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 14 April 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 247 312
Rank change year-on-year -101 +65 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 439 512 864
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.24% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.39% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 329 456 511
10th Percentile £52,500 £61,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,626 £76,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £92,500 £122,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £139,375 £132,500
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 78,468 36,897 87,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 89.58% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 50,382 23,363 65,606
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
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 14 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 14 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 -81 420 £75,000 -28.57% 78
London -83 220 £90,000 -18.18% 35
UK excluding London -7 199 £70,000 +7.69% 56
Work from Home -136 131 £88,750 -19.32% 37
North of England -43 63 £70,000 +7.69% 20
North West -8 52 £70,000 +4.60% 10
South West -19 39 £75,000 +7.14% 8
Midlands -18 35 £70,000 +7.69% 3
South East -25 34 £65,000 +6.56% 18
West Midlands +9 29 £62,500 +21.95% 2
East of England -20 26 £77,500 +21.09% 6
East Midlands -58 6 £72,500 +11.54% 1
Yorkshire -70 6 £66,250 +29.27% 5
North East -34 5 £60,000 -11.11% 5
Scotland -15 3 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 439 (100.00%) AWS
2 164 (37.36%) Python
3 147 (33.49%) DevOps
4 127 (28.93%) Terraform
5 121 (27.56%) CI/CD
6 111 (25.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 83 (18.91%) Azure
8 69 (15.72%) Software Engineering
9 68 (15.49%) Serverless
10 67 (15.26%) Platform Engineering
11 63 (14.35%) Amazon S3
12 60 (13.67%) Kubernetes
13 56 (12.76%) Security Cleared
14 55 (12.53%) SaaS
15 54 (12.30%) Amazon EKS
16 50 (11.39%) Degree
17 49 (11.16%) Java
17 49 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (10.93%) Docker
18 48 (10.93%) SQL
18 48 (10.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 47 (10.71%) Observability
20 45 (10.25%) AWS Lambda
21 43 (9.79%) Bash
22 42 (9.57%) Cloud Security
22 42 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 41 (9.34%) Agile
24 40 (9.11%) ETL
25 38 (8.66%) AI
25 38 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.42%) Apache
3 13 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.91%) SAS
5 3 (0.68%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) Confluence
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 439 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (18.91%) Azure
3 68 (15.49%) Serverless
4 63 (14.35%) Amazon S3
5 55 (12.53%) SaaS
6 54 (12.30%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (10.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 45 (10.25%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (7.74%) GCP
11 33 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (6.61%) GitHub
14 23 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (3.87%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (2.73%) Amazon EMR
17 12 (2.73%) Datadog
17 12 (2.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.24%) Firewall
2 17 (3.87%) Cisco ASA
2 17 (3.87%) Cisco Firepower
2 17 (3.87%) LAN
2 17 (3.87%) WAN
2 17 (3.87%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (2.73%) BGP
3 12 (2.73%) VPN
4 7 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.37%) VLAN
6 5 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.14%) IPsec
6 5 (1.14%) MPLS
6 5 (1.14%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.14%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.14%) OSPF
6 5 (1.14%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.14%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.14%) WLAN
7 2 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.97%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.96%) DynamoDB
6 13 (2.96%) MySQL
7 12 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.73%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (2.05%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (1.59%) Pentaho
10 6 (1.37%) Flink
10 6 (1.37%) Metadata
11 5 (1.14%) Big Data
12 4 (0.91%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.91%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.91%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.68%) Apache Hive
13 3 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (5.69%) Git
2 23 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.87%) GitLab
4 8 (1.82%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.91%) JIRA
7 3 (0.68%) NUnit
8 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.46%) JMeter
8 2 (0.46%) Maven
9 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.23%) Deequ
9 1 (0.23%) Gatling
9 1 (0.23%) git-flow
9 1 (0.23%) Gradle
9 1 (0.23%) JUnit
9 1 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 81 (18.45%) Finance
2 56 (12.76%) Banking
3 41 (9.34%) Social Skills
4 24 (5.47%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.24%) Law
6 15 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.42%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.42%) Retail Banking
7 14 (3.19%) Retail
8 12 (2.73%) Back Office
9 11 (2.51%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.59%) Games
11 6 (1.37%) Advertising
11 6 (1.37%) Front Office
11 6 (1.37%) Legal
12 4 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Billing
14 2 (0.46%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.43%) Kafka
2 18 (4.10%) React
3 16 (3.64%) .NET
4 14 (3.19%) Node.js
5 13 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (2.73%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.73%) PySpark
6 12 (2.73%) REST
7 11 (2.51%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.05%) OAuth
8 9 (2.05%) RESTful
8 9 (2.05%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.82%) Spring
10 7 (1.59%) JWT
10 7 (1.59%) Loki
10 7 (1.59%) OAuth2
11 5 (1.14%) LangChain
11 5 (1.14%) LangGraph
12 4 (0.91%) SOAP
13 3 (0.68%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.92%) Data Centre
3 25 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.19%) Hedge funds
6 13 (2.96%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.28%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.05%) Blog
10 9 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.37%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.14%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.14%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.47%) Linux
2 12 (2.73%) Unix
3 7 (1.59%) Windows
4 4 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (33.49%) DevOps
2 121 (27.56%) CI/CD
3 111 (25.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (15.72%) Software Engineering
5 67 (15.26%) Platform Engineering
6 49 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (10.71%) Observability
8 42 (9.57%) Cloud Security
8 42 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (9.34%) Agile
10 40 (9.11%) ETL
11 38 (8.66%) AI
11 38 (8.66%) High Availability
12 35 (7.97%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (7.74%) Containerisation
13 34 (7.74%) Data Engineering
13 34 (7.74%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (7.29%) Computer Science
15 31 (7.06%) Analytics
16 28 (6.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 164 (37.36%) Python
2 49 (11.16%) Java
3 48 (10.93%) SQL
4 43 (9.79%) Bash
5 31 (7.06%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.92%) C#
6 26 (5.92%) Go
7 9 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.37%) C++
9 4 (0.91%) Scala
10 2 (0.46%) Bicep
10 2 (0.46%) Groovy
10 2 (0.46%) PHP
10 2 (0.46%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (12.76%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.39%) Degree
3 34 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (5.24%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.73%) CCIE
6 12 (2.73%) CCNA
6 12 (2.73%) CCNP
6 12 (2.73%) CCSA
6 12 (2.73%) CCSE
6 12 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.73%) CISSP
7 11 (2.51%) CCSK
8 8 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.78%) SOC 2
2 20 (4.56%) PCI DSS
3 16 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.42%) GDPR
5 14 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.05%) QA
7 8 (1.82%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.59%) NIST
9 4 (0.91%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.68%) SLA
11 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (10.93%) Docker
2 8 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.68%) HDFS
4 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 127 (28.93%) Terraform
2 60 (13.67%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.69%) Grafana
4 20 (4.56%) Ansible
5 18 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.73%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.05%) Argo
7 9 (2.05%) Istio
8 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.46%) Kibana
9 2 (0.46%) logstash
9 2 (0.46%) Packer
9 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.23%) Consul
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (4.56%) Cisco
2 17 (3.87%) CheckPoint
2 17 (3.87%) Fortinet
3 13 (2.96%) Google
4 12 (2.73%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.51%) Databricks
5 11 (2.51%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.82%) Confluent
6 8 (1.82%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.82%) SolarWinds
7 7 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.59%) Informatica
7 7 (1.59%) Talend
8 5 (1.14%) Meraki
9 4 (0.91%) Oracle
9 4 (0.91%) Pega
9 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.91%) SAP
10 3 (0.68%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.46%) LogicMonitor