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 24 May 2026.

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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 297 283
Rank change year-on-year -25 -14 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 518 442 978
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.03% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.15% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 407 369 597
10th Percentile £53,250 £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 86,735 38,286 93,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 89.27% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 57,617 21,482 68,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,931 £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 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.10%

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 24 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 24 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 -17 496 £75,000 -31.82% 64
UK excluding London +89 264 £70,000 +7.69% 41
London -75 228 £90,000 -18.18% 33
Work from Home -79 152 £85,000 -22.73% 44
North of England +9 83 £68,750 +5.77% 14
North West +37 66 £70,000 +7.69% 9
South East +9 52 £65,000 +12.07% 9
South West -19 50 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Midlands +12 49 £70,000 -3.45% 12
West Midlands +4 42 £67,500 -10.00% 5
East of England +3 31 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire -39 10 £65,000 +23.81% 5
East Midlands -24 7 £75,000 +13.21% 7
North East -37 7 £60,000 -7.69%

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 518 (100.00%) AWS
2 191 (36.87%) Python
3 149 (28.76%) DevOps
4 148 (28.57%) Terraform
5 132 (25.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (25.29%) CI/CD
7 90 (17.37%) Azure
8 86 (16.60%) Software Engineering
9 72 (13.90%) Amazon S3
9 72 (13.90%) Security Cleared
10 71 (13.71%) Serverless
11 67 (12.93%) Platform Engineering
12 63 (12.16%) Kubernetes
12 63 (12.16%) SQL
13 62 (11.97%) Degree
14 61 (11.78%) SaaS
15 57 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
16 56 (10.81%) Docker
17 55 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 54 (10.42%) Observability
19 52 (10.04%) Bash
20 50 (9.65%) Cloud Security
20 50 (9.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 48 (9.27%) AWS Lambda
22 47 (9.07%) AI
23 45 (8.69%) Amazon EKS
23 45 (8.69%) ETL
24 43 (8.30%) Agile
25 42 (8.11%) Containerisation
25 42 (8.11%) SC Cleared

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 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.28%) Apache
3 12 (2.32%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.97%) SAS
5 4 (0.77%) IIS
6 2 (0.39%) Confluence
6 2 (0.39%) nginx
6 2 (0.39%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 518 (100.00%) AWS
2 90 (17.37%) Azure
3 72 (13.90%) Amazon S3
4 71 (13.71%) Serverless
5 61 (11.78%) SaaS
6 50 (9.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 48 (9.27%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (8.69%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (7.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 40 (7.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (6.18%) GCP
13 31 (5.98%) GitHub
14 21 (4.05%) Datadog
14 21 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.67%) Snowflake
16 15 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (2.51%) Amazon Kinesis
18 11 (2.12%) Amazon EMR
18 11 (2.12%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.05%) Firewall
2 15 (2.90%) Cisco ASA
2 15 (2.90%) Cisco Firepower
2 15 (2.90%) LAN
2 15 (2.90%) WAN
2 15 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.74%) BGP
3 9 (1.74%) VPN
4 5 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (0.97%) IPsec
4 5 (0.97%) MPLS
4 5 (0.97%) NetScaler
4 5 (0.97%) NX-OS
4 5 (0.97%) OSPF
4 5 (0.97%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.97%) VXLAN
4 5 (0.97%) WLAN
5 4 (0.77%) DNS
5 4 (0.77%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.98%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (5.02%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.51%) Apache Iceberg
7 13 (2.51%) MySQL
8 12 (2.32%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.12%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.54%) Pentaho
12 7 (1.35%) Metadata
13 5 (0.97%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.97%) Power BI
14 4 (0.77%) Big Data
14 4 (0.77%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.77%) Star Schema
15 3 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (5.98%) Jenkins
2 30 (5.79%) GitLab
3 28 (5.41%) Git
4 15 (2.90%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.77%) JIRA
6 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.58%) NUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.39%) JMeter
7 2 (0.39%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) Deequ
8 1 (0.19%) Gatling
8 1 (0.19%) git-flow
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 68 (13.13%) Finance
2 50 (9.65%) Banking
3 38 (7.34%) Social Skills
4 32 (6.18%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.86%) Law
6 16 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.90%) Retail Banking
8 13 (2.51%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.12%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.12%) Retail
10 9 (1.74%) Back Office
10 9 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.35%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Advertising
13 4 (0.77%) Billing
13 4 (0.77%) Games
14 3 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.39%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.37%) Kafka
2 20 (3.86%) React
3 18 (3.47%) .NET
4 14 (2.70%) AWS CDK
4 14 (2.70%) PySpark
5 13 (2.51%) REST
6 12 (2.32%) RESTful
7 11 (2.12%) .NET Core
7 11 (2.12%) Node.js
8 10 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.93%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.35%) Loki
9 7 (1.35%) OAuth
9 7 (1.35%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.35%) Spring
10 6 (1.16%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.97%) JWT
11 5 (0.97%) LangChain
12 4 (0.77%) Django
12 4 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.63%) Data Centre
3 19 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
4 14 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.32%) Hedge funds
6 11 (2.12%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.12%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.74%) Blog
9 8 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.97%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.97%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.77%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.58%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.79%) Linux
2 9 (1.74%) Unix
3 7 (1.35%) Windows
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (28.76%) DevOps
2 132 (25.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (25.29%) CI/CD
4 86 (16.60%) Software Engineering
5 67 (12.93%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 54 (10.42%) Observability
9 50 (9.65%) Cloud Security
10 47 (9.07%) AI
11 45 (8.69%) ETL
12 43 (8.30%) Agile
13 42 (8.11%) Containerisation
14 41 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
15 39 (7.53%) High Availability
16 38 (7.34%) Analytics
17 36 (6.95%) Full-Stack Development
18 35 (6.76%) Data Engineering
19 32 (6.18%) Microservices
20 30 (5.79%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 191 (36.87%) Python
2 63 (12.16%) SQL
3 52 (10.04%) Bash
4 37 (7.14%) Java
5 35 (6.76%) C#
6 34 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 27 (5.21%) Go
8 22 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.70%) C++
10 9 (1.74%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.77%) Groovy
12 3 (0.58%) PHP
13 2 (0.39%) Bicep
13 2 (0.39%) Ruby
14 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 72 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.97%) Degree
3 42 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 37 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.93%) CCIE
7 10 (1.93%) CCNA
7 10 (1.93%) CCNP
7 10 (1.93%) CCSA
7 10 (1.93%) CCSE
7 10 (1.93%) CISSP
8 9 (1.74%) CCSK
8 9 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 6 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.67%) SOC 2
2 18 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.47%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.51%) GDPR
4 12 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.32%) QA
5 9 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.16%) 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 (10.81%) Docker
2 9 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 148 (28.57%) Terraform
2 63 (12.16%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.21%) Grafana
4 23 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.05%) Ansible
6 10 (1.93%) FortiGate
7 9 (1.74%) Argo
7 9 (1.74%) Istio
8 5 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.77%) Packer
9 4 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.39%) Nagios
11 1 (0.19%) Consul
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (3.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.09%) Cisco
3 15 (2.90%) CheckPoint
3 15 (2.90%) Fortinet
4 12 (2.32%) Google
5 10 (1.93%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.74%) Databricks
7 8 (1.54%) Confluent
7 8 (1.54%) Informatica
7 8 (1.54%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.54%) Talend
8 7 (1.35%) Oracle
8 7 (1.35%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.97%) 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