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 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 309 266
Rank change year-on-year -63 -43 +17
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 526 428 813
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.86% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.96% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 419 333 571
10th Percentile £51,250 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,750 £80,000 £71,250
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 £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 103,220 44,750 77,447
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 89.79% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,976 26,578 49,466
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 2 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 2 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 -26 502 £75,000 -31.82% 256
UK excluding London +78 317 £71,250 +1.79% 155
London -123 186 £85,000 -22.73% 157
Work from Home -126 134 £85,000 -22.73% 95
North of England +23 104 £67,500 -3.57% 39
South West 0 77 £75,000 -25.00% 19
South East +16 63 £65,000 +4.00% 16
North West +23 62 £75,000 +7.14% 18
Midlands -19 50 £70,000 -3.45% 17
West Midlands -17 33 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Yorkshire -19 29 £66,750 - 16
East of England -9 17 £100,000 +56.25% 11
East Midlands -16 17 £77,500 +29.17% 13
North East -46 13 £47,000 -27.69% 5
Scotland -13 6 £100,000 - 44
Wales -70 1 £90,000 +50.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 526 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (37.64%) Python
3 184 (34.98%) Terraform
4 152 (28.90%) DevOps
5 144 (27.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (26.43%) CI/CD
7 96 (18.25%) Software Engineering
8 84 (15.97%) Kubernetes
9 81 (15.40%) Docker
9 81 (15.40%) Security Cleared
10 79 (15.02%) Amazon S3
11 77 (14.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 69 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (13.12%) Serverless
13 64 (12.17%) Amazon EC2
13 64 (12.17%) Azure
14 62 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
16 58 (11.03%) Cloud Security
17 57 (10.84%) Observability
18 54 (10.27%) Amazon RDS
18 54 (10.27%) AWS CloudFormation
18 54 (10.27%) Platform Engineering
19 52 (9.89%) Bash
20 51 (9.70%) Agile
21 50 (9.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
22 49 (9.32%) Degree
22 49 (9.32%) SQL
23 48 (9.13%) Amazon EKS
23 48 (9.13%) Linux

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 15 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.90%) Apache
3 8 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.95%) CMS
4 5 (0.95%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.76%) IIS
5 4 (0.76%) nginx
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
6 3 (0.57%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 526 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (15.02%) Amazon S3
3 69 (13.12%) Serverless
4 64 (12.17%) Amazon EC2
4 64 (12.17%) Azure
5 59 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (10.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (9.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 48 (9.13%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (8.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (6.84%) Datadog
11 34 (6.46%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (6.27%) GitHub
13 29 (5.51%) GCP
14 25 (4.75%) SaaS
15 18 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (3.42%) Snowflake
16 17 (3.23%) AWS CloudTrail
17 13 (2.47%) Amazon MSK
18 12 (2.28%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.28%) DNS
2 10 (1.90%) Firewall
3 6 (1.14%) VPN
4 4 (0.76%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.38%) IPv4
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.19%) LAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.27%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (1.71%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.71%) DynamoDB
6 8 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.14%) Data Vault
8 6 (1.14%) MySQL
8 6 (1.14%) Redis
9 5 (0.95%) Big Data
10 4 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (0.76%) Power BI
10 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.57%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 36 (6.84%) Jenkins
2 32 (6.08%) GitLab
3 25 (4.75%) Git
4 16 (3.04%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.14%) JIRA
6 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.76%) git-flow
8 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.38%) JMeter
8 2 (0.38%) Postman
8 2 (0.38%) Snyk
8 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 47 (8.94%) Finance
2 46 (8.75%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.70%) Banking
5 29 (5.51%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.61%) Law
7 17 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.66%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.90%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.71%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.52%) Games
12 6 (1.14%) Automotive
13 5 (0.95%) Front Office
13 5 (0.95%) Legal
14 4 (0.76%) Digital Health
14 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.76%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.57%) Marketing
16 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (34.98%) Terraform
2 26 (4.94%) Kafka
3 19 (3.61%) React
4 16 (3.04%) Pulumi
5 15 (2.85%) Node.js
6 13 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (2.28%) AWS CDK
7 12 (2.28%) OpenTofu
7 12 (2.28%) Spring Boot
8 10 (1.90%) RESTful
9 9 (1.71%) .NET
10 8 (1.52%) Django
10 8 (1.52%) PySpark
11 7 (1.33%) REST
12 6 (1.14%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.14%) Vue
13 5 (0.95%) Next.js
13 5 (0.95%) SAML
13 5 (0.95%) Spring
14 4 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 95 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (3.99%) Distributed Computing
4 15 (2.85%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.33%) Sports Betting
9 5 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.95%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.76%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.76%) Life Science
10 4 (0.76%) NHS
10 4 (0.76%) PropTech
11 3 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.57%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.57%) Replication
12 2 (0.38%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.38%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.13%) Linux
2 14 (2.66%) Windows
3 6 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (28.90%) DevOps
2 144 (27.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (26.43%) CI/CD
4 96 (18.25%) Software Engineering
5 77 (14.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 69 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (11.03%) Cloud Security
9 57 (10.84%) Observability
10 54 (10.27%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (9.70%) Agile
12 47 (8.94%) Containerisation
13 44 (8.37%) AI
14 37 (7.03%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (6.84%) Migration
16 34 (6.46%) DevSecOps
16 34 (6.46%) Full-Stack Development
17 31 (5.89%) ITIL
18 28 (5.32%) Infrastructure Automation
19 27 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 198 (37.64%) Python
2 52 (9.89%) Bash
3 49 (9.32%) SQL
4 38 (7.22%) PowerShell
5 32 (6.08%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.89%) C#
6 31 (5.89%) Java
7 25 (4.75%) Go
8 23 (4.37%) C++
9 13 (2.47%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.71%) Groovy
11 4 (0.76%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.57%) Ruby
13 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.32%) Degree
3 43 (8.17%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.80%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.14%) PhD
8 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.19%) CCSA
10 1 (0.19%) CCSE
10 1 (0.19%) CISM
10 1 (0.19%) GSEC
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.66%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.52%) SLA
4 6 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.14%) QA
4 6 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.95%) GDPR
5 5 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 81 (15.40%) Docker
2 10 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (15.97%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.46%) Ansible
3 32 (6.08%) Grafana
4 22 (4.18%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.85%) Argo
6 11 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.71%) Packer
8 8 (1.52%) Istio
9 7 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.76%) Puppet
11 3 (0.57%) Rancher
11 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.38%) Nagios
13 1 (0.19%) Consul
13 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (4.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.85%) Dynatrace
3 12 (2.28%) Databricks
3 12 (2.28%) Oracle
4 8 (1.52%) Confluent
5 7 (1.33%) VMware
6 6 (1.14%) Google
7 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.57%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.57%) Informatica
8 3 (0.57%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.57%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.57%) Talend
9 2 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.38%) FactSet
9 2 (0.38%) Solace
10 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.19%) New Relic
10 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv