Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 240 308
Rank change year-on-year -106 +68 +69
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 433 516 875
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.26% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.41% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 325 460 524
10th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £63,626 £76,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £92,500 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £140,000 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 77,009 36,647 87,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 89.57% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 49,567 23,302 65,285
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 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 10 April 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 -92 414 £75,000 -28.57% 95
London -80 224 £90,000 -18.18% 39
UK excluding London -23 189 £70,000 +7.69% 71
Work from Home -139 130 £90,000 -18.18% 46
North of England -60 62 £68,750 +5.77% 27
North West -13 51 £70,000 +4.60% 20
South West -21 37 £75,000 +7.14% 7
South East -14 33 £65,000 +5.26% 21
Midlands -33 33 £70,000 +7.69% 10
West Midlands +7 27 £62,500 +21.95% 8
East of England -33 22 £75,000 +17.19% 4
East Midlands -59 6 £72,500 +11.54% 2
Yorkshire -63 6 £66,250 +29.27% 5
North East -31 5 £60,000 -11.11% 2
Scotland -12 3 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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.

1 433 (100.00%) AWS
2 165 (38.11%) Python
3 146 (33.72%) DevOps
4 126 (29.10%) Terraform
5 120 (27.71%) CI/CD
6 111 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 83 (19.17%) Azure
8 72 (16.63%) Software Engineering
9 68 (15.70%) Serverless
10 65 (15.01%) Platform Engineering
11 63 (14.55%) Amazon S3
12 60 (13.86%) Kubernetes
13 55 (12.70%) SaaS
14 54 (12.47%) Amazon EKS
14 54 (12.47%) Security Cleared
15 53 (12.24%) Java
16 50 (11.55%) Degree
17 49 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (11.09%) Docker
18 48 (11.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 47 (10.85%) Observability
19 47 (10.85%) SQL
20 45 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
21 44 (10.16%) Agile
22 42 (9.70%) Bash
22 42 (9.70%) Cloud Security
22 42 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 39 (9.01%) ETL
24 38 (8.78%) AI
24 38 (8.78%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 25 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.39%) Apache
3 13 (3.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.69%) IIS
4 3 (0.69%) SAS
5 2 (0.46%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Drupal
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 433 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (19.17%) Azure
3 68 (15.70%) Serverless
4 63 (14.55%) Amazon S3
5 55 (12.70%) SaaS
6 54 (12.47%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (11.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 45 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (8.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (7.85%) GCP
11 33 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (6.70%) GitHub
14 23 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (3.93%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (3.70%) Snowflake
17 14 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (3.23%) dbt
18 12 (2.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.54%) Firewall
2 18 (4.16%) Cisco ASA
2 18 (4.16%) Cisco Firepower
2 18 (4.16%) LAN
2 18 (4.16%) WAN
2 18 (4.16%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (2.77%) BGP
3 12 (2.77%) VPN
4 7 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.39%) VLAN
6 5 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.15%) IPsec
6 5 (1.15%) MPLS
6 5 (1.15%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.15%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.15%) OSPF
6 5 (1.15%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.15%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.15%) WLAN
7 2 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.08%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (6.24%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
3 16 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.00%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.00%) MySQL
7 9 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.39%) Flink
9 6 (1.39%) Metadata
9 6 (1.39%) Pentaho
10 5 (1.15%) Big Data
11 4 (0.92%) Apache Arrow
11 4 (0.92%) Apache Ignite
11 4 (0.92%) Dremio
11 4 (0.92%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (5.77%) Git
2 23 (5.31%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.93%) GitLab
4 8 (1.85%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.15%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.92%) JIRA
7 3 (0.69%) NUnit
8 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.46%) Maven
9 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.23%) Deequ
9 1 (0.23%) Gradle
9 1 (0.23%) JUnit
9 1 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 86 (19.86%) Finance
2 59 (13.63%) Banking
3 41 (9.47%) Social Skills
4 23 (5.31%) Law
5 22 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.46%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.46%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.23%) Retail
7 14 (3.23%) Retail Banking
8 12 (2.77%) Back Office
9 11 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.31%) Front Office
11 7 (1.62%) Games
12 6 (1.39%) Advertising
12 6 (1.39%) Legal
13 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Billing
15 2 (0.46%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.55%) Kafka
2 15 (3.46%) .NET
2 15 (3.46%) React
3 14 (3.23%) Node.js
4 13 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.77%) AWS CDK
5 12 (2.77%) PySpark
5 12 (2.77%) REST
6 10 (2.31%) .NET Core
7 9 (2.08%) OAuth
7 9 (2.08%) RESTful
7 9 (2.08%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.85%) Spring
9 7 (1.62%) JWT
9 7 (1.62%) Loki
9 7 (1.62%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.15%) LangChain
10 5 (1.15%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.92%) Pandas
11 4 (0.92%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.47%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.24%) Data Centre
3 25 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.16%) Hedge funds
5 17 (3.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.00%) Security Posture
8 11 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.31%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.31%) Fixed Income
10 9 (2.08%) Blog
10 9 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.92%) Equities
12 4 (0.92%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.54%) Linux
2 12 (2.77%) Unix
3 7 (1.62%) Windows
4 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (33.72%) DevOps
2 120 (27.71%) CI/CD
3 111 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (16.63%) Software Engineering
5 65 (15.01%) Platform Engineering
6 49 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (10.85%) Observability
8 44 (10.16%) Agile
9 42 (9.70%) Cloud Security
9 42 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 39 (9.01%) ETL
11 38 (8.78%) AI
11 38 (8.78%) High Availability
12 34 (7.85%) Containerisation
12 34 (7.85%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (7.62%) Computer Science
13 33 (7.62%) Data Engineering
14 31 (7.16%) Analytics
15 30 (6.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 28 (6.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 165 (38.11%) Python
2 53 (12.24%) Java
3 47 (10.85%) SQL
4 42 (9.70%) Bash
5 32 (7.39%) TypeScript
6 26 (6.00%) Go
7 24 (5.54%) C#
8 12 (2.77%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.15%) C++
11 4 (0.92%) Scala
12 2 (0.46%) Bicep
12 2 (0.46%) Groovy
12 2 (0.46%) PHP
12 2 (0.46%) Ruby
13 1 (0.23%) C
13 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (12.47%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.55%) Degree
3 33 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.31%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.00%) CCIE
5 13 (3.00%) CCNA
5 13 (3.00%) CCNP
5 13 (3.00%) CCSA
5 13 (3.00%) CCSE
5 13 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.77%) CISSP
7 11 (2.54%) CCSK
8 8 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.85%) SOC 2
2 20 (4.62%) PCI DSS
3 16 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.46%) GDPR
5 14 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.08%) QA
7 8 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.62%) NIST
9 4 (0.92%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.69%) SLA
11 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (11.09%) Docker
2 8 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.69%) HDFS
4 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 126 (29.10%) Terraform
2 60 (13.86%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.77%) Grafana
4 20 (4.62%) Ansible
5 18 (4.16%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.00%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.08%) Argo
7 9 (2.08%) Istio
8 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.46%) Kibana
9 2 (0.46%) logstash
9 2 (0.46%) Packer
9 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.23%) Consul
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (4.85%) Cisco
2 18 (4.16%) CheckPoint
2 18 (4.16%) Fortinet
3 13 (3.00%) Google
4 12 (2.77%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.54%) Databricks
5 11 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.85%) Confluent
6 8 (1.85%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.85%) SolarWinds
7 7 (1.62%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.39%) Informatica
8 6 (1.39%) Talend
9 5 (1.15%) Meraki
10 4 (0.92%) Pega
10 4 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.92%) SAP
11 3 (0.69%) Oracle
12 2 (0.46%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.46%) LogicMonitor