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 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 321 278
Rank change year-on-year -53 -43 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 530 416 786
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.84% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.94% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 420 320 550
10th Percentile £51,925 £63,625 £58,750
25th Percentile £63,469 £80,000 £71,250
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 £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 105,368 44,470 74,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 89.68% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72,550 26,183 45,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -42 502 £75,000 -31.82% 263
UK excluding London +71 320 £72,500 +3.57% 179
London -125 187 £85,000 -22.73% 145
Work from Home -135 131 £85,000 -22.73% 88
North of England +11 103 £70,000 - 35
South West -1 76 £75,000 -25.00% 30
South East +22 62 £65,000 -7.14% 19
North West +21 61 £75,000 +7.14% 17
Midlands -24 52 £70,000 -3.45% 26
West Midlands -24 33 £70,000 -3.45% 9
Yorkshire -19 29 £66,750 - 14
East Midlands -18 19 £75,000 +11.94% 17
East of England -23 17 £100,000 +56.25% 10
North East -54 13 £47,000 -27.69% 4
Scotland -5 10 £100,000 - 48
Wales -71 1 £90,000 +56.52% 4

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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.

1 530 (100.00%) AWS
2 200 (37.74%) Python
3 185 (34.91%) Terraform
4 151 (28.49%) DevOps
5 144 (27.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (26.23%) CI/CD
7 101 (19.06%) Software Engineering
8 82 (15.47%) Kubernetes
9 81 (15.28%) Security Cleared
10 80 (15.09%) Amazon S3
11 79 (14.91%) Docker
11 79 (14.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 70 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (13.02%) Serverless
14 65 (12.26%) Amazon EC2
15 62 (11.70%) Azure
15 62 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (11.32%) Cloud Security
17 59 (11.13%) AWS Lambda
18 58 (10.94%) Observability
19 55 (10.38%) Amazon RDS
20 54 (10.19%) AWS CloudFormation
20 54 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
21 52 (9.81%) Bash
22 51 (9.62%) Agile
22 51 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 50 (9.43%) Degree
24 49 (9.25%) SQL
25 48 (9.06%) Linux
26 46 (8.68%) 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 15 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.89%) Apache
3 8 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.94%) CMS
4 5 (0.94%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.75%) IIS
5 4 (0.75%) nginx
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
6 3 (0.57%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 530 (100.00%) AWS
2 80 (15.09%) Amazon S3
3 69 (13.02%) Serverless
4 65 (12.26%) Amazon EC2
5 62 (11.70%) Azure
6 59 (11.13%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (10.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 46 (8.68%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (6.98%) Datadog
12 34 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (6.23%) GitHub
14 28 (5.28%) GCP
15 25 (4.72%) SaaS
16 18 (3.40%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (3.40%) Snowflake
17 12 (2.26%) dbt
18 11 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.26%) DNS
2 10 (1.89%) Firewall
3 6 (1.13%) VPN
4 4 (0.75%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.38%) IPv4
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.19%) LAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.38%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (1.70%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.70%) DynamoDB
6 8 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.13%) Data Vault
8 6 (1.13%) MySQL
8 6 (1.13%) Redis
9 5 (0.94%) Big Data
10 4 (0.75%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (0.75%) Power BI
10 4 (0.75%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.57%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 36 (6.79%) Jenkins
2 33 (6.23%) GitLab
3 25 (4.72%) Git
4 16 (3.02%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.13%) JIRA
6 5 (0.94%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.75%) git-flow
8 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.38%) JMeter
8 2 (0.38%) Postman
8 2 (0.38%) Snyk
8 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.19%) Gatling
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (8.87%) Social Skills
2 45 (8.49%) Finance
3 33 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.28%) Banking
4 28 (5.28%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.58%) Law
6 17 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.64%) Health Technology
8 10 (1.89%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.70%) Retail Banking
10 8 (1.51%) Games
11 6 (1.13%) Automotive
11 6 (1.13%) Front Office
12 5 (0.94%) Legal
13 4 (0.75%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.75%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.57%) Marketing
15 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (34.91%) Terraform
2 24 (4.53%) Kafka
3 19 (3.58%) React
4 16 (3.02%) Node.js
4 16 (3.02%) Pulumi
5 13 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (2.26%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.26%) OpenTofu
6 12 (2.26%) Spring Boot
7 10 (1.89%) RESTful
8 9 (1.70%) .NET
9 8 (1.51%) Django
9 8 (1.51%) PySpark
10 7 (1.32%) REST
11 6 (1.13%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.13%) Vue
12 5 (0.94%) Next.js
12 5 (0.94%) SAML
12 5 (0.94%) Spring
13 4 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (3.96%) Distributed Computing
4 15 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.70%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.51%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.32%) Sports Betting
9 5 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.75%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.75%) Life Science
10 4 (0.75%) NHS
10 4 (0.75%) PropTech
11 3 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.57%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.57%) Replication
12 2 (0.38%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.38%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.06%) Linux
2 14 (2.64%) Windows
3 6 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (28.49%) DevOps
2 144 (27.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (26.23%) CI/CD
4 101 (19.06%) Software Engineering
5 79 (14.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 70 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (11.32%) Cloud Security
9 58 (10.94%) Observability
10 54 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (9.62%) Agile
12 45 (8.49%) AI
12 45 (8.49%) Containerisation
13 37 (6.98%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (6.79%) Migration
15 35 (6.60%) DevSecOps
15 35 (6.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 31 (5.85%) ITIL
17 28 (5.28%) Infrastructure Automation
18 27 (5.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 200 (37.74%) Python
2 52 (9.81%) Bash
3 49 (9.25%) SQL
4 38 (7.17%) PowerShell
5 32 (6.04%) Java
5 32 (6.04%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.85%) C#
7 24 (4.53%) C++
8 23 (4.34%) Go
9 13 (2.45%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.70%) Groovy
11 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.57%) Ruby
13 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.43%) Degree
3 43 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.96%) AWS Certification
5 21 (3.96%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.13%) PhD
8 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) CCSA
10 1 (0.19%) CCSE
10 1 (0.19%) CISM
10 1 (0.19%) GSEC
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.64%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.51%) SLA
4 6 (1.13%) QA
4 6 (1.13%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.94%) GDPR
5 5 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 79 (14.91%) Docker
2 8 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (15.47%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.60%) Ansible
3 32 (6.04%) Grafana
4 22 (4.15%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.83%) Argo
6 12 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.70%) Packer
8 7 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.13%) Istio
10 4 (0.75%) Puppet
11 3 (0.57%) Rancher
11 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.38%) Nagios
13 1 (0.19%) Consul
13 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (4.15%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.83%) Dynatrace
3 14 (2.64%) Oracle
4 13 (2.45%) Databricks
5 7 (1.32%) VMware
6 6 (1.13%) Confluent
6 6 (1.13%) Google
7 4 (0.75%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.57%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.57%) Informatica
8 3 (0.57%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.57%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.57%) Talend
9 2 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.38%) FactSet
9 2 (0.38%) Solace
10 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.19%) New Relic
10 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv