Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 251 296
Rank change year-on-year -85 +45 +87
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 430 510 872
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.25% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.39% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 323 455 522
10th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £52,625
25th Percentile £63,438 £76,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £105,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +37.70% -4.69%
75th Percentile £93,750 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £140,000 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 76,620 36,654 87,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 89.66% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49,282 23,303 65,248
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 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 9 April 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 -84 411 £75,000 -28.57% 95
London -82 223 £90,000 -18.18% 39
UK excluding London -9 187 £70,000 +7.69% 71
Work from Home -138 129 £90,000 -18.18% 46
North of England -65 62 £68,750 +5.77% 27
North West -14 51 £70,000 +4.60% 20
South West -8 36 £75,000 +7.14% 7
South East -15 33 £65,000 +5.26% 21
Midlands -22 33 £70,000 +7.69% 10
West Midlands +3 27 £62,500 +21.95% 8
East of England -22 21 £75,000 +17.19% 4
East Midlands -59 6 £72,500 +11.54% 2
Yorkshire -69 6 £66,250 +29.27% 5
North East -32 5 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland -9 3 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 April 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.

1 430 (100.00%) AWS
2 164 (38.14%) Python
3 146 (33.95%) DevOps
4 126 (29.30%) Terraform
5 119 (27.67%) CI/CD
6 111 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 83 (19.30%) Azure
8 71 (16.51%) Software Engineering
9 68 (15.81%) Serverless
10 65 (15.12%) Platform Engineering
11 63 (14.65%) Amazon S3
12 60 (13.95%) Kubernetes
13 55 (12.79%) SaaS
14 54 (12.56%) Amazon EKS
14 54 (12.56%) Security Cleared
15 53 (12.33%) Java
16 50 (11.63%) Degree
17 49 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (11.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 47 (10.93%) Docker
19 47 (10.93%) Observability
20 46 (10.70%) SQL
21 45 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
22 44 (10.23%) Agile
23 42 (9.77%) Bash
23 42 (9.77%) Cloud Security
23 42 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 39 (9.07%) ETL
25 38 (8.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 38 (8.84%) High Availability

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 25 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.42%) Apache
3 13 (3.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.70%) IIS
4 3 (0.70%) SAS
5 2 (0.47%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Drupal
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 430 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (19.30%) Azure
3 68 (15.81%) Serverless
4 63 (14.65%) Amazon S3
5 55 (12.79%) SaaS
6 54 (12.56%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (11.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 45 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (8.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (7.91%) GCP
11 33 (7.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (7.44%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (6.74%) GitHub
14 23 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (3.95%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (3.72%) Snowflake
17 14 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (3.26%) dbt
18 12 (2.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.58%) Firewall
2 18 (4.19%) Cisco ASA
2 18 (4.19%) Cisco Firepower
2 18 (4.19%) LAN
2 18 (4.19%) WAN
2 18 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (2.79%) BGP
3 12 (2.79%) VPN
4 7 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.40%) VLAN
6 5 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.16%) IPsec
6 5 (1.16%) MPLS
6 5 (1.16%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.16%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.16%) OSPF
6 5 (1.16%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.16%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.16%) WLAN
7 2 (0.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.14%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (3.72%) Apache Iceberg
3 16 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.26%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.02%) DynamoDB
5 13 (3.02%) MySQL
6 9 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (1.86%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.40%) Flink
8 6 (1.40%) Metadata
8 6 (1.40%) Pentaho
9 5 (1.16%) Big Data
10 4 (0.93%) Apache Arrow
10 4 (0.93%) Apache Ignite
10 4 (0.93%) Dremio
10 4 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (5.81%) Git
2 23 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.95%) GitLab
4 8 (1.86%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.93%) JIRA
7 3 (0.70%) NUnit
8 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.47%) JMeter
8 2 (0.47%) Maven
9 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.23%) Deequ
9 1 (0.23%) Gradle
9 1 (0.23%) JUnit
9 1 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 86 (20.00%) Finance
2 59 (13.72%) Banking
3 41 (9.53%) Social Skills
4 23 (5.35%) Law
5 22 (5.12%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.49%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.49%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.26%) Retail
7 14 (3.26%) Retail Banking
8 12 (2.79%) Back Office
9 11 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.33%) Front Office
11 7 (1.63%) Games
12 6 (1.40%) Advertising
12 6 (1.40%) Legal
13 4 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.70%) Billing
15 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.60%) Kafka
2 15 (3.49%) .NET
3 14 (3.26%) React
4 13 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (3.02%) Node.js
5 12 (2.79%) AWS CDK
5 12 (2.79%) PySpark
5 12 (2.79%) REST
6 10 (2.33%) .NET Core
7 9 (2.09%) OAuth
7 9 (2.09%) RESTful
7 9 (2.09%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.86%) Spring
9 7 (1.63%) JWT
9 7 (1.63%) Loki
9 7 (1.63%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.16%) LangChain
10 5 (1.16%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.93%) gRPC
11 4 (0.93%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.35%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.28%) Data Centre
3 25 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.19%) Hedge funds
5 17 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.02%) Security Posture
8 11 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.33%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.33%) Fixed Income
10 9 (2.09%) Blog
11 8 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.16%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.93%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.93%) Derivative
13 4 (0.93%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.58%) Linux
2 12 (2.79%) Unix
3 7 (1.63%) Windows
4 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (33.95%) DevOps
2 119 (27.67%) CI/CD
3 111 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (16.51%) Software Engineering
5 65 (15.12%) Platform Engineering
6 49 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (10.93%) Observability
8 44 (10.23%) Agile
9 42 (9.77%) Cloud Security
9 42 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 39 (9.07%) ETL
11 38 (8.84%) High Availability
12 37 (8.60%) AI
13 34 (7.91%) Containerisation
13 34 (7.91%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (7.67%) Computer Science
14 33 (7.67%) Data Engineering
15 31 (7.21%) Analytics
16 28 (6.51%) Microservices
16 28 (6.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 164 (38.14%) Python
2 53 (12.33%) Java
3 46 (10.70%) SQL
4 42 (9.77%) Bash
5 31 (7.21%) TypeScript
6 25 (5.81%) Go
7 24 (5.58%) C#
8 12 (2.79%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.09%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.16%) C++
11 4 (0.93%) Scala
12 2 (0.47%) Bicep
12 2 (0.47%) Groovy
12 2 (0.47%) PHP
12 2 (0.47%) Ruby
13 1 (0.23%) C
13 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.63%) Degree
3 33 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.35%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.02%) CCIE
5 13 (3.02%) CCNA
5 13 (3.02%) CCNP
5 13 (3.02%) CCSA
5 13 (3.02%) CCSE
5 13 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.79%) CISSP
7 11 (2.56%) CCSK
8 8 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.88%) SOC 2
2 20 (4.65%) PCI DSS
3 16 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.49%) GDPR
5 14 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.09%) QA
7 8 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.63%) NIST
9 4 (0.93%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.70%) SLA
11 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (10.93%) Docker
2 8 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.70%) HDFS
4 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 126 (29.30%) Terraform
2 60 (13.95%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.81%) Grafana
4 20 (4.65%) Ansible
5 18 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.02%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.09%) Argo
7 9 (2.09%) Istio
8 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.47%) Kibana
9 2 (0.47%) logstash
9 2 (0.47%) Packer
9 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.23%) Consul
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (4.88%) Cisco
2 18 (4.19%) CheckPoint
2 18 (4.19%) Fortinet
3 13 (3.02%) Google
4 12 (2.79%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.56%) Databricks
5 11 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.86%) Confluent
6 8 (1.86%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.86%) SolarWinds
7 7 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.40%) Informatica
8 6 (1.40%) Talend
9 5 (1.16%) Meraki
10 4 (0.93%) Pega
10 4 (0.93%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.93%) SAP
11 3 (0.70%) Oracle
12 2 (0.47%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.47%) LogicMonitor