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 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 301 263
Rank change year-on-year -64 -38 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 548 471 900
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.95% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.05% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 445 372 596
10th Percentile £53,000 £68,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,750 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% - -

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 98,527 44,645 79,471
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 90.04% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 67,450 26,505 53,682
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -44 526 £75,000 -31.82% 192
UK excluding London +94 320 £74,750 +6.79% 82
London -130 204 £85,000 -26.09% 134
Work from Home -130 144 £85,000 -22.73% 85
North of England +36 105 £70,000 - 18
South West +8 75 £75,000 -25.00% 19
North West +45 73 £74,500 +6.43% 10
South East +15 64 £65,000 +5.26% 9
Midlands -7 55 £70,000 -3.45% 7
West Midlands -9 40 £70,000 -3.45% 2
Yorkshire -3 23 £80,000 - 5
East of England -13 18 £90,000 +40.63% 4
East Midlands -5 15 £77,500 +35.96% 5
North East -46 9 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Scotland +7 3 £90,000 -10.00% 19
Wales -55 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 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.

1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 199 (36.31%) Python
3 173 (31.57%) Terraform
4 164 (29.93%) DevOps
5 135 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 132 (24.09%) CI/CD
7 92 (16.79%) Software Engineering
8 87 (15.88%) Security Cleared
9 84 (15.33%) Amazon S3
10 78 (14.23%) Kubernetes
11 75 (13.69%) Azure
12 72 (13.14%) Docker
13 67 (12.23%) Serverless
14 63 (11.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 61 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
15 61 (11.13%) SQL
16 56 (10.22%) Amazon EC2
17 55 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
18 54 (9.85%) Agile
19 53 (9.67%) AWS Lambda
19 53 (9.67%) Degree
20 50 (9.12%) Cloud Security
20 50 (9.12%) Containerisation
21 49 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
22 47 (8.58%) Bash
22 47 (8.58%) Observability
22 47 (8.58%) SC Cleared
23 46 (8.39%) AWS CloudFormation
24 44 (8.03%) Data Pipeline
25 43 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.74%) Apache
3 9 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 5 (0.91%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
5 4 (0.73%) SAS
6 3 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Magento
2 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 548 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (15.33%) Amazon S3
3 75 (13.69%) Azure
4 67 (12.23%) Serverless
5 56 (10.22%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (9.67%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (8.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 43 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (7.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 38 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.57%) Datadog
11 34 (6.20%) GitHub
12 32 (5.84%) SaaS
13 30 (5.47%) GCP
14 24 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (3.83%) Snowflake
16 19 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.10%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (3.10%) dbt
18 16 (2.92%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.64%) DNS
2 7 (1.28%) Firewall
3 3 (0.55%) VPN
4 2 (0.36%) 4G
4 2 (0.36%) 5G
4 2 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.36%) IPv4
5 1 (0.18%) BGP
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.18%) DHCP
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.18%) WAN
5 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.30%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.19%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.01%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.46%) Metadata
9 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.28%) MySQL
10 5 (0.91%) Big Data
10 5 (0.91%) Power BI
11 4 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (6.57%) GitLab
2 35 (6.39%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.11%) Git
4 19 (3.47%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.09%) JIRA
6 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.55%) git-flow
8 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.36%) JMeter
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) Snyk
8 2 (0.36%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.18%) Gatling
9 1 (0.18%) Maven
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (9.31%) Finance
2 46 (8.39%) Social Skills
3 37 (6.75%) Banking
4 34 (6.20%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.74%) Law
7 14 (2.55%) Health Technology
7 14 (2.55%) Retail Banking
8 13 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.46%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.46%) Games
11 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.91%) Legal
12 4 (0.73%) Automotive
12 4 (0.73%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.73%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.36%) Billing
13 2 (0.36%) Marketing
13 2 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.66%) Kafka
2 18 (3.28%) React
3 13 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (2.37%) Node.js
3 13 (2.37%) Spring Boot
4 10 (1.82%) AWS CDK
4 10 (1.82%) RESTful
5 9 (1.64%) .NET
5 9 (1.64%) PySpark
6 7 (1.28%) REST
7 6 (1.09%) Django
7 6 (1.09%) GraphQL
7 6 (1.09%) Spring
8 5 (0.91%) LangGraph
8 5 (0.91%) SAML
9 4 (0.73%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.73%) LangChain
9 4 (0.73%) Next.js
9 4 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (0.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 106 (19.34%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
3 12 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.28%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.91%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.73%) Life Science
9 4 (0.73%) PropTech
10 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.55%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.55%) NHS
10 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.66%) Linux
2 10 (1.82%) Windows
3 6 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (29.93%) DevOps
2 135 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 132 (24.09%) CI/CD
4 92 (16.79%) Software Engineering
5 63 (11.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 61 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
8 54 (9.85%) Agile
9 50 (9.12%) Cloud Security
9 50 (9.12%) Containerisation
10 49 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (8.58%) Observability
12 44 (8.03%) Data Pipeline
13 42 (7.66%) AI
14 34 (6.20%) Analytics
14 34 (6.20%) Data Engineering
15 33 (6.02%) DevSecOps
15 33 (6.02%) Fintech
16 32 (5.84%) ETL
16 32 (5.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 199 (36.31%) Python
2 61 (11.13%) SQL
3 47 (8.58%) Bash
4 34 (6.20%) PowerShell
5 33 (6.02%) Java
6 29 (5.29%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.11%) C#
8 27 (4.93%) Go
9 20 (3.65%) C++
10 12 (2.19%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.09%) Groovy
12 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) PHP
13 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 1 (0.18%) Bicep
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 53 (9.67%) Degree
3 47 (8.58%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.10%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.73%) PhD
9 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.55%) CISSP
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.36%) CCSK
10 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CCSA
11 1 (0.18%) CCSE
11 1 (0.18%) CISM
11 1 (0.18%) GSEC
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.82%) SOC 2
3 9 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.46%) GDPR
5 7 (1.28%) QA
6 6 (1.09%) SLA
7 2 (0.36%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (13.14%) Docker
2 10 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 173 (31.57%) Terraform
2 78 (14.23%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.29%) Grafana
4 27 (4.93%) Ansible
5 23 (4.20%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.74%) Argo
7 9 (1.64%) Packer
7 9 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.46%) Istio
9 6 (1.09%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.36%) Nagios
10 2 (0.36%) Puppet
11 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.18%) Consul
11 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (4.74%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.19%) Databricks
3 11 (2.01%) Oracle
4 8 (1.46%) Confluent
4 8 (1.46%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.28%) Google
6 4 (0.73%) VMware
7 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.55%) Informatica
7 3 (0.55%) Talend
8 2 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.36%) FactSet
8 2 (0.36%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.36%) Pega
8 2 (0.36%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.36%) SAP
8 2 (0.36%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.36%) Solace