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 29 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 258 302
Rank change year-on-year -70 +44 +42
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 478 504 905
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.19% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.34% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 369 449 533
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +31.25% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £127,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 83,325 37,724 90,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.06% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53,544 23,378 66,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 29 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 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 29 April 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 -54 458 £75,000 -30.23% 68
UK excluding London +33 231 £70,000 +7.69% 55
London -80 224 £90,000 -18.18% 24
Work from Home -138 139 £90,000 -18.18% 33
North of England -38 71 £70,000 +7.69% 20
North West -14 58 £70,000 +5.50% 13
South West -9 46 £75,000 -6.25% 4
Midlands -4 43 £70,000 +7.69% 10
South East -10 41 £65,000 +6.56% 14
West Midlands +3 37 £67,500 +31.71% 6
East of England -3 29 £80,000 +25.00% 2
Yorkshire -66 7 £65,000 +30.00% 3
North East -38 6 £60,000 -7.69% 4
East Midlands -53 6 £72,500 +11.54% 4
Scotland -24 2 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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.

1 478 (100.00%) AWS
2 178 (37.24%) Python
3 148 (30.96%) DevOps
4 134 (28.03%) Terraform
5 123 (25.73%) CI/CD
6 115 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 90 (18.83%) Azure
8 78 (16.32%) Software Engineering
9 69 (14.44%) Serverless
10 68 (14.23%) Amazon S3
11 65 (13.60%) Platform Engineering
12 61 (12.76%) Security Cleared
13 58 (12.13%) SQL
14 57 (11.92%) Kubernetes
15 56 (11.72%) Degree
16 55 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
17 54 (11.30%) SaaS
18 50 (10.46%) Docker
19 49 (10.25%) Amazon EKS
20 47 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 47 (9.83%) Java
20 47 (9.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 46 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
21 46 (9.62%) Cloud Security
21 46 (9.62%) ETL
22 45 (9.41%) Observability
23 44 (9.21%) Bash
24 43 (9.00%) Agile
25 41 (8.58%) AI
26 40 (8.37%) Data Pipeline

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 22 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.56%) Apache
3 14 (2.93%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.84%) IIS
4 4 (0.84%) SAS
5 2 (0.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 478 (100.00%) AWS
2 90 (18.83%) Azure
3 69 (14.44%) Serverless
4 68 (14.23%) Amazon S3
5 54 (11.30%) SaaS
6 49 (10.25%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (9.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 46 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (7.11%) GCP
11 31 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (6.28%) GitHub
13 22 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (3.56%) Snowflake
15 16 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (3.35%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (3.35%) Datadog
16 13 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.60%) Firewall
2 15 (3.14%) Cisco ASA
2 15 (3.14%) Cisco Firepower
2 15 (3.14%) LAN
2 15 (3.14%) WAN
2 15 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (2.09%) BGP
3 10 (2.09%) VPN
4 5 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.05%) IPsec
4 5 (1.05%) MPLS
4 5 (1.05%) NetScaler
4 5 (1.05%) NX-OS
4 5 (1.05%) OSPF
4 5 (1.05%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.05%) VXLAN
4 5 (1.05%) WLAN
5 4 (0.84%) VLAN
6 2 (0.42%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.69%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (5.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (2.93%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.72%) Apache Iceberg
6 13 (2.72%) DynamoDB
6 13 (2.72%) MySQL
7 9 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (1.46%) Metadata
8 7 (1.46%) Pentaho
9 6 (1.26%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.26%) Flink
10 4 (0.84%) Big Data
10 4 (0.84%) Power BI
10 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.84%) Star Schema
11 3 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (5.44%) Git
2 24 (5.02%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.18%) GitLab
4 10 (2.09%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.84%) JIRA
7 3 (0.63%) NUnit
8 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.42%) JMeter
8 2 (0.42%) Maven
9 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.21%) Deequ
9 1 (0.21%) Gatling
9 1 (0.21%) git-flow
9 1 (0.21%) Gradle
9 1 (0.21%) JUnit
9 1 (0.21%) Postman
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 78 (16.32%) Finance
2 53 (11.09%) Banking
3 40 (8.37%) Social Skills
4 27 (5.65%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.39%) Law
6 18 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.14%) Retail Banking
8 12 (2.51%) Retail
8 12 (2.51%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.30%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.30%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.09%) Back Office
11 6 (1.26%) Advertising
11 6 (1.26%) Games
11 6 (1.26%) Legal
12 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Front Office
13 4 (0.84%) Billing
14 3 (0.63%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.74%) Kafka
2 20 (4.18%) React
3 18 (3.77%) .NET
4 15 (3.14%) Node.js
5 13 (2.72%) PySpark
6 12 (2.51%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (2.51%) REST
7 11 (2.30%) .NET Core
8 10 (2.09%) RESTful
8 10 (2.09%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.88%) OAuth
9 9 (1.88%) Spring
10 7 (1.46%) JWT
10 7 (1.46%) Loki
10 7 (1.46%) OAuth2
11 5 (1.05%) LangChain
11 5 (1.05%) LangGraph
12 4 (0.84%) SOAP
13 3 (0.63%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 74 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.60%) Data Centre
2 22 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.93%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.72%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.88%) Blog
7 9 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.26%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.05%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.84%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.65%) Linux
2 11 (2.30%) Unix
3 8 (1.67%) Windows
4 5 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (30.96%) DevOps
2 123 (25.73%) CI/CD
3 115 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (16.32%) Software Engineering
5 65 (13.60%) Platform Engineering
6 55 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 46 (9.62%) Cloud Security
8 46 (9.62%) ETL
9 45 (9.41%) Observability
10 43 (9.00%) Agile
11 41 (8.58%) AI
12 40 (8.37%) Data Pipeline
13 36 (7.53%) Data Engineering
13 36 (7.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 36 (7.53%) High Availability
14 34 (7.11%) Containerisation
15 33 (6.90%) Analytics
16 31 (6.49%) Microservices
17 30 (6.28%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 178 (37.24%) Python
2 58 (12.13%) SQL
3 47 (9.83%) Java
4 44 (9.21%) Bash
5 31 (6.49%) C#
5 31 (6.49%) TypeScript
6 25 (5.23%) Go
7 13 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.09%) C++
9 8 (1.67%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.63%) Groovy
11 2 (0.42%) Bicep
11 2 (0.42%) PHP
11 2 (0.42%) Ruby
11 2 (0.42%) Scala
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.21%) Perl
Qualifications
1 61 (12.76%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.72%) Degree
3 35 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.02%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.72%) CISSP
6 11 (2.30%) CCSK
6 11 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.09%) CCIE
7 10 (2.09%) CCNA
7 10 (2.09%) CCNP
7 10 (2.09%) CCSA
7 10 (2.09%) CCSE
8 8 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 7 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.18%) SOC 2
2 19 (3.97%) PCI DSS
3 18 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.72%) GDPR
5 12 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.09%) QA
7 9 (1.88%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.46%) NIST
9 4 (0.84%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.63%) SLA
11 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 50 (10.46%) Docker
2 8 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 134 (28.03%) Terraform
2 57 (11.92%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.60%) Grafana
4 21 (4.39%) Ansible
5 17 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.09%) FortiGate
7 9 (1.88%) Istio
8 8 (1.67%) Argo
9 5 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.63%) Packer
10 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.42%) Kibana
11 2 (0.42%) logstash
11 2 (0.42%) Nagios
12 1 (0.21%) Consul
12 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (3.77%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.56%) Cisco
3 15 (3.14%) CheckPoint
3 15 (3.14%) Fortinet
4 14 (2.93%) Google
5 11 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.09%) Databricks
7 8 (1.67%) Confluent
7 8 (1.67%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.67%) SolarWinds
8 7 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.46%) Informatica
8 7 (1.46%) Talend
9 6 (1.26%) Oracle
10 5 (1.05%) Meraki
11 4 (0.84%) Pega
11 4 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.84%) SAP
12 3 (0.63%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.63%) VMware