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 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 329 478
Rank change year-on-year -149 +149 +8
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 93 558 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.76% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.80% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 65 217 233
10th Percentile £47,231 £51,611 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £86,250 £94,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +3.13% -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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
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 28 May 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 28 May 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 0 35 £65,000 -3.70% 185
North West -19 29 £65,000 -3.70% 101
South East +47 17 £61,000 -9.63% 195
East of England +37 11 £65,000 -13.33% 99
Midlands +17 11 £72,500 +20.83% 140
Scotland -72 8 £85,000 +41.67% 33
South West +89 7 £60,000 -17.24% 77
West Midlands +48 7 £75,000 +7.14% 77
East Midlands +12 4 £66,250 +15.22% 55
Wales - 4 £61,625 - 18
Yorkshire +60 3 £48,750 -25.00% 65
North East +29 3 £65,000 -13.33% 20
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (50.54%) DevOps
3 40 (43.01%) Python
4 39 (41.94%) CI/CD
5 36 (38.71%) Terraform
6 31 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 29 (31.18%) Agile
8 23 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (23.66%) Cloud Security
9 22 (23.66%) Finance
10 21 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (22.58%) Social Skills
10 21 (22.58%) Serverless
11 20 (21.51%) Amazon S3
12 19 (20.43%) Docker
13 18 (19.35%) Mentoring
13 18 (19.35%) Jenkins
13 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
14 17 (18.28%) Firewall
15 16 (17.20%) Java
15 16 (17.20%) Linux
15 16 (17.20%) Microservices
15 16 (17.20%) Kubernetes
16 15 (16.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (16.13%) TypeScript
16 15 (16.13%) SaaS
16 15 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (16.13%) Node.js
17 14 (15.05%) SC Cleared

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 8 (8.60%) Apache
1 8 (8.60%) Confluence
2 6 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.15%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.15%) nginx
4 1 (1.08%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
2 21 (22.58%) Serverless
3 20 (21.51%) Amazon S3
4 15 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (16.13%) SaaS
4 15 (16.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 13 (13.98%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (10.75%) GitHub
7 9 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (8.60%) Azure
9 7 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.38%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (5.38%) AWS KMS
12 4 (4.30%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
12 4 (4.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.28%) Firewall
2 10 (10.75%) DNS
3 5 (5.38%) VPN
4 4 (4.30%) DHCP
4 4 (4.30%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.23%) FTP
5 3 (3.23%) HTTP
5 3 (3.23%) SMTP
5 3 (3.23%) SSH
5 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.15%) BGP
6 2 (2.15%) IMAP
6 2 (2.15%) Internet
6 2 (2.15%) IPsec
6 2 (2.15%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (2.15%) OSPF
6 2 (2.15%) SSL
6 2 (2.15%) VoIP
7 1 (1.08%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.98%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.60%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.53%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (5.38%) Big Data
5 5 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.23%) MySQL
8 2 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.15%) Apache Hudi
8 2 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (2.15%) Parquet
8 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.68%) JIRA
3 8 (8.60%) Git
4 7 (7.53%) GitLab
5 5 (5.38%) Vagrant
6 3 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.15%) JUnit
7 2 (2.15%) Selenium
8 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.08%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (23.66%) Finance
2 21 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.83%) Banking
3 11 (11.83%) Law
4 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.45%) Retail
8 3 (3.23%) Games
8 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Electronics
9 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.15%) Marketing
9 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.08%) Aviation
10 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.08%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.13%) Node.js
2 7 (7.53%) REST
2 7 (7.53%) Web Services
3 6 (6.45%) GraphQL
4 5 (5.38%) JSON
4 5 (5.38%) Kafka
4 5 (5.38%) React
4 5 (5.38%) Spring
4 5 (5.38%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.30%) .NET
5 4 (4.30%) RESTful
6 3 (3.23%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.23%) PySpark
7 2 (2.15%) LAMP
7 2 (2.15%) LDAP
7 2 (2.15%) YAML
8 1 (1.08%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.08%) Java EE
8 1 (1.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.30%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.30%) Replication
5 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.23%) IoT
5 3 (3.23%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.15%) Online Games
6 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.15%) Wiki
7 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.08%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.20%) Linux
2 11 (11.83%) Windows
3 6 (6.45%) VMS
4 5 (5.38%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (2.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (50.54%) DevOps
2 39 (41.94%) CI/CD
3 31 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 29 (31.18%) Agile
5 23 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (23.66%) Cloud Security
7 18 (19.35%) Mentoring
7 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (17.20%) Microservices
9 12 (12.90%) Migration
10 11 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.83%) High Availability
11 10 (10.75%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (10.75%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (10.75%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (8.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.01%) Python
2 16 (17.20%) Java
3 15 (16.13%) TypeScript
4 10 (10.75%) C#
4 10 (10.75%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.60%) SQL
6 7 (7.53%) Bash
6 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.38%) Groovy
8 4 (4.30%) Go
8 4 (4.30%) Perl
8 4 (4.30%) PHP
8 4 (4.30%) Scala
9 2 (2.15%) C
10 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.75%) Degree
4 7 (7.53%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.15%) CCNP
6 2 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.08%) CCNA
7 1 (1.08%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) QA
2 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.08%) GDPR
2 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (20.43%) Docker
2 7 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.30%) DFS Replication
4 2 (2.15%) Dovecot
4 2 (2.15%) Postfix
4 2 (2.15%) Squid
5 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (38.71%) Terraform
2 16 (17.20%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.68%) Ansible
4 8 (8.60%) Grafana
5 7 (7.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.15%) Consul
7 2 (2.15%) Nessus
7 2 (2.15%) Packer
7 2 (2.15%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.08%) Argo
8 1 (1.08%) Automic
8 1 (1.08%) Kibana
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.08%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (6.45%) Ping Identity
1 6 (6.45%) VMware
2 5 (5.38%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.30%) Citrix
4 3 (3.23%) Databricks
4 3 (3.23%) IBM
4 3 (3.23%) Juniper
5 2 (2.15%) Cisco
5 2 (2.15%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.15%) SAP
6 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.08%) Facebook
6 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.08%) Google
6 1 (1.08%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.08%) HP
6 1 (1.08%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.08%) Splunk