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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 289 286
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 +40
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 540 472 990
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.04% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.16% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 439 370 659
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -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 89,596 40,763 99,991
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.50% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 61,466 23,272 72,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
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 £76,849 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -33 518 £75,000 -31.82% 79
UK excluding London +107 298 £72,500 +11.54% 51
London -97 217 £85,000 -22.73% 38
Work from Home -80 155 £85,000 -22.73% 44
North of England +38 102 £74,500 +14.62% 16
North West +51 77 £75,000 +11.11% 10
Midlands +8 60 £70,000 -3.45% 6
South East +17 59 £65,000 +5.26% 13
South West -6 54 £75,000 -3.23% 12
West Midlands +11 45 £68,750 -5.17% 6
East of England -3 22 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire -18 18 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -12 15 £80,000 +33.33%
North East -37 7 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Scotland -7 1 £90,000 -10.00% 3
Wales -51 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 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.

1 540 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (37.22%) Python
3 168 (31.11%) Terraform
4 162 (30.00%) DevOps
5 144 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 138 (25.56%) CI/CD
7 94 (17.41%) Software Engineering
8 84 (15.56%) Azure
9 83 (15.37%) Amazon S3
10 82 (15.19%) Security Cleared
11 73 (13.52%) Kubernetes
11 73 (13.52%) Serverless
12 66 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
13 65 (12.04%) Docker
13 65 (12.04%) SQL
14 59 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
15 57 (10.56%) Degree
16 56 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 56 (10.37%) Observability
17 52 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
17 52 (9.63%) Bash
18 51 (9.44%) Amazon EC2
19 50 (9.26%) Containerisation
19 50 (9.26%) SC Cleared
20 49 (9.07%) Agile
21 48 (8.89%) SaaS
22 47 (8.70%) Cloud Security
22 47 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
23 45 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 45 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 26 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.15%) Apache
3 12 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) CMS
5 4 (0.74%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 540 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (15.56%) Azure
3 83 (15.37%) Amazon S3
4 73 (13.52%) Serverless
5 52 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (9.44%) Amazon EC2
7 48 (8.89%) SaaS
8 45 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 44 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (6.48%) GitHub
11 29 (5.37%) GCP
12 28 (5.19%) Datadog
13 23 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (3.52%) Snowflake
16 17 (3.15%) dbt
17 16 (2.96%) Pulumi
18 15 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.78%) Firewall
2 8 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (1.48%) DNS
2 8 (1.48%) LAN
2 8 (1.48%) VPN
2 8 (1.48%) WAN
2 8 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (1.11%) BGP
4 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.56%) VLAN
6 2 (0.37%) 4G
6 2 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.37%) IPv4
6 2 (0.37%) MPLS
6 2 (0.37%) NetScaler
6 2 (0.37%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.37%) OSPF
6 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.41%) DynamoDB
4 13 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (1.67%) MySQL
9 8 (1.48%) Metadata
10 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.30%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.30%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (0.93%) Power BI
12 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.74%) Big Data
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.67%) GitLab
3 28 (5.19%) Git
4 20 (3.70%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.74%) JIRA
7 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.37%) git-flow
8 2 (0.37%) JMeter
8 2 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) NUnit
8 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) Gradle
9 1 (0.19%) JUnit
9 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 61 (11.30%) Finance
2 46 (8.52%) Banking
3 40 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 34 (6.30%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.96%) Law
7 15 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 14 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.85%) Games
10 9 (1.67%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.48%) Retail
12 7 (1.30%) Back Office
12 7 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Advertising
14 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.56%) Automotive
14 3 (0.56%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.30%) Kafka
2 17 (3.15%) React
3 14 (2.59%) PySpark
4 13 (2.41%) RESTful
5 12 (2.22%) .NET
5 12 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.22%) Node.js
6 11 (2.04%) AWS CDK
7 10 (1.85%) REST
8 9 (1.67%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.11%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.11%) Spring
10 5 (0.93%) Django
10 5 (0.93%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.93%) LangChain
10 5 (0.93%) SAML
11 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.74%) JWT
11 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 106 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
3 16 (2.96%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 9 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.48%) Sports Betting
7 7 (1.30%) Blog
7 7 (1.30%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.30%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.74%) NHS
11 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.56%) PropTech
11 3 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.04%) Linux
2 8 (1.48%) Windows
3 6 (1.11%) Unix
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (30.00%) DevOps
2 144 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 138 (25.56%) CI/CD
4 94 (17.41%) Software Engineering
5 66 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
6 59 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 56 (10.37%) Observability
8 50 (9.26%) Containerisation
9 49 (9.07%) Agile
10 47 (8.70%) Cloud Security
10 47 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
11 44 (8.15%) AI
12 40 (7.41%) Data Engineering
13 39 (7.22%) Analytics
13 39 (7.22%) ETL
14 36 (6.67%) Mentoring
15 35 (6.48%) High Availability
16 34 (6.30%) Microservices
17 33 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 201 (37.22%) Python
2 65 (12.04%) SQL
3 52 (9.63%) Bash
4 36 (6.67%) Java
5 31 (5.74%) C#
5 31 (5.74%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.56%) Go
7 29 (5.37%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.15%) C++
9 10 (1.85%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.11%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Bicep
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 82 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.56%) Degree
3 50 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.89%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.30%) CISSP
9 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.11%) CCIE
9 6 (1.11%) CCNA
9 6 (1.11%) CCNP
9 6 (1.11%) CCSA
9 6 (1.11%) CCSE
9 6 (1.11%) CCSK
10 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.15%) SOC 2
3 16 (2.96%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.22%) GDPR
4 12 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.85%) QA
6 5 (0.93%) NIST
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (12.04%) Docker
2 10 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 168 (31.11%) Terraform
2 73 (13.52%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.00%) Grafana
4 26 (4.81%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.26%) Ansible
6 14 (2.59%) Argo
7 9 (1.67%) Istio
7 9 (1.67%) Packer
8 6 (1.11%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.37%) Nagios
10 1 (0.19%) Consul
10 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (4.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.04%) Google
3 10 (1.85%) Databricks
3 10 (1.85%) Oracle
4 9 (1.67%) Cisco
5 8 (1.48%) CheckPoint
5 8 (1.48%) Confluent
5 8 (1.48%) Fortinet
6 7 (1.30%) Informatica
6 7 (1.30%) Talend
7 6 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.74%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.74%) VMware
9 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.56%) Pega
9 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.56%) SAP
10 2 (0.37%) LogicMonitor