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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 241 296
Rank change year-on-year -108 +55 +84
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 413 507 865
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.24% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.38% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 313 452 515
10th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £76,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £102,000 £140,000 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 74,250 36,762 86,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 89.83% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47,841 23,292 64,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.79% -8.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 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 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 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 April 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 -92 395 £75,000 -28.57% 95
London -81 217 £90,000 -18.18% 39
UK excluding London -20 178 £70,000 +7.69% 71
Work from Home -140 124 £90,000 -18.18% 46
North of England -56 57 £67,500 +3.85% 27
North West -11 46 £70,000 +4.60% 20
Midlands -28 33 £70,000 +7.69% 10
South West -13 32 £75,000 +7.14% 7
South East -18 32 £65,000 +5.26% 21
West Midlands +7 26 £62,500 +21.95% 8
East of England -20 21 £75,000 +17.19% 4
East Midlands -49 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Yorkshire -63 6 £66,250 +29.27% 5
North East -22 5 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland -24 4 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 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.

1 413 (100.00%) AWS
2 160 (38.74%) Python
3 144 (34.87%) DevOps
4 123 (29.78%) Terraform
5 116 (28.09%) CI/CD
6 109 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 82 (19.85%) Azure
8 68 (16.46%) Serverless
9 64 (15.50%) Software Engineering
10 63 (15.25%) Amazon S3
10 63 (15.25%) Platform Engineering
11 60 (14.53%) Kubernetes
12 54 (13.08%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (13.08%) SaaS
13 52 (12.59%) Security Cleared
14 51 (12.35%) Java
15 50 (12.11%) Degree
16 48 (11.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 47 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (10.90%) AWS Lambda
18 45 (10.90%) Docker
18 45 (10.90%) Observability
19 44 (10.65%) SQL
20 42 (10.17%) Bash
21 41 (9.93%) Agile
21 41 (9.93%) Cloud Security
22 40 (9.69%) ETL
22 40 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 38 (9.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 37 (8.96%) High Availability

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 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.60%) Apache
3 13 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.73%) SAS
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
5 2 (0.48%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 413 (100.00%) AWS
2 82 (19.85%) Azure
3 68 (16.46%) Serverless
4 63 (15.25%) Amazon S3
5 54 (13.08%) Amazon EKS
5 54 (13.08%) SaaS
6 48 (11.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 45 (10.90%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (9.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 33 (7.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (7.99%) GCP
10 32 (7.75%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (6.54%) GitHub
12 22 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (4.12%) Amazon Kinesis
15 15 (3.63%) Snowflake
16 14 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (3.15%) dbt
17 13 (3.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.57%) Firewall
2 18 (4.36%) Cisco ASA
2 18 (4.36%) Cisco Firepower
2 18 (4.36%) LAN
2 18 (4.36%) WAN
2 18 (4.36%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (2.91%) BGP
3 12 (2.91%) VPN
4 7 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.45%) VLAN
6 5 (1.21%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.21%) IPsec
6 5 (1.21%) MPLS
6 5 (1.21%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.21%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.21%) OSPF
6 5 (1.21%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.21%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.21%) WLAN
7 3 (0.73%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (3.87%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (3.87%) Apache Iceberg
3 16 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.39%) MySQL
4 14 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.15%) DynamoDB
5 13 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.18%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.45%) Flink
8 6 (1.45%) Metadata
8 6 (1.45%) Pentaho
9 5 (1.21%) Big Data
10 4 (0.97%) Apache Arrow
10 4 (0.97%) Apache Ignite
10 4 (0.97%) Dremio
10 4 (0.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (6.05%) Git
2 21 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.87%) GitLab
4 7 (1.69%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.21%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.73%) JIRA
6 3 (0.73%) NUnit
7 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.48%) JMeter
7 2 (0.48%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.24%) Deequ
8 1 (0.24%) Gatling
8 1 (0.24%) git-flow
8 1 (0.24%) Gradle
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 86 (20.82%) Finance
2 58 (14.04%) Banking
3 40 (9.69%) Social Skills
4 25 (6.05%) Law
5 21 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.63%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.63%) Investment Banking
7 14 (3.39%) Retail
8 13 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.15%) Retail Banking
9 12 (2.91%) Back Office
10 11 (2.66%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.42%) Front Office
12 7 (1.69%) Games
13 6 (1.45%) Advertising
14 5 (1.21%) Legal
15 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.73%) Billing
17 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.72%) Kafka
2 14 (3.39%) .NET
3 13 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (3.15%) React
4 12 (2.91%) PySpark
4 12 (2.91%) REST
5 11 (2.66%) AWS CDK
5 11 (2.66%) Node.js
6 10 (2.42%) .NET Core
7 9 (2.18%) OAuth
7 9 (2.18%) RESTful
8 8 (1.94%) Spring
9 7 (1.69%) JWT
9 7 (1.69%) Loki
9 7 (1.69%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.69%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.97%) gRPC
10 4 (0.97%) LangChain
10 4 (0.97%) LangGraph
10 4 (0.97%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 63 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.54%) Data Centre
3 25 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.36%) Hedge funds
5 17 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.15%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.42%) Fixed Income
8 10 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.18%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.18%) Blog
10 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.97%) Derivative
12 4 (0.97%) Equities
12 4 (0.97%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.81%) Linux
2 12 (2.91%) Unix
3 6 (1.45%) Windows
4 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (34.87%) DevOps
2 116 (28.09%) CI/CD
3 109 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (15.50%) Software Engineering
5 63 (15.25%) Platform Engineering
6 47 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (10.90%) Observability
8 41 (9.93%) Agile
8 41 (9.93%) Cloud Security
9 40 (9.69%) ETL
9 40 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 37 (8.96%) High Availability
11 34 (8.23%) Containerisation
12 33 (7.99%) AI
12 33 (7.99%) Computer Science
12 33 (7.99%) Data Engineering
12 33 (7.99%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (7.26%) Analytics
14 28 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (6.54%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 160 (38.74%) Python
2 51 (12.35%) Java
3 44 (10.65%) SQL
4 42 (10.17%) Bash
5 29 (7.02%) TypeScript
6 23 (5.57%) C#
6 23 (5.57%) Go
7 12 (2.91%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.18%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.21%) C++
10 4 (0.97%) Scala
11 3 (0.73%) PHP
12 2 (0.48%) Bicep
12 2 (0.48%) Groovy
12 2 (0.48%) Ruby
13 1 (0.24%) C
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.11%) Degree
3 33 (7.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.57%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.15%) CCIE
5 13 (3.15%) CCNA
5 13 (3.15%) CCNP
5 13 (3.15%) CCSA
5 13 (3.15%) CCSE
5 13 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.91%) CISSP
7 11 (2.66%) CCSK
8 8 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.08%) SOC 2
2 19 (4.60%) PCI DSS
3 16 (3.87%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.63%) GDPR
5 13 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.42%) QA
7 8 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.69%) NIST
9 4 (0.97%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.73%) SLA
11 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (10.90%) Docker
2 8 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.73%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 123 (29.78%) Terraform
2 60 (14.53%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.05%) Grafana
4 20 (4.84%) Ansible
5 18 (4.36%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.15%) FortiGate
7 10 (2.42%) Argo
8 9 (2.18%) Istio
9 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.48%) Kibana
10 2 (0.48%) logstash
10 2 (0.48%) Packer
10 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.24%) Consul
11 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (5.08%) Cisco
2 18 (4.36%) CheckPoint
2 18 (4.36%) Fortinet
3 13 (3.15%) Google
4 11 (2.66%) Databricks
4 11 (2.66%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.66%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.94%) Confluent
5 8 (1.94%) MuleSoft
5 8 (1.94%) SolarWinds
6 7 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.45%) Informatica
7 6 (1.45%) Talend
8 5 (1.21%) Meraki
8 5 (1.21%) SAP
9 4 (0.97%) Pega
9 4 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.73%) Oracle
11 2 (0.48%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.48%) CrowdStrike