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 2 June 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 299 286
Rank change year-on-year -24 -13 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 531 433 985
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.99% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.11% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 419 353 612
10th Percentile £53,500 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +30.30% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £115,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.08% -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 87,037 39,088 96,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 89.36% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 58,034 21,982 70,659
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 0 508 £75,000 -31.82% 101
UK excluding London +91 277 £73,500 +13.08% 62
London -69 229 £90,000 -18.18% 49
Work from Home -61 161 £85,000 -22.73% 63
North of England +21 89 £70,000 +7.69% 22
North West +31 69 £70,000 +7.69% 16
Midlands +14 54 £70,000 -3.45% 17
South East +21 53 £65,000 +6.56% 6
South West -16 50 £75,000 +25.00% 9
West Midlands +6 44 £70,000 -5.08% 5
East of England +12 30 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Yorkshire -33 13 £73,750 +51.28% 5
East Midlands -23 10 £80,000 +20.75% 12
North East -36 7 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Scotland -4 1 £90,000 +5.88% 1
Wales -38 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 531 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (37.29%) Python
3 153 (28.81%) DevOps
4 152 (28.63%) Terraform
5 138 (25.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 135 (25.42%) CI/CD
7 93 (17.51%) Azure
8 89 (16.76%) Software Engineering
9 78 (14.69%) Amazon S3
10 74 (13.94%) Security Cleared
10 74 (13.94%) Serverless
11 68 (12.81%) SQL
12 64 (12.05%) Kubernetes
12 64 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
13 62 (11.68%) Degree
14 61 (11.49%) SaaS
15 57 (10.73%) Docker
15 57 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
16 56 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 54 (10.17%) Observability
18 53 (9.98%) Bash
19 50 (9.42%) AWS Lambda
19 50 (9.42%) Cloud Security
19 50 (9.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 48 (9.04%) AI
21 47 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
21 47 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
22 44 (8.29%) ETL
22 44 (8.29%) SC Cleared
23 43 (8.10%) 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 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.20%) Apache
3 12 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.94%) SAS
5 4 (0.75%) 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
1 531 (100.00%) AWS
2 93 (17.51%) Azure
3 78 (14.69%) Amazon S3
4 74 (13.94%) Serverless
5 61 (11.49%) SaaS
6 50 (9.42%) AWS Lambda
6 50 (9.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 47 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (7.91%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (7.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (6.03%) GCP
11 31 (5.84%) GitHub
12 22 (4.14%) Datadog
13 20 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.58%) Snowflake
15 17 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (2.82%) dbt
17 13 (2.45%) Amazon Kinesis
18 12 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.77%) Firewall
2 14 (2.64%) Cisco ASA
2 14 (2.64%) Cisco Firepower
2 14 (2.64%) LAN
2 14 (2.64%) WAN
2 14 (2.64%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.69%) BGP
3 9 (1.69%) VPN
4 5 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (0.94%) DNS
4 5 (0.94%) IPsec
4 5 (0.94%) MPLS
4 5 (0.94%) NetScaler
4 5 (0.94%) NX-OS
4 5 (0.94%) OSPF
4 5 (0.94%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.94%) VXLAN
4 5 (0.94%) WLAN
5 4 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.45%) Apache Iceberg
7 12 (2.26%) MySQL
8 11 (2.07%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.07%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.51%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.32%) Data Vault
11 7 (1.32%) Metadata
12 5 (0.94%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.94%) Power BI
13 4 (0.75%) Big Data
13 4 (0.75%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (6.03%) Jenkins
2 30 (5.65%) GitLab
3 28 (5.27%) Git
4 16 (3.01%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.75%) JIRA
6 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.56%) 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%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.19%) Deequ
8 1 (0.19%) Gradle
8 1 (0.19%) Postman
8 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 66 (12.43%) Finance
2 49 (9.23%) Banking
3 40 (7.53%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.77%) Law
6 17 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.82%) Retail Banking
9 13 (2.45%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.07%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.07%) Retail
11 10 (1.88%) Games
12 9 (1.69%) Back Office
12 9 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.32%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.75%) Advertising
14 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.75%) Billing
15 3 (0.56%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.03%) Kafka
2 18 (3.39%) .NET
2 18 (3.39%) React
3 14 (2.64%) AWS CDK
3 14 (2.64%) PySpark
4 12 (2.26%) REST
5 11 (2.07%) RESTful
6 10 (1.88%) .NET Core
6 10 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (1.88%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.69%) Node.js
8 7 (1.32%) OAuth
8 7 (1.32%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.32%) Spring
9 6 (1.13%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.13%) Loki
10 5 (0.94%) Django
10 5 (0.94%) JWT
10 5 (0.94%) LangChain
11 4 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 91 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.33%) Data Centre
3 20 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.26%) Hedge funds
7 11 (2.07%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.07%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.69%) Blog
8 9 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.69%) Sports Betting
9 8 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.94%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.75%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.56%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.84%) Linux
2 9 (1.69%) Unix
3 7 (1.32%) Windows
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (28.81%) DevOps
2 138 (25.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 135 (25.42%) CI/CD
4 89 (16.76%) Software Engineering
5 64 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 54 (10.17%) Observability
9 50 (9.42%) Cloud Security
10 48 (9.04%) AI
11 47 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (8.29%) ETL
13 43 (8.10%) Containerisation
14 41 (7.72%) Agile
14 41 (7.72%) Data Engineering
15 40 (7.53%) Analytics
16 39 (7.34%) High Availability
17 37 (6.97%) Full-Stack Development
18 36 (6.78%) Mentoring
19 33 (6.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 198 (37.29%) Python
2 68 (12.81%) SQL
3 53 (9.98%) Bash
4 38 (7.16%) C#
4 38 (7.16%) Java
5 34 (6.40%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.27%) Go
7 24 (4.52%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.82%) C++
9 10 (1.88%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.75%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.38%) Bicep
12 2 (0.38%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.68%) Degree
3 44 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.52%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (1.88%) CISSP
7 9 (1.69%) CCIE
7 9 (1.69%) CCNA
7 9 (1.69%) CCNP
7 9 (1.69%) CCSA
7 9 (1.69%) CCSE
7 9 (1.69%) CCSK
7 9 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.58%) SOC 2
3 18 (3.39%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.45%) GDPR
5 12 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.26%) QA
6 9 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.13%) NIST
8 4 (0.75%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.75%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 57 (10.73%) Docker
2 10 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 152 (28.63%) Terraform
2 64 (12.05%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.08%) Grafana
4 23 (4.33%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.95%) Ansible
6 9 (1.69%) Argo
6 9 (1.69%) FortiGate
6 9 (1.69%) Istio
7 6 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.94%) Packer
9 4 (0.75%) 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 (4.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.82%) Cisco
3 14 (2.64%) CheckPoint
3 14 (2.64%) Fortinet
4 12 (2.26%) Google
5 10 (1.88%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.69%) Databricks
7 8 (1.51%) Confluent
7 8 (1.51%) Informatica
7 8 (1.51%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.51%) Oracle
7 8 (1.51%) Talend
8 7 (1.32%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.94%) Meraki
11 4 (0.75%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.75%) Pega
11 4 (0.75%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.75%) SAP
12 3 (0.56%) VMware