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 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 191 392
Rank change year-on-year -25 +201 +73
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 171 293 74
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.45% 1.67% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.76% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 154 269 74
10th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £65,750
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £149,375
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
England median annual salary £130,000 £115,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +2.22% +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 10,727 16,689 19,333
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 95.20% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,982 10,419 15,834
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +43 2 £75,000 - 1
AWS Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 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.

1 171 (100.00%) AWS
1 171 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 165 (96.49%) Agile
3 152 (88.89%) Apache Iceberg
4 151 (88.30%) TypeScript
5 150 (87.72%) Investment Management
6 149 (87.13%) Amazon Athena
7 148 (86.55%) Apache Airflow
7 148 (86.55%) Apache Arrow
7 148 (86.55%) Asset Management
7 148 (86.55%) dbt
7 148 (86.55%) Dremio
7 148 (86.55%) JavaScript
7 148 (86.55%) NumPy
7 148 (86.55%) Pandas
7 148 (86.55%) SciPy
8 144 (84.21%) Python
9 103 (60.23%) Java
10 77 (45.03%) Node.js
11 76 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
12 75 (43.86%) AngularJS
12 75 (43.86%) Fintech
12 75 (43.86%) GCP
12 75 (43.86%) Order Management
12 75 (43.86%) Performance Attribution
12 75 (43.86%) React
12 75 (43.86%) Risk Management
12 75 (43.86%) Vue
13 74 (43.27%) Data Lake
14 73 (42.69%) Apache

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
1 148 (86.55%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (42.69%) Apache
3 4 (2.34%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 171 (100.00%) AWS
2 148 (86.55%) dbt
3 75 (43.86%) GCP
4 73 (42.69%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.58%) IaaS
5 1 (0.58%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (88.89%) Apache Iceberg
2 149 (87.13%) Amazon Athena
3 148 (86.55%) Apache Arrow
3 148 (86.55%) Dremio
4 76 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
5 74 (43.27%) Data Lake
6 73 (42.69%) Apache Ignite
7 12 (7.02%) Big Data
8 8 (4.68%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.34%) KDB
9 4 (2.34%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Git
General
1 168 (98.25%) Finance
2 148 (86.55%) Front Office
3 90 (52.63%) Banking
4 73 (42.69%) Investment Banking
5 18 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (9.94%) Law
7 2 (1.17%) Retail
8 1 (0.58%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (86.55%) NumPy
1 148 (86.55%) Pandas
1 148 (86.55%) SciPy
2 77 (45.03%) Node.js
3 75 (43.86%) AngularJS
3 75 (43.86%) React
3 75 (43.86%) Vue
4 73 (42.69%) gRPC
4 73 (42.69%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (5.85%) Web Services
6 8 (4.68%) Spring
7 4 (2.34%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.17%) REST
9 1 (0.58%) .NET
9 1 (0.58%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 152 (88.89%) Equities
2 148 (86.55%) Fixed Income
2 148 (86.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 81 (47.37%) Derivative
4 73 (42.69%) Hedge funds
4 73 (42.69%) Pricing Data
5 12 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (5.85%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.68%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 165 (96.49%) Agile
3 150 (87.72%) Investment Management
4 148 (86.55%) Asset Management
5 75 (43.86%) Fintech
5 75 (43.86%) Order Management
5 75 (43.86%) Performance Attribution
5 75 (43.86%) Risk Management
6 15 (8.77%) CI/CD
7 14 (8.19%) AI
8 13 (7.60%) Machine Learning
8 13 (7.60%) SDLC
9 9 (5.26%) Operational Stability
10 8 (4.68%) Community of Practice
10 8 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (4.68%) Microservices
10 8 (4.68%) OO
10 8 (4.68%) OOD
10 8 (4.68%) Visualisation
11 7 (4.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 151 (88.30%) TypeScript
2 148 (86.55%) JavaScript
3 144 (84.21%) Python
4 103 (60.23%) Java
5 9 (5.26%) Kotlin
6 8 (4.68%) Scala
7 6 (3.51%) SQL
8 1 (0.58%) C#
8 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 8 (4.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (7.60%) Terraform
2 12 (7.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (1.17%) Ping Identity
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle