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 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 283 320
Rank change year-on-year -104 +37 +56
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 277 616 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.98% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.04% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 211 514 429
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £75,625 £72,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

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 50,261 59,063 47,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.04% 94.04% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 31,429 32,705 37,339
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 6 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 6 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 -101 263 £105,000 +13.51% 67
London -70 206 £110,000 +4.76% 30
Work from Home -77 145 £110,000 +10.00% 35
UK excluding London +7 64 £70,000 +7.69% 46
Midlands +38 21 £70,000 +7.69% 5
North of England +12 20 £80,000 +23.08% 19
North West +37 17 £85,000 +29.43% 9
West Midlands +42 12 £72,500 +13.73% 3
Scotland +17 11 - -
South East +4 10 £63,750 +4.08% 12
East Midlands +15 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
East of England +21 4 £60,000 -4.00% 2
Yorkshire -14 2 £67,500 +8.00% 3
North East +6 1 £55,000 -21.43% 7
South West +1 1 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 277 (100.00%) AWS
2 190 (68.59%) Python
3 133 (48.01%) Software Engineering
4 129 (46.57%) Agile
5 103 (37.18%) Amazon Athena
5 103 (37.18%) JavaScript
5 103 (37.18%) TypeScript
6 102 (36.82%) Java
7 101 (36.46%) Apache Iceberg
8 100 (36.10%) Investment Management
9 98 (35.38%) Apache Airflow
10 96 (34.66%) dbt
11 95 (34.30%) Asset Management
12 94 (33.94%) Apache Arrow
12 94 (33.94%) Dremio
12 94 (33.94%) NumPy
12 94 (33.94%) Pandas
12 94 (33.94%) SciPy
13 90 (32.49%) CI/CD
13 90 (32.49%) DevOps
14 67 (24.19%) Terraform
15 58 (20.94%) Apache
15 58 (20.94%) Node.js
16 57 (20.58%) GCP
17 55 (19.86%) Data Lake
18 54 (19.49%) React
19 53 (19.13%) PostgreSQL
19 53 (19.13%) Snowflake
20 51 (18.41%) Fintech
21 49 (17.69%) Apache Ignite

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 98 (35.38%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (20.94%) Apache
3 15 (5.42%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.53%) Confluence
5 4 (1.44%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.08%) JBoss
6 3 (1.08%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 277 (100.00%) AWS
2 96 (34.66%) dbt
3 57 (20.58%) GCP
4 53 (19.13%) Snowflake
5 44 (15.88%) Azure
6 41 (14.80%) Serverless
7 37 (13.36%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (12.27%) Amazon S3
9 30 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (9.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (8.30%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (7.22%) GitHub
15 16 (5.78%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (5.78%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (4.33%) SaaS
18 10 (3.61%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.86%) Firewall
2 13 (4.69%) LAN
2 13 (4.69%) WAN
3 12 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (3.61%) VPN
5 9 (3.25%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (2.89%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (2.89%) DNS
7 5 (1.81%) BGP
7 5 (1.81%) Network Security
8 4 (1.44%) HTTP
8 4 (1.44%) Wireless
9 3 (1.08%) FTP
9 3 (1.08%) IMAP
9 3 (1.08%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.08%) SMTP
9 3 (1.08%) SSH
9 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.08%) VLAN
10 2 (0.72%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (37.18%) Amazon Athena
2 101 (36.46%) Apache Iceberg
3 94 (33.94%) Apache Arrow
3 94 (33.94%) Dremio
4 55 (19.86%) Data Lake
5 53 (19.13%) PostgreSQL
6 49 (17.69%) Apache Ignite
7 34 (12.27%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (4.69%) Big Data
11 9 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.25%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.25%) Hadoop
12 8 (2.89%) Apache Hive
12 8 (2.89%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.89%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.17%) Flink
14 5 (1.81%) MySQL
15 4 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (10.11%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.50%) Git
3 11 (3.97%) GitLab
3 11 (3.97%) JIRA
4 7 (2.53%) Vagrant
5 6 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.08%) Ant
6 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.08%) Maven
7 2 (0.72%) JUnit
7 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) Deequ
8 1 (0.36%) Gradle
8 1 (0.36%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 155 (55.96%) Finance
2 100 (36.10%) Front Office
3 69 (24.91%) Banking
4 50 (18.05%) Investment Banking
5 27 (9.75%) Social Skills
6 19 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (6.50%) Law
8 15 (5.42%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.33%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.81%) Games
11 5 (1.81%) Legal
11 5 (1.81%) Retail
12 3 (1.08%) Advertising
12 3 (1.08%) Back Office
12 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.36%) Billing
13 1 (0.36%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (33.94%) NumPy
1 94 (33.94%) Pandas
1 94 (33.94%) SciPy
2 58 (20.94%) Node.js
3 54 (19.49%) React
4 49 (17.69%) gRPC
4 49 (17.69%) Protocol Buffers
5 45 (16.25%) AngularJS
5 45 (16.25%) Vue
6 22 (7.94%) Kafka
7 11 (3.97%) .NET
7 11 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (3.61%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.25%) RESTful
9 9 (3.25%) Spark Streaming
9 9 (3.25%) Spring
10 8 (2.89%) boto
11 7 (2.53%) PySpark
12 5 (1.81%) Spring Boot
13 4 (1.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 101 (36.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 100 (36.10%) Fixed Income
3 95 (34.30%) Equities
4 53 (19.13%) Hedge funds
5 51 (18.41%) Derivative
6 49 (17.69%) Pricing Data
7 18 (6.50%) Cloud Native
7 18 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (5.78%) Data Centre
9 11 (3.97%) e-Learning
9 11 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.89%) Management Information System
11 7 (2.53%) Replication
12 6 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.81%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.81%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (1.44%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.44%) Web3
15 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.19%) Linux
2 12 (4.33%) Windows
3 7 (2.53%) Unix
3 7 (2.53%) VMS
4 3 (1.08%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (48.01%) Software Engineering
2 129 (46.57%) Agile
3 100 (36.10%) Investment Management
4 95 (34.30%) Asset Management
5 90 (32.49%) CI/CD
5 90 (32.49%) DevOps
6 51 (18.41%) Fintech
7 48 (17.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (16.97%) Risk Management
9 45 (16.25%) Order Management
9 45 (16.25%) Performance Attribution
10 29 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (9.39%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (8.66%) Data Engineering
12 24 (8.66%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (8.30%) Observability
14 22 (7.94%) AI
15 21 (7.58%) Cloud Security
15 21 (7.58%) Mentoring
16 20 (7.22%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 190 (68.59%) Python
2 103 (37.18%) JavaScript
2 103 (37.18%) TypeScript
3 102 (36.82%) Java
4 27 (9.75%) SQL
5 26 (9.39%) Bash
6 15 (5.42%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.05%) C#
8 13 (4.69%) Groovy
8 13 (4.69%) Scala
9 12 (4.33%) Go
10 3 (1.08%) Bicep
10 3 (1.08%) C++
10 3 (1.08%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.08%) Ruby
10 3 (1.08%) Rust
11 2 (0.72%) C
12 1 (0.36%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (7.94%) Degree
1 22 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.50%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.69%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.33%) CCNP
4 12 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.89%) CCIE
5 8 (2.89%) CCNA
5 8 (2.89%) CCSA
5 8 (2.89%) CCSE
6 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.44%) CISSP
8 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.08%) CCSK
8 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.72%) RHCE
9 2 (0.72%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.36%) CISA
10 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.61%) GDPR
2 9 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.08%) QA
4 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.72%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (10.83%) Docker
2 8 (2.89%) HDFS
3 7 (2.53%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.44%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.08%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.08%) Postfix
5 3 (1.08%) Squid
Systems Management
1 67 (24.19%) Terraform
2 48 (17.33%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.75%) Grafana
4 23 (8.30%) Ansible
5 19 (6.86%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.53%) Argo
6 7 (2.53%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.08%) Kibana
7 3 (1.08%) logstash
7 3 (1.08%) Nessus
7 3 (1.08%) Podman
7 3 (1.08%) Proxmox
7 3 (1.08%) Puppet
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (5.78%) Cisco
2 13 (4.69%) ServiceNow
3 11 (3.97%) Databricks
4 9 (3.25%) CheckPoint
4 9 (3.25%) Fortinet
5 6 (2.17%) Google
5 6 (2.17%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.81%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.44%) IBM
7 4 (1.44%) Juniper
7 4 (1.44%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.08%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.08%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.08%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.08%) Sonatype
8 3 (1.08%) Splunk
9 2 (0.72%) Facebook
9 2 (0.72%) Ping Identity