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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 295 274
Rank change year-on-year -45 -21 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 542 473 957
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.96% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.07% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 441 374 637
10th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +25.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 94,139 44,347 91,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.90% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,646 26,264 64,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -32 519 £75,000 -31.82% 78
UK excluding London +86 306 £75,000 +11.11% 40
London -105 209 £85,000 -22.73% 41
Work from Home -106 146 £85,000 -22.73% 37
North of England +40 98 £72,250 +3.21% 13
North West +36 71 £74,500 +6.43% 6
South West 0 65 £75,000 -25.00% 15
South East +27 63 £65,000 +6.56% 9
Midlands +8 59 £70,000 -3.45% 3
West Midlands +7 44 £70,000 -3.45% 3
East of England -3 20 £85,000 +32.81%
Yorkshire -6 20 £80,000 - 2
East Midlands -9 15 £80,000 +40.35%
North East -41 7 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Scotland -6 1 £90,000 -10.00%
Wales -56 1 £90,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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.

1 542 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (36.16%) Python
3 173 (31.92%) Terraform
4 168 (31.00%) DevOps
5 139 (25.65%) CI/CD
5 139 (25.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 89 (16.42%) Software Engineering
7 86 (15.87%) Security Cleared
8 85 (15.68%) Amazon S3
9 80 (14.76%) Azure
10 78 (14.39%) Kubernetes
11 72 (13.28%) Serverless
12 68 (12.55%) Docker
13 62 (11.44%) Platform Engineering
14 61 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (11.25%) SQL
15 57 (10.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 56 (10.33%) Amazon EC2
16 56 (10.33%) Degree
17 54 (9.96%) AWS Lambda
18 52 (9.59%) Containerisation
19 51 (9.41%) Observability
20 50 (9.23%) Agile
20 50 (9.23%) SC Cleared
21 48 (8.86%) Bash
22 47 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
23 46 (8.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
24 45 (8.30%) Cloud Security
25 44 (8.12%) Amazon EKS
25 44 (8.12%) Data Pipeline

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 27 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.14%) Apache
3 10 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.92%) SAS
5 4 (0.74%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 542 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (15.68%) Amazon S3
3 80 (14.76%) Azure
4 72 (13.28%) Serverless
5 56 (10.33%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (9.96%) AWS Lambda
7 47 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (8.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 44 (8.12%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (7.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (7.20%) SaaS
12 33 (6.09%) GitHub
13 27 (4.98%) Datadog
13 27 (4.98%) GCP
14 23 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (3.32%) Snowflake
17 17 (3.14%) AWS CloudTrail
17 17 (3.14%) dbt
18 16 (2.95%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.03%) Firewall
2 8 (1.48%) DNS
3 6 (1.11%) VPN
4 4 (0.74%) BGP
4 4 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (0.74%) LAN
4 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.74%) WAN
4 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.55%) VLAN
6 2 (0.37%) 4G
6 2 (0.37%) 5G
6 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.37%) IPv4
7 1 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.20%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.77%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.40%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.40%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.66%) MySQL
8 8 (1.48%) Metadata
9 7 (1.29%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.11%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.92%) Pentaho
11 5 (0.92%) Power BI
12 4 (0.74%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (0.74%) Big Data
12 4 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (7.01%) GitLab
1 38 (7.01%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.17%) Git
3 20 (3.69%) CircleCI
4 5 (0.92%) JIRA
4 5 (0.92%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.37%) git-flow
5 2 (0.37%) JMeter
5 2 (0.37%) Maven
5 2 (0.37%) Postman
5 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.18%) Deequ
6 1 (0.18%) Gradle
6 1 (0.18%) JUnit
6 1 (0.18%) NUnit
6 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 54 (9.96%) Finance
2 41 (7.56%) Banking
3 40 (7.38%) Social Skills
4 35 (6.46%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.77%) Law
6 15 (2.77%) Retail Banking
7 13 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.21%) Health Technology
9 9 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.48%) Games
11 7 (1.29%) Retail
12 6 (1.11%) Back Office
12 6 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.74%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.74%) Legal
14 3 (0.55%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.09%) Kafka
2 18 (3.32%) React
3 13 (2.40%) Node.js
3 13 (2.40%) RESTful
4 12 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.85%) .NET
5 10 (1.85%) AWS CDK
5 10 (1.85%) PySpark
6 9 (1.66%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.48%) REST
8 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
9 5 (0.92%) Django
9 5 (0.92%) LangChain
9 5 (0.92%) SAML
9 5 (0.92%) Spring
10 4 (0.74%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 110 (20.30%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
3 13 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 12 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.29%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.29%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.29%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.11%) Blog
9 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.74%) Life Science
10 4 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.74%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.74%) PropTech
10 4 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.38%) Linux
2 8 (1.48%) Windows
3 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.74%) Unix
5 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (31.00%) DevOps
2 139 (25.65%) CI/CD
2 139 (25.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 89 (16.42%) Software Engineering
4 62 (11.44%) Platform Engineering
5 61 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (10.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 52 (9.59%) Containerisation
8 51 (9.41%) Observability
9 50 (9.23%) Agile
10 45 (8.30%) Cloud Security
11 44 (8.12%) Data Pipeline
12 39 (7.20%) AI
12 39 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (7.01%) Mentoring
14 37 (6.83%) Analytics
15 36 (6.64%) Data Engineering
16 35 (6.46%) ETL
17 33 (6.09%) Microservices
18 32 (5.90%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 196 (36.16%) Python
2 61 (11.25%) SQL
3 48 (8.86%) Bash
4 34 (6.27%) Java
5 30 (5.54%) Go
6 28 (5.17%) C#
7 27 (4.98%) PowerShell
7 27 (4.98%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.14%) C++
9 11 (2.03%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.11%) Groovy
11 3 (0.55%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Bicep
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 86 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.33%) Degree
3 50 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.14%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.92%) CISSP
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.74%) CCIE
9 4 (0.74%) CCNA
9 4 (0.74%) CCNP
9 4 (0.74%) CCSA
9 4 (0.74%) CCSE
9 4 (0.74%) CCSK
10 3 (0.55%) PhD
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.69%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.95%) SOC 2
3 15 (2.77%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.85%) GDPR
4 10 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.66%) QA
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 3 (0.55%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
8 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (12.55%) Docker
2 10 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 173 (31.92%) Terraform
2 78 (14.39%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.98%) Prometheus
4 26 (4.80%) Grafana
5 22 (4.06%) Ansible
6 14 (2.58%) Argo
7 9 (1.66%) Istio
7 9 (1.66%) Packer
8 8 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.37%) Nagios
12 1 (0.18%) Consul
12 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (4.80%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.21%) Oracle
3 9 (1.66%) Databricks
3 9 (1.66%) Google
4 8 (1.48%) Confluent
5 5 (0.92%) Cisco
5 5 (0.92%) Informatica
5 5 (0.92%) Talend
6 4 (0.74%) CheckPoint
6 4 (0.74%) Cloudera
6 4 (0.74%) Fortinet
6 4 (0.74%) MuleSoft
6 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.74%) VMware
7 3 (0.55%) Pega
7 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.55%) SAP
8 2 (0.37%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds