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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 319 296
Rank change year-on-year -64 -23 -29
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 541 422 693
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.85% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.95% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 425 320 523
10th Percentile £51,250 £64,875 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £72,500
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 £74,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.76% +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 109,213 44,406 72,800
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 89.70% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74,793 25,960 42,645
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,775 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,950 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -48 506 £75,000 -31.82% 485
UK excluding London +42 341 £74,500 +2.76% 298
London -140 175 £85,000 -22.73% 227
Work from Home -139 128 £87,500 -20.45% 190
North of England +20 117 £70,000 - 94
South West -6 76 £75,000 -25.00% 42
North West +10 67 £75,000 +7.14% 68
South East +14 60 £65,000 -18.75% 26
Midlands -23 55 £67,500 -6.90% 47
Yorkshire -9 36 £70,000 - 20
West Midlands -32 29 £70,000 -3.45% 23
East Midlands -10 26 £65,000 -2.99% 24
East of England -15 18 £100,000 +56.25% 23
Scotland +2 15 £100,000 - 49
North East -51 14 £47,000 -27.69% 6
Wales -65 1 £90,000 +56.52% 4

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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.

1 541 (100.00%) AWS
2 205 (37.89%) Python
3 180 (33.27%) Terraform
4 156 (28.84%) DevOps
5 153 (28.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 143 (26.43%) CI/CD
7 118 (21.81%) Software Engineering
8 93 (17.19%) Security Cleared
9 82 (15.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 82 (15.16%) Kubernetes
10 79 (14.60%) Docker
11 78 (14.42%) Amazon S3
12 74 (13.68%) Serverless
13 73 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
16 65 (12.01%) Amazon EC2
17 63 (11.65%) Agile
17 63 (11.65%) Cloud Security
17 63 (11.65%) Observability
18 58 (10.72%) Amazon RDS
19 56 (10.35%) SC Cleared
20 55 (10.17%) Bash
20 55 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
21 54 (9.98%) AWS CloudFormation
22 50 (9.24%) Degree
23 49 (9.06%) SQL
24 47 (8.69%) AI
24 47 (8.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 47 (8.69%) Azure

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 14 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.85%) Apache
2 10 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.92%) CMS
3 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.55%) IIS
4 3 (0.55%) nginx
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 541 (100.00%) AWS
2 78 (14.42%) Amazon S3
3 74 (13.68%) Serverless
4 66 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
5 65 (12.01%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (9.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (8.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 47 (8.69%) Azure
8 45 (8.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 40 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (6.65%) GitHub
11 34 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (5.91%) Datadog
13 21 (3.88%) SaaS
14 20 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.51%) AWS CloudTrail
16 18 (3.33%) GCP
17 16 (2.96%) Snowflake
18 12 (2.22%) dbt
19 11 (2.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.03%) DNS
2 9 (1.66%) Firewall
3 7 (1.29%) VPN
4 5 (0.92%) DHCP
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.72%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.03%) Redis
6 10 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.11%) Data Vault
9 5 (0.92%) Big Data
9 5 (0.92%) MySQL
9 5 (0.92%) Power BI
10 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.55%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.84%) GitLab
3 27 (4.99%) Git
4 13 (2.40%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.29%) JIRA
6 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) git-flow
8 3 (0.55%) Postman
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.37%) JMeter
9 2 (0.37%) Snyk
9 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.18%) Maven
General
1 48 (8.87%) Social Skills
2 42 (7.76%) Finance
3 34 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (6.28%) Public Sector
4 24 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (3.51%) Law
6 14 (2.59%) Banking
6 14 (2.59%) Health Technology
7 9 (1.66%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.29%) Front Office
8 7 (1.29%) Games
9 6 (1.11%) Legal
10 5 (0.92%) Automotive
11 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.55%) Marketing
12 3 (0.55%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (33.27%) Terraform
2 21 (3.88%) Kafka
3 19 (3.51%) React
4 18 (3.33%) Node.js
4 18 (3.33%) Pulumi
5 17 (3.14%) Spring Boot
6 15 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (2.22%) OpenTofu
7 12 (2.22%) RESTful
8 11 (2.03%) .NET
8 11 (2.03%) AWS CDK
9 9 (1.66%) Keycloak
9 9 (1.66%) PySpark
10 8 (1.48%) REST
10 8 (1.48%) Spring
11 7 (1.29%) Django
12 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.11%) Next.js
13 5 (0.92%) SAML
13 5 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 95 (17.56%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.25%) Distributed Computing
2 23 (4.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.66%) Algorithms
5 9 (1.66%) Replication
6 8 (1.48%) Sports Betting
7 7 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.92%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.74%) Life Science
9 4 (0.74%) NHS
9 4 (0.74%) PropTech
10 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.37%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.37%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.13%) Linux
2 15 (2.77%) Windows
3 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (28.84%) DevOps
2 153 (28.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 143 (26.43%) CI/CD
4 118 (21.81%) Software Engineering
5 82 (15.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 73 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (11.65%) Agile
8 63 (11.65%) Cloud Security
8 63 (11.65%) Observability
9 55 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
10 47 (8.69%) AI
11 38 (7.02%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (7.02%) ITIL
12 37 (6.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 36 (6.65%) Containerisation
13 36 (6.65%) DevSecOps
14 35 (6.47%) Migration
15 33 (6.10%) Infrastructure Automation
15 33 (6.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 205 (37.89%) Python
2 55 (10.17%) Bash
3 49 (9.06%) SQL
4 39 (7.21%) Java
4 39 (7.21%) PowerShell
5 35 (6.47%) C#
6 33 (6.10%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.99%) C++
8 16 (2.96%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.77%) Groovy
10 14 (2.59%) Go
11 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
13 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 93 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.35%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.24%) Degree
4 25 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 24 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.70%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.92%) PhD
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.18%) CISM
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.18%) GSEC
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.77%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.48%) QA
4 7 (1.29%) SLA
5 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) GDPR
7 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 79 (14.60%) Docker
2 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) vSphere
4 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (15.16%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.65%) Grafana
3 31 (5.73%) Ansible
4 27 (4.99%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.96%) Argo
6 12 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.66%) Rancher
8 8 (1.48%) Packer
9 5 (0.92%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.74%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.55%) Puppet
12 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.37%) Nagios
13 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (3.88%) Dynatrace
1 21 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.77%) Databricks
3 13 (2.40%) Oracle
4 9 (1.66%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.29%) VMware
6 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.74%) Google
7 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.55%) Intel
8 2 (0.37%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.37%) FactSet
8 2 (0.37%) Informatica
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.37%) Solace
8 2 (0.37%) Talend
9 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.18%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.18%) New Relic