AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 297 308
Rank change year-on-year -100 +11 +69
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 279 506 621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.96% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.04% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 195 437 452
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £139,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% - -

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 56,939 48,731 63,682
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 92.28% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 35,361 25,094 49,715
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,663 £29,452
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -5.66%

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 25 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 25 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 -86 262 £85,000 -10.53% 107
London -85 180 £100,000 -4.76% 54
Work from Home -93 122 £100,000 -4.76% 63
UK excluding London +21 84 £66,250 +1.92% 71
North of England -10 29 £85,000 +41.67% 22
North West +16 25 £85,000 +25.93% 12
Midlands +17 20 £50,000 -23.08% 7
East of England +21 15 £75,000 +15.38% 6
South East +26 13 £65,000 +10.64% 22
West Midlands +35 12 £50,000 -2.44% 6
East Midlands -7 8 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland -9 6 - -
South West -7 4 £72,500 +11.54% 13
North East -1 2 £55,000 -21.43%
Yorkshire -32 2 £67,500 +31.71% 10

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 279 (100.00%) AWS
2 135 (48.39%) Python
3 98 (35.13%) CI/CD
4 84 (30.11%) DevOps
4 84 (30.11%) Software Engineering
5 76 (27.24%) Terraform
6 73 (26.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 71 (25.45%) Java
8 67 (24.01%) Agile
9 63 (22.58%) Serverless
9 63 (22.58%) TypeScript
10 49 (17.56%) Apache Iceberg
10 49 (17.56%) Azure
11 47 (16.85%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (16.49%) Amazon Athena
12 46 (16.49%) JavaScript
13 45 (16.13%) Investment Management
14 44 (15.77%) Apache Airflow
15 43 (15.41%) Kubernetes
16 41 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (14.34%) Asset Management
17 40 (14.34%) dbt
17 40 (14.34%) SaaS
18 39 (13.98%) Apache Arrow
18 39 (13.98%) Dremio
18 39 (13.98%) NumPy
18 39 (13.98%) Pandas
18 39 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
18 39 (13.98%) SciPy
19 38 (13.62%) Amazon S3

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 44 (15.77%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (10.75%) Apache
3 18 (6.45%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 279 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (22.58%) Serverless
3 49 (17.56%) Azure
4 47 (16.85%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (14.34%) dbt
5 40 (14.34%) SaaS
6 38 (13.62%) Amazon S3
7 35 (12.54%) Amazon EKS
8 34 (12.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (11.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 31 (11.11%) GCP
11 28 (10.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (8.24%) GitHub
13 22 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (7.53%) Snowflake
15 19 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (6.09%) Amazon Kinesis
18 13 (4.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.89%) Firewall
2 19 (6.81%) LAN
2 19 (6.81%) WAN
2 19 (6.81%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (6.09%) Cisco ASA
3 17 (6.09%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (4.30%) VPN
5 10 (3.58%) BGP
6 5 (1.79%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.79%) IPsec
6 5 (1.79%) MPLS
6 5 (1.79%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.79%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.79%) OSPF
6 5 (1.79%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.79%) VLAN
6 5 (1.79%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.79%) WLAN
7 4 (1.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 46 (16.49%) Amazon Athena
3 39 (13.98%) Apache Arrow
3 39 (13.98%) Dremio
4 36 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (8.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (8.60%) Data Lake
7 21 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (6.81%) Apache Ignite
9 11 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.94%) MySQL
10 9 (3.23%) Big Data
10 9 (3.23%) Hadoop
11 8 (2.87%) Apache Hive
11 8 (2.87%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.15%) Flink
12 6 (2.15%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (6.81%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.30%) Git
3 8 (2.87%) GitLab
4 5 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.08%) NUnit
6 2 (0.72%) Deequ
6 2 (0.72%) Gradle
6 2 (0.72%) JIRA
6 2 (0.72%) Maven
6 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) Ant
7 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
7 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 105 (37.63%) Finance
2 45 (16.13%) Front Office
3 44 (15.77%) Banking
4 31 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 27 (9.68%) Investment Banking
6 19 (6.81%) Financial Institution
6 19 (6.81%) Law
7 12 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.94%) Retail
9 10 (3.58%) Back Office
9 10 (3.58%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.79%) Games
11 5 (1.79%) Legal
11 5 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.43%) Advertising
13 3 (1.08%) Billing
14 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.98%) NumPy
1 39 (13.98%) Pandas
1 39 (13.98%) SciPy
2 32 (11.47%) React
3 31 (11.11%) Node.js
4 20 (7.17%) AngularJS
4 20 (7.17%) Vue
5 19 (6.81%) gRPC
5 19 (6.81%) Kafka
5 19 (6.81%) Protocol Buffers
6 17 (6.09%) .NET
7 14 (5.02%) AWS CDK
8 13 (4.66%) PySpark
9 11 (3.94%) RESTful
10 9 (3.23%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.23%) REST
11 8 (2.87%) boto
11 8 (2.87%) OAuth
11 8 (2.87%) Spark Streaming
12 7 (2.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 45 (16.13%) Fixed Income
3 39 (13.98%) Equities
4 29 (10.39%) Hedge funds
5 27 (9.68%) Data Centre
5 27 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (9.32%) Cloud Native
7 19 (6.81%) Derivative
7 19 (6.81%) Pricing Data
8 13 (4.66%) Management Information System
9 11 (3.94%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.87%) e-Learning
11 8 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (2.51%) Blog
13 6 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.43%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.43%) Low-Code
15 3 (1.08%) Clustering
15 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.89%) Linux
2 10 (3.58%) Unix
3 6 (2.15%) Windows
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.13%) CI/CD
2 84 (30.11%) DevOps
2 84 (30.11%) Software Engineering
3 73 (26.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (24.01%) Agile
5 45 (16.13%) Investment Management
6 41 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (14.34%) Asset Management
8 39 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
9 37 (13.26%) Observability
10 33 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (10.04%) Data Engineering
12 28 (10.04%) Fintech
13 27 (9.68%) Cloud Security
13 27 (9.68%) ETL
14 24 (8.60%) Computer Science
14 24 (8.60%) High Availability
15 22 (7.89%) Risk Management
16 21 (7.53%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 135 (48.39%) Python
2 71 (25.45%) Java
3 63 (22.58%) TypeScript
4 46 (16.49%) JavaScript
5 27 (9.68%) Bash
5 27 (9.68%) SQL
6 23 (8.24%) C#
7 11 (3.94%) Go
8 10 (3.58%) Scala
9 8 (2.87%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.08%) Bicep
10 3 (1.08%) Rust
11 2 (0.72%) C
11 2 (0.72%) Groovy
12 1 (0.36%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (11.11%) Degree
2 26 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (7.17%) AWS Certification
5 17 (6.09%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.02%) CCNP
6 14 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.30%) CCIE
7 12 (4.30%) CCNA
7 12 (4.30%) CCSA
7 12 (4.30%) CCSE
8 8 (2.87%) CISSP
9 7 (2.51%) CCSK
10 6 (2.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.43%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.94%) GDPR
3 10 (3.58%) PCI DSS
3 10 (3.58%) SOC 2
4 9 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.51%) QA
6 5 (1.79%) NIST
7 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.08%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (11.11%) Docker
2 8 (2.87%) HDFS
3 1 (0.36%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.36%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.36%) Postfix
3 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 76 (27.24%) Terraform
2 43 (15.41%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.17%) Grafana
4 17 (6.09%) Ansible
5 12 (4.30%) FortiGate
6 10 (3.58%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.51%) Argo
8 2 (0.72%) Kibana
8 2 (0.72%) logstash
8 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) Nessus
9 1 (0.36%) Podman
9 1 (0.36%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (8.24%) Cisco
2 17 (6.09%) CheckPoint
2 17 (6.09%) Fortinet
3 11 (3.94%) Databricks
3 11 (3.94%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.58%) SolarWinds
5 8 (2.87%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.51%) Google
7 5 (1.79%) Meraki
7 5 (1.79%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.08%) Informatica
8 3 (1.08%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.08%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.08%) SAP
8 3 (1.08%) Talend
9 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.72%) Okta
9 2 (0.72%) Pega
9 2 (0.72%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.72%) Salesforce