AWS Engineer Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 December 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 293 295
Rank change year-on-year -98 +2 +73
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 269 543 541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.97% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.04% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 202 454 413
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £71,563 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £135,000 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% - -

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 54,268 52,045 49,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.40% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 33,559 27,623 38,199
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,450 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 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 -81 257 £100,000 +8.11% 226
London -69 188 £110,000 +4.76% 55
Work from Home -81 134 £110,000 +10.00% 192
UK excluding London -6 71 £68,750 +5.77% 189
North of England -5 23 £70,000 +7.69% 46
North West +17 20 £80,000 +18.52% 18
Midlands +34 18 £52,750 -18.85% 31
East of England +29 12 £75,000 +20.00% 29
South East +8 11 £62,500 - 44
West Midlands +36 9 £50,000 -2.44% 19
East Midlands -6 9 £70,000 +7.69% 11
Scotland +10 6 - - 6
South West -13 4 £72,500 - 29
Yorkshire -17 2 £67,500 +28.57% 24
North East +10 1 £55,000 -21.43% 4

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

For the 6 months to 27 December 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.

1 269 (100.00%) AWS
2 160 (59.48%) Python
3 103 (38.29%) Software Engineering
4 96 (35.69%) Agile
5 90 (33.46%) CI/CD
6 85 (31.60%) TypeScript
7 83 (30.86%) Java
8 81 (30.11%) DevOps
9 78 (29.00%) Apache Iceberg
10 77 (28.62%) JavaScript
11 76 (28.25%) Amazon Athena
12 75 (27.88%) Investment Management
13 74 (27.51%) Apache Airflow
14 71 (26.39%) dbt
15 70 (26.02%) Asset Management
16 69 (25.65%) Apache Arrow
16 69 (25.65%) Dremio
16 69 (25.65%) NumPy
16 69 (25.65%) Pandas
16 69 (25.65%) SciPy
17 65 (24.16%) Terraform
18 57 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
19 49 (18.22%) Azure
19 49 (18.22%) Serverless
20 46 (17.10%) Apache
21 45 (16.73%) Node.js
22 43 (15.99%) GCP
22 43 (15.99%) React
23 42 (15.61%) Data Lake
23 42 (15.61%) Kubernetes

