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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 298 266
Rank change year-on-year -51 -32 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 544 474 903
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.96% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.07% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 450 374 605
10th Percentile £53,625 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
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 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +6.43% +1.82% -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 95,972 44,419 82,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.03% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 65,619 26,374 56,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 July 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 July 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 -36 522 £75,000 -31.82% 115
UK excluding London +103 316 £74,500 +6.43% 56
London -109 203 £85,000 -22.73% 72
Work from Home -122 144 £87,500 -20.45% 42
North of England +37 104 £70,000 - 15
North West +34 75 £70,000 - 10
South West +8 73 £75,000 -25.00% 14
South East +16 63 £65,000 +5.26% 10
Midlands -4 56 £70,000 -3.45% 8
West Midlands -7 42 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Yorkshire -10 21 £80,000 - 2
East of England -12 18 £90,000 +40.63% 1
East Midlands -17 14 £77,500 +35.96% 4
North East -46 8 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Scotland -6 2 £90,000 -10.00% 7
Wales -58 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 544 (100.00%) AWS
2 194 (35.66%) Python
3 168 (30.88%) Terraform
4 166 (30.51%) DevOps
5 132 (24.26%) CI/CD
5 132 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 94 (17.28%) Software Engineering
7 90 (16.54%) Security Cleared
8 84 (15.44%) Amazon S3
9 77 (14.15%) Kubernetes
10 76 (13.97%) Azure
11 70 (12.87%) Docker
11 70 (12.87%) Serverless
12 62 (11.40%) SQL
13 59 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
14 56 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
15 55 (10.11%) Degree
15 55 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 54 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
16 54 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
17 53 (9.74%) Agile
18 51 (9.38%) Containerisation
19 50 (9.19%) SC Cleared
20 49 (9.01%) Cloud Security
21 48 (8.82%) Bash
22 46 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
23 45 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 45 (8.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 44 (8.09%) AI
25 43 (7.90%) Data Pipeline

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 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.76%) Apache
3 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
5 4 (0.74%) SAS
6 3 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 544 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (15.44%) Amazon S3
3 76 (13.97%) Azure
4 70 (12.87%) Serverless
5 56 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (8.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
10 32 (5.88%) GitHub
10 32 (5.88%) SaaS
11 29 (5.33%) Datadog
12 26 (4.78%) GCP
13 22 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (3.68%) Snowflake
15 18 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
16 17 (3.13%) dbt
17 16 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.65%) DNS
2 8 (1.47%) Firewall
3 4 (0.74%) VPN
4 2 (0.37%) 4G
4 2 (0.37%) 5G
4 2 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.37%) IPv4
4 2 (0.37%) LAN
4 2 (0.37%) WAN
4 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) BGP
5 1 (0.18%) DHCP
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.17%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.21%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (1.47%) Metadata
10 7 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.29%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.29%) MySQL
11 5 (0.92%) Big Data
11 5 (0.92%) Power BI
12 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.74%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (6.80%) GitLab
2 36 (6.62%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.15%) Git
4 20 (3.68%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.10%) JIRA
6 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.55%) git-flow
8 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.37%) JMeter
8 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.18%) Maven
9 1 (0.18%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) Snyk
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 47 (8.64%) Finance
2 40 (7.35%) Social Skills
3 36 (6.62%) Banking
3 36 (6.62%) Public Sector
4 25 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.76%) Retail Banking
6 14 (2.57%) Health Technology
7 13 (2.39%) Law
8 10 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.47%) Games
11 7 (1.29%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.92%) Legal
13 4 (0.74%) Automotive
13 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.37%) Billing
15 2 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.88%) Kafka
2 18 (3.31%) React
3 13 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.21%) Node.js
4 12 (2.21%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.84%) PySpark
5 10 (1.84%) RESTful
6 9 (1.65%) .NET
6 9 (1.65%) AWS CDK
7 7 (1.29%) REST
8 6 (1.10%) Django
8 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.10%) LangGraph
8 6 (1.10%) Spring
9 5 (0.92%) LangChain
9 5 (0.92%) SAML
10 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.74%) Next.js
10 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 103 (18.93%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
3 11 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.02%) Onboarding
4 10 (1.84%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.29%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.29%) Sports Betting
6 6 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (0.92%) Algorithms
7 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.74%) Life Science
8 4 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.74%) PropTech
9 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.55%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.55%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.35%) Linux
2 10 (1.84%) Windows
3 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.55%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (30.51%) DevOps
2 132 (24.26%) CI/CD
2 132 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 94 (17.28%) Software Engineering
4 59 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 54 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
7 53 (9.74%) Agile
8 51 (9.38%) Containerisation
9 49 (9.01%) Cloud Security
10 44 (8.09%) AI
11 43 (7.90%) Data Pipeline
11 43 (7.90%) Observability
12 40 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (6.43%) Data Engineering
13 35 (6.43%) Fintech
13 35 (6.43%) Mentoring
14 34 (6.25%) Analytics
15 33 (6.07%) ETL
16 32 (5.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 194 (35.66%) Python
2 62 (11.40%) SQL
3 48 (8.82%) Bash
4 34 (6.25%) Java
5 30 (5.51%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.15%) C#
6 28 (5.15%) PowerShell
7 27 (4.96%) Go
8 19 (3.49%) C++
9 11 (2.02%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.10%) Groovy
11 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) PHP
12 3 (0.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Bicep
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.11%) Degree
3 50 (9.19%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.74%) CISSP
8 4 (0.74%) PhD
9 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.55%) CCSK
9 3 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.37%) CCIE
10 2 (0.37%) CCNA
10 2 (0.37%) CCNP
10 2 (0.37%) CCSA
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.68%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.02%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.84%) GDPR
3 10 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.84%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.29%) QA
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 3 (0.55%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (12.87%) Docker
2 10 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 168 (30.88%) Terraform
2 77 (14.15%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.60%) Prometheus
4 24 (4.41%) Grafana
5 22 (4.04%) Ansible
6 15 (2.76%) Argo
7 9 (1.65%) Istio
7 9 (1.65%) Packer
7 9 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.37%) Nagios
9 2 (0.37%) Puppet
10 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.18%) Consul
10 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 27 (4.96%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.02%) Databricks
2 11 (2.02%) Oracle
3 8 (1.47%) Confluent
3 8 (1.47%) Google
4 4 (0.74%) Informatica
4 4 (0.74%) Talend
4 4 (0.74%) VMware
5 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
5 3 (0.55%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.37%) CheckPoint
6 2 (0.37%) Cisco
6 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.37%) Fortinet
6 2 (0.37%) Pega
6 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.37%) SAP
6 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow