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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 303 275
Rank change year-on-year -43 -28 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 540 468 971
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.95% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.06% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 438 369 646
10th Percentile £53,750 £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 £137,750 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

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 93,597 44,099 92,655
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.94% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 64,237 26,080 65,729
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,806
Median % change year-on-year - +4.15% -11.99%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 18 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 18 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 -30 517 £75,000 -31.82% 84
UK excluding London +98 307 £75,000 +7.14% 42
London -98 206 £85,000 -22.73% 46
Work from Home -99 146 £85,000 -22.73% 42
North of England +15 98 £70,000 - 13
North West +44 71 £74,500 +6.43% 6
South East +27 64 £65,000 +5.26% 8
South West +1 64 £75,000 -25.00% 15
Midlands +4 59 £70,000 -3.45% 5
West Midlands +4 44 £70,000 -3.45% 3
East of England +4 21 £82,500 +28.91%
Yorkshire -15 20 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -4 15 £80,000 +40.35% 2
North East -49 7 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Scotland -7 1 £90,000 -10.00% 1
Wales -55 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 18 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
2 197 (36.48%) Python
3 172 (31.85%) Terraform
4 166 (30.74%) DevOps
5 139 (25.74%) CI/CD
6 138 (25.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 89 (16.48%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.74%) Security Cleared
9 84 (15.56%) Amazon S3
10 79 (14.63%) Azure
11 78 (14.44%) Kubernetes
12 72 (13.33%) Serverless
13 68 (12.59%) Docker
14 62 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
14 62 (11.48%) SQL
15 60 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
16 57 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 55 (10.19%) Amazon EC2
17 55 (10.19%) Degree
18 54 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
19 52 (9.63%) Containerisation
20 51 (9.44%) Observability
21 50 (9.26%) Agile
22 49 (9.07%) SC Cleared
23 48 (8.89%) Bash
24 47 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
25 45 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
25 45 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
26 44 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
26 44 (8.15%) 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 27 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.15%) 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 84 (15.56%) Amazon S3
3 79 (14.63%) Azure
4 72 (13.33%) Serverless
5 55 (10.19%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 44 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (7.22%) SaaS
12 33 (6.11%) GitHub
13 27 (5.00%) Datadog
13 27 (5.00%) GCP
14 23 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (3.33%) Snowflake
17 17 (3.15%) dbt
18 16 (2.96%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (2.96%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.04%) Firewall
2 8 (1.48%) DNS
3 6 (1.11%) VPN
4 4 (0.74%) BGP
4 4 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (0.74%) LAN
4 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.74%) WAN
4 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.56%) VLAN
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 38 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.41%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
6 10 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.67%) MySQL
8 8 (1.48%) Metadata
9 7 (1.30%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.11%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.11%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.93%) Power BI
11 5 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.74%) Big Data
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (7.04%) GitLab
1 38 (7.04%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.19%) Git
3 20 (3.70%) CircleCI
4 5 (0.93%) JIRA
4 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.37%) git-flow
5 2 (0.37%) JMeter
5 2 (0.37%) Maven
5 2 (0.37%) Postman
5 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.19%) Deequ
6 1 (0.19%) Gradle
6 1 (0.19%) JUnit
6 1 (0.19%) NUnit
6 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 54 (10.00%) Finance
2 41 (7.59%) Banking
3 40 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 36 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.96%) Law
7 15 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 13 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.22%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.48%) Games
12 7 (1.30%) Retail
13 6 (1.11%) Back Office
13 6 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
14 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.74%) Legal
15 3 (0.56%) Automotive
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 11 (2.04%) PySpark
6 10 (1.85%) .NET
6 10 (1.85%) AWS CDK
7 9 (1.67%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.48%) REST
9 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.93%) Django
10 5 (0.93%) LangChain
10 5 (0.93%) SAML
10 5 (0.93%) Spring
11 4 (0.74%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 108 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
3 13 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 12 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.30%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.30%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.11%) Blog
9 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.74%) Life Science
10 4 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.74%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.74%) PropTech
10 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
2 139 (25.74%) CI/CD
3 138 (25.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (16.48%) Software Engineering
5 62 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 52 (9.63%) Containerisation
9 51 (9.44%) Observability
10 50 (9.26%) Agile
11 45 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (8.15%) Cloud Security
13 39 (7.22%) AI
13 39 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (7.04%) Mentoring
15 37 (6.85%) Analytics
15 37 (6.85%) Data Engineering
16 36 (6.67%) ETL
17 33 (6.11%) Microservices
18 32 (5.93%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 197 (36.48%) Python
2 62 (11.48%) SQL
3 48 (8.89%) Bash
4 34 (6.30%) Java
5 30 (5.56%) Go
6 28 (5.19%) C#
7 27 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 27 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.15%) C++
9 11 (2.04%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.11%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) Bicep
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.19%) Degree
3 49 (9.07%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.96%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.93%) CISSP
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.74%) CCIE
9 4 (0.74%) CCNA
9 4 (0.74%) CCNP
9 4 (0.74%) CCSA
9 4 (0.74%) CCSE
9 4 (0.74%) CCSK
10 3 (0.56%) PhD
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.96%) SOC 2
3 15 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.04%) GDPR
4 11 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.67%) QA
6 4 (0.74%) NIST
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
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 22 (4.07%) Ansible
6 14 (2.59%) Argo
7 9 (1.67%) Istio
7 9 (1.67%) Packer
8 7 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (4.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.04%) Oracle
3 9 (1.67%) Databricks
3 9 (1.67%) Google
4 8 (1.48%) Confluent
5 6 (1.11%) Informatica
5 6 (1.11%) Talend
6 5 (0.93%) Cisco
6 5 (0.93%) MuleSoft
7 4 (0.74%) CheckPoint
7 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.74%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.74%) VMware
8 3 (0.56%) Pega
8 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.56%) SAP
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds