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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 290 280
Rank change year-on-year -44 -10 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 543 479 991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.98% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.09% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 437 380 664
10th Percentile £53,750 £64,875 £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 £138,750 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.43% - -

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 92,213 43,991 96,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.88% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63,185 25,842 69,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £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% - -5.66%

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 10 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 10 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 -32 519 £75,000 -31.82% 97
UK excluding London +102 304 £74,500 +6.43% 55
London -104 211 £85,000 -22.73% 60
Work from Home -88 149 £85,000 -22.73% 45
North of England +27 100 £74,500 +6.43% 9
North West +42 74 £74,750 +6.79% 6
South East +9 63 £65,000 +5.26% 12
Midlands +9 62 £70,000 -3.45% 7
South West -5 58 £75,000 -3.23% 20
West Midlands +13 46 £70,000 -3.45% 2
East of England +3 20 £80,000 +25.00% 2
Yorkshire -12 20 £80,000 -
East Midlands -10 16 £77,500 +16.98% 5
North East -43 6 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Scotland -5 1 £90,000 -10.00% 4
Wales -49 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 543 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (36.46%) Python
3 171 (31.49%) Terraform
4 162 (29.83%) DevOps
5 139 (25.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (25.23%) CI/CD
7 92 (16.94%) Software Engineering
8 86 (15.84%) Security Cleared
9 84 (15.47%) Amazon S3
10 82 (15.10%) Azure
11 77 (14.18%) Kubernetes
12 72 (13.26%) Serverless
13 65 (11.97%) Docker
14 64 (11.79%) Platform Engineering
14 64 (11.79%) SQL
15 60 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
16 57 (10.50%) Degree
17 56 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 55 (10.13%) Observability
19 53 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
19 53 (9.76%) Containerisation
20 50 (9.21%) Agile
21 49 (9.02%) Bash
21 49 (9.02%) SC Cleared
22 47 (8.66%) Data Pipeline
23 45 (8.29%) Amazon EKS
23 45 (8.29%) Cloud Security
23 45 (8.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 44 (8.10%) SaaS

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 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.31%) Apache
3 12 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.92%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) 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 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 543 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (15.47%) Amazon S3
3 82 (15.10%) Azure
4 72 (13.26%) Serverless
5 53 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
5 53 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
6 45 (8.29%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (8.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 44 (8.10%) SaaS
8 43 (7.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (7.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (6.45%) GitHub
10 28 (5.16%) Datadog
10 28 (5.16%) GCP
11 23 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (3.50%) Snowflake
14 17 (3.13%) dbt
15 16 (2.95%) Pulumi
16 15 (2.76%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) Firewall
2 8 (1.47%) DNS
3 7 (1.29%) 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 (0.74%) 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%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.18%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.18%) SSL
9 1 (0.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.63%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.39%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (2.03%) MySQL
8 10 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.47%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.47%) Metadata
10 7 (1.29%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.10%) Pentaho
12 5 (0.92%) Power BI
12 5 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.74%) Big Data
13 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (7.18%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.81%) GitLab
3 27 (4.97%) Git
4 20 (3.68%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.92%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
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 (0.18%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.18%) Deequ
7 1 (0.18%) Gradle
7 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 60 (11.05%) Finance
2 44 (8.10%) Banking
3 41 (7.55%) Social Skills
4 36 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.76%) Law
6 15 (2.76%) Retail Banking
7 14 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.03%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.66%) Games
9 9 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.47%) Retail
11 7 (1.29%) Back Office
11 7 (1.29%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.55%) Automotive
13 3 (0.55%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.55%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.08%) Kafka
2 19 (3.50%) React
3 13 (2.39%) .NET
3 13 (2.39%) Node.js
3 13 (2.39%) PySpark
3 13 (2.39%) RESTful
4 12 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.03%) AWS CDK
6 10 (1.84%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.66%) REST
8 6 (1.10%) .NET Core
8 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.10%) LangGraph
8 6 (1.10%) Spring
9 5 (0.92%) Django
9 5 (0.92%) LangChain
9 5 (0.92%) SAML
10 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 109 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
3 15 (2.76%) Data Centre
3 15 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (1.66%) AI Agents
4 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.47%) Sports Betting
6 7 (1.29%) Blog
7 6 (1.10%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (0.92%) NHS
8 5 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.74%) Life Science
9 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.37%) 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
1 162 (29.83%) DevOps
2 139 (25.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (25.23%) CI/CD
4 92 (16.94%) Software Engineering
5 64 (11.79%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 55 (10.13%) Observability
9 53 (9.76%) Containerisation
10 50 (9.21%) Agile
11 47 (8.66%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (8.29%) Cloud Security
13 42 (7.73%) AI
14 39 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (7.18%) Data Engineering
15 38 (7.00%) Analytics
15 38 (7.00%) ETL
16 37 (6.81%) Mentoring
17 34 (6.26%) Microservices
18 33 (6.08%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 198 (36.46%) Python
2 64 (11.79%) SQL
3 49 (9.02%) Bash
4 37 (6.81%) Java
5 31 (5.71%) C#
6 30 (5.52%) Go
6 30 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.16%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.13%) C++
9 11 (2.03%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.10%) Groovy
11 3 (0.55%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Bicep
12 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 86 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.50%) Degree
3 49 (9.02%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.95%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.10%) CISSP
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 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.55%) PhD
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.87%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.13%) SOC 2
3 16 (2.95%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.03%) GDPR
4 11 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.84%) QA
6 4 (0.74%) NIST
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (11.97%) Docker
2 10 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 171 (31.49%) Terraform
2 77 (14.18%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.16%) Grafana
4 27 (4.97%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.05%) Ansible
6 14 (2.58%) Argo
7 9 (1.66%) Istio
7 9 (1.66%) Packer
8 7 (1.29%) 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 (4.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.03%) Databricks
2 11 (2.03%) Oracle
3 10 (1.84%) Google
4 8 (1.47%) Confluent
5 7 (1.29%) 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 (0.74%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.74%) 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%) LogicMonitor