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 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 296 274
Rank change year-on-year -34 -22 +45
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 547 475 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.99% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.10% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 444 375 678
10th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +25.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.37% - -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 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 91,865 43,203 98,401
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 89.93% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 63,065 25,304 70,829
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,224 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,445 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% - -5.66%

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 7 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 7 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 -20 523 £75,000 -31.82% 114
UK excluding London +100 304 £74,500 +10.37% 79
London -94 215 £85,000 -22.73% 53
Work from Home -102 152 £85,000 -22.73% 72
North of England +25 102 £74,500 +10.37% 14
North West +42 75 £74,750 +6.79% 8
South East +22 62 £65,000 +5.26% 22
Midlands +18 62 £70,000 -3.45% 14
South West -12 57 £75,000 -3.23% 14
West Midlands +6 46 £68,750 -5.17% 3
East of England -6 20 £80,000 +24.03% 5
Yorkshire -7 20 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -11 16 £77,500 +16.98% 11
North East -43 7 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Scotland -14 1 £90,000 -10.00% 7
Wales -51 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 547 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (36.20%) Python
3 171 (31.26%) Terraform
4 164 (29.98%) DevOps
5 141 (25.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (25.41%) CI/CD
7 94 (17.18%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.54%) Amazon S3
9 84 (15.36%) Security Cleared
10 81 (14.81%) Azure
11 76 (13.89%) Kubernetes
12 75 (13.71%) Serverless
13 67 (12.25%) Docker
14 64 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
14 64 (11.70%) SQL
15 62 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
16 56 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 55 (10.05%) Degree
17 55 (10.05%) Observability
18 54 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
19 53 (9.69%) Amazon EC2
20 52 (9.51%) Containerisation
21 50 (9.14%) Agile
22 49 (8.96%) Bash
22 49 (8.96%) SC Cleared
23 48 (8.78%) Data Pipeline
24 45 (8.23%) AWS CloudFormation
24 45 (8.23%) Cloud Security
24 45 (8.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
25 44 (8.04%) 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 26 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.29%) Apache
3 12 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 5 (0.91%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.91%) SAS
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 547 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.54%) Amazon S3
3 81 (14.81%) Azure
4 75 (13.71%) Serverless
5 54 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (9.69%) Amazon EC2
7 45 (8.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (8.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 44 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 44 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (8.04%) SaaS
9 35 (6.40%) GitHub
10 28 (5.12%) Datadog
10 28 (5.12%) GCP
11 23 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (3.47%) Snowflake
14 17 (3.11%) dbt
15 16 (2.93%) Pulumi
16 15 (2.74%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.38%) Firewall
2 8 (1.46%) DNS
3 7 (1.28%) VPN
4 6 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (1.10%) LAN
4 6 (1.10%) WAN
4 6 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.91%) BGP
6 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.55%) VLAN
8 2 (0.37%) 4G
8 2 (0.37%) 5G
8 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.37%) IPv4
9 1 (0.18%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.18%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.83%) MySQL
8 8 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.46%) Metadata
9 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.10%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.91%) Power BI
11 5 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.73%) Big Data
12 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (7.31%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.76%) GitLab
3 28 (5.12%) Git
4 20 (3.66%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.91%) JIRA
5 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.37%) git-flow
6 2 (0.37%) JMeter
6 2 (0.37%) Maven
6 2 (0.37%) NUnit
6 2 (0.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.18%) Deequ
7 1 (0.18%) Gatling
7 1 (0.18%) Gradle
7 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (10.97%) Finance
2 45 (8.23%) Banking
3 41 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.74%) Law
6 15 (2.74%) Retail Banking
7 14 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.83%) Games
8 10 (1.83%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.46%) Retail
11 7 (1.28%) Back Office
11 7 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Advertising
13 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.55%) Automotive
13 3 (0.55%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.03%) Kafka
2 18 (3.29%) React
3 13 (2.38%) .NET
3 13 (2.38%) Node.js
3 13 (2.38%) PySpark
3 13 (2.38%) RESTful
4 12 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.01%) AWS CDK
6 10 (1.83%) REST
7 9 (1.65%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.10%) .NET Core
8 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.10%) LangGraph
8 6 (1.10%) Spring
9 5 (0.91%) Django
9 5 (0.91%) LangChain
9 5 (0.91%) SAML
10 4 (0.73%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.73%) JWT
10 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 109 (19.93%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
3 15 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 10 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 9 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.46%) Sports Betting
8 7 (1.28%) Blog
9 6 (1.10%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.91%) NHS
10 5 (0.91%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.91%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.73%) Life Science
11 4 (0.73%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.55%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.95%) Linux
2 8 (1.46%) Windows
3 5 (0.91%) Unix
3 5 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (29.98%) DevOps
2 141 (25.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (25.41%) CI/CD
4 94 (17.18%) Software Engineering
5 64 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
6 62 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 55 (10.05%) Observability
9 52 (9.51%) Containerisation
10 50 (9.14%) Agile
11 48 (8.78%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (8.23%) Cloud Security
13 42 (7.68%) AI
14 39 (7.13%) Data Engineering
15 38 (6.95%) Analytics
15 38 (6.95%) ETL
16 37 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (6.76%) Mentoring
17 34 (6.22%) Full-Stack Development
17 34 (6.22%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 198 (36.20%) Python
2 64 (11.70%) SQL
3 49 (8.96%) Bash
4 38 (6.95%) Java
5 32 (5.85%) C#
5 32 (5.85%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.48%) Go
7 28 (5.12%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.11%) C++
9 11 (2.01%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.10%) Groovy
11 3 (0.55%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Bicep
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.05%) Degree
3 49 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.10%) CISSP
9 5 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.91%) CCIE
9 5 (0.91%) CCNA
9 5 (0.91%) CCNP
9 5 (0.91%) CCSA
9 5 (0.91%) CCSE
9 5 (0.91%) CCSK
10 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.11%) SOC 2
3 16 (2.93%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.01%) GDPR
4 11 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.83%) QA
6 4 (0.73%) NIST
6 4 (0.73%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 67 (12.25%) Docker
2 10 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 171 (31.26%) Terraform
2 76 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.12%) Grafana
4 27 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.20%) Ansible
6 14 (2.56%) Argo
7 9 (1.65%) Istio
7 9 (1.65%) Packer
8 7 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.91%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.18%) Consul
12 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (4.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.01%) Databricks
2 11 (2.01%) Oracle
3 10 (1.83%) Google
4 8 (1.46%) Confluent
5 7 (1.28%) Cisco
6 6 (1.10%) CheckPoint
6 6 (1.10%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.10%) Informatica
6 6 (1.10%) Talend
7 5 (0.91%) MuleSoft
7 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.73%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.73%) VMware
9 3 (0.55%) Pega
9 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.55%) SAP
9 3 (0.55%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.37%) Dynatrace