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 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 257 293
Rank change year-on-year -77 +36 +63
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 487 492 925
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.16% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.30% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 377 446 549
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +34.38% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £138,750
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 83,975 37,966 90,660
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 89.30% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54,064 23,403 66,761
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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% -5.21%

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 3 May 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 3 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 -38 468 £75,000 -30.23% 85
UK excluding London +41 235 £70,000 +7.69% 60
London -74 230 £90,000 -18.18% 36
Work from Home -126 140 £90,000 -18.18% 49
North of England -37 73 £70,000 +7.69% 22
North West +7 58 £70,000 +5.50% 17
South West -14 48 £75,000 -6.25% 3
Midlands -5 44 £70,000 +7.69% 13
South East -2 41 £65,000 +12.07% 18
West Midlands +13 38 £67,500 +31.71% 5
East of England -4 29 £80,000 +25.00% 2
Yorkshire -62 8 £65,000 +30.00% 5
North East -32 7 £60,000 -7.69%
East Midlands -42 6 £72,500 +11.54% 8
Scotland -22 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 487 (100.00%) AWS
2 181 (37.17%) Python
3 149 (30.60%) DevOps
4 138 (28.34%) Terraform
5 126 (25.87%) CI/CD
6 120 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 90 (18.48%) Azure
8 83 (17.04%) Software Engineering
9 69 (14.17%) Amazon S3
10 68 (13.96%) Serverless
11 65 (13.35%) Platform Engineering
12 64 (13.14%) Security Cleared
13 59 (12.11%) Degree
14 58 (11.91%) SQL
15 57 (11.70%) Kubernetes
16 55 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
16 55 (11.29%) SaaS
17 51 (10.47%) Docker
18 49 (10.06%) Cloud Security
19 48 (9.86%) Bash
20 47 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
20 47 (9.65%) ETL
20 47 (9.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 47 (9.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 46 (9.45%) Observability
22 45 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
22 45 (9.24%) Java
23 42 (8.62%) Agile
24 41 (8.42%) AI
25 40 (8.21%) Data Pipeline

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 22 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.70%) Apache
3 13 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.03%) SAS
5 4 (0.82%) IIS
6 2 (0.41%) Confluence
6 2 (0.41%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 487 (100.00%) AWS
2 90 (18.48%) Azure
3 69 (14.17%) Amazon S3
4 68 (13.96%) Serverless
5 55 (11.29%) SaaS
6 47 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
6 47 (9.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 45 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (7.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (7.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
9 34 (6.98%) GCP
10 30 (6.16%) GitHub
11 22 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (3.49%) Datadog
12 17 (3.49%) Snowflake
13 16 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (2.87%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (2.67%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (2.46%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.52%) Firewall
2 15 (3.08%) Cisco ASA
2 15 (3.08%) Cisco Firepower
2 15 (3.08%) LAN
2 15 (3.08%) WAN
2 15 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (2.05%) BGP
3 10 (2.05%) VPN
4 5 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.03%) IPsec
4 5 (1.03%) MPLS
4 5 (1.03%) NetScaler
4 5 (1.03%) NX-OS
4 5 (1.03%) OSPF
4 5 (1.03%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.03%) VXLAN
4 5 (1.03%) WLAN
5 4 (0.82%) VLAN
6 3 (0.62%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (2.87%) DynamoDB
6 14 (2.87%) MySQL
6 14 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.67%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (1.64%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.44%) Metadata
11 6 (1.23%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.03%) Flink
13 4 (0.82%) Power BI
13 4 (0.82%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.82%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.62%) Big Data
14 3 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (5.34%) Git
1 26 (5.34%) Jenkins
2 24 (4.93%) GitLab
3 11 (2.26%) CircleCI
4 5 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.82%) JIRA
6 3 (0.62%) NUnit
7 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.41%) JMeter
7 2 (0.41%) Maven
8 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.21%) Deequ
8 1 (0.21%) Gradle
8 1 (0.21%) Postman
