Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer salary in the UK is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 497 662
Rank change year-on-year -109 +165 +48
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Developer 121 157 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.36% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.40% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 86 129 170
10th Percentile £55,000 £74,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,688 £80,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £105,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% +47.37% -20.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £137,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £148,750 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,125 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.28% +3.27% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 84,369 38,923 91,211
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 89.45% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 55,003 23,201 67,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +9.90% -12.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the UK

AWS Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Developer over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Top 13 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 9 May 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
England -66 119 £76,000 -27.62% 7
UK excluding London -17 61 £70,000 +4.28% 7
London -93 57 £76,000 -33.91% 3
Work from Home -51 45 £70,000 -33.33% 5
North of England -34 41 £75,000 +8.30% 3
Yorkshire -26 28 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Midlands -26 13 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands - 13 £60,000 - 1
North West -21 8 £85,000 +22.74%
North East -41 5 £55,000 -31.25%
South East -17 4 £90,000 +63.64%
South West -47 2 £60,000 -
East of England -7 1 £70,000 -30.00%

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2026, AWS Developer 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 featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (53.72%) Serverless
3 64 (52.89%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (47.11%) CI/CD
5 54 (44.63%) Amazon S3
6 51 (42.15%) DevOps
7 47 (38.84%) TypeScript
8 40 (33.06%) Java
9 39 (32.23%) Node.js
10 35 (28.93%) DynamoDB
10 35 (28.93%) Python
11 32 (26.45%) Agile
12 30 (24.79%) React
13 29 (23.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 29 (23.97%) Docker
13 29 (23.97%) Full-Stack Development
14 27 (22.31%) SQL
15 25 (20.66%) AngularJS
15 25 (20.66%) AWS Step Functions
15 25 (20.66%) Software Engineering
16 24 (19.83%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (19.01%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (18.18%) GitHub
18 22 (18.18%) RESTful
19 21 (17.36%) Continuous Integration
19 21 (17.36%) JavaScript
19 21 (17.36%) Terraform
20 18 (14.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 18 (14.88%) Azure
20 18 (14.88%) GitHub Actions

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (1.65%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (53.72%) Serverless
3 64 (52.89%) AWS Lambda
4 54 (44.63%) Amazon S3
5 29 (23.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (20.66%) AWS Step Functions
7 24 (19.83%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (19.01%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (18.18%) GitHub
10 18 (14.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (14.88%) Azure
10 18 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (9.92%) Amazon ECR
11 12 (9.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (9.92%) Apigee
11 12 (9.92%) Datadog
12 6 (4.96%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (4.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 3 (2.48%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (28.93%) DynamoDB
2 16 (13.22%) NoSQL
3 12 (9.92%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (14.05%) Git
1 17 (14.05%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.74%) GitLab
3 10 (8.26%) Cypress.io
3 10 (8.26%) Maven
3 10 (8.26%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.48%) ESLint
5 2 (1.65%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.65%) Selenium
General
1 26 (21.49%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.40%) Health Technology
2 15 (12.40%) Tech for Good
3 14 (11.57%) Banking
4 13 (10.74%) Publishing
5 12 (9.92%) Retail Banking
6 8 (6.61%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (6.61%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.79%) Finance
8 5 (4.13%) Games
9 4 (3.31%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (32.23%) Node.js
2 30 (24.79%) React
3 25 (20.66%) AngularJS
4 22 (18.18%) RESTful
5 16 (13.22%) Spring Boot
6 10 (8.26%) .NET
6 10 (8.26%) Gherkin
6 10 (8.26%) HTML
6 10 (8.26%) Jest
7 8 (6.61%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.79%) Spring
9 6 (4.96%) REST
10 5 (4.13%) Laravel
10 5 (4.13%) Vue
11 4 (3.31%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.31%) AWS CDK
11 4 (3.31%) Swagger
12 3 (2.48%) ASP.NET Core
12 3 (2.48%) CSS
12 3 (2.48%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.65%) Blockchain
2 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.65%) Web3
3 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
3 1 (0.83%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (47.11%) CI/CD
2 51 (42.15%) DevOps
3 32 (26.45%) Agile
4 29 (23.97%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (20.66%) Software Engineering
6 21 (17.36%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (14.88%) Mentoring
8 17 (14.05%) DevSecOps
9 15 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (12.40%) Scrum
10 13 (10.74%) Secure Coding
10 13 (10.74%) TDD
11 12 (9.92%) AI
11 12 (9.92%) Digital Banking
11 12 (9.92%) Operational Stability
11 12 (9.92%) Pair Programming
11 12 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (9.92%) Product Management
12 10 (8.26%) RBAC
12 10 (8.26%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (38.84%) TypeScript
2 40 (33.06%) Java
3 35 (28.93%) Python
4 27 (22.31%) SQL
5 21 (17.36%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.57%) Kotlin
7 10 (8.26%) Bash
7 10 (8.26%) Groovy
8 8 (6.61%) C#
9 5 (4.13%) PHP
10 2 (1.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (10.74%) AWS Certification
2 8 (6.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 8 (6.61%) ITIL Certification
2 8 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.13%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (23.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (17.36%) Terraform
2 10 (8.26%) HP Fortify
3 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.65%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (4.13%) Salesforce
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.65%) Ping Identity
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle