AWS Engineer Job Trends

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 27 October 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 296 308
Rank change year-on-year -54 +12 +83
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 358 594 572
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.87% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.92% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 252 496 506
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.79% +3.70%

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 44,503 64,870 52,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 95.27% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 36,840 40,759
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -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 October 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 27 October 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 -63 331 £110,000 +22.22% 122
London -8 263 £110,000 +4.76% 45
Work from Home -73 192 £110,000 +10.00% 99
UK excluding London +6 88 £70,000 -1.75% 92
Midlands +51 31 £72,500 - 3
West Midlands +68 24 £72,500 -
Scotland +8 24 £100,000 +81.82% 1
North of England +16 20 £70,000 +7.69% 54
North West +16 18 £70,000 +7.69% 37
South East -4 9 £80,000 +33.33% 29
East Midlands +15 7 £54,000 -10.00% 3
East of England +5 3 £62,500 -19.35% 4
South West +25 2 £55,000 -26.67% 3
Wales +11 2 £57,500 +35.29%
North East +12 1 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Yorkshire +2 1 - - 15

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

For the 6 months to 27 October 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.

1 358 (100.00%) AWS
2 252 (70.39%) Python
3 215 (60.06%) Software Engineering
4 200 (55.87%) Agile
5 161 (44.97%) Amazon Athena
6 152 (42.46%) Apache Iceberg
7 150 (41.90%) JavaScript
8 149 (41.62%) TypeScript
9 146 (40.78%) Java
10 143 (39.94%) Apache Airflow
10 143 (39.94%) Asset Management
11 142 (39.66%) Investment Management
12 140 (39.11%) dbt
13 139 (38.83%) Apache Arrow
13 139 (38.83%) Dremio
13 139 (38.83%) NumPy
13 139 (38.83%) Pandas
13 139 (38.83%) SciPy
14 117 (32.68%) CI/CD
15 115 (32.12%) DevOps
16 96 (26.82%) Terraform
17 84 (23.46%) Apache
17 84 (23.46%) PostgreSQL
18 83 (23.18%) GCP
19 77 (21.51%) Node.js
19 77 (21.51%) React
20 74 (20.67%) Data Lake
21 73 (20.39%) Snowflake
22 72 (20.11%) Fintech
23 71 (19.83%) AngularJS

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
1 143 (39.94%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (23.46%) Apache
3 21 (5.87%) Apache Spark
4 19 (5.31%) Confluence
5 7 (1.96%) nginx
6 5 (1.40%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 358 (100.00%) AWS
2 140 (39.11%) dbt
3 83 (23.18%) GCP
4 73 (20.39%) Snowflake
5 59 (16.48%) Amazon S3
6 49 (13.69%) Serverless
7 47 (13.13%) Azure
8 46 (12.85%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (11.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (11.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 40 (11.17%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (9.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 32 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (6.98%) AWS KMS
14 23 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (5.31%) GitHub
16 18 (5.03%) Amazon ELB
17 16 (4.47%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (3.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.78%) Firewall
2 16 (4.47%) DNS
3 15 (4.19%) VPN
4 12 (3.35%) WAN
5 11 (3.07%) LAN
6 8 (2.23%) HTTP
6 8 (2.23%) Network Security
6 8 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (1.96%) FTP
7 7 (1.96%) SMTP
7 7 (1.96%) SSH
8 6 (1.68%) BGP
8 6 (1.68%) IMAP
8 6 (1.68%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.40%) Wireless
10 4 (1.12%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (1.12%) OSPF
11 3 (0.84%) NX-OS
11 3 (0.84%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (44.97%) Amazon Athena
2 152 (42.46%) Apache Iceberg
3 139 (38.83%) Apache Arrow
3 139 (38.83%) Dremio
4 84 (23.46%) PostgreSQL
5 74 (20.67%) Data Lake
6 69 (19.27%) Apache Ignite
7 42 (11.73%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (6.70%) Big Data
10 17 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (3.35%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (2.79%) SQL Server
14 7 (1.96%) Apache Hive
14 7 (1.96%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.96%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.68%) Apache Hudi
15 6 (1.68%) Relational Database
16 5 (1.40%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 45 (12.57%) Jenkins
2 31 (8.66%) Git
3 24 (6.70%) JIRA
4 17 (4.75%) GitLab
4 17 (4.75%) Vagrant
5 15 (4.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.68%) JUnit
6 6 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.40%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.12%) Ant
8 4 (1.12%) Maven
8 4 (1.12%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.56%) Selenium
10 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.28%) Deequ
11 1 (0.28%) Gradle
General
1 223 (62.29%) Finance
2 140 (39.11%) Front Office
3 114 (31.84%) Banking
4 73 (20.39%) Investment Banking
5 62 (17.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (13.97%) Law
7 36 (10.06%) Public Sector
8 31 (8.66%) Social Skills
9 10 (2.79%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.68%) Retail
13 5 (1.40%) Marketing
14 4 (1.12%) Advertising
14 4 (1.12%) Games
15 3 (0.84%) Legal
16 2 (0.56%) Back Office
17 1 (0.28%) Electronics
17 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (38.83%) NumPy
1 139 (38.83%) Pandas
1 139 (38.83%) SciPy
2 77 (21.51%) Node.js
2 77 (21.51%) React
3 71 (19.83%) AngularJS
4 70 (19.55%) Vue
5 69 (19.27%) gRPC
5 69 (19.27%) Protocol Buffers
6 26 (7.26%) Kafka
7 20 (5.59%) Spring
8 16 (4.47%) AWS CDK
9 13 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (3.35%) .NET
11 11 (3.07%) PySpark
11 11 (3.07%) Spark Streaming
11 11 (3.07%) Spring Boot
12 10 (2.79%) RESTful
12 10 (2.79%) Web Services
13 8 (2.23%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 143 (39.94%) Equities
1 143 (39.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 140 (39.11%) Fixed Income
3 77 (21.51%) Derivative
4 70 (19.55%) Hedge funds
5 69 (19.27%) Pricing Data
6 30 (8.38%) Cloud Native
7 27 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (6.15%) e-Learning
9 19 (5.31%) Algorithms
10 17 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (4.47%) Replication
12 13 (3.63%) Data Centre
13 9 (2.51%) Public Cloud
14 8 (2.23%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.96%) Management Information System
16 4 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 4 (1.12%) Low-Code
16 4 (1.12%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.01%) Linux
2 25 (6.98%) Windows
3 18 (5.03%) VMS
4 10 (2.79%) Unix
5 7 (1.96%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (1.68%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.28%) Android
9 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (60.06%) Software Engineering
2 200 (55.87%) Agile
3 143 (39.94%) Asset Management
4 142 (39.66%) Investment Management
5 117 (32.68%) CI/CD
6 115 (32.12%) DevOps
7 72 (20.11%) Fintech
8 71 (19.83%) Risk Management
9 70 (19.55%) Order Management
9 70 (19.55%) Performance Attribution
10 58 (16.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 49 (13.69%) AI
12 43 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (12.01%) SDLC
13 38 (10.61%) Mentoring
14 37 (10.34%) Machine Learning
15 34 (9.50%) Containerisation
16 29 (8.10%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 27 (7.54%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 252 (70.39%) Python
2 150 (41.90%) JavaScript
3 149 (41.62%) TypeScript
4 146 (40.78%) Java
5 35 (9.78%) Bash
5 35 (9.78%) SQL
6 30 (8.38%) PowerShell
7 24 (6.70%) Groovy
8 20 (5.59%) Go
9 17 (4.75%) Scala
10 13 (3.63%) C#
11 9 (2.51%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.84%) Bicep
12 3 (0.84%) C++
12 3 (0.84%) PHP
12 3 (0.84%) Ruby
12 3 (0.84%) Rust
13 2 (0.56%) C
13 2 (0.56%) Perl
14 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (11.17%) Security Cleared
2 34 (9.50%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.15%) Degree
4 18 (5.03%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.35%) CCNP
5 12 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.23%) CCNA
6 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.96%) CCIE
7 7 (1.96%) CCSA
7 7 (1.96%) CCSE
8 6 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.56%) RHCE
10 2 (0.56%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.51%) Data Quality
1 9 (2.51%) GDPR
2 6 (1.68%) QA
3 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (14.80%) Docker
2 16 (4.47%) DFS Replication
3 12 (3.35%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.96%) HDFS
5 6 (1.68%) Dovecot
5 6 (1.68%) Postfix
5 6 (1.68%) Squid
6 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (26.82%) Terraform
2 67 (18.72%) Kubernetes
3 48 (13.41%) Grafana
4 42 (11.73%) Ansible
5 33 (9.22%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.68%) Nessus
6 6 (1.68%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.12%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.12%) Podman
7 4 (1.12%) Puppet
8 2 (0.56%) Argo
9 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.28%) Istio
9 1 (0.28%) Kibana
9 1 (0.28%) linkerd
9 1 (0.28%) logstash
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (6.42%) ServiceNow
2 17 (4.75%) Red Hat
3 16 (4.47%) IBM
4 15 (4.19%) Databricks
5 14 (3.91%) Cisco
6 10 (2.79%) Juniper
7 8 (2.23%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.23%) Google
8 7 (1.96%) CheckPoint
8 7 (1.96%) Splunk
9 6 (1.68%) Facebook
9 6 (1.68%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (1.68%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.68%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.12%) Meraki
12 3 (0.84%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.84%) Cribl.io
12 3 (0.84%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (0.84%) Sonatype