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 11 November 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 298 309
Rank change year-on-year -58 +11 +83
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 346 588 537
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.88% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.92% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 241 484 472
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £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 46,784 63,693 50,976
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.01% 94.85% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 28,718 35,683 39,423
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
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 11 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 11 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 -64 317 £106,250 +18.06% 193
London -36 246 £110,000 +4.76% 94
Work from Home -54 175 £110,000 +10.00% 150
UK excluding London +32 93 £72,500 +3.57% 114
Midlands +64 28 £72,500 - 4
North of England +28 26 £80,000 +23.08% 78
Scotland +26 26 £100,000 +100.00% 4
North West +31 23 £85,000 +44.68% 58
West Midlands +59 21 £72,500 - 1
South East 0 10 £80,000 +33.33% 21
East Midlands +24 7 £54,000 -16.92% 3
East of England +12 3 £62,500 - 2
Wales +7 2 £57,500 +35.29%
Yorkshire -2 2 £67,500 +3.85% 20
North East +7 1 £55,000 -21.43%
South West +1 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 346 (100.00%) AWS
2 240 (69.36%) Python
3 201 (58.09%) Software Engineering
4 183 (52.89%) Agile
5 142 (41.04%) Amazon Athena
6 141 (40.75%) Java
7 134 (38.73%) Apache Iceberg
8 132 (38.15%) JavaScript
9 131 (37.86%) TypeScript
10 127 (36.71%) Apache Airflow
11 126 (36.42%) Investment Management
12 123 (35.55%) Asset Management
13 122 (35.26%) dbt
14 121 (34.97%) Apache Arrow
14 121 (34.97%) Dremio
14 121 (34.97%) NumPy
14 121 (34.97%) Pandas
14 121 (34.97%) SciPy
15 118 (34.10%) CI/CD
16 113 (32.66%) DevOps
17 94 (27.17%) Terraform
18 75 (21.68%) GCP
19 74 (21.39%) Apache
20 73 (21.10%) PostgreSQL
21 70 (20.23%) Node.js
22 67 (19.36%) React
23 66 (19.08%) Data Lake
24 65 (18.79%) Kubernetes
24 65 (18.79%) Snowflake
25 62 (17.92%) 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
1 127 (36.71%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (21.39%) Apache
3 22 (6.36%) Apache Spark
4 16 (4.62%) Confluence
5 7 (2.02%) nginx
6 4 (1.16%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.87%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) AWS
2 122 (35.26%) dbt
3 75 (21.68%) GCP
4 65 (18.79%) Snowflake
5 57 (16.47%) Amazon S3
6 52 (15.03%) Serverless
7 49 (14.16%) AWS Lambda
7 49 (14.16%) Azure
8 40 (11.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (9.83%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (9.25%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (8.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (6.07%) GitHub
15 20 (5.78%) AWS KMS
16 18 (5.20%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (4.34%) Amazon ELB
17 15 (4.34%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (3.47%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.67%) Firewall
2 15 (4.34%) DNS
3 13 (3.76%) VPN
4 11 (3.18%) LAN
4 11 (3.18%) WAN
5 9 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (2.02%) HTTP
6 7 (2.02%) Network Security
7 6 (1.73%) FTP
7 6 (1.73%) IMAP
7 6 (1.73%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.73%) SMTP
7 6 (1.73%) SSH
8 5 (1.45%) BGP
8 5 (1.45%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (1.16%) Wireless
10 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.87%) VLAN
11 2 (0.58%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (41.04%) Amazon Athena
2 134 (38.73%) Apache Iceberg
3 121 (34.97%) Apache Arrow
3 121 (34.97%) Dremio
4 73 (21.10%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (19.08%) Data Lake
6 61 (17.63%) Apache Ignite
7 42 (12.14%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (8.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (7.23%) Big Data
10 18 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.34%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (2.60%) SQL Server
14 8 (2.31%) Apache Hive
14 8 (2.31%) Hadoop
15 7 (2.02%) DynamoDB
15 7 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.73%) Apache Hudi
16 6 (1.73%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (11.56%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.80%) Git
3 20 (5.78%) JIRA
4 16 (4.62%) GitLab
5 14 (4.05%) Vagrant
6 10 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.73%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.73%) JUnit
8 5 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.16%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.87%) Ant
10 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.87%) Maven
11 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.58%) Selenium
11 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.29%) Deequ
12 1 (0.29%) Gradle
General
1 210 (60.69%) Finance
2 124 (35.84%) Front Office
3 108 (31.21%) Banking
4 65 (18.79%) Investment Banking
5 59 (17.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (14.74%) Law
7 33 (9.54%) Social Skills
8 30 (8.67%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.47%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.31%) Legal
11 7 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.02%) Retail
12 5 (1.45%) Advertising
13 4 (1.16%) Games
13 4 (1.16%) Marketing
14 3 (0.87%) Back Office
15 1 (0.29%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (34.97%) NumPy
1 121 (34.97%) Pandas
1 121 (34.97%) SciPy
2 70 (20.23%) Node.js
3 67 (19.36%) React
4 61 (17.63%) gRPC
4 61 (17.63%) Protocol Buffers
5 60 (17.34%) AngularJS
5 60 (17.34%) Vue
6 28 (8.09%) Kafka
7 22 (6.36%) Spring
8 16 (4.62%) AWS CDK
9 13 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (3.47%) .NET
10 12 (3.47%) Spark Streaming
10 12 (3.47%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.18%) PySpark
11 11 (3.18%) RESTful
12 10 (2.89%) Web Services
13 8 (2.31%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 126 (36.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 125 (36.13%) Equities
3 124 (35.84%) Fixed Income
4 69 (19.94%) Derivative
5 61 (17.63%) Hedge funds
5 61 (17.63%) Pricing Data
6 35 (10.12%) Cloud Native
7 31 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (5.78%) e-Learning
9 18 (5.20%) Algorithms
10 14 (4.05%) Data Centre
10 14 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (4.05%) Replication
11 11 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (2.60%) Public Cloud
13 8 (2.31%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (1.45%) Management Information System
15 4 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (1.16%) Low-Code
15 4 (1.16%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.12%) Linux
2 20 (5.78%) Windows
3 15 (4.34%) VMS
4 9 (2.60%) Unix
5 6 (1.73%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (1.73%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (58.09%) Software Engineering
2 183 (52.89%) Agile
3 126 (36.42%) Investment Management
4 123 (35.55%) Asset Management
5 118 (34.10%) CI/CD
6 113 (32.66%) DevOps
7 62 (17.92%) Fintech
7 62 (17.92%) Risk Management
8 60 (17.34%) Order Management
8 60 (17.34%) Performance Attribution
9 58 (16.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (13.01%) AI
11 43 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (12.43%) SDLC
12 36 (10.40%) Machine Learning
12 36 (10.40%) Mentoring
13 33 (9.54%) Containerisation
14 31 (8.96%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (8.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 240 (69.36%) Python
2 141 (40.75%) Java
3 132 (38.15%) JavaScript
4 131 (37.86%) TypeScript
5 37 (10.69%) SQL
6 31 (8.96%) Bash
7 27 (7.80%) PowerShell
8 20 (5.78%) Groovy
9 19 (5.49%) Go
10 18 (5.20%) Scala
11 13 (3.76%) C#
12 9 (2.60%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.87%) Bicep
13 3 (0.87%) C++
13 3 (0.87%) Ruby
13 3 (0.87%) Rust
14 2 (0.58%) C
14 2 (0.58%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (10.40%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.36%) Degree
4 17 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.18%) CCNP
5 11 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.02%) CCIE
7 7 (2.02%) CCNA
7 7 (2.02%) CCSA
7 7 (2.02%) CCSE
8 6 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.58%) RHCE
10 2 (0.58%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.29%) CISA
11 1 (0.29%) CISSP
11 1 (0.29%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.89%) GDPR
2 9 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.73%) QA
4 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.58%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (15.03%) Docker
2 14 (4.05%) DFS Replication
3 9 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.31%) HDFS
5 6 (1.73%) Dovecot
5 6 (1.73%) Postfix
5 6 (1.73%) Squid
6 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 94 (27.17%) Terraform
2 65 (18.79%) Kubernetes
3 42 (12.14%) Grafana
4 38 (10.98%) Ansible
5 29 (8.38%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.73%) Nessus
6 6 (1.73%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.45%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.16%) Argo
9 3 (0.87%) Kibana
9 3 (0.87%) logstash
9 3 (0.87%) Podman
9 3 (0.87%) Puppet
10 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.29%) Istio
10 1 (0.29%) linkerd
10 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (5.78%) ServiceNow
2 16 (4.62%) Databricks
3 14 (4.05%) Cisco
4 13 (3.76%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.47%) IBM
6 8 (2.31%) Google
6 8 (2.31%) Juniper
7 7 (2.02%) CheckPoint
7 7 (2.02%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.02%) Splunk
8 6 (1.73%) Facebook
8 6 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (1.73%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.45%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.45%) Microsoft
10 3 (0.87%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.87%) Cribl.io
10 3 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.87%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.58%) Ping Identity