AWS Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 493 594
Rank change year-on-year -37 +101 +159
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 75 187 90
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.39% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.42% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 73 171 90
10th Percentile £80,000 £76,000 £56,125
25th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +18.42%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +21.62%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 47,747 44,477 47,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.70% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 30,178 23,217 36,932
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,800
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% -6.02%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Software Engineer job vacancy trend in England

AWS Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for AWS Software Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Software Engineer job vacancies in England

AWS Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in England

AWS Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
London -52 64 £120,000 +14.29% 6
North of England +24 5 £80,000 +6.67% 5
Midlands +29 4 £70,000 -26.32%
East Midlands -5 4 £70,000 -26.32%
North West +29 3 £100,000 +81.82% 5
South East +24 2 - - 2
North East +4 2 £55,000 -29.03%
AWS Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, AWS Software 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 across the England region featuring AWS Software Engineer in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) AWS
1 75 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 63 (84.00%) TypeScript
3 55 (73.33%) Agile
3 55 (73.33%) Python
4 52 (69.33%) Amazon Athena
4 52 (69.33%) Apache Airflow
4 52 (69.33%) Apache Arrow
4 52 (69.33%) Apache Iceberg
4 52 (69.33%) Asset Management
4 52 (69.33%) dbt
4 52 (69.33%) Dremio
4 52 (69.33%) Investment Management
4 52 (69.33%) JavaScript
4 52 (69.33%) NumPy
4 52 (69.33%) Pandas
4 52 (69.33%) SciPy
5 34 (45.33%) Java
6 29 (38.67%) Apache
6 29 (38.67%) Apache Ignite
6 29 (38.67%) Data Lake
6 29 (38.67%) gRPC
6 29 (38.67%) Protocol Buffers
6 29 (38.67%) Snowflake
7 26 (34.67%) Fintech
7 26 (34.67%) Node.js
7 26 (34.67%) React
8 24 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (30.67%) AngularJS
9 23 (30.67%) GCP

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 52 (69.33%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (38.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (69.33%) dbt
3 29 (38.67%) Snowflake
4 23 (30.67%) GCP
5 2 (2.67%) Serverless
6 1 (1.33%) PaaS
6 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (69.33%) Amazon Athena
1 52 (69.33%) Apache Arrow
1 52 (69.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 52 (69.33%) Dremio
2 29 (38.67%) Apache Ignite
2 29 (38.67%) Data Lake
3 24 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Git
General
1 54 (72.00%) Finance
2 52 (69.33%) Front Office
3 29 (38.67%) Banking
3 29 (38.67%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.00%) Games
5 2 (2.67%) Law
6 1 (1.33%) Billing
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (69.33%) NumPy
1 52 (69.33%) Pandas
1 52 (69.33%) SciPy
2 29 (38.67%) gRPC
2 29 (38.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 26 (34.67%) Node.js
3 26 (34.67%) React
4 23 (30.67%) AngularJS
4 23 (30.67%) Vue
5 3 (4.00%) .NET
6 2 (2.67%) REST
7 1 (1.33%) Spring
7 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (69.33%) Equities
1 52 (69.33%) Fixed Income
1 52 (69.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 30 (40.00%) Hedge funds
3 29 (38.67%) Derivative
3 29 (38.67%) Pricing Data
4 4 (5.33%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.33%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 55 (73.33%) Agile
3 52 (69.33%) Asset Management
3 52 (69.33%) Investment Management
4 26 (34.67%) Fintech
5 23 (30.67%) Order Management
5 23 (30.67%) Performance Attribution
5 23 (30.67%) Risk Management
6 7 (9.33%) AI
7 5 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (5.33%) CI/CD
8 4 (5.33%) DevOps
8 4 (5.33%) Workflow
9 2 (2.67%) Clean Code
9 2 (2.67%) Customer Experience
9 2 (2.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (2.67%) LLM
9 2 (2.67%) Machine Learning
10 1 (1.33%) API Design
10 1 (1.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (84.00%) TypeScript
2 55 (73.33%) Python
3 52 (69.33%) JavaScript
4 34 (45.33%) Java
5 5 (6.67%) C#
6 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (1.33%) Oracle