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 5 March 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 278 314
Rank change year-on-year -96 +36 +77
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 337 498 731
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.09% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.20% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 241 440 491
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £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 £118,750 £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 65,777 41,647 74,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 91.11% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,594 22,804 57,442
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £39,073
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 £72,624
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 5 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 5 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 -98 317 £80,000 -23.81% 99
London -73 193 £90,000 -16.28% 42
UK excluding London +16 126 £70,000 +7.69% 64
Work from Home -125 111 £90,000 -14.29% 51
North of England -32 42 £70,000 +27.27% 24
North West 0 38 £70,000 +5.50% 22
Midlands +11 28 £63,750 -1.92% 9
West Midlands +19 19 £50,000 -2.44% 7
East of England +13 19 £75,000 +15.38% 5
South West -8 17 £75,000 +25.00% 13
South East -17 17 £63,750 +3.24% 12
East Midlands -27 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland -7 6 - - 1
North East -17 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Yorkshire -51 2 £67,500 +31.71% 1

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 337 (100.00%) AWS
2 144 (42.73%) Python
3 111 (32.94%) DevOps
4 108 (32.05%) CI/CD
5 97 (28.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 97 (28.78%) Terraform
6 74 (21.96%) Serverless
7 68 (20.18%) Software Engineering
8 65 (19.29%) Azure
9 56 (16.62%) Amazon S3
9 56 (16.62%) Java
10 52 (15.43%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (15.43%) Platform Engineering
11 49 (14.54%) Kubernetes
11 49 (14.54%) SaaS
12 47 (13.95%) Agile
12 47 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (13.06%) Observability
14 43 (12.76%) SQL
15 42 (12.46%) Degree
15 42 (12.46%) ETL
16 41 (12.17%) Security Cleared
17 40 (11.87%) Amazon EKS
17 40 (11.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 39 (11.57%) AWS CloudFormation
19 38 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
20 37 (10.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 37 (10.98%) Data Engineering
20 37 (10.98%) TypeScript
21 36 (10.68%) Bash

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 30 (8.90%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (7.12%) Apache
3 18 (5.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 337 (100.00%) AWS
2 74 (21.96%) Serverless
3 65 (19.29%) Azure
4 56 (16.62%) Amazon S3
5 52 (15.43%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (14.54%) SaaS
7 40 (11.87%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (11.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 39 (11.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 37 (10.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (8.01%) GCP
11 25 (7.42%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (7.12%) GitHub
13 21 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (5.64%) AWS Step Functions
14 19 (5.64%) dbt
15 18 (5.34%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
17 16 (4.75%) PaaS
18 14 (4.15%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.53%) Firewall
2 19 (5.64%) Cisco ASA
2 19 (5.64%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (5.64%) LAN
2 19 (5.64%) WAN
2 19 (5.64%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.56%) VPN
4 11 (3.26%) BGP
5 6 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.78%) VLAN
6 5 (1.48%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.48%) IPsec
6 5 (1.48%) MPLS
6 5 (1.48%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.48%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.48%) OSPF
6 5 (1.48%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.48%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.48%) WLAN
7 1 (0.30%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.79%) Amazon Redshift
2 32 (9.50%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (8.31%) Apache Iceberg
4 26 (7.72%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (3.86%) Apache Arrow
8 13 (3.86%) Dremio
9 12 (3.56%) Data Lake
9 12 (3.56%) DynamoDB
9 12 (3.56%) MySQL
10 10 (2.97%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.78%) Apache Ignite
11 6 (1.78%) Big Data
11 6 (1.78%) Flink
11 6 (1.78%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.78%) Metadata
12 5 (1.48%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 22 (6.53%) Jenkins
2 21 (6.23%) Git
3 11 (3.26%) GitLab
4 4 (1.19%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.19%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.89%) NUnit
6 2 (0.59%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.59%) Deequ
6 2 (0.59%) JIRA
6 2 (0.59%) Maven
6 2 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.30%) Ant
7 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.30%) Gradle
7 1 (0.30%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 90 (26.71%) Finance
2 42 (12.46%) Banking
3 38 (11.28%) Social Skills
4 27 (8.01%) Law
5 19 (5.64%) Front Office
6 18 (5.34%) Financial Institution
7 17 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.45%) Investment Banking
9 14 (4.15%) Retail
10 13 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (3.56%) Back Office
12 10 (2.97%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.78%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.48%) Advertising
14 5 (1.48%) Games
14 5 (1.48%) Legal
15 3 (0.89%) Billing
15 3 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.72%) Kafka
2 20 (5.93%) React
3 18 (5.34%) Node.js
4 17 (5.04%) PySpark
5 15 (4.45%) .NET
6 14 (4.15%) AWS CDK
7 13 (3.86%) NumPy
7 13 (3.86%) Pandas
7 13 (3.86%) SciPy
8 11 (3.26%) REST
8 11 (3.26%) RESTful
9 10 (2.97%) .NET Core
9 10 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (2.67%) OAuth
11 8 (2.37%) Spring
12 7 (2.08%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.08%) JWT
12 7 (2.08%) Loki
12 7 (2.08%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.35%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.31%) Data Centre
3 27 (8.01%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (8.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (5.93%) Hedge funds
5 19 (5.64%) Fixed Income
6 17 (5.04%) Management Information System
7 14 (4.15%) Security Posture
8 13 (3.86%) Equities
9 9 (2.67%) Blog
9 9 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.08%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.78%) Derivative
11 6 (1.78%) Pricing Data
12 5 (1.48%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.19%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.64%) Linux
2 13 (3.86%) Unix
3 4 (1.19%) Windows
4 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (32.94%) DevOps
2 108 (32.05%) CI/CD
3 97 (28.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (20.18%) Software Engineering
5 52 (15.43%) Platform Engineering
6 47 (13.95%) Agile
6 47 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (13.06%) Observability
8 42 (12.46%) ETL
9 38 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
10 37 (10.98%) Data Engineering
11 36 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 34 (10.09%) High Availability
13 33 (9.79%) Computer Science
14 31 (9.20%) Analytics
14 31 (9.20%) Cloud Security
15 27 (8.01%) AI
16 25 (7.42%) Mentoring
16 25 (7.42%) Process Improvement
17 24 (7.12%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 144 (42.73%) Python
2 56 (16.62%) Java
3 43 (12.76%) SQL
4 37 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.68%) Bash
6 21 (6.23%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.93%) C#
8 16 (4.75%) Go
9 6 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.78%) Scala
10 3 (0.89%) Bicep
11 2 (0.59%) PHP
11 2 (0.59%) Rust
12 1 (0.30%) C
12 1 (0.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 42 (12.46%) Degree
2 41 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.23%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.15%) CCIE
5 14 (4.15%) CCNA
5 14 (4.15%) CCNP
5 14 (4.15%) CCSA
5 14 (4.15%) CCSE
5 14 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (3.56%) CISSP
7 11 (3.26%) CCSK
8 7 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.30%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.75%) PCI DSS
2 16 (4.75%) SOC 2
3 13 (3.86%) GDPR
4 10 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.37%) QA
6 7 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.78%) NIST
8 4 (1.19%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (10.39%) Docker
2 5 (1.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 97 (28.78%) Terraform
2 49 (14.54%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.12%) Grafana
4 18 (5.34%) Ansible
5 15 (4.45%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.15%) FortiGate
7 8 (2.37%) Argo
8 2 (0.59%) Kibana
8 2 (0.59%) logstash
8 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.30%) Istio
9 1 (0.30%) Podman
9 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (6.82%) Cisco
2 19 (5.64%) CheckPoint
2 19 (5.64%) Fortinet
3 12 (3.56%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.26%) Databricks
4 11 (3.26%) Google
5 10 (2.97%) SolarWinds
6 8 (2.37%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.37%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.37%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.48%) Informatica
7 5 (1.48%) Meraki
7 5 (1.48%) SAP
7 5 (1.48%) Talend
8 4 (1.19%) Pega
8 4 (1.19%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.59%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.59%) Okta
10 2 (0.59%) Ping Identity