AWS Engineer Job Trends 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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 448 350
Rank change year-on-year +99 -98 +48
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 305 108 486
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.32% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.36% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 263 69 211
10th Percentile £50,150 £50,446 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -31.82% +25.71% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 67,575 30,176 69,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.38% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 46,820 17,246 49,288
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies 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 12 July 2026.

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 12 July 2026. 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 +46 99 £74,500 +6.43% 10
North West +31 73 £74,750 +6.79% 5
South East +21 63 £65,000 +5.26% 13
Midlands +8 61 £70,000 -3.45% 5
South West -4 60 £75,000 -3.23% 17
West Midlands +9 45 £70,000 -3.45% 2
East of England -2 21 £82,500 +28.91% 2
Yorkshire -11 20 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -16 16 £77,500 +16.98% 3
North East -52 6 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Scotland -10 1 £90,000 -10.00% 5
Wales -48 1 £90,000 +50.00%
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 July 2026, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 305 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (25.25%) DevOps
3 70 (22.95%) Python
4 60 (19.67%) CI/CD
4 60 (19.67%) Terraform
5 51 (16.72%) Security Cleared
6 46 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (14.43%) Azure
8 41 (13.44%) Software Engineering
9 30 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 30 (9.84%) SQL
10 29 (9.51%) Kubernetes
11 27 (8.85%) Linux
12 24 (7.87%) Agile
12 24 (7.87%) Amazon S3
12 24 (7.87%) Docker
13 22 (7.21%) Degree
13 22 (7.21%) Mentoring
13 22 (7.21%) SC Cleared
14 21 (6.89%) Containerisation
14 21 (6.89%) Data Engineering
14 21 (6.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (6.89%) TypeScript
15 20 (6.56%) AI
15 20 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (6.56%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
16 19 (6.23%) Serverless
17 18 (5.90%) C#
17 18 (5.90%) Continuous Improvement

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.64%) CMS
2 5 (1.64%) Headless CMS
3 4 (1.31%) IIS
4 3 (0.98%) SAS
5 2 (0.66%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) Drupal
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 305 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (14.43%) Azure
3 24 (7.87%) Amazon S3
4 20 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (6.23%) Serverless
6 16 (5.25%) SaaS
6 16 (5.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.93%) GitHub
9 11 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.28%) Cloudflare
11 8 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.62%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.30%) Azure Stack
12 7 (2.30%) Datadog
12 7 (2.30%) dbt
12 7 (2.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.64%) DNS
1 5 (1.64%) Firewall
2 2 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.66%) VPN
3 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.97%) Data Vault
4 5 (1.64%) Pentaho
5 4 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.31%) MySQL
5 4 (1.31%) Power BI
5 4 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.98%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.66%) Big Data
7 2 (0.66%) Redis
7 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.66%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.33%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.95%) GitLab
3 6 (1.97%) Git
4 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.66%) JIRA
4 2 (0.66%) JMeter
4 2 (0.66%) Postman
4 2 (0.66%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.33%) Gatling
5 1 (0.33%) git-flow
5 1 (0.33%) Selenium
5 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (6.23%) Social Skills
2 18 (5.90%) Public Sector
3 11 (3.61%) Banking
4 9 (2.95%) Health Technology
5 8 (2.62%) Games
5 8 (2.62%) Retail Banking
6 6 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.64%) Law
8 4 (1.31%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.98%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.98%) Automotive
9 3 (0.98%) Digital Health
9 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Finance
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Legal
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.92%) React
2 10 (3.28%) Node.js
3 5 (1.64%) GraphQL
3 5 (1.64%) REST
3 5 (1.64%) RESTful
4 4 (1.31%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.31%) PySpark
4 4 (1.31%) Web Services
5 3 (0.98%) AWS CDK
5 3 (0.98%) Django
5 3 (0.98%) SOAP
5 3 (0.98%) Vue
6 2 (0.66%) .NET
6 2 (0.66%) JWT
6 2 (0.66%) Kafka
7 1 (0.33%) Flask
7 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.33%) pytest
7 1 (0.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 66 (21.64%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.57%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.30%) Sports Betting
5 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.31%) Life Science
7 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.98%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (0.98%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.98%) PropTech
8 2 (0.66%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.66%) Genomics
8 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.85%) Linux
2 8 (2.62%) Windows
3 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.25%) DevOps
2 60 (19.67%) CI/CD
3 46 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (13.44%) Software Engineering
5 30 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (7.87%) Agile
7 22 (7.21%) Mentoring
8 21 (6.89%) Containerisation
8 21 (6.89%) Data Engineering
8 21 (6.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (6.56%) AI
9 20 (6.56%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (5.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (5.57%) Cloud Security
11 17 (5.57%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (5.57%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (4.92%) ETL
13 14 (4.59%) Analytics
13 14 (4.59%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (4.26%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 70 (22.95%) Python
2 30 (9.84%) SQL
3 21 (6.89%) TypeScript
4 18 (5.90%) C#
5 17 (5.57%) C++
6 16 (5.25%) Bash
7 13 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.93%) Java
9 9 (2.95%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.97%) Go
11 5 (1.64%) Groovy
12 2 (0.66%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) PHP
13 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 51 (16.72%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.21%) Degree
2 22 (7.21%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.95%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.31%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.31%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.98%) PhD
7 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.33%) CISM
8 1 (0.33%) CISSP
8 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.62%) QA
4 7 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.31%) GDPR
5 4 (1.31%) NIST
6 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (7.87%) Docker
2 4 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (19.67%) Terraform
2 29 (9.51%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.61%) Ansible
4 7 (2.30%) Grafana
5 6 (1.97%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.64%) Argo
6 5 (1.64%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.98%) Packer
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.66%) Nagios
9 1 (0.33%) Consul
9 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (5.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.64%) Google
2 5 (1.64%) Informatica
2 5 (1.64%) MuleSoft
2 5 (1.64%) Talend
3 4 (1.31%) VMware
4 3 (0.98%) Cloudera
4 3 (0.98%) Oracle
4 3 (0.98%) Pega
4 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
4 3 (0.98%) SAP
4 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.66%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.66%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.33%) Databricks
6 1 (0.33%) IBM
6 1 (0.33%) New Relic
6 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.33%) TOWER Software