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 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 290 289
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 505 469 965
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.06% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.19% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 394 412 583
10th Percentile £53,250 £62,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +34.38% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -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 85,551 39,541 91,790
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 89.78% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,475 22,949 67,336
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%

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 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 14 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 17 May 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 -18 484 £75,000 -30.23% 67
UK excluding London +83 252 £70,000 +7.69% 44
London -83 228 £90,000 -18.18% 32
Work from Home -88 145 £90,000 -18.18% 34
North of England -8 77 £65,000 - 13
North West +31 60 £70,000 +6.59% 9
South West -3 50 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Midlands +4 48 £70,000 +1.82% 9
South East +11 47 £65,000 +6.56% 11
West Midlands +5 40 £67,500 -10.00% 3
East of England -4 31 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire -46 10 £65,000 +30.00% 4
East Midlands -32 8 £75,000 +15.38% 6
North East -36 7 £60,000 -7.69%

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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.

1 505 (100.00%) AWS
2 184 (36.44%) Python
3 145 (28.71%) DevOps
4 141 (27.92%) Terraform
5 126 (24.95%) CI/CD
6 125 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 88 (17.43%) Azure
8 83 (16.44%) Software Engineering
9 69 (13.66%) Serverless
10 67 (13.27%) Amazon S3
10 67 (13.27%) Security Cleared
11 66 (13.07%) Platform Engineering
12 61 (12.08%) Degree
12 61 (12.08%) SaaS
12 61 (12.08%) SQL
13 58 (11.49%) Kubernetes
14 55 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
15 53 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 51 (10.10%) Docker
17 50 (9.90%) Observability
18 49 (9.70%) Cloud Security
19 48 (9.50%) Bash
19 48 (9.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 47 (9.31%) AI
21 46 (9.11%) AWS Lambda
21 46 (9.11%) ETL
22 44 (8.71%) Amazon EKS
23 42 (8.32%) Agile
23 42 (8.32%) Data Pipeline
24 38 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation

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 21 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.56%) Apache
3 13 (2.57%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.99%) SAS
5 4 (0.79%) IIS
6 2 (0.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 505 (100.00%) AWS
2 88 (17.43%) Azure
3 69 (13.66%) Serverless
4 67 (13.27%) Amazon S3
5 61 (12.08%) SaaS
6 48 (9.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 46 (9.11%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (8.71%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (6.53%) GCP
12 31 (6.14%) GitHub
13 22 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (3.96%) Datadog
15 18 (3.56%) Snowflake
16 13 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
17 12 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
18 11 (2.18%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.16%) Firewall
2 15 (2.97%) Cisco ASA
2 15 (2.97%) Cisco Firepower
2 15 (2.97%) LAN
2 15 (2.97%) WAN
2 15 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.78%) BGP
3 9 (1.78%) VPN
4 5 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (0.99%) IPsec
4 5 (0.99%) MPLS
4 5 (0.99%) NetScaler
4 5 (0.99%) NX-OS
4 5 (0.99%) OSPF
4 5 (0.99%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.99%) VXLAN
4 5 (0.99%) WLAN
5 4 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.59%) DNS
6 3 (0.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (2.77%) Apache Iceberg
5 14 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (2.57%) MySQL
7 12 (2.38%) NoSQL
8 11 (2.18%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.58%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.39%) Metadata
12 5 (0.99%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.99%) Power BI
13 4 (0.79%) Big Data
13 4 (0.79%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.79%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (5.54%) Git
2 26 (5.15%) GitLab
2 26 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.77%) CircleCI
4 4 (0.79%) JIRA
5 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.59%) NUnit
6 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.40%) JMeter
6 2 (0.40%) Maven
7 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.20%) Deequ
7 1 (0.20%) Gradle
7 1 (0.20%) JUnit
7 1 (0.20%) Postman
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (14.06%) Finance
2 51 (10.10%) Banking
3 37 (7.33%) Social Skills
4 31 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.96%) Law
6 16 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.97%) Retail Banking
8 13 (2.57%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.18%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.18%) Retail
10 9 (1.78%) Back Office
10 9 (1.78%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.19%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.99%) Games
13 4 (0.79%) Advertising
13 4 (0.79%) Billing
14 3 (0.59%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.40%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.73%) Kafka
2 21 (4.16%) React
3 18 (3.56%) .NET
4 14 (2.77%) PySpark
4 14 (2.77%) REST
5 13 (2.57%) AWS CDK
5 13 (2.57%) Node.js
6 12 (2.38%) RESTful
7 11 (2.18%) .NET Core
8 10 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.98%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.39%) Loki
9 7 (1.39%) OAuth
9 7 (1.39%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.39%) Spring
10 6 (1.19%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.99%) JWT
11 5 (0.99%) LangChain
12 4 (0.79%) Django
12 4 (0.79%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 81 (16.04%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 18 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.57%) Hedge funds
6 12 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
6 12 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 11 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.78%) Blog
9 9 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.99%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.99%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.59%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.74%) Linux
2 10 (1.98%) Unix
3 7 (1.39%) Windows
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (28.71%) DevOps
2 126 (24.95%) CI/CD
3 125 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (16.44%) Software Engineering
5 66 (13.07%) Platform Engineering
6 55 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 50 (9.90%) Observability
9 49 (9.70%) Cloud Security
10 47 (9.31%) AI
11 46 (9.11%) ETL
12 42 (8.32%) Agile
12 42 (8.32%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (7.52%) High Availability
14 37 (7.33%) Full-Stack Development
15 36 (7.13%) Containerisation
15 36 (7.13%) Data Engineering
16 35 (6.93%) Analytics
17 31 (6.14%) Microservices
18 30 (5.94%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 184 (36.44%) Python
2 61 (12.08%) SQL
3 48 (9.50%) Bash
4 38 (7.52%) Java
5 34 (6.73%) TypeScript
6 33 (6.53%) C#
7 26 (5.15%) Go
8 16 (3.17%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.38%) C++
10 9 (1.78%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.79%) Groovy
12 3 (0.59%) PHP
13 2 (0.40%) Bicep
13 2 (0.40%) Ruby
14 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.08%) Degree
3 37 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 36 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.18%) CISSP
7 10 (1.98%) CCIE
7 10 (1.98%) CCNA
7 10 (1.98%) CCNP
7 10 (1.98%) CCSA
7 10 (1.98%) CCSE
7 10 (1.98%) CCSK
8 9 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 6 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.76%) SOC 2
2 18 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.56%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.57%) GDPR
4 11 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.18%) QA
5 9 (1.78%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.19%) NIST
7 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (10.10%) Docker
2 8 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 141 (27.92%) Terraform
2 58 (11.49%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.55%) Grafana
4 19 (3.76%) Ansible
4 19 (3.76%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.98%) FortiGate
6 9 (1.78%) Istio
7 5 (0.99%) Argo
7 5 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.59%) Packer
10 2 (0.40%) Nagios
11 1 (0.20%) Consul
11 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (3.56%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.17%) Cisco
3 15 (2.97%) CheckPoint
3 15 (2.97%) Fortinet
4 13 (2.57%) Google
5 10 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.78%) Databricks
7 8 (1.58%) Confluent
7 8 (1.58%) Informatica
7 8 (1.58%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.58%) Talend
8 7 (1.39%) Oracle
8 7 (1.39%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.99%) Meraki
11 4 (0.79%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.79%) Pega
11 4 (0.79%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.79%) SAP
12 3 (0.59%) VMware