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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 360 368
Rank change year-on-year +52 +8 -161
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 960 916 1,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.92% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.01% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 578 788 1,354
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
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 £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 -22 627 £82,500 +3.13% 93
UK excluding London +118 554 £67,500 -3.57% 42
Work from Home -27 385 £87,500 +9.38% 71
London +38 381 £100,000 +5.26% 61
Scotland +137 317 £60,000 -26.15% 2
North of England -11 76 £65,000 -7.14% 9
South East +1 58 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Midlands +5 50 £60,000 -12.73% 12
North West -25 48 £67,500 -3.57% 7
South West -35 37 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands +6 29 £57,500 -8.00% 3
North East +10 22 £75,000 +7.14%
West Midlands +12 21 £70,000 - 9
East of England -18 16 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Yorkshire +30 6 £62,500 -7.41% 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 960 (100.00%) AWS
2 573 (59.69%) Python
3 549 (57.19%) Agile
4 540 (56.25%) Finance
5 530 (55.21%) Software Engineering
6 505 (52.60%) CI/CD
7 402 (41.88%) Java
8 373 (38.85%) Terraform
9 326 (33.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 317 (33.02%) DevOps
11 313 (32.60%) Law
12 305 (31.77%) SDLC
13 298 (31.04%) Operational Stability
14 280 (29.17%) SQL
15 272 (28.33%) Kubernetes
16 229 (23.85%) NoSQL
17 221 (23.02%) JavaScript
18 218 (22.71%) Artificial Intelligence
18 218 (22.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 218 (22.71%) Serverless
19 217 (22.60%) Asset Management
20 208 (21.67%) Legal
21 206 (21.46%) Apache
22 205 (21.35%) Risk Management
23 204 (21.25%) Machine Learning
24 202 (21.04%) Visualisation
25 201 (20.94%) Algorithms
26 196 (20.42%) Big Data
27 194 (20.21%) AWS Lambda
28 193 (20.10%) Apache Spark

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
1 206 (21.46%) Apache
2 193 (20.10%) Apache Spark
3 161 (16.77%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.46%) Confluence
5 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.42%) Drupal
6 4 (0.42%) nginx
7 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.10%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Sketch
2 1 (0.10%) UXPin
2 1 (0.10%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 960 (100.00%) AWS
2 218 (22.71%) Serverless
3 194 (20.21%) AWS Lambda
4 159 (16.56%) dbt
5 157 (16.35%) Amazon EC2
6 137 (14.27%) Amazon S3
6 137 (14.27%) Snowflake
7 120 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 109 (11.35%) Amazon ECS
9 104 (10.83%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (10.31%) Amazon SQS
11 91 (9.48%) Azure
12 71 (7.40%) GitHub
13 62 (6.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 62 (6.46%) Amazon EMR
14 60 (6.25%) GCP
15 46 (4.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 43 (4.48%) SaaS
17 40 (4.17%) OpenShift
18 38 (3.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.02%) Firewall
2 17 (1.77%) DNS
3 12 (1.25%) Network Security
4 9 (0.94%) VPN
5 4 (0.42%) DHCP
6 3 (0.31%) IPv4
7 2 (0.21%) HTTP
7 2 (0.21%) MQTT
7 2 (0.21%) VLAN
8 1 (0.10%) OSPF
8 1 (0.10%) SAN
8 1 (0.10%) SSL
8 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (23.85%) NoSQL
2 196 (20.42%) Big Data
3 156 (16.25%) Amazon Athena
4 148 (15.42%) Dremio
5 147 (15.31%) Apache Arrow
6 142 (14.79%) Hadoop
7 131 (13.65%) Data Lake
8 125 (13.02%) Amazon RDS
9 97 (10.10%) Apache Ignite
10 69 (7.19%) Apache Hive
11 68 (7.08%) HBase
12 61 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 52 (5.42%) Electronic Patient Records
14 42 (4.38%) DynamoDB
15 36 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
17 12 (1.25%) SQL Server
18 10 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
19 8 (0.83%) MySQL
20 6 (0.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 171 (17.81%) Jenkins
2 139 (14.48%) Git
3 67 (6.98%) Bitbucket Server
4 51 (5.31%) GitLab
5 35 (3.65%) Artifactory
6 22 (2.29%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 19 (1.98%) JIRA
9 10 (1.04%) Subversion
10 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.63%) Spinnaker
11 5 (0.52%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.52%) Postman
12 4 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.42%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.21%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.21%) Metasploit
13 2 (0.21%) NUnit
13 2 (0.21%) sqlmap
General
1 540 (56.25%) Finance
2 326 (33.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 313 (32.60%) Law
4 208 (21.67%) Legal
5 134 (13.96%) Banking
6 128 (13.33%) Front Office
7 125 (13.02%) Investment Banking
8 102 (10.63%) Social Skills
