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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 294 269
Rank change year-on-year -60 -25 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 539 479 910
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.97% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.08% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 445 377 608
10th Percentile £53,000 £64,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
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 £68,750
% change year-on-year +6.43% +1.82% -1.79%

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 95,592 44,533 83,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.08% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65,383 26,478 58,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
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 27 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 27 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 -35 518 £75,000 -31.82% 104
UK excluding London +105 310 £74,500 +6.43% 50
London -113 204 £85,000 -22.73% 62
Work from Home -128 142 £90,000 -18.18% 43
North of England +41 102 £70,000 - 15
North West +40 73 £74,500 +6.43% 8
South West +3 69 £75,000 -25.00% 13
South East +27 63 £65,000 +5.26% 8
Midlands +3 57 £70,000 -3.45% 6
West Midlands -2 43 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Yorkshire -14 21 £80,000 - 2
East of England -2 18 £90,000 +40.63% 2
East Midlands -17 14 £77,500 +35.96% 2
North East -45 8 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Scotland -7 1 £90,000 -10.00% 5
Wales -57 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 539 (100.00%) AWS
2 194 (35.99%) Python
3 167 (30.98%) Terraform
4 165 (30.61%) DevOps
5 132 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 130 (24.12%) CI/CD
7 92 (17.07%) Software Engineering
8 87 (16.14%) Security Cleared
9 85 (15.77%) Amazon S3
10 76 (14.10%) Azure
10 76 (14.10%) Kubernetes
11 69 (12.80%) Docker
11 69 (12.80%) Serverless
12 63 (11.69%) SQL
13 59 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
14 57 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 56 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
16 55 (10.20%) Degree
16 55 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
17 53 (9.83%) AWS Lambda
18 52 (9.65%) Agile
19 50 (9.28%) Containerisation
19 50 (9.28%) SC Cleared
20 48 (8.91%) Bash
20 48 (8.91%) Cloud Security
21 45 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
21 45 (8.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
22 44 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 44 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
23 43 (7.98%) Observability

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 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.78%) Apache
3 9 (1.67%) 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
2 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 539 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.77%) Amazon S3
3 76 (14.10%) Azure
4 69 (12.80%) Serverless
5 56 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (9.83%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (8.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 44 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 40 (7.42%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (6.12%) SaaS
11 32 (5.94%) GitHub
12 29 (5.38%) Datadog
13 26 (4.82%) GCP
14 22 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (3.71%) Snowflake
16 18 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.15%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (3.15%) dbt
18 16 (2.97%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.67%) DNS
1 9 (1.67%) Firewall
2 5 (0.93%) VPN
3 3 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (0.56%) LAN
3 3 (0.56%) WAN
3 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.37%) 4G
4 2 (0.37%) 5G
4 2 (0.37%) BGP
4 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.37%) IPv4
4 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
5 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.24%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.23%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (1.48%) Metadata
10 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.30%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.30%) MySQL
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%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (6.86%) GitLab
2 35 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.01%) Git
4 20 (3.71%) 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%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Gatling
7 1 (0.19%) JUnit
7 1 (0.19%) Maven
7 1 (0.19%) Snyk
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 48 (8.91%) Finance
2 40 (7.42%) Social Skills
3 37 (6.86%) Banking
4 35 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.78%) Retail Banking
7 13 (2.41%) Health Technology
7 13 (2.41%) Law
8 10 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.48%) Games
11 6 (1.11%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.93%) Legal
13 4 (0.74%) Automotive
13 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.56%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.56%) Retail
14 3 (0.56%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.37%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.94%) Kafka
2 17 (3.15%) React
3 13 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.23%) Node.js
5 11 (2.04%) RESTful
5 11 (2.04%) Spring Boot
6 10 (1.86%) PySpark
7 9 (1.67%) .NET
8 8 (1.48%) AWS CDK
9 7 (1.30%) REST
10 6 (1.11%) Django
10 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
10 6 (1.11%) Spring
11 5 (0.93%) LangChain
11 5 (0.93%) SAML
12 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
12 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.74%) Vue
12 4 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 103 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.34%) Distributed Computing
3 11 (2.04%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.30%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.30%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.74%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.74%) Life Science
9 4 (0.74%) PropTech
10 3 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.56%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.56%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.56%) NHS
10 3 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.61%) Linux
2 9 (1.67%) Windows
3 6 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.56%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (30.61%) DevOps
2 132 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 130 (24.12%) CI/CD
4 92 (17.07%) Software Engineering
5 59 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 55 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (9.65%) Agile
9 50 (9.28%) Containerisation
10 48 (8.91%) Cloud Security
11 44 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (7.98%) Observability
13 41 (7.61%) AI
14 38 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (6.68%) Data Engineering
15 36 (6.68%) Mentoring
16 35 (6.49%) Fintech
17 34 (6.31%) Analytics
17 34 (6.31%) ETL
18 32 (5.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 194 (35.99%) Python
2 63 (11.69%) SQL
3 48 (8.91%) Bash
4 33 (6.12%) Java
5 29 (5.38%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.19%) C#
7 27 (5.01%) Go
7 27 (5.01%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.53%) C++
9 11 (2.04%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.11%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
11 3 (0.56%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.20%) Degree
3 50 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.15%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.74%) CISSP
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
9 3 (0.56%) CCSK
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.71%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.23%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.86%) GDPR
4 10 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.30%) 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 69 (12.80%) Docker
2 10 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 167 (30.98%) Terraform
2 76 (14.10%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.64%) Prometheus
4 24 (4.45%) Grafana
5 21 (3.90%) Ansible
6 15 (2.78%) Argo
7 9 (1.67%) Istio
7 9 (1.67%) Packer
8 8 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.11%) 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%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (5.01%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.23%) Oracle
3 11 (2.04%) Databricks
4 8 (1.48%) Confluent
4 8 (1.48%) Google
5 5 (0.93%) Informatica
5 5 (0.93%) Talend
6 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
6 4 (0.74%) VMware
7 3 (0.56%) CheckPoint
7 3 (0.56%) Cisco
7 3 (0.56%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.56%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.37%) Pega
8 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.37%) SAP
8 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.19%) FactSet