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 74 (27.51%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (17.10%) Apache
3 15 (5.58%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.12%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) JBoss
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 269 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (26.39%) dbt
3 49 (18.22%) Azure
3 49 (18.22%) Serverless
4 43 (15.99%) GCP
5 40 (14.87%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (14.50%) Snowflake
7 32 (11.90%) Amazon S3
8 28 (10.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (10.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (9.67%) SaaS
11 23 (8.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (7.43%) GitHub
13 19 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (5.95%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (4.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.32%) Firewall
2 16 (5.95%) LAN
2 16 (5.95%) WAN
2 16 (5.95%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (4.46%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (4.46%) Cisco Firepower
4 11 (4.09%) VPN
5 7 (2.60%) DNS
6 6 (2.23%) BGP
7 4 (1.49%) Network Security
7 4 (1.49%) Wireless
8 3 (1.12%) HTTP
8 3 (1.12%) IPsec
8 3 (1.12%) MPLS
8 3 (1.12%) NetScaler
8 3 (1.12%) OSPF
8 3 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.12%) VLAN
8 3 (1.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (29.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 76 (28.25%) Amazon Athena
3 69 (25.65%) Apache Arrow
3 69 (25.65%) Dremio
4 42 (15.61%) Data Lake
5 41 (15.24%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (13.75%) Apache Ignite
7 32 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (8.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.35%) Big Data
10 9 (3.35%) Hadoop
10 9 (3.35%) MySQL
11 8 (2.97%) Apache Hive
11 8 (2.97%) DynamoDB
11 8 (2.97%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.60%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.23%) Flink
14 3 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (7.43%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.20%) Git
3 9 (3.35%) GitLab
4 5 (1.86%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.49%) JIRA
5 4 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.74%) Ant
6 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.74%) Maven
6 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.74%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.37%) Deequ
7 1 (0.37%) Gradle
7 1 (0.37%) JUnit
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 124 (46.10%) Finance
2 75 (27.88%) Front Office
3 52 (19.33%) Banking
4 40 (14.87%) Investment Banking
5 28 (10.41%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.20%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.09%) Law
8 8 (2.97%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.97%) Retail
9 7 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.86%) Back Office
10 5 (1.86%) Games
10 5 (1.86%) Legal
10 5 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.12%) Advertising
12 2 (0.74%) Billing
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (25.65%) NumPy
1 69 (25.65%) Pandas
1 69 (25.65%) SciPy
2 45 (16.73%) Node.js
3 43 (15.99%) React
4 37 (13.75%) gRPC
4 37 (13.75%) Protocol Buffers
5 32 (11.90%) AngularJS
5 32 (11.90%) Vue
6 20 (7.43%) Kafka
7 16 (5.95%) .NET
8 11 (4.09%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.35%) RESTful
10 8 (2.97%) boto
10 8 (2.97%) Spark Streaming
11 7 (2.60%) PySpark
12 6 (2.23%) OAuth
12 6 (2.23%) Spring
13 5 (1.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 78 (29.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 75 (27.88%) Fixed Income
3 69 (25.65%) Equities
4 44 (16.36%) Hedge funds
5 37 (13.75%) Derivative
5 37 (13.75%) Pricing Data
6 21 (7.81%) Data Centre
7 18 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (5.95%) Cloud Native
9 10 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.72%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.97%) e-Learning
10 8 (2.97%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.86%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.49%) Web3
13 3 (1.12%) Clustering
13 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.74%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.29%) Linux
2 8 (2.97%) Unix
2 8 (2.97%) Windows
3 2 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.74%) VMS
3 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (38.29%) Software Engineering
2 96 (35.69%) Agile
3 90 (33.46%) CI/CD
4 81 (30.11%) DevOps
5 75 (27.88%) Investment Management
6 70 (26.02%) Asset Management
7 57 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (14.87%) Fintech
9 34 (12.64%) Risk Management
10 32 (11.90%) Order Management
10 32 (11.90%) Performance Attribution
11 30 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (10.04%) Observability
14 23 (8.55%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (8.18%) Cloud Security
15 22 (8.18%) ETL
16 19 (7.06%) Containerisation
17 18 (6.69%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 160 (59.48%) Python
2 85 (31.60%) TypeScript
3 83 (30.86%) Java
4 77 (28.62%) JavaScript
5 28 (10.41%) Bash
6 27 (10.04%) SQL
7 21 (7.81%) C#
8 10 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.72%) Scala
9 8 (2.97%) Go
10 6 (2.23%) Groovy
11 3 (1.12%) Bicep
11 3 (1.12%) Rust
12 2 (0.74%) C
12 2 (0.74%) C++
12 2 (0.74%) Ruby
13 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.37%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (8.92%) Degree
2 19 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.20%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.20%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.83%) CCNP
5 13 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.35%) CCIE
6 9 (3.35%) CCNA
6 9 (3.35%) CCSA
6 9 (3.35%) CCSE
7 6 (2.23%) CISSP
8 5 (1.86%) CCSK
8 5 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.74%) RHCE
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.09%) Data Quality
1 11 (4.09%) GDPR
2 7 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.86%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.86%) QA
3 5 (1.86%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (11.15%) Docker
2 8 (2.97%) HDFS
3 2 (0.74%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.74%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.74%) Postfix
3 2 (0.74%) Squid
Systems Management
1 65 (24.16%) Terraform
2 42 (15.61%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.43%) Grafana
4 18 (6.69%) Ansible
5 11 (4.09%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.35%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.60%) Argo
8 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.74%) Kibana
9 2 (0.74%) logstash
9 2 (0.74%) Nessus
9 2 (0.74%) Podman
9 2 (0.74%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (7.06%) Cisco
2 12 (4.46%) CheckPoint
2 12 (4.46%) Fortinet
3 10 (3.72%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.35%) Databricks
5 7 (2.60%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.23%) Google
7 5 (1.86%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.49%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.12%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.12%) Meraki
10 2 (0.74%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.74%) Cribl.io
10 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.74%) Okta
10 2 (0.74%) OpenText
10 2 (0.74%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.74%) SAP
10 2 (0.74%) Sonatype