9 78 (8.13%) Marketing
10 44 (4.58%) Financial Institution
11 39 (4.06%) Games
12 27 (2.81%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.77%) Tech for Good
14 15 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
15 13 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.04%) Retail
17 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.52%) Advertising
19 3 (0.31%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (15.10%) gRPC
1 145 (15.10%) Protocol Buffers
2 99 (10.31%) Pandas
3 97 (10.10%) NumPy
3 97 (10.10%) SciPy
4 41 (4.27%) Node.js
5 40 (4.17%) React
6 30 (3.13%) J2EE
7 24 (2.50%) AWS CDK
8 21 (2.19%) RESTful
9 19 (1.98%) GraphQL
10 18 (1.88%) Django
10 18 (1.88%) Kafka
11 17 (1.77%) AngularJS
11 17 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (1.77%) Spring
12 16 (1.67%) .NET
12 16 (1.67%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.56%) Redux
13 15 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 201 (20.94%) Algorithms
2 135 (14.06%) Hedge funds
3 100 (10.42%) Fixed Income
4 96 (10.00%) Cloud Native
5 79 (8.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 76 (7.92%) Derivative
6 76 (7.92%) Equities
7 49 (5.10%) Clustering
8 40 (4.17%) Client/Server
9 38 (3.96%) Onboarding
10 30 (3.13%) Pricing Data
10 30 (3.13%) Tandem
11 26 (2.71%) Data Centre
12 24 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.88%) Online Games
15 14 (1.46%) Blockchain
16 13 (1.35%) Product Ownership
17 11 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 109 (11.35%) Linux
2 70 (7.29%) Unix
3 44 (4.58%) Windows
4 19 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) CentOS
7 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (57.19%) Agile
2 530 (55.21%) Software Engineering
3 505 (52.60%) CI/CD
4 317 (33.02%) DevOps
5 305 (31.77%) SDLC
6 298 (31.04%) Operational Stability
7 218 (22.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 218 (22.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 217 (22.60%) Asset Management
9 205 (21.35%) Risk Management
10 204 (21.25%) Machine Learning
11 202 (21.04%) Visualisation
12 182 (18.96%) Community of Practice
13 180 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 172 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
15 141 (14.69%) Investment Management
16 108 (11.25%) Open Source
17 107 (11.15%) Test Automation
18 103 (10.73%) TDD
19 97 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 573 (59.69%) Python
2 402 (41.88%) Java
3 280 (29.17%) SQL
4 221 (23.02%) JavaScript
5 127 (13.23%) Scala
6 115 (11.98%) TypeScript
7 96 (10.00%) Go
8 71 (7.40%) Bash
9 67 (6.98%) PL/SQL
10 43 (4.48%) PowerShell
11 31 (3.23%) C#
12 13 (1.35%) Groovy
12 13 (1.35%) Perl
13 11 (1.15%) PHP
14 9 (0.94%) Ruby
15 6 (0.63%) Rust
16 5 (0.52%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.31%) Lua
18 2 (0.21%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (7.81%) AWS Certification
2 61 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 58 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 34 (3.54%) Degree
5 24 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 18 (1.88%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.42%) CISSP
10 3 (0.31%) CISM
10 3 (0.31%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.21%) CEH
12 1 (0.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.10%) CRISC
12 1 (0.10%) ISSMP
12 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 28 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.77%) QA
4 16 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.25%) NIST
6 5 (0.52%) NCSC
7 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.10%) COBIT
8 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.10%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 185 (19.27%) Docker
2 69 (7.19%) HDFS
3 6 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.10%) iptables
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 373 (38.85%) Terraform
2 272 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 92 (9.58%) Ansible
4 78 (8.13%) Prometheus
5 33 (3.44%) Progress Chef
6 27 (2.81%) Grafana
7 25 (2.60%) Puppet
8 13 (1.35%) Salt
9 12 (1.25%) Packer
10 10 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.42%) Istio
12 4 (0.42%) Rancher
13 3 (0.31%) Argo
13 3 (0.31%) Consul
13 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.10%) Kibana
15 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 119 (12.40%) Databricks
2 71 (7.40%) Informatica
3 41 (4.27%) Cloudera
4 22 (2.29%) Microsoft
5 18 (1.88%) Red Hat
6 15 (1.56%) Oracle
7 12 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.15%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.15%) IBM
9 8 (0.83%) Google
9 8 (0.83%) VMware
10 5 (0.52%) New Relic
10 5 (0.52%) Splunk
11 4 (0.42%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.21%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.21%) GoCardless
12 2 (0.21%) Hortonworks
12 2 (0.21%) PayPal
12 2 (0.21%) Sage
12 2 (0.21%) Sitecore