Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 370 346
Rank change year-on-year +56 -24 -147
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 910 949 1,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.90% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.99% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 537 816 1,388
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.08%
75th Percentile £112,500 £105,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 -23 580 £80,000 - 84
UK excluding London +131 541 £65,000 -3.70% 43
London +22 347 £97,500 +8.33% 51
Work from Home -27 342 £80,000 - 68
Scotland +140 316 £60,000 -26.15% 6
North of England -24 73 £67,500 - 8
South East +17 55 £67,500 +3.85% 7
North West -15 45 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Midlands +7 44 £60,000 -11.11% 13
South West -32 36 £65,000 -8.77% 4
East Midlands -2 27 £55,000 -15.38% 4
North East +16 22 £75,000 +7.14% 2
West Midlands +5 17 £70,000 - 9
East of England +5 17 £75,000 +11.11%
Yorkshire +31 6 £62,500 -7.41% 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 910 (100.00%) AWS
2 537 (59.01%) Python
3 511 (56.15%) CI/CD
4 510 (56.04%) Agile
5 502 (55.16%) Finance
6 496 (54.51%) Software Engineering
7 367 (40.33%) Java
8 366 (40.22%) Terraform
9 326 (35.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 311 (34.18%) Law
11 309 (33.96%) DevOps
12 304 (33.41%) SDLC
13 297 (32.64%) Operational Stability
14 288 (31.65%) SQL
15 256 (28.13%) Kubernetes
16 226 (24.84%) NoSQL
17 219 (24.07%) Serverless
18 217 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 216 (23.74%) Artificial Intelligence
20 208 (22.86%) Legal
21 205 (22.53%) Risk Management
22 202 (22.20%) Visualisation
22 202 (22.20%) Machine Learning
23 200 (21.98%) Algorithms
23 200 (21.98%) AWS Lambda
24 193 (21.21%) Apache Spark
25 190 (20.88%) Docker
26 181 (19.89%) Community of Practice
27 180 (19.78%) Jenkins
28 178 (19.56%) Big Data

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
1 193 (21.21%) Apache Spark
2 176 (19.34%) Apache
3 113 (12.42%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.54%) Confluence
5 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.44%) Drupal
6 4 (0.44%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
2 1 (0.11%) UXPin
2 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 910 (100.00%) AWS
2 219 (24.07%) Serverless
3 200 (21.98%) AWS Lambda
4 157 (17.25%) Amazon EC2
5 140 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 122 (13.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 114 (12.53%) Amazon ECS
8 111 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
9 110 (12.09%) dbt
10 103 (11.32%) Amazon SQS
11 90 (9.89%) Azure
12 85 (9.34%) Snowflake
13 75 (8.24%) GitHub
14 65 (7.14%) GCP
15 62 (6.81%) Amazon EMR
16 59 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 43 (4.73%) OpenShift
18 42 (4.62%) Route 53
18 42 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 40 (4.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.08%) Firewall
2 16 (1.76%) DNS
3 13 (1.43%) Network Security
4 8 (0.88%) VPN
5 4 (0.44%) DHCP
6 3 (0.33%) IPv4
7 2 (0.22%) HTTP
8 1 (0.11%) Internet
8 1 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.11%) OSPF
8 1 (0.11%) SAN
8 1 (0.11%) SSL
8 1 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (24.84%) NoSQL
2 178 (19.56%) Big Data
3 142 (15.60%) Hadoop
4 126 (13.85%) Amazon RDS
5 107 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
6 100 (10.99%) Dremio
7 98 (10.77%) Apache Arrow
8 79 (8.68%) Data Lake
9 69 (7.58%) Apache Hive
10 68 (7.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 68 (7.47%) HBase
11 66 (7.25%) Apache Ignite
12 52 (5.71%) Electronic Patient Records
13 37 (4.07%) DynamoDB
14 36 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
16 14 (1.54%) SQL Server
17 13 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
18 8 (0.88%) MySQL
19 7 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 180 (19.78%) Jenkins
2 138 (15.16%) Git
3 67 (7.36%) Bitbucket Server
4 50 (5.49%) GitLab
5 47 (5.16%) Artifactory
6 25 (2.75%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.75%) JIRA
7 22 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.10%) Subversion
10 6 (0.66%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.66%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.44%) Postman
11 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.44%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.33%) Maven
13 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.22%) Metasploit
13 2 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 502 (55.16%) Finance
2 326 (35.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 311 (34.18%) Law
4 208 (22.86%) Legal
5 107 (11.76%) Banking
6 103 (11.32%) Front Office
7 97 (10.66%) Investment Banking
8 94 (10.33%) Social Skills
9 78 (8.57%) Marketing
10 43 (4.73%) Financial Institution
11 38 (4.18%) Games
12 27 (2.97%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
15 14 (1.54%) Tech for Good
16 13 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.10%) Retail
18 5 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
19 4 (0.44%) Advertising
20 3 (0.33%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (10.55%) gRPC
1 96 (10.55%) Protocol Buffers
2 68 (7.47%) Pandas
3 66 (7.25%) NumPy
3 66 (7.25%) SciPy
4 36 (3.96%) J2EE
5 35 (3.85%) Node.js
5 35 (3.85%) React
6 22 (2.42%) AWS CDK
7 21 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (1.98%) .NET
9 17 (1.87%) RESTful
10 15 (1.65%) GraphQL
11 14 (1.54%) Django
11 14 (1.54%) Middleware
12 13 (1.43%) AngularJS
12 13 (1.43%) Spring
13 12 (1.32%) .NET Core
13 12 (1.32%) Kafka
14 11 (1.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 200 (21.98%) Algorithms
2 94 (10.33%) Cloud Native
3 81 (8.90%) Hedge funds
4 60 (6.59%) Fixed Income
5 43 (4.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 40 (4.40%) Client/Server
6 40 (4.40%) Derivative
6 40 (4.40%) Equities
7 38 (4.18%) Onboarding
8 36 (3.96%) Tandem
9 30 (3.30%) Clustering
10 27 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 24 (2.64%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.98%) Online Games
13 16 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.54%) Blockchain
14 14 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.32%) Pricing Data
16 11 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 113 (12.42%) Linux
2 70 (7.69%) Unix
3 45 (4.95%) Windows
4 21 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Debian
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 511 (56.15%) CI/CD
2 510 (56.04%) Agile
3 496 (54.51%) Software Engineering
4 309 (33.96%) DevOps
5 304 (33.41%) SDLC
6 297 (32.64%) Operational Stability
7 217 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 216 (23.74%) Artificial Intelligence
9 205 (22.53%) Risk Management
10 202 (22.20%) Machine Learning
10 202 (22.20%) Visualisation
11 181 (19.89%) Community of Practice
12 178 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 174 (19.12%) Asset Management
14 167 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
15 114 (12.53%) Open Source
16 109 (11.98%) Test Automation
17 97 (10.66%) TDD
18 91 (10.00%) Decision-Making
19 88 (9.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 537 (59.01%) Python
2 367 (40.33%) Java
3 288 (31.65%) SQL
4 174 (19.12%) JavaScript
5 131 (14.40%) Scala
6 86 (9.45%) Go
6 86 (9.45%) TypeScript
7 74 (8.13%) Bash
8 67 (7.36%) PL/SQL
9 42 (4.62%) PowerShell
10 33 (3.63%) C#
11 19 (2.09%) Perl
12 15 (1.65%) Ruby
13 11 (1.21%) PHP
14 10 (1.10%) Groovy
15 8 (0.88%) Rust
16 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.33%) Lua
18 2 (0.22%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (7.03%) AWS Certification
2 62 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 59 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.07%) Degree
5 25 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 14 (1.54%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.44%) CISSP
11 3 (0.33%) CISM
11 3 (0.33%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.22%) CEH
12 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.11%) CRISC
13 1 (0.11%) ISSMP
13 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 27 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.09%) QA
4 12 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.88%) NIST
6 6 (0.66%) NCSC
7 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.11%) COBIT
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 190 (20.88%) Docker
2 69 (7.58%) HDFS
3 6 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.55%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) iptables
5 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 366 (40.22%) Terraform
2 256 (28.13%) Kubernetes
3 103 (11.32%) Ansible
4 59 (6.48%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.07%) Progress Chef
6 29 (3.19%) Grafana
7 28 (3.08%) Puppet
8 16 (1.76%) Salt
9 13 (1.43%) Packer
10 9 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.44%) Istio
12 4 (0.44%) Rancher
13 3 (0.33%) Argo
13 3 (0.33%) Consul
13 3 (0.33%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.22%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 120 (13.19%) Databricks
2 71 (7.80%) Informatica
3 41 (4.51%) Cloudera
4 22 (2.42%) Microsoft
5 18 (1.98%) Oracle
6 17 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.32%) IBM
9 11 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.88%) Google
11 7 (0.77%) VMware
12 5 (0.55%) New Relic
13 4 (0.44%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.44%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.44%) Splunk
14 2 (0.22%) GoCardless
14 2 (0.22%) Hortonworks
14 2 (0.22%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.22%) PayPal
14 2 (0.22%) Veracode