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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 298 282
Rank change year-on-year -43 -16 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 535 472 993
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.96% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.07% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 436 373 663
10th Percentile £53,750 £64,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +25.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -

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 93,080 44,133 95,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 89.80% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 63,762 26,055 68,461
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -29 512 £75,000 -31.82% 115
UK excluding London +104 303 £75,000 +15.38% 78
London -112 205 £85,000 -22.73% 51
Work from Home -107 147 £90,000 -18.18% 75
North of England +30 96 £74,500 +10.37% 18
North West +34 71 £74,500 +6.43% 9
South East +28 65 £65,000 +5.26% 14
Midlands +8 60 £70,000 -3.45% 10
South West -11 60 £75,000 -3.23% 20
West Midlands -2 44 £70,000 -3.45% 5
East of England -5 21 £82,500 +28.91% 7
Yorkshire -14 19 £80,000 - 5
East Midlands -12 16 £77,500 +35.96% 5
North East -54 6 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Scotland -3 1 £90,000 -10.00% 5
Wales -55 1 £90,000 +50.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 535 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (36.64%) Python
3 169 (31.59%) Terraform
4 161 (30.09%) DevOps
5 137 (25.61%) CI/CD
5 137 (25.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 90 (16.82%) Software Engineering
7 83 (15.51%) Security Cleared
8 82 (15.33%) Amazon S3
9 79 (14.77%) Azure
10 76 (14.21%) Kubernetes
11 70 (13.08%) Serverless
12 65 (12.15%) Docker
13 62 (11.59%) Platform Engineering
14 61 (11.40%) SQL
15 57 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (10.09%) Degree
17 53 (9.91%) Containerisation
17 53 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 53 (9.91%) Observability
18 52 (9.72%) Amazon EC2
19 51 (9.53%) AWS Lambda
20 49 (9.16%) Agile
21 48 (8.97%) SC Cleared
22 47 (8.79%) Bash
23 44 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
23 44 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
24 43 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
24 43 (8.04%) Cloud Security
25 42 (7.85%) 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 26 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.99%) Apache
3 10 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.93%) SAS
5 4 (0.75%) 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 4 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 535 (100.00%) AWS
2 82 (15.33%) Amazon S3
3 79 (14.77%) Azure
4 70 (13.08%) Serverless
5 52 (9.72%) Amazon EC2
6 51 (9.53%) AWS Lambda
7 44 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
8 43 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 42 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (7.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 40 (7.48%) SaaS
11 35 (6.54%) GitHub
12 28 (5.23%) Datadog
13 27 (5.05%) GCP
14 23 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (3.55%) Snowflake
17 17 (3.18%) dbt
18 16 (2.99%) Pulumi
19 15 (2.80%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.06%) Firewall
2 8 (1.50%) DNS
3 6 (1.12%) VPN
4 4 (0.75%) BGP
4 4 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (0.75%) LAN
4 4 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.75%) WAN
4 4 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.56%) VLAN
6 2 (0.37%) 4G
6 2 (0.37%) 5G
6 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.37%) IPv4
7 1 (0.19%) SSL
7 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.62%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.43%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.43%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (2.06%) MySQL
7 10 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.50%) Metadata
9 7 (1.31%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.12%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.12%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.93%) Power BI
11 5 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.75%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.75%) Big Data
12 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (7.29%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.92%) GitLab
3 27 (5.05%) Git
4 20 (3.74%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.93%) JIRA
5 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.37%) git-flow
6 2 (0.37%) JMeter
6 2 (0.37%) Maven
6 2 (0.37%) NUnit
6 2 (0.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Deequ
7 1 (0.19%) Gradle
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 54 (10.09%) Finance
2 41 (7.66%) Banking
3 40 (7.48%) Social Skills
4 36 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.80%) Retail Banking
7 14 (2.62%) Law
8 13 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.24%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.68%) Games
10 9 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.31%) Retail
12 6 (1.12%) Back Office
12 6 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.75%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.56%) Automotive
14 3 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.17%) Kafka
2 19 (3.55%) React
3 13 (2.43%) Node.js
3 13 (2.43%) RESTful
4 12 (2.24%) .NET
4 12 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.06%) AWS CDK
5 11 (2.06%) PySpark
6 10 (1.87%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.68%) REST
8 6 (1.12%) .NET Core
8 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.12%) LangGraph
8 6 (1.12%) Spring
9 5 (0.93%) Django
9 5 (0.93%) LangChain
9 5 (0.93%) SAML
10 4 (0.75%) JWT
10 4 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 109 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.18%) Distributed Computing
3 13 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.24%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.31%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.31%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.12%) Blog
9 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.75%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.75%) Life Science
10 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.75%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.29%) Linux
2 8 (1.50%) Windows
3 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.75%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (30.09%) DevOps
2 137 (25.61%) CI/CD
2 137 (25.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 90 (16.82%) Software Engineering
4 62 (11.59%) Platform Engineering
5 57 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (9.91%) Containerisation
6 53 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (9.91%) Observability
7 49 (9.16%) Agile
8 44 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
9 43 (8.04%) Cloud Security
10 39 (7.29%) AI
11 38 (7.10%) Analytics
12 37 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (6.92%) Data Engineering
12 37 (6.92%) Mentoring
13 36 (6.73%) ETL
14 34 (6.36%) Microservices
15 33 (6.17%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 196 (36.64%) Python
2 61 (11.40%) SQL
3 47 (8.79%) Bash
4 36 (6.73%) Java
5 30 (5.61%) C#
5 30 (5.61%) Go
6 28 (5.23%) PowerShell
6 28 (5.23%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.18%) C++
8 11 (2.06%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.12%) Groovy
10 3 (0.56%) PHP
11 2 (0.37%) Bicep
11 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.09%) Degree
3 48 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.93%) CISSP
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.75%) CCIE
9 4 (0.75%) CCNA
9 4 (0.75%) CCNP
9 4 (0.75%) CCSA
9 4 (0.75%) CCSE
9 4 (0.75%) CCSK
10 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.56%) PhD
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.99%) SOC 2
3 15 (2.80%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.06%) GDPR
4 11 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.87%) QA
6 9 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.75%) NIST
7 4 (0.75%) SLA
8 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (12.15%) Docker
2 10 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 169 (31.59%) Terraform
2 76 (14.21%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.05%) Grafana
4 26 (4.86%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.11%) Ansible
6 14 (2.62%) Argo
7 9 (1.68%) Istio
7 9 (1.68%) Packer
8 7 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.75%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (4.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.06%) Oracle
3 9 (1.68%) Databricks
3 9 (1.68%) Google
4 8 (1.50%) Confluent
5 6 (1.12%) Informatica
5 6 (1.12%) Talend
6 5 (0.93%) Cisco
6 5 (0.93%) MuleSoft
7 4 (0.75%) CheckPoint
7 4 (0.75%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.75%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.75%) VMware
8 3 (0.56%) Pega
8 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.56%) SAP
9 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.37%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds