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 5 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 217 383
Rank change year-on-year -60 +166 +67
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 105 262 75
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.79% 1.53% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.62% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 100 242 75
10th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £66,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £107,500 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -14.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £143,750
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
England median annual salary £130,000 £107,500 £112,500
% change year-on-year +20.93% -4.44% +7.14%

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 12,001 16,146 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 94.43% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7,915 9,771 14,135
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

AWS Software Engineer job vacancy trend 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 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, 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 London region featuring AWS Software Engineer in the job title.

1 105 (100.00%) AWS
1 105 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 100 (95.24%) Agile
3 95 (90.48%) Amazon Athena
3 95 (90.48%) Apache Iceberg
3 95 (90.48%) TypeScript
4 94 (89.52%) Apache Airflow
4 94 (89.52%) Apache Arrow
4 94 (89.52%) Asset Management
4 94 (89.52%) dbt
4 94 (89.52%) Dremio
4 94 (89.52%) Investment Management
4 94 (89.52%) JavaScript
4 94 (89.52%) NumPy
4 94 (89.52%) Pandas
4 94 (89.52%) Python
4 94 (89.52%) SciPy
5 59 (56.19%) Java
6 50 (47.62%) Data Lake
7 49 (46.67%) Apache
7 49 (46.67%) Apache Ignite
7 49 (46.67%) gRPC
7 49 (46.67%) Protocol Buffers
7 49 (46.67%) Snowflake
8 46 (43.81%) Fintech
8 46 (43.81%) PostgreSQL
9 45 (42.86%) AngularJS
9 45 (42.86%) GCP
9 45 (42.86%) Node.js
9 45 (42.86%) Order Management

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 94 (89.52%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (46.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) AWS
2 94 (89.52%) dbt
3 49 (46.67%) Snowflake
4 45 (42.86%) GCP
5 1 (0.95%) IaaS
5 1 (0.95%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (90.48%) Amazon Athena
1 95 (90.48%) Apache Iceberg
2 94 (89.52%) Apache Arrow
2 94 (89.52%) Dremio
3 50 (47.62%) Data Lake
4 49 (46.67%) Apache Ignite
5 46 (43.81%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.86%) Big Data
7 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.95%) KDB
8 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.95%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Git
General
1 100 (95.24%) Finance
2 94 (89.52%) Front Office
3 54 (51.43%) Banking
4 49 (46.67%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.76%) Law
7 1 (0.95%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (89.52%) NumPy
1 94 (89.52%) Pandas
1 94 (89.52%) SciPy
2 49 (46.67%) gRPC
2 49 (46.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 45 (42.86%) AngularJS
3 45 (42.86%) Node.js
3 45 (42.86%) React
3 45 (42.86%) Vue
4 3 (2.86%) Spring
5 2 (1.90%) Web Services
6 1 (0.95%) .NET
6 1 (0.95%) PySpark
6 1 (0.95%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 95 (90.48%) Equities
2 94 (89.52%) Fixed Income
2 94 (89.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 51 (48.57%) Derivative
4 49 (46.67%) Hedge funds
4 49 (46.67%) Pricing Data
5 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.90%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 100 (95.24%) Agile
3 94 (89.52%) Asset Management
3 94 (89.52%) Investment Management
4 46 (43.81%) Fintech
5 45 (42.86%) Order Management
5 45 (42.86%) Performance Attribution
5 45 (42.86%) Risk Management
6 6 (5.71%) CI/CD
7 5 (4.76%) AI
8 4 (3.81%) DevOps
8 4 (3.81%) Machine Learning
8 4 (3.81%) SDLC
9 3 (2.86%) Operational Stability
10 2 (1.90%) Analytics
10 2 (1.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (1.90%) Data Engineering
10 2 (1.90%) Decision-Making
10 2 (1.90%) Microservices
10 2 (1.90%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 95 (90.48%) TypeScript
2 94 (89.52%) JavaScript
2 94 (89.52%) Python
3 59 (56.19%) Java
4 3 (2.86%) Kotlin
4 3 (2.86%) SQL
5 2 (1.90%) Scala
6 1 (0.95%) C#
6 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 2 (1.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) Terraform
2 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle
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