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 20 April 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 246 304
Rank change year-on-year -95 +58 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 454 513 887
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.23% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.37% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 343 456 524
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £92,500 £127,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £139,375 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 80,885 37,363 89,466
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 89.33% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 51,875 23,453 66,238
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £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% -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 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 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 20 April 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 -77 437 £75,000 -30.23% 87
London -69 226 £90,000 -18.18% 35
UK excluding London -17 208 £70,000 +7.69% 65
Work from Home -131 138 £90,000 -18.18% 31
North of England -53 64 £68,750 +5.77% 23
North West -13 52 £70,000 +4.60% 16
South West -15 42 £75,000 -6.25% 10
Midlands -15 36 £70,000 +7.69% 10
South East -22 36 £65,000 +6.56% 12
West Midlands -5 30 £62,500 +21.95% 9
East of England -20 29 £80,000 +25.00% 4
North East -39 6 £60,000 -7.69% 6
East Midlands -58 6 £72,500 +11.54% 1
Yorkshire -67 6 £66,250 +32.50% 1
Scotland -21 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 20 April 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.

1 454 (100.00%) AWS
2 168 (37.00%) Python
3 147 (32.38%) DevOps
4 129 (28.41%) Terraform
5 121 (26.65%) CI/CD
6 113 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 85 (18.72%) Azure
8 73 (16.08%) Software Engineering
9 67 (14.76%) Platform Engineering
9 67 (14.76%) Serverless
10 65 (14.32%) Amazon S3
11 59 (13.00%) Kubernetes
12 57 (12.56%) Security Cleared
13 55 (12.11%) Degree
13 55 (12.11%) SaaS
14 54 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
15 51 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
16 50 (11.01%) SQL
17 49 (10.79%) Java
17 49 (10.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 48 (10.57%) Docker
19 47 (10.35%) Observability
20 45 (9.91%) Cloud Security
21 44 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
21 44 (9.69%) Bash
21 44 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 41 (9.03%) Agile
22 41 (9.03%) ETL
23 39 (8.59%) AI
24 37 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.52%) Apache
3 13 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.88%) SAS
5 3 (0.66%) IIS
6 2 (0.44%) Confluence
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 454 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (18.72%) Azure
3 67 (14.76%) Serverless
4 65 (14.32%) Amazon S3
5 55 (12.11%) SaaS
6 54 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (10.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 44 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (7.49%) GCP
11 33 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (6.39%) GitHub
13 23 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (3.52%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (2.64%) Amazon EMR
17 12 (2.64%) Datadog
17 12 (2.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.07%) Firewall
2 17 (3.74%) Cisco ASA
2 17 (3.74%) Cisco Firepower
2 17 (3.74%) LAN
2 17 (3.74%) WAN
2 17 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (2.64%) BGP
3 12 (2.64%) VPN
4 7 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.32%) VLAN
6 5 (1.10%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.10%) IPsec
6 5 (1.10%) MPLS
6 5 (1.10%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.10%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.10%) OSPF
6 5 (1.10%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.10%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.10%) WLAN
7 2 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.71%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 13 (2.86%) MySQL
7 12 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.64%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (1.54%) Pentaho
10 6 (1.32%) Flink
10 6 (1.32%) Metadata
11 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.88%) Big Data
12 4 (0.88%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.66%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (5.51%) Git
2 23 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.96%) GitLab
4 8 (1.76%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.88%) JIRA
7 3 (0.66%) NUnit
8 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.44%) JMeter
8 2 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.22%) Deequ
9 1 (0.22%) Gatling
9 1 (0.22%) git-flow
9 1 (0.22%) Gradle
9 1 (0.22%) Postman
9 1 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 82 (18.06%) Finance
2 56 (12.33%) Banking
3 41 (9.03%) Social Skills
4 24 (5.29%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.07%) Law
6 16 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.30%) Retail Banking
8 14 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.08%) Retail
9 12 (2.64%) Back Office
10 11 (2.42%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.42%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.54%) Games
12 6 (1.32%) Advertising
12 6 (1.32%) Front Office
12 6 (1.32%) Legal
13 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Billing
15 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.93%) Kafka
2 20 (4.41%) React
3 17 (3.74%) .NET
4 15 (3.30%) Node.js
5 13 (2.86%) PySpark
6 12 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (2.64%) REST
7 11 (2.42%) .NET Core
7 11 (2.42%) AWS CDK
8 9 (1.98%) OAuth
8 9 (1.98%) RESTful
8 9 (1.98%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.76%) Spring
10 7 (1.54%) JWT
10 7 (1.54%) Loki
10 7 (1.54%) OAuth2
11 5 (1.10%) LangChain
11 5 (1.10%) LangGraph
12 4 (0.88%) SOAP
13 3 (0.66%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 72 (15.86%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.73%) Data Centre
3 24 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.08%) Hedge funds
6 13 (2.86%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.20%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.98%) Blog
10 9 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.54%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.10%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.10%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.88%) Data Structures
15 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.07%) Linux
2 11 (2.42%) Unix
3 7 (1.54%) Windows
4 4 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (32.38%) DevOps
2 121 (26.65%) CI/CD
3 113 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (16.08%) Software Engineering
5 67 (14.76%) Platform Engineering
6 51 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (10.35%) Observability
8 45 (9.91%) Cloud Security
9 44 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 41 (9.03%) Agile
10 41 (9.03%) ETL
11 39 (8.59%) AI
12 37 (8.15%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (8.15%) High Availability
13 35 (7.71%) Containerisation
13 35 (7.71%) Data Engineering
13 35 (7.71%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (7.05%) Computer Science
15 31 (6.83%) Analytics
16 29 (6.39%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 168 (37.00%) Python
2 50 (11.01%) SQL
3 49 (10.79%) Java
4 44 (9.69%) Bash
5 32 (7.05%) TypeScript
6 29 (6.39%) C#
7 25 (5.51%) Go
8 10 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.76%) C++
9 8 (1.76%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.66%) Scala
11 2 (0.44%) Bicep
11 2 (0.44%) Groovy
11 2 (0.44%) PHP
11 2 (0.44%) Ruby
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.11%) Degree
3 36 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.29%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.86%) CISSP
7 12 (2.64%) CCIE
7 12 (2.64%) CCNA
7 12 (2.64%) CCNP
7 12 (2.64%) CCSA
7 12 (2.64%) CCSE
8 11 (2.42%) CCSK
9 8 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.10%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.85%) SOC 2
2 20 (4.41%) PCI DSS
3 16 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (3.08%) GDPR
6 9 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.98%) QA
7 8 (1.76%) NIST
8 4 (0.88%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.66%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (10.57%) Docker
2 8 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 129 (28.41%) Terraform
2 59 (13.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.29%) Grafana
4 19 (4.19%) Ansible
5 18 (3.96%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.64%) FortiGate
7 9 (1.98%) Argo
7 9 (1.98%) Istio
8 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.44%) Kibana
9 2 (0.44%) logstash
9 2 (0.44%) Packer
9 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.22%) Consul
10 1 (0.22%) Nagios
10 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (4.41%) Cisco
2 17 (3.74%) CheckPoint
2 17 (3.74%) Fortinet
3 14 (3.08%) Google
4 13 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.42%) Databricks
5 11 (2.42%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.76%) Confluent
6 8 (1.76%) MuleSoft
6 8 (1.76%) SolarWinds
7 7 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.54%) Informatica
7 7 (1.54%) Talend
8 5 (1.10%) Meraki
8 5 (1.10%) Oracle
9 4 (0.88%) Pega
9 4 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.88%) SAP
10 3 (0.66%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.44%) LogicMonitor