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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 313 299
Rank change year-on-year -63 -14 -26
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 540 419 683
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.84% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.94% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 424 317 521
10th Percentile £50,900 £64,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £74,750 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.10% +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 109,253 44,520 72,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 89.71% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74,753 26,003 42,216
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,625 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
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 27 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 27 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 -33 505 £75,000 -31.82% 454
UK excluding London +68 340 £74,750 +3.10% 287
London -136 175 £85,000 -22.73% 215
Work from Home -127 128 £90,000 -18.18% 178
North of England +28 117 £70,000 - 88
South West -14 75 £75,000 -25.00% 40
North West +11 67 £75,000 +7.14% 64
South East +2 60 £65,000 -18.75% 22
Midlands -27 55 £67,500 -6.90% 45
Yorkshire +1 36 £70,000 - 18
West Midlands -37 28 £70,000 -3.45% 22
East Midlands -16 27 £55,000 -17.91% 23
East of England -16 18 £100,000 +56.25% 20
Scotland +9 15 £100,000 - 53
North East -52 14 £47,000 -27.69% 6
Wales -72 1 £90,000 +56.52% 4

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 540 (100.00%) AWS
2 205 (37.96%) Python
3 178 (32.96%) Terraform
4 156 (28.89%) DevOps
5 153 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 142 (26.30%) CI/CD
7 119 (22.04%) Software Engineering
8 93 (17.22%) Security Cleared
9 82 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 82 (15.19%) Kubernetes
10 79 (14.63%) Docker
11 77 (14.26%) Amazon S3
12 73 (13.52%) Serverless
13 72 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
16 64 (11.85%) Amazon EC2
17 63 (11.67%) Agile
17 63 (11.67%) Observability
18 62 (11.48%) Cloud Security
19 57 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
20 56 (10.37%) SC Cleared
21 55 (10.19%) Bash
21 55 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
22 54 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
23 51 (9.44%) Degree
24 48 (8.89%) SQL
25 47 (8.70%) AI
26 46 (8.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
26 46 (8.52%) 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 13 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.85%) Apache
2 10 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.93%) CMS
3 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.56%) nginx
4 3 (0.56%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 540 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (14.26%) Amazon S3
3 73 (13.52%) Serverless
4 65 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (11.85%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (8.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 46 (8.52%) Azure
8 44 (8.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 40 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.67%) GitHub
11 34 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (5.93%) Datadog
13 21 (3.89%) SaaS
14 20 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.52%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (3.33%) GCP
17 15 (2.78%) Snowflake
18 11 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 11 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.04%) DNS
2 9 (1.67%) Firewall
3 7 (1.30%) VPN
4 5 (0.93%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) 4G
5 1 (0.19%) 5G
5 1 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.56%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.04%) Redis
6 10 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.11%) Data Vault
9 5 (0.93%) Big Data
9 5 (0.93%) Power BI
10 4 (0.74%) MySQL
10 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (8.15%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.85%) GitLab
3 27 (5.00%) Git
4 13 (2.41%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.30%) JIRA
6 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.56%) git-flow
8 3 (0.56%) Postman
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.37%) JMeter
9 2 (0.37%) Snyk
9 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.19%) Maven
General
1 48 (8.89%) Social Skills
2 43 (7.96%) Finance
3 33 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (6.11%) Public Sector
4 24 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (3.52%) Law
6 14 (2.59%) Banking
6 14 (2.59%) Health Technology
7 9 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.30%) Front Office
8 7 (1.30%) Games
9 6 (1.11%) Legal
10 5 (0.93%) Automotive
11 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.56%) Marketing
12 3 (0.56%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (32.96%) Terraform
2 20 (3.70%) Kafka
3 19 (3.52%) React
4 18 (3.33%) Node.js
4 18 (3.33%) Pulumi
4 18 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 15 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (2.22%) OpenTofu
6 12 (2.22%) RESTful
7 11 (2.04%) .NET
7 11 (2.04%) AWS CDK
8 9 (1.67%) Keycloak
8 9 (1.67%) PySpark
8 9 (1.67%) Spring
9 8 (1.48%) REST
10 7 (1.30%) Django
11 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.11%) Next.js
12 5 (0.93%) SAML
12 5 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 95 (17.59%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
3 23 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.67%) Replication
7 8 (1.48%) Sports Betting
8 7 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.74%) Life Science
10 4 (0.74%) NHS
10 4 (0.74%) PropTech
11 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.37%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.37%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.15%) Linux
2 14 (2.59%) Windows
3 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (28.89%) DevOps
2 153 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 142 (26.30%) CI/CD
4 119 (22.04%) Software Engineering
5 82 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 72 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (11.67%) Agile
8 63 (11.67%) Observability
9 62 (11.48%) Cloud Security
10 55 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (8.70%) AI
12 38 (7.04%) ITIL
13 37 (6.85%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (6.67%) Containerisation
14 36 (6.67%) DevSecOps
14 36 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
15 34 (6.30%) Migration
16 33 (6.11%) Test Automation
17 32 (5.93%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 205 (37.96%) Python
2 55 (10.19%) Bash
3 48 (8.89%) SQL
4 40 (7.41%) Java
5 39 (7.22%) PowerShell
6 36 (6.67%) C#
7 32 (5.93%) TypeScript
8 28 (5.19%) C++
9 16 (2.96%) JavaScript
10 15 (2.78%) Groovy
11 14 (2.59%) Go
12 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
13 1 (0.19%) PHP
13 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 93 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.44%) Degree
4 25 (4.63%) AWS Certification
4 25 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.93%) PhD
8 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.19%) CISM
10 1 (0.19%) CISSP
10 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.19%) GSEC
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.48%) QA
4 7 (1.30%) SLA
5 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) GDPR
7 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 79 (14.63%) Docker
2 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) vSphere
4 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (15.19%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.67%) Grafana
3 31 (5.74%) Ansible
4 27 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.96%) Argo
6 12 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.67%) Rancher
8 8 (1.48%) Packer
9 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.74%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.56%) 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 (0.19%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (3.89%) Dynatrace
1 21 (3.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.78%) Databricks
3 13 (2.41%) Oracle
4 9 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.30%) VMware
6 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.74%) Google
7 3 (0.56%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.56%) Intel
8 2 (0.37%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.37%) FactSet
8 2 (0.37%) Informatica
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.37%) Solace
8 2 (0.37%) Talend
9 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.19%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.19%) New Relic