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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 300 258
Rank change year-on-year -58 -42 +33
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 547 477 894
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.96% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.06% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 448 376 593
10th Percentile £52,500 £69,375 £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 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.43% - -

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 97,698 44,800 78,990
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 90.07% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 66,827 26,689 53,699
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 £71,915
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,844
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 3 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 3 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 -30 526 £75,000 -31.82% 122
UK excluding London +89 319 £74,500 +6.43% 61
London -131 204 £85,000 -24.44% 74
Work from Home -118 144 £85,000 -22.73% 54
North of England +35 106 £70,000 - 20
North West +48 74 £72,250 +3.21% 13
South West -1 74 £75,000 -25.00% 11
South East +33 64 £65,000 +5.26% 10
Midlands +2 55 £70,000 -3.45% 7
West Midlands -11 41 £70,000 -3.45% 3
Yorkshire -15 23 £80,000 - 5
East of England -12 18 £90,000 +40.63% 4
East Midlands -10 14 £77,500 +35.96% 4
North East -48 9 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland -10 2 £90,000 -10.00% 8
Wales -60 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 547 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (35.83%) Python
3 172 (31.44%) Terraform
4 166 (30.35%) DevOps
5 135 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 132 (24.13%) CI/CD
7 92 (16.82%) Software Engineering
8 87 (15.90%) Security Cleared
9 84 (15.36%) Amazon S3
10 78 (14.26%) Kubernetes
11 77 (14.08%) Azure
12 73 (13.35%) Docker
13 69 (12.61%) Serverless
14 62 (11.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 62 (11.33%) SQL
15 61 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
16 56 (10.24%) Amazon EC2
16 56 (10.24%) Platform Engineering
17 54 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
17 54 (9.87%) Degree
18 52 (9.51%) Agile
19 50 (9.14%) Containerisation
20 49 (8.96%) Cloud Security
21 48 (8.78%) Bash
21 48 (8.78%) SC Cleared
22 47 (8.59%) AWS CloudFormation
23 45 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
23 45 (8.23%) Observability
24 44 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 44 (8.04%) 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 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.74%) Apache
3 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 5 (0.91%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
5 4 (0.73%) 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 (0.73%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 547 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (15.36%) Amazon S3
3 77 (14.08%) Azure
4 69 (12.61%) Serverless
5 56 (10.24%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (8.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 43 (7.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 38 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (6.03%) Datadog
11 33 (6.03%) GitHub
12 32 (5.85%) SaaS
13 29 (5.30%) GCP
14 23 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (3.66%) Snowflake
16 19 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.11%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (3.11%) dbt
18 16 (2.93%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.65%) DNS
2 8 (1.46%) Firewall
3 3 (0.55%) 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 40 (7.31%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.01%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (1.46%) Metadata
10 7 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.28%) MySQL
11 5 (0.91%) Big Data
11 5 (0.91%) Power BI
12 4 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.73%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (6.76%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.58%) GitLab
3 28 (5.12%) Git
4 20 (3.66%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.10%) JIRA
6 5 (0.91%) 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%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.18%) Gatling
9 1 (0.18%) Maven
9 1 (0.18%) Snyk
9 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (8.96%) Finance
2 46 (8.41%) Social Skills
3 36 (6.58%) Banking
4 35 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.56%) Health Technology
6 14 (2.56%) Law
6 14 (2.56%) Retail Banking
7 10 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.46%) Games
10 7 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.91%) Legal
12 4 (0.73%) Automotive
12 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.37%) Billing
14 2 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.85%) Kafka
2 18 (3.29%) React
3 13 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.19%) Node.js
4 12 (2.19%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.83%) PySpark
5 10 (1.83%) RESTful
6 9 (1.65%) .NET
6 9 (1.65%) AWS CDK
7 7 (1.28%) REST
8 6 (1.10%) Django
8 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.10%) Spring
9 5 (0.91%) LangGraph
9 5 (0.91%) SAML
10 4 (0.73%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.73%) LangChain
10 4 (0.73%) Next.js
10 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 105 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.29%) Distributed Computing
3 12 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.83%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.28%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
8 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.91%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.73%) Life Science
9 4 (0.73%) PropTech
10 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.55%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.55%) NHS
11 2 (0.37%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.50%) Linux
2 10 (1.83%) Windows
3 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (30.35%) DevOps
2 135 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 132 (24.13%) CI/CD
4 92 (16.82%) Software Engineering
5 62 (11.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 61 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.24%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (9.51%) Agile
9 50 (9.14%) Containerisation
10 49 (8.96%) Cloud Security
11 45 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (8.23%) Observability
12 44 (8.04%) Data Pipeline
13 41 (7.50%) AI
14 35 (6.40%) Data Engineering
14 35 (6.40%) Fintech
15 34 (6.22%) Analytics
16 33 (6.03%) ETL
16 33 (6.03%) Mentoring
17 32 (5.85%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 196 (35.83%) Python
2 62 (11.33%) SQL
3 48 (8.78%) Bash
4 33 (6.03%) Java
5 32 (5.85%) PowerShell
6 29 (5.30%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.12%) C#
8 27 (4.94%) Go
9 19 (3.47%) C++
10 11 (2.01%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.10%) Groovy
12 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) PHP
13 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 1 (0.18%) Bicep
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 54 (9.87%) Degree
3 48 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.11%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.93%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.73%) PhD
9 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.55%) CISSP
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%) CCSE
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.01%) SOC 2
3 10 (1.83%) GDPR
3 10 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.83%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.28%) QA
6 5 (0.91%) 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 73 (13.35%) Docker
2 10 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 172 (31.44%) Terraform
2 78 (14.26%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.94%) Ansible
3 27 (4.94%) Grafana
4 24 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.74%) Argo
6 9 (1.65%) Istio
6 9 (1.65%) Packer
6 9 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.37%) Nagios
8 2 (0.37%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.18%) Consul
9 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 26 (4.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.01%) Databricks
2 11 (2.01%) Oracle
3 8 (1.46%) Confluent
4 7 (1.28%) Google
5 5 (0.91%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.73%) Informatica
6 4 (0.73%) Talend
6 4 (0.73%) VMware
7 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.55%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.37%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.37%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.37%) Pega
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow