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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 301 273
Rank change year-on-year -47 -28 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 540 471 944
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.96% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 1.06% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 441 371 628
10th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £88,625
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +24.12% +10.78%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -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 94,464 44,263 88,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 90.01% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 64,822 26,191 62,318
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,183
90th Percentile £96,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 22 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 22 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 -22 517 £75,000 -31.82% 118
UK excluding London +90 307 £75,000 +7.14% 60
London -109 206 £85,000 -22.73% 70
Work from Home -103 148 £87,500 -20.45% 51
North of England +34 98 £72,250 +3.21% 16
North West +37 71 £74,500 +6.43% 10
South West -8 66 £75,000 -25.00% 16
South East +22 64 £65,000 +6.56% 12
Midlands +12 58 £70,000 -3.45% 5
West Midlands +9 43 £70,000 -3.45% 4
East of England +9 20 £85,000 +32.81% 3
Yorkshire -21 20 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -14 15 £80,000 +40.35% 1
North East -47 7 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Scotland -4 1 £90,000 -10.00% 7
Wales -59 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 540 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (36.30%) Python
3 172 (31.85%) Terraform
4 166 (30.74%) DevOps
5 138 (25.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (25.37%) CI/CD
7 92 (17.04%) Software Engineering
8 86 (15.93%) Security Cleared
9 85 (15.74%) Amazon S3
10 78 (14.44%) Kubernetes
11 77 (14.26%) Azure
12 70 (12.96%) Serverless
13 68 (12.59%) Docker
14 61 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
14 61 (11.30%) SQL
15 60 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
16 57 (10.56%) Degree
17 56 (10.37%) Amazon EC2
17 56 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 53 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
19 52 (9.63%) Containerisation
20 49 (9.07%) Agile
20 49 (9.07%) Observability
20 49 (9.07%) SC Cleared
21 48 (8.89%) Bash
22 46 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 45 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
23 45 (8.33%) Cloud Security
24 44 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
25 43 (7.96%) Amazon EKS

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 27 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.96%) Apache
3 10 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.93%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
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
Cloud Services
1 540 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.74%) Amazon S3
3 77 (14.26%) Azure
4 70 (12.96%) Serverless
5 56 (10.37%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 45 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (7.96%) Amazon EKS
11 39 (7.22%) SaaS
12 33 (6.11%) GitHub
13 27 (5.00%) Datadog
13 27 (5.00%) GCP
14 22 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.52%) Snowflake
17 17 (3.15%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (3.15%) dbt
18 16 (2.96%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.67%) Firewall
2 8 (1.48%) DNS
3 6 (1.11%) VPN
4 4 (0.74%) BGP
4 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (0.56%) LAN
5 3 (0.56%) VLAN
5 3 (0.56%) WAN
5 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.37%) 4G
6 2 (0.37%) 5G
6 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.37%) IPv4
7 1 (0.19%) SSL
7 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.22%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.41%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.48%) Metadata
8 8 (1.48%) MySQL
9 7 (1.30%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.11%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.93%) Big Data
11 5 (0.93%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.93%) Power BI
12 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (6.85%) GitLab
2 36 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.00%) Git
4 20 (3.70%) 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%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) Gatling
7 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (9.81%) Finance
2 42 (7.78%) Social Skills
3 40 (7.41%) Banking
4 35 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.78%) Law
6 15 (2.78%) Retail Banking
7 13 (2.41%) Health Technology
7 13 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.48%) Games
10 7 (1.30%) Retail
11 6 (1.11%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.11%) Back Office
11 6 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.74%) Automotive
12 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.74%) Legal
13 3 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.11%) Kafka
2 18 (3.33%) React
3 13 (2.41%) Node.js
3 13 (2.41%) RESTful
4 12 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.85%) .NET
5 10 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.67%) AWS CDK
6 9 (1.67%) PySpark
6 9 (1.67%) REST
7 6 (1.11%) Django
7 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
7 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
8 5 (0.93%) LangChain
8 5 (0.93%) SAML
8 5 (0.93%) Spring
9 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (0.74%) Vue
9 4 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 111 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
3 12 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.30%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.30%) Sports Betting
6 6 (1.11%) Blog
7 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.74%) Hedge funds
8 4 (0.74%) Life Science
8 4 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.74%) PropTech
8 4 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.41%) Linux
2 8 (1.48%) Windows
3 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.74%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (30.74%) DevOps
2 138 (25.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (25.37%) CI/CD
4 92 (17.04%) Software Engineering
5 61 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 52 (9.63%) Containerisation
9 49 (9.07%) Agile
9 49 (9.07%) Observability
10 45 (8.33%) Cloud Security
11 43 (7.96%) Data Pipeline
12 41 (7.59%) AI
13 38 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (7.04%) Mentoring
14 36 (6.67%) Analytics
15 35 (6.48%) Data Engineering
16 34 (6.30%) ETL
16 34 (6.30%) Fintech
16 34 (6.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 196 (36.30%) Python
2 61 (11.30%) SQL
3 48 (8.89%) Bash
4 35 (6.48%) Java
5 29 (5.37%) C#
5 29 (5.37%) Go
5 29 (5.37%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 18 (3.33%) C++
8 12 (2.22%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.11%) Groovy
10 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.56%) PHP
11 2 (0.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 86 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.56%) Degree
3 49 (9.07%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.15%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.96%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.93%) CISSP
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.74%) CCSK
9 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.74%) PhD
10 3 (0.56%) CCIE
10 3 (0.56%) CCNA
10 3 (0.56%) CCNP
10 3 (0.56%) CCSA
10 3 (0.56%) CCSE
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.52%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.96%) SOC 2
3 15 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.85%) GDPR
4 10 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.67%) QA
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 3 (0.56%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (12.59%) Docker
2 10 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 172 (31.85%) Terraform
2 78 (14.44%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 26 (4.81%) Grafana
5 21 (3.89%) Ansible
6 14 (2.59%) Argo
7 9 (1.67%) Istio
7 9 (1.67%) Packer
8 8 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.22%) Oracle
3 10 (1.85%) Databricks
4 9 (1.67%) Google
5 8 (1.48%) Confluent
6 5 (0.93%) Informatica
6 5 (0.93%) Talend
7 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.74%) MuleSoft
7 4 (0.74%) VMware
8 3 (0.56%) CheckPoint
8 3 (0.56%) Cisco
8 3 (0.56%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.56%) Pega
8 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.56%) SAP
8 3 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.19%) SolarWinds