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 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 311 291
Rank change year-on-year -53 -20 -21
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 545 428 729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.87% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.97% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 429 325 539
10th Percentile £51,250 £66,500 £59,750
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 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.76% +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 108,248 44,029 73,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 89.64% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 74,086 25,880 44,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -45 512 £75,000 -31.82% 516
UK excluding London +81 340 £74,500 +2.76% 298
London -146 182 £85,000 -22.73% 272
Work from Home -143 121 £87,500 -20.45% 191
North of England +12 114 £70,000 - 91
South West -1 75 £75,000 -25.00% 40
South East -2 64 £65,000 -18.75% 27
North West +3 63 £75,000 +7.14% 62
Midlands -28 54 £67,500 -6.90% 41
Yorkshire -4 36 £70,000 - 23
West Midlands -40 31 £70,000 -3.45% 20
East Midlands -15 23 £56,250 -16.04% 21
East of England -22 18 £100,000 +56.25% 20
Scotland +6 15 £100,000 - 57
North East -47 15 £47,000 -27.69% 6
Wales -72 1 £90,000 +56.52% 8

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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.

1 545 (100.00%) AWS
2 208 (38.17%) Python
3 184 (33.76%) Terraform
4 154 (28.26%) DevOps
5 150 (27.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 141 (25.87%) CI/CD
7 111 (20.37%) Software Engineering
8 93 (17.06%) Security Cleared
9 81 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 79 (14.50%) Amazon S3
10 79 (14.50%) Kubernetes
11 78 (14.31%) Docker
12 72 (13.21%) Serverless
13 70 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
15 64 (11.74%) Amazon EC2
15 64 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 64 (11.74%) Observability
16 62 (11.38%) Cloud Security
17 61 (11.19%) Agile
18 58 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
19 56 (10.28%) Bash
19 56 (10.28%) SC Cleared
20 55 (10.09%) Platform Engineering
21 53 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
21 53 (9.72%) Degree
22 49 (8.99%) SQL
23 48 (8.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 47 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 47 (8.62%) Azure

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 14 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.65%) Apache
2 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.92%) CMS
3 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.73%) SAS
5 3 (0.55%) IIS
5 3 (0.55%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 545 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (14.50%) Amazon S3
3 72 (13.21%) Serverless
4 65 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (11.74%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (8.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 47 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 47 (8.62%) Azure
9 41 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (6.24%) GitHub
11 33 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (6.06%) Datadog
12 23 (4.22%) SaaS
13 21 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.49%) GCP
15 18 (3.30%) AWS CloudTrail
15 18 (3.30%) Snowflake
16 12 (2.20%) dbt
17 11 (2.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) DNS
2 9 (1.65%) Firewall
3 7 (1.28%) VPN
4 5 (0.92%) DHCP
5 2 (0.37%) IPv4
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) BGP
6 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.18%) SSL
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.02%) Redis
6 10 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.65%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.10%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.92%) Big Data
10 5 (0.92%) MySQL
11 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.73%) Power BI
11 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.55%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (8.26%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.42%) GitLab
3 27 (4.95%) Git
4 13 (2.39%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.28%) JIRA
6 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.73%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.73%) git-flow
8 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) Postman
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.37%) JMeter
9 2 (0.37%) Maven
9 2 (0.37%) Snyk
9 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (8.44%) Social Skills
2 40 (7.34%) Finance
3 33 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.69%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.49%) Law
7 15 (2.75%) Banking
8 14 (2.57%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.83%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.28%) Games
11 6 (1.10%) Automotive
11 6 (1.10%) Front Office
12 5 (0.92%) Legal
12 5 (0.92%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Marketing
14 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (33.76%) Terraform
2 21 (3.85%) Kafka
3 19 (3.49%) React
4 18 (3.30%) Pulumi
5 17 (3.12%) Node.js
6 16 (2.94%) Spring Boot
7 15 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (2.20%) AWS CDK
8 12 (2.20%) OpenTofu
8 12 (2.20%) RESTful
9 10 (1.83%) .NET
10 9 (1.65%) Keycloak
10 9 (1.65%) PySpark
11 8 (1.47%) Django
11 8 (1.47%) REST
12 7 (1.28%) Spring
13 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.10%) Vue
14 5 (0.92%) Next.js
14 5 (0.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.77%) Distributed Computing
3 22 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.65%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.65%) Replication
7 8 (1.47%) Sports Betting
8 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.92%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.73%) Life Science
10 4 (0.73%) NHS
10 4 (0.73%) PropTech
11 3 (0.55%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.37%) Genomics
12 2 (0.37%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.62%) Linux
2 14 (2.57%) Windows
3 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (28.26%) DevOps
2 150 (27.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (25.87%) CI/CD
4 111 (20.37%) Software Engineering
5 81 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 70 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (11.74%) Observability
8 62 (11.38%) Cloud Security
9 61 (11.19%) Agile
10 55 (10.09%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (8.44%) AI
12 39 (7.16%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (6.97%) ITIL
14 37 (6.79%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (6.42%) Migration
16 34 (6.24%) Containerisation
16 34 (6.24%) DevSecOps
17 31 (5.69%) Test Automation
18 30 (5.50%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 208 (38.17%) Python
2 56 (10.28%) Bash
3 49 (8.99%) SQL
4 38 (6.97%) PowerShell
5 37 (6.79%) C#
6 35 (6.42%) Java
6 35 (6.42%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.32%) C++
8 17 (3.12%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.94%) Groovy
10 14 (2.57%) Go
11 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
13 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 93 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.28%) SC Cleared
3 53 (9.72%) Degree
4 27 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 21 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.10%) PhD
8 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CISM
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.18%) GSEC
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.57%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.47%) SLA
3 7 (1.28%) QA
4 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.37%) GDPR
5 2 (0.37%) NIST
5 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (14.31%) Docker
2 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.73%) vSphere
4 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (14.50%) Kubernetes
2 37 (6.79%) Grafana
3 32 (5.87%) Ansible
4 27 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.94%) Argo
6 12 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.65%) Rancher
8 8 (1.47%) Packer
9 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.55%) Puppet
12 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.37%) Nagios
13 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (3.85%) Dynatrace
2 20 (3.67%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.75%) Databricks
4 14 (2.57%) Oracle
5 9 (1.65%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.28%) VMware
7 5 (0.92%) Google
8 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.55%) Informatica
9 3 (0.55%) Intel
9 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.55%) Talend
10 2 (0.37%) FactSet
10 2 (0.37%) Solace
11 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.18%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.18%) IBM
11 1 (0.18%) New Relic