Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 330 301
Rank change year-on-year -51 -29 -22
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 549 407 665
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.82% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.91% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 431 307 522
10th Percentile £50,750 £63,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £80,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £71,250 £71,250
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.79%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 109,690 44,526 71,445
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 89.77% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,912 25,656 41,522
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,825 £36,250 £40,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £73,775 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the UK

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 16 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 2 October 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
England -41 510 £75,000 -31.82% 478
UK excluding London +69 346 £75,000 +5.26% 296
London -137 176 £85,000 -22.73% 243
Work from Home -126 125 £85,000 -22.73% 197
North of England +17 116 £72,250 +3.21% 89
South West +5 77 £75,000 +36.36% 44
North West +7 69 £75,000 +7.14% 69
South East 0 59 £65,000 -18.75% 24
Midlands -23 57 £67,500 -6.90% 41
Yorkshire 0 34 £70,000 - 16
East Midlands -16 29 £65,000 -2.99% 20
West Midlands -39 28 £70,000 -3.45% 21
East of England -24 19 £100,000 +56.25% 16
Scotland +3 17 £100,000 - 63
North East -51 13 £47,000 -35.17% 4
Wales -76 1 £90,000 +56.52% 5

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 October 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 featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 549 (100.00%) AWS
2 206 (37.52%) Python
3 178 (32.42%) Terraform
4 160 (29.14%) DevOps
5 151 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 141 (25.68%) CI/CD
7 125 (22.77%) Software Engineering
8 96 (17.49%) Security Cleared
9 84 (15.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 81 (14.75%) Kubernetes
11 77 (14.03%) Amazon S3
11 77 (14.03%) Docker
12 74 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
12 74 (13.48%) Serverless
13 68 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (12.02%) Agile
15 65 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
16 63 (11.48%) Observability
17 62 (11.29%) Amazon EC2
18 61 (11.11%) Cloud Security
19 59 (10.75%) SC Cleared
20 57 (10.38%) Amazon RDS
21 54 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
22 53 (9.65%) Bash
23 51 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
24 50 (9.11%) Degree
24 50 (9.11%) SQL
25 47 (8.56%) AI
26 46 (8.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
27 45 (8.20%) Azure

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.82%) Apache
4 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 5 (0.91%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.55%) nginx
5 3 (0.55%) SAS
6 2 (0.36%) Confluence
6 2 (0.36%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Magento
2 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 549 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (14.03%) Amazon S3
3 74 (13.48%) Serverless
4 65 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
5 62 (11.29%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (8.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (8.20%) Azure
9 43 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 38 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (6.38%) GitHub
12 34 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (5.83%) Datadog
14 21 (3.83%) SaaS
15 19 (3.46%) AWS CloudTrail
15 19 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (2.91%) GCP
17 14 (2.55%) Snowflake
18 11 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 11 (2.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.19%) DNS
2 10 (1.82%) Firewall
3 8 (1.46%) VPN
4 6 (1.09%) DHCP
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.38%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.00%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.00%) Redis
6 9 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.09%) Data Vault
9 5 (0.91%) Big Data
9 5 (0.91%) Power BI
10 4 (0.73%) MySQL
10 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (7.83%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.38%) GitLab
3 26 (4.74%) Git
4 13 (2.37%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.09%) JIRA
6 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.73%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) git-flow
8 3 (0.55%) Postman
9 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.36%) JMeter
9 2 (0.36%) Snyk
9 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.18%) Maven
10 1 (0.18%) MLflow
10 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (8.93%) Social Skills
2 43 (7.83%) Finance
3 35 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.46%) Law
7 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
8 13 (2.37%) Banking
9 10 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.46%) Front Office
11 6 (1.09%) Automotive
11 6 (1.09%) Games
11 6 (1.09%) Legal
12 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Marketing
13 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.36%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.18%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (32.42%) Terraform
2 21 (3.83%) Kafka
3 19 (3.46%) Node.js
3 19 (3.46%) React
4 18 (3.28%) Pulumi
5 16 (2.91%) Spring Boot
6 13 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.37%) RESTful
7 12 (2.19%) .NET
7 12 (2.19%) OpenTofu
8 11 (2.00%) AWS CDK
9 9 (1.64%) Keycloak
9 9 (1.64%) PySpark
9 9 (1.64%) Spring
10 8 (1.46%) Django
11 7 (1.28%) Next.js
11 7 (1.28%) REST
12 6 (1.09%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.09%) Vue
13 5 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.37%) Distributed Computing
2 24 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.64%) Replication
8 8 (1.46%) Sports Betting
9 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.73%) Life Science
11 4 (0.73%) NHS
11 4 (0.73%) PropTech
12 3 (0.55%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.36%) Genomics
13 2 (0.36%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.20%) Linux
2 15 (2.73%) Windows
3 5 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (29.14%) DevOps
2 151 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (25.68%) CI/CD
4 125 (22.77%) Software Engineering
5 84 (15.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 74 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (12.02%) Agile
9 63 (11.48%) Observability
10 61 (11.11%) Cloud Security
11 51 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (8.56%) AI
13 39 (7.10%) Data Pipeline
14 38 (6.92%) ITIL
15 37 (6.74%) Full-Stack Development
16 35 (6.38%) Containerisation
16 35 (6.38%) DevSecOps
16 35 (6.38%) Infrastructure Automation
16 35 (6.38%) Migration
17 34 (6.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 206 (37.52%) Python
2 53 (9.65%) Bash
3 50 (9.11%) SQL
4 38 (6.92%) PowerShell
5 37 (6.74%) Java
6 36 (6.56%) C#
7 33 (6.01%) TypeScript
8 28 (5.10%) C++
9 18 (3.28%) JavaScript
10 14 (2.55%) Go
10 14 (2.55%) Groovy
11 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
12 1 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 96 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 59 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.11%) Degree
4 26 (4.74%) AWS Certification
5 25 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.83%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.09%) PhD
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.18%) CISM
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.18%) GSEC
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.10%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.28%) QA
4 6 (1.09%) SLA
5 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.36%) GDPR
7 2 (0.36%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (14.03%) Docker
2 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.91%) vSphere
3 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.56%) Grafana
3 31 (5.65%) Ansible
4 27 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.73%) Argo
6 12 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.64%) Rancher
8 7 (1.28%) Packer
9 5 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.91%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.55%) Puppet
11 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.36%) Nagios
12 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (3.83%) Dynatrace
1 21 (3.83%) Microsoft
2 16 (2.91%) Databricks
3 13 (2.37%) Oracle
4 9 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.46%) VMware
6 5 (0.91%) Intel
7 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 4 (0.73%) Google
8 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.36%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.36%) FactSet
9 2 (0.36%) Informatica
9 2 (0.36%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.36%) Solace
9 2 (0.36%) Talend
10 1 (0.18%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.18%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.18%) New Relic