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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 292 292
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 545 466 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.15% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 442 365 659
10th Percentile £52,625 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -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 89,394 40,455 102,187
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.45% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 61,374 23,051 73,787
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 June 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 June 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 -14 523 £75,000 -31.82% 57
UK excluding London +112 296 £72,500 +11.54% 44
London -81 224 £90,000 -18.18% 24
Work from Home -80 157 £85,000 -22.73% 31
North of England +32 101 £74,500 +14.62% 14
North West +45 77 £75,000 +11.11% 11
Midlands +20 61 £70,000 -3.45% 4
South East +19 56 £65,000 +6.56% 11
South West -16 53 £75,000 -3.23% 9
West Midlands +18 46 £67,500 -6.90% 3
East of England -4 24 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Yorkshire -27 17 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -15 15 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North East -38 7 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland -10 1 £90,000 -10.00% 3
Wales -48 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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
2 203 (37.25%) Python
3 167 (30.64%) Terraform
4 164 (30.09%) DevOps
5 147 (26.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 138 (25.32%) CI/CD
7 94 (17.25%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.60%) Azure
9 84 (15.41%) Amazon S3
10 81 (14.86%) Security Cleared
11 75 (13.76%) Serverless
12 71 (13.03%) Kubernetes
13 68 (12.48%) Platform Engineering
14 66 (12.11%) SQL
15 64 (11.74%) Docker
16 60 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
17 58 (10.64%) Degree
18 57 (10.46%) Observability
19 55 (10.09%) Bash
19 55 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 51 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
20 51 (9.36%) SaaS
20 51 (9.36%) SC Cleared
21 50 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
21 50 (9.17%) Cloud Security
21 50 (9.17%) Containerisation
22 48 (8.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 47 (8.62%) Agile
23 47 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 47 (8.62%) 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 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.12%) Apache
3 12 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) SAS
5 4 (0.73%) CMS
5 4 (0.73%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 545 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.60%) Azure
3 84 (15.41%) Amazon S3
4 75 (13.76%) Serverless
5 51 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (9.36%) SaaS
6 50 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
7 48 (8.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 47 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 45 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (8.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (6.42%) GitHub
12 30 (5.50%) GCP
13 28 (5.14%) Datadog
14 23 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (3.49%) Snowflake
17 17 (3.12%) dbt
18 16 (2.94%) Pulumi
19 15 (2.75%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.94%) Firewall
2 9 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (1.65%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (1.65%) LAN
2 9 (1.65%) WAN
2 9 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.47%) VPN
4 7 (1.28%) BGP
4 7 (1.28%) DNS
5 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.55%) IPsec
6 3 (0.55%) MPLS
6 3 (0.55%) NetScaler
6 3 (0.55%) NX-OS
6 3 (0.55%) OSPF
6 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.55%) VLAN
6 3 (0.55%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.39%) DynamoDB
5 12 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (2.20%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (1.83%) MySQL
8 8 (1.47%) Metadata
8 8 (1.47%) Pentaho
8 8 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.92%) Power BI
11 4 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.73%) Big Data
11 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (7.16%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.61%) GitLab
3 28 (5.14%) Git
4 20 (3.67%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.73%) JIRA
7 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.37%) git-flow
8 2 (0.37%) JMeter
8 2 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) NUnit
8 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.18%) Gradle
9 1 (0.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 62 (11.38%) Finance
2 47 (8.62%) Banking
3 41 (7.52%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.12%) Law
7 15 (2.75%) Retail Banking
8 14 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.83%) Games
9 10 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.47%) Retail
12 7 (1.28%) Back Office
12 7 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.28%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.73%) Billing
15 3 (0.55%) Advertising
15 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.55%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.24%) Kafka
2 18 (3.30%) React
3 15 (2.75%) PySpark
4 14 (2.57%) .NET
5 13 (2.39%) RESTful
6 12 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (2.20%) Node.js
7 11 (2.02%) AWS CDK
8 10 (1.83%) REST
9 9 (1.65%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.28%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.10%) LangGraph
11 6 (1.10%) Spring
12 5 (0.92%) Django
12 5 (0.92%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.92%) LangChain
12 5 (0.92%) SAML
13 4 (0.73%) JWT
13 4 (0.73%) Loki
13 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.12%) Distributed Computing
3 16 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.02%) AI Agents
5 10 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.65%) Hedge funds
6 9 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.65%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.65%) Sports Betting
7 8 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.28%) Blog
9 6 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.73%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.73%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.73%) NHS
12 3 (0.55%) PropTech
12 3 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.42%) Linux
2 7 (1.28%) Unix
3 6 (1.10%) Windows
4 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (30.09%) DevOps
2 147 (26.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 138 (25.32%) CI/CD
4 94 (17.25%) Software Engineering
5 68 (12.48%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (10.46%) Observability
8 55 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 50 (9.17%) Cloud Security
9 50 (9.17%) Containerisation
10 47 (8.62%) Agile
10 47 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
11 44 (8.07%) AI
12 41 (7.52%) Data Engineering
12 41 (7.52%) ETL
13 39 (7.16%) Analytics
14 36 (6.61%) High Availability
14 36 (6.61%) Mentoring
15 34 (6.24%) Microservices
16 32 (5.87%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 203 (37.25%) Python
2 66 (12.11%) SQL
3 55 (10.09%) Bash
4 35 (6.42%) Java
5 33 (6.06%) C#
6 32 (5.87%) TypeScript
7 30 (5.50%) Go
7 30 (5.50%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.12%) C++
9 10 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.92%) Groovy
11 3 (0.55%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Bicep
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.64%) Degree
3 51 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.22%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.47%) CISSP
7 8 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.28%) CCSK
8 7 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 6 (1.10%) CCIE
9 6 (1.10%) CCNA
9 6 (1.10%) CCNP
9 6 (1.10%) CCSA
9 6 (1.10%) CCSE
10 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.12%) SOC 2
3 16 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.39%) GDPR
4 13 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.83%) QA
6 6 (1.10%) NIST
7 4 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.73%) SLA
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (11.74%) Docker
2 10 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 167 (30.64%) Terraform
2 71 (13.03%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.95%) Grafana
4 26 (4.77%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.04%) Ansible
6 14 (2.57%) Argo
7 9 (1.65%) Istio
8 8 (1.47%) Packer
9 6 (1.10%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.18%) Consul
12 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (4.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.02%) Google
3 10 (1.83%) Cisco
3 10 (1.83%) Databricks
3 10 (1.83%) Oracle
4 9 (1.65%) CheckPoint
4 9 (1.65%) Fortinet
5 8 (1.47%) Confluent
5 8 (1.47%) Informatica
5 8 (1.47%) Talend
6 7 (1.28%) MuleSoft
6 7 (1.28%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.92%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.73%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.73%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.73%) VMware
9 3 (0.55%) Meraki
9 3 (0.55%) Pega
9 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.55%) SAP