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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 317 286
Rank change year-on-year -44 -31 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 546 431 744
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.87% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.97% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 431 328 539
10th Percentile £50,750 £64,625 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,688 £80,000 £71,875
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 £71,250 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 108,200 44,314 74,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 89.66% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 74,226 26,055 44,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -46 515 £75,000 -31.82% 462
UK excluding London +58 340 £71,250 - 276
London -140 183 £85,000 -22.73% 235
Work from Home -148 122 £85,000 -22.73% 178
North of England +8 113 £70,000 - 81
South West -4 77 £75,000 -25.00% 35
South East +6 64 £65,000 -18.75% 29
North West +15 62 £75,000 +7.14% 57
Midlands -20 56 £68,750 -5.17% 45
Yorkshire -9 36 £70,000 - 19
West Midlands -35 33 £70,000 -3.45% 23
East Midlands -19 23 £56,250 -16.04% 22
East of England -14 17 £100,000 +56.25% 19
North East -56 15 £47,000 -27.69% 5
Scotland -4 13 £100,000 - 47
Wales -74 1 £90,000 +56.52% 7

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 546 (100.00%) AWS
2 205 (37.55%) Python
3 187 (34.25%) Terraform
4 156 (28.57%) DevOps
5 152 (27.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 144 (26.37%) CI/CD
7 108 (19.78%) Software Engineering
8 95 (17.40%) Security Cleared
9 81 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 81 (14.84%) Kubernetes
10 80 (14.65%) Amazon S3
11 79 (14.47%) Docker
12 72 (13.19%) Serverless
13 71 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
14 65 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
15 64 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 64 (11.72%) Observability
16 63 (11.54%) Cloud Security
17 62 (11.36%) Agile
18 59 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
19 57 (10.44%) Bash
19 57 (10.44%) SC Cleared
20 55 (10.07%) Platform Engineering
21 54 (9.89%) AWS CloudFormation
22 50 (9.16%) Azure
22 50 (9.16%) Degree
23 49 (8.97%) Linux
23 49 (8.97%) SQL
23 49 (8.97%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 14 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.83%) Apache
3 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
5 4 (0.73%) nginx
5 4 (0.73%) SAS
6 3 (0.55%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 546 (100.00%) AWS
2 80 (14.65%) Amazon S3
3 72 (13.19%) Serverless
4 65 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
4 65 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (9.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 50 (9.16%) Azure
7 49 (8.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 47 (8.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 44 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.59%) GitHub
11 35 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (6.23%) Datadog
13 24 (4.40%) SaaS
14 22 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (3.66%) GCP
16 18 (3.30%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (3.30%) Snowflake
17 12 (2.20%) dbt
18 11 (2.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.38%) DNS
2 9 (1.65%) Firewall
3 7 (1.28%) VPN
4 5 (0.92%) DHCP
5 2 (0.37%) IPv4
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) BGP
6 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (2.20%) Redis
6 10 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.65%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.10%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.92%) Big Data
10 5 (0.92%) MySQL
11 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.73%) Power BI
11 4 (0.73%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.55%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 45 (8.24%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.59%) GitLab
3 27 (4.95%) Git
4 13 (2.38%) CircleCI
5 8 (1.47%) JIRA
6 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.73%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.73%) git-flow
8 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) JMeter
8 3 (0.55%) Postman
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.37%) Maven
9 2 (0.37%) Snyk
9 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.18%) Gatling
10 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 46 (8.42%) Social Skills
2 40 (7.33%) Finance
3 33 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.86%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.48%) Law
7 15 (2.75%) Banking
8 14 (2.56%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.83%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.47%) Games
11 6 (1.10%) Automotive
11 6 (1.10%) Front Office
12 5 (0.92%) Legal
12 5 (0.92%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Marketing
14 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (34.25%) Terraform
2 21 (3.85%) Kafka
3 19 (3.48%) React
4 18 (3.30%) Pulumi
5 17 (3.11%) Node.js
6 16 (2.93%) Spring Boot
7 15 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (2.20%) AWS CDK
8 12 (2.20%) OpenTofu
8 12 (2.20%) RESTful
9 10 (1.83%) .NET
10 9 (1.65%) Keycloak
10 9 (1.65%) PySpark
11 8 (1.47%) Django
11 8 (1.47%) REST
12 7 (1.28%) Spring
13 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.10%) Vue
14 5 (0.92%) Next.js
14 5 (0.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (17.77%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.21%) Distributed Computing
3 22 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.65%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.65%) Replication
7 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.28%) Sports Betting
8 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.92%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.73%) Life Science
9 4 (0.73%) NHS
9 4 (0.73%) PropTech
10 3 (0.55%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.37%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.97%) Linux
2 15 (2.75%) Windows
3 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (28.57%) DevOps
2 152 (27.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 144 (26.37%) CI/CD
4 108 (19.78%) Software Engineering
5 81 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 71 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (11.72%) Observability
8 63 (11.54%) Cloud Security
9 62 (11.36%) Agile
10 55 (10.07%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (8.61%) AI
12 39 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (6.96%) ITIL
14 36 (6.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (6.59%) Migration
15 35 (6.41%) Containerisation
15 35 (6.41%) DevSecOps
16 32 (5.86%) Test Automation
17 31 (5.68%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 205 (37.55%) Python
2 57 (10.44%) Bash
3 49 (8.97%) SQL
4 40 (7.33%) PowerShell
5 35 (6.41%) Java
5 35 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 33 (6.04%) C#
7 26 (4.76%) C++
8 16 (2.93%) Groovy
8 16 (2.93%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.56%) Go
10 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.55%) Ruby
12 2 (0.37%) PHP
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 95 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.44%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.16%) Degree
4 24 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.21%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.85%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.10%) PhD
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CISM
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) GSEC
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.47%) SLA
3 7 (1.28%) QA
4 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.37%) GDPR
5 2 (0.37%) NIST
5 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 79 (14.47%) Docker
2 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.73%) vSphere
4 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (14.84%) Kubernetes
2 37 (6.78%) Grafana
3 33 (6.04%) Ansible
4 27 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.93%) Argo
6 12 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.65%) Packer
7 9 (1.65%) Rancher
8 7 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.73%) Puppet
9 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.37%) Nagios
11 1 (0.18%) Consul
11 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 22 (4.03%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 15 (2.75%) Databricks
4 14 (2.56%) Oracle
5 9 (1.65%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.47%) VMware
7 6 (1.10%) Google
8 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.55%) Informatica
9 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.55%) Talend
10 2 (0.37%) FactSet
10 2 (0.37%) Intel
10 2 (0.37%) Solace
11 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.18%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.18%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.18%) New Relic