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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 290 295
Rank change year-on-year -31 +5 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 540 465 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.03% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.16% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 437 365 662
10th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -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 88,632 40,228 103,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.47% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,836 22,885 74,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -18 518 £75,000 -31.82% 69
UK excluding London +94 293 £72,500 +11.54% 53
London -93 222 £90,000 -18.18% 29
Work from Home -74 157 £85,000 -22.73% 41
North of England +35 99 £74,500 +14.62% 15
North West +50 75 £75,000 +11.11% 11
Midlands +23 60 £70,000 -3.45% 5
South East +16 55 £65,000 +6.56% 12
South West -12 53 £75,000 -3.23% 11
West Midlands +9 46 £67,500 -6.90% 4
East of England +2 25 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Yorkshire -20 17 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -14 14 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North East -43 7 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland -17 1 £90,000 -10.00% 2
Wales -52 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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.

1 540 (100.00%) AWS
2 204 (37.78%) Python
3 161 (29.81%) DevOps
3 161 (29.81%) Terraform
4 144 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 137 (25.37%) CI/CD
6 93 (17.22%) Software Engineering
7 85 (15.74%) Azure
8 81 (15.00%) Amazon S3
8 81 (15.00%) Security Cleared
9 74 (13.70%) Serverless
10 68 (12.59%) Kubernetes
10 68 (12.59%) Platform Engineering
11 66 (12.22%) SQL
12 62 (11.48%) Docker
13 58 (10.74%) Degree
14 57 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
15 55 (10.19%) Bash
15 55 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 55 (10.19%) Observability
16 52 (9.63%) SaaS
17 50 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
17 50 (9.26%) SC Cleared
18 49 (9.07%) Containerisation
19 47 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
19 47 (8.70%) Cloud Security
19 47 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
20 46 (8.52%) Agile
20 46 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 45 (8.33%) 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 26 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.15%) Apache
3 12 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.93%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
6 3 (0.56%) CMS
6 3 (0.56%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 540 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.74%) Azure
3 81 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 74 (13.70%) Serverless
5 52 (9.63%) SaaS
6 50 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
8 46 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 45 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 45 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (6.48%) GitHub
12 30 (5.56%) GCP
13 27 (5.00%) Datadog
14 23 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (3.52%) Snowflake
17 17 (3.15%) dbt
18 16 (2.96%) Amazon Kinesis
18 16 (2.96%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.15%) Firewall
2 10 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
2 10 (1.85%) Cisco Firepower
2 10 (1.85%) LAN
2 10 (1.85%) WAN
2 10 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.48%) VPN
4 7 (1.30%) BGP
4 7 (1.30%) DNS
5 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.56%) IPsec
6 3 (0.56%) MPLS
6 3 (0.56%) NetScaler
6 3 (0.56%) NX-OS
6 3 (0.56%) OSPF
6 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.56%) VLAN
6 3 (0.56%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 11 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (1.85%) MySQL
8 9 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (1.48%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.30%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.30%) Metadata
11 6 (1.11%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.93%) Power BI
13 4 (0.74%) Big Data
13 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.74%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (7.04%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.48%) GitLab
3 28 (5.19%) Git
4 19 (3.52%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.74%) JIRA
7 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.37%) git-flow
8 2 (0.37%) JMeter
8 2 (0.37%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) NUnit
8 2 (0.37%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.19%) Gradle
9 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 62 (11.48%) Finance
2 46 (8.52%) Banking
3 39 (7.22%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.33%) Law
6 17 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 14 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.85%) Games
10 9 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.48%) Retail
12 7 (1.30%) Back Office
12 7 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.30%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.74%) Billing
14 3 (0.56%) Advertising
14 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.56%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.11%) Kafka
2 17 (3.15%) React
3 15 (2.78%) PySpark
4 14 (2.59%) .NET
5 12 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.22%) RESTful
6 11 (2.04%) AWS CDK
6 11 (2.04%) Node.js
6 11 (2.04%) REST
7 9 (1.67%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.30%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.11%) Spring
10 5 (0.93%) Django
10 5 (0.93%) LangChain
10 5 (0.93%) SAML
11 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.74%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.74%) Loki
11 4 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.15%) Data Centre
2 17 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
3 16 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 10 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.67%) Hedge funds
6 9 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.67%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.67%) Sports Betting
7 8 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.30%) Blog
8 7 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.93%) Low-Code
9 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.74%) NHS
11 3 (0.56%) Life Science
11 3 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.48%) Linux
2 7 (1.30%) Unix
3 6 (1.11%) Windows
4 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (29.81%) DevOps
2 144 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (25.37%) CI/CD
4 93 (17.22%) Software Engineering
5 68 (12.59%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 55 (10.19%) Observability
8 49 (9.07%) Containerisation
9 47 (8.70%) Cloud Security
9 47 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
10 46 (8.52%) Agile
11 44 (8.15%) AI
12 42 (7.78%) ETL
13 41 (7.59%) Data Engineering
14 38 (7.04%) Analytics
15 36 (6.67%) High Availability
15 36 (6.67%) Mentoring
16 33 (6.11%) Microservices
17 32 (5.93%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 204 (37.78%) Python
2 66 (12.22%) SQL
3 55 (10.19%) Bash
4 35 (6.48%) Java
5 33 (6.11%) C#
6 30 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 30 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.37%) Go
8 17 (3.15%) C++
9 11 (2.04%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.93%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Bicep
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.74%) Degree
3 50 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (1.48%) CISSP
6 8 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.30%) CCIE
7 7 (1.30%) CCNA
7 7 (1.30%) CCNP
7 7 (1.30%) CCSA
7 7 (1.30%) CCSE
7 7 (1.30%) CCSK
8 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.15%) SOC 2
3 16 (2.96%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.41%) GDPR
4 13 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.04%) QA
6 10 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.11%) NIST
8 4 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.74%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (11.48%) Docker
2 10 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 161 (29.81%) Terraform
2 68 (12.59%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.00%) Grafana
4 25 (4.63%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.07%) Ansible
6 14 (2.59%) Argo
7 9 (1.67%) Istio
8 8 (1.48%) Packer
9 7 (1.30%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.37%) Nagios
13 1 (0.19%) Consul
13 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.04%) Cisco
2 11 (2.04%) Google
3 10 (1.85%) CheckPoint
3 10 (1.85%) Databricks
3 10 (1.85%) Fortinet
4 8 (1.48%) Confluent
4 8 (1.48%) Informatica
4 8 (1.48%) MuleSoft
4 8 (1.48%) Oracle
4 8 (1.48%) ServiceNow
4 8 (1.48%) Talend
5 5 (0.93%) SolarWinds
6 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
6 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.74%) Pega
6 4 (0.74%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.74%) SAP
6 4 (0.74%) VMware
7 3 (0.56%) Meraki