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 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 298 259
Rank change year-on-year -64 -39 +33
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 544 469 897
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.95% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.05% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 444 370 594
10th Percentile £52,875 £68,375 £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 £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 97,595 44,677 79,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.06% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 66,719 26,547 53,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £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 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,793
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 4 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 4 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 -25 522 £75,000 -31.82% 119
UK excluding London +105 321 £74,500 +6.43% 60
London -124 199 £85,000 -26.09% 73
Work from Home -116 142 £85,000 -22.73% 47
North of England +37 106 £70,000 - 17
South West +11 75 £75,000 -25.00% 13
North West +43 74 £72,250 +3.21% 10
South East +24 64 £65,000 +5.26% 12
Midlands -9 55 £70,000 -3.45% 6
West Midlands -13 40 £70,000 -3.45% 2
Yorkshire -12 23 £80,000 - 5
East of England -13 18 £90,000 +40.63% 3
East Midlands -8 15 £77,500 +35.96% 4
North East -46 9 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland -11 3 £90,000 -10.00% 8
Wales -53 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 544 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (36.03%) Python
3 169 (31.07%) Terraform
4 164 (30.15%) DevOps
5 132 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (24.08%) CI/CD
7 91 (16.73%) Software Engineering
8 87 (15.99%) Security Cleared
9 83 (15.26%) Amazon S3
10 76 (13.97%) Kubernetes
11 75 (13.79%) Azure
12 71 (13.05%) Docker
13 67 (12.32%) Serverless
14 60 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 60 (11.03%) SQL
15 59 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
16 55 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
17 54 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
18 53 (9.74%) Agile
18 53 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
18 53 (9.74%) Degree
19 49 (9.01%) Cloud Security
19 49 (9.01%) Containerisation
20 47 (8.64%) Bash
20 47 (8.64%) SC Cleared
21 46 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
22 45 (8.27%) AWS CloudFormation
23 44 (8.09%) Data Pipeline
23 44 (8.09%) Observability
24 43 (7.90%) 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 26 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.76%) Apache
3 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
5 4 (0.74%) SAS
6 3 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 544 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (15.26%) Amazon S3
3 75 (13.79%) Azure
4 67 (12.32%) Serverless
5 55 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (8.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 43 (7.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (7.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 37 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (6.07%) GitHub
12 32 (5.88%) Datadog
12 32 (5.88%) SaaS
13 28 (5.15%) GCP
14 23 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (3.68%) Snowflake
16 19 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (3.13%) dbt
18 16 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.65%) DNS
2 7 (1.29%) Firewall
3 3 (0.55%) VPN
4 2 (0.37%) 4G
4 2 (0.37%) 5G
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%) DHCP
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 39 (7.17%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.47%) Metadata
9 7 (1.29%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.29%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.29%) MySQL
10 5 (0.92%) Big Data
10 5 (0.92%) Power BI
11 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (6.43%) GitLab
1 35 (6.43%) Jenkins
2 27 (4.96%) Git
3 19 (3.49%) CircleCI
4 6 (1.10%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.55%) git-flow
7 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.37%) JMeter
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
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
8 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 48 (8.82%) Finance
2 45 (8.27%) Social Skills
3 35 (6.43%) Banking
4 34 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.57%) Health Technology
6 14 (2.57%) Law
6 14 (2.57%) Retail Banking
7 12 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 (0.74%) Automotive
11 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.37%) Billing
12 2 (0.37%) Marketing
12 2 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.70%) Kafka
2 18 (3.31%) React
3 13 (2.39%) Node.js
4 12 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.21%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.84%) RESTful
6 9 (1.65%) .NET
6 9 (1.65%) AWS CDK
6 9 (1.65%) PySpark
7 7 (1.29%) REST
8 6 (1.10%) Django
8 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.92%) LangGraph
9 5 (0.92%) SAML
9 5 (0.92%) Spring
10 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.74%) LangChain
10 4 (0.74%) Next.js
10 4 (0.74%) Vue
10 4 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 105 (19.30%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
3 12 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.65%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.29%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.29%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.74%) Life Science
9 4 (0.74%) PropTech
10 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.55%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.55%) NHS
11 2 (0.37%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.54%) Linux
2 10 (1.84%) Windows
3 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (30.15%) DevOps
2 132 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (24.08%) CI/CD
4 91 (16.73%) Software Engineering
5 60 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 59 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
8 53 (9.74%) Agile
9 49 (9.01%) Cloud Security
9 49 (9.01%) Containerisation
10 46 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (8.09%) Data Pipeline
11 44 (8.09%) Observability
12 41 (7.54%) AI
13 34 (6.25%) Analytics
13 34 (6.25%) Data Engineering
14 33 (6.07%) Fintech
15 32 (5.88%) DevSecOps
15 32 (5.88%) ETL
15 32 (5.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 196 (36.03%) Python
2 60 (11.03%) SQL
3 47 (8.64%) Bash
4 32 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 31 (5.70%) Java
6 29 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.15%) C#
8 27 (4.96%) Go
9 19 (3.49%) C++
10 12 (2.21%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.10%) Groovy
12 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) PHP
13 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 1 (0.18%) Bicep
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 53 (9.74%) Degree
3 47 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.74%) PhD
9 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.55%) CISSP
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.37%) CCSK
10 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CCSA
11 1 (0.18%) CCSE
11 1 (0.18%) CISM
11 1 (0.18%) GSEC
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.84%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.47%) GDPR
5 7 (1.29%) QA
6 5 (0.92%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (13.05%) Docker
2 10 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 169 (31.07%) Terraform
2 76 (13.97%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.78%) Grafana
4 25 (4.60%) Ansible
5 23 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.57%) Argo
7 9 (1.65%) Packer
7 9 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.47%) Istio
9 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.37%) Nagios
10 2 (0.37%) Puppet
11 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.18%) Consul
11 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 26 (4.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.02%) Databricks
2 11 (2.02%) Oracle
3 8 (1.47%) Confluent
4 7 (1.29%) Google
5 5 (0.92%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.74%) VMware
7 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.55%) Informatica
7 3 (0.55%) Talend
8 2 (0.37%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.37%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.37%) Pega
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.37%) SAP
8 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv