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 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 363 357
Rank change year-on-year +57 -6 -153
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 923 938 1,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.90% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.99% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 547 806 1,389
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,750
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 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -28 589 £80,000 - 75
UK excluding London +151 549 £65,000 -3.70% 37
London +26 351 £97,500 +5.41% 43
Work from Home -38 346 £80,000 - 59
Scotland +131 319 £60,000 -26.15% 1
North of England -12 75 £65,000 -3.70% 9
South East +4 55 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Midlands +21 47 £60,000 -11.11% 12
North West -17 47 £65,000 -7.14% 8
South West -33 37 £66,250 -8.62% 4
East Midlands +10 29 £57,500 -4.17% 3
North East +12 22 £75,000 +7.14%
West Midlands +9 18 £70,000 - 9
East of England -6 16 £75,000 +7.14%
Yorkshire +22 6 £62,500 -7.41% 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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.

1 923 (100.00%) AWS
2 542 (58.72%) Python
3 518 (56.12%) Agile
4 510 (55.25%) CI/CD
5 508 (55.04%) Finance
6 500 (54.17%) Software Engineering
7 372 (40.30%) Java
8 370 (40.09%) Terraform
9 327 (35.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 315 (34.13%) DevOps
11 313 (33.91%) Law
12 305 (33.04%) SDLC
13 298 (32.29%) Operational Stability
14 283 (30.66%) SQL
15 265 (28.71%) Kubernetes
16 228 (24.70%) NoSQL
17 219 (23.73%) Artificial Intelligence
18 218 (23.62%) Serverless
19 217 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
20 208 (22.54%) Legal
21 205 (22.21%) Risk Management
22 204 (22.10%) Machine Learning
23 202 (21.89%) Visualisation
24 201 (21.78%) Algorithms
25 195 (21.13%) AWS Lambda
26 193 (20.91%) Apache Spark
27 191 (20.69%) Docker
28 184 (19.93%) Big Data
29 183 (19.83%) JavaScript
30 182 (19.72%) Community of Practice

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 (20.91%) Apache Spark
2 178 (19.28%) Apache
3 121 (13.11%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.52%) Confluence
5 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.43%) Drupal
6 4 (0.43%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
2 1 (0.11%) UXPin
2 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 923 (100.00%) AWS
2 218 (23.62%) Serverless
3 195 (21.13%) AWS Lambda
4 157 (17.01%) Amazon EC2
5 138 (14.95%) Amazon S3
6 121 (13.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 119 (12.89%) dbt
8 113 (12.24%) Amazon ECS
9 107 (11.59%) Amazon EKS
10 103 (11.16%) Snowflake
11 101 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
12 93 (10.08%) Azure
13 74 (8.02%) GitHub
14 62 (6.72%) Amazon EMR
15 60 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 56 (6.07%) GCP
17 43 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 42 (4.55%) OpenShift
19 40 (4.33%) SaaS
20 39 (4.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.14%) Firewall
2 16 (1.73%) DNS
3 13 (1.41%) Network Security
4 8 (0.87%) VPN
5 4 (0.43%) DHCP
6 3 (0.33%) IPv4
7 2 (0.22%) HTTP
7 2 (0.22%) MQTT
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
1 228 (24.70%) NoSQL
2 184 (19.93%) Big Data
3 142 (15.38%) Hadoop
4 121 (13.11%) Amazon RDS
5 116 (12.57%) Amazon Athena
6 108 (11.70%) Dremio
7 107 (11.59%) Apache Arrow
8 95 (10.29%) Data Lake
9 69 (7.48%) Apache Hive
9 69 (7.48%) Apache Ignite
10 68 (7.37%) HBase
11 65 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 52 (5.63%) Electronic Patient Records
13 37 (4.01%) DynamoDB
14 36 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
15 16 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
16 14 (1.52%) SQL Server
17 12 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
18 8 (0.87%) MySQL
19 6 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 176 (19.07%) Jenkins
2 136 (14.73%) Git
3 67 (7.26%) Bitbucket Server
4 48 (5.20%) GitLab
5 41 (4.44%) Artifactory
6 24 (2.60%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.28%) JIRA
7 21 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.08%) Subversion
9 8 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.65%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.65%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.43%) Postman
11 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.43%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.22%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.22%) sqlmap
General
1 508 (55.04%) Finance
2 327 (35.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 313 (33.91%) Law
4 208 (22.54%) Legal
5 111 (12.03%) Banking
6 104 (11.27%) Front Office
7 101 (10.94%) Investment Banking
8 97 (10.51%) Social Skills
9 78 (8.45%) Marketing
10 44 (4.77%) Financial Institution
11 39 (4.23%) Games
12 27 (2.93%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
14 15 (1.63%) Tech for Good
15 13 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.08%) Retail
17 5 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.43%) Advertising
19 3 (0.33%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (11.38%) gRPC
1 105 (11.38%) Protocol Buffers
2 71 (7.69%) Pandas
3 69 (7.48%) NumPy
3 69 (7.48%) SciPy
4 36 (3.90%) Node.js
4 36 (3.90%) React
5 34 (3.68%) J2EE
6 24 (2.60%) AWS CDK
7 18 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (1.84%) .NET
8 17 (1.84%) RESTful
9 15 (1.63%) GraphQL
9 15 (1.63%) Kafka
9 15 (1.63%) Spring
10 14 (1.52%) Django
10 14 (1.52%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.41%) AngularJS
11 13 (1.41%) Middleware
12 11 (1.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 201 (21.78%) Algorithms
2 99 (10.73%) Hedge funds
3 95 (10.29%) Cloud Native
4 72 (7.80%) Fixed Income
5 55 (5.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 52 (5.63%) Derivative
6 52 (5.63%) Equities
7 40 (4.33%) Client/Server
8 38 (4.12%) Onboarding
9 36 (3.90%) Clustering
10 34 (3.68%) Tandem
11 27 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 25 (2.71%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.95%) Online Games
13 18 (1.95%) Pricing Data
14 14 (1.52%) Blockchain
14 14 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 112 (12.13%) Linux
2 70 (7.58%) Unix
3 45 (4.88%) Windows
4 21 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.63%) 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
1 518 (56.12%) Agile
2 510 (55.25%) CI/CD
3 500 (54.17%) Software Engineering
4 315 (34.13%) DevOps
5 305 (33.04%) SDLC
6 298 (32.29%) Operational Stability
7 219 (23.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 217 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 205 (22.21%) Risk Management
10 204 (22.10%) Machine Learning
11 202 (21.89%) Visualisation
12 182 (19.72%) Community of Practice
12 182 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
13 181 (19.61%) Asset Management
14 168 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
15 112 (12.13%) Open Source
16 110 (11.92%) Test Automation
17 101 (10.94%) Investment Management
18 98 (10.62%) TDD
19 92 (9.97%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 542 (58.72%) Python
2 372 (40.30%) Java
3 283 (30.66%) SQL
4 183 (19.83%) JavaScript
5 127 (13.76%) Scala
6 89 (9.64%) Go
6 89 (9.64%) TypeScript
7 75 (8.13%) Bash
8 67 (7.26%) PL/SQL
9 43 (4.66%) PowerShell
10 32 (3.47%) C#
11 17 (1.84%) Perl
12 12 (1.30%) Groovy
13 11 (1.19%) PHP
14 10 (1.08%) Ruby
15 7 (0.76%) Rust
16 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.33%) Lua
18 2 (0.22%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (7.26%) AWS Certification
2 60 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 57 (6.18%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.79%) Degree
5 24 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.43%) CISSP
10 3 (0.33%) CISM
10 3 (0.33%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.22%) CEH
12 1 (0.11%) CCSP
12 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.11%) CRISC
12 1 (0.11%) GIAC
12 1 (0.11%) ISSMP
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.07%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.84%) QA
4 13 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.98%) NIST
6 6 (0.65%) 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
1 191 (20.69%) Docker
2 69 (7.48%) HDFS
3 6 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.11%) iptables
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 370 (40.09%) Terraform
2 265 (28.71%) Kubernetes
3 99 (10.73%) Ansible
4 66 (7.15%) Prometheus
5 36 (3.90%) Progress Chef
6 29 (3.14%) Grafana
7 28 (3.03%) Puppet
8 16 (1.73%) Salt
9 13 (1.41%) Packer
10 10 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.43%) Istio
12 4 (0.43%) Rancher
13 3 (0.33%) Argo
13 3 (0.33%) Consul
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
15 1 (0.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 119 (12.89%) Databricks
2 71 (7.69%) Informatica
3 41 (4.44%) Cloudera
4 22 (2.38%) Microsoft
5 17 (1.84%) Oracle
5 17 (1.84%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 12 (1.30%) IBM
8 11 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.87%) Google
10 7 (0.76%) VMware
11 6 (0.65%) Splunk
12 5 (0.54%) New Relic
13 4 (0.43%) SolarWinds
14 2 (0.22%) ForgeRock
14 2 (0.22%) GoCardless
14 2 (0.22%) Hortonworks
14 2 (0.22%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.22%) Sage
14 2 (0.22%) Sitecore