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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 296 294
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 547 465 990
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.04% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.17% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 439 363 638
10th Percentile £52,500 £64,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £84,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +30.18% +5.63%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £118,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 87,667 39,868 102,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.44% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,134 22,590 73,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
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 £98,501 £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 16 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 16 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 -17 523 £75,000 -31.82% 98
UK excluding London +109 293 £70,000 +7.69% 55
London -81 228 £87,500 -20.45% 51
Work from Home -74 159 £85,000 -22.73% 56
North of England +31 96 £70,000 +7.69% 19
North West +48 74 £72,250 +7.04% 15
Midlands +31 60 £70,000 -3.45% 12
South East +22 54 £65,000 +5.26% 9
South West -8 53 £75,000 -3.23% 7
West Midlands +11 46 £67,500 -6.90% 5
East of England +2 29 £80,000 +23.08% 3
Yorkshire -23 15 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -11 14 £80,000 +33.33% 7
North East -40 7 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland -17 1 £90,000 -10.00% 3
Wales -46 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 547 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (36.75%) Python
3 161 (29.43%) Terraform
4 160 (29.25%) DevOps
5 144 (26.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 138 (25.23%) CI/CD
7 92 (16.82%) Software Engineering
8 87 (15.90%) Azure
9 83 (15.17%) Amazon S3
10 79 (14.44%) Security Cleared
11 77 (14.08%) Serverless
12 67 (12.25%) Platform Engineering
12 67 (12.25%) SQL
13 66 (12.07%) Kubernetes
14 63 (11.52%) Docker
15 59 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (10.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 57 (10.42%) Degree
17 57 (10.42%) SaaS
18 56 (10.24%) Observability
19 55 (10.05%) Bash
20 52 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
21 50 (9.14%) SC Cleared
22 49 (8.96%) Containerisation
23 46 (8.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 46 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
23 46 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
23 46 (8.41%) Cloud Security
23 46 (8.41%) Data Pipeline
23 46 (8.41%) 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 26 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.93%) Apache
3 11 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.91%) SAS
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
6 3 (0.55%) CMS
6 3 (0.55%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Confluence
7 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 547 (100.00%) AWS
2 87 (15.90%) Azure
3 83 (15.17%) Amazon S3
4 77 (14.08%) Serverless
5 57 (10.42%) SaaS
6 52 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (8.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 46 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
7 46 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (8.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 43 (7.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (6.22%) GitHub
10 30 (5.48%) GCP
11 27 (4.94%) Datadog
12 22 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (3.47%) Snowflake
15 17 (3.11%) dbt
16 16 (2.93%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (2.93%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.11%) Firewall
2 10 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
2 10 (1.83%) Cisco Firepower
2 10 (1.83%) LAN
2 10 (1.83%) WAN
2 10 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.28%) BGP
3 7 (1.28%) VPN
4 6 (1.10%) DNS
5 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.55%) IPsec
6 3 (0.55%) MPLS
6 3 (0.55%) NetScaler
6 3 (0.55%) NX-OS
6 3 (0.55%) OSPF
6 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.55%) VLAN
6 3 (0.55%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (2.38%) MySQL
6 12 (2.19%) Apache Iceberg
7 11 (2.01%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.01%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (1.46%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.28%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.28%) Metadata
11 5 (0.91%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.91%) Power BI
12 4 (0.73%) Big Data
12 4 (0.73%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (6.95%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.40%) GitLab
3 29 (5.30%) Git
4 19 (3.47%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.73%) JIRA
7 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.55%) NUnit
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%) Postman
8 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.18%) Gradle
9 1 (0.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.18%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 63 (11.52%) Finance
2 49 (8.96%) Banking
3 39 (7.13%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.47%) Law
6 17 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.74%) Retail Banking
8 13 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.83%) Games
10 10 (1.83%) Retail
11 8 (1.46%) Back Office
11 8 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.28%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.73%) Advertising
13 4 (0.73%) Billing
14 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.55%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.03%) Kafka
2 19 (3.47%) React
3 17 (3.11%) .NET
4 14 (2.56%) PySpark
5 13 (2.38%) AWS CDK
5 13 (2.38%) RESTful
6 12 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (2.19%) REST
7 10 (1.83%) .NET Core
7 10 (1.83%) Node.js
8 9 (1.65%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.10%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.10%) OAuth
9 6 (1.10%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.10%) Spring
10 5 (0.91%) Django
10 5 (0.91%) JWT
10 5 (0.91%) LangChain
10 5 (0.91%) SAML
11 4 (0.73%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 98 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.29%) Data Centre
2 18 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (2.93%) Distributed Computing
4 11 (2.01%) AI Agents
5 10 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.65%) Hedge funds
6 9 (1.65%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.65%) Sports Betting
7 8 (1.46%) Blog
7 8 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.91%) Low-Code
9 5 (0.91%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.55%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.03%) Linux
2 8 (1.46%) Windows
3 7 (1.28%) Unix
4 6 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (29.25%) DevOps
2 144 (26.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 138 (25.23%) CI/CD
4 92 (16.82%) Software Engineering
5 67 (12.25%) Platform Engineering
6 59 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (10.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 56 (10.24%) Observability
9 49 (8.96%) Containerisation
10 46 (8.41%) Cloud Security
10 46 (8.41%) Data Pipeline
11 45 (8.23%) AI
11 45 (8.23%) ETL
12 44 (8.04%) Agile
13 41 (7.50%) Analytics
14 40 (7.31%) Data Engineering
15 37 (6.76%) High Availability
16 36 (6.58%) Mentoring
17 35 (6.40%) Full-Stack Development
18 34 (6.22%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 201 (36.75%) Python
2 67 (12.25%) SQL
3 55 (10.05%) Bash
4 37 (6.76%) C#
4 37 (6.76%) Java
5 34 (6.22%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.48%) PowerShell
7 29 (5.30%) Go
8 16 (2.93%) C++
9 11 (2.01%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.73%) Groovy
11 3 (0.55%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Bicep
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.42%) Degree
3 50 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (1.46%) CISSP
6 8 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 7 (1.28%) CCIE
7 7 (1.28%) CCNA
7 7 (1.28%) CCNP
7 7 (1.28%) CCSA
7 7 (1.28%) CCSE
7 7 (1.28%) CCSK
8 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.39%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.29%) SOC 2
3 17 (3.11%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.38%) GDPR
4 13 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.19%) QA
6 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.10%) NIST
8 4 (0.73%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.73%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (11.52%) Docker
2 10 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 161 (29.43%) Terraform
2 66 (12.07%) Kubernetes
3 28 (5.12%) Grafana
4 25 (4.57%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.02%) Ansible
6 14 (2.56%) Argo
7 9 (1.65%) Istio
8 8 (1.46%) Packer
9 7 (1.28%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.37%) Nagios
13 1 (0.18%) Consul
13 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (4.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.01%) Cisco
2 11 (2.01%) Google
3 10 (1.83%) CheckPoint
3 10 (1.83%) Fortinet
4 9 (1.65%) Databricks
5 8 (1.46%) Confluent
5 8 (1.46%) Informatica
5 8 (1.46%) MuleSoft
5 8 (1.46%) Oracle
5 8 (1.46%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.46%) Talend
6 5 (0.91%) SolarWinds
7 4 (0.73%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.73%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.73%) Pega
7 4 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.73%) SAP
7 4 (0.73%) VMware
8 3 (0.55%) Meraki