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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 297 286
Rank change year-on-year -32 -11 +60
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 521 434 978
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.02% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.14% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 410 363 597
10th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +33.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £140,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 86,844 37,958 93,943
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 89.30% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,790 21,252 68,852
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,500
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 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -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 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 14 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 May 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 -10 499 £75,000 -31.82% 79
UK excluding London +102 266 £70,000 +7.69% 39
London -75 229 £90,000 -18.18% 46
Work from Home -75 154 £85,000 -22.73% 48
North of England +22 85 £68,750 +5.77% 15
North West +27 68 £70,000 +7.69% 10
South East +22 52 £65,000 +12.07% 6
South West -15 50 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Midlands +6 49 £70,000 -3.45% 10
West Midlands 0 43 £68,750 -8.33% 4
East of England -6 31 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire -33 10 £65,000 +33.33% 4
North East -34 7 £60,000 -7.69% 1
East Midlands -32 6 £77,500 +16.98% 6

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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.

1 521 (100.00%) AWS
2 193 (37.04%) Python
3 151 (28.98%) Terraform
4 150 (28.79%) DevOps
5 135 (25.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 133 (25.53%) CI/CD
7 92 (17.66%) Azure
8 87 (16.70%) Software Engineering
9 76 (14.59%) Amazon S3
10 72 (13.82%) Security Cleared
11 71 (13.63%) Serverless
12 68 (13.05%) Platform Engineering
13 65 (12.48%) Kubernetes
14 64 (12.28%) Degree
15 63 (12.09%) SQL
16 61 (11.71%) SaaS
17 57 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
18 56 (10.75%) Docker
19 55 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 54 (10.36%) Bash
20 54 (10.36%) Observability
21 52 (9.98%) Cloud Security
22 51 (9.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 49 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
24 48 (9.21%) AI
24 48 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
25 44 (8.45%) ETL
26 43 (8.25%) Agile
27 42 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
27 42 (8.06%) Amazon EC2

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 21 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.26%) Apache
3 12 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.96%) SAS
5 4 (0.77%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) Confluence
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 521 (100.00%) AWS
2 92 (17.66%) Azure
3 76 (14.59%) Amazon S3
4 71 (13.63%) Serverless
5 61 (11.71%) SaaS
6 51 (9.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 49 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (6.14%) GCP
12 31 (5.95%) GitHub
13 21 (4.03%) Datadog
13 21 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.65%) Snowflake
15 17 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (2.69%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (2.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 11 (2.11%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.03%) Firewall
2 15 (2.88%) Cisco ASA
2 15 (2.88%) Cisco Firepower
2 15 (2.88%) LAN
2 15 (2.88%) WAN
2 15 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.73%) BGP
3 9 (1.73%) VPN
4 5 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (0.96%) DNS
4 5 (0.96%) IPsec
4 5 (0.96%) MPLS
4 5 (0.96%) NetScaler
4 5 (0.96%) NX-OS
4 5 (0.96%) OSPF
4 5 (0.96%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.96%) VXLAN
4 5 (0.96%) WLAN
5 4 (0.77%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
7 12 (2.30%) MySQL
8 11 (2.11%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.11%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.54%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.34%) Metadata
12 5 (0.96%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.96%) Power BI
13 4 (0.77%) Big Data
13 4 (0.77%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.77%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (6.14%) Jenkins
2 30 (5.76%) GitLab
3 28 (5.37%) Git
4 15 (2.88%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.77%) JIRA
6 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.58%) NUnit
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) JMeter
7 2 (0.38%) Maven
7 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.19%) Deequ
8 1 (0.19%) Gradle
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 69 (13.24%) Finance
2 50 (9.60%) Banking
3 40 (7.68%) Social Skills
4 33 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.84%) Law
6 17 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.88%) Retail Banking
9 13 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.11%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.11%) Retail
11 9 (1.73%) Back Office
11 9 (1.73%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.34%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.96%) Games
14 4 (0.77%) Advertising
14 4 (0.77%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.77%) Billing
15 3 (0.58%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.33%) Kafka
2 18 (3.45%) React
3 17 (3.26%) .NET
4 14 (2.69%) AWS CDK
4 14 (2.69%) PySpark
5 13 (2.50%) REST
6 12 (2.30%) RESTful
7 10 (1.92%) .NET Core
7 10 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (1.92%) Node.js
7 10 (1.92%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.34%) Loki
8 7 (1.34%) OAuth
8 7 (1.34%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.34%) Spring
9 6 (1.15%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.96%) Django
10 5 (0.96%) JWT
10 5 (0.96%) LangChain
11 4 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (16.70%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.61%) Data Centre
3 19 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.88%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.30%) Hedge funds
7 11 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.73%) Blog
10 8 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.96%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.96%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.77%) Sports Betting
13 3 (0.58%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.33%) Linux
2 9 (1.73%) Unix
3 7 (1.34%) Windows
4 5 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (28.79%) DevOps
2 135 (25.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 133 (25.53%) CI/CD
4 87 (16.70%) Software Engineering
5 68 (13.05%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 54 (10.36%) Observability
9 52 (9.98%) Cloud Security
10 48 (9.21%) AI
11 44 (8.45%) ETL
12 43 (8.25%) Agile
13 42 (8.06%) Containerisation
14 41 (7.87%) Data Pipeline
15 40 (7.68%) High Availability
16 39 (7.49%) Analytics
17 35 (6.72%) Data Engineering
17 35 (6.72%) Full-Stack Development
18 33 (6.33%) Microservices
19 30 (5.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 193 (37.04%) Python
2 63 (12.09%) SQL
3 54 (10.36%) Bash
4 37 (7.10%) Java
5 35 (6.72%) C#
6 34 (6.53%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.37%) Go
8 24 (4.61%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.88%) C++
10 10 (1.92%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.77%) Groovy
12 3 (0.58%) PHP
13 2 (0.38%) Bicep
13 2 (0.38%) Ruby
14 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 72 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.28%) Degree
3 42 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.61%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.92%) CCIE
7 10 (1.92%) CCNA
7 10 (1.92%) CCNP
7 10 (1.92%) CCSA
7 10 (1.92%) CCSE
7 10 (1.92%) CISSP
8 9 (1.73%) CCSK
8 9 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.65%) Data Quality
1 19 (3.65%) SOC 2
2 18 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.50%) GDPR
4 12 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.30%) QA
5 9 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.15%) NIST
7 4 (0.77%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.77%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (10.75%) Docker
2 10 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 151 (28.98%) Terraform
2 65 (12.48%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.37%) Grafana
4 24 (4.61%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.03%) Ansible
6 10 (1.92%) Argo
6 10 (1.92%) FortiGate
7 9 (1.73%) Istio
8 6 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.96%) Packer
10 4 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.38%) Nagios
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (4.03%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.07%) Cisco
3 15 (2.88%) CheckPoint
3 15 (2.88%) Fortinet
4 12 (2.30%) Google
5 10 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.73%) Databricks
7 8 (1.54%) Confluent
7 8 (1.54%) Informatica
7 8 (1.54%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.54%) Oracle
7 8 (1.54%) Talend
8 7 (1.34%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.96%) Meraki
11 4 (0.77%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.77%) Pega
11 4 (0.77%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.77%) SAP
12 3 (0.58%) VMware