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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 296 285
Rank change year-on-year -45 -11 +19
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 545 477 999
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.98% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.09% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 440 377 671
10th Percentile £53,625 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
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 £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 92,011 43,811 97,193
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 89.90% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 63,054 25,783 69,790
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
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 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 9 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 9 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 -17 521 £75,000 -31.82% 84
UK excluding London +101 304 £74,500 +6.43% 46
London -99 213 £85,000 -22.73% 49
Work from Home -106 149 £85,000 -22.73% 41
North of England +30 100 £74,500 +10.37% 9
North West +41 74 £74,750 +6.79% 6
Midlands +12 63 £70,000 -3.45% 8
South East +11 62 £65,000 +5.26% 10
South West -8 58 £75,000 -3.23% 14
West Midlands +6 47 £68,750 -5.17% 1
East of England -3 20 £80,000 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire -15 20 £80,000 -
East Midlands -16 16 £77,500 +16.98% 7
North East -41 6 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Scotland -12 1 £90,000 -10.00% 3
Wales -51 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 545 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (36.33%) Python
3 173 (31.74%) Terraform
4 164 (30.09%) DevOps
5 142 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 139 (25.50%) CI/CD
7 91 (16.70%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.60%) Amazon S3
8 85 (15.60%) Security Cleared
9 82 (15.05%) Azure
10 78 (14.31%) Kubernetes
11 75 (13.76%) Serverless
12 67 (12.29%) Docker
13 64 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
13 64 (11.74%) SQL
14 62 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
15 57 (10.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 56 (10.28%) Degree
17 55 (10.09%) Observability
18 54 (9.91%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
19 53 (9.72%) Containerisation
20 50 (9.17%) Agile
21 49 (8.99%) Bash
21 49 (8.99%) SC Cleared
22 47 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
23 46 (8.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 45 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
24 45 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
24 45 (8.26%) Cloud Security

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 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.30%) Apache
3 12 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.92%) 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
1 545 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.60%) Amazon S3
3 82 (15.05%) Azure
4 75 (13.76%) Serverless
5 54 (9.91%) Amazon EC2
5 54 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (8.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 45 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (8.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 44 (8.07%) SaaS
9 35 (6.42%) GitHub
10 28 (5.14%) Datadog
10 28 (5.14%) GCP
11 23 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (3.49%) Snowflake
14 17 (3.12%) dbt
15 16 (2.94%) Pulumi
16 15 (2.75%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) Firewall
2 8 (1.47%) 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 (0.92%) 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 37 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.39%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (2.02%) MySQL
8 10 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.47%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.47%) Metadata
10 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.10%) Pentaho
12 5 (0.92%) Power BI
12 5 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (0.73%) Big Data
13 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (7.34%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.79%) GitLab
3 28 (5.14%) Git
4 20 (3.67%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.92%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) 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 (11.01%) Finance
2 45 (8.26%) Banking
3 41 (7.52%) Social Skills
4 36 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.75%) Law
6 15 (2.75%) Retail Banking
7 14 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.83%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.65%) Games
9 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.47%) 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 (6.06%) Kafka
2 18 (3.30%) React
3 13 (2.39%) .NET
3 13 (2.39%) Node.js
3 13 (2.39%) PySpark
3 13 (2.39%) RESTful
4 12 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.02%) AWS CDK
6 9 (1.65%) REST
6 9 (1.65%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.10%) .NET Core
7 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
7 6 (1.10%) LangGraph
7 6 (1.10%) Spring
8 5 (0.92%) Django
8 5 (0.92%) LangChain
8 5 (0.92%) SAML
9 4 (0.73%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.73%) JWT
9 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 109 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.12%) Distributed Computing
3 15 (2.75%) Data Centre
3 15 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (1.65%) AI Agents
4 9 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.47%) Sports Betting
6 7 (1.28%) Blog
7 6 (1.10%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (0.92%) NHS
8 5 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.73%) Life Science
9 4 (0.73%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.55%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.34%) Linux
2 8 (1.47%) Windows
3 5 (0.92%) Unix
3 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (30.09%) DevOps
2 142 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (25.50%) CI/CD
4 91 (16.70%) Software Engineering
5 64 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
6 62 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (10.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 55 (10.09%) Observability
9 53 (9.72%) Containerisation
10 50 (9.17%) Agile
11 47 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (8.26%) Cloud Security
13 41 (7.52%) AI
14 39 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (7.16%) Data Engineering
15 38 (6.97%) Analytics
15 38 (6.97%) ETL
16 37 (6.79%) Mentoring
17 34 (6.24%) Microservices
18 33 (6.06%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 198 (36.33%) Python
2 64 (11.74%) SQL
3 49 (8.99%) Bash
4 37 (6.79%) Java
5 31 (5.69%) C#
6 30 (5.50%) Go
7 29 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 28 (5.14%) PowerShell
9 17 (3.12%) C++
10 11 (2.02%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.10%) Groovy
12 3 (0.55%) PHP
13 2 (0.37%) Bicep
13 2 (0.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.28%) Degree
3 49 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.49%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.10%) CISSP
9 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.92%) CCIE
9 5 (0.92%) CCNA
9 5 (0.92%) CCNP
9 5 (0.92%) CCSA
9 5 (0.92%) CCSE
9 5 (0.92%) 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 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.12%) SOC 2
3 16 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.02%) GDPR
4 11 (2.02%) 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 (12.29%) Docker
2 10 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 173 (31.74%) Terraform
2 78 (14.31%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.14%) Grafana
4 27 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.22%) Ansible
6 14 (2.57%) 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 (0.92%) 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 (4.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.02%) Databricks
2 11 (2.02%) Oracle
3 10 (1.83%) Google
4 8 (1.47%) 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 (0.92%) MuleSoft
7 5 (0.92%) 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