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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 327 295
Rank change year-on-year -43 -32 -12
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 548 408 653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.82% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.92% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 428 305 514
10th Percentile £50,750 £63,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £64,688 £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 £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 109,727 44,495 71,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 89.76% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 74,858 25,632 41,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,554
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,349 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 3 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 3 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 -33 507 £75,000 -31.82% 677
UK excluding London +64 348 £75,000 +7.14% 629
London -140 173 £85,000 -22.73% 249
Work from Home -126 124 £87,500 -20.45% 497
North of England +21 117 £74,500 +6.43% 145
South West 0 77 £75,000 +36.36% 73
North West +10 71 £75,000 +7.14% 91
South East +1 59 £65,000 -18.75% 65
Midlands -21 57 £67,500 -6.90% 77
Yorkshire -9 33 £70,000 - 39
East Midlands -14 30 £65,000 -2.99% 37
West Midlands -37 27 £68,750 -5.17% 40
East of England -24 19 £100,000 +56.25% 42
Scotland -2 18 £100,000 - 149
North East -51 13 £47,000 -35.17% 17
Wales -74 1 £90,000 +56.52% 54

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 208 (37.96%) Python
3 176 (32.12%) Terraform
4 159 (29.01%) DevOps
5 150 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 141 (25.73%) CI/CD
7 128 (23.36%) Software Engineering
8 95 (17.34%) Security Cleared
9 86 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 82 (14.96%) Kubernetes
11 78 (14.23%) Docker
12 77 (14.05%) Amazon S3
13 75 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (13.69%) Serverless
14 70 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 68 (12.41%) Agile
16 66 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
17 63 (11.50%) Observability
18 61 (11.13%) Amazon EC2
18 61 (11.13%) Cloud Security
19 58 (10.58%) SC Cleared
20 57 (10.40%) Amazon RDS
21 56 (10.22%) AWS CloudFormation
22 52 (9.49%) Bash
22 52 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
23 51 (9.31%) SQL
24 49 (8.94%) Degree
25 47 (8.58%) AI
25 47 (8.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
26 44 (8.03%) 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 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.01%) Apache
4 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 5 (0.91%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.55%) nginx
5 3 (0.55%) SAS
6 2 (0.36%) Confluence
6 2 (0.36%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Magento
2 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (14.05%) Amazon S3
3 75 (13.69%) Serverless
4 66 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (11.13%) Amazon EC2
6 56 (10.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (8.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 44 (8.03%) Azure
9 42 (7.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 38 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (6.57%) GitHub
12 34 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (5.84%) Datadog
14 21 (3.83%) SaaS
15 19 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (3.28%) AWS CloudTrail
17 16 (2.92%) GCP
18 13 (2.37%) Snowflake
19 11 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
19 11 (2.01%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.19%) DNS
2 9 (1.64%) Firewall
3 8 (1.46%) VPN
4 6 (1.09%) DHCP
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.40%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.01%) Redis
7 10 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.46%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.09%) Data Vault
9 6 (1.09%) Power BI
10 4 (0.73%) Big Data
10 4 (0.73%) MySQL
10 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (7.85%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.39%) GitLab
3 27 (4.93%) Git
4 13 (2.37%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.09%) JIRA
6 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.73%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) git-flow
8 3 (0.55%) Postman
9 2 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.36%) JMeter
9 2 (0.36%) Snyk
9 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.18%) Maven
10 1 (0.18%) MLflow
10 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (8.94%) Social Skills
2 43 (7.85%) Finance
3 34 (6.20%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.47%) Law
7 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
8 13 (2.37%) Banking
9 10 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.46%) Front Office
11 6 (1.09%) Automotive
11 6 (1.09%) Games
11 6 (1.09%) Legal
12 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Marketing
13 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.36%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.18%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (32.12%) Terraform
2 22 (4.01%) Kafka
3 19 (3.47%) Node.js
3 19 (3.47%) React
4 18 (3.28%) Pulumi
5 16 (2.92%) Spring Boot
6 13 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (2.37%) RESTful
7 12 (2.19%) .NET
7 12 (2.19%) OpenTofu
8 11 (2.01%) AWS CDK
9 9 (1.64%) Keycloak
9 9 (1.64%) PySpark
9 9 (1.64%) Spring
10 8 (1.46%) Django
11 7 (1.28%) Next.js
11 7 (1.28%) REST
12 6 (1.09%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.09%) Vue
13 5 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (17.15%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.56%) Distributed Computing
3 24 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 10 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.64%) Replication
8 8 (1.46%) Sports Betting
9 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.73%) Life Science
11 4 (0.73%) NHS
11 4 (0.73%) PropTech
12 3 (0.55%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.36%) Genomics
13 2 (0.36%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.03%) Linux
2 14 (2.55%) Windows
3 5 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (29.01%) DevOps
2 150 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 141 (25.73%) CI/CD
4 128 (23.36%) Software Engineering
5 86 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (12.41%) Agile
9 63 (11.50%) Observability
10 61 (11.13%) Cloud Security
11 52 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (8.58%) AI
13 39 (7.12%) Data Pipeline
14 38 (6.93%) ITIL
15 37 (6.75%) Full-Stack Development
16 36 (6.57%) Infrastructure Automation
17 35 (6.39%) Containerisation
17 35 (6.39%) Migration
17 35 (6.39%) Test Automation
18 33 (6.02%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 208 (37.96%) Python
2 52 (9.49%) Bash
3 51 (9.31%) SQL
4 38 (6.93%) Java
5 37 (6.75%) C#
5 37 (6.75%) PowerShell
6 33 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.29%) C++
8 18 (3.28%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.55%) Go
9 14 (2.55%) Groovy
10 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
12 1 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 95 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.94%) Degree
4 26 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.56%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.65%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.09%) PhD
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CISM
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.18%) GSEC
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.10%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.28%) QA
3 6 (1.09%) SLA
4 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (14.23%) Docker
2 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.91%) vSphere
3 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (14.96%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.57%) Grafana
3 31 (5.66%) Ansible
4 27 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.74%) Argo
6 11 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.64%) Rancher
8 7 (1.28%) Packer
9 5 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.91%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.55%) Puppet
11 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.36%) Nagios
12 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (3.83%) Dynatrace
2 20 (3.65%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.10%) Databricks
4 12 (2.19%) Oracle
5 9 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.46%) VMware
7 5 (0.91%) Intel
8 4 (0.73%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.73%) Google
9 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.36%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.36%) FactSet
10 2 (0.36%) Informatica
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.36%) Solace
10 2 (0.36%) Talend
11 1 (0.18%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.18%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.18%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.18%) New Relic