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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 302 291
Rank change year-on-year -20 -11 +56
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 527 429 977
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.99% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.11% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 417 352 601
10th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £109,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.19% +32.12% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 87,026 38,759 95,314
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.38% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 58,020 21,803 69,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%

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 30 May 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 30 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 -9 504 £75,000 -31.82% 76
UK excluding London +96 274 £70,000 +7.69% 41
London -73 228 £90,000 -18.18% 40
Work from Home -69 159 £85,000 -22.73% 44
North of England -4 87 £70,000 +7.69% 17
North West +39 69 £70,000 +3.70% 13
South East +17 53 £65,000 +6.56% 4
Midlands +5 52 £70,000 -3.45% 11
South West -10 50 £75,000 +25.00% 6
West Midlands +3 44 £70,000 -3.45% 4
East of England +6 31 £80,000 +23.08%
Yorkshire -38 11 £66,250 +35.90% 4
East Midlands -17 8 £80,000 +20.75% 7
North East -39 7 £60,000 -7.69%
Scotland -4 1 £90,000 +5.88% 1
Wales -35 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 527 (100.00%) AWS
2 199 (37.76%) Python
3 154 (29.22%) Terraform
4 153 (29.03%) DevOps
5 140 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (26.00%) CI/CD
7 92 (17.46%) Azure
8 89 (16.89%) Software Engineering
9 78 (14.80%) Amazon S3
10 73 (13.85%) Security Cleared
11 72 (13.66%) Serverless
12 68 (12.90%) SQL
13 67 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
14 65 (12.33%) Kubernetes
15 63 (11.95%) Degree
16 61 (11.57%) SaaS
17 57 (10.82%) Docker
17 57 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
18 56 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 55 (10.44%) Observability
20 54 (10.25%) Bash
21 52 (9.87%) Cloud Security
22 51 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
23 50 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
24 48 (9.11%) AI
24 48 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
25 47 (8.92%) Data Pipeline
26 44 (8.35%) ETL
27 43 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
27 43 (8.16%) Containerisation

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 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.23%) Apache
3 12 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.95%) SAS
5 4 (0.76%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) Confluence
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 527 (100.00%) AWS
2 92 (17.46%) Azure
3 78 (14.80%) Amazon S3
4 72 (13.66%) Serverless
5 61 (11.57%) SaaS
6 51 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 50 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (7.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 32 (6.07%) GCP
12 31 (5.88%) GitHub
13 22 (4.17%) Datadog
14 20 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.61%) Snowflake
16 17 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (2.85%) dbt
18 13 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
19 12 (2.28%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.80%) Firewall
2 14 (2.66%) Cisco ASA
2 14 (2.66%) Cisco Firepower
2 14 (2.66%) LAN
2 14 (2.66%) WAN
2 14 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.71%) BGP
3 9 (1.71%) VPN
4 5 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (0.95%) DNS
4 5 (0.95%) IPsec
4 5 (0.95%) MPLS
4 5 (0.95%) NetScaler
4 5 (0.95%) NX-OS
4 5 (0.95%) OSPF
4 5 (0.95%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.95%) VXLAN
4 5 (0.95%) WLAN
5 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.47%) Apache Iceberg
7 12 (2.28%) MySQL
8 11 (2.09%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.09%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.52%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.33%) Data Vault
11 7 (1.33%) Metadata
12 5 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.95%) Power BI
13 4 (0.76%) Big Data
13 4 (0.76%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (6.07%) Jenkins
2 30 (5.69%) GitLab
3 28 (5.31%) Git
4 16 (3.04%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.76%) JIRA
6 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.57%) NUnit
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) JMeter
7 2 (0.38%) Maven
7 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.19%) Deequ
8 1 (0.19%) Gatling
8 1 (0.19%) git-flow
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 67 (12.71%) Finance
2 49 (9.30%) Banking
3 41 (7.78%) Social Skills
4 33 (6.26%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.80%) Law
6 17 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.85%) Retail Banking
9 13 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.09%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.09%) Retail
11 10 (1.90%) Games
12 9 (1.71%) Back Office
12 9 (1.71%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.33%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.76%) Advertising
14 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.76%) Billing
15 3 (0.57%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.07%) Kafka
2 18 (3.42%) .NET
2 18 (3.42%) React
3 14 (2.66%) AWS CDK
3 14 (2.66%) PySpark
4 13 (2.47%) REST
5 12 (2.28%) RESTful
6 10 (1.90%) .NET Core
6 10 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (1.90%) Node.js
6 10 (1.90%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.33%) Loki
7 7 (1.33%) OAuth
7 7 (1.33%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.33%) Spring
8 6 (1.14%) LangGraph
9 5 (0.95%) Django
9 5 (0.95%) JWT
9 5 (0.95%) LangChain
10 4 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.89%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.36%) Data Centre
3 20 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.85%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.28%) Hedge funds
7 11 (2.09%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.09%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.71%) Blog
8 9 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.71%) Sports Betting
9 8 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.95%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.95%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.57%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.45%) Linux
2 9 (1.71%) Unix
3 7 (1.33%) Windows
4 5 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (29.03%) DevOps
2 140 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (26.00%) CI/CD
4 89 (16.89%) Software Engineering
5 67 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 55 (10.44%) Observability
9 52 (9.87%) Cloud Security
10 48 (9.11%) AI
11 47 (8.92%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (8.35%) ETL
13 43 (8.16%) Containerisation
14 42 (7.97%) Agile
15 41 (7.78%) Data Engineering
16 40 (7.59%) Analytics
16 40 (7.59%) High Availability
17 36 (6.83%) Mentoring
18 35 (6.64%) Full-Stack Development
19 34 (6.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 199 (37.76%) Python
2 68 (12.90%) SQL
3 54 (10.25%) Bash
4 37 (7.02%) C#
5 36 (6.83%) Java
6 34 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.31%) Go
8 24 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.85%) C++
10 10 (1.90%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.76%) Groovy
12 3 (0.57%) PHP
13 2 (0.38%) Bicep
13 2 (0.38%) Ruby
14 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.95%) Degree
3 43 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 37 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (1.90%) CISSP
7 9 (1.71%) CCIE
7 9 (1.71%) CCNA
7 9 (1.71%) CCNP
7 9 (1.71%) CCSA
7 9 (1.71%) CCSE
7 9 (1.71%) CCSK
7 9 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.61%) SOC 2
3 18 (3.42%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.47%) GDPR
5 12 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.28%) QA
6 9 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.14%) NIST
8 4 (0.76%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.76%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 57 (10.82%) Docker
2 10 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 154 (29.22%) Terraform
2 65 (12.33%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.31%) Grafana
4 24 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.98%) Ansible
6 9 (1.71%) Argo
6 9 (1.71%) FortiGate
6 9 (1.71%) Istio
7 6 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.95%) Packer
9 4 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.38%) Nagios
11 1 (0.19%) Consul
11 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.85%) Cisco
3 14 (2.66%) CheckPoint
3 14 (2.66%) Fortinet
4 12 (2.28%) Google
5 10 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.71%) Databricks
7 8 (1.52%) Confluent
7 8 (1.52%) Informatica
7 8 (1.52%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.52%) Oracle
7 8 (1.52%) Talend
8 7 (1.33%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.95%) Meraki
11 4 (0.76%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.76%) Pega
11 4 (0.76%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.76%) SAP
12 3 (0.57%) VMware