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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 316 281
Rank change year-on-year -54 -35 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 535 422 780
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.85% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.95% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 424 321 549
10th Percentile £51,250 £65,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,719 £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 £71,250 £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 106,119 44,341 74,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,014 26,036 45,320
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 £74,258 £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 14 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 14 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 -23 504 £75,000 -31.82% 458
UK excluding London +77 329 £71,250 - 291
London -124 183 £85,000 -22.73% 234
Work from Home -128 128 £85,000 -22.73% 260
North of England +11 103 £70,000 - 75
South West -4 79 £75,000 -25.00% 37
South East +16 63 £65,000 -18.75% 35
North West +15 60 £75,000 +7.14% 50
Midlands -22 54 £70,000 -3.45% 37
West Midlands -27 32 £70,000 -3.45% 20
Yorkshire -2 30 £67,500 - 17
East Midlands -15 22 £67,500 +0.75% 17
East of England -14 17 £100,000 +56.25% 23
Scotland -3 13 £100,000 - 65
North East -51 13 £47,000 -27.69% 8
Wales -73 1 £90,000 +56.52% 5

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 535 (100.00%) AWS
2 202 (37.76%) Python
3 183 (34.21%) Terraform
4 148 (27.66%) DevOps
5 143 (26.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (25.61%) CI/CD
7 103 (19.25%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.89%) Security Cleared
9 81 (15.14%) Kubernetes
10 79 (14.77%) Docker
10 79 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 77 (14.39%) Amazon S3
12 70 (13.08%) Serverless
13 68 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (12.15%) Amazon EC2
15 63 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (11.59%) AWS Lambda
17 59 (11.03%) Cloud Security
17 59 (11.03%) Observability
18 56 (10.47%) Amazon RDS
18 56 (10.47%) Azure
19 53 (9.91%) Agile
19 53 (9.91%) Platform Engineering
20 52 (9.72%) Bash
21 51 (9.53%) AWS CloudFormation
22 49 (9.16%) Degree
22 49 (9.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 48 (8.97%) Linux
23 48 (8.97%) SQL
24 47 (8.79%) Amazon EKS

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 (2.62%) 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
1 535 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (14.39%) Amazon S3
3 70 (13.08%) Serverless
4 65 (12.15%) Amazon EC2
5 62 (11.59%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (10.47%) Azure
7 51 (9.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (9.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 47 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (8.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (6.54%) Datadog
12 34 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (6.17%) GitHub
14 27 (5.05%) GCP
15 24 (4.49%) SaaS
16 19 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (3.36%) AWS CloudTrail
17 18 (3.36%) Snowflake
18 12 (2.24%) dbt
19 11 (2.06%) 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 (10.47%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (1.87%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.68%) Redis
7 8 (1.50%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.12%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.93%) Big Data
10 5 (0.93%) MySQL
10 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.75%) Power BI
11 4 (0.75%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 39 (7.29%) Jenkins
2 32 (5.98%) GitLab
3 24 (4.49%) Git
4 14 (2.62%) CircleCI
5 8 (1.50%) JIRA
6 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.75%) git-flow
7 4 (0.75%) JMeter
7 4 (0.75%) Postman
8 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.37%) Snyk
9 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.19%) Gatling
10 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 44 (8.22%) Finance
1 44 (8.22%) Social Skills
2 33 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (5.42%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.11%) Banking
5 20 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.55%) Law
7 14 (2.62%) Health Technology
8 10 (1.87%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.50%) Games
10 6 (1.12%) Automotive
10 6 (1.12%) Front Office
11 5 (0.93%) Legal
11 5 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.75%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.75%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Marketing
13 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (34.21%) Terraform
2 25 (4.67%) Kafka
3 19 (3.55%) React
4 17 (3.18%) Node.js
5 16 (2.99%) Pulumi
6 13 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.43%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.24%) AWS CDK
7 12 (2.24%) OpenTofu
8 11 (2.06%) RESTful
9 9 (1.68%) .NET
10 8 (1.50%) Django
10 8 (1.50%) PySpark
10 8 (1.50%) REST
11 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.12%) Keycloak
11 6 (1.12%) Vue
12 5 (0.93%) Next.js
12 5 (0.93%) SAML
12 5 (0.93%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 91 (17.01%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.11%) Distributed Computing
3 21 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.06%) 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%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.37%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.97%) Linux
2 14 (2.62%) Windows
3 6 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (27.66%) DevOps
2 143 (26.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (25.61%) CI/CD
4 103 (19.25%) Software Engineering
5 79 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 68 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (11.03%) Cloud Security
8 59 (11.03%) Observability
9 53 (9.91%) Agile
9 53 (9.91%) Platform Engineering
10 45 (8.41%) AI
11 42 (7.85%) Containerisation
12 37 (6.92%) Data Pipeline
13 36 (6.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 35 (6.54%) DevSecOps
14 35 (6.54%) Migration
15 34 (6.36%) ITIL
16 28 (5.23%) Infrastructure Automation
16 28 (5.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 202 (37.76%) Python
2 52 (9.72%) Bash
3 48 (8.97%) SQL
4 38 (7.10%) PowerShell
5 34 (6.36%) TypeScript
6 32 (5.98%) C#
6 32 (5.98%) Java
7 25 (4.67%) C++
8 21 (3.93%) Go
9 15 (2.80%) JavaScript
10 12 (2.24%) Groovy
11 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.56%) Ruby
13 2 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.16%) Degree
3 47 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.93%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.12%) PhD
9 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.62%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.50%) SLA
3 7 (1.31%) QA
4 5 (0.93%) 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 79 (14.77%) Docker
2 8 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (15.14%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.17%) Ansible
2 33 (6.17%) Grafana
3 23 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 14 (2.62%) Argo
5 12 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.68%) Packer
7 7 (1.31%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.12%) Istio
8 6 (1.12%) Rancher
9 4 (0.75%) Puppet
10 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 22 (4.11%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.36%) Dynatrace
3 15 (2.80%) Databricks
4 14 (2.62%) Oracle
5 7 (1.31%) VMware
6 6 (1.12%) Confluent
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%) New Relic