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 27 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 313 275
Rank change year-on-year -58 -38 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 533 434 831
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.87% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.97% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 423 338 580
10th Percentile £52,100 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £71,250
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 £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 102,706 44,968 79,449
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 89.82% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 70,497 26,684 51,823
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -30 512 £75,000 -31.82% 256
UK excluding London +77 321 £70,000 - 138
London -121 191 £85,000 -24.44% 166
Work from Home -126 136 £85,000 -22.73% 87
North of England +28 104 £67,500 -3.57% 25
South West +2 81 £75,000 -25.00% 22
North West +27 64 £75,000 +7.14% 11
South East +24 63 £65,000 +4.00% 20
Midlands -3 53 £70,000 -3.45% 18
West Midlands -20 36 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Yorkshire -10 28 £67,500 - 9
East Midlands -7 17 £77,500 +35.96% 13
East of England -18 16 £95,000 +48.44% 10
North East -50 12 £52,250 -19.62% 5
Scotland -9 4 £90,000 -10.00% 35
Wales -66 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 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.

1 533 (100.00%) AWS
2 197 (36.96%) Python
3 181 (33.96%) Terraform
4 150 (28.14%) DevOps
5 139 (26.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (25.14%) CI/CD
7 90 (16.89%) Software Engineering
8 82 (15.38%) Amazon S3
9 80 (15.01%) Kubernetes
10 78 (14.63%) Security Cleared
11 77 (14.45%) Docker
12 73 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 68 (12.76%) Serverless
14 67 (12.57%) Azure
15 66 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
16 63 (11.82%) Amazon EC2
17 59 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
18 56 (10.51%) Cloud Security
19 53 (9.94%) Observability
20 52 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
20 52 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
20 52 (9.76%) SQL
21 50 (9.38%) Degree
22 49 (9.19%) Agile
22 49 (9.19%) Amazon RDS
23 48 (9.01%) Bash
23 48 (9.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 47 (8.82%) Containerisation
25 46 (8.63%) Linux

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 19 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.88%) Apache
3 7 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.94%) CMS
4 5 (0.94%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.75%) IIS
5 4 (0.75%) nginx
6 3 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.56%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 533 (100.00%) AWS
2 82 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 68 (12.76%) Serverless
4 67 (12.57%) Azure
5 63 (11.82%) Amazon EC2
6 56 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (9.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 44 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (6.94%) Datadog
12 33 (6.19%) GitHub
13 32 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (5.82%) GCP
15 27 (5.07%) SaaS
16 20 (3.75%) Snowflake
17 18 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (3.19%) AWS CloudTrail
19 15 (2.81%) dbt
20 13 (2.44%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.06%) DNS
2 9 (1.69%) Firewall
3 5 (0.94%) VPN
4 3 (0.56%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.38%) IPv4
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.19%) LAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.19%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (1.88%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (1.31%) Apache Iceberg
7 7 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.31%) Data Vault
7 7 (1.31%) MySQL
8 6 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.94%) Big Data
9 5 (0.94%) Power BI
10 4 (0.75%) Metadata
10 4 (0.75%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.56%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 33 (6.19%) GitLab
3 23 (4.32%) Git
4 17 (3.19%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.13%) JIRA
6 5 (0.94%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.75%) git-flow
8 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.38%) JMeter
8 2 (0.38%) Postman
8 2 (0.38%) Snyk
8 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 47 (8.82%) Finance
2 46 (8.63%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.00%) Banking
4 31 (5.82%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.38%) Law
7 14 (2.63%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.88%) Retail Banking
9 9 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.50%) Games
11 7 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.94%) Automotive
12 5 (0.94%) Legal
13 4 (0.75%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.75%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.56%) Marketing
15 2 (0.38%) Front Office
15 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (33.96%) Terraform
2 27 (5.07%) Kafka
3 19 (3.56%) React
4 16 (3.00%) Pulumi
5 15 (2.81%) Node.js
6 12 (2.25%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.25%) OpenTofu
6 12 (2.25%) Spring Boot
7 11 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.88%) .NET
8 10 (1.88%) RESTful
9 8 (1.50%) PySpark
10 7 (1.31%) Django
11 6 (1.13%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.13%) REST
12 5 (0.94%) SAML
12 5 (0.94%) Spring
12 5 (0.94%) Vue
13 4 (0.75%) LangGraph
13 4 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 99 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
3 19 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.50%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.31%) Sports Betting
8 5 (0.94%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.75%) Life Science
9 4 (0.75%) PropTech
10 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.56%) NHS
10 3 (0.56%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.38%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.38%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.63%) Linux
2 13 (2.44%) Windows
3 6 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (28.14%) DevOps
2 139 (26.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (25.14%) CI/CD
4 90 (16.89%) Software Engineering
5 73 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 66 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (10.51%) Cloud Security
9 53 (9.94%) Observability
10 52 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
11 49 (9.19%) Agile
12 47 (8.82%) Containerisation
13 42 (7.88%) AI
14 39 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (6.38%) DevSecOps
15 34 (6.38%) Migration
16 33 (6.19%) Full-Stack Development
17 30 (5.63%) Analytics
18 29 (5.44%) Data Engineering
19 28 (5.25%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 197 (36.96%) Python
2 52 (9.76%) SQL
3 48 (9.01%) Bash
4 38 (7.13%) PowerShell
5 31 (5.82%) C#
5 31 (5.82%) Java
5 31 (5.82%) TypeScript
6 26 (4.88%) Go
7 22 (4.13%) C++
8 12 (2.25%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.13%) Groovy
10 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) Ruby
12 2 (0.38%) PHP
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 78 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.38%) Degree
3 42 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.75%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.56%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.94%) PhD
9 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.19%) CCIE
11 1 (0.19%) CCSA
11 1 (0.19%) CCSE
11 1 (0.19%) CISM
11 1 (0.19%) GSEC
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.50%) SLA
4 7 (1.31%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.13%) GDPR
5 6 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.13%) QA
6 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 77 (14.45%) Docker
2 10 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (15.01%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.38%) Ansible
3 30 (5.63%) Grafana
4 20 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.81%) Argo
6 11 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.69%) Packer
8 8 (1.50%) Istio
9 7 (1.31%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.75%) Puppet
11 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.38%) Nagios
11 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (4.32%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.25%) Dynatrace
2 12 (2.25%) Oracle
3 10 (1.88%) Databricks
4 8 (1.50%) Confluent
5 6 (1.13%) Google
5 6 (1.13%) VMware
6 4 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.56%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.56%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.56%) Informatica
7 3 (0.56%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.56%) Talend
8 2 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.38%) FactSet
8 2 (0.38%) Solace
9 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.19%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.19%) New Relic
9 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv