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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 316 292
Rank change year-on-year -65 -24 -16
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 543 426 706
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.86% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.96% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 425 324 531
10th Percentile £51,250 £64,125 £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 £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 108,916 44,178 72,902
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.68% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 74,482 25,948 42,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,552 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,769
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 24 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 24 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 -52 509 £75,000 -31.82% 464
UK excluding London +59 339 £72,500 - 283
London -131 180 £85,000 -22.73% 225
Work from Home -139 125 £90,000 -18.18% 179
North of England +18 116 £70,000 - 94
South West -9 75 £75,000 -25.00% 37
North West +11 65 £75,000 +7.14% 66
South East -3 62 £65,000 -18.75% 24
Midlands -25 54 £67,500 -6.90% 41
Yorkshire -5 36 £70,000 - 22
West Midlands -39 30 £70,000 -3.45% 20
East Midlands -9 24 £65,000 -2.99% 21
East of England -20 17 £100,000 +56.25% 19
Scotland -4 15 £100,000 - 50
North East -53 15 £47,000 -27.69% 6
Wales -77 1 £90,000 +56.52% 4

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 543 (100.00%) AWS
2 206 (37.94%) Python
3 180 (33.15%) Terraform
4 157 (28.91%) DevOps
5 150 (27.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 142 (26.15%) CI/CD
7 114 (20.99%) Software Engineering
8 94 (17.31%) Security Cleared
9 82 (15.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 79 (14.55%) Amazon S3
10 79 (14.55%) Docker
10 79 (14.55%) Kubernetes
11 74 (13.63%) Serverless
12 71 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (12.15%) Amazon EC2
13 66 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
14 65 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (11.60%) Observability
16 62 (11.42%) Cloud Security
17 61 (11.23%) Agile
18 58 (10.68%) Amazon RDS
19 56 (10.31%) SC Cleared
20 55 (10.13%) Bash
21 53 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
21 53 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
22 51 (9.39%) Degree
23 50 (9.21%) SQL
24 47 (8.66%) AI
24 47 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 47 (8.66%) 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 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.66%) Apache
2 9 (1.66%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.92%) CMS
3 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.74%) 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
3 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 543 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (14.55%) Amazon S3
3 74 (13.63%) Serverless
4 66 (12.15%) Amazon EC2
4 66 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 47 (8.66%) Azure
7 46 (8.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 40 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
9 35 (6.45%) GitHub
10 34 (6.26%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (6.08%) Datadog
12 23 (4.24%) SaaS
13 21 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.50%) AWS CloudTrail
14 19 (3.50%) GCP
15 18 (3.31%) Snowflake
16 12 (2.21%) dbt
17 11 (2.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.03%) DNS
2 9 (1.66%) Firewall
3 7 (1.29%) VPN
4 5 (0.92%) DHCP
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.68%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.03%) Redis
6 10 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (1.84%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.66%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.10%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.92%) Big Data
10 5 (0.92%) MySQL
11 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.74%) Power BI
11 4 (0.74%) 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%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (8.29%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.45%) GitLab
3 27 (4.97%) Git
4 13 (2.39%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.29%) JIRA
6 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.74%) 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 (8.47%) Social Skills
2 43 (7.92%) Finance
3 34 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.89%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.50%) Law
7 14 (2.58%) Banking
7 14 (2.58%) Health Technology
8 9 (1.66%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.29%) Front Office
9 7 (1.29%) Games
10 6 (1.10%) Legal
11 5 (0.92%) Automotive
12 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Marketing
13 3 (0.55%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.18%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (33.15%) Terraform
2 21 (3.87%) Kafka
3 19 (3.50%) React
4 18 (3.31%) Node.js
4 18 (3.31%) Pulumi
5 17 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 15 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (2.21%) AWS CDK
7 12 (2.21%) OpenTofu
7 12 (2.21%) RESTful
8 11 (2.03%) .NET
9 9 (1.66%) Keycloak
9 9 (1.66%) PySpark
10 8 (1.47%) REST
10 8 (1.47%) Spring
11 7 (1.29%) Django
12 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.10%) Next.js
13 5 (0.92%) SAML
13 5 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 95 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.42%) Distributed Computing
3 23 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.66%) Replication
7 8 (1.47%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.47%) Sports Betting
8 7 (1.29%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.92%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.74%) Life Science
10 4 (0.74%) NHS
10 4 (0.74%) PropTech
11 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.37%) Genomics
12 2 (0.37%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.47%) Linux
2 14 (2.58%) Windows
3 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (28.91%) DevOps
2 150 (27.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 142 (26.15%) CI/CD
4 114 (20.99%) Software Engineering
5 82 (15.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 71 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (11.60%) Observability
9 62 (11.42%) Cloud Security
10 61 (11.23%) Agile
11 53 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (8.66%) AI
13 39 (7.18%) Data Pipeline
14 38 (7.00%) ITIL
15 37 (6.81%) Full-Stack Development
16 35 (6.45%) Containerisation
16 35 (6.45%) Migration
17 34 (6.26%) DevSecOps
18 32 (5.89%) Infrastructure Automation
18 32 (5.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 206 (37.94%) Python
2 55 (10.13%) Bash
3 50 (9.21%) SQL
4 38 (7.00%) Java
4 38 (7.00%) PowerShell
5 36 (6.63%) C#
6 33 (6.08%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.16%) C++
8 16 (2.95%) Groovy
8 16 (2.95%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.58%) Go
10 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.18%) Perl
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 94 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.39%) Degree
4 25 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.05%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.68%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.92%) PhD
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%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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 (2.58%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.47%) QA
2 8 (1.47%) SLA
3 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.37%) GDPR
4 2 (0.37%) NIST
4 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (14.55%) Docker
2 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) vSphere
4 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (14.55%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.63%) Grafana
3 32 (5.89%) Ansible
4 27 (4.97%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.95%) Argo
6 12 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.66%) Rancher
8 8 (1.47%) Packer
9 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.74%) 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 (3.87%) Dynatrace
1 21 (3.87%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.76%) Databricks
3 14 (2.58%) Oracle
4 9 (1.66%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.29%) VMware
6 5 (0.92%) Google
7 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.55%) Informatica
8 3 (0.55%) Intel
8 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.55%) Talend
9 2 (0.37%) FactSet
9 2 (0.37%) Solace
10 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.18%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.18%) New Relic
10 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv