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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 320 275
Rank change year-on-year -48 -45 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 539 421 772
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.86% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.96% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 427 320 547
10th Percentile £51,250 £64,875 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £71,250
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 £71,250 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 106,427 44,033 73,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.62% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,226 25,764 44,965
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,131 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
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 15 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 15 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 -50 508 £75,000 -31.82% 554
UK excluding London +89 332 £71,250 - 340
London -119 184 £85,000 -22.73% 282
Work from Home -126 128 £85,000 -22.73% 228
North of England +15 106 £70,000 - 101
South West -8 78 £75,000 -25.00% 37
South East +14 64 £65,000 -18.75% 39
North West +12 61 £75,000 +7.14% 69
Midlands -24 54 £70,000 -3.45% 48
Yorkshire -14 32 £68,000 - 22
West Midlands -30 32 £70,000 -3.45% 26
East Midlands -12 22 £67,500 +0.75% 22
East of England -16 17 £100,000 +56.25% 29
Scotland -6 13 £100,000 - 65
North East -51 13 £47,000 -27.69% 10
Wales -73 1 £90,000 +56.52% 5

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 539 (100.00%) AWS
2 206 (38.22%) Python
3 187 (34.69%) Terraform
4 152 (28.20%) DevOps
5 147 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 141 (26.16%) CI/CD
7 104 (19.29%) Software Engineering
8 87 (16.14%) Security Cleared
9 85 (15.77%) Kubernetes
10 82 (15.21%) Docker
11 80 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 77 (14.29%) Amazon S3
13 70 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (12.99%) Serverless
14 65 (12.06%) Amazon EC2
15 63 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (11.50%) AWS Lambda
16 62 (11.50%) Cloud Security
17 61 (11.32%) Observability
18 56 (10.39%) Agile
18 56 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
18 56 (10.39%) Azure
19 55 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
20 54 (10.02%) AWS CloudFormation
20 54 (10.02%) Bash
21 50 (9.28%) Degree
22 49 (9.09%) SC Cleared
22 49 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 48 (8.91%) Linux
23 48 (8.91%) SQL

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 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.86%) Apache
3 9 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
5 4 (0.74%) nginx
6 3 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.56%) SAS
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 539 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 70 (12.99%) Serverless
4 65 (12.06%) Amazon EC2
5 62 (11.50%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (10.39%) Azure
7 54 (10.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 47 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 47 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.68%) GitHub
11 35 (6.49%) Datadog
12 34 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (5.01%) GCP
14 24 (4.45%) SaaS
15 22 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (3.34%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (3.34%) Snowflake
17 12 (2.23%) dbt
18 11 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.23%) DNS
2 9 (1.67%) Firewall
3 6 (1.11%) VPN
4 4 (0.74%) DHCP
5 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.37%) IPv4
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.67%) Redis
7 8 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.11%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.93%) Big Data
10 5 (0.93%) MySQL
10 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.74%) Power BI
11 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 42 (7.79%) Jenkins
2 34 (6.31%) GitLab
3 24 (4.45%) Git
4 14 (2.60%) CircleCI
5 8 (1.48%) JIRA
6 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.74%) git-flow
7 4 (0.74%) JMeter
7 4 (0.74%) Postman
8 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.37%) Snyk
9 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.19%) Gatling
10 1 (0.19%) Maven
10 1 (0.19%) Selenium
10 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (8.35%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.16%) Finance
3 33 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.57%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.08%) Banking
6 20 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.53%) Law
8 14 (2.60%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.48%) Games
11 6 (1.11%) Automotive
11 6 (1.11%) Front Office
12 5 (0.93%) Legal
12 5 (0.93%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Marketing
14 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (34.69%) Terraform
2 25 (4.64%) Kafka
3 19 (3.53%) React
4 18 (3.34%) Pulumi
5 17 (3.15%) Node.js
6 13 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.41%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.23%) AWS CDK
7 12 (2.23%) OpenTofu
8 11 (2.04%) RESTful
9 9 (1.67%) .NET
10 8 (1.48%) Django
10 8 (1.48%) PySpark
10 8 (1.48%) REST
11 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.11%) Keycloak
11 6 (1.11%) Vue
12 5 (0.93%) Next.js
12 5 (0.93%) SAML
12 5 (0.93%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 94 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.27%) Distributed Computing
3 21 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.30%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.11%) Replication
9 5 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.74%) Life Science
10 4 (0.74%) NHS
10 4 (0.74%) PropTech
11 3 (0.56%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.37%) Genomics
12 2 (0.37%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.91%) Linux
2 14 (2.60%) Windows
3 6 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (28.20%) DevOps
2 147 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (26.16%) CI/CD
4 104 (19.29%) Software Engineering
5 80 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 70 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (11.50%) Cloud Security
9 61 (11.32%) Observability
10 56 (10.39%) Agile
11 55 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
12 45 (8.35%) AI
13 42 (7.79%) Containerisation
14 37 (6.86%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (6.68%) Full-Stack Development
16 35 (6.49%) DevSecOps
16 35 (6.49%) Migration
17 34 (6.31%) ITIL
18 30 (5.57%) Infrastructure Automation
19 28 (5.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 206 (38.22%) Python
2 54 (10.02%) Bash
3 48 (8.91%) SQL
4 40 (7.42%) PowerShell
5 34 (6.31%) TypeScript
6 33 (6.12%) C#
7 32 (5.94%) Java
8 26 (4.82%) C++
9 21 (3.90%) Go
10 15 (2.78%) JavaScript
11 12 (2.23%) Groovy
12 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.56%) Ruby
14 2 (0.37%) PHP
15 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.28%) Degree
3 49 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.90%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.11%) PhD
9 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CISM
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.60%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.48%) SLA
3 7 (1.30%) QA
4 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.56%) GDPR
5 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 82 (15.21%) Docker
2 8 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (15.77%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.49%) Grafana
3 33 (6.12%) Ansible
4 25 (4.64%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.97%) Argo
6 12 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.67%) Packer
8 7 (1.30%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.11%) Istio
9 6 (1.11%) Rancher
10 4 (0.74%) Puppet
11 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
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 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 22 (4.08%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.34%) Dynatrace
3 15 (2.78%) Databricks
4 14 (2.60%) Oracle
5 7 (1.30%) VMware
6 6 (1.11%) Confluent
6 6 (1.11%) Google
6 6 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.56%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.56%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.56%) Informatica
8 3 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.56%) Talend
9 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.37%) FactSet
9 2 (0.37%) Intel
9 2 (0.37%) Solace
10 1 (0.19%) IBM
10 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv