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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 312 259
Rank change year-on-year -48 -53 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 546 454 890
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.91% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.01% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 436 359 590
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,313
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 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.43% - -

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 99,901 44,909 79,263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.92% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 68,253 26,546 52,909
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -40 525 £75,000 -31.82% 193
UK excluding London +88 324 £74,500 +6.43% 95
London -133 201 £85,000 -26.09% 120
Work from Home -107 141 £87,500 -20.45% 77
North of England +29 106 £70,000 - 23
South West +18 81 £75,000 -25.00% 22
North West +44 71 £74,500 +6.43% 11
South East +35 63 £65,000 +5.26% 12
Midlands -10 53 £70,000 -3.45% 10
West Midlands -10 38 £70,000 -3.45% 2
Yorkshire -1 25 £80,000 - 7
East of England -11 17 £95,000 +48.44% 4
East Midlands -17 15 £80,000 +40.35% 8
North East -49 10 £58,750 -9.62% 5
Scotland -2 4 £90,000 -10.00% 17
Wales -62 1 £90,000 +50.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 13 August 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.

1 546 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (36.26%) Python
3 176 (32.23%) Terraform
4 159 (29.12%) DevOps
5 136 (24.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (23.99%) CI/CD
7 86 (15.75%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.57%) Amazon S3
9 84 (15.38%) Security Cleared
10 79 (14.47%) Kubernetes
11 75 (13.74%) Docker
12 71 (13.00%) Azure
13 68 (12.45%) Serverless
14 67 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 63 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (10.62%) Amazon EC2
17 57 (10.44%) SQL
18 55 (10.07%) AWS Lambda
18 55 (10.07%) Platform Engineering
19 53 (9.71%) Agile
19 53 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
20 51 (9.34%) Cloud Security
21 50 (9.16%) Degree
22 49 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
22 49 (8.97%) Containerisation
22 49 (8.97%) Observability
23 46 (8.42%) Bash
23 46 (8.42%) SC Cleared
24 45 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 45 (8.24%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 24 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.56%) Apache
3 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.73%) Confluence
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
5 4 (0.73%) nginx
6 3 (0.55%) SAS
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 546 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.57%) Amazon S3
3 71 (13.00%) Azure
4 68 (12.45%) Serverless
5 58 (10.62%) Amazon EC2
6 55 (10.07%) AWS Lambda
7 49 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (8.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.59%) Datadog
11 34 (6.23%) GitHub
12 31 (5.68%) GCP
13 29 (5.31%) SaaS
14 28 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (3.85%) Snowflake
16 19 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.11%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (2.93%) dbt
18 16 (2.93%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.83%) DNS
2 8 (1.47%) Firewall
3 4 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.37%) 4G
4 2 (0.37%) 5G
4 2 (0.37%) DHCP
4 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.37%) IPv4
5 1 (0.18%) BGP
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.18%) WAN
5 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.01%) DynamoDB
6 10 (1.83%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.28%) MySQL
10 6 (1.10%) Metadata
11 5 (0.92%) Big Data
11 5 (0.92%) Power BI
12 4 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
13 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (6.41%) GitLab
1 35 (6.41%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.13%) Git
3 18 (3.30%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.28%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.73%) git-flow
7 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.37%) JMeter
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) Snyk
7 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (9.34%) Finance
2 46 (8.42%) Social Skills
3 36 (6.59%) Banking
4 32 (5.86%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.75%) Law
7 14 (2.56%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.56%) Retail Banking
8 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.47%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.47%) Games
10 5 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.92%) Legal
11 4 (0.73%) Automotive
11 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.55%) Marketing
13 2 (0.37%) Billing
13 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.49%) Kafka
2 18 (3.30%) React
3 14 (2.56%) Node.js
4 13 (2.38%) Spring Boot
5 12 (2.20%) AWS CDK
5 12 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (1.83%) RESTful
7 9 (1.65%) .NET
7 9 (1.65%) PySpark
8 6 (1.10%) Django
8 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.10%) REST
8 6 (1.10%) Spring
9 5 (0.92%) LangGraph
9 5 (0.92%) SAML
10 4 (0.73%) LangChain
10 4 (0.73%) Next.js
10 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.73%) Vue
10 4 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 107 (19.60%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.30%) Distributed Computing
3 14 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.28%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.73%) Life Science
10 4 (0.73%) PropTech
10 4 (0.73%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.55%) NHS
11 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.88%) Linux
2 12 (2.20%) Windows
3 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (29.12%) DevOps
2 136 (24.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (23.99%) CI/CD
4 86 (15.75%) Software Engineering
5 67 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 63 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (10.07%) Platform Engineering
8 53 (9.71%) Agile
8 53 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (9.34%) Cloud Security
10 49 (8.97%) Containerisation
10 49 (8.97%) Observability
11 42 (7.69%) AI
11 42 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (6.04%) Analytics
12 33 (6.04%) Data Engineering
12 33 (6.04%) DevSecOps
13 32 (5.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 31 (5.68%) Fintech
15 30 (5.49%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 198 (36.26%) Python
2 57 (10.44%) SQL
3 46 (8.42%) Bash
4 36 (6.59%) PowerShell
5 32 (5.86%) Java
6 29 (5.31%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.13%) C#
8 27 (4.95%) Go
9 20 (3.66%) C++
10 12 (2.20%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.10%) Groovy
12 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 2 (0.37%) PHP
15 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.16%) Degree
3 46 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.11%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.73%) PhD
9 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.37%) CISSP
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CCSK
11 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.11%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.47%) SOC 2
4 7 (1.28%) GDPR
4 7 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.28%) SLA
5 6 (1.10%) QA
6 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (13.74%) Docker
2 10 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 176 (32.23%) Terraform
2 79 (14.47%) Kubernetes
3 31 (5.68%) Ansible
4 29 (5.31%) Grafana
5 21 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.75%) Argo
7 10 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.65%) Packer
9 8 (1.47%) Istio
10 7 (1.28%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.73%) 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%) Consul
13 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (4.40%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.01%) Databricks
2 11 (2.01%) Oracle
3 10 (1.83%) Dynatrace
4 8 (1.47%) Confluent
5 7 (1.28%) Google
6 5 (0.92%) VMware
7 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.55%) Informatica
8 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.55%) Talend
9 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.37%) FactSet
9 2 (0.37%) Solace
10 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.18%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.18%) New Relic
10 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv