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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 291 271
Rank change year-on-year -70 -20 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 538 474 906
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.96% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.07% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 444 373 607
10th Percentile £52,875 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
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 £74,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.43% - -

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 95,905 44,405 83,583
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 90.07% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65,604 26,372 57,917
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.87%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -28 516 £75,000 -31.82% 112
UK excluding London +103 310 £74,500 +6.43% 55
London -126 203 £85,000 -22.73% 67
Work from Home -125 143 £90,000 -18.18% 43
North of England +35 103 £70,000 - 15
North West +50 74 £72,250 +3.21% 10
South West +5 69 £75,000 -25.00% 14
South East +37 62 £65,000 +5.26% 11
Midlands -3 56 £70,000 -3.45% 8
West Midlands +7 42 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Yorkshire -19 21 £80,000 - 2
East of England -3 18 £90,000 +40.63% 1
East Midlands -13 14 £77,500 +35.96% 4
North East -41 8 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Scotland -4 2 £90,000 -10.00% 5
Wales -62 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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.

1 538 (100.00%) AWS
2 193 (35.87%) Python
3 167 (31.04%) Terraform
4 165 (30.67%) DevOps
5 132 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (24.35%) CI/CD
7 93 (17.29%) Software Engineering
8 87 (16.17%) Security Cleared
9 85 (15.80%) Amazon S3
10 77 (14.31%) Kubernetes
11 75 (13.94%) Azure
12 69 (12.83%) Docker
12 69 (12.83%) Serverless
13 62 (11.52%) SQL
14 59 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (10.41%) Amazon EC2
15 56 (10.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 55 (10.22%) Platform Engineering
17 54 (10.04%) Degree
18 53 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
19 52 (9.67%) Agile
20 50 (9.29%) Containerisation
21 49 (9.11%) SC Cleared
22 48 (8.92%) Cloud Security
23 47 (8.74%) Bash
24 45 (8.36%) AWS CloudFormation
24 45 (8.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
25 44 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
26 43 (7.99%) Data Pipeline
26 43 (7.99%) Observability

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 26 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.79%) Apache
3 9 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
5 4 (0.74%) SAS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 538 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.80%) Amazon S3
3 75 (13.94%) Azure
4 69 (12.83%) Serverless
5 56 (10.41%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (8.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (8.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 44 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 40 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (6.13%) SaaS
11 32 (5.95%) GitHub
12 29 (5.39%) Datadog
13 26 (4.83%) GCP
14 22 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (3.72%) Snowflake
16 18 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.16%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (3.16%) dbt
18 16 (2.97%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.67%) DNS
2 8 (1.49%) Firewall
3 5 (0.93%) VPN
4 2 (0.37%) 4G
4 2 (0.37%) 5G
4 2 (0.37%) BGP
4 2 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.37%) IPv4
4 2 (0.37%) LAN
4 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.37%) WAN
4 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
5 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.42%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.23%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (1.49%) Metadata
10 7 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.30%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.30%) MySQL
11 5 (0.93%) Big Data
11 5 (0.93%) Power BI
12 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.74%) Pentaho
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (6.88%) GitLab
2 35 (6.51%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.02%) Git
4 20 (3.72%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.93%) JIRA
5 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.37%) git-flow
6 2 (0.37%) JMeter
6 2 (0.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Gatling
7 1 (0.19%) JUnit
7 1 (0.19%) Maven
7 1 (0.19%) Snyk
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 48 (8.92%) Finance
2 40 (7.43%) Social Skills
3 37 (6.88%) Banking
4 35 (6.51%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.79%) Retail Banking
7 14 (2.60%) Law
8 13 (2.42%) Health Technology
9 11 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.49%) Games
12 6 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.93%) Legal
14 4 (0.74%) Automotive
14 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
15 3 (0.56%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.56%) Retail
15 3 (0.56%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.37%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.95%) Kafka
2 17 (3.16%) React
3 13 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.23%) Node.js
5 11 (2.04%) RESTful
5 11 (2.04%) Spring Boot
6 10 (1.86%) PySpark
7 9 (1.67%) .NET
8 8 (1.49%) AWS CDK
9 7 (1.30%) REST
10 6 (1.12%) Django
10 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.12%) LangGraph
10 6 (1.12%) Spring
11 5 (0.93%) LangChain
11 5 (0.93%) SAML
12 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
12 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.74%) Vue
12 4 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 103 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.35%) Distributed Computing
3 11 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (1.86%) Data Centre
4 10 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.30%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.30%) Sports Betting
6 6 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.74%) Life Science
8 4 (0.74%) PropTech
9 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.56%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.56%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.56%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.62%) Linux
2 9 (1.67%) Windows
3 6 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.56%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (30.67%) DevOps
2 132 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (24.35%) CI/CD
4 93 (17.29%) Software Engineering
5 59 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (10.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 55 (10.22%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (9.67%) Agile
9 50 (9.29%) Containerisation
10 48 (8.92%) Cloud Security
11 43 (7.99%) Data Pipeline
11 43 (7.99%) Observability
12 42 (7.81%) AI
13 39 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (6.51%) Data Engineering
14 35 (6.51%) Fintech
14 35 (6.51%) Mentoring
15 34 (6.32%) Analytics
16 33 (6.13%) ETL
17 32 (5.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 193 (35.87%) Python
2 62 (11.52%) SQL
3 47 (8.74%) Bash
4 33 (6.13%) Java
5 29 (5.39%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.20%) C#
6 28 (5.20%) Go
7 27 (5.02%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.53%) C++
9 11 (2.04%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.12%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
11 3 (0.56%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.04%) Degree
3 49 (9.11%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.16%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.74%) CISSP
8 4 (0.74%) PhD
9 3 (0.56%) CCSK
9 3 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.37%) CCIE
10 2 (0.37%) CCNA
10 2 (0.37%) CCNP
10 2 (0.37%) CCSA
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.23%) SOC 2
3 11 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.86%) GDPR
4 10 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.30%) QA
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.56%) NIST
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 69 (12.83%) Docker
2 10 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 167 (31.04%) Terraform
2 77 (14.31%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 24 (4.46%) Grafana
5 21 (3.90%) Ansible
6 15 (2.79%) Argo
7 9 (1.67%) Istio
7 9 (1.67%) Packer
8 8 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.37%) Nagios
11 1 (0.19%) Consul
11 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (5.02%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.04%) Databricks
2 11 (2.04%) Oracle
3 8 (1.49%) Confluent
3 8 (1.49%) Google
4 4 (0.74%) Informatica
4 4 (0.74%) Talend
4 4 (0.74%) VMware
5 3 (0.56%) Cloudera
5 3 (0.56%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.37%) CheckPoint
6 2 (0.37%) Cisco
6 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.37%) Fortinet
6 2 (0.37%) Pega
6 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.37%) SAP
6 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg