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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 325 271
Rank change year-on-year -54 -54 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 525 421 787
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.85% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.94% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 417 324 551
10th Percentile £51,700 £64,125 £58,750
25th Percentile £63,000 £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 £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 105,685 44,574 74,714
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 89.72% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72,853 26,277 45,811
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 £77,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -50 497 £75,000 -31.82% 193
UK excluding London +63 319 £72,500 +3.57% 141
London -136 183 £85,000 -22.73% 101
Work from Home -134 131 £85,000 -22.73% 70
North of England +16 102 £68,750 -1.79% 32
South West -10 76 £75,000 -25.00% 17
South East +31 62 £65,000 -7.14% 15
North West +20 60 £75,000 +7.14% 19
Midlands -21 52 £70,000 -3.45% 20
West Midlands -19 33 £70,000 -3.45% 6
Yorkshire -18 29 £66,750 - 11
East Midlands -10 19 £75,000 +11.94% 14
East of England -16 17 £100,000 +56.25% 8
North East -49 13 £47,000 -27.69% 2
Scotland -6 10 £100,000 - 41
Wales -76 1 £90,000 +56.52% 5

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 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.

1 525 (100.00%) AWS
2 199 (37.90%) Python
3 182 (34.67%) Terraform
4 148 (28.19%) DevOps
5 142 (27.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 136 (25.90%) CI/CD
7 99 (18.86%) Software Engineering
8 80 (15.24%) Kubernetes
8 80 (15.24%) Security Cleared
9 79 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 78 (14.86%) Amazon S3
10 78 (14.86%) Docker
11 68 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (12.76%) Serverless
13 64 (12.19%) Amazon EC2
14 62 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (11.24%) Azure
15 59 (11.24%) Cloud Security
16 58 (11.05%) AWS Lambda
17 57 (10.86%) Observability
18 54 (10.29%) Amazon RDS
19 53 (10.10%) AWS CloudFormation
19 53 (10.10%) Platform Engineering
20 51 (9.71%) Bash
21 50 (9.52%) Agile
21 50 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
22 49 (9.33%) Degree
23 48 (9.14%) Linux
23 48 (9.14%) SQL
24 45 (8.57%) AI

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 15 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.90%) Apache
3 8 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.95%) CMS
4 5 (0.95%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.76%) IIS
5 4 (0.76%) nginx
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
6 3 (0.57%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 525 (100.00%) AWS
2 78 (14.86%) Amazon S3
3 67 (12.76%) Serverless
4 64 (12.19%) Amazon EC2
5 59 (11.24%) Azure
6 58 (11.05%) AWS Lambda
7 53 (10.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 45 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 45 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.86%) Datadog
11 34 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (6.10%) GitHub
13 27 (5.14%) GCP
14 25 (4.76%) SaaS
15 18 (3.43%) AWS CloudTrail
15 18 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (3.43%) Snowflake
16 12 (2.29%) dbt
17 11 (2.10%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.29%) DNS
2 9 (1.71%) Firewall
3 6 (1.14%) VPN
4 4 (0.76%) 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%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.29%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (1.71%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.71%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.14%) Data Vault
7 6 (1.14%) MySQL
7 6 (1.14%) Redis
8 5 (0.95%) Big Data
9 4 (0.76%) Power BI
9 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.57%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (0.57%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 35 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 31 (5.90%) GitLab
3 25 (4.76%) Git
4 15 (2.86%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.14%) JIRA
6 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.76%) 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%) Gatling
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (8.76%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.38%) Finance
3 33 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 26 (4.95%) Banking
6 19 (3.62%) Law
7 17 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.67%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.90%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.52%) Games
10 8 (1.52%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.14%) Automotive
11 6 (1.14%) Front Office
12 5 (0.95%) Legal
13 4 (0.76%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.76%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Marketing
14 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (34.67%) Terraform
2 23 (4.38%) Kafka
3 19 (3.62%) React
4 16 (3.05%) Node.js
4 16 (3.05%) Pulumi
5 12 (2.29%) AWS CDK
5 12 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.29%) OpenTofu
5 12 (2.29%) Spring Boot
6 10 (1.90%) RESTful
7 9 (1.71%) .NET
8 8 (1.52%) Django
8 8 (1.52%) PySpark
9 7 (1.33%) REST
10 6 (1.14%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.14%) Vue
11 5 (0.95%) Next.js
11 5 (0.95%) SAML
11 5 (0.95%) Spring
12 4 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
2 21 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.10%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.33%) Sports Betting
7 5 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.76%) AI Agents
8 4 (0.76%) Life Science
8 4 (0.76%) NHS
8 4 (0.76%) PropTech
9 3 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.57%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.57%) Replication
10 2 (0.38%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.14%) Linux
2 14 (2.67%) Windows
3 6 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (28.19%) DevOps
2 142 (27.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 136 (25.90%) CI/CD
4 99 (18.86%) Software Engineering
5 79 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 68 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (11.24%) Cloud Security
9 57 (10.86%) Observability
10 53 (10.10%) Platform Engineering
11 50 (9.52%) Agile
12 45 (8.57%) AI
13 43 (8.19%) Containerisation
14 37 (7.05%) Data Pipeline
15 35 (6.67%) DevSecOps
15 35 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (6.67%) Migration
16 31 (5.90%) ITIL
17 27 (5.14%) Infrastructure Automation
18 26 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 199 (37.90%) Python
2 51 (9.71%) Bash
3 48 (9.14%) SQL
4 38 (7.24%) PowerShell
5 32 (6.10%) Java
5 32 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.90%) C#
7 24 (4.57%) C++
8 22 (4.19%) Go
9 13 (2.48%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.71%) Groovy
11 4 (0.76%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.57%) Ruby
13 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.33%) Degree
3 43 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.14%) PhD
8 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.19%) CISSP
10 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.67%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.52%) SLA
4 6 (1.14%) QA
5 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.95%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.76%) GDPR
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 78 (14.86%) Docker
2 8 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (15.24%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.48%) Ansible
3 31 (5.90%) Grafana
4 21 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.86%) Argo
6 12 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.71%) Packer
8 7 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.14%) Istio
10 4 (0.76%) Puppet
11 3 (0.57%) Rancher
11 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.38%) Nagios
13 1 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 22 (4.19%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.86%) Dynatrace
3 14 (2.67%) Oracle
4 13 (2.48%) Databricks
5 7 (1.33%) VMware
6 6 (1.14%) Confluent
6 6 (1.14%) Google
7 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.57%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.57%) Informatica
8 3 (0.57%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.57%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.57%) Talend
9 2 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.38%) FactSet
9 2 (0.38%) Solace
10 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.19%) New Relic
10 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv