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 28 June 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 292 290
Rank change year-on-year -32 -2 +29
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 542 476 1,001
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.15% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 439 374 670
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -3.57%

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 89,842 41,384 100,134
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 89.50% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 61,632 23,849 72,187
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -29 519 £75,000 -31.82% 78
UK excluding London +89 298 £72,500 +11.54% 51
London -101 217 £85,000 -22.73% 37
Work from Home -85 155 £85,000 -22.73% 44
North of England +17 102 £74,500 +14.62% 16
North West +48 77 £75,000 +11.11% 10
Midlands +6 60 £70,000 -3.45% 6
South East +23 59 £65,000 +5.26% 13
South West -18 54 £75,000 -3.23% 12
West Midlands +7 45 £68,750 -5.17% 6
East of England +3 22 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire -19 18 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -7 15 £80,000 +20.75%
North East -42 7 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Scotland -1 1 £90,000 -10.00% 3
Wales -41 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 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.

1 542 (100.00%) AWS
2 202 (37.27%) Python
3 168 (31.00%) Terraform
4 163 (30.07%) DevOps
5 144 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (25.65%) CI/CD
7 95 (17.53%) Software Engineering
8 84 (15.50%) Amazon S3
8 84 (15.50%) Azure
8 84 (15.50%) Security Cleared
9 74 (13.65%) Kubernetes
9 74 (13.65%) Serverless
10 66 (12.18%) Platform Engineering
10 66 (12.18%) SQL
11 65 (11.99%) Docker
12 60 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
13 57 (10.52%) Degree
14 56 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 56 (10.33%) Observability
15 53 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
16 52 (9.59%) Bash
17 51 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
18 50 (9.23%) Agile
18 50 (9.23%) Containerisation
18 50 (9.23%) SC Cleared
19 48 (8.86%) Data Pipeline
19 48 (8.86%) SaaS
20 47 (8.67%) Cloud Security
21 45 (8.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 45 (8.30%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 26 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.32%) Apache
3 13 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) CMS
5 4 (0.74%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 542 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (15.50%) Amazon S3
2 84 (15.50%) Azure
3 74 (13.65%) Serverless
4 53 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
6 48 (8.86%) SaaS
7 45 (8.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (8.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 44 (8.12%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (8.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 36 (6.64%) GitHub
10 29 (5.35%) GCP
11 28 (5.17%) Datadog
12 24 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (3.51%) Snowflake
15 17 (3.14%) dbt
16 16 (2.95%) Pulumi
17 15 (2.77%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.77%) Firewall
2 8 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (1.48%) DNS
2 8 (1.48%) LAN
2 8 (1.48%) VPN
2 8 (1.48%) WAN
2 8 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (1.11%) BGP
4 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.55%) VLAN
6 2 (0.37%) 4G
6 2 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.37%) IPv4
6 2 (0.37%) MPLS
6 2 (0.37%) NetScaler
6 2 (0.37%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.37%) OSPF
6 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.40%) DynamoDB
4 13 (2.40%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (1.66%) MySQL
9 8 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.48%) Metadata
10 7 (1.29%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.29%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (0.92%) Power BI
12 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.74%) Big Data
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (7.56%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.64%) GitLab
3 28 (5.17%) Git
4 20 (3.69%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.92%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.37%) git-flow
7 2 (0.37%) JMeter
7 2 (0.37%) Maven
7 2 (0.37%) NUnit
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) Gradle
8 1 (0.18%) JUnit
8 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 63 (11.62%) Finance
2 46 (8.49%) Banking
3 41 (7.56%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.46%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.95%) Law
7 15 (2.77%) Retail Banking
8 14 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.85%) Games
10 9 (1.66%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.48%) Retail
12 7 (1.29%) Back Office
12 7 (1.29%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Advertising
14 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.55%) Automotive
14 3 (0.55%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.27%) Kafka
2 17 (3.14%) React
3 15 (2.77%) PySpark
4 13 (2.40%) .NET
4 13 (2.40%) Node.js
4 13 (2.40%) RESTful
5 12 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.03%) AWS CDK
7 10 (1.85%) REST
8 9 (1.66%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.11%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.11%) Spring
10 5 (0.92%) Django
10 5 (0.92%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.92%) LangChain
10 5 (0.92%) SAML
11 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.74%) JWT
11 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 106 (19.56%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
3 16 (2.95%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.03%) AI Agents
5 9 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.48%) Sports Betting
7 7 (1.29%) Blog
7 7 (1.29%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.29%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.92%) NHS
9 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.55%) PropTech
11 3 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.01%) Linux
2 8 (1.48%) Windows
3 6 (1.11%) Unix
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (30.07%) DevOps
2 144 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (25.65%) CI/CD
4 95 (17.53%) Software Engineering
5 66 (12.18%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 56 (10.33%) Observability
8 50 (9.23%) Agile
8 50 (9.23%) Containerisation
9 48 (8.86%) Data Pipeline
10 47 (8.67%) Cloud Security
11 44 (8.12%) AI
12 41 (7.56%) Data Engineering
13 40 (7.38%) ETL
14 39 (7.20%) Analytics
15 36 (6.64%) Mentoring
16 35 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (6.46%) High Availability
17 34 (6.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 202 (37.27%) Python
2 66 (12.18%) SQL
3 52 (9.59%) Bash
4 36 (6.64%) Java
5 32 (5.90%) C#
5 32 (5.90%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.54%) Go
7 29 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.14%) C++
9 11 (2.03%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.11%) Groovy
11 3 (0.55%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Bicep
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.52%) Degree
3 50 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.87%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.29%) CISSP
9 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.11%) CCIE
9 6 (1.11%) CCNA
9 6 (1.11%) CCNP
9 6 (1.11%) CCSA
9 6 (1.11%) CCSE
9 6 (1.11%) CCSK
10 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.14%) SOC 2
3 16 (2.95%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.21%) GDPR
4 12 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.85%) QA
7 5 (0.92%) NIST
8 4 (0.74%) SLA
9 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (11.99%) Docker
2 10 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 168 (31.00%) Terraform
2 74 (13.65%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.98%) Grafana
4 26 (4.80%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.24%) Ansible
6 14 (2.58%) Argo
7 9 (1.66%) Istio
7 9 (1.66%) Packer
8 6 (1.11%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.37%) Nagios
10 1 (0.18%) Consul
10 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (4.61%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.03%) Databricks
2 11 (2.03%) Google
3 10 (1.85%) Oracle
4 9 (1.66%) Cisco
5 8 (1.48%) CheckPoint
5 8 (1.48%) Confluent
5 8 (1.48%) Fortinet
6 7 (1.29%) Informatica
6 7 (1.29%) Talend
7 6 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.74%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.74%) VMware
9 3 (0.55%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.55%) Pega
9 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.55%) SAP
10 2 (0.37%) LogicMonitor