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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 314 260
Rank change year-on-year -48 -54 +23
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 548 441 886
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.88% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.98% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 437 345 589
10th Percentile £52,300 £64,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £73,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

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 100,001 44,901 79,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.94% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 68,291 26,543 52,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 £48,122 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.10% -3.76% -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 14 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 14 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 -20 527 £75,000 -31.82% 181
UK excluding London +92 326 £73,500 +5.00% 89
London -119 201 £85,000 -24.44% 114
Work from Home -106 141 £87,500 -20.45% 74
North of England +32 107 £70,000 - 24
South West +14 82 £75,000 -25.00% 20
North West +39 70 £74,750 +6.79% 13
South East +22 63 £65,000 +5.26% 12
Midlands +2 53 £70,000 -3.45% 7
West Midlands -8 38 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Yorkshire -11 26 £80,000 - 6
East of England -7 17 £95,000 +48.44% 3
East Midlands -15 15 £80,000 +40.35% 6
North East -52 11 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Scotland -12 4 £90,000 -10.00% 17
Wales -63 1 £90,000 +50.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (36.68%) Python
3 178 (32.48%) Terraform
4 160 (29.20%) DevOps
5 138 (25.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 133 (24.27%) CI/CD
7 87 (15.88%) Amazon S3
7 87 (15.88%) Software Engineering
8 84 (15.33%) Security Cleared
9 80 (14.60%) Kubernetes
10 77 (14.05%) Docker
11 70 (12.77%) Azure
11 70 (12.77%) Serverless
12 69 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 65 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
14 60 (10.95%) Amazon EC2
15 57 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
15 57 (10.40%) SQL
16 55 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
17 54 (9.85%) Agile
18 53 (9.67%) Cloud Security
19 51 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
19 51 (9.31%) Degree
20 49 (8.94%) Containerisation
20 49 (8.94%) Observability
21 48 (8.76%) Bash
22 47 (8.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 47 (8.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 46 (8.39%) Amazon RDS

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 24 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.55%) Apache
3 9 (1.64%) 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
1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 87 (15.88%) Amazon S3
3 70 (12.77%) Azure
3 70 (12.77%) Serverless
4 60 (10.95%) Amazon EC2
5 57 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (8.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 47 (8.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 41 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
9 36 (6.57%) Datadog
10 34 (6.20%) GitHub
11 31 (5.66%) GCP
12 30 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (5.29%) SaaS
14 21 (3.83%) Snowflake
15 19 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.10%) AWS CloudTrail
17 16 (2.92%) dbt
17 16 (2.92%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) DNS
2 8 (1.46%) Firewall
3 4 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.36%) 4G
4 2 (0.36%) 5G
4 2 (0.36%) DHCP
4 2 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.36%) IPv4
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 46 (8.39%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.01%) DynamoDB
6 10 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.28%) MySQL
10 6 (1.09%) Metadata
11 5 (0.91%) Big Data
11 5 (0.91%) Power BI
12 4 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
13 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (6.39%) GitLab
1 35 (6.39%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.11%) 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 (9.31%) Finance
2 47 (8.58%) Social Skills
3 36 (6.57%) Banking
4 32 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.84%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.10%) Law
6 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
6 14 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (2.55%) Retail Banking
7 9 (1.64%) Aerospace
7 9 (1.64%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.46%) Games
9 5 (0.91%) Automotive
9 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.91%) Legal
10 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
10 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.55%) Marketing
12 2 (0.36%) Billing
12 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.47%) 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
1 107 (19.53%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.47%) Distributed Computing
3 16 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.46%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.28%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.73%) Life Science
9 4 (0.73%) PropTech
10 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.55%) NHS
10 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.55%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.36%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.03%) 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
1 160 (29.20%) DevOps
2 138 (25.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 133 (24.27%) CI/CD
4 87 (15.88%) Software Engineering
5 69 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 65 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
8 54 (9.85%) Agile
9 53 (9.67%) Cloud Security
10 49 (8.94%) Containerisation
10 49 (8.94%) Observability
11 42 (7.66%) AI
11 42 (7.66%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (6.02%) Analytics
12 33 (6.02%) Data Engineering
12 33 (6.02%) DevSecOps
13 32 (5.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 32 (5.84%) Migration
14 31 (5.66%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 201 (36.68%) Python
2 57 (10.40%) SQL
3 48 (8.76%) Bash
4 36 (6.57%) PowerShell
5 32 (5.84%) Java
6 30 (5.47%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.29%) C#
8 27 (4.93%) Go
9 21 (3.83%) C++
10 13 (2.37%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.09%) Groovy
12 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 2 (0.36%) PHP
15 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 51 (9.31%) Degree
3 46 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.28%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.28%) 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 17 (3.10%) 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 77 (14.05%) 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
1 178 (32.48%) Terraform
2 80 (14.60%) Kubernetes
3 31 (5.66%) Ansible
4 29 (5.29%) Grafana
5 21 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.74%) Argo
7 10 (1.82%) 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 23 (4.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.01%) Databricks
2 11 (2.01%) Oracle
3 10 (1.82%) Dynatrace
4 8 (1.46%) Confluent
5 7 (1.28%) Google
6 5 (0.91%) VMware
7 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.55%) Informatica
8 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.55%) Talend
9 2 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.36%) FactSet
9 2 (0.36%) Solace
10 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.18%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.18%) New Relic
10 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv