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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 334 295
Rank change year-on-year -39 -39 -22
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 549 407 664
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.83% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.92% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 431 307 521
10th Percentile £50,750 £63,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £74,500 £71,250 £71,250
% change year-on-year +4.56% - +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 109,655 44,258 71,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 89.76% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,828 25,506 41,262
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,000 £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 30 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 30 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 -29 511 £75,000 -31.82% 460
UK excluding London +68 344 £74,500 +4.56% 290
London -143 178 £85,000 -22.73% 227
Work from Home -129 128 £85,000 -22.73% 184
North of England +16 115 £70,000 - 87
South West -1 77 £75,000 +36.36% 43
North West +6 65 £75,000 +7.14% 66
South East -2 61 £65,000 -18.75% 20
Midlands -32 56 £67,500 -6.90% 41
Yorkshire -2 36 £70,000 - 17
East Midlands -17 28 £65,000 -2.99% 19
West Midlands -42 28 £70,000 -3.45% 22
East of England -18 19 £100,000 +56.25% 20
Scotland +11 16 £100,000 - 62
North East -53 14 £47,000 -35.17% 4
Wales -75 1 £90,000 +56.52% 4

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 549 (100.00%) AWS
2 211 (38.43%) Python
3 182 (33.15%) Terraform
4 162 (29.51%) DevOps
5 155 (28.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 143 (26.05%) CI/CD
7 125 (22.77%) Software Engineering
8 97 (17.67%) Security Cleared
9 84 (15.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 84 (15.30%) Kubernetes
10 79 (14.39%) Amazon S3
10 79 (14.39%) Docker
11 75 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
11 75 (13.66%) Serverless
12 68 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (12.20%) Agile
14 66 (12.02%) AWS Lambda
15 65 (11.84%) Observability
16 64 (11.66%) Amazon EC2
17 62 (11.29%) Cloud Security
18 58 (10.56%) SC Cleared
19 57 (10.38%) Amazon RDS
20 55 (10.02%) Bash
21 54 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
22 53 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
23 52 (9.47%) Degree
24 49 (8.93%) SQL
25 46 (8.38%) AI
25 46 (8.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 46 (8.38%) 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 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 79 (14.39%) Amazon S3
3 75 (13.66%) Serverless
4 66 (12.02%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (11.66%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (8.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (8.20%) Azure
9 44 (8.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 40 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (6.56%) GitHub
12 34 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (5.83%) Datadog
14 21 (3.83%) SaaS
15 20 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.46%) AWS CloudTrail
17 16 (2.91%) GCP
18 15 (2.73%) Snowflake
19 11 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
19 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 Hudi
11 3 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (8.01%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.74%) GitLab
3 27 (4.92%) Git
4 13 (2.37%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.28%) 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%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.18%) Maven
10 1 (0.18%) MLflow
General
1 50 (9.11%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.01%) 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%) Banking
7 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
8 10 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.46%) Front Office
10 6 (1.09%) Automotive
10 6 (1.09%) Games
10 6 (1.09%) Legal
11 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.55%) Marketing
12 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.36%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.18%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (33.15%) Terraform
2 21 (3.83%) Kafka
3 19 (3.46%) Node.js
3 19 (3.46%) React
4 18 (3.28%) Pulumi
5 17 (3.10%) Spring Boot
6 15 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (2.37%) RESTful
8 12 (2.19%) .NET
8 12 (2.19%) OpenTofu
9 11 (2.00%) AWS CDK
10 9 (1.64%) Keycloak
10 9 (1.64%) PySpark
10 9 (1.64%) Spring
11 8 (1.46%) Django
11 8 (1.46%) REST
12 7 (1.28%) Next.js
13 6 (1.09%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.09%) Vue
14 5 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
3 24 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.64%) Replication
9 8 (1.46%) Sports Betting
10 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.73%) Life Science
12 4 (0.73%) NHS
12 4 (0.73%) PropTech
13 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.36%) AI Agents
14 2 (0.36%) Blockchain
14 2 (0.36%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.38%) Linux
2 15 (2.73%) Windows
3 5 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (29.51%) DevOps
2 155 (28.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 143 (26.05%) CI/CD
4 125 (22.77%) Software Engineering
5 84 (15.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (12.20%) Agile
9 65 (11.84%) Observability
10 62 (11.29%) Cloud Security
11 53 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
12 46 (8.38%) AI
13 38 (6.92%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (6.92%) ITIL
14 37 (6.74%) Full-Stack Development
15 36 (6.56%) Containerisation
15 36 (6.56%) DevSecOps
15 36 (6.56%) Test Automation
16 35 (6.38%) Migration
17 34 (6.19%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 211 (38.43%) Python
2 55 (10.02%) Bash
3 49 (8.93%) SQL
4 39 (7.10%) Java
4 39 (7.10%) PowerShell
5 37 (6.74%) C#
6 33 (6.01%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.28%) C++
8 18 (3.28%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.73%) Groovy
10 14 (2.55%) Go
11 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.18%) Perl
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
12 1 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 97 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.47%) Degree
4 26 (4.74%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.83%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.09%) PhD
8 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.18%) CISM
10 1 (0.18%) CISSP
10 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.18%) GSEC
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.10%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.46%) QA
4 7 (1.28%) SLA
5 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.36%) GDPR
7 2 (0.36%) NIST
7 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 79 (14.39%) 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 84 (15.30%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.56%) Grafana
3 32 (5.83%) Ansible
4 27 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.91%) Argo
6 12 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.64%) Rancher
8 8 (1.46%) 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 17 (3.10%) Databricks
3 13 (2.37%) Oracle
4 9 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.46%) VMware
6 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.73%) Google
6 4 (0.73%) Intel
7 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.36%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.36%) FactSet
8 2 (0.36%) Informatica
8 2 (0.36%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.36%) Solace
8 2 (0.36%) Talend
9 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.18%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.18%) New Relic