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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 305 261
Rank change year-on-year -57 -44 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 544 458 889
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.92% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.02% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 437 362 589
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,375 £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 £74,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.43% - -

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 99,712 44,763 79,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.90% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 68,207 26,557 53,034
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -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 12 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 12 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 -31 524 £75,000 -31.82% 230
UK excluding London +89 323 £74,500 +6.43% 121
London -129 199 £85,000 -26.09% 147
Work from Home -116 140 £87,500 -20.45% 102
North of England +23 106 £70,000 - 26
South West +12 80 £75,000 -25.00% 21
North West +26 71 £74,500 +6.43% 14
South East +20 63 £65,000 +5.26% 15
Midlands +9 54 £70,000 -3.45% 13
West Midlands -3 39 £70,000 -3.45% 5
Yorkshire -4 25 £80,000 - 5
East of England -19 17 £95,000 +48.44% 6
East Midlands -9 15 £80,000 +40.35% 8
North East -48 10 £58,750 -9.62% 7
Scotland -5 3 £90,000 -10.00% 29
Wales -57 1 £90,000 +50.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 544 (100.00%) AWS
2 195 (35.85%) Python
3 173 (31.80%) Terraform
4 159 (29.23%) DevOps
5 134 (24.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (24.08%) CI/CD
7 87 (15.99%) Software Engineering
8 85 (15.63%) Amazon S3
8 85 (15.63%) Security Cleared
9 78 (14.34%) Kubernetes
10 75 (13.79%) Docker
11 70 (12.87%) Azure
12 68 (12.50%) Serverless
13 65 (11.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 62 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
15 58 (10.66%) Amazon EC2
16 57 (10.48%) SQL
17 55 (10.11%) AWS Lambda
17 55 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
18 53 (9.74%) Agile
19 51 (9.38%) Cloud Security
19 51 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
20 50 (9.19%) Degree
21 49 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
21 49 (9.01%) Containerisation
22 47 (8.64%) SC Cleared
23 46 (8.46%) Bash
23 46 (8.46%) Observability
24 45 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 45 (8.27%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 24 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.57%) Apache
3 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.74%) Confluence
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
5 4 (0.74%) nginx
5 4 (0.74%) SAS
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 544 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.63%) Amazon S3
3 70 (12.87%) Azure
4 68 (12.50%) Serverless
5 58 (10.66%) Amazon EC2
6 55 (10.11%) AWS Lambda
7 49 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 45 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (8.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (6.25%) Datadog
10 34 (6.25%) GitHub
11 29 (5.33%) SaaS
12 28 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (5.15%) GCP
13 21 (3.86%) Snowflake
14 19 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
16 16 (2.94%) dbt
16 16 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.84%) DNS
2 8 (1.47%) Firewall
3 4 (0.74%) VPN
4 2 (0.37%) 4G
4 2 (0.37%) 5G
4 2 (0.37%) DHCP
4 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.37%) IPv4
5 1 (0.18%) BGP
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco Firepower
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 43 (7.90%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (1.84%) DynamoDB
5 10 (1.84%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (1.47%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.29%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.29%) Metadata
8 7 (1.29%) MySQL
9 5 (0.92%) Big Data
9 5 (0.92%) Power BI
10 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.55%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (6.43%) GitLab
1 35 (6.43%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.15%) Git
3 18 (3.31%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.29%) JIRA
5 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.74%) git-flow
7 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.37%) JMeter
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) Snyk
7 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 48 (8.82%) Finance
2 45 (8.27%) Social Skills
3 35 (6.43%) Banking
4 33 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.57%) Health Technology
6 14 (2.57%) Law
6 14 (2.57%) Retail Banking
7 13 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.47%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.47%) Games
10 5 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.92%) Legal
11 4 (0.74%) Automotive
11 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.37%) Billing
12 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.37%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.51%) Kafka
2 18 (3.31%) React
3 14 (2.57%) Node.js
4 13 (2.39%) Spring Boot
5 12 (2.21%) AWS CDK
5 12 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (1.84%) RESTful
7 9 (1.65%) .NET
7 9 (1.65%) PySpark
8 6 (1.10%) Django
8 6 (1.10%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.10%) REST
8 6 (1.10%) Spring
9 5 (0.92%) LangGraph
9 5 (0.92%) SAML
10 4 (0.74%) LangChain
10 4 (0.74%) Next.js
10 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.74%) Vue
10 4 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 108 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
3 14 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.29%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.29%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.74%) Life Science
10 4 (0.74%) PropTech
10 4 (0.74%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.55%) NHS
11 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.37%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.90%) Linux
2 12 (2.21%) Windows
3 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (29.23%) DevOps
2 134 (24.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (24.08%) CI/CD
4 87 (15.99%) Software Engineering
5 65 (11.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 62 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
8 53 (9.74%) Agile
9 51 (9.38%) Cloud Security
9 51 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (9.01%) Containerisation
11 46 (8.46%) Observability
12 42 (7.72%) Data Pipeline
13 41 (7.54%) AI
14 34 (6.25%) Analytics
15 33 (6.07%) Data Engineering
15 33 (6.07%) DevSecOps
16 32 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
17 31 (5.70%) Fintech
18 30 (5.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 195 (35.85%) Python
2 57 (10.48%) SQL
3 46 (8.46%) Bash
4 34 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 32 (5.88%) Java
6 29 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.15%) C#
8 27 (4.96%) Go
9 20 (3.68%) C++
10 12 (2.21%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.10%) Groovy
12 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 2 (0.37%) PHP
15 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.19%) Degree
3 47 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 17 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.74%) PhD
8 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.37%) CISSP
9 2 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) CCSA
10 1 (0.18%) CCSE
10 1 (0.18%) CISM
10 1 (0.18%) GSEC
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.31%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.47%) SOC 2
4 7 (1.29%) GDPR
4 7 (1.29%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.10%) QA
5 6 (1.10%) SLA
6 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (13.79%) Docker
2 10 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 173 (31.80%) Terraform
2 78 (14.34%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.33%) Ansible
4 27 (4.96%) Grafana
5 21 (3.86%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.76%) Argo
7 10 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.65%) Packer
9 8 (1.47%) Istio
10 7 (1.29%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.74%) 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%) Consul
13 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (4.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.02%) Databricks
2 11 (2.02%) Oracle
3 8 (1.47%) Confluent
3 8 (1.47%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.10%) Google
5 5 (0.92%) VMware
6 4 (0.74%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.55%) Informatica
7 3 (0.55%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.55%) Talend
8 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.37%) FactSet
8 2 (0.37%) Solace
9 1 (0.18%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.18%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.18%) New Relic
9 1 (0.18%) Refinitiv