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 10 May 2026.

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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 280 302
Rank change year-on-year -35 +22 +45
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 497 486 944
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.11% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.24% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 387 434 567
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,738 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £63,125
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 84,643 39,171 91,241
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 89.53% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,266 23,359 67,069
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%
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 10 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 10 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 -28 477 £75,000 -30.23% 71
UK excluding London +72 245 £70,000 +7.69% 48
London -77 228 £90,000 -18.18% 32
Work from Home -114 142 £90,000 -18.18% 31
North of England -20 76 £66,250 +1.92% 12
North West +31 60 £70,000 +5.50% 10
South West -10 50 £75,000 +25.00% 2
Midlands +18 48 £70,000 +7.69% 13
South East -3 42 £65,000 +12.07% 18
West Midlands +7 40 £67,500 +22.73% 5
East of England +11 30 £80,000 +24.03%
Yorkshire -60 9 £65,000 +30.00% 2
East Midlands -28 8 £75,000 +9.09% 8
North East -40 7 £60,000 -7.69%

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

For the 6 months to 10 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
2 185 (37.22%) Python
3 147 (29.58%) DevOps
4 140 (28.17%) Terraform
5 127 (25.55%) CI/CD
6 124 (24.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 89 (17.91%) Azure
8 82 (16.50%) Software Engineering
9 70 (14.08%) Serverless
10 67 (13.48%) Amazon S3
11 66 (13.28%) Platform Engineering
12 65 (13.08%) Security Cleared
13 62 (12.47%) SQL
14 60 (12.07%) Degree
15 58 (11.67%) Kubernetes
15 58 (11.67%) SaaS
16 52 (10.46%) Docker
16 52 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
17 50 (10.06%) Cloud Security
18 49 (9.86%) Bash
19 48 (9.66%) ETL
19 48 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 48 (9.66%) Observability
20 47 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
20 47 (9.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 44 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
22 43 (8.65%) AI
22 43 (8.65%) Data Pipeline
23 41 (8.25%) Agile
23 41 (8.25%) 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 22 (4.43%) 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 89 (17.91%) Azure
3 70 (14.08%) Serverless
4 67 (13.48%) Amazon S3
5 58 (11.67%) SaaS
6 47 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (9.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 44 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (7.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (7.04%) GCP
10 34 (6.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (6.24%) GitHub
13 23 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.82%) Datadog
15 18 (3.62%) Snowflake
16 14 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (2.62%) Amazon EMR
18 12 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
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 31 (6.24%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 14 (2.82%) MySQL
7 13 (2.62%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (1.61%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.41%) Metadata
11 6 (1.21%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.01%) Power BI
13 4 (0.80%) Flink
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%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.03%) GitLab
4 13 (2.62%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.80%) JIRA
6 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.60%) NUnit
7 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.40%) JMeter
7 2 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.20%) Deequ
8 1 (0.20%) Gradle
8 1 (0.20%) Postman
8 1 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 74 (14.89%) Finance
2 52 (10.46%) Banking
3 37 (7.44%) Social Skills
4 29 (5.84%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.02%) Law
6 17 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.02%) Retail Banking
8 12 (2.41%) 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 3 (0.60%) Front Office
13 3 (0.60%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.04%) Kafka
2 21 (4.23%) React
3 18 (3.62%) .NET
4 14 (2.82%) Node.js
4 14 (2.82%) PySpark
5 13 (2.62%) REST
6 12 (2.41%) AWS CDK
6 12 (2.41%) RESTful
7 11 (2.21%) .NET Core
7 11 (2.21%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (1.61%) Spring
10 7 (1.41%) Loki
10 7 (1.41%) OAuth
10 7 (1.41%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.21%) LangGraph
12 5 (1.01%) JWT
12 5 (1.01%) LangChain
13 4 (0.80%) pytest
13 4 (0.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 81 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.43%) Data Centre
3 18 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.22%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.82%) Hedge funds
6 13 (2.62%) 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 8 (1.61%) 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%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.63%) Linux
2 11 (2.21%) Unix
3 8 (1.61%) Windows
4 5 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (29.58%) DevOps
2 127 (25.55%) CI/CD
3 124 (24.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (16.50%) Software Engineering
5 66 (13.28%) Platform Engineering
6 52 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (10.06%) Cloud Security
8 48 (9.66%) ETL
8 48 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 48 (9.66%) Observability
9 43 (8.65%) AI
9 43 (8.65%) Data Pipeline
10 41 (8.25%) Agile
11 38 (7.65%) High Availability
12 37 (7.44%) Data Engineering
12 37 (7.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 36 (7.24%) Containerisation
14 34 (6.84%) Analytics
15 32 (6.44%) Fintech
16 31 (6.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 185 (37.22%) Python
2 62 (12.47%) SQL
3 49 (9.86%) Bash
4 41 (8.25%) Java
5 32 (6.44%) TypeScript
6 31 (6.24%) C#
7 26 (5.23%) Go
8 17 (3.42%) 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
14 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 60 (12.07%) Degree
3 36 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 35 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.63%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.62%) CISSP
7 11 (2.21%) CCSK
7 11 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.01%) CCIE
8 10 (2.01%) CCNA
8 10 (2.01%) CCNP
8 10 (2.01%) CCSA
8 10 (2.01%) CCSE
9 8 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.61%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 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%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.21%) QA
5 9 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.41%) NIST
7 4 (0.80%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (10.46%) 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 58 (11.67%) 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 6 (1.21%) Argo
8 5 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.60%) Packer
11 2 (0.40%) Nagios
12 1 (0.20%) Consul
12 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 14 (2.82%) 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