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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 308 261
Rank change year-on-year -52 -47 +26
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 550 464 891
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.93% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.03% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 441 366 591
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,625
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 £74,750 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% - -

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 99,566 44,909 78,876
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.96% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 68,087 26,709 53,036
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,650 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -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 10 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 10 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 -37 529 £75,000 -31.82% 242
UK excluding London +96 324 £74,750 +6.79% 122
London -130 203 £85,000 -26.09% 157
Work from Home -114 141 £87,500 -20.45% 108
North of England +30 107 £70,000 - 25
South West +9 80 £75,000 -25.00% 23
North West +37 72 £74,500 +6.43% 14
South East +22 63 £65,000 +5.26% 16
Midlands -3 54 £70,000 -3.45% 12
West Midlands -8 39 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Yorkshire -16 25 £80,000 - 6
East of England -18 17 £95,000 +48.44% 6
East Midlands -11 15 £80,000 +40.35% 7
North East -50 10 £58,750 -9.62% 5
Scotland -9 3 £90,000 -10.00% 28
Wales -54 1 £90,000 +50.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 550 (100.00%) AWS
2 197 (35.82%) Python
3 175 (31.82%) Terraform
4 162 (29.45%) DevOps
5 136 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 133 (24.18%) CI/CD
7 89 (16.18%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.45%) Amazon S3
9 84 (15.27%) Security Cleared
10 78 (14.18%) Kubernetes
11 76 (13.82%) Docker
12 73 (13.27%) Azure
13 69 (12.55%) Serverless
14 67 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 64 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
16 60 (10.91%) SQL
17 58 (10.55%) Amazon EC2
18 56 (10.18%) Platform Engineering
19 55 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
20 54 (9.82%) Agile
21 52 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
22 51 (9.27%) Cloud Security
22 51 (9.27%) Degree
23 50 (9.09%) Containerisation
24 49 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
25 47 (8.55%) Bash
25 47 (8.55%) Observability
26 46 (8.36%) SC Cleared
26 46 (8.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
27 45 (8.18%) 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 25 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.55%) Apache
3 9 (1.64%) 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
5 4 (0.73%) SAS
6 2 (0.36%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Magento
2 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 550 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.45%) Amazon S3
3 73 (13.27%) Azure
4 69 (12.55%) Serverless
5 58 (10.55%) Amazon EC2
6 55 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 49 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (8.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 45 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (6.36%) Datadog
12 34 (6.18%) GitHub
13 31 (5.64%) SaaS
14 30 (5.45%) GCP
15 27 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (3.82%) Snowflake
17 19 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (3.09%) AWS CloudTrail
18 17 (3.09%) dbt
19 16 (2.91%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) DNS
2 8 (1.45%) Firewall
3 4 (0.73%) VPN
4 2 (0.36%) 4G
4 2 (0.36%) 5G
4 2 (0.36%) DHCP
4 2 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.36%) IPv4
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 43 (7.82%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.18%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.45%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.27%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.27%) Metadata
9 7 (1.27%) MySQL
10 5 (0.91%) Big Data
10 5 (0.91%) Power BI
11 4 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (6.55%) GitLab
1 36 (6.55%) Jenkins
2 29 (5.27%) Git
3 19 (3.45%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.27%) 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%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (9.09%) Finance
2 46 (8.36%) Social Skills
3 36 (6.55%) Banking
4 33 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.73%) Law
7 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.55%) Retail Banking
8 9 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.45%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.45%) Games
10 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.91%) Legal
11 4 (0.73%) Automotive
11 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.36%) Billing
12 2 (0.36%) Marketing
12 2 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.64%) Kafka
2 18 (3.27%) React
3 14 (2.55%) Node.js
4 13 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (2.36%) Spring Boot
5 11 (2.00%) AWS CDK
6 10 (1.82%) RESTful
7 9 (1.64%) .NET
7 9 (1.64%) PySpark
8 6 (1.09%) Django
8 6 (1.09%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.09%) REST
8 6 (1.09%) Spring
9 5 (0.91%) LangGraph
9 5 (0.91%) SAML
10 4 (0.73%) LangChain
10 4 (0.73%) Next.js
10 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.73%) Vue
10 4 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 109 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.27%) Distributed Computing
3 15 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.27%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.73%) Life Science
9 4 (0.73%) PropTech
9 4 (0.73%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.55%) NHS
10 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.36%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.82%) Linux
2 12 (2.18%) Windows
3 6 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (29.45%) DevOps
2 136 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 133 (24.18%) CI/CD
4 89 (16.18%) Software Engineering
5 67 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 64 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.18%) Platform Engineering
8 54 (9.82%) Agile
9 52 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (9.27%) Cloud Security
11 50 (9.09%) Containerisation
12 47 (8.55%) Observability
13 43 (7.82%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (7.64%) AI
15 34 (6.18%) Analytics
15 34 (6.18%) Data Engineering
16 33 (6.00%) DevSecOps
16 33 (6.00%) Fintech
17 32 (5.82%) Full-Stack Development
18 31 (5.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 197 (35.82%) Python
2 60 (10.91%) SQL
3 47 (8.55%) Bash
4 34 (6.18%) Java
4 34 (6.18%) PowerShell
5 29 (5.27%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.09%) C#
7 27 (4.91%) Go
8 20 (3.64%) C++
9 12 (2.18%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.09%) Groovy
11 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) PHP
12 3 (0.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 51 (9.27%) Degree
3 46 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.09%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.91%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.73%) PhD
9 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.55%) CISSP
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.36%) CCSK
10 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.18%) CCIE
11 1 (0.18%) CCNP
11 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.27%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.82%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.45%) GDPR
5 6 (1.09%) QA
5 6 (1.09%) SLA
6 2 (0.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 76 (13.82%) 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
1 175 (31.82%) Terraform
2 78 (14.18%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.27%) Ansible
4 28 (5.09%) Grafana
5 22 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.73%) Argo
7 10 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.64%) Packer
9 8 (1.45%) Istio
10 6 (1.09%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.55%) 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 (4.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.00%) Databricks
2 11 (2.00%) Oracle
3 8 (1.45%) Confluent
3 8 (1.45%) Dynatrace
4 7 (1.27%) Google
5 5 (0.91%) VMware
6 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.55%) Informatica
7 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.55%) Talend
8 2 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.36%) FactSet
8 2 (0.36%) Solace
9 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.18%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.18%) New Relic
9 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv