Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 826 844
Rank change year-on-year +354 +18 -192
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 493 126 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.14% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 174 122 365
10th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £65,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £132,188 £142,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -14.71% +70.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Software Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Software Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +288 338 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Scotland - 296 - -
England +144 195 £110,000 +2.33% 21
Work from Home +119 161 £115,000 +6.98% 22
London +183 153 £115,000 +4.55% 16
North of England +66 19 £76,875 +23.00% 4
North West - 17 £81,875 - 4
South West - 13 £76,250 -
South East +1 4 £112,500 +60.71%
East of England -7 3 £127,500 +75.86%
East Midlands - 3 £75,000 -
Midlands - 3 £75,000 -
North East - 2 £65,000 -

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, AWS Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Software Engineer in the job title.

1 493 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 493 (100.00%) AWS
2 453 (91.89%) Agile
3 424 (86.00%) Finance
4 315 (63.89%) Python
5 306 (62.07%) CI/CD
6 297 (60.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 296 (60.04%) Law
8 294 (59.63%) SDLC
9 293 (59.43%) Operational Stability
10 282 (57.20%) Java
11 219 (44.42%) SQL
12 216 (43.81%) Apache
13 215 (43.61%) NoSQL
14 205 (41.58%) Legal
14 205 (41.58%) Risk Management
15 197 (39.96%) Algorithms
16 196 (39.76%) Continuous Improvement
17 195 (39.55%) Visualisation
18 190 (38.54%) Artificial Intelligence
19 189 (38.34%) Machine Learning
20 177 (35.90%) Apache Spark
21 176 (35.70%) Community of Practice
22 174 (35.29%) JavaScript
23 155 (31.44%) Asset Management
24 140 (28.40%) Investment Banking
24 140 (28.40%) Banking
24 140 (28.40%) Big Data
25 137 (27.79%) Hadoop
26 128 (25.96%) TypeScript

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 216 (43.81%) Apache
2 177 (35.90%) Apache Spark
3 117 (23.73%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Sketch
1 1 (0.20%) UXPin
1 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 493 (100.00%) AWS
2 117 (23.73%) dbt
3 92 (18.66%) Snowflake
4 88 (17.85%) Serverless
5 75 (15.21%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (11.16%) Amazon SQS
7 52 (10.55%) Amazon ECS
8 50 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
8 50 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
8 50 (10.14%) Amazon EMR
9 33 (6.69%) Cloud Computing
10 30 (6.09%) GCP
11 18 (3.65%) Azure
12 8 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.22%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (1.22%) Datadog
14 5 (1.01%) CloudFront
14 5 (1.01%) SaaS
14 5 (1.01%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (43.61%) NoSQL
2 140 (28.40%) Big Data
3 137 (27.79%) Hadoop
4 117 (23.73%) Amazon Athena
4 117 (23.73%) Apache Arrow
4 117 (23.73%) Apache Ignite
4 117 (23.73%) Dremio
5 92 (18.66%) Data Lake
6 67 (13.59%) Apache Hive
6 67 (13.59%) HBase
7 50 (10.14%) Electronic Patient Records
8 23 (4.67%) DynamoDB
9 15 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.81%) MySQL
12 3 (0.61%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.61%) Redis
13 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 91 (18.46%) Git
2 68 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 67 (13.59%) Bitbucket Server
4 19 (3.85%) GitLab
5 5 (1.01%) Postman
6 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.20%) JIRA
7 1 (0.20%) Mocha
7 1 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 424 (86.00%) Finance
2 297 (60.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 296 (60.04%) Law
4 205 (41.58%) Legal
5 140 (28.40%) Banking
5 140 (28.40%) Investment Banking
6 118 (23.94%) Front Office
7 74 (15.01%) Marketing
8 43 (8.72%) Financial Institution
9 26 (5.27%) Social Skills
10 18 (3.65%) Games
11 15 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.83%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.01%) Advertising
15 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (23.73%) gRPC
1 117 (23.73%) NumPy
1 117 (23.73%) Pandas
1 117 (23.73%) Protocol Buffers
1 117 (23.73%) SciPy
2 33 (6.69%) React
3 28 (5.68%) Node.js
4 19 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 19 (3.85%) Redux
4 19 (3.85%) Vue
5 16 (3.25%) RESTful
6 15 (3.04%) Django
6 15 (3.04%) GraphQL
7 13 (2.64%) Kafka
8 12 (2.43%) Spring
8 12 (2.43%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.42%) .NET
10 5 (1.01%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.01%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (0.81%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 197 (39.96%) Algorithms
2 116 (23.53%) Fixed Income
3 92 (18.66%) Derivative
3 92 (18.66%) Equities
3 92 (18.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 92 (18.66%) Hedge funds
4 75 (15.21%) Cloud Native
5 37 (7.51%) Onboarding
6 36 (7.30%) Pricing Data
7 9 (1.83%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.81%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.61%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.41%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.20%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.20%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.20%) IoT
12 1 (0.20%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.20%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 67 (13.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 453 (91.89%) Agile
3 306 (62.07%) CI/CD
4 294 (59.63%) SDLC
5 293 (59.43%) Operational Stability
6 205 (41.58%) Risk Management
7 196 (39.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 195 (39.55%) Visualisation
9 190 (38.54%) Artificial Intelligence
10 189 (38.34%) Machine Learning
11 176 (35.70%) Community of Practice
12 155 (31.44%) Asset Management
13 110 (22.31%) Investment Management
14 109 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
15 100 (20.28%) TDD
16 78 (15.82%) Test Automation
17 69 (14.00%) Open Source
18 67 (13.59%) Batch Processing
19 60 (12.17%) Performance Tuning
20 57 (11.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 315 (63.89%) Python
2 282 (57.20%) Java
3 219 (44.42%) SQL
4 174 (35.29%) JavaScript
5 128 (25.96%) TypeScript
6 111 (22.52%) Scala
7 67 (13.59%) PL/SQL
8 12 (2.43%) C#
9 5 (1.01%) Go
10 3 (0.61%) Bash
11 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.20%) Perl
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (3.04%) DBS Check
2 6 (1.22%) Degree
3 2 (0.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.36%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 67 (13.59%) HDFS
2 15 (3.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 81 (16.43%) Terraform
2 16 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.61%) Grafana
3 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (23.73%) Databricks
2 67 (13.59%) Informatica
3 37 (7.51%) Cloudera
4 3 (0.61%) Splunk
5 2 (0.41%) GoCardless
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle
5 2 (0.41%) PayPal
5 2 (0.41%) Sage