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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 317 291
Rank change year-on-year -53 -26 -18
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 548 409 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.83% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.93% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 431 307 522
10th Percentile £50,750 £63,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £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 £70,000
% 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 109,377 44,042 71,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 89.72% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,715 25,470 41,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
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 £73,750 £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 29 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 29 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 -41 510 £75,000 -31.82% 448
UK excluding London +68 344 £74,500 +4.56% 283
London -143 177 £85,000 -22.73% 219
Work from Home -121 128 £85,000 -22.73% 177
North of England +11 116 £70,000 - 85
South West -9 76 £75,000 +36.36% 41
North West +12 66 £75,000 +7.14% 64
South East +3 62 £65,000 -18.75% 21
Midlands -28 55 £67,500 -6.90% 41
Yorkshire +1 36 £70,000 - 17
West Midlands -41 28 £70,000 -3.45% 22
East Midlands -21 27 £55,000 -17.91% 19
East of England -15 19 £100,000 +56.25% 18
Scotland +5 16 £100,000 - 60
North East -56 14 £47,000 -35.17% 4
Wales -72 1 £90,000 +56.52% 4

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 211 (38.50%) Python
3 182 (33.21%) Terraform
4 161 (29.38%) DevOps
5 156 (28.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 145 (26.46%) CI/CD
7 123 (22.45%) Software Engineering
8 97 (17.70%) Security Cleared
9 84 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 83 (15.15%) Kubernetes
11 79 (14.42%) Amazon S3
11 79 (14.42%) Docker
12 75 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
13 74 (13.50%) Serverless
14 68 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (12.04%) Agile
15 66 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
16 65 (11.86%) Observability
17 64 (11.68%) Amazon EC2
18 62 (11.31%) Cloud Security
19 58 (10.58%) SC Cleared
20 57 (10.40%) Amazon RDS
21 55 (10.04%) Bash
22 54 (9.85%) AWS CloudFormation
22 54 (9.85%) Platform Engineering
23 53 (9.67%) Degree
24 49 (8.94%) SQL
25 47 (8.58%) AI
26 46 (8.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
26 46 (8.39%) Azure

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 (2.01%) 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%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (14.42%) Amazon S3
3 74 (13.50%) Serverless
4 66 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (11.68%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (9.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (8.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 46 (8.39%) Azure
8 44 (8.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 40 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.57%) GitHub
11 34 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (5.84%) Datadog
13 21 (3.83%) SaaS
14 20 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.47%) AWS CloudTrail
16 16 (2.92%) GCP
17 15 (2.74%) Snowflake
18 11 (2.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 11 (2.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
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 (10.40%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.01%) Redis
7 9 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.46%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.09%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.91%) Big Data
10 5 (0.91%) Power BI
11 4 (0.73%) MySQL
11 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (8.03%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.75%) GitLab
3 27 (4.93%) 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 (9.12%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.03%) Finance
3 35 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.20%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.47%) Law
7 14 (2.55%) Banking
7 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
8 10 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.46%) Front Office
10 7 (1.28%) Games
11 6 (1.09%) Automotive
11 6 (1.09%) Legal
12 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Marketing
13 3 (0.55%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (33.21%) Terraform
2 21 (3.83%) Kafka
3 19 (3.47%) React
4 18 (3.28%) Node.js
4 18 (3.28%) Pulumi
5 17 (3.10%) Spring Boot
6 15 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (2.37%) RESTful
8 12 (2.19%) .NET
8 12 (2.19%) OpenTofu
9 11 (2.01%) 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 6 (1.09%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.09%) Next.js
12 6 (1.09%) Vue
13 5 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (17.34%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.74%) Distributed Computing
3 24 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.01%) 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%) Blockchain
14 2 (0.36%) Genomics
14 2 (0.36%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.39%) Linux
2 15 (2.74%) Windows
3 5 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (29.38%) DevOps
2 156 (28.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 145 (26.46%) CI/CD
4 123 (22.45%) Software Engineering
5 84 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (12.04%) Agile
9 65 (11.86%) Observability
10 62 (11.31%) Cloud Security
11 54 (9.85%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (8.58%) AI
13 38 (6.93%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (6.93%) ITIL
14 36 (6.57%) Containerisation
14 36 (6.57%) DevSecOps
14 36 (6.57%) Full-Stack Development
14 36 (6.57%) Test Automation
15 35 (6.39%) Migration
16 33 (6.02%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 211 (38.50%) Python
2 55 (10.04%) Bash
3 49 (8.94%) SQL
4 39 (7.12%) Java
4 39 (7.12%) PowerShell
5 38 (6.93%) C#
6 33 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 30 (5.47%) C++
8 18 (3.28%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.74%) 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 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 53 (9.67%) Degree
4 27 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.74%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.83%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.09%) PhD
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CISM
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.18%) GSEC
11 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 (14.42%) 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 83 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.57%) Grafana
3 32 (5.84%) Ansible
4 27 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.92%) 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