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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 333 291
Rank change year-on-year -41 -42 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 542 382 635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.78% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.86% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 424 280 515
10th Percentile £50,225 £64,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.56% -1.72% +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 109,883 44,162 67,664
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 89.77% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,751 25,776 38,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -34 498 £75,000 -31.82% 425
UK excluding London +49 348 £74,500 +4.56% 254
London -147 168 £80,000 -27.27% 201
North of England +24 120 £74,500 +6.43% 89
Work from Home -122 119 £85,000 -22.73% 191
South West +1 76 £75,000 +36.36% 27
North West +23 75 £75,000 +7.14% 65
South East -3 59 £65,000 -18.75% 27
Midlands -20 55 £66,250 -8.62% 27
Yorkshire -3 33 £70,000 - 17
East Midlands -2 32 £45,000 -16.67% 16
Scotland +14 23 £100,000 - 45
West Midlands -47 23 £67,500 -6.90% 11
East of England -33 14 £90,000 +44.00% 24
North East -52 12 £47,000 -27.69% 7
Wales -67 1 £90,000 +56.52% 5

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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
2 213 (39.30%) Python
3 173 (31.92%) Terraform
4 163 (30.07%) DevOps
5 149 (27.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 136 (25.09%) CI/CD
7 132 (24.35%) Software Engineering
8 90 (16.61%) Security Cleared
9 88 (16.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 83 (15.31%) Kubernetes
11 81 (14.94%) Amazon S3
12 80 (14.76%) Serverless
13 75 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (13.65%) Docker
15 70 (12.92%) Agile
16 69 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
16 69 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (11.25%) Amazon EC2
17 61 (11.25%) Cloud Security
18 60 (11.07%) Observability
19 59 (10.89%) Amazon RDS
20 57 (10.52%) AWS CloudFormation
21 56 (10.33%) SC Cleared
22 53 (9.78%) SQL
23 50 (9.23%) Bash
24 49 (9.04%) Degree
24 49 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
25 48 (8.86%) AI
25 48 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
26 44 (8.12%) Linux

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 17 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.58%) Apache
3 13 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.55%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Magento
1 3 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 542 (100.00%) AWS
2 81 (14.94%) Amazon S3
3 80 (14.76%) Serverless
4 69 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (11.25%) Amazon EC2
6 57 (10.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 42 (7.75%) Azure
8 42 (7.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (6.83%) GitHub
11 34 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (5.72%) Datadog
13 21 (3.87%) SaaS
14 18 (3.32%) AWS CloudTrail
14 18 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (2.77%) GCP
16 14 (2.58%) dbt
17 13 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (2.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.21%) DNS
2 8 (1.48%) Firewall
2 8 (1.48%) VPN
3 6 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (0.18%) 4G
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.89%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.21%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.03%) Redis
9 8 (1.48%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.48%) Power BI
10 6 (1.11%) Apache Iceberg
10 6 (1.11%) Data Vault
11 5 (0.92%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.74%) Big Data
12 4 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.74%) MySQL
12 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (7.56%) Jenkins
2 34 (6.27%) GitLab
3 28 (5.17%) Git
4 14 (2.58%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.92%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.55%) git-flow
7 3 (0.55%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.37%) JMeter
8 2 (0.37%) MLflow
8 2 (0.37%) Snyk
8 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.18%) Maven
9 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (9.04%) Social Skills
2 46 (8.49%) Finance
3 33 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.72%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.51%) Law
7 14 (2.58%) Health Technology
8 13 (2.40%) Banking
9 11 (2.03%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.48%) Front Office
11 7 (1.29%) Automotive
12 6 (1.11%) Games
12 6 (1.11%) Legal
13 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Marketing
14 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.18%) Billing
15 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (31.92%) Terraform
2 22 (4.06%) Kafka
3 17 (3.14%) Pulumi
4 16 (2.95%) Node.js
5 14 (2.58%) Spring Boot
6 13 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.40%) PySpark
6 13 (2.40%) RESTful
7 12 (2.21%) React
8 11 (2.03%) .NET
8 11 (2.03%) AWS CDK
8 11 (2.03%) OpenTofu
9 9 (1.66%) Keycloak
9 9 (1.66%) Spring
10 8 (1.48%) Next.js
11 7 (1.29%) Django
11 7 (1.29%) REST
11 7 (1.29%) Vue
12 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.61%) Distributed Computing
3 23 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (2.40%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.66%) Replication
8 8 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.29%) Sports Betting
10 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.92%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.74%) Life Science
11 4 (0.74%) NHS
11 4 (0.74%) PropTech
12 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.37%) Genomics
13 2 (0.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.12%) Linux
2 13 (2.40%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (30.07%) DevOps
2 149 (27.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 136 (25.09%) CI/CD
4 132 (24.35%) Software Engineering
5 88 (16.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (12.92%) Agile
8 69 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (11.25%) Cloud Security
10 60 (11.07%) Observability
11 49 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
12 48 (8.86%) AI
13 41 (7.56%) Data Pipeline
14 38 (7.01%) ITIL
14 38 (7.01%) Test Automation
15 36 (6.64%) Infrastructure Automation
16 35 (6.46%) Machine Learning
16 35 (6.46%) Migration
17 34 (6.27%) Containerisation
17 34 (6.27%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 213 (39.30%) Python
2 53 (9.78%) SQL
3 50 (9.23%) Bash
4 38 (7.01%) Java
5 36 (6.64%) C#
5 36 (6.64%) PowerShell
6 29 (5.35%) C++
7 26 (4.80%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.14%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.58%) Groovy
10 11 (2.03%) Go
11 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.18%) PHP
13 1 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 90 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.33%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.04%) Degree
4 27 (4.98%) AWS Certification
5 26 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (3.87%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.29%) PhD
9 6 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISM
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.18%) GSEC
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.48%) QA
3 6 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.92%) SLA
5 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (13.65%) Docker
2 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.92%) vSphere
3 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (15.31%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.64%) Grafana
3 30 (5.54%) Ansible
4 27 (4.98%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.77%) Argo
6 11 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.66%) Rancher
8 7 (1.29%) Packer
9 5 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.92%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.55%) Puppet
11 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.18%) Kibana
12 1 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (3.87%) Dynatrace
2 19 (3.51%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.32%) Databricks
4 11 (2.03%) Oracle
5 9 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.48%) VMware
7 5 (0.92%) Intel
8 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.74%) Google
9 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.37%) FactSet
10 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.37%) Solace
11 1 (0.18%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.18%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.18%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.18%) Informatica
11 1 (0.18%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.18%) New Relic
11 1 (0.18%) Talend