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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 341 293
Rank change year-on-year -38 -48 -8
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 539 386 633
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.78% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.87% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 423 285 512
10th Percentile £50,750 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £72,500
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 £74,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.43% -3.45% +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 109,479 44,337 68,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 89.81% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,234 25,787 39,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -35 495 £75,000 -31.82% 491
UK excluding London +83 347 £74,500 +6.43% 308
London -135 166 £80,000 -27.27% 243
North of England +22 119 £74,500 +6.43% 91
Work from Home -120 118 £85,000 -22.73% 199
North West +25 74 £75,000 +7.14% 64
South West 0 74 £75,000 +36.36% 36
South East +1 57 £65,000 -18.75% 27
Midlands -23 57 £67,500 -6.90% 40
Yorkshire -11 33 £70,000 - 20
East Midlands -5 31 £55,000 +1.85% 22
West Midlands -47 26 £68,750 -5.17% 18
Scotland +11 23 £100,000 - 72
East of England -29 16 £90,000 +44.00% 21
North East -56 12 £47,000 -27.69% 7
Wales -75 1 £90,000 +56.52% 5

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 539 (100.00%) AWS
2 208 (38.59%) Python
3 174 (32.28%) Terraform
4 163 (30.24%) DevOps
5 149 (27.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 136 (25.23%) CI/CD
7 127 (23.56%) Software Engineering
8 92 (17.07%) Security Cleared
9 88 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 82 (15.21%) Kubernetes
11 79 (14.66%) Amazon S3
12 77 (14.29%) Serverless
13 75 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (13.73%) Docker
15 69 (12.80%) Agile
15 69 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 68 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
17 61 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
17 61 (11.32%) Cloud Security
18 60 (11.13%) Observability
19 59 (10.95%) Amazon RDS
20 57 (10.58%) AWS CloudFormation
20 57 (10.58%) SC Cleared
21 52 (9.65%) Bash
21 52 (9.65%) SQL
22 50 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
23 49 (9.09%) Degree
24 48 (8.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 46 (8.53%) AI
26 43 (7.98%) Azure

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 14 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.23%) Apache
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.56%) nginx
5 3 (0.56%) SAS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 539 (100.00%) AWS
2 79 (14.66%) Amazon S3
3 77 (14.29%) Serverless
4 68 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
6 57 (10.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (8.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (7.98%) Azure
9 42 (7.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 38 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (6.86%) GitHub
12 33 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (5.75%) Datadog
14 21 (3.90%) SaaS
15 18 (3.34%) AWS CloudTrail
15 18 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (2.78%) GCP
17 13 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
18 12 (2.23%) AWS Step Functions
18 12 (2.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.23%) DNS
2 8 (1.48%) Firewall
2 8 (1.48%) VPN
3 6 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.95%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.04%) Redis
7 8 (1.48%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.48%) Power BI
8 6 (1.11%) Data Vault
9 4 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (0.74%) Big Data
9 4 (0.74%) MySQL
9 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (7.61%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.49%) GitLab
3 28 (5.19%) Git
4 12 (2.23%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.93%) JIRA
5 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.56%) git-flow
7 3 (0.56%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.37%) JMeter
8 2 (0.37%) MLflow
8 2 (0.37%) Snyk
8 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (8.91%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.16%) Finance
3 34 (6.31%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.53%) Law
7 14 (2.60%) Health Technology
8 12 (2.23%) Banking
9 10 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.48%) Front Office
11 6 (1.11%) Automotive
11 6 (1.11%) Games
11 6 (1.11%) Legal
12 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Marketing
13 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.19%) Billing
14 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (32.28%) Terraform
2 22 (4.08%) Kafka
3 17 (3.15%) Pulumi
4 15 (2.78%) Node.js
4 15 (2.78%) React
5 14 (2.60%) Spring Boot
6 13 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.41%) RESTful
7 11 (2.04%) .NET
7 11 (2.04%) AWS CDK
7 11 (2.04%) OpenTofu
8 10 (1.86%) PySpark
9 9 (1.67%) Keycloak
9 9 (1.67%) Spring
10 7 (1.30%) Next.js
10 7 (1.30%) REST
11 6 (1.11%) Django
11 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.11%) Vue
12 5 (0.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (16.70%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.45%) Distributed Computing
3 23 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (2.23%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.23%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.67%) Replication
7 8 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.30%) Sports Betting
9 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.74%) Life Science
10 4 (0.74%) NHS
10 4 (0.74%) PropTech
11 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.37%) Genomics
12 2 (0.37%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.98%) Linux
2 13 (2.41%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (30.24%) DevOps
2 149 (27.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 136 (25.23%) CI/CD
4 127 (23.56%) Software Engineering
5 88 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (12.80%) Agile
7 69 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (11.32%) Cloud Security
9 60 (11.13%) Observability
10 50 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (8.53%) AI
12 39 (7.24%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (7.05%) ITIL
14 37 (6.86%) Test Automation
15 36 (6.68%) Infrastructure Automation
16 34 (6.31%) Containerisation
16 34 (6.31%) Migration
17 33 (6.12%) Data Engineering
17 33 (6.12%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 208 (38.59%) Python
2 52 (9.65%) Bash
2 52 (9.65%) SQL
3 37 (6.86%) Java
3 37 (6.86%) PowerShell
4 35 (6.49%) C#
5 28 (5.19%) C++
5 28 (5.19%) TypeScript
6 16 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 14 (2.60%) Groovy
8 11 (2.04%) Go
9 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.19%) PHP
11 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 92 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.09%) Degree
4 26 (4.82%) AWS Certification
5 25 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.71%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.11%) PhD
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CISM
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.19%) GSEC
11 1 (0.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.53%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.48%) QA
3 6 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.93%) SLA
5 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.19%) GDPR
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (13.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.93%) vSphere
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (15.21%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.68%) Grafana
3 30 (5.57%) Ansible
4 27 (5.01%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.78%) Argo
6 11 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.67%) Rancher
8 7 (1.30%) Packer
9 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.93%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.56%) Puppet
11 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.19%) Kibana
12 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (3.90%) Dynatrace
2 19 (3.53%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.34%) Databricks
4 12 (2.23%) Oracle
5 9 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.48%) VMware
7 5 (0.93%) Intel
8 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.74%) Google
9 3 (0.56%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.37%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.37%) FactSet
10 2 (0.37%) Informatica
10 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.37%) Solace
10 2 (0.37%) Talend
11 1 (0.19%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.19%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.19%) New Relic
11 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv