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 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 330 457
Rank change year-on-year -159 +127 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 93 555 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.77% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.82% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 66 215 245
10th Percentile £45,625 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,125 £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 £76,563 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £92,250
UK median annual salary £108,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +32.52% +1.88% -

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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 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 22 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 +13 37 £65,000 - 53
North West -20 28 £65,000 -3.70% 44
South East +49 16 £58,000 -14.07% 53
East of England +35 11 £65,000 -13.33% 5
Midlands +14 10 £72,500 +20.83% 20
Scotland -68 8 £85,000 +41.67% 3
South West +72 7 £60,000 -17.24% 4
Yorkshire +67 6 £50,000 -20.00% 6
West Midlands +52 6 £75,000 +7.14% 16
East Midlands +2 4 £66,250 +15.22% 4
Wales - 4 £61,625 -
North East +25 3 £65,000 -13.33% 4
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 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 48 (51.61%) DevOps
3 38 (40.86%) Python
3 38 (40.86%) CI/CD
4 35 (37.63%) Terraform
5 29 (31.18%) Agile
6 28 (30.11%) Software Engineering
7 24 (25.81%) Cloud Security
8 23 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (23.66%) Finance
10 21 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (21.51%) Serverless
12 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
13 18 (19.35%) Amazon S3
13 18 (19.35%) Firewall
14 17 (18.28%) Docker
14 17 (18.28%) Mentoring
14 17 (18.28%) Jenkins
14 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (17.20%) TypeScript
16 15 (16.13%) Microservices
16 15 (16.13%) Kubernetes
16 15 (16.13%) Security Cleared
16 15 (16.13%) SaaS
16 15 (16.13%) Node.js
16 15 (16.13%) Java
16 15 (16.13%) Linux
17 14 (15.05%) Law
17 14 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (13.98%) Amazon EC2

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
2 7 (7.53%) Confluence
3 6 (6.45%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.15%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.08%) CMS
5 1 (1.08%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (21.51%) Serverless
4 18 (19.35%) Amazon S3
5 15 (16.13%) SaaS
6 13 (13.98%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (13.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (9.68%) GitHub
9 8 (8.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (7.53%) Azure
11 6 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (4.30%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (4.30%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (4.30%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (4.30%) AWS KMS
13 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
13 4 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.35%) Firewall
2 8 (8.60%) DNS
3 4 (4.30%) DHCP
3 4 (4.30%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.30%) VPN
4 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.15%) BGP
5 2 (2.15%) FTP
5 2 (2.15%) HTTP
5 2 (2.15%) Internet
5 2 (2.15%) IPsec
5 2 (2.15%) OSPF
5 2 (2.15%) SMTP
5 2 (2.15%) SSH
5 2 (2.15%) SSL
5 2 (2.15%) VoIP
6 1 (1.08%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.08%) IMAP
6 1 (1.08%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.08%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.53%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.38%) Big Data
4 5 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.23%) MySQL
7 2 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.15%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.15%) Parquet
7 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (18.28%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.60%) JIRA
3 7 (7.53%) Git
4 6 (6.45%) GitLab
5 4 (4.30%) Vagrant
6 3 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.15%) JUnit
8 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.08%) Selenium
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 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Law
4 11 (11.83%) Banking
5 9 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.60%) Public Sector
7 7 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (6.45%) Retail
9 3 (3.23%) Games
9 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.15%) Electronics
10 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.15%) Marketing
10 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.08%) Aviation
11 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
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%) React
5 4 (4.30%) .NET
5 4 (4.30%) Kafka
5 4 (4.30%) RESTful
5 4 (4.30%) Spring
5 4 (4.30%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.23%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.23%) PySpark
7 2 (2.15%) LAMP
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%) LDAP
8 1 (1.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.38%) Cloud Security Posture
3 5 (5.38%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.30%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.30%) 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%) Replication
6 2 (2.15%) Online Games
6 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.08%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.13%) Linux
2 10 (10.75%) Windows
3 5 (5.38%) VMS
3 5 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.61%) DevOps
2 38 (40.86%) CI/CD
3 29 (31.18%) Agile
4 28 (30.11%) Software Engineering
5 24 (25.81%) Cloud Security
6 23 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (18.28%) Mentoring
7 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (16.13%) Microservices
9 14 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (13.98%) Migration
11 11 (11.83%) High Availability
11 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (10.75%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (9.68%) Identity Access Management
13 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (9.68%) Roadmaps
14 8 (8.60%) SDLC
14 8 (8.60%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.86%) Python
2 16 (17.20%) TypeScript
3 15 (16.13%) Java
4 10 (10.75%) C#
5 9 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.45%) Bash
7 6 (6.45%) SQL
8 5 (5.38%) Go
9 4 (4.30%) Groovy
9 4 (4.30%) Perl
9 4 (4.30%) PHP
9 4 (4.30%) Scala
10 2 (2.15%) C
11 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.68%) AWS Certification
3 9 (9.68%) Degree
4 5 (5.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
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 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (18.28%) Docker
2 7 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.23%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.08%) Dovecot
4 1 (1.08%) Postfix
4 1 (1.08%) Squid
4 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (37.63%) Terraform
2 15 (16.13%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.60%) Ansible
4 7 (7.53%) Grafana
5 6 (6.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.15%) Consul
7 2 (2.15%) Packer
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%) Nessus
8 1 (1.08%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.08%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (6.45%) Ping Identity
1 6 (6.45%) VMware
2 4 (4.30%) Citrix
2 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.23%) Databricks
3 3 (3.23%) IBM
3 3 (3.23%) Juniper
4 2 (2.15%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.15%) Cisco
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.15%) SAP
5 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.08%) Facebook
5 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.08%) Google
5 1 (1.08%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.08%) HP
5 1 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.08%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.08%) Splunk