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 14 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 287 295
Rank change year-on-year -29 +8 +50
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 497 472 947
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.09% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.21% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 387 419 569
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,550 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,875 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +34.38% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -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 84,582 38,850 91,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 89.47% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,708 22,832 66,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 14 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 14 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 14 May 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 -22 476 £75,000 -30.23% 74
UK excluding London +64 246 £70,000 +7.69% 46
London -77 227 £90,000 -18.18% 37
Work from Home -110 143 £90,000 -18.18% 38
North of England +5 75 £65,000 - 14
North West +27 59 £70,000 +6.59% 10
South West -2 50 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Midlands +3 49 £70,000 +7.69% 14
South East +9 42 £65,000 +12.07% 13
West Midlands +12 40 £67,500 +22.73% 6
East of England +3 31 £80,000 +23.08% 1
East Midlands -24 9 £75,000 +9.09% 8
Yorkshire -61 9 £65,000 +30.00% 4
North East -33 7 £60,000 -7.69%

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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.

1 497 (100.00%) AWS
2 182 (36.62%) Python
3 144 (28.97%) DevOps
4 140 (28.17%) Terraform
5 126 (25.35%) CI/CD
6 124 (24.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 88 (17.71%) Azure
8 83 (16.70%) Software Engineering
9 69 (13.88%) Serverless
10 66 (13.28%) Amazon S3
10 66 (13.28%) Platform Engineering
10 66 (13.28%) Security Cleared
11 61 (12.27%) SQL
12 59 (11.87%) Degree
13 57 (11.47%) SaaS
14 56 (11.27%) Kubernetes
15 54 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
16 50 (10.06%) Docker
16 50 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 50 (10.06%) Observability
17 49 (9.86%) Cloud Security
18 48 (9.66%) Bash
19 47 (9.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 46 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
20 46 (9.26%) ETL
21 44 (8.85%) AI
22 43 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
23 42 (8.45%) Data Pipeline
24 41 (8.25%) Agile
25 39 (7.85%) Java

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 21 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.62%) Apache
3 13 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.01%) SAS
5 4 (0.80%) IIS
6 2 (0.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 497 (100.00%) AWS
2 88 (17.71%) Azure
3 69 (13.88%) Serverless
4 66 (13.28%) Amazon S3
5 57 (11.47%) SaaS
6 47 (9.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 46 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
8 43 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (6.64%) GCP
11 31 (6.24%) GitHub
12 22 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (4.02%) Datadog
14 18 (3.62%) Snowflake
15 13 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (2.21%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.23%) Firewall
2 15 (3.02%) Cisco ASA
2 15 (3.02%) Cisco Firepower
2 15 (3.02%) LAN
2 15 (3.02%) WAN
2 15 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.81%) BGP
3 9 (1.81%) VPN
4 5 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.01%) IPsec
4 5 (1.01%) MPLS
4 5 (1.01%) NetScaler
4 5 (1.01%) NX-OS
4 5 (1.01%) OSPF
4 5 (1.01%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.01%) VXLAN
4 5 (1.01%) WLAN
5 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.60%) DNS
6 3 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (5.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
5 14 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.62%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (2.62%) MySQL
7 12 (2.41%) NoSQL
8 11 (2.21%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.61%) Pentaho
11 7 (1.41%) Metadata
12 5 (1.01%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.01%) Power BI
13 4 (0.80%) Big Data
13 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.80%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (5.63%) Git
2 26 (5.23%) GitLab
2 26 (5.23%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.82%) CircleCI
4 4 (0.80%) JIRA
5 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.60%) NUnit
6 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.40%) JMeter
6 2 (0.40%) Maven
7 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.20%) Deequ
7 1 (0.20%) Gatling
7 1 (0.20%) git-flow
7 1 (0.20%) Gradle
7 1 (0.20%) Postman
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (14.29%) Finance
2 51 (10.26%) Banking
3 35 (7.04%) Social Skills
4 31 (6.24%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.02%) Law
6 16 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.02%) Retail Banking
8 13 (2.62%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.21%) Retail
10 9 (1.81%) Back Office
10 9 (1.81%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.01%) Games
11 5 (1.01%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.80%) Advertising
12 4 (0.80%) Billing
13 2 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.40%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.84%) Kafka
2 22 (4.43%) React
3 18 (3.62%) .NET
4 14 (2.82%) Node.js
4 14 (2.82%) PySpark
4 14 (2.82%) REST
5 12 (2.41%) AWS CDK
5 12 (2.41%) RESTful
6 11 (2.21%) .NET Core
6 11 (2.21%) Spring Boot
7 10 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (1.61%) Spring
9 7 (1.41%) Loki
9 7 (1.41%) OAuth
9 7 (1.41%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.21%) LangGraph
11 5 (1.01%) JWT
11 5 (1.01%) LangChain
12 4 (0.80%) pytest
12 4 (0.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 81 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.63%) Data Centre
3 18 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.02%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.62%) Hedge funds
6 12 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 11 (2.21%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.81%) Blog
9 9 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.01%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.60%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.43%) Linux
2 10 (2.01%) Unix
3 7 (1.41%) Windows
4 5 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (28.97%) DevOps
2 126 (25.35%) CI/CD
3 124 (24.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (16.70%) Software Engineering
5 66 (13.28%) Platform Engineering
6 54 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 50 (10.06%) Observability
8 49 (9.86%) Cloud Security
9 46 (9.26%) ETL
10 44 (8.85%) AI
11 42 (8.45%) Data Pipeline
12 41 (8.25%) Agile
13 38 (7.65%) Full-Stack Development
14 37 (7.44%) High Availability
15 36 (7.24%) Containerisation
15 36 (7.24%) Data Engineering
16 34 (6.84%) Analytics
17 31 (6.24%) Microservices
18 30 (6.04%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 182 (36.62%) Python
2 61 (12.27%) SQL
3 48 (9.66%) Bash
4 39 (7.85%) Java
5 33 (6.64%) TypeScript
6 31 (6.24%) C#
7 26 (5.23%) Go
8 16 (3.22%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.01%) C++
10 8 (1.61%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.80%) Groovy
12 3 (0.60%) PHP
13 2 (0.40%) Bicep
13 2 (0.40%) Ruby
14 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 66 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 59 (11.87%) Degree
3 37 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.63%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.21%) CISSP
7 10 (2.01%) CCIE
7 10 (2.01%) CCNA
7 10 (2.01%) CCNP
7 10 (2.01%) CCSA
7 10 (2.01%) CCSE
7 10 (2.01%) CCSK
8 8 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 5 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.82%) SOC 2
2 18 (3.62%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.62%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.62%) GDPR
4 11 (2.21%) QA
5 10 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.21%) NIST
8 4 (0.80%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.60%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 50 (10.06%) Docker
2 8 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 140 (28.17%) Terraform
2 56 (11.27%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.43%) Grafana
4 18 (3.62%) Ansible
4 18 (3.62%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.01%) FortiGate
6 9 (1.81%) Istio
7 5 (1.01%) Argo
7 5 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.60%) Packer
10 2 (0.40%) Nagios
11 1 (0.20%) Consul
11 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (3.62%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.22%) Cisco
3 15 (3.02%) CheckPoint
3 15 (3.02%) Fortinet
4 13 (2.62%) Google
5 10 (2.01%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.81%) Databricks
7 8 (1.61%) Confluent
7 8 (1.61%) Informatica
7 8 (1.61%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.61%) Talend
8 7 (1.41%) Oracle
8 7 (1.41%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.01%) Meraki
11 4 (0.80%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.80%) Pega
11 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.80%) SAP
12 3 (0.60%) VMware