AWS Software Engineer Job Trends in London

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in London is £130,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 210 419
Rank change year-on-year +6 +209 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 212 303 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.78% 1.58% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 1.66% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 195 268 73
10th Percentile £100,000 - £65,500
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - - £151,250
England median annual salary £130,000 £115,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +6.98% +2.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 10,877 18,303 21,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 95.44% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,089 11,556 17,424
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,871
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Software Engineer in London

AWS Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for AWS Software Engineer job vacancies in London

AWS Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in London

AWS Software Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Central London +31 5 £75,000 -
AWS Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, 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 across the London region featuring AWS Software Engineer in the job title.

1 212 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 212 (100.00%) AWS
2 209 (98.58%) Finance
3 206 (97.17%) Agile
4 192 (90.57%) TypeScript
5 191 (90.09%) Investment Management
6 190 (89.62%) Apache Iceberg
7 188 (88.68%) Equities
8 187 (88.21%) Amazon Athena
9 186 (87.74%) Apache Airflow
9 186 (87.74%) Pandas
9 186 (87.74%) SciPy
9 186 (87.74%) NumPy
9 186 (87.74%) Fixed Income
9 186 (87.74%) Front Office
9 186 (87.74%) JavaScript
9 186 (87.74%) Asset Management
9 186 (87.74%) Apache Arrow
9 186 (87.74%) dbt
9 186 (87.74%) Dremio
10 184 (86.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 177 (83.49%) Python
12 127 (59.91%) Java
13 106 (50.00%) Banking
14 102 (48.11%) Node.js
15 98 (46.23%) PostgreSQL
16 97 (45.75%) Risk Management
16 97 (45.75%) Derivative
16 97 (45.75%) AngularJS
16 97 (45.75%) GCP

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 186 (87.74%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (41.98%) Apache
3 4 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 212 (100.00%) AWS
2 186 (87.74%) dbt
3 97 (45.75%) GCP
4 89 (41.98%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.47%) IaaS
5 1 (0.47%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (89.62%) Apache Iceberg
2 187 (88.21%) Amazon Athena
3 186 (87.74%) Apache Arrow
3 186 (87.74%) Dremio
4 98 (46.23%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (42.45%) Data Lake
6 89 (41.98%) Apache Ignite
7 12 (5.66%) Big Data
8 8 (3.77%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.89%) KDB
9 4 (1.89%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Git
General
1 209 (98.58%) Finance
2 186 (87.74%) Front Office
3 106 (50.00%) Banking
4 89 (41.98%) Investment Banking
5 18 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (8.02%) Law
7 5 (2.36%) Retail
8 1 (0.47%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (87.74%) NumPy
1 186 (87.74%) Pandas
1 186 (87.74%) SciPy
2 102 (48.11%) Node.js
3 97 (45.75%) AngularJS
3 97 (45.75%) React
3 97 (45.75%) Vue
4 89 (41.98%) gRPC
4 89 (41.98%) Protocol Buffers
5 13 (6.13%) Web Services
6 8 (3.77%) Spring
7 5 (2.36%) REST
8 4 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.47%) .NET
9 1 (0.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 188 (88.68%) Equities
2 186 (87.74%) Fixed Income
3 184 (86.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 97 (45.75%) Derivative
5 89 (41.98%) Hedge funds
5 89 (41.98%) Pricing Data
6 12 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.72%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.77%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 206 (97.17%) Agile
3 191 (90.09%) Investment Management
4 186 (87.74%) Asset Management
5 97 (45.75%) Fintech
5 97 (45.75%) Order Management
5 97 (45.75%) Performance Attribution
5 97 (45.75%) Risk Management
6 15 (7.08%) CI/CD
7 14 (6.60%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (6.13%) Machine Learning
8 13 (6.13%) SDLC
9 9 (4.25%) Operational Stability
10 8 (3.77%) Community of Practice
10 8 (3.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (3.77%) Microservices
10 8 (3.77%) OO
10 8 (3.77%) OOD
10 8 (3.77%) Visualisation
11 7 (3.30%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 192 (90.57%) TypeScript
2 186 (87.74%) JavaScript
3 177 (83.49%) Python
4 127 (59.91%) Java
5 9 (4.25%) Kotlin
6 8 (3.77%) Scala
7 6 (2.83%) SQL
8 1 (0.47%) C#
8 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 8 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.13%) Terraform
2 12 (5.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (2.36%) Ping Identity
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle