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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 320 284
Rank change year-on-year -46 -36 -4
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 542 421 718
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.86% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.96% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 425 319 534
10th Percentile £51,250 £65,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £74,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.76% +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 108,269 43,856 72,591
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 89.61% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,176 25,746 43,293
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £74,100
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 22 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 22 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 -41 508 £75,000 -31.82% 465
UK excluding London +57 338 £74,500 +2.76% 273
London -140 180 £85,000 -22.73% 229
Work from Home -136 121 £87,500 -20.45% 174
North of England +13 114 £70,000 - 95
South West -9 75 £75,000 -25.00% 37
South East +9 63 £65,000 -18.75% 24
North West -3 63 £75,000 +7.14% 65
Midlands -20 54 £67,500 -6.90% 37
Yorkshire -10 36 £70,000 - 23
West Midlands -41 31 £70,000 -3.45% 18
East Midlands -11 23 £56,250 -16.04% 19
East of England -14 17 £100,000 +56.25% 19
Scotland -2 15 £100,000 - 45
North East -52 15 £47,000 -27.69% 7
Wales -75 1 £90,000 +56.52% 5

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 542 (100.00%) AWS
2 204 (37.64%) Python
3 183 (33.76%) Terraform
4 155 (28.60%) DevOps
5 149 (27.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 141 (26.01%) CI/CD
7 111 (20.48%) Software Engineering
8 94 (17.34%) Security Cleared
9 82 (15.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 80 (14.76%) Kubernetes
11 79 (14.58%) Amazon S3
12 78 (14.39%) Docker
13 72 (13.28%) Serverless
14 71 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (11.99%) Amazon EC2
15 65 (11.99%) AWS Lambda
15 65 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (11.62%) Cloud Security
16 63 (11.62%) Observability
17 62 (11.44%) Agile
18 58 (10.70%) Amazon RDS
19 56 (10.33%) SC Cleared
20 55 (10.15%) Bash
21 54 (9.96%) Platform Engineering
22 53 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
23 52 (9.59%) Degree
24 49 (9.04%) SQL
25 47 (8.67%) AI
25 47 (8.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 47 (8.67%) 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
Cloud Services
1 542 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (14.58%) Amazon S3
3 72 (13.28%) Serverless
4 65 (11.99%) Amazon EC2
4 65 (11.99%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (8.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 47 (8.67%) Azure
7 46 (8.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 41 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (6.27%) GitHub
10 33 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (6.09%) Datadog
11 23 (4.24%) SaaS
12 21 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (3.51%) AWS CloudTrail
13 19 (3.51%) GCP
14 18 (3.32%) Snowflake
15 12 (2.21%) dbt
16 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 (10.70%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.03%) Redis
6 10 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.66%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.11%) 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%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (8.30%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.46%) GitLab
3 27 (4.98%) Git
4 13 (2.40%) 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 47 (8.67%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.56%) Finance
3 34 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.90%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.51%) Law
7 15 (2.77%) Banking
8 14 (2.58%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.29%) Games
11 6 (1.11%) Automotive
11 6 (1.11%) Front Office
12 5 (0.92%) Legal
12 5 (0.92%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Marketing
14 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (33.76%) Terraform
2 21 (3.87%) Kafka
3 19 (3.51%) React
4 18 (3.32%) Pulumi
5 17 (3.14%) Node.js
6 16 (2.95%) Spring Boot
7 15 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (2.21%) AWS CDK
8 12 (2.21%) OpenTofu
8 12 (2.21%) RESTful
9 10 (1.85%) .NET
10 9 (1.66%) Keycloak
10 9 (1.66%) PySpark
11 8 (1.48%) Django
11 8 (1.48%) REST
12 7 (1.29%) Spring
13 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
13 6 (1.11%) Vue
14 5 (0.92%) Next.js
14 5 (0.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (17.71%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.61%) Distributed Computing
3 23 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.66%) Replication
7 8 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.48%) 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%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.37%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.67%) 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
1 155 (28.60%) DevOps
2 149 (27.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (26.01%) CI/CD
4 111 (20.48%) Software Engineering
5 82 (15.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 71 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (11.62%) Cloud Security
8 63 (11.62%) Observability
9 62 (11.44%) Agile
10 54 (9.96%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (8.67%) AI
12 39 (7.20%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (7.01%) ITIL
14 37 (6.83%) Full-Stack Development
15 36 (6.64%) Migration
16 34 (6.27%) Containerisation
16 34 (6.27%) DevSecOps
17 31 (5.72%) Infrastructure Automation
17 31 (5.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 204 (37.64%) Python
2 55 (10.15%) Bash
3 49 (9.04%) SQL
4 38 (7.01%) PowerShell
5 36 (6.64%) C#
6 35 (6.46%) Java
6 35 (6.46%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.17%) C++
8 17 (3.14%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.95%) Groovy
10 14 (2.58%) Go
11 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
13 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 94 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.33%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.59%) Degree
4 26 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.87%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.11%) PhD
9 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.18%) CISM
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.18%) GSEC
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.58%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.48%) SLA
3 7 (1.29%) QA
4 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.37%) GDPR
5 2 (0.37%) NIST
5 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (14.39%) 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 80 (14.76%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.64%) Grafana
3 32 (5.90%) Ansible
4 27 (4.98%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.95%) Argo
6 12 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.66%) Rancher
8 8 (1.48%) Packer
9 6 (1.11%) 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
2 20 (3.69%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.77%) Databricks
4 14 (2.58%) Oracle
5 9 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.29%) VMware
7 5 (0.92%) Google
8 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.55%) Informatica
9 3 (0.55%) Intel
9 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.55%) Talend
10 2 (0.37%) FactSet
10 2 (0.37%) Solace
11 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.18%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.18%) New Relic
11 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv