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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 314 281
Rank change year-on-year -57 -33 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 536 427 760
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.87% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.96% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 424 326 541
10th Percentile £51,250 £65,000 £60,000
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 £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% +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 106,506 44,266 74,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.35% 89.67% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73,200 26,014 44,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £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 16 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 16 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 -36 505 £75,000 -31.82% 560
UK excluding London +75 333 £72,500 +1.75% 342
London -134 180 £85,000 -22.73% 282
Work from Home -131 122 £85,000 -22.73% 229
North of England +9 109 £70,000 - 102
South West -1 76 £75,000 -25.00% 42
South East +2 64 £65,000 -18.75% 41
North West +13 60 £75,000 +7.14% 70
Midlands -6 54 £70,000 -3.45% 45
Yorkshire 0 35 £69,250 - 22
West Midlands -31 32 £70,000 -3.45% 25
East Midlands -15 22 £67,500 +0.75% 20
East of England -20 17 £100,000 +56.25% 25
North East -52 14 £52,250 -19.62% 10
Scotland -3 13 £100,000 - 63
Wales -77 1 £90,000 +56.52% 7

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 536 (100.00%) AWS
2 202 (37.69%) Python
3 183 (34.14%) Terraform
4 150 (27.99%) DevOps
5 149 (27.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 141 (26.31%) CI/CD
7 105 (19.59%) Software Engineering
8 90 (16.79%) Security Cleared
9 80 (14.93%) Amazon S3
9 80 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 79 (14.74%) Kubernetes
11 77 (14.37%) Docker
12 72 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
13 71 (13.25%) Serverless
14 65 (12.13%) Amazon EC2
15 64 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (11.75%) AWS Lambda
17 62 (11.57%) Cloud Security
18 61 (11.38%) Observability
19 58 (10.82%) Agile
20 56 (10.45%) Amazon RDS
21 55 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
21 55 (10.26%) Bash
22 54 (10.07%) Platform Engineering
23 52 (9.70%) SC Cleared
24 50 (9.33%) Azure
24 50 (9.33%) Degree
25 49 (9.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
26 48 (8.96%) Linux
26 48 (8.96%) SQL

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 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.87%) Apache
3 9 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.75%) IIS
5 4 (0.75%) nginx
6 3 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.56%) SAS
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 536 (100.00%) AWS
2 80 (14.93%) Amazon S3
3 71 (13.25%) Serverless
4 65 (12.13%) Amazon EC2
5 63 (11.75%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (9.33%) Azure
8 49 (9.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 47 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (6.72%) GitHub
12 35 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
12 35 (6.53%) Datadog
13 24 (4.48%) SaaS
14 22 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (3.92%) GCP
16 18 (3.36%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (3.36%) Snowflake
17 12 (2.24%) dbt
18 11 (2.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.24%) DNS
2 9 (1.68%) Firewall
3 6 (1.12%) VPN
4 4 (0.75%) DHCP
5 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.37%) IPv4
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.45%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (1.87%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.68%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.68%) Redis
7 7 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.12%) Data Vault
9 5 (0.93%) Big Data
9 5 (0.93%) MySQL
9 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.75%) Power BI
10 4 (0.75%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 43 (8.02%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.90%) GitLab
3 24 (4.48%) Git
4 14 (2.61%) CircleCI
5 8 (1.49%) JIRA
6 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.75%) git-flow
8 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.56%) JMeter
8 3 (0.56%) 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 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.19%) Gatling
10 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 47 (8.77%) Social Skills
2 39 (7.28%) Finance
3 33 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.78%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.54%) Law
7 16 (2.99%) Banking
8 14 (2.61%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.49%) Games
11 6 (1.12%) Automotive
11 6 (1.12%) Front Office
12 5 (0.93%) Legal
12 5 (0.93%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.75%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.75%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Marketing
14 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (34.14%) Terraform
2 19 (3.54%) Kafka
2 19 (3.54%) React
3 18 (3.36%) Pulumi
4 17 (3.17%) Node.js
5 15 (2.80%) Spring Boot
6 13 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (2.24%) AWS CDK
7 12 (2.24%) OpenTofu
8 11 (2.05%) RESTful
9 9 (1.68%) .NET
10 8 (1.49%) Django
10 8 (1.49%) PySpark
10 8 (1.49%) REST
11 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.12%) Keycloak
11 6 (1.12%) Spring
11 6 (1.12%) Vue
12 5 (0.93%) Next.js
12 5 (0.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.29%) Distributed Computing
3 21 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.31%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.12%) Replication
9 5 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.75%) Life Science
10 4 (0.75%) NHS
10 4 (0.75%) PropTech
11 3 (0.56%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.37%) Genomics
12 2 (0.37%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.96%) Linux
2 14 (2.61%) Windows
3 6 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (27.99%) DevOps
2 149 (27.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (26.31%) CI/CD
4 105 (19.59%) Software Engineering
5 80 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 72 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (11.57%) Cloud Security
9 61 (11.38%) Observability
10 58 (10.82%) Agile
11 54 (10.07%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (8.77%) AI
13 39 (7.28%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (6.72%) Containerisation
14 36 (6.72%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (6.53%) DevSecOps
15 35 (6.53%) ITIL
15 35 (6.53%) Migration
16 30 (5.60%) Infrastructure Automation
17 29 (5.41%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 202 (37.69%) Python
2 55 (10.26%) Bash
3 48 (8.96%) SQL
4 40 (7.46%) PowerShell
5 35 (6.53%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.34%) Java
7 33 (6.16%) C#
8 26 (4.85%) C++
9 15 (2.80%) Go
9 15 (2.80%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.43%) Groovy
11 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.56%) Ruby
13 2 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 52 (9.70%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.33%) Degree
4 24 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.29%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.92%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.12%) PhD
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CISM
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) GSEC
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.61%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.49%) SLA
3 6 (1.12%) QA
4 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.56%) GDPR
5 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 77 (14.37%) Docker
2 6 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) vSphere
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.53%) Grafana
3 33 (6.16%) Ansible
4 25 (4.66%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.99%) Argo
6 12 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.68%) Packer
8 7 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.12%) Rancher
10 4 (0.75%) Puppet
11 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.37%) Nagios
13 1 (0.19%) Consul
13 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 22 (4.10%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.36%) Dynatrace
3 15 (2.80%) Databricks
4 14 (2.61%) Oracle
5 7 (1.31%) VMware
6 6 (1.12%) Google
6 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.75%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.56%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.56%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.56%) Informatica
8 3 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.56%) Talend
9 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.37%) FactSet
9 2 (0.37%) Intel
9 2 (0.37%) Solace
10 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.19%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.19%) New Relic