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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 310 281
Rank change year-on-year -56 -29 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 532 426 831
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.85% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.95% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 422 330 579
10th Percentile £52,050 £63,625 £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 102,340 44,909 79,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 89.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 70,155 26,648 51,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £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 £74,775 £72,429
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 26 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 26 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 -25 511 £75,000 -31.82% 65
UK excluding London +80 320 £70,000 - 50
London -125 191 £85,000 -24.44% 28
Work from Home -99 135 £85,000 -22.73% 28
North of England +24 104 £67,500 -3.57% 9
South West +2 81 £75,000 -25.00% 12
North West +30 64 £75,000 +7.14% 3
South East +20 63 £65,000 +4.00% 5
Midlands -8 52 £70,000 -3.45% 9
West Midlands -14 36 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Yorkshire -11 28 £67,500 - 4
East Midlands -8 16 £80,000 +40.35% 8
East of England -13 16 £95,000 +48.44% 7
North East -53 12 £52,250 -19.62% 2
Scotland -12 4 £90,000 -10.00% 8
Wales -61 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 532 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (36.84%) Python
3 179 (33.65%) Terraform
4 150 (28.20%) DevOps
5 137 (25.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 132 (24.81%) CI/CD
7 87 (16.35%) Software Engineering
8 83 (15.60%) Amazon S3
9 80 (15.04%) Kubernetes
10 78 (14.66%) Security Cleared
11 77 (14.47%) Docker
12 73 (13.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 67 (12.59%) Azure
13 67 (12.59%) Serverless
14 66 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
15 62 (11.65%) Amazon EC2
16 59 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 55 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
17 55 (10.34%) Cloud Security
18 52 (9.77%) Observability
18 52 (9.77%) Platform Engineering
19 51 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
19 51 (9.59%) SQL
20 50 (9.40%) Degree
21 49 (9.21%) Agile
22 48 (9.02%) Amazon RDS
22 48 (9.02%) Bash
22 48 (9.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 47 (8.83%) Containerisation
24 46 (8.65%) Linux

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 19 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.88%) Apache
3 7 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.94%) CMS
4 5 (0.94%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.75%) IIS
5 4 (0.75%) nginx
6 3 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.56%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 532 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (15.60%) Amazon S3
3 67 (12.59%) Azure
3 67 (12.59%) Serverless
4 62 (11.65%) Amazon EC2
5 55 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (9.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 45 (8.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (6.95%) Datadog
11 33 (6.20%) GitHub
12 32 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (5.83%) GCP
14 27 (5.08%) SaaS
15 20 (3.76%) Snowflake
16 18 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.20%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (2.82%) dbt
19 13 (2.44%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.07%) DNS
2 9 (1.69%) Firewall
3 5 (0.94%) VPN
4 3 (0.56%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.38%) IPv4
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.19%) LAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.02%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (1.88%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.32%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.32%) MySQL
9 6 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.94%) Big Data
10 5 (0.94%) Power BI
11 4 (0.75%) Metadata
11 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.56%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.56%) Redis
12 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (6.39%) Jenkins
2 33 (6.20%) GitLab
3 23 (4.32%) Git
4 17 (3.20%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.13%) JIRA
6 5 (0.94%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.75%) git-flow
8 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.38%) JMeter
8 2 (0.38%) Postman
8 2 (0.38%) Snyk
8 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (8.83%) Finance
2 46 (8.65%) Social Skills
3 33 (6.20%) Banking
4 31 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.38%) Law
7 14 (2.63%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.07%) Retail Banking
9 9 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.50%) Games
10 8 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.94%) Automotive
11 5 (0.94%) Legal
12 4 (0.75%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.75%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.56%) Marketing
14 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.19%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (33.65%) Terraform
2 27 (5.08%) Kafka
3 18 (3.38%) React
4 16 (3.01%) Pulumi
5 15 (2.82%) Node.js
6 12 (2.26%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.26%) OpenTofu
6 12 (2.26%) Spring Boot
7 11 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.88%) RESTful
9 9 (1.69%) .NET
10 8 (1.50%) PySpark
11 7 (1.32%) Django
12 6 (1.13%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.94%) REST
13 5 (0.94%) SAML
13 5 (0.94%) Spring
13 5 (0.94%) Vue
14 4 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 99 (18.61%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.76%) Distributed Computing
3 19 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.32%) Sports Betting
8 5 (0.94%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.75%) Life Science
9 4 (0.75%) PropTech
10 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.56%) NHS
10 3 (0.56%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.38%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.38%) Genomics
11 2 (0.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.65%) Linux
2 13 (2.44%) Windows
3 6 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (28.20%) DevOps
2 137 (25.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 132 (24.81%) CI/CD
4 87 (16.35%) Software Engineering
5 73 (13.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 66 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (10.34%) Cloud Security
9 52 (9.77%) Observability
9 52 (9.77%) Platform Engineering
10 49 (9.21%) Agile
11 47 (8.83%) Containerisation
12 42 (7.89%) AI
13 38 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
14 34 (6.39%) DevSecOps
14 34 (6.39%) Migration
15 33 (6.20%) Full-Stack Development
16 31 (5.83%) Analytics
17 29 (5.45%) Data Engineering
18 28 (5.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 196 (36.84%) Python
2 51 (9.59%) SQL
3 48 (9.02%) Bash
4 38 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 31 (5.83%) Java
6 30 (5.64%) C#
6 30 (5.64%) TypeScript
7 26 (4.89%) Go
8 22 (4.14%) C++
9 12 (2.26%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.13%) Groovy
11 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.56%) Ruby
13 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 78 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.40%) Degree
3 42 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.94%) PhD
8 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) CCIE
10 1 (0.19%) CCSA
10 1 (0.19%) CCSE
10 1 (0.19%) CISM
10 1 (0.19%) GSEC
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.50%) SLA
4 7 (1.32%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.13%) GDPR
5 6 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.13%) QA
6 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 77 (14.47%) Docker
2 10 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (15.04%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.39%) Ansible
3 30 (5.64%) Grafana
4 20 (3.76%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.82%) Argo
6 11 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.69%) Packer
8 8 (1.50%) Istio
9 7 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.75%) Puppet
11 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.38%) Nagios
11 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (4.32%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.26%) Dynatrace
2 12 (2.26%) Oracle
3 10 (1.88%) Databricks
4 8 (1.50%) Confluent
5 6 (1.13%) Google
5 6 (1.13%) VMware
6 4 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.56%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.56%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.56%) Informatica
7 3 (0.56%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.56%) Talend
8 2 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.38%) FactSet
8 2 (0.38%) Solace
9 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.19%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.19%) New Relic
9 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv