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 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 311 260
Rank change year-on-year -53 -51 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 549 444 873
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.89% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.99% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 438 348 585
10th Percentile £51,775 £64,625 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 100,469 44,986 78,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 89.94% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 68,644 26,650 52,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -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 16 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 16 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 -30 528 £75,000 -31.82% 44
UK excluding London +94 326 £72,500 +3.57% 33
London -122 202 £85,000 -24.44% 17
Work from Home -116 141 £87,500 -20.45% 19
North of England +22 108 £70,000 - 10
South West -3 81 £75,000 -25.00% 6
North West +36 69 £75,000 +7.14% 3
South East +9 63 £65,000 +5.26% 11
Midlands +2 53 £70,000 -3.45% 6
West Midlands -11 38 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Yorkshire -6 27 £73,750 - 3
East of England -18 17 £95,000 +48.44%
East Midlands -13 15 £80,000 +40.35% 5
North East -54 12 £52,250 -19.62% 4
Scotland -14 4 £90,000 -10.00%
Wales -63 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 549 (100.00%) AWS
2 203 (36.98%) Python
3 181 (32.97%) Terraform
4 159 (28.96%) DevOps
5 140 (25.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 135 (24.59%) CI/CD
7 89 (16.21%) Amazon S3
8 88 (16.03%) Software Engineering
9 82 (14.94%) Security Cleared
10 81 (14.75%) Kubernetes
11 78 (14.21%) Docker
12 71 (12.93%) Azure
12 71 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 71 (12.93%) Serverless
13 67 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
14 62 (11.29%) Amazon EC2
15 58 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
16 57 (10.38%) SQL
17 56 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
18 55 (10.02%) Cloud Security
19 54 (9.84%) Agile
20 52 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
20 52 (9.47%) Degree
21 50 (9.11%) Bash
21 50 (9.11%) Observability
22 49 (8.93%) Containerisation
22 49 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 48 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 48 (8.74%) Amazon RDS

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 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.55%) Apache
3 9 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 5 (0.91%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.73%) Confluence
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
5 4 (0.73%) nginx
6 3 (0.55%) SAS
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Magento
2 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 549 (100.00%) AWS
2 89 (16.21%) Amazon S3
3 71 (12.93%) Azure
3 71 (12.93%) Serverless
4 62 (11.29%) Amazon EC2
5 58 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 49 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 48 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.56%) Datadog
11 34 (6.19%) GitHub
12 31 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (5.65%) GCP
13 29 (5.28%) SaaS
14 21 (3.83%) Snowflake
15 19 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (3.28%) AWS CloudTrail
17 16 (2.91%) dbt
17 16 (2.91%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) DNS
2 8 (1.46%) Firewall
3 4 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.36%) 4G
4 2 (0.36%) 5G
4 2 (0.36%) DHCP
4 2 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.36%) 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 48 (8.74%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.37%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 10 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.28%) MySQL
10 6 (1.09%) Metadata
11 5 (0.91%) Big Data
11 5 (0.91%) 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%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (6.38%) GitLab
1 35 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 29 (5.28%) Git
3 18 (3.28%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.28%) JIRA
5 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.73%) git-flow
7 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.36%) JMeter
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) Snyk
7 2 (0.36%) 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%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (9.29%) Finance
2 47 (8.56%) Social Skills
3 36 (6.56%) Banking
4 34 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.46%) Law
7 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.55%) Retail Banking
8 9 (1.64%) Aerospace
8 9 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.46%) Games
10 5 (0.91%) Automotive
10 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.91%) Legal
11 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.55%) Marketing
13 2 (0.36%) Billing
13 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.46%) Kafka
2 18 (3.28%) React
3 14 (2.55%) Node.js
4 13 (2.37%) Spring Boot
5 12 (2.19%) AWS CDK
5 12 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (1.82%) RESTful
7 9 (1.64%) .NET
7 9 (1.64%) PySpark
8 7 (1.28%) Django
9 6 (1.09%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.09%) REST
9 6 (1.09%) Spring
10 5 (0.91%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.91%) SAML
10 5 (0.91%) Vue
11 4 (0.73%) LangChain
11 4 (0.73%) Next.js
11 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 107 (19.49%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.46%) Distributed Computing
3 17 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.46%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.28%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.73%) Life Science
10 4 (0.73%) PropTech
11 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.55%) NHS
11 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.55%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.36%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.20%) Linux
2 12 (2.19%) Windows
3 6 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (28.96%) DevOps
2 140 (25.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 135 (24.59%) CI/CD
4 88 (16.03%) Software Engineering
5 71 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 67 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
8 55 (10.02%) Cloud Security
9 54 (9.84%) Agile
10 50 (9.11%) Observability
11 49 (8.93%) Containerisation
12 42 (7.65%) AI
12 42 (7.65%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (6.19%) DevSecOps
13 34 (6.19%) Migration
14 33 (6.01%) Analytics
14 33 (6.01%) Data Engineering
15 32 (5.83%) Full-Stack Development
16 31 (5.65%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 203 (36.98%) Python
2 57 (10.38%) SQL
3 50 (9.11%) Bash
4 36 (6.56%) PowerShell
5 32 (5.83%) Java
6 30 (5.46%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.28%) C#
8 27 (4.92%) Go
9 21 (3.83%) C++
10 13 (2.37%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.09%) Groovy
12 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 2 (0.36%) PHP
15 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 82 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 52 (9.47%) Degree
3 45 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.46%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.46%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.91%) PhD
8 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.36%) CISSP
9 2 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.18%) CCIE
10 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.10%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.46%) SOC 2
4 7 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.28%) GDPR
4 7 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.28%) SLA
5 6 (1.09%) QA
6 2 (0.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 78 (14.21%) Docker
2 10 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (32.97%) Terraform
2 81 (14.75%) Kubernetes
3 32 (5.83%) Ansible
4 29 (5.28%) Grafana
5 21 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.73%) Argo
7 11 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.64%) Packer
9 8 (1.46%) Istio
10 7 (1.28%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.73%) Puppet
12 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.36%) Nagios
13 1 (0.18%) Consul
13 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (4.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.19%) Oracle
3 11 (2.00%) Databricks
4 10 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.46%) Confluent
6 7 (1.28%) Google
7 5 (0.91%) VMware
8 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.55%) Informatica
9 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.55%) Talend
10 2 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.36%) FactSet
10 2 (0.36%) Solace
11 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.18%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.18%) New Relic
11 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv