AWS Engineer Jobs

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 294 339
Rank change year-on-year -38 +45 +64
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 475 997 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.92% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.97% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 374 671 763
10th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £135,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -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 52,512 102,387 81,388
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 94.81% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,421 72,229 54,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -6 442 £110,000 +25.71% 573
London +55 351 £110,000 +4.76% 281
Work from Home +12 288 £110,000 +22.22% 409
UK excluding London -118 106 £65,000 -3.70% 345
North of England +10 32 £65,000 - 100
North West +4 28 £67,500 +8.00% 79
Midlands +30 22 £72,500 +3.57% 40
Scotland -63 21 £100,000 +66.67% 33
West Midlands +56 18 £72,500 - 21
South East +37 14 £61,750 -5.00% 97
East of England +24 8 £64,500 -14.00% 33
South West +77 6 £77,500 +3.33% 30
East Midlands +15 4 £66,250 +15.22% 19
North East +29 3 £65,000 -13.33% 2
Wales - 3 £60,000 - 6
Yorkshire +52 1 - - 19

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, 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.

1 475 (100.00%) AWS
2 340 (71.58%) Python
3 324 (68.21%) Finance
4 318 (66.95%) Software Engineering
5 305 (64.21%) Agile
6 256 (53.89%) Amazon Athena
7 236 (49.68%) Apache Iceberg
8 230 (48.42%) Apache Airflow
8 230 (48.42%) Asset Management
9 227 (47.79%) Front Office
9 227 (47.79%) Dremio
9 227 (47.79%) dbt
9 227 (47.79%) Apache Arrow
10 222 (46.74%) Java
11 185 (38.95%) Fixed Income
12 179 (37.68%) TypeScript
13 175 (36.84%) Equities
14 174 (36.63%) DevOps
15 171 (36.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 167 (35.16%) JavaScript
17 164 (34.53%) Apache
17 164 (34.53%) Banking
18 158 (33.26%) Investment Management
18 158 (33.26%) CI/CD
19 156 (32.84%) Terraform
20 153 (32.21%) Pandas
20 153 (32.21%) SciPy
20 153 (32.21%) NumPy
21 122 (25.68%) Kubernetes
22 119 (25.05%) Apache Ignite

