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 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 312 268
Rank change year-on-year -51 -44 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 549 444 866
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.88% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.98% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 439 348 578
10th Percentile £51,250 £64,625 £56,600
25th Percentile £64,375 £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 £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 100,717 45,123 78,702
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.93% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 68,844 26,712 52,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,350 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%

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 17 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 17 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 -19 528 £75,000 -31.82% 66
UK excluding London +92 328 £71,250 +1.79% 51
London -124 200 £85,000 -24.44% 27
Work from Home -124 141 £87,500 -20.45% 30
North of England +24 109 £68,750 -1.79% 13
South West +1 81 £75,000 -25.00% 8
North West +27 69 £75,000 +7.14% 4
South East +12 64 £65,000 +5.26% 16
Midlands +2 53 £70,000 -3.45% 8
West Midlands 0 38 £70,000 -3.45% 3
Yorkshire -4 28 £67,500 - 3
East of England -7 17 £95,000 +48.44% 1
East Midlands -9 15 £80,000 +40.35% 5
North East -53 12 £52,250 -19.62% 6
Scotland -15 4 £90,000 -10.00% 3
Wales -65 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 549 (100.00%) AWS
2 203 (36.98%) Python
3 181 (32.97%) Terraform
4 158 (28.78%) DevOps
5 141 (25.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 135 (24.59%) CI/CD
7 89 (16.21%) Software Engineering
8 88 (16.03%) Amazon S3
9 82 (14.94%) Security Cleared
10 81 (14.75%) Kubernetes
11 79 (14.39%) Docker
12 72 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 71 (12.93%) Azure
13 71 (12.93%) Serverless
14 67 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
15 63 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
16 58 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
17 57 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (10.20%) Cloud Security
18 56 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
18 56 (10.20%) SQL
19 53 (9.65%) Agile
19 53 (9.65%) Degree
20 52 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
21 51 (9.29%) Bash
22 50 (9.11%) Observability
22 50 (9.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 49 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
23 49 (8.93%) Containerisation
24 48 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 23 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.37%) Apache
3 8 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 5 (0.91%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.73%) Confluence
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
5 4 (0.73%) nginx
6 3 (0.55%) SAS
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Magento
2 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 549 (100.00%) AWS
2 88 (16.03%) Amazon S3
3 71 (12.93%) Azure
3 71 (12.93%) Serverless
4 63 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
5 58 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (9.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 48 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 43 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.56%) Datadog
11 34 (6.19%) GitHub
12 32 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (5.65%) GCP
14 29 (5.28%) SaaS
15 21 (3.83%) Snowflake
16 19 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (3.28%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (2.91%) dbt
18 16 (2.91%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) DNS
2 8 (1.46%) Firewall
3 4 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.36%) DHCP
4 2 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.36%) IPv4
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) BGP
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.18%) WAN
5 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 10 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (1.46%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (1.28%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.28%) MySQL
9 5 (0.91%) Big Data
9 5 (0.91%) Metadata
9 5 (0.91%) Power BI
10 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.55%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (6.38%) GitLab
1 35 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 27 (4.92%) Git
3 18 (3.28%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.28%) JIRA
5 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.73%) git-flow
7 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.36%) JMeter
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) Snyk
7 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (9.29%) Finance
2 47 (8.56%) Social Skills
3 35 (6.38%) Banking
4 33 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.64%) Law
7 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.37%) Retail Banking
9 9 (1.64%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.46%) Games
10 8 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.91%) Automotive
11 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.91%) Legal
12 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.55%) Marketing
14 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.18%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.28%) Kafka
2 18 (3.28%) React
3 14 (2.55%) Node.js
4 13 (2.37%) Spring Boot
5 12 (2.19%) AWS CDK
5 12 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (1.82%) RESTful
7 9 (1.64%) .NET
7 9 (1.64%) PySpark
8 7 (1.28%) Django
9 6 (1.09%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.09%) REST
9 6 (1.09%) Spring
10 5 (0.91%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.91%) SAML
10 5 (0.91%) Vue
11 4 (0.73%) LangChain
11 4 (0.73%) Next.js
11 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 106 (19.31%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
3 18 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.46%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.28%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.73%) Life Science
10 4 (0.73%) PropTech
11 3 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.55%) NHS
11 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.55%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.20%) Linux
2 12 (2.19%) Windows
3 6 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (28.78%) DevOps
2 141 (25.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 135 (24.59%) CI/CD
4 89 (16.21%) Software Engineering
5 72 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 67 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (10.20%) Cloud Security
8 56 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
9 53 (9.65%) Agile
10 50 (9.11%) Observability
11 49 (8.93%) Containerisation
12 42 (7.65%) AI
13 41 (7.47%) Data Pipeline
14 35 (6.38%) Migration
15 34 (6.19%) DevSecOps
16 32 (5.83%) Analytics
16 32 (5.83%) Data Engineering
16 32 (5.83%) Full-Stack Development
17 31 (5.65%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 203 (36.98%) Python
2 56 (10.20%) SQL
3 51 (9.29%) Bash
4 36 (6.56%) PowerShell
5 32 (5.83%) Java
6 30 (5.46%) C#
6 30 (5.46%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.92%) Go
8 22 (4.01%) C++
9 13 (2.37%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.09%) Groovy
11 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) Ruby
13 2 (0.36%) PHP
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 82 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 53 (9.65%) Degree
3 45 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.46%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.46%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.91%) PhD
8 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.36%) CISSP
9 2 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.18%) CCSK
10 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.46%) SOC 2
4 7 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.28%) GDPR
4 7 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.28%) SLA
5 6 (1.09%) QA
6 2 (0.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 79 (14.39%) Docker
2 10 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (32.97%) Terraform
2 81 (14.75%) Kubernetes
3 32 (5.83%) Ansible
4 29 (5.28%) Grafana
5 21 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.73%) Argo
7 11 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.64%) Packer
9 8 (1.46%) Istio
10 7 (1.28%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.73%) Puppet
12 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.36%) Nagios
13 1 (0.18%) Consul
13 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (4.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.19%) Oracle
3 11 (2.00%) Databricks
4 10 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.46%) Confluent
6 7 (1.28%) Google
7 5 (0.91%) VMware
8 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.55%) Informatica
9 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.55%) Talend
10 2 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.36%) FactSet
10 2 (0.36%) Solace
11 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.18%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.18%) New Relic
11 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv