AWS Engineer Job Trends

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 31 October 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 353 296
Rank change year-on-year -42 -57 +9
Permanent AWS Engineer jobs 536 360 588
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.71% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.79% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 410 251 494
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £72,500
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 £73,000 £71,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% -1.72% +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 adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
31 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 111,963 45,468 64,622
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.95% 90.21% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 74,787 27,366 36,680
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

AWS Engineer Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent AWS Engineer job postings 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 AWS Engineer jobs over the 6 months to 31 October 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 AWS Engineer jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England -36 491 £75,000 -31.82% 61
UK excluding London +80 360 £73,000 +2.46% 36
London -148 154 £85,000 -22.73% 29
North of England +33 127 £70,000 - 9
Work from Home -116 120 £80,000 -27.27% 30
North West +18 88 £74,500 -3.87% 7
South West -2 76 £73,000 +32.73% 5
South East -22 59 £70,000 -12.50% 14
Midlands -42 54 £65,000 -10.34% 5
East Midlands -10 38 £45,000 -16.67% 3
Yorkshire -16 30 £70,000 +3.70% 1
Scotland +7 27 £100,000 - 3
East of England -34 16 £90,000 +44.00%
West Midlands -58 16 £66,250 -8.62% 2
North East -63 9 £47,000 -14.55% 1
Wales -73 1 £90,000 +56.52%

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, AWS Engineer job ads cited 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 AWS Engineer job ads.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS100.0%536
2Python37.1%199
3DevOps30.8%165
4Terraform30.0%161
5Software Engineering26.3%141
6Infrastructure as Code25.7%138
7CI/CD23.9%128
8Security Cleared16.6%89
9Infrastructure Engineering15.3%82
9Kubernetes15.3%82
11Serverless14.6%78
12Amazon S313.8%74
13Docker13.2%71
14Continuous Improvement13.1%70
15Agile12.9%69
16Problem-Solving12.7%68
17AWS Lambda12.1%65
18Cloud Security11.0%59
19Amazon EC210.4%56
19Amazon RDS10.4%56
19Observability10.4%56
22SC Cleared10.1%54
23AWS CloudFormation9.9%53
24AI9.1%49
25Amazon CloudWatch8.8%47
25Platform Engineering8.8%47
27Bash8.4%45
27SQL8.4%45
29Java7.6%41
29Linux7.6%41

AWS Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Cloud Engineer29.7%159
2AWS Software Engineer21.1%113
3Python Engineer18.5%99
4AWS DevOps Engineer17.4%93
5Data Engineer14.7%79
6AWS Data Engineer14.6%78
7AWS Infrastructure Engineer11.6%62
8Python Software Engineer8.4%45
9Security Engineer7.3%39
10Senior Software Engineer6.9%37
11Java Engineer6.5%35
12C# Software Engineer5.0%27
12Cloud Platform Engineer5.0%27
14AWS Platform Engineer4.9%26
15C++ Software Engineer4.3%23
16Java Software Engineer4.1%22
17Cloud Security Engineer3.9%21
18Full-Stack Engineer3.4%18
18Senior Data Engineer3.4%18
20Azure Engineer3.2%17
68 AWS Engineer jobs Nationwide