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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 317 272
Rank change year-on-year -46 -45 +14
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 530 429 821
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.86% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.95% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 423 333 577
10th Percentile £51,400 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,313 £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 £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 102,744 44,989 77,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 89.84% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 70,528 26,760 49,758
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 £75,000 £74,888 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -32 509 £75,000 -31.82% 198
UK excluding London +85 319 £70,000 - 111
London -122 190 £85,000 -22.73% 126
Work from Home -118 138 £85,000 -22.73% 131
North of England +20 105 £66,750 -4.64% 24
South West +6 78 £75,000 -25.00% 18
South East +16 64 £65,000 +4.00% 15
North West +24 63 £75,000 +7.14% 8
Midlands -11 52 £70,000 -3.45% 16
West Midlands -9 35 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Yorkshire -13 29 £66,750 - 11
East Midlands -14 17 £77,500 +29.17% 11
East of England -2 16 £95,000 +48.44% 6
North East -51 13 £47,000 -27.69% 5
Scotland -19 4 £90,000 -10.00% 26
Wales -68 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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
3 182 (34.34%) Terraform
4 152 (28.68%) DevOps
5 142 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (25.85%) CI/CD
7 93 (17.55%) Software Engineering
8 83 (15.66%) Amazon S3
9 82 (15.47%) Kubernetes
10 80 (15.09%) Docker
11 79 (14.91%) Security Cleared
12 75 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 71 (13.40%) Serverless
14 68 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (12.45%) Azure
16 65 (12.26%) Amazon EC2
17 61 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (11.13%) AWS Lambda
19 58 (10.94%) Cloud Security
20 54 (10.19%) AWS CloudFormation
20 54 (10.19%) Observability
21 52 (9.81%) Amazon RDS
22 51 (9.62%) Agile
22 51 (9.62%) Bash
22 51 (9.62%) Degree
22 51 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
23 50 (9.43%) SQL
23 50 (9.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 47 (8.87%) Containerisation
24 47 (8.87%) Linux

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 17 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.89%) Apache
3 7 (1.32%) 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 83 (15.66%) Amazon S3
3 71 (13.40%) Serverless
4 66 (12.45%) Azure
5 65 (12.26%) Amazon EC2
6 59 (11.13%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (10.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (9.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 46 (8.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 45 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (6.98%) Datadog
12 34 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (6.23%) GitHub
14 31 (5.85%) GCP
15 27 (5.09%) SaaS
16 18 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (3.40%) Snowflake
17 17 (3.21%) AWS CloudTrail
18 13 (2.45%) Amazon MSK
18 13 (2.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.08%) DNS
2 9 (1.70%) Firewall
3 5 (0.94%) VPN
4 3 (0.57%) 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 52 (9.81%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (1.89%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.70%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.32%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.32%) MySQL
9 6 (1.13%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.94%) Big Data
10 5 (0.94%) Power BI
11 4 (0.75%) Metadata
11 4 (0.75%) Redis
11 4 (0.75%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.57%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (0.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 35 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 33 (6.23%) GitLab
3 24 (4.53%) Git
4 17 (3.21%) 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%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) Gatling
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (8.87%) Social Skills
2 46 (8.68%) Finance
3 32 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (6.04%) Banking
4 31 (5.85%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.77%) Law
6 15 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.64%) Health Technology
8 10 (1.89%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.89%) Retail Banking
9 8 (1.51%) Games
10 6 (1.13%) Automotive
10 6 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.94%) Legal
12 4 (0.75%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.75%) Front Office
12 4 (0.75%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.57%) Marketing
14 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (34.34%) Terraform
2 26 (4.91%) Kafka
3 19 (3.58%) React
4 16 (3.02%) Pulumi
5 15 (2.83%) Node.js
6 12 (2.26%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (2.26%) OpenTofu
6 12 (2.26%) Spring Boot
7 10 (1.89%) .NET
7 10 (1.89%) RESTful
8 8 (1.51%) Django
8 8 (1.51%) PySpark
9 6 (1.13%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.13%) REST
9 6 (1.13%) Vue
10 5 (0.94%) SAML
10 5 (0.94%) Spring
11 4 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 97 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.96%) Distributed Computing
2 21 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.51%) Algorithms
5 8 (1.51%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.32%) Sports Betting
7 5 (0.94%) AI Agents
7 5 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.75%) Life Science
8 4 (0.75%) PropTech
9 3 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.57%) NHS
9 3 (0.57%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.38%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.38%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.38%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.87%) Linux
2 13 (2.45%) Windows
3 6 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (28.68%) DevOps
2 142 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (25.85%) CI/CD
4 93 (17.55%) Software Engineering
5 75 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 68 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (10.94%) Cloud Security
9 54 (10.19%) Observability
10 51 (9.62%) Agile
10 51 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (8.87%) Containerisation
12 42 (7.92%) AI
13 37 (6.98%) Data Pipeline
14 35 (6.60%) Migration
15 34 (6.42%) DevSecOps
16 33 (6.23%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (5.47%) ITIL
18 28 (5.28%) Analytics
18 28 (5.28%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 200 (37.74%) Python
2 51 (9.62%) Bash
3 50 (9.43%) SQL
4 38 (7.17%) PowerShell
5 32 (6.04%) C#
5 32 (6.04%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.85%) Java
7 26 (4.91%) Go
8 23 (4.34%) C++
9 13 (2.45%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.32%) Groovy
11 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.57%) Ruby
13 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 51 (9.62%) Degree
3 43 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.77%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.13%) PhD
8 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
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 7 (1.32%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.13%) GDPR
5 6 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.13%) QA
6 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 80 (15.09%) Docker
2 10 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (15.47%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.42%) Ansible
3 31 (5.85%) Grafana
4 21 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.83%) Argo
6 11 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.70%) Packer
8 8 (1.51%) Istio
9 7 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.75%) Puppet
11 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.38%) Nagios
11 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 23 (4.34%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.45%) Dynatrace
3 12 (2.26%) Oracle
4 10 (1.89%) Databricks
5 8 (1.51%) Confluent
6 6 (1.13%) Google
6 6 (1.13%) VMware
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%) 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
10 1 (0.19%) ServiceNow