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 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 297 299
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 544 465 994
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.05% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.17% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 436 363 642
10th Percentile £52,500 £64,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +30.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 87,334 39,784 101,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.45% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 59,870 22,508 73,554
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
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 £98,750 £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 14 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 14 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 -11 520 £75,000 -31.82% 60
UK excluding London +82 291 £70,000 +7.69% 38
London -78 227 £87,500 -20.45% 29
Work from Home -72 158 £85,000 -22.73% 46
North of England +18 95 £70,000 +7.69% 16
North West +32 73 £70,000 +3.70% 11
Midlands +23 60 £70,000 -3.45% 8
South East +16 55 £65,000 +5.26% 8
South West -5 51 £75,000 -3.23% 3
West Midlands +13 46 £67,500 -6.90% 4
East of England -2 29 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire -31 15 £80,000 - 3
East Midlands -13 14 £80,000 +33.33% 4
North East -39 7 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland 0 1 £90,000 -10.00% 1
Wales -45 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 544 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (36.95%) Python
3 159 (29.23%) Terraform
4 155 (28.49%) DevOps
5 142 (26.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 136 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 91 (16.73%) Software Engineering
8 88 (16.18%) Azure
9 82 (15.07%) Amazon S3
10 77 (14.15%) Security Cleared
11 76 (13.97%) Serverless
12 67 (12.32%) Platform Engineering
12 67 (12.32%) SQL
13 65 (11.95%) Kubernetes
14 61 (11.21%) Docker
15 58 (10.66%) Degree
15 58 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
16 57 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 57 (10.48%) SaaS
17 55 (10.11%) Bash
18 54 (9.93%) Observability
19 51 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
20 48 (8.82%) SC Cleared
21 47 (8.64%) Containerisation
22 46 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
22 46 (8.46%) Cloud Security
22 46 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
22 46 (8.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 45 (8.27%) Amazon EC2
23 45 (8.27%) ETL

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 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.94%) Apache
3 11 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
6 3 (0.55%) CMS
6 3 (0.55%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 544 (100.00%) AWS
2 88 (16.18%) Azure
3 82 (15.07%) Amazon S3
4 76 (13.97%) Serverless
5 57 (10.48%) SaaS
6 51 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (8.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 45 (8.27%) Amazon EC2
9 44 (8.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (6.25%) GitHub
12 30 (5.51%) GCP
13 26 (4.78%) Datadog
14 22 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (3.49%) Snowflake
17 17 (3.13%) dbt
18 16 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
18 16 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.31%) Firewall
2 11 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
2 11 (2.02%) Cisco Firepower
2 11 (2.02%) LAN
2 11 (2.02%) WAN
2 11 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.29%) BGP
3 7 (1.29%) VPN
4 6 (1.10%) DNS
5 4 (0.74%) 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 32 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (2.39%) MySQL
6 12 (2.21%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (1.84%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.84%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (1.47%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.29%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.29%) Metadata
11 5 (0.92%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.92%) Power BI
12 4 (0.74%) Big Data
12 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 33 (6.07%) GitLab
3 29 (5.33%) Git
4 18 (3.31%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.74%) JIRA
7 3 (0.55%) NUnit
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
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%) 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%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 64 (11.76%) Finance
2 48 (8.82%) Banking
3 38 (6.99%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.43%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.49%) Law
6 17 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.76%) Retail Banking
8 13 (2.39%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.84%) Games
10 10 (1.84%) Retail
11 8 (1.47%) Back Office
11 8 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.29%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.74%) Advertising
13 4 (0.74%) Billing
14 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.55%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.88%) Kafka
2 19 (3.49%) React
3 17 (3.13%) .NET
4 14 (2.57%) PySpark
5 13 (2.39%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (2.21%) REST
6 12 (2.21%) RESTful
7 10 (1.84%) .NET Core
7 10 (1.84%) Node.js
8 9 (1.65%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.10%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.10%) OAuth
9 6 (1.10%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.10%) Spring
10 5 (0.92%) Django
10 5 (0.92%) JWT
10 5 (0.92%) LangChain
10 5 (0.92%) SAML
11 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 95 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.49%) Data Centre
3 18 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 11 (2.02%) AI Agents
6 10 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.65%) Hedge funds
7 9 (1.65%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.65%) Sports Betting
8 8 (1.47%) Blog
8 8 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.92%) Low-Code
9 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.55%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.07%) Linux
2 8 (1.47%) Windows
3 7 (1.29%) Unix
4 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (28.49%) DevOps
2 142 (26.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 136 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 91 (16.73%) Software Engineering
5 67 (12.32%) Platform Engineering
6 58 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 54 (9.93%) Observability
9 47 (8.64%) Containerisation
10 46 (8.46%) Cloud Security
10 46 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
11 45 (8.27%) ETL
12 44 (8.09%) AI
13 43 (7.90%) Agile
14 40 (7.35%) Analytics
14 40 (7.35%) Data Engineering
15 36 (6.62%) High Availability
15 36 (6.62%) Mentoring
16 35 (6.43%) Full-Stack Development
17 33 (6.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 201 (36.95%) Python
2 67 (12.32%) SQL
3 55 (10.11%) Bash
4 38 (6.99%) Java
5 37 (6.80%) C#
6 34 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 30 (5.51%) PowerShell
8 28 (5.15%) Go
9 16 (2.94%) C++
10 11 (2.02%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.74%) Groovy
12 3 (0.55%) PHP
13 2 (0.37%) Bicep
13 2 (0.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.66%) Degree
3 48 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.23%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.47%) CCIE
7 8 (1.47%) CCNA
7 8 (1.47%) CCNP
7 8 (1.47%) CCSA
7 8 (1.47%) CCSE
7 8 (1.47%) CISSP
7 8 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 7 (1.29%) CCSK
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.41%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.31%) SOC 2
3 17 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.39%) GDPR
4 13 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.21%) QA
6 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.10%) NIST
8 4 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.74%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (11.21%) Docker
2 10 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 159 (29.23%) Terraform
2 65 (11.95%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.96%) Grafana
4 23 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.04%) Ansible
6 14 (2.57%) Argo
7 9 (1.65%) Istio
8 8 (1.47%) FortiGate
8 8 (1.47%) Packer
9 5 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.74%) 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 23 (4.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.21%) Cisco
3 11 (2.02%) CheckPoint
3 11 (2.02%) Fortinet
3 11 (2.02%) Google
4 9 (1.65%) Databricks
5 8 (1.47%) Confluent
5 8 (1.47%) Informatica
5 8 (1.47%) MuleSoft
5 8 (1.47%) Oracle
5 8 (1.47%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.47%) Talend
6 5 (0.92%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.74%) Pega
7 4 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.74%) SAP
7 4 (0.74%) VMware
8 3 (0.55%) Meraki