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 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 299 299
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 532 450 990
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.15% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 422 360 617
10th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £109,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.19% +32.12% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -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 86,877 39,175 97,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 89.43% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 58,375 22,028 71,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.78% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 0 508 £75,000 -31.82% 103
UK excluding London +88 279 £72,500 +11.54% 64
London -67 227 £90,000 -18.18% 51
Work from Home -67 159 £85,000 -22.73% 76
North of England +1 90 £70,000 +7.69% 25
North West +32 69 £70,000 +3.70% 20
Midlands +7 56 £70,000 -3.45% 15
South East -1 52 £65,000 +6.56% 9
South West -5 51 £75,000 -3.23% 7
West Midlands -2 45 £68,750 -5.17% 7
East of England -1 29 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire -31 14 £80,000 +64.10% 4
East Midlands -19 11 £80,000 +20.75% 8
North East -43 7 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Scotland -9 1 £90,000 - 2
Wales -42 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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.

1 532 (100.00%) AWS
2 197 (37.03%) Python
3 153 (28.76%) Terraform
4 150 (28.20%) DevOps
5 137 (25.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (25.19%) CI/CD
7 90 (16.92%) Azure
7 90 (16.92%) Software Engineering
8 79 (14.85%) Amazon S3
9 76 (14.29%) Serverless
10 74 (13.91%) Security Cleared
11 68 (12.78%) SQL
12 65 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
13 61 (11.47%) Kubernetes
14 59 (11.09%) SaaS
15 58 (10.90%) Degree
15 58 (10.90%) Docker
16 56 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 56 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
17 53 (9.96%) Observability
18 51 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
18 51 (9.59%) Bash
19 47 (8.83%) Data Pipeline
20 46 (8.65%) AI
20 46 (8.65%) Cloud Security
20 46 (8.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 45 (8.46%) ETL
22 44 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
22 44 (8.27%) SC Cleared
23 43 (8.08%) Containerisation

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 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.20%) Apache
3 12 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.94%) SAS
5 4 (0.75%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) Confluence
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 532 (100.00%) AWS
2 90 (16.92%) Azure
3 79 (14.85%) Amazon S3
4 76 (14.29%) Serverless
5 59 (11.09%) SaaS
6 51 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (8.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 44 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (7.71%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (5.83%) GCP
11 31 (5.83%) GitHub
12 23 (4.32%) Datadog
13 20 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.57%) Snowflake
15 18 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (3.01%) dbt
17 14 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
18 13 (2.44%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.38%) Firewall
2 12 (2.26%) Cisco ASA
2 12 (2.26%) Cisco Firepower
2 12 (2.26%) LAN
2 12 (2.26%) WAN
2 12 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.50%) BGP
3 8 (1.50%) VPN
4 5 (0.94%) DNS
5 4 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (0.75%) IPsec
5 4 (0.75%) MPLS
5 4 (0.75%) NetScaler
5 4 (0.75%) NX-OS
5 4 (0.75%) OSPF
5 4 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.75%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.75%) WLAN
6 3 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
6 12 (2.26%) MySQL
7 11 (2.07%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.88%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.50%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.32%) Data Vault
11 7 (1.32%) Metadata
12 5 (0.94%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.94%) Power BI
13 4 (0.75%) Big Data
13 4 (0.75%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (6.20%) Jenkins
2 30 (5.64%) GitLab
3 28 (5.26%) Git
4 17 (3.20%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.75%) JIRA
6 3 (0.56%) NUnit
6 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) JMeter
7 2 (0.38%) Maven
7 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.19%) Deequ
8 1 (0.19%) Gatling
8 1 (0.19%) git-flow
8 1 (0.19%) Gradle
8 1 (0.19%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (12.22%) Finance
2 49 (9.21%) Banking
3 37 (6.95%) Social Skills
4 36 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.76%) Law
6 17 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.82%) Retail Banking
9 13 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.07%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.07%) Retail
11 10 (1.88%) Games
12 9 (1.69%) Back Office
12 9 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.32%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.75%) Advertising
14 4 (0.75%) Billing
15 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.56%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.02%) Kafka
2 18 (3.38%) .NET
2 18 (3.38%) React
3 14 (2.63%) AWS CDK
3 14 (2.63%) PySpark
4 12 (2.26%) REST
5 11 (2.07%) RESTful
6 10 (1.88%) .NET Core
6 10 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (1.88%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.69%) Node.js
8 7 (1.32%) OAuth
8 7 (1.32%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.32%) Spring
9 6 (1.13%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.94%) Django
10 5 (0.94%) JWT
10 5 (0.94%) LangChain
11 4 (0.75%) SAML
11 4 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 92 (17.29%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 20 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.88%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.88%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.69%) Blog
8 9 (1.69%) Sports Betting
9 8 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.94%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.75%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.56%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.45%) Linux
2 8 (1.50%) Unix
3 7 (1.32%) Windows
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (28.20%) DevOps
2 137 (25.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (25.19%) CI/CD
4 90 (16.92%) Software Engineering
5 65 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
6 56 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (9.96%) Observability
8 47 (8.83%) Data Pipeline
9 46 (8.65%) AI
9 46 (8.65%) Cloud Security
10 45 (8.46%) ETL
11 43 (8.08%) Containerisation
12 41 (7.71%) Agile
12 41 (7.71%) Data Engineering
13 40 (7.52%) Analytics
14 37 (6.95%) Full-Stack Development
15 36 (6.77%) High Availability
15 36 (6.77%) Mentoring
16 33 (6.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 197 (37.03%) Python
2 68 (12.78%) SQL
3 51 (9.59%) Bash
4 39 (7.33%) Java
5 37 (6.95%) C#
6 34 (6.39%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.26%) Go
8 25 (4.70%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.82%) C++
10 10 (1.88%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.75%) Groovy
12 3 (0.56%) PHP
13 2 (0.38%) Bicep
13 2 (0.38%) Ruby
14 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.90%) Degree
3 44 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.51%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (1.69%) CISSP
6 9 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.50%) CCIE
7 8 (1.50%) CCNA
7 8 (1.50%) CCNP
7 8 (1.50%) CCSA
7 8 (1.50%) CCSE
7 8 (1.50%) CCSK
7 8 (1.50%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.51%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.57%) SOC 2
3 18 (3.38%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.44%) GDPR
5 12 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.26%) QA
6 9 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.13%) NIST
8 4 (0.75%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.75%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (10.90%) Docker
2 10 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 153 (28.76%) Terraform
2 61 (11.47%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.70%) Grafana
4 21 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.76%) Ansible
6 10 (1.88%) Argo
7 9 (1.69%) Istio
8 8 (1.50%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.13%) Packer
9 6 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.75%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.38%) Nagios
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (4.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.44%) Cisco
3 12 (2.26%) CheckPoint
3 12 (2.26%) Fortinet
4 11 (2.07%) Google
5 9 (1.69%) Databricks
5 9 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.50%) Confluent
6 8 (1.50%) Informatica
6 8 (1.50%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.50%) Oracle
6 8 (1.50%) Talend
7 6 (1.13%) SolarWinds
8 5 (0.94%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.75%) Cloudera
9 4 (0.75%) Meraki
9 4 (0.75%) Pega
9 4 (0.75%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.75%) SAP
10 3 (0.56%) VMware