Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 315 376 275
Rank change year-on-year +61 -101 -99
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 511 1,132 1,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.90% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.94% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 444 1,032 1,536
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +10.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £116,250 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £132,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +8.33% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

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 29 November 2023. 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 +49 475 £80,000 -3.03% 116
London +47 309 £90,000 - 55
Work from Home +57 275 £75,000 -6.25% 100
UK excluding London +100 172 £68,750 +5.77% 86
North of England +104 62 £70,000 +7.69% 27
South West +74 36 £62,500 +13.64% 20
North West +108 33 £72,500 +31.82% 10
Midlands +64 26 £65,000 -7.14% 4
South East +120 25 £70,000 - 15
Yorkshire +78 21 £60,000 - 9
East Midlands +40 18 £57,500 -17.86% 3
East of England +118 14 £82,500 +32.00% 2
Scotland +53 13 £60,000 +14.29% 11
West Midlands +61 8 £77,500 +10.71% 1
North East +31 8 £75,000 +3.45% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 £68,750 - 2

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 511 (100.00%) AWS
2 301 (58.90%) Terraform
3 297 (58.12%) DevOps
4 296 (57.93%) Python
5 257 (50.29%) Kubernetes
6 238 (46.58%) Docker
7 236 (46.18%) Agile
8 234 (45.79%) CI/CD
9 198 (38.75%) Finance
10 188 (36.79%) Java
11 163 (31.90%) Software Engineering
12 142 (27.79%) Ansible
13 129 (25.24%) Azure
14 127 (24.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 122 (23.87%) Jenkins
15 122 (23.87%) GCP
16 113 (22.11%) Front Office
17 112 (21.92%) Linux
18 106 (20.74%) Banking
19 102 (19.96%) Serverless
20 91 (17.81%) SQL
20 91 (17.81%) Investment Banking
21 80 (15.66%) Go
22 79 (15.46%) TypeScript
22 79 (15.46%) AWS CloudFormation
22 79 (15.46%) Platform Engineering
23 78 (15.26%) GitLab
24 77 (15.07%) GitHub
24 77 (15.07%) JavaScript
25 76 (14.87%) Asset Management

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (12.13%) Apache
2 58 (11.35%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.17%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
6 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.39%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 511 (100.00%) AWS
2 129 (25.24%) Azure
3 122 (23.87%) GCP
4 102 (19.96%) Serverless
5 79 (15.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 77 (15.07%) GitHub
7 70 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (12.92%) OpenShift
9 56 (10.96%) dbt
10 55 (10.76%) Amazon S3
11 51 (9.98%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
12 47 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (5.09%) PaaS
14 26 (5.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (4.89%) Route 53
16 23 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (4.11%) SaaS
18 19 (3.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.35%) DNS
1 12 (2.35%) Firewall
2 8 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 8 (1.57%) VPN
3 6 (1.17%) Internet
4 5 (0.98%) HTTP
4 5 (0.98%) Network Security
5 4 (0.78%) 5G
5 4 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.78%) SMTP
5 4 (0.78%) WAN
6 3 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.39%) IPv4
7 2 (0.39%) OSPF
7 2 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.39%) SSL
7 2 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.96%) Amazon Athena
1 56 (10.96%) Dremio
2 52 (10.18%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (10.18%) Apache Arrow
3 50 (9.78%) Apache Ignite
4 35 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (5.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (4.89%) NoSQL
7 21 (4.11%) MongoDB
8 17 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.74%) Relational Database
11 12 (2.35%) SQL Server
12 11 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (2.15%) Big Data
12 11 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.76%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.76%) MySQL
14 8 (1.57%) Redis
15 5 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 122 (23.87%) Jenkins
2 78 (15.26%) GitLab
3 51 (9.98%) Git
4 45 (8.81%) Artifactory
5 34 (6.65%) Bitbucket
5 34 (6.65%) JIRA
6 21 (4.11%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.33%) Gradle
8 16 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 12 (2.35%) Maven
10 8 (1.57%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.37%) NUnit
12 6 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.98%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.78%) Subversion
15 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
15 2 (0.39%) MSBuild
15 2 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
16 1 (0.20%) Travis CI
General
1 198 (38.75%) Finance
2 113 (22.11%) Front Office
3 106 (20.74%) Banking
4 91 (17.81%) Investment Banking
5 67 (13.11%) Social Skills
6 36 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (4.31%) Law
8 20 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.33%) Public Sector
9 17 (3.33%) Retail
10 11 (2.15%) Legal
10 11 (2.15%) Marketing
11 10 (1.96%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.17%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.78%) Advertising
14 4 (0.78%) Games
15 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.59%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.39%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.37%) NumPy
1 53 (10.37%) Pandas
2 52 (10.18%) gRPC
2 52 (10.18%) Protocol Buffers
2 52 (10.18%) SciPy
3 38 (7.44%) .NET
4 33 (6.46%) Kafka
5 28 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (4.50%) React
7 20 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
7 20 (3.91%) Spring
8 18 (3.52%) .NET Core
8 18 (3.52%) Spring Boot
9 17 (3.33%) Micronaut
9 17 (3.33%) REST
10 15 (2.94%) Node.js
11 14 (2.74%) OAuth
12 13 (2.54%) ASP.NET
12 13 (2.54%) LDAP
13 12 (2.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.74%) Derivative
6 14 (2.74%) Tandem
7 11 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.37%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.98%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.78%) Blockchain
13 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.78%) Music Streaming
13 4 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (21.92%) Linux
2 29 (5.68%) Windows
3 14 (2.74%) Unix
4 9 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.17%) Debian
7 5 (0.98%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (58.12%) DevOps
2 236 (46.18%) Agile
3 234 (45.79%) CI/CD
4 163 (31.90%) Software Engineering
5 127 (24.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 79 (15.46%) Platform Engineering
7 76 (14.87%) Analytics
7 76 (14.87%) Asset Management
8 75 (14.68%) Deployment Automation
9 66 (12.92%) Containerisation
10 63 (12.33%) Test Automation
11 61 (11.94%) Microservices
12 55 (10.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 54 (10.57%) Migration
14 51 (9.98%) Data Architecture
15 38 (7.44%) Open Source
15 38 (7.44%) Release Automation
16 32 (6.26%) Configuration Management
17 30 (5.87%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (5.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 296 (57.93%) Python
2 188 (36.79%) Java
3 91 (17.81%) SQL
4 80 (15.66%) Go
5 79 (15.46%) TypeScript
6 77 (15.07%) JavaScript
7 75 (14.68%) Bash
8 51 (9.98%) Ruby
9 41 (8.02%) C#
10 29 (5.68%) PowerShell
11 22 (4.31%) Perl
11 22 (4.31%) Scala
12 9 (1.76%) Groovy
13 7 (1.37%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.17%) PHP
15 5 (0.98%) Korn
16 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.78%) R
16 4 (0.78%) Rust
16 4 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 59 (11.55%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.63%) AWS Certification
4 30 (5.87%) Degree
5 17 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.59%) PhD
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.39%) CCSP
11 1 (0.20%) CCNA
11 1 (0.20%) CISSP
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.07%) QA
2 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.59%) GDPR
5 2 (0.39%) NCSC
6 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.20%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) PSD2
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 238 (46.58%) Docker
2 14 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 301 (58.90%) Terraform
2 257 (50.29%) Kubernetes
3 142 (27.79%) Ansible
4 40 (7.83%) Rancher
5 34 (6.65%) Argo
6 29 (5.68%) Puppet
7 25 (4.89%) Grafana
8 23 (4.50%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.94%) Prometheus
10 14 (2.74%) Kustomize
11 9 (1.76%) Packer
12 8 (1.57%) Salt
13 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.59%) Istio
14 3 (0.59%) Kibana
14 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.59%) Nagios
15 2 (0.39%) Fluentd
15 2 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (3.91%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.94%) AppDynamics
3 14 (2.74%) Google
3 14 (2.74%) Oracle
4 9 (1.76%) Confluent
4 9 (1.76%) Databricks
5 7 (1.37%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.37%) Splunk
5 7 (1.37%) VMware
6 6 (1.17%) IBM
6 6 (1.17%) New Relic
7 5 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.78%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.78%) Rackspace
9 3 (0.59%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.39%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.39%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.39%) Veracode
11 1 (0.20%) Hortonworks