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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 304 271
Rank change year-on-year -52 -33 +35
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 538 473 937
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.96% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.07% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 442 372 624
10th Percentile £52,625 £63,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £89,875
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +22.39% +12.34%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 94,649 44,285 87,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.20% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,854 26,220 61,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,082
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -41 516 £75,000 -31.82% 122
UK excluding London +100 309 £75,000 +7.14% 57
London -105 203 £85,000 -22.73% 75
Work from Home -112 145 £90,000 -18.18% 49
North of England +34 100 £70,000 - 16
North West +42 72 £74,500 +6.43% 10
South West +3 67 £75,000 -25.00% 16
South East +29 63 £65,000 +5.26% 11
Midlands +5 58 £70,000 -3.45% 5
West Midlands -6 43 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Yorkshire -11 21 £80,000 - 2
East of England +8 20 £85,000 +32.81% 2
East Midlands -16 15 £80,000 +40.35% 1
North East -49 7 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Scotland 0 1 £90,000 -10.00% 5
Wales -53 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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.

1 538 (100.00%) AWS
2 197 (36.62%) Python
3 170 (31.60%) Terraform
4 166 (30.86%) DevOps
5 136 (25.28%) CI/CD
6 135 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 92 (17.10%) Software Engineering
8 86 (15.99%) Security Cleared
9 85 (15.80%) Amazon S3
10 78 (14.50%) Kubernetes
11 77 (14.31%) Azure
12 70 (13.01%) Serverless
13 68 (12.64%) Docker
14 62 (11.52%) SQL
15 59 (10.97%) Platform Engineering
16 58 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
17 57 (10.59%) Degree
18 56 (10.41%) Amazon EC2
19 54 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
19 54 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 51 (9.48%) Containerisation
21 50 (9.29%) Agile
22 49 (9.11%) Bash
22 49 (9.11%) SC Cleared
23 46 (8.55%) Cloud Security
23 46 (8.55%) Observability
23 46 (8.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 45 (8.36%) AWS CloudFormation
25 44 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 44 (8.18%) 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 27 (5.02%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.97%) Apache
3 10 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.93%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 538 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.80%) Amazon S3
3 77 (14.31%) Azure
4 70 (13.01%) Serverless
5 56 (10.41%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (8.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 45 (8.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (6.88%) SaaS
12 32 (5.95%) GitHub
13 27 (5.02%) Datadog
13 27 (5.02%) GCP
14 21 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.53%) Snowflake
16 17 (3.16%) AWS CloudTrail
16 17 (3.16%) dbt
17 16 (2.97%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.67%) Firewall
2 8 (1.49%) DNS
3 5 (0.93%) VPN
4 3 (0.56%) BGP
4 3 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (0.56%) LAN
4 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.56%) WAN
4 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.37%) 4G
5 2 (0.37%) 5G
5 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.37%) IPv4
5 2 (0.37%) VLAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.42%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.42%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (1.49%) Metadata
9 7 (1.30%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.30%) MySQL
10 6 (1.12%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.93%) Big Data
11 5 (0.93%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.93%) Power BI
12 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (6.88%) GitLab
2 36 (6.69%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.02%) Git
4 20 (3.72%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.93%) JIRA
5 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.37%) git-flow
6 2 (0.37%) JMeter
6 2 (0.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) Gatling
7 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (9.48%) Finance
2 42 (7.81%) Social Skills
3 38 (7.06%) Banking
4 35 (6.51%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.79%) Retail Banking
7 14 (2.60%) Law
8 13 (2.42%) Health Technology
9 11 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.49%) Games
12 6 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.93%) Retail
14 4 (0.74%) Automotive
14 4 (0.74%) Back Office
14 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
14 4 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.74%) Legal
15 3 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.13%) Kafka
2 18 (3.35%) React
3 13 (2.42%) Node.js
4 12 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.23%) RESTful
5 10 (1.86%) PySpark
5 10 (1.86%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.67%) .NET
7 8 (1.49%) AWS CDK
7 8 (1.49%) REST
8 6 (1.12%) Django
8 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.12%) LangGraph
9 5 (0.93%) LangChain
9 5 (0.93%) SAML
9 5 (0.93%) Spring
10 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.74%) Vue
10 4 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 108 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.35%) Distributed Computing
3 11 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 10 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.30%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.30%) Sports Betting
7 5 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.74%) Blog
8 4 (0.74%) Hedge funds
8 4 (0.74%) Life Science
8 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.74%) PropTech
8 4 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.43%) Linux
2 8 (1.49%) Windows
3 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.74%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (30.86%) DevOps
2 136 (25.28%) CI/CD
3 135 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (17.10%) Software Engineering
5 59 (10.97%) Platform Engineering
6 58 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 51 (9.48%) Containerisation
9 50 (9.29%) Agile
10 46 (8.55%) Cloud Security
10 46 (8.55%) Observability
11 44 (8.18%) Data Pipeline
12 41 (7.62%) AI
13 38 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (7.06%) Mentoring
14 36 (6.69%) Data Engineering
15 35 (6.51%) Analytics
15 35 (6.51%) ETL
16 34 (6.32%) Fintech
17 33 (6.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 197 (36.62%) Python
2 62 (11.52%) SQL
3 49 (9.11%) Bash
4 33 (6.13%) Java
5 29 (5.39%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.20%) C#
6 28 (5.20%) Go
7 27 (5.02%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.35%) C++
9 12 (2.23%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.12%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) Bicep
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 86 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.59%) Degree
3 49 (9.11%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.97%) AWS Certification
5 16 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.93%) CISSP
8 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.74%) CCSK
8 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.74%) PhD
9 3 (0.56%) CCIE
9 3 (0.56%) CCNA
9 3 (0.56%) CCNP
9 3 (0.56%) CCSA
9 3 (0.56%) CCSE
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.60%) SOC 2
3 13 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.86%) GDPR
4 10 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.49%) QA
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.56%) NIST
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (12.64%) Docker
2 10 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 170 (31.60%) Terraform
2 78 (14.50%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.02%) Prometheus
4 25 (4.65%) Grafana
5 21 (3.90%) Ansible
6 14 (2.60%) Argo
7 9 (1.67%) Istio
7 9 (1.67%) Packer
8 8 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (5.02%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.23%) Oracle
3 10 (1.86%) Databricks
4 9 (1.67%) Google
5 8 (1.49%) Confluent
6 5 (0.93%) Informatica
6 5 (0.93%) Talend
7 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.74%) MuleSoft
7 4 (0.74%) VMware
8 3 (0.56%) CheckPoint
8 3 (0.56%) Cisco
8 3 (0.56%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.56%) Pega
8 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.56%) SAP
8 3 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.19%) SolarWinds