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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 316 270
Rank change year-on-year -38 -46 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 548 439 855
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.88% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.98% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 439 343 579
10th Percentile £51,250 £64,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 100,959 44,891 79,128
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.94% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,008 26,549 52,423
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £47,863 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.06% -4.27% -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 19 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 19 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 -16 527 £75,000 -31.82% 111
UK excluding London +100 329 £70,000 - 76
London -118 198 £85,000 -24.44% 59
Work from Home -107 139 £85,000 -22.73% 48
North of England +41 109 £68,750 -1.79% 16
South West +14 83 £75,000 -25.00% 10
North West +31 69 £75,000 +7.14% 7
South East +22 64 £65,000 +5.26% 18
Midlands -10 53 £70,000 -3.45% 12
West Midlands -10 38 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Yorkshire +2 28 £67,500 - 3
East of England -15 16 £95,000 +48.44% 4
East Midlands -8 15 £80,000 +40.35% 7
North East -47 12 £52,250 -19.62% 6
Scotland -20 4 £90,000 -10.00% 11
Wales -60 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (36.68%) Python
3 180 (32.85%) Terraform
4 158 (28.83%) DevOps
5 140 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (24.45%) CI/CD
7 88 (16.06%) Amazon S3
8 87 (15.88%) Software Engineering
9 81 (14.78%) Kubernetes
9 81 (14.78%) Security Cleared
10 79 (14.42%) Docker
11 72 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 71 (12.96%) Serverless
13 69 (12.59%) Azure
14 67 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
15 63 (11.50%) Amazon EC2
16 58 (10.58%) AWS Lambda
17 57 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (10.22%) Platform Engineering
18 56 (10.22%) SQL
19 55 (10.04%) Cloud Security
20 53 (9.67%) Agile
21 52 (9.49%) AWS CloudFormation
21 52 (9.49%) Degree
22 50 (9.12%) Bash
22 50 (9.12%) Observability
23 49 (8.94%) Amazon RDS
23 49 (8.94%) Containerisation
23 49 (8.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 48 (8.76%) 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 23 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.37%) Apache
3 8 (1.46%) 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
1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 88 (16.06%) Amazon S3
3 71 (12.96%) Serverless
4 69 (12.59%) Azure
5 63 (11.50%) Amazon EC2
6 58 (10.58%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (9.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (8.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 48 (8.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (6.57%) Datadog
12 34 (6.20%) GitHub
13 32 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (5.47%) GCP
15 27 (4.93%) SaaS
16 21 (3.83%) Snowflake
17 19 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (3.28%) AWS CloudTrail
19 16 (2.92%) dbt
19 16 (2.92%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) DNS
2 8 (1.46%) Firewall
3 4 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.36%) DHCP
4 2 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.36%) IPv4
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
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 49 (8.94%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.01%) DynamoDB
6 10 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (1.46%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (1.28%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.28%) MySQL
9 5 (0.91%) Big Data
9 5 (0.91%) Metadata
9 5 (0.91%) Power BI
10 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.55%) Redis
11 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (6.39%) GitLab
1 35 (6.39%) Jenkins
2 27 (4.93%) 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%) Gatling
8 1 (0.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (9.12%) Finance
2 46 (8.39%) Social Skills
3 35 (6.39%) Banking
4 33 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.47%) Law
7 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.37%) Retail Banking
9 9 (1.64%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.46%) Games
10 8 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.91%) Automotive
11 5 (0.91%) Legal
12 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.55%) Marketing
14 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.29%) Kafka
2 18 (3.28%) React
3 14 (2.55%) Node.js
4 12 (2.19%) AWS CDK
4 12 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.19%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.82%) RESTful
6 9 (1.64%) .NET
6 9 (1.64%) PySpark
7 7 (1.28%) Django
8 6 (1.09%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.91%) LangGraph
9 5 (0.91%) REST
9 5 (0.91%) SAML
9 5 (0.91%) Spring
9 5 (0.91%) Vue
10 4 (0.73%) LangChain
10 4 (0.73%) Next.js
10 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 105 (19.16%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.65%) Distributed Computing
3 18 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.01%) 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
10 4 (0.73%) Life Science
10 4 (0.73%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.73%) PropTech
11 3 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
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%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.21%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (28.83%) DevOps
2 140 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (24.45%) CI/CD
4 87 (15.88%) Software Engineering
5 72 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 67 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (10.22%) Platform Engineering
9 55 (10.04%) Cloud Security
10 53 (9.67%) Agile
11 50 (9.12%) Observability
12 49 (8.94%) Containerisation
13 41 (7.48%) AI
13 41 (7.48%) Data Pipeline
14 35 (6.39%) Migration
15 34 (6.20%) DevSecOps
16 32 (5.84%) Analytics
16 32 (5.84%) Data Engineering
16 32 (5.84%) Full-Stack Development
17 30 (5.47%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 201 (36.68%) Python
2 56 (10.22%) SQL
3 50 (9.12%) Bash
4 36 (6.57%) PowerShell
5 31 (5.66%) Java
6 30 (5.47%) C#
6 30 (5.47%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.93%) Go
8 22 (4.01%) C++
9 12 (2.19%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.09%) Groovy
11 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) Ruby
13 2 (0.36%) PHP
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 52 (9.49%) Degree
3 44 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.47%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.47%) 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%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) CCIE
10 1 (0.18%) CCSA
10 1 (0.18%) CCSE
10 1 (0.18%) CISM
10 1 (0.18%) GSEC
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.92%) 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 79 (14.42%) 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
1 180 (32.85%) Terraform
2 81 (14.78%) Kubernetes
3 32 (5.84%) Ansible
4 29 (5.29%) Grafana
5 21 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.74%) Argo
7 11 (2.01%) 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 (4.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.19%) Oracle
3 11 (2.01%) Databricks
4 10 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.46%) Confluent
6 6 (1.09%) 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%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.18%) New Relic
11 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv