Amazon today announces plans to invest £40 billion in the UK over the next three years (2025-2027). This investment includes building four new fulfilment centres and new delivery stations nationwide, as well as upgrades and expansions to its existing network of over 100 operations buildings across the country.
The investment will create thousands of new permanent, full-time jobs in the UK, with the vast majority outside of London and the South East. These include 2,000 jobs at the previously announced state-of-the-art fulfilment centre in Hull and 2,000 jobs at another in Northampton, plus additional positions at new sites in the East Midlands and at delivery stations across the country.
Today’s announcement demonstrates Amazon’s commitment to supporting growth and productivity for the benefit of its customers, partners, and the wider economy, with the investment expected to drive innovation throughout the UK and contribute an estimated additional £38 billion to the UK’s GDP.
As a top 10 private sector employer, Amazon already employs over 75,000 people in the UK, providing roles of all kinds, at all levels, across every region of the country. Amazon pays full-time employees a minimum of £28,000 per year (£30,000 in London), and will create over 60 different roles at the new sites, including positions for robotics technicians, safety experts, and mechatronic engineers.
Alongside the planned creation of the new operations facilities, the £40 billion investment includes: opening two new buildings at Amazon’s corporate HQ in East London; ongoing investment to enhance Amazon's transportation infrastructure in every region, enabling faster and more efficient service to customers nationwide and critical support to the thousands of small and medium-sized UK businesses who sell their products on Amazon’s stores across the world; support for Amazon's workforce through competitive compensation, benefits, and pioneering training programmes; and ongoing commitment to the UK creative industry, including the redevelopment of the historic Bray Film Studios in Berkshire, continued investment in multimillion-pound skills and training programmes, and landmark original TV and film productions.
The investment also includes part of the £8 billion previously announced in September 2024 for building, operating, and maintaining data centres in the UK (from 2024-2028) to help meet the growing needs of organisations of all sizes, support the UK's ambition to increase AI compute capacity, and help transform the UK's digital economy.
Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, said: "Amazon has been proud to serve our customers in the UK for the past 27 years. Thanks to their support, we've grown to be part of over 100 communities nationwide, from developing drone technology in Darlington to producing world-class entertainment at our studios in Bray.
"We now employ over 75,000 people and have become one of the UK's largest private sector employers and taxpayers. When Amazon invests, it’s not only in London and the South East – we’re bringing innovation and job creation to communities throughout England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, strengthening the UK’s economy and delivering better experiences for customers wherever they live.”
Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, said: “Amazon’s £40 billion investment adds another major win to Britain’s basket and is a massive vote of confidence in the UK as the best place to do business. It means thousands of new jobs—real opportunities for people in every corner of the country to build careers, learn new skills, and support their families. Whether it’s cutting-edge AI or same-day delivery, this deal shows that our Plan for Change is working—bringing in investment, driving growth, and putting more money in people’s pockets.”
Amazon is offering 1,000 new full-time apprenticeship roles this year, and already employs more than 75,000 people in over 100 sites across the UK. This new investment will supercharge its impact on local economies.
The data centre investment alone is expected to contribute £14 billion to the UK economy over 5 years (2024-2028) and support 14,000 full-time equivalent jobs each year – many of them in small and medium-sized businesses.
Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said: "This investment is a powerful endorsement of Britain’s economic strengths. The world is changing, but this Government is working hand in hand with businesses to navigate that change to create jobs, wealth, and opportunity in every corner of the country.”
Business and Trade Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds said: "Our Modern Industrial Strategy will ensure the UK is the best country to invest and do business, and seeing massive international firms like Amazon bank on Britain shows we are on the right track. This investment will create highly-skilled jobs and boost living standards across the country, and the £100 billion of investment we've secured in the past year shows our Plan for Change is already delivering for working people."
Investing in operations and innovation
Over the last 10 years (2015-2024), Amazon has invested more than £75 billion in its operations in the UK to serve customers and create high-quality jobs in safe working environments. Amazon is also significantly investing in R&D in the UK, including in drone technology, with Darlington set to be the location of the UK’s first Prime Air drone deliveries. At R&D sites in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Swansea, and London, teams work on global products and services for AWS, Prime Video, Music, Games, Alexa, and logistics and operations technology.
Funding cloud and AI infrastructure
As part of its continued commitment to the UK, Amazon plans to invest £8 billion between 2024 and 2028 to build, maintain, and operate data centres in the UK. Customers in the UK can already access a comprehensive range of AI optimised chips, enabling them to train and deploy models, and build sophisticated AI and generative AI applications with exceptional performance. This investment will help meet growing customer demand for AWS technologies in the UK, including AI, and support the government’s goal of increasing the UK’s AI capabilities and AI compute capacity.
According to recent research, on average at least one business in the UK is adopting AI every minute. The investment is estimated to contribute £14 billion to the UK’s GDP over this period, and support an average of 14,000 full-time jobs annually at local UK businesses in the AWS data centre supply chain.
Upskilling the UK workforce
Amazon’s continued expansion will create career opportunities right across the UK, as the company is focused on upskilling its employees and preparing them for the next generation of jobs. It offers Career Choice, an innovative programme which covers up to £8,000 of training costs to secure nationally recognised qualifications in areas like environmental technology, IT, human resources, accounting, language skills, or HGV driving. Over 23,000 participants have already benefited from this programme.
Earlier this year, Amazon announced it is creating more than 1,000 new apprenticeships in the UK in 2025, building on the 5,300 apprenticeships across 62 different programmes that Amazon has provided since 2013. Earlier this month, Amazon committed to partner with the UK government's ambition to train 7.5 million UK workers in essential AI skills by 2030 - equivalent to around 20% of the UK workforce.
Amazon is also committed to supporting people from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds find meaningful employment opportunities, through employability programmes at Amazon for military veterans, care leavers, prison leavers, and young people with learning disabilities and autism via the Amazon Supported Internship programme.
Beyond its own workforce, as part of a commitment to making AI education accessible to anyone with a desire to learn, Amazon launched "AI Ready" in 2023, providing two million people of all ages with free AI skills training by 2025. The company achieved this goal a year early.
In April 2025, Amazon announced it would bring the Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance to the UK, with the goal to provide 100,000 people with AI skills by 2030, by working in collaboration with educational institutions (including the University of Exeter and the University of Manchester), government leaders, and enterprises across the country.
The program will prepare students for entry-level technical jobs by adding AWS skills training and industry-approved content to existing classroom curricula. Students will gain hands-on experience and connect directly with potential employers, building both the technical skills and practical experience needed for career success.
Bolstering the UK’s creative industries
Amazon has invested over £4.2 billion in the UK’s creative industries since 2010, with over 2,000 people permanently working across our Film and TV, music and audio, books and publishing, fashion, and gaming businesses, and supporting 16,000 additional jobs.
Amazon’s creative industries footprint extends across the entire UK: from acquiring the historic Bray Film Studios in Berkshire last year which housed the production of Citadel Season 2; to the long-term contract with Shepperton Studios for exclusive use of new state-of-the-art production facilities at the Surrey studios where The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is currently filming; Guy Ritchie’s Young Sherlock in Wales; Harlan Coben’s Lazarus in Manchester; productions at First Stage Studios and Leith Studios in Edinburgh; and multiple productions on location in and around London such as the live action movie Masters of the Universe.
Amazon also generates opportunities to broaden access to the creative sector via Prime Video Pathway, a first-of-its-kind £10 million training initiative to support the development of new and growing talent, including freelancers, within the industry.
Building a more sustainable future
Earlier this year, Amazon announced the UK’s largest-ever order for electric trucks, with more than 140 new electric HGVs joining Amazon’s transportation network from this year, and new charging infrastructure to support them. Once fully operational, these eHGVs are expected to transport more than 300 million packages each year with no exhaust emissions.
Amazon remains the world’s largest purchaser of renewable energy, investing in more than 40 solar and wind projects in the UK to date. These projects will provide an estimated 950 MWs of new carbon free energy capacity, enough energy to power the equivalent of 860,000 UK households annually.
Supporting the UK’s communities
Amazon is committed to supporting the communities where its employees live and work across the UK, leveraging the company’s scale and capabilities for good. This includes The Multibank initiative, co-founded by Amazon and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, which takes surplus products donated by Amazon and other businesses and gives them to families in need.
Multibanks are community donation hubs led by prominent local charities, which provide items like clothing, crockery, cleaning products, toiletries, and toys to social workers, teachers, and community groups to distribute as needed. This year, families will receive more than a million orders from the Multibanks, following the launch of a sixth site in the West Midlands in March.
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