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
1 230 (48.42%) Apache Airflow
2 164 (34.53%) Apache
3 56 (11.79%) Apache Spark
4 17 (3.58%) Confluence
5 5 (1.05%) nginx
6 2 (0.42%) JBoss
6 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 475 (100.00%) AWS
2 227 (47.79%) dbt
3 117 (24.63%) GCP
4 107 (22.53%) Snowflake
5 104 (21.89%) Serverless
6 94 (19.79%) AWS Lambda
7 73 (15.37%) Amazon ECS
8 63 (13.26%) Amazon EC2
8 63 (13.26%) Amazon S3
9 50 (10.53%) OpenShift
10 45 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (8.42%) Azure
12 39 (8.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (7.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (4.63%) AWS KMS
15 17 (3.58%) SaaS
16 15 (3.16%) Amazon ELB
16 15 (3.16%) GitHub
17 11 (2.32%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.37%) Firewall
2 13 (2.74%) DNS
3 11 (2.32%) VPN
4 8 (1.68%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.26%) BGP
5 6 (1.26%) OSPF
6 5 (1.05%) FTP
6 5 (1.05%) HTTP
6 5 (1.05%) IPsec
6 5 (1.05%) Network Security
6 5 (1.05%) SMTP
6 5 (1.05%) SSH
6 5 (1.05%) WAN
7 4 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (0.84%) IMAP
7 4 (0.84%) MPLS
7 4 (0.84%) NX-OS
7 4 (0.84%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.84%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (53.89%) Amazon Athena
2 236 (49.68%) Apache Iceberg
3 227 (47.79%) Apache Arrow
3 227 (47.79%) Dremio
4 119 (25.05%) Apache Ignite
5 92 (19.37%) PostgreSQL
6 78 (16.42%) Data Lake
7 40 (8.42%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (4.21%) Big Data
9 20 (4.21%) NoSQL
10 19 (4.00%) DynamoDB
11 12 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (2.32%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.68%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (1.05%) Apache Hudi
15 5 (1.05%) Parquet
16 4 (0.84%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 48 (10.11%) Artifactory
2 46 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.26%) Git
4 23 (4.84%) GitLab
4 23 (4.84%) JIRA
5 17 (3.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (3.16%) Vagrant
7 13 (2.74%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.05%) JUnit
8 5 (1.05%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.42%) Ant
9 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.42%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.42%) Maven
9 2 (0.42%) Selenium
9 2 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.21%) NUnit
General
1 324 (68.21%) Finance
2 227 (47.79%) Front Office
3 164 (34.53%) Banking
4 107 (22.53%) Investment Banking
5 59 (12.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (9.47%) Law
7 40 (8.42%) Social Skills
8 34 (7.16%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.53%) Retail
10 11 (2.32%) Advertising
11 9 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.05%) Marketing
14 4 (0.84%) Games
15 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.63%) Legal
16 1 (0.21%) Electronics
16 1 (0.21%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (32.21%) NumPy
1 153 (32.21%) Pandas
1 153 (32.21%) SciPy
2 104 (21.89%) Node.js
3 96 (20.21%) React
4 92 (19.37%) PySpark
5 84 (17.68%) AngularJS
6 82 (17.26%) Vue
7 81 (17.05%) gRPC
8 77 (16.21%) Protocol Buffers
9 70 (14.74%) Kafka
10 42 (8.84%) J2EE
11 25 (5.26%) REST
12 20 (4.21%) Web Services
13 19 (4.00%) Spring
14 15 (3.16%) AWS CDK
15 12 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (2.32%) Spring Boot
17 10 (2.11%) RESTful
18 9 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 185 (38.95%) Fixed Income
2 175 (36.84%) Equities
3 171 (36.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 111 (23.37%) Derivative
5 106 (22.32%) Hedge funds
6 60 (12.63%) Pricing Data
7 33 (6.95%) Cloud Native
8 22 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (3.79%) Algorithms
10 16 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (3.16%) e-Learning
12 14 (2.95%) Replication
13 13 (2.74%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.89%) Data Centre
15 8 (1.68%) Equity Derivative
16 7 (1.47%) Management Information System
17 6 (1.26%) Product Ownership
18 4 (0.84%) Blockchain
18 4 (0.84%) Web3
19 3 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.63%) Linux
2 25 (5.26%) Windows
3 16 (3.37%) VMS
4 9 (1.89%) Unix
5 7 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.63%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
9 1 (0.21%) Android
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (66.95%) Software Engineering
2 305 (64.21%) Agile
3 230 (48.42%) Asset Management
4 174 (36.63%) DevOps
5 158 (33.26%) CI/CD
5 158 (33.26%) Investment Management
6 85 (17.89%) Fintech
7 82 (17.26%) Performance Attribution
8 81 (17.05%) Risk Management
9 79 (16.63%) Order Management
10 75 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 58 (12.21%) Data Engineering
12 55 (11.58%) Open Source
12 55 (11.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 49 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence
14 47 (9.89%) Containerisation
15 43 (9.05%) Mentoring
16 42 (8.84%) Cloud Security
17 39 (8.21%) SDLC
18 38 (8.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 340 (71.58%) Python
2 222 (46.74%) Java
3 179 (37.68%) TypeScript
4 167 (35.16%) JavaScript
5 71 (14.95%) Go
6 59 (12.42%) SQL
7 25 (5.26%) Bash
8 22 (4.63%) Groovy
8 22 (4.63%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.16%) Scala
10 13 (2.74%) C#
11 8 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.47%) PHP
13 6 (1.26%) Perl
14 4 (0.84%) Ruby
14 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.42%) C
16 1 (0.21%) C++
16 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 44 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 35 (7.37%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.63%) Degree
4 20 (4.21%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.26%) CCNP
6 6 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.05%) CCNA
8 4 (0.84%) CCIE
8 4 (0.84%) CCSA
8 4 (0.84%) CCSE
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.21%) CCSK
11 1 (0.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.53%) QA
2 4 (0.84%) GDPR
3 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) MiFID
5 1 (0.21%) NIST
5 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (23.37%) Docker
2 16 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.95%) DFS Replication
4 6 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.84%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.84%) Postfix
5 4 (0.84%) Squid
6 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 156 (32.84%) Terraform
2 122 (25.68%) Kubernetes
3 47 (9.89%) Ansible
4 43 (9.05%) Grafana
5 37 (7.79%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.47%) Istio
7 4 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.84%) Nessus
7 4 (0.84%) Packer
7 4 (0.84%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.42%) Argo
8 2 (0.42%) Kibana
8 2 (0.42%) Podman
8 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) Consul
9 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.21%) linkerd
9 1 (0.21%) logstash
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (4.21%) IBM
1 20 (4.21%) ServiceNow
2 15 (3.16%) Red Hat
3 12 (2.53%) Ping Identity
4 11 (2.32%) Juniper
5 9 (1.89%) Google
6 8 (1.68%) Cisco
7 7 (1.47%) Databricks
7 7 (1.47%) Splunk
8 6 (1.26%) Confluent
8 6 (1.26%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.26%) Facebook
8 6 (1.26%) Microsoft
8 6 (1.26%) VMware
9 5 (1.05%) Citrix
9 5 (1.05%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.05%) Meraki
10 4 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.84%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.84%) Jaspersoft