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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 294 289
Rank change year-on-year -34 -5 +35
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 539 471 993
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.04% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.16% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 440 370 655
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £66,250
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 89,296 40,583 101,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.54% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,271 23,147 73,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 25 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 25 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 -22 517 £75,000 -31.82% 71
UK excluding London +93 295 £72,500 +11.54% 47
London -112 219 £85,000 -22.73% 34
Work from Home -85 156 £85,000 -22.73% 41
North of England +28 100 £74,500 +14.62% 16
North West +44 76 £75,000 +11.11% 11
Midlands +20 61 £70,000 -3.45% 4
South East +13 57 £65,000 +5.26% 11
South West -10 53 £75,000 -3.23% 11
West Midlands +12 46 £67,500 -6.90% 3
East of England +1 23 £82,500 +26.92% 2
Yorkshire -15 17 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -19 15 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North East -42 7 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Scotland -12 1 £90,000 -10.00% 3
Wales -48 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 539 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (37.29%) Python
3 166 (30.80%) Terraform
4 164 (30.43%) DevOps
5 146 (27.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 138 (25.60%) CI/CD
7 94 (17.44%) Software Engineering
8 84 (15.58%) Azure
9 83 (15.40%) Amazon S3
10 80 (14.84%) Security Cleared
11 74 (13.73%) Serverless
12 71 (13.17%) Kubernetes
13 67 (12.43%) Platform Engineering
14 65 (12.06%) SQL
15 64 (11.87%) Docker
16 59 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
17 58 (10.76%) Degree
18 57 (10.58%) Observability
19 54 (10.02%) Bash
19 54 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 51 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
21 50 (9.28%) Amazon EC2
21 50 (9.28%) Containerisation
21 50 (9.28%) SC Cleared
22 48 (8.91%) Cloud Security
22 48 (8.91%) SaaS
23 47 (8.72%) Agile
23 47 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 46 (8.53%) Data Pipeline
24 46 (8.53%) 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 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.15%) Apache
3 12 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) 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 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 539 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (15.58%) Azure
3 83 (15.40%) Amazon S3
4 74 (13.73%) Serverless
5 51 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
6 50 (9.28%) Amazon EC2
7 48 (8.91%) SaaS
8 47 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 46 (8.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 45 (8.35%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 35 (6.49%) GitHub
13 29 (5.38%) GCP
14 28 (5.19%) Datadog
15 23 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (3.53%) Snowflake
18 17 (3.15%) dbt
19 16 (2.97%) Pulumi
20 15 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.78%) Firewall
2 8 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (1.48%) LAN
2 8 (1.48%) WAN
2 8 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.30%) DNS
3 7 (1.30%) VPN
4 6 (1.11%) BGP
5 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.56%) VLAN
7 2 (0.37%) 4G
7 2 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.37%) IPsec
7 2 (0.37%) IPv4
7 2 (0.37%) MPLS
7 2 (0.37%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.37%) OSPF
7 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.41%) DynamoDB
5 12 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.23%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.86%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (1.67%) MySQL
8 8 (1.48%) Metadata
9 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.30%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.30%) Pentaho
9 7 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.93%) Power BI
11 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.74%) Big Data
11 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (7.24%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.68%) GitLab
3 28 (5.19%) Git
4 20 (3.71%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.74%) JIRA
7 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.37%) git-flow
8 2 (0.37%) JMeter
8 2 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) NUnit
8 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) Gradle
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 61 (11.32%) Finance
2 47 (8.72%) Banking
3 41 (7.61%) Social Skills
4 34 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.97%) Law
7 15 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 14 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.86%) Games
10 9 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.48%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.48%) Retail
12 7 (1.30%) Back Office
12 7 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.74%) Billing
15 3 (0.56%) Advertising
15 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.56%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.31%) Kafka
2 17 (3.15%) React
3 14 (2.60%) PySpark
4 13 (2.41%) .NET
4 13 (2.41%) RESTful
5 12 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.23%) Node.js
6 11 (2.04%) AWS CDK
7 10 (1.86%) REST
8 9 (1.67%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.11%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.11%) Spring
10 5 (0.93%) Django
10 5 (0.93%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.93%) LangChain
10 5 (0.93%) SAML
11 4 (0.74%) JWT
11 4 (0.74%) Loki
11 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 104 (19.29%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
3 16 (2.97%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 9 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (1.67%) Sports Betting
6 8 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.48%) Hedge funds
6 8 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.48%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.30%) Blog
8 6 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.74%) NHS
11 3 (0.56%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.56%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.49%) Linux
2 6 (1.11%) Unix
2 6 (1.11%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (30.43%) DevOps
2 146 (27.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 138 (25.60%) CI/CD
4 94 (17.44%) Software Engineering
5 67 (12.43%) Platform Engineering
6 59 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (10.58%) Observability
8 54 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 50 (9.28%) Containerisation
10 48 (8.91%) Cloud Security
11 47 (8.72%) Agile
12 46 (8.53%) Data Pipeline
13 43 (7.98%) AI
14 40 (7.42%) Data Engineering
15 39 (7.24%) ETL
16 38 (7.05%) Analytics
17 36 (6.68%) High Availability
17 36 (6.68%) Mentoring
18 34 (6.31%) Microservices
19 31 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 201 (37.29%) Python
2 65 (12.06%) SQL
3 54 (10.02%) Bash
4 35 (6.49%) Java
5 32 (5.94%) C#
6 31 (5.75%) TypeScript
7 30 (5.57%) Go
7 30 (5.57%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.15%) C++
9 10 (1.86%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.93%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Bicep
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.76%) Degree
3 50 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.27%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.30%) CISSP
9 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.27%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.15%) SOC 2
3 16 (2.97%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.23%) GDPR
4 12 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.86%) QA
6 5 (0.93%) NIST
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (11.87%) Docker
2 10 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 166 (30.80%) Terraform
2 71 (13.17%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.01%) Grafana
4 26 (4.82%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.08%) Ansible
6 14 (2.60%) Argo
7 9 (1.67%) Istio
8 8 (1.48%) Packer
9 6 (1.11%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (4.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (1.86%) Databricks
2 10 (1.86%) Google
2 10 (1.86%) Oracle
3 9 (1.67%) Cisco
4 8 (1.48%) CheckPoint
4 8 (1.48%) Confluent
4 8 (1.48%) Fortinet
5 7 (1.30%) Informatica
5 7 (1.30%) Talend
6 6 (1.11%) MuleSoft
6 6 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.74%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.74%) VMware
8 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.56%) Pega
8 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.56%) SAP
9 2 (0.37%) LogicMonitor