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
General
1 77 (15.81%) Finance
2 53 (10.88%) Banking
3 41 (8.42%) Social Skills
4 29 (5.95%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.31%) Law
6 18 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.08%) Retail Banking
8 12 (2.46%) Retail
8 12 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.05%) Back Office
10 10 (2.05%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.23%) Advertising
11 6 (1.23%) Games
12 5 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.82%) Billing
13 4 (0.82%) Front Office
13 4 (0.82%) Legal
14 3 (0.62%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.39%) Kafka
2 20 (4.11%) React
3 18 (3.70%) .NET
4 14 (2.87%) Node.js
5 13 (2.67%) PySpark
6 12 (2.46%) REST
6 12 (2.46%) RESTful
7 11 (2.26%) .NET Core
7 11 (2.26%) AWS CDK
7 11 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (2.26%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.85%) OAuth
8 9 (1.85%) Spring
9 7 (1.44%) JWT
9 7 (1.44%) Loki
9 7 (1.44%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.03%) LangChain
10 5 (1.03%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.82%) SOAP
12 3 (0.62%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.52%) Data Centre
3 21 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.87%) Hedge funds
6 13 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.05%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.85%) Blog
9 8 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.03%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.03%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.82%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.62%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.75%) Linux
2 11 (2.26%) Unix
3 8 (1.64%) Windows
4 5 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (30.60%) DevOps
2 126 (25.87%) CI/CD
3 120 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (17.04%) Software Engineering
5 65 (13.35%) Platform Engineering
6 55 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (10.06%) Cloud Security
8 47 (9.65%) ETL
8 47 (9.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 46 (9.45%) Observability
10 42 (8.62%) Agile
11 41 (8.42%) AI
12 40 (8.21%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (7.80%) High Availability
14 36 (7.39%) Data Engineering
14 36 (7.39%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (7.19%) Containerisation
16 34 (6.98%) Analytics
17 32 (6.57%) Microservices
18 31 (6.37%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 181 (37.17%) Python
2 58 (11.91%) SQL
3 48 (9.86%) Bash
4 45 (9.24%) Java
5 31 (6.37%) C#
5 31 (6.37%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.54%) Go
7 16 (3.29%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.05%) C++
9 8 (1.64%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.82%) Groovy
11 3 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.41%) Bicep
12 2 (0.41%) Ruby
13 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.21%) Perl
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.11%) Degree
3 36 (7.39%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.72%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.67%) CISSP
7 11 (2.26%) CCSK
7 11 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.05%) CCIE
8 10 (2.05%) CCNA
8 10 (2.05%) CCNP
8 10 (2.05%) CCSA
8 10 (2.05%) CCSE
9 8 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 7 (1.44%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.11%) SOC 2
2 19 (3.90%) PCI DSS
3 18 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.46%) GDPR
4 12 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.26%) QA
6 9 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.44%) NIST
8 4 (0.82%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.62%) SLA
10 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (10.47%) Docker
2 8 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 138 (28.34%) Terraform
2 57 (11.70%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.52%) Grafana
4 21 (4.31%) Ansible
5 18 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.05%) FortiGate
7 9 (1.85%) Istio
8 7 (1.44%) Argo
9 5 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.62%) Packer
12 2 (0.41%) Nagios
13 1 (0.21%) Consul
13 1 (0.21%) Kibana
13 1 (0.21%) logstash
13 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.49%) Cisco
3 15 (3.08%) CheckPoint
3 15 (3.08%) Fortinet
4 14 (2.87%) Google
5 11 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.85%) Databricks
7 8 (1.64%) Confluent
7 8 (1.64%) Informatica
7 8 (1.64%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.64%) SolarWinds
7 8 (1.64%) Talend
8 7 (1.44%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.44%) Oracle
9 5 (1.03%) Meraki
10 4 (0.82%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.82%) Pega
10 4 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.82%) SAP
11 3 (0.62%) VMware