AWS Developer Jobs

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 690 726
Rank change year-on-year +144 +36 -100
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Developer 154 216 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 127 167 250
10th Percentile £74,000 £55,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £67,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £70,000 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -21.13% -4.05%
75th Percentile £137,500 £102,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £132,500 £144,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,125 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.27% - +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 47,541 93,322 94,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 94.63% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27,467 66,921 59,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
England +153 152 £105,000 +50.00% 39
London +147 132 £105,000 +10.53% 10
Work from Home +179 112 £105,000 +23.53% 33
UK excluding London +90 20 £67,125 +3.27% 29
North of England +72 14 £69,250 +6.54% 21
North West +25 11 £69,250 +8.63% 16
South East +92 2 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Yorkshire +80 2 £60,000 -7.69% 1
West Midlands +43 2 £60,000 -11.11% 1
Midlands +40 2 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Scotland +95 1 £75,000 +11.11% 1
South West +89 1 £60,000 -5.88% 2
North East +46 1 £80,000 +14.29% 8
East of England +39 1 £100,000 +17.65% 2

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, AWS Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 154 (100.00%) AWS
2 126 (81.82%) Finance
3 114 (74.03%) Agile
4 110 (71.43%) Software Engineering
5 102 (66.23%) Python
6 98 (63.64%) Front Office
7 95 (61.69%) Amazon Athena
8 94 (61.04%) Fixed Income
9 93 (60.39%) Apache Airflow
10 92 (59.74%) Asset Management
10 92 (59.74%) Dremio
10 92 (59.74%) dbt
10 92 (59.74%) Apache Arrow
10 92 (59.74%) Apache Iceberg
11 76 (49.35%) JavaScript
12 73 (47.40%) TypeScript
13 72 (46.75%) Node.js
14 71 (46.10%) Investment Management
15 68 (44.16%) Java
15 68 (44.16%) React
16 66 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 66 (42.86%) Equities
17 63 (40.91%) AngularJS
17 63 (40.91%) GCP
18 61 (39.61%) Vue
18 61 (39.61%) Fintech
19 60 (38.96%) Performance Attribution
19 60 (38.96%) Pandas
19 60 (38.96%) SciPy
19 60 (38.96%) NumPy

AWS Developer 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 93 (60.39%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (35.71%) Apache
3 2 (1.30%) Mule
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.30%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.65%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.65%) Camunda
4 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.25%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 154 (100.00%) AWS
2 92 (59.74%) dbt
3 63 (40.91%) GCP
4 39 (25.32%) Serverless
5 38 (24.68%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (20.78%) Snowflake
7 31 (20.13%) Amazon S3
8 19 (12.34%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (9.74%) Datadog
10 14 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (8.44%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.90%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.90%) Azure
14 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (3.25%) GitHub
15 3 (1.95%) AWS CloudTrail
16 2 (1.30%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.65%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (61.69%) Amazon Athena
2 92 (59.74%) Apache Arrow
2 92 (59.74%) Apache Iceberg
2 92 (59.74%) Dremio
3 45 (29.22%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (12.99%) Apache Ignite
5 7 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.55%) MySQL
6 6 (3.90%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.90%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.30%) Flink
8 2 (1.30%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.65%) Big Data
9 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.65%) Parquet
9 1 (0.65%) Redis
9 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (14.94%) Git
2 18 (11.69%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.39%) GitLab
4 15 (9.74%) Maven
5 14 (9.09%) Cucumber
5 14 (9.09%) IntelliJ
5 14 (9.09%) JUnit
5 14 (9.09%) Mockito
6 4 (2.60%) JIRA
7 3 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.95%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.95%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.95%) Selenium
8 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.65%) Spinnaker
General
1 126 (81.82%) Finance
2 98 (63.64%) Front Office
3 43 (27.92%) Banking
4 40 (25.97%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.19%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.95%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.95%) Publishing
6 3 (1.95%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.30%) Games
7 2 (1.30%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Back Office
8 1 (0.65%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (46.75%) Node.js
2 68 (44.16%) React
3 63 (40.91%) AngularJS
4 61 (39.61%) Vue
5 60 (38.96%) NumPy
5 60 (38.96%) Pandas
5 60 (38.96%) SciPy
6 34 (22.08%) PySpark
7 21 (13.64%) gRPC
8 20 (12.99%) Protocol Buffers
8 20 (12.99%) Redux
9 18 (11.69%) Spring
10 16 (10.39%) Spring Boot
11 14 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (9.09%) JMS
12 9 (5.84%) .NET
12 9 (5.84%) Kafka
13 7 (4.55%) REST
14 6 (3.90%) Flask
14 6 (3.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 94 (61.04%) Fixed Income
2 66 (42.86%) Equities
2 66 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 33 (21.43%) Hedge funds
4 32 (20.78%) Derivative
5 14 (9.09%) Credit Derivative
5 14 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (9.09%) Management Information System
6 11 (7.14%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.65%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (74.03%) Agile
2 110 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 92 (59.74%) Asset Management
4 71 (46.10%) Investment Management
5 61 (39.61%) Fintech
6 60 (38.96%) Performance Attribution
7 43 (27.92%) Risk Management
8 40 (25.97%) Order Management
9 32 (20.78%) Data Management
10 30 (19.48%) CI/CD
11 22 (14.29%) DevOps
12 20 (12.99%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 17 (11.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (10.39%) Analytics
14 16 (10.39%) Microservices
14 16 (10.39%) SDLC
15 15 (9.74%) Deployment Automation
16 13 (8.44%) Full-Stack Development
17 11 (7.14%) Mentoring
18 9 (5.84%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (66.23%) Python
2 76 (49.35%) JavaScript
3 73 (47.40%) TypeScript
4 68 (44.16%) Java
5 42 (27.27%) SQL
6 14 (9.09%) C++
7 10 (6.49%) C#
8 4 (2.60%) Go
9 2 (1.30%) XQuery
10 1 (0.65%) Rust
10 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (2.60%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.95%) Degree
3 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.30%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.95%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (7.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 17 (11.04%) Terraform
2 14 (9.09%) Ansible
2 14 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.65%) Istio
4 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (9.09%) IBM
2 5 (3.25%) SimCorp
3 3 (1.95%) Okta
4 2 (1.30%) Google
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle
4 2 (1.30%) Solace
5 1 (0.65%) Databricks
5 1 (0.65%) SAP