AWS Engineer Job Trends
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 18 October 2026.
The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 381 | 349 | 290 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -32 | -59 | +9 |
| Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer | 543 | 370 | 626 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.45% | 0.76% | 0.90% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.49% | 0.84% | 0.94% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 423 | 268 | 515 |
| 10th Percentile | £50,150 | £64,250 | £60,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £63,750 | £80,000 | £72,500 |
| 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 | £72,500 |
| % change year-on-year | +6.43% | -3.45% | +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.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title | 110,370 | 44,004 | 66,431 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 92.35% | 89.88% | 95.35% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 74,737 | 25,905 | 38,039 |
| 10th Percentile | £30,250 | £28,000 | £31,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £41,250 | £35,000 | £41,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £58,750 | £52,500 | £56,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +11.90% | -6.25% | -6.67% |
| 75th Percentile | £76,250 | £73,750 | £75,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £98,750 | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £55,000 | £45,390 | £50,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +21.17% | -9.22% | -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 Salary Trend
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 18 October 2026.
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 18 October 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 | -34 | 499 | £75,000 | -31.82% | 418 |
| UK excluding London | +79 | 353 | £74,500 | +6.43% | 253 |
| London | -141 | 165 | £80,000 | -27.27% | 198 |
| North of England | +29 | 123 | £72,250 | +3.21% | 85 |
| Work from Home | -139 | 118 | £83,750 | -23.86% | 178 |
| North West | +18 | 78 | £75,000 | +7.14% | 61 |
| South West | +5 | 75 | £75,000 | +36.36% | 24 |
| South East | -4 | 60 | £67,500 | -15.63% | 28 |
| Midlands | -15 | 57 | £66,250 | -8.62% | 28 |
| East Midlands | -2 | 34 | £45,000 | -16.67% | 16 |
| Yorkshire | -1 | 33 | £70,000 | - | 17 |
| Scotland | +5 | 23 | £100,000 | - | 48 |
| West Midlands | -48 | 23 | £67,500 | -6.90% | 12 |
| East of England | -29 | 14 | £90,000 | +44.00% | 26 |
| North East | -59 | 12 | £47,000 | -27.69% | 7 |
| Wales | -75 | 1 | £90,000 | +56.52% | 4 |
AWS Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities
For the 6 months to 18 October 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.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 543 |
| 2 | Python | 39.2% | 213 |
| 3 | Terraform | 31.5% | 171 |
| 4 | DevOps | 29.8% | 162 |
| 5 | Infrastructure as Code | 27.1% | 147 |
| 6 | CI/CD | 24.9% | 135 |
| 7 | Software Engineering | 24.5% | 133 |
| 8 | Security Cleared | 16.4% | 89 |
| 9 | Infrastructure Engineering | 16.0% | 87 |
| 10 | Kubernetes | 15.1% | 82 |
| 11 | Amazon S3 | 14.7% | 80 |
| 11 | Serverless | 14.7% | 80 |
| 13 | Docker | 13.6% | 74 |
| 14 | Problem-Solving | 13.4% | 73 |
| 15 | Agile | 13.1% | 71 |
| 16 | AWS Lambda | 12.7% | 69 |
| 17 | Continuous Improvement | 12.5% | 68 |
| 18 | Amazon EC2 | 11.0% | 60 |
| 18 | Cloud Security | 11.0% | 60 |
| 20 | Observability | 10.9% | 59 |
| 21 | Amazon RDS | 10.7% | 58 |
| 22 | AWS CloudFormation | 10.3% | 56 |
| 22 | SC Cleared | 10.3% | 56 |
| 24 | SQL | 9.8% | 53 |
| 25 | Bash | 9.0% | 49 |
| 25 | Platform Engineering | 9.0% | 49 |
| 27 | Amazon CloudWatch | 8.8% | 48 |
| 28 | AI | 8.7% | 47 |
| 28 | Degree | 8.7% | 47 |
| 30 | Linux | 8.1% | 44 |
AWS Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloud Engineer | 28.9% | 157 |
| 2 | AWS Software Engineer | 19.5% | 106 |
| 3 | Python Engineer | 18.8% | 102 |
| 4 | AWS DevOps Engineer | 17.1% | 93 |
| 5 | Data Engineer | 15.8% | 86 |
| 6 | AWS Data Engineer | 15.5% | 84 |
| 7 | AWS Infrastructure Engineer | 12.0% | 65 |
| 8 | Python Software Engineer | 8.7% | 47 |
| 9 | Security Engineer | 7.2% | 39 |
| 10 | Java Engineer | 5.9% | 32 |
| 10 | Senior Software Engineer | 5.9% | 32 |
| 12 | C# Software Engineer | 5.7% | 31 |
| 13 | Cloud Platform Engineer | 5.3% | 29 |
| 14 | AWS Platform Engineer | 5.2% | 28 |
| 15 | C++ Software Engineer | 4.6% | 25 |
| 16 | Azure Engineer | 4.4% | 24 |
| 17 | Senior Data Engineer | 3.9% | 21 |
| 18 | Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | 3.7% | 20 |
| 19 | Full-Stack Engineer | 3.5% | 19 |
| 20 | Cloud Security Engineer | 3.3% | 18 |