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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 313 279
Rank change year-on-year -64 -34 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 528 429 817
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.86% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.96% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 421 333 571
10th Percentile £52,000 £62,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £63,000 £80,000 £71,250
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 £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 103,099 44,902 77,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 89.81% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,871 26,693 49,456
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 1 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 1 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 -42 507 £75,000 -31.82% 245
UK excluding London +80 316 £70,000 - 148
London -115 190 £85,000 -22.73% 149
Work from Home -114 137 £85,000 -22.73% 93
North of England +28 104 £67,500 -3.57% 37
South West -2 78 £75,000 -25.00% 19
South East +13 63 £65,000 +4.00% 15
North West +18 62 £75,000 +7.14% 15
Midlands -21 50 £70,000 -3.45% 18
West Midlands -13 33 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Yorkshire -11 29 £66,750 - 17
East Midlands -8 17 £77,500 +29.17% 14
East of England -8 17 £100,000 +56.25% 10
North East -50 13 £47,000 -27.69% 5
Scotland -19 4 £90,000 -10.00% 40
Wales -68 1 £90,000 +50.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 528 (100.00%) AWS
2 200 (37.88%) Python
3 184 (34.85%) Terraform
4 152 (28.79%) DevOps
5 144 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (25.95%) CI/CD
7 93 (17.61%) Software Engineering
8 83 (15.72%) Kubernetes
8 83 (15.72%) Security Cleared
9 81 (15.34%) Amazon S3
10 80 (15.15%) Docker
11 76 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 71 (13.45%) Serverless
13 68 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (12.31%) Amazon EC2
15 64 (12.12%) Azure
16 62 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
18 58 (10.98%) Cloud Security
19 56 (10.61%) Observability
20 54 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
21 53 (10.04%) AWS CloudFormation
21 53 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
22 52 (9.85%) Agile
22 52 (9.85%) Bash
23 50 (9.47%) Degree
23 50 (9.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 49 (9.28%) SQL
25 48 (9.09%) Linux
26 47 (8.90%) Amazon EKS

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 16 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.08%) Apache
3 8 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.95%) CMS
4 5 (0.95%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.76%) IIS
5 4 (0.76%) nginx
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
6 3 (0.57%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Magento
2 2 (0.38%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 528 (100.00%) AWS
2 81 (15.34%) Amazon S3
3 71 (13.45%) Serverless
4 65 (12.31%) Amazon EC2
5 64 (12.12%) Azure
6 60 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
7 53 (10.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (9.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 47 (8.90%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (8.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (6.82%) Datadog
12 34 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (6.25%) GitHub
14 29 (5.49%) GCP
15 27 (5.11%) SaaS
16 18 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (3.22%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (3.22%) Snowflake
18 13 (2.46%) Amazon MSK
19 12 (2.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.27%) DNS
2 10 (1.89%) Firewall
3 6 (1.14%) VPN
4 4 (0.76%) DHCP
5 2 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.38%) IPv4
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) BGP
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.19%) LAN
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (1.89%) DynamoDB
6 8 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.33%) MySQL
8 6 (1.14%) Data Vault
8 6 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.14%) Redis
9 5 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (0.95%) Big Data
10 4 (0.76%) Power BI
10 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.57%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 36 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 32 (6.06%) GitLab
3 24 (4.55%) Git
4 16 (3.03%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.14%) JIRA
6 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.76%) git-flow
8 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.38%) JMeter
8 2 (0.38%) Postman
8 2 (0.38%) Snyk
8 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (8.90%) Finance
2 46 (8.71%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.68%) Banking
4 30 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.79%) Law
6 17 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.65%) Health Technology
8 10 (1.89%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.70%) Retail Banking
10 8 (1.52%) Games
11 6 (1.14%) Automotive
12 5 (0.95%) Front Office
12 5 (0.95%) Legal
12 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.76%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.76%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.57%) Marketing
15 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (34.85%) Terraform
2 26 (4.92%) Kafka
3 19 (3.60%) React
4 16 (3.03%) Pulumi
5 15 (2.84%) Node.js
6 13 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (2.27%) AWS CDK
7 12 (2.27%) OpenTofu
7 12 (2.27%) Spring Boot
8 10 (1.89%) .NET
8 10 (1.89%) RESTful
9 8 (1.52%) Django
9 8 (1.52%) PySpark
10 6 (1.14%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.14%) REST
10 6 (1.14%) Vue
11 5 (0.95%) SAML
11 5 (0.95%) Spring
12 4 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 94 (17.80%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (3.98%) Distributed Computing
4 15 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.70%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.33%) Sports Betting
9 5 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.95%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.76%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.76%) Life Science
10 4 (0.76%) NHS
10 4 (0.76%) PropTech
11 3 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.57%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.57%) Replication
12 2 (0.38%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.09%) Linux
2 14 (2.65%) Windows
3 6 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (28.79%) DevOps
2 144 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (25.95%) CI/CD
4 93 (17.61%) Software Engineering
5 76 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 68 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (10.98%) Cloud Security
9 56 (10.61%) Observability
10 53 (10.04%) Platform Engineering
11 52 (9.85%) Agile
12 46 (8.71%) Containerisation
13 43 (8.14%) AI
14 37 (7.01%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (6.44%) DevSecOps
15 34 (6.44%) Migration
16 33 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
17 31 (5.87%) ITIL
18 28 (5.30%) Infrastructure Automation
19 27 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 200 (37.88%) Python
2 52 (9.85%) Bash
3 49 (9.28%) SQL
4 38 (7.20%) PowerShell
5 32 (6.06%) C#
5 32 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.87%) Java
7 25 (4.73%) Go
8 23 (4.36%) C++
9 13 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.70%) Groovy
11 4 (0.76%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.57%) Ruby
13 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (15.72%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.47%) Degree
3 45 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.79%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.79%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.14%) PhD
8 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.19%) CCIE
10 1 (0.19%) CISSP
10 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.65%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.52%) SLA
4 6 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.14%) QA
4 6 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.95%) GDPR
5 5 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 80 (15.15%) Docker
2 10 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (15.72%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.44%) Ansible
3 32 (6.06%) Grafana
4 22 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.84%) Argo
6 11 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.70%) Packer
8 8 (1.52%) Istio
9 7 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.76%) Puppet
11 3 (0.57%) Rancher
11 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.38%) Nagios
13 1 (0.19%) Consul
13 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.84%) Dynatrace
3 12 (2.27%) Oracle
4 11 (2.08%) Databricks
5 8 (1.52%) Confluent
6 7 (1.33%) VMware
7 6 (1.14%) Google
8 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.57%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.57%) Informatica
9 3 (0.57%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.57%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.57%) Talend
10 2 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.38%) FactSet
10 2 (0.38%) Solace
11 1 (0.19%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.19%) New Relic
11 1 (0.19%) Refinitiv