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 23 August 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 314 273
Rank change year-on-year -52 -41 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 538 430 846
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.86% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.96% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 428 334 585
10th Percentile £51,775 £62,875 £56,250
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 £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 101,748 44,897 78,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 89.88% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 69,683 26,626 51,954
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,150 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.56% -4.63% -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 23 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 23 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 -27 517 £75,000 -31.82% 58
UK excluding London +73 320 £70,000 - 43
London -106 197 £85,000 -24.44% 25
Work from Home -121 137 £85,000 -22.73% 26
North of England +30 106 £70,000 - 13
South West +1 80 £75,000 -25.00% 7
North West +30 66 £75,000 +7.14% 3
South East +26 63 £65,000 +5.26% 12
Midlands -6 51 £70,000 -3.45% 6
West Midlands -15 36 £70,000 -3.45% 2
Yorkshire -17 28 £67,500 - 4
East of England -10 16 £95,000 +48.44% 4
East Midlands -17 15 £80,000 +40.35% 4
North East -47 12 £52,250 -19.62% 6
Scotland -9 4 £90,000 -10.00% 2
Wales -60 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 538 (100.00%) AWS
2 202 (37.55%) Python
3 182 (33.83%) Terraform
4 153 (28.44%) DevOps
5 140 (26.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (24.91%) CI/CD
7 88 (16.36%) Amazon S3
8 86 (15.99%) Software Engineering
9 80 (14.87%) Kubernetes
10 79 (14.68%) Security Cleared
11 78 (14.50%) Docker
12 73 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 70 (13.01%) Serverless
14 67 (12.45%) Azure
14 67 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
15 63 (11.71%) Amazon EC2
16 59 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
18 55 (10.22%) Cloud Security
18 55 (10.22%) SQL
19 54 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
20 53 (9.85%) Agile
21 52 (9.67%) Degree
21 52 (9.67%) Observability
22 51 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
23 49 (9.11%) Amazon RDS
23 49 (9.11%) Bash
23 49 (9.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 48 (8.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 48 (8.92%) Containerisation

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 23 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.42%) Apache
3 8 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.74%) Confluence
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
5 4 (0.74%) nginx
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 (0.74%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 538 (100.00%) AWS
2 88 (16.36%) Amazon S3
3 70 (13.01%) Serverless
4 67 (12.45%) Azure
5 63 (11.71%) Amazon EC2
6 58 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (9.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 48 (8.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (7.99%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (6.88%) Datadog
12 34 (6.32%) GitHub
13 32 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (5.76%) GCP
15 27 (5.02%) SaaS
16 21 (3.90%) Snowflake
17 19 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (3.35%) AWS CloudTrail
19 16 (2.97%) dbt
20 13 (2.42%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.04%) DNS
2 9 (1.67%) Firewall
3 5 (0.93%) VPN
4 3 (0.56%) 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%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.19%) LAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.11%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (4.28%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.30%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.30%) MySQL
9 5 (0.93%) Big Data
9 5 (0.93%) Metadata
9 5 (0.93%) Power BI
10 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.56%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.56%) Redis
11 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (6.32%) GitLab
1 34 (6.32%) Jenkins
2 27 (5.02%) Git
3 17 (3.16%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.30%) JIRA
5 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.74%) git-flow
7 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.37%) JMeter
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) Snyk
7 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (8.92%) Finance
2 46 (8.55%) Social Skills
3 35 (6.51%) Banking
4 33 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.53%) Law
7 14 (2.60%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.42%) Retail Banking
9 9 (1.67%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.49%) Games
10 8 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.93%) Automotive
11 5 (0.93%) Legal
12 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.56%) Marketing
14 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (33.83%) Terraform
2 28 (5.20%) Kafka
3 18 (3.35%) React
4 16 (2.97%) Pulumi
5 14 (2.60%) Node.js
6 12 (2.23%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.23%) OpenTofu
6 12 (2.23%) Spring Boot
7 11 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.86%) RESTful
9 9 (1.67%) .NET
9 9 (1.67%) PySpark
10 7 (1.30%) Django
11 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.93%) LangGraph
12 5 (0.93%) REST
12 5 (0.93%) SAML
12 5 (0.93%) Spring
12 5 (0.93%) Vue
13 4 (0.74%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 101 (18.77%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.72%) Distributed Computing
3 19 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.30%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.74%) Life Science
10 4 (0.74%) PropTech
11 3 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.56%) NHS
11 3 (0.56%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.55%) Linux
2 13 (2.42%) Windows
3 6 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (28.44%) DevOps
2 140 (26.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (24.91%) CI/CD
4 86 (15.99%) Software Engineering
5 73 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 67 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (10.22%) Cloud Security
9 54 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
10 53 (9.85%) Agile
11 52 (9.67%) Observability
12 48 (8.92%) Containerisation
13 42 (7.81%) AI
14 41 (7.62%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (6.32%) DevSecOps
15 34 (6.32%) Migration
16 32 (5.95%) Analytics
16 32 (5.95%) Full-Stack Development
17 31 (5.76%) Data Engineering
18 29 (5.39%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 202 (37.55%) Python
2 55 (10.22%) SQL
3 49 (9.11%) Bash
4 38 (7.06%) PowerShell
5 31 (5.76%) Java
6 30 (5.58%) C#
6 30 (5.58%) TypeScript
7 26 (4.83%) Go
8 22 (4.09%) C++
9 12 (2.23%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.12%) Groovy
11 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.56%) Ruby
13 2 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 52 (9.67%) Degree
3 43 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.53%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.93%) PhD
8 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.19%) CCIE
10 1 (0.19%) CISSP
10 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.97%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.49%) SLA
4 7 (1.30%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.12%) GDPR
5 6 (1.12%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.12%) QA
6 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 78 (14.50%) Docker
2 10 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (14.87%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.32%) Ansible
3 30 (5.58%) Grafana
4 20 (3.72%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.79%) Argo
6 11 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.67%) Packer
8 8 (1.49%) Istio
9 7 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.74%) Puppet
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
11 2 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (4.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.23%) Dynatrace
2 12 (2.23%) Oracle
3 11 (2.04%) Databricks
4 8 (1.49%) Confluent
5 6 (1.12%) Google
5 6 (1.12%) VMware
6 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.56%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.56%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.56%) Informatica
7 3 (0.56%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.56%) Talend
8 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.37%) FactSet
8 2 (0.37%) Solace
9 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.19%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.19%) New Relic
9 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv