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 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 304 270
Rank change year-on-year -44 -34 +42
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 535 473 931
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.96% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.07% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 440 372 619
10th Percentile £53,625 £63,875 £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 £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 94,832 44,261 86,457
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 90.17% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 64,920 26,252 60,421
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,389
Median % change year-on-year - +1.12% -9.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,219
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.21%

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 24 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 24 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 -34 514 £75,000 -31.82% 116
UK excluding London +99 307 £75,000 +7.14% 54
London -111 203 £85,000 -22.73% 69
Work from Home -119 142 £90,000 -18.18% 45
North of England +28 99 £70,000 - 16
North West +37 71 £74,500 +6.43% 9
South West +2 67 £75,000 -25.00% 17
South East +31 63 £65,000 +5.26% 9
Midlands +1 58 £70,000 -3.45% 4
West Midlands -9 43 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Yorkshire -13 21 £80,000 - 2
East of England +1 19 £87,500 +36.72% 3
East Midlands -15 15 £80,000 +40.35%
North East -43 7 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Scotland -5 1 £90,000 -10.00% 4
Wales -57 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 535 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (36.64%) Python
3 167 (31.21%) Terraform
4 163 (30.47%) DevOps
5 132 (24.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (24.49%) CI/CD
7 91 (17.01%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.89%) Security Cleared
9 83 (15.51%) Amazon S3
10 76 (14.21%) Azure
10 76 (14.21%) Kubernetes
11 69 (12.90%) Serverless
12 67 (12.52%) Docker
13 63 (11.78%) SQL
14 57 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (10.47%) Degree
15 56 (10.47%) Platform Engineering
16 54 (10.09%) Amazon EC2
16 54 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 53 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
18 51 (9.53%) Agile
19 49 (9.16%) Bash
19 49 (9.16%) Containerisation
19 49 (9.16%) SC Cleared
20 46 (8.60%) Cloud Security
21 44 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
21 44 (8.22%) Observability
21 44 (8.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
22 43 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 43 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation

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 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.99%) Apache
3 10 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.93%) SAS
5 4 (0.75%) 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 (0.75%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 535 (100.00%) AWS
2 83 (15.51%) Amazon S3
3 76 (14.21%) Azure
4 69 (12.90%) Serverless
5 54 (10.09%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
7 44 (8.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 43 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (6.54%) SaaS
11 31 (5.79%) GitHub
12 28 (5.23%) Datadog
13 27 (5.05%) GCP
14 20 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (3.74%) Snowflake
15 18 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.18%) AWS CloudTrail
16 17 (3.18%) dbt
17 16 (2.99%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.68%) Firewall
2 8 (1.50%) DNS
3 4 (0.75%) VPN
4 3 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (0.56%) LAN
4 3 (0.56%) WAN
4 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.37%) 4G
5 2 (0.37%) 5G
5 2 (0.37%) BGP
5 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.37%) IPv4
5 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) VLAN
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.43%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.43%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.68%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (1.50%) Metadata
9 7 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.31%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.31%) MySQL
10 5 (0.93%) Big Data
10 5 (0.93%) Pentaho
10 5 (0.93%) Power BI
11 4 (0.75%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (6.73%) GitLab
2 35 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.05%) Git
4 20 (3.74%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.93%) JIRA
5 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.37%) git-flow
6 2 (0.37%) JMeter
6 2 (0.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Gatling
7 1 (0.19%) JUnit
7 1 (0.19%) Maven
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (9.53%) Finance
2 40 (7.48%) Social Skills
3 38 (7.10%) Banking
4 34 (6.36%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.80%) Retail Banking
7 13 (2.43%) Health Technology
7 13 (2.43%) Law
8 11 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.50%) Games
11 6 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.75%) Automotive
13 4 (0.75%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.75%) Legal
13 4 (0.75%) Retail
14 3 (0.56%) Back Office
14 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.17%) Kafka
2 18 (3.36%) React
3 13 (2.43%) Node.js
4 12 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.06%) RESTful
6 10 (1.87%) PySpark
6 10 (1.87%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.68%) .NET
8 7 (1.31%) AWS CDK
8 7 (1.31%) REST
9 6 (1.12%) Django
9 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.12%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.93%) LangChain
10 5 (0.93%) SAML
10 5 (0.93%) Spring
11 4 (0.75%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.75%) Vue
11 4 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 104 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.36%) Distributed Computing
3 11 (2.06%) Data Centre
4 10 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.31%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.31%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.31%) Sports Betting
7 5 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.75%) Hedge funds
8 4 (0.75%) Life Science
8 4 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.75%) PropTech
8 4 (0.75%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.48%) Linux
2 8 (1.50%) Windows
3 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.75%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (30.47%) DevOps
2 132 (24.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (24.49%) CI/CD
4 91 (17.01%) Software Engineering
5 57 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (10.47%) Platform Engineering
7 54 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 51 (9.53%) Agile
9 49 (9.16%) Containerisation
10 46 (8.60%) Cloud Security
11 44 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
11 44 (8.22%) Observability
12 42 (7.85%) AI
13 37 (6.92%) Mentoring
14 36 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (6.73%) Data Engineering
15 35 (6.54%) Analytics
15 35 (6.54%) Fintech
16 34 (6.36%) ETL
17 32 (5.98%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 196 (36.64%) Python
2 63 (11.78%) SQL
3 49 (9.16%) Bash
4 33 (6.17%) Java
5 30 (5.61%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.23%) C#
7 27 (5.05%) Go
7 27 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.55%) C++
9 11 (2.06%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.12%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
11 3 (0.56%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.47%) Degree
3 49 (9.16%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.93%) CISSP
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.75%) CCSK
9 4 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.75%) PhD
10 3 (0.56%) CCIE
10 3 (0.56%) CCNA
10 3 (0.56%) CCNP
10 3 (0.56%) CCSA
10 3 (0.56%) CCSE
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.43%) SOC 2
3 12 (2.24%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.87%) GDPR
4 10 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.31%) QA
7 4 (0.75%) SLA
8 3 (0.56%) NIST
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (12.52%) Docker
2 10 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 167 (31.21%) Terraform
2 76 (14.21%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.86%) Prometheus
4 24 (4.49%) Grafana
5 21 (3.93%) Ansible
6 14 (2.62%) Argo
7 9 (1.68%) Istio
7 9 (1.68%) Packer
8 8 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (5.05%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.24%) Oracle
3 11 (2.06%) Databricks
4 9 (1.68%) Google
5 8 (1.50%) Confluent
6 5 (0.93%) Informatica
6 5 (0.93%) Talend
7 4 (0.75%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.75%) VMware
8 3 (0.56%) CheckPoint
8 3 (0.56%) Cisco
8 3 (0.56%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.56%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.37%) Pega
9 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.37%) SAP
9 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.19%) FactSet