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 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 294 287
Rank change year-on-year -33 -7 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 545 475 997
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.01% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.13% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 445 374 671
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 £74,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.62% -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 90,943 42,123 100,042
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 89.80% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 62,442 24,434 72,102
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,745 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.09% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% - -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 2 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 2 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 -26 522 £75,000 -31.82% 109
UK excluding London +107 303 £74,500 +14.62% 66
London -106 215 £85,000 -22.73% 54
Work from Home -100 154 £85,000 -22.73% 63
North of England +24 103 £74,500 +14.62% 10
North West +48 77 £75,000 +11.11% 4
Midlands +10 61 £70,000 -3.45% 9
South East +20 59 £65,000 +5.26% 19
South West -9 58 £75,000 -3.23% 18
West Midlands 0 45 £68,750 -5.17% 8
East of England -4 21 £82,500 +27.91% 5
Yorkshire -20 19 £80,000 - 3
East Midlands -8 16 £77,500 +16.98% 1
North East -47 7 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Scotland -6 1 £90,000 -10.00% 4
Wales -46 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 545 (100.00%) AWS
2 200 (36.70%) Python
3 168 (30.83%) Terraform
4 163 (29.91%) DevOps
5 144 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (25.50%) CI/CD
7 95 (17.43%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.60%) Amazon S3
9 83 (15.23%) Security Cleared
10 82 (15.05%) Azure
11 75 (13.76%) Serverless
12 74 (13.58%) Kubernetes
13 66 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
14 65 (11.93%) Docker
14 65 (11.93%) SQL
15 60 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
16 56 (10.28%) Degree
16 56 (10.28%) Observability
17 55 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 53 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
19 52 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
20 51 (9.36%) Bash
21 50 (9.17%) Agile
21 50 (9.17%) Containerisation
22 49 (8.99%) SC Cleared
23 48 (8.81%) Data Pipeline
24 46 (8.44%) Cloud Security
24 46 (8.44%) SaaS
25 45 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
26 44 (8.07%) Amazon EKS

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 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.30%) Apache
3 13 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.92%) SAS
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 545 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.60%) Amazon S3
3 82 (15.05%) Azure
4 75 (13.76%) Serverless
5 53 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
7 46 (8.44%) SaaS
8 45 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 44 (8.07%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (8.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (8.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 36 (6.61%) GitHub
11 28 (5.14%) Datadog
11 28 (5.14%) GCP
12 24 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (3.49%) Snowflake
15 17 (3.12%) dbt
16 16 (2.94%) Pulumi
17 15 (2.75%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) Firewall
2 8 (1.47%) DNS
3 7 (1.28%) VPN
4 6 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (1.10%) LAN
4 6 (1.10%) WAN
4 6 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.92%) BGP
6 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.55%) VLAN
8 2 (0.37%) 4G
8 2 (0.37%) 5G
8 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.37%) IPv4
9 1 (0.18%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.18%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.39%) DynamoDB
4 13 (2.39%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (1.65%) MySQL
8 8 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.47%) Metadata
9 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.10%) Pentaho
10 6 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (0.92%) Power BI
12 4 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.73%) Big Data
12 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (7.52%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.61%) GitLab
3 28 (5.14%) Git
4 20 (3.67%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.92%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.37%) git-flow
7 2 (0.37%) JMeter
7 2 (0.37%) Maven
7 2 (0.37%) NUnit
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) Gradle
8 1 (0.18%) JUnit
8 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 61 (11.19%) Finance
2 46 (8.44%) Banking
3 42 (7.71%) Social Skills
4 34 (6.24%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.75%) Law
6 15 (2.75%) Retail Banking
7 14 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.83%) Games
9 9 (1.65%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.47%) Retail
11 7 (1.28%) Back Office
11 7 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Advertising
13 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.55%) Automotive
13 3 (0.55%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.24%) Kafka
2 18 (3.30%) React
3 14 (2.57%) PySpark
4 13 (2.39%) .NET
4 13 (2.39%) Node.js
4 13 (2.39%) RESTful
5 12 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.02%) AWS CDK
7 10 (1.83%) REST
8 9 (1.65%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.10%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.10%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.10%) Spring
10 5 (0.92%) Django
10 5 (0.92%) LangChain
10 5 (0.92%) SAML
11 4 (0.73%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.73%) JWT
11 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 107 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.12%) Distributed Computing
3 16 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.57%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.02%) AI Agents
6 9 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.47%) Sports Betting
8 7 (1.28%) Blog
9 6 (1.10%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.10%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.92%) NHS
10 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.73%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.55%) PropTech
12 3 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.97%) Linux
2 8 (1.47%) Windows
3 5 (0.92%) Unix
3 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (29.91%) DevOps
2 144 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (25.50%) CI/CD
4 95 (17.43%) Software Engineering
5 66 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.28%) Observability
8 55 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 50 (9.17%) Agile
9 50 (9.17%) Containerisation
10 48 (8.81%) Data Pipeline
11 46 (8.44%) Cloud Security
12 43 (7.89%) AI
13 40 (7.34%) Data Engineering
14 39 (7.16%) Analytics
14 39 (7.16%) ETL
15 36 (6.61%) Mentoring
16 35 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (6.24%) High Availability
17 34 (6.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 200 (36.70%) Python
2 65 (11.93%) SQL
3 51 (9.36%) Bash
4 37 (6.79%) Java
5 33 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 32 (5.87%) C#
7 30 (5.50%) Go
8 29 (5.32%) PowerShell
9 17 (3.12%) C++
10 11 (2.02%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.10%) Groovy
12 3 (0.55%) PHP
13 2 (0.37%) Bicep
13 2 (0.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.28%) Degree
3 49 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.20%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.10%) CISSP
9 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 5 (0.92%) CCIE
9 5 (0.92%) CCNA
9 5 (0.92%) CCNP
9 5 (0.92%) CCSA
9 5 (0.92%) CCSE
9 5 (0.92%) CCSK
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.12%) SOC 2
3 16 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.02%) GDPR
4 11 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.83%) QA
6 4 (0.73%) NIST
6 4 (0.73%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (11.93%) Docker
2 10 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 168 (30.83%) Terraform
2 74 (13.58%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.95%) Grafana
4 26 (4.77%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.22%) Ansible
6 14 (2.57%) Argo
7 9 (1.65%) Istio
7 9 (1.65%) Packer
8 7 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.92%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.18%) Consul
12 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (4.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.02%) Databricks
2 11 (2.02%) Oracle
3 10 (1.83%) Google
4 8 (1.47%) Confluent
5 7 (1.28%) Cisco
6 6 (1.10%) CheckPoint
6 6 (1.10%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.10%) Informatica
6 6 (1.10%) Talend
7 5 (0.92%) MuleSoft
7 5 (0.92%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.73%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.73%) VMware
9 3 (0.55%) Pega
9 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.55%) SAP
9 3 (0.55%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.37%) Dynatrace