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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 358 355
Rank change year-on-year +55 -3 -153
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 944 936 1,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.92% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.01% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 567 804 1,374
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £62,500 £58,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.52%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 9 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 9 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 -17 611 £80,000 - 77
UK excluding London +145 554 £65,000 -7.14% 36
London +24 366 £97,500 +2.63% 45
Work from Home -38 366 £82,500 +3.13% 57
Scotland +135 318 £60,000 -26.15% 1
North of England -8 76 £65,000 -7.14% 9
South East -4 56 £67,500 +3.85% 5
Midlands +1 50 £60,000 -14.29% 14
North West -12 48 £67,500 -3.57% 8
South West -29 38 £67,500 -6.90% 4
East Midlands 0 30 £57,500 -4.17% 5
North East +12 22 £75,000 +7.14%
West Midlands +7 20 £70,000 - 9
East of England -3 16 £75,000 +7.14%
Yorkshire +34 6 £62,500 -7.41% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 944 (100.00%) AWS
2 558 (59.11%) Python
3 532 (56.36%) Agile
4 524 (55.51%) Finance
5 511 (54.13%) Software Engineering
6 509 (53.92%) CI/CD
7 386 (40.89%) Java
8 374 (39.62%) Terraform
9 326 (34.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 317 (33.58%) DevOps
11 313 (33.16%) Law
12 305 (32.31%) SDLC
13 298 (31.57%) Operational Stability
14 282 (29.87%) SQL
15 269 (28.50%) Kubernetes
16 228 (24.15%) NoSQL
17 219 (23.20%) Artificial Intelligence
18 218 (23.09%) Continuous Improvement
19 217 (22.99%) Serverless
20 208 (22.03%) Legal
21 205 (21.72%) Risk Management
22 204 (21.61%) Machine Learning
23 202 (21.40%) JavaScript
23 202 (21.40%) Visualisation
24 201 (21.29%) Algorithms
25 199 (21.08%) Asset Management
26 194 (20.55%) AWS Lambda
27 193 (20.44%) Apache Spark
28 192 (20.34%) Apache
29 190 (20.13%) Docker

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 (20.44%) Apache Spark
2 192 (20.34%) Apache
3 141 (14.94%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.48%) Confluence
5 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.42%) Drupal
6 4 (0.42%) nginx
7 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Sketch
2 1 (0.11%) UXPin
2 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 944 (100.00%) AWS
2 217 (22.99%) Serverless
3 194 (20.55%) AWS Lambda
4 158 (16.74%) Amazon EC2
5 139 (14.72%) dbt
6 138 (14.62%) Amazon S3
7 122 (12.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 121 (12.82%) Snowflake
9 111 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
10 105 (11.12%) Amazon EKS
11 99 (10.49%) Amazon SQS
12 91 (9.64%) Azure
13 72 (7.63%) GitHub
14 62 (6.57%) Amazon EMR
15 61 (6.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 58 (6.14%) GCP
17 45 (4.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 41 (4.34%) OpenShift
19 40 (4.24%) SaaS
20 39 (4.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.07%) Firewall
2 16 (1.69%) DNS
3 13 (1.38%) Network Security
4 8 (0.85%) VPN
5 4 (0.42%) DHCP
6 3 (0.32%) IPv4
7 2 (0.21%) HTTP
7 2 (0.21%) 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 (24.15%) NoSQL
2 190 (20.13%) Big Data
3 142 (15.04%) Hadoop
4 136 (14.41%) Amazon Athena
5 128 (13.56%) Dremio
6 127 (13.45%) Apache Arrow
7 121 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
8 113 (11.97%) Data Lake
9 83 (8.79%) Apache Ignite
10 69 (7.31%) Apache Hive
11 68 (7.20%) HBase
12 63 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 52 (5.51%) Electronic Patient Records
14 37 (3.92%) DynamoDB
15 36 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
17 13 (1.38%) SQL Server
18 11 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
19 8 (0.85%) MySQL
20 6 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (18.54%) Jenkins
2 135 (14.30%) Git
3 67 (7.10%) Bitbucket Server
4 48 (5.08%) GitLab
5 37 (3.92%) Artifactory
6 23 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 19 (2.01%) JIRA
9 10 (1.06%) Subversion
10 6 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.64%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.42%) Postman
11 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.42%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.21%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.21%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.21%) NUnit
12 2 (0.21%) sqlmap
General
1 524 (55.51%) Finance
2 326 (34.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 313 (33.16%) Law
4 208 (22.03%) Legal
5 123 (13.03%) Banking
6 116 (12.29%) Front Office
7 113 (11.97%) Investment Banking
8 98 (10.38%) Social Skills
9 78 (8.26%) Marketing
10 44 (4.66%) Financial Institution
11 39 (4.13%) Games
12 27 (2.86%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.69%) Tech for Good
15 15 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
16 13 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.06%) Retail
18 5 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
19 4 (0.42%) Advertising
20 3 (0.32%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (13.24%) gRPC
1 125 (13.24%) Protocol Buffers
2 85 (9.00%) Pandas
3 83 (8.79%) NumPy
3 83 (8.79%) SciPy
4 38 (4.03%) Node.js
4 38 (4.03%) React
5 32 (3.39%) J2EE
6 24 (2.54%) AWS CDK
7 18 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (1.80%) Kafka
8 17 (1.80%) RESTful
9 16 (1.69%) .NET
9 16 (1.69%) Spring
10 15 (1.59%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.59%) GraphQL
10 15 (1.59%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.48%) Django
12 13 (1.38%) Redux
12 13 (1.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 201 (21.29%) Algorithms
2 117 (12.39%) Hedge funds
3 94 (9.96%) Cloud Native
4 86 (9.11%) Fixed Income
5 67 (7.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 64 (6.78%) Derivative
6 64 (6.78%) Equities
7 42 (4.45%) Clustering
8 40 (4.24%) Client/Server
9 38 (4.03%) Onboarding
10 32 (3.39%) Tandem
11 26 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
12 25 (2.65%) Data Centre
13 24 (2.54%) Pricing Data
14 18 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.91%) Online Games
15 14 (1.48%) Blockchain
16 13 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.38%) Product Ownership
17 11 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 111 (11.76%) Linux
2 70 (7.42%) Unix
3 44 (4.66%) Windows
4 21 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Debian
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (56.36%) Agile
2 511 (54.13%) Software Engineering
3 509 (53.92%) CI/CD
4 317 (33.58%) DevOps
5 305 (32.31%) SDLC
6 298 (31.57%) Operational Stability
7 219 (23.20%) Artificial Intelligence
8 218 (23.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 205 (21.72%) Risk Management
10 204 (21.61%) Machine Learning
11 202 (21.40%) Visualisation
12 199 (21.08%) Asset Management
13 183 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
14 182 (19.28%) Community of Practice
15 169 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
16 121 (12.82%) Investment Management
17 110 (11.65%) Open Source
18 108 (11.44%) Test Automation
19 98 (10.38%) TDD
20 93 (9.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 558 (59.11%) Python
2 386 (40.89%) Java
3 282 (29.87%) SQL
4 202 (21.40%) JavaScript
5 127 (13.45%) Scala
6 103 (10.91%) TypeScript
7 92 (9.75%) Go
8 74 (7.84%) Bash
9 67 (7.10%) PL/SQL
10 42 (4.45%) PowerShell
11 31 (3.28%) C#
12 15 (1.59%) Perl
13 13 (1.38%) Groovy
14 11 (1.17%) PHP
15 9 (0.95%) Ruby
16 6 (0.64%) Rust
17 5 (0.53%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.32%) Lua
19 2 (0.21%) Kotlin
19 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (7.73%) AWS Certification
2 62 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 59 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.71%) Degree
5 24 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (1.48%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.42%) CISSP
10 3 (0.32%) CISM
10 3 (0.32%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.21%) CEH
12 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.11%) CCSP
12 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.11%) GIAC
12 1 (0.11%) ISSMP
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 28 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.69%) QA
4 15 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.17%) NIST
6 6 (0.64%) NCSC
7 3 (0.32%) 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 (20.13%) Docker
2 69 (7.31%) HDFS
3 6 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.11%) iptables
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 374 (39.62%) Terraform
2 269 (28.50%) Kubernetes
3 97 (10.28%) Ansible
4 73 (7.73%) Prometheus
5 35 (3.71%) Progress Chef
6 29 (3.07%) Grafana
7 27 (2.86%) Puppet
8 15 (1.59%) Salt
9 12 (1.27%) Packer
10 10 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.42%) Istio
12 4 (0.42%) Rancher
13 3 (0.32%) Argo
13 3 (0.32%) Consul
13 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.11%) Kibana
15 1 (0.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 119 (12.61%) Databricks
2 71 (7.52%) Informatica
3 41 (4.34%) Cloudera
4 22 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 18 (1.91%) Red Hat
6 16 (1.69%) Oracle
7 12 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.17%) IBM
9 8 (0.85%) Google
9 8 (0.85%) VMware
10 6 (0.64%) Splunk
11 5 (0.53%) New Relic
12 4 (0.42%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.21%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.21%) Hortonworks
13 2 (0.21%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.21%) PayPal
13 2 (0.21%) Sage
13 2 (0.21%) Sitecore