js
19 72 (20.11%) React
20 70 (19.55%) Data Lake
21 69 (19.27%) Snowflake
22 68 (18.99%) Kubernetes
23 67 (18.72%) 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
1 135 (37.71%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (22.07%) Apache
3 22 (6.15%) Apache Spark
4 18 (5.03%) Confluence
5 7 (1.96%) nginx
6 4 (1.12%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.84%) JBoss
8 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 358 (100.00%) AWS
2 131 (36.59%) dbt
3 79 (22.07%) GCP
4 69 (19.27%) Snowflake
5 60 (16.76%) Amazon S3
6 54 (15.08%) Serverless
7 51 (14.25%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (13.69%) Azure
9 45 (12.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (12.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (9.22%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (8.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (6.70%) AWS KMS
16 22 (6.15%) GitHub
17 18 (5.03%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (4.75%) Amazon ELB
19 16 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
20 12 (3.35%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.22%) Firewall
2 16 (4.47%) DNS
3 12 (3.35%) VPN
4 11 (3.07%) LAN
4 11 (3.07%) WAN
5 9 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.23%) HTTP
7 7 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (1.96%) FTP
7 7 (1.96%) Network Security
7 7 (1.96%) SMTP
7 7 (1.96%) SSH
8 6 (1.68%) IMAP
8 6 (1.68%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (1.12%) BGP
10 4 (1.12%) Wireless
11 2 (0.56%) IPsec
11 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (42.46%) Amazon Athena
2 143 (39.94%) Apache Iceberg
3 130 (36.31%) Apache Arrow
3 130 (36.31%) Dremio
4 78 (21.79%) PostgreSQL
5 70 (19.55%) Data Lake
6 65 (18.16%) Apache Ignite
7 44 (12.29%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (8.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (6.98%) Big Data
10 18 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (3.91%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (2.51%) SQL Server
14 8 (2.23%) Apache Hive
14 8 (2.23%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.96%) DynamoDB
16 6 (1.68%) Apache Hudi
16 6 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 43 (12.01%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.10%) Git
3 22 (6.15%) JIRA
4 16 (4.47%) GitLab
4 16 (4.47%) Vagrant
5 12 (3.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.68%) JUnit
7 5 (1.40%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.12%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.84%) Ant
9 3 (0.84%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.84%) Maven
10 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.56%) Selenium
10 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.28%) Deequ
11 1 (0.28%) Gradle
General
1 216 (60.34%) Finance
2 133 (37.15%) Front Office
3 111 (31.01%) Banking
4 69 (19.27%) Investment Banking
5 62 (17.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (13.97%) Law
7 35 (9.78%) Public Sector
8 32 (8.94%) Social Skills
9 11 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.07%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.68%) Advertising
11 6 (1.68%) Legal
11 6 (1.68%) Retail
12 4 (1.12%) Games
12 4 (1.12%) Marketing
13 2 (0.56%) Back Office
14 1 (0.28%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (36.31%) NumPy
1 130 (36.31%) Pandas
1 130 (36.31%) SciPy
2 75 (20.95%) Node.js
3 72 (20.11%) React
4 65 (18.16%) AngularJS
4 65 (18.16%) gRPC
4 65 (18.16%) Protocol Buffers
4 65 (18.16%) Vue
5 28 (7.82%) Kafka
6 22 (6.15%) Spring
7 17 (4.75%) AWS CDK
8 13 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (3.35%) .NET
9 12 (3.35%) Spark Streaming
9 12 (3.35%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.07%) PySpark
11 10 (2.79%) RESTful
11 10 (2.79%) Web Services
12 8 (2.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 135 (37.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 134 (37.43%) Equities
3 133 (37.15%) Fixed Income
4 73 (20.39%) Derivative
5 65 (18.16%) Hedge funds
5 65 (18.16%) Pricing Data
6 34 (9.50%) Cloud Native
7 30 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (6.42%) e-Learning
9 18 (5.03%) Algorithms
10 16 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (4.47%) Replication
11 13 (3.63%) Data Centre
12 10 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (2.51%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.23%) Equity Derivative
15 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
16 4 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 4 (1.12%) Low-Code
16 4 (1.12%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.89%) Linux
2 21 (5.87%) Windows
3 17 (4.75%) VMS
4 10 (2.79%) Unix
5 7 (1.96%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (1.68%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (58.38%) Software Engineering
2 193 (53.91%) Agile
3 135 (37.71%) Investment Management
4 133 (37.15%) Asset Management
5 120 (33.52%) CI/CD
5 120 (33.52%) DevOps
6 67 (18.72%) Fintech
7 66 (18.44%) Risk Management
8 65 (18.16%) Order Management
8 65 (18.16%) Performance Attribution
9 60 (16.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (13.41%) AI
11 44 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (12.01%) SDLC
13 39 (10.89%) Mentoring
14 36 (10.06%) Machine Learning
15 34 (9.50%) Containerisation
16 32 (8.94%) Platform Engineering
17 28 (7.82%) Analytics
17 28 (7.82%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 250 (69.83%) Python
2 147 (41.06%) Java
3 142 (39.66%) JavaScript
4 140 (39.11%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.06%) SQL
6 34 (9.50%) Bash
7 28 (7.82%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.15%) Groovy
9 20 (5.59%) Go
10 18 (5.03%) Scala
11 13 (3.63%) C#
12 9 (2.51%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.84%) Bicep
13 3 (0.84%) C
13 3 (0.84%) C++
13 3 (0.84%) PHP
13 3 (0.84%) Ruby
13 3 (0.84%) Rust
14 2 (0.56%) Perl
15 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (11.17%) Security Cleared
2 34 (9.50%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.15%) Degree
4 18 (5.03%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.07%) CCNP
5 11 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.96%) CCIE
7 7 (1.96%) CCNA
7 7 (1.96%) CCSA
7 7 (1.96%) CCSE
8 6 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.56%) RHCE
10 2 (0.56%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.79%) GDPR
2 9 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.96%) QA
4 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (15.36%) Docker
2 16 (4.47%) DFS Replication
3 11 (3.07%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.23%) HDFS
5 6 (1.68%) Dovecot
5 6 (1.68%) Postfix
5 6 (1.68%) Squid
6 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (26.82%) Terraform
2 68 (18.99%) Kubernetes
3 48 (13.41%) Grafana
4 40 (11.17%) Ansible
5 32 (8.94%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.68%) Nessus
6 6 (1.68%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.40%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.12%) Argo
9 3 (0.84%) Podman
9 3 (0.84%) Puppet
10 2 (0.56%) Kibana
10 2 (0.56%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
11 1 (0.28%) linkerd
11 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (6.15%) ServiceNow
2 16 (4.47%) Databricks
2 16 (4.47%) Red Hat
3 15 (4.19%) IBM
4 14 (3.91%) Cisco
5 9 (2.51%) Juniper
6 8 (2.23%) Google
7 7 (1.96%) CheckPoint
7 7 (1.96%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.96%) Splunk
8 6 (1.68%) Facebook
8 6 (1.68%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (1.68%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.40%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.40%) Microsoft
10 3 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.84%) Cribl.io
10 3 (0.84%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.84%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.56%) Ping Identity