AWS Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 343 440
Rank change year-on-year -129 +97 +65
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 104 539 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.69% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 64 237 243
10th Percentile £48,436 £51,852 £47,750
25th Percentile £61,188 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,375 £86,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% -3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 35,829 77,657 48,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 94.92% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 54,301 28,952
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
North of England +5 32 £65,000 - 102
North West -7 28 £67,500 +8.00% 73
Scotland -58 21 £100,000 +66.67% 18
Midlands +59 19 £72,500 +3.57% 29
West Midlands +54 16 £72,500 - 15
South East +41 14 £61,000 -6.15% 69
East of England +39 9 £65,000 -13.33% 18
South West +75 6 £77,500 +3.33% 21
North East +32 3 £65,000 -13.33% 7
East Midlands +21 3 £60,000 +4.35% 14
Wales - 3 £60,000 - 3
Yorkshire +52 1 - - 22
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 104 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (49.04%) Python
3 46 (44.23%) Software Engineering
4 45 (43.27%) DevOps
5 44 (42.31%) Terraform
6 41 (39.42%) Agile
7 40 (38.46%) CI/CD
8 33 (31.73%) Finance
9 31 (29.81%) Amazon S3
10 29 (27.88%) Java
11 28 (26.92%) Cloud Security
12 25 (24.04%) Security Cleared
13 24 (23.08%) Jenkins
13 24 (23.08%) Linux
13 24 (23.08%) Banking
14 23 (22.12%) Firewall
14 23 (22.12%) SC Cleared
14 23 (22.12%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (21.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (21.15%) Law
16 21 (20.19%) SDLC
16 21 (20.19%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (20.19%) Serverless
16 21 (20.19%) Social Skills
16 21 (20.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
18 19 (18.27%) PowerShell
18 19 (18.27%) Windows
19 18 (17.31%) Docker
19 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (15.38%) Confluence
2 11 (10.58%) Apache
3 9 (8.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.85%) nginx
5 1 (0.96%) CMS
5 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (29.81%) Amazon S3
3 23 (22.12%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (21.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 21 (20.19%) Serverless
6 17 (16.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (13.46%) Amazon ELB
8 14 (13.46%) AWS KMS
8 14 (13.46%) Azure
8 14 (13.46%) SaaS
9 13 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (9.62%) Amazon Glacier
11 9 (8.65%) GitHub
11 9 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (6.73%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (6.73%) GCP
13 4 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 23 (22.12%) Firewall
2 12 (11.54%) DNS
3 5 (4.81%) FTP
3 5 (4.81%) HTTP
3 5 (4.81%) SMTP
3 5 (4.81%) SSH
4 4 (3.85%) DHCP
4 4 (3.85%) IMAP
4 4 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (3.85%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.85%) VPN
5 2 (1.92%) Internet
5 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.96%) BGP
6 1 (0.96%) IPsec
6 1 (0.96%) OSPF
6 1 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.96%) SSL
6 1 (0.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.19%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (11.54%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (8.65%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.69%) Big Data
4 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.73%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.73%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (4.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (4.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (4.81%) Apache Hudi
7 5 (4.81%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (4.81%) Parquet
8 4 (3.85%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.88%) MySQL
10 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.35%) JIRA
3 16 (15.38%) Git
4 14 (13.46%) Vagrant
5 5 (4.81%) JUnit
6 4 (3.85%) GitLab
6 4 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.88%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.92%) Selenium
9 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (31.73%) Finance
2 24 (23.08%) Banking
3 22 (21.15%) Law
4 21 (20.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (20.19%) Social Skills
5 14 (13.46%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.77%) Retail
8 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.88%) Games
9 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.96%) Aviation
10 1 (0.96%) Electronics
10 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.96%) Marketing
10 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.54%) Node.js
2 11 (10.58%) Kafka
3 10 (9.62%) Spring
3 10 (9.62%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.73%) REST
5 6 (5.77%) OAuth
5 6 (5.77%) OAuth2
5 6 (5.77%) OpenID
5 6 (5.77%) React
5 6 (5.77%) RESTful
5 6 (5.77%) SAML
5 6 (5.77%) Web Services
6 5 (4.81%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.85%) JSON
7 4 (3.85%) LDAP
8 3 (2.88%) AWS CDK
9 2 (1.92%) .NET
9 2 (1.92%) LAMP
9 2 (1.92%) PySpark
10 1 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 13 (12.50%) Replication
3 8 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.81%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.81%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.88%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.92%) IoT
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.92%) Online Games
6 2 (1.92%) Wiki
7 1 (0.96%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.08%) Linux
2 19 (18.27%) Windows
3 14 (13.46%) VMS
4 5 (4.81%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (4.81%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (44.23%) Software Engineering
2 45 (43.27%) DevOps
3 41 (39.42%) Agile
4 40 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 28 (26.92%) Cloud Security
6 21 (20.19%) SDLC
7 20 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 16 (15.38%) Microservices
10 15 (14.42%) Change Management
10 15 (14.42%) Configuration Management
10 15 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (14.42%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (12.50%) Community of Practice
11 13 (12.50%) Visualisation
12 12 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (10.58%) TDD
14 10 (9.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (49.04%) Python
2 29 (27.88%) Java
3 19 (18.27%) PowerShell
4 14 (13.46%) Groovy
5 13 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 10 (9.62%) SQL
7 9 (8.65%) Go
8 8 (7.69%) C#
9 7 (6.73%) Bash
10 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
11 4 (3.85%) Perl
11 4 (3.85%) PHP
11 4 (3.85%) Scala
12 2 (1.92%) C
13 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.62%) Degree
4 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.81%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.92%) CCNP
6 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.96%) CCNA
7 1 (0.96%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.96%) GDPR
2 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (17.31%) Docker
2 14 (13.46%) Active Directory
3 13 (12.50%) DFS Replication
4 4 (3.85%) Dovecot
4 4 (3.85%) Postfix
4 4 (3.85%) Squid
5 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (42.31%) Terraform
2 17 (16.35%) Grafana
3 16 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 15 (14.42%) Ansible
5 14 (13.46%) Kubernetes
6 4 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.85%) Nessus
6 4 (3.85%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.96%) Argo
7 1 (0.96%) Kibana
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) ServiceNow
2 10 (9.62%) Juniper
3 6 (5.77%) Databricks
3 6 (5.77%) Facebook
3 6 (5.77%) Google
3 6 (5.77%) Ping Identity
4 5 (4.81%) VMware
5 4 (3.85%) Citrix
5 4 (3.85%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (2.88%) IBM
7 2 (1.92%) Cisco
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.96%) HP
8 1 (0.96%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.96%) SAP
8 1 (0.96%) Splunk