AWS Engineer Job Trends

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 13 November 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 353 295
Rank change year-on-year -40 -58 +11
Permanent AWS Engineer jobs 540 347 595
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.66% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.73% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 411 244 491
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £76,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.69% +3.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
13 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 113,313 47,341 64,128
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.79% 89.91% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 74,793 29,269 36,014
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +18.28% -7.10% -4.66%

AWS Engineer Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent AWS Engineer job postings 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 AWS Engineer jobs over the 6 months to 13 November 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 AWS Engineer jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 13 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England -50 494 £75,000 -28.57% 419
UK excluding London +60 363 £73,000 +0.69% 234
London -136 157 £85,000 -22.73% 218
North of England +8 131 £74,500 -6.88% 72
Work from Home -130 125 £85,000 -22.73% 209
North West -19 92 £75,000 -11.76% 44
South West 0 75 £73,000 - 18
South East -26 57 £70,000 -12.50% 47
Midlands -50 53 £65,000 -10.34% 35
East Midlands -14 39 £45,000 -16.67% 16
Scotland -2 30 £100,000 - 25
Yorkshire -9 29 £70,000 +3.70% 18
East of England -41 16 £90,000 +44.00% 17
West Midlands -61 14 £68,750 -5.17% 19
North East -57 10 £47,000 -14.55% 10
Wales -70 1 £90,000 +56.52% 6

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

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, AWS Engineer job ads cited 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 AWS Engineer job ads.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS100.0%540
2Python36.5%197
3DevOps31.1%168
4Terraform29.6%160
5Software Engineering27.0%146
6Infrastructure as Code25.2%136
7CI/CD23.3%126
8Security Cleared16.5%89
9Kubernetes15.2%82
10Serverless14.8%80
11Infrastructure Engineering14.6%79
12Agile13.9%75
12Amazon S313.9%75
14Continuous Improvement13.5%73
15Docker12.8%69
15Problem-Solving12.8%69
17AWS Lambda12.0%65
18Cloud Security11.9%64
19Amazon EC210.7%58
20Amazon RDS10.6%57
21AWS CloudFormation10.4%56
22Observability10.2%55
23SC Cleared10.0%54
24Amazon CloudWatch9.3%50
25AI8.9%48
26Platform Engineering8.5%46
27Bash8.3%45
28Java8.0%43
29Linux7.8%42
30Amazon EKS7.4%40

AWS Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Cloud Engineer30.6%165
2AWS Software Engineer22.4%121
3Python Engineer18.7%101
4AWS DevOps Engineer17.2%93
5Data Engineer13.9%75
6AWS Data Engineer13.7%74
7AWS Infrastructure Engineer11.5%62
8Python Software Engineer8.5%46
9Security Engineer7.6%41
10Senior Software Engineer7.2%39
11Java Engineer6.9%37
12C# Software Engineer5.0%27
13Cloud Platform Engineer4.4%24
13Cloud Security Engineer4.4%24
13Java Software Engineer4.4%24
16AWS Platform Engineer4.3%23
16C++ Software Engineer4.3%23
18Senior Data Engineer3.1%17
19AWS Infrastructure Lead3.0%16
19Cloud Infrastructure Engineer3.0%16
498 AWS Engineer jobs Nationwide