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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 665 714
Rank change year-on-year +108 +49 -82
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Developer 157 219 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 128 170 245
10th Percentile £75,525 £55,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £67,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £71,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -20.83% -2.70%
75th Percentile £137,500 £102,500 £116,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £132,500 £150,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.54% - +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 49,912 93,707 92,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,050 67,086 58,518
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

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 14 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 14 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 +116 155 £105,000 +44.83% 45
London +161 136 £115,000 +21.05% 20
Work from Home +128 112 £105,000 +23.53% 29
UK excluding London +71 19 £69,250 +6.54% 31
North of England +52 12 £69,250 +6.54% 12
North West +7 9 £69,250 +8.63% 10
West Midlands +43 3 £67,500 -
Midlands +41 3 £67,500 +8.00% 2
South East +83 2 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Yorkshire +76 2 £60,000 -7.69%
South West +83 1 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Scotland +82 1 £75,000 +11.11%
North East +42 1 £80,000 +14.29% 2
East of England +33 1 £100,000 +17.65% 6

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 157 (100.00%) AWS
2 132 (84.08%) Finance
3 116 (73.89%) Agile
4 113 (71.97%) Software Engineering
5 102 (64.97%) Python
6 101 (64.33%) Front Office
7 98 (62.42%) Amazon Athena
8 97 (61.78%) Fixed Income
9 96 (61.15%) Apache Airflow
10 95 (60.51%) Dremio
10 95 (60.51%) dbt
10 95 (60.51%) Apache Arrow
10 95 (60.51%) Apache Iceberg
10 95 (60.51%) Asset Management
11 79 (50.32%) JavaScript
12 77 (49.04%) Investment Management
13 76 (48.41%) TypeScript
14 75 (47.77%) Node.js
15 72 (45.86%) Java
16 71 (45.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 71 (45.22%) Equities
16 71 (45.22%) React
17 67 (42.68%) AngularJS
18 66 (42.04%) GCP
19 64 (40.76%) Vue
19 64 (40.76%) Fintech
20 63 (40.13%) Pandas
20 63 (40.13%) SciPy
20 63 (40.13%) NumPy
20 63 (40.13%) Performance Attribution

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 96 (61.15%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (33.76%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) Mule
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.27%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.64%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.64%) Camunda
4 1 (0.64%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.82%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 157 (100.00%) AWS
2 95 (60.51%) dbt
3 66 (42.04%) GCP
4 39 (24.84%) Serverless
5 38 (24.20%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (21.02%) Amazon S3
7 32 (20.38%) Snowflake
8 22 (14.01%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (10.83%) Datadog
10 14 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (8.92%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (3.18%) Azure
13 5 (3.18%) GitHub
14 3 (1.91%) AWS CloudTrail
15 2 (1.27%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.64%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (62.42%) Amazon Athena
2 95 (60.51%) Apache Arrow
2 95 (60.51%) Apache Iceberg
2 95 (60.51%) Dremio
3 51 (32.48%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (11.46%) Apache Ignite
5 10 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (5.73%) DynamoDB
7 8 (5.10%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.46%) MySQL
9 3 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.27%) Flink
10 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.64%) Big Data
11 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.64%) Parquet
11 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.64%) Redis
11 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (15.29%) Git
2 21 (13.38%) Jenkins
3 18 (11.46%) GitLab
4 16 (10.19%) Maven
5 15 (9.55%) JUnit
5 15 (9.55%) Mockito
6 14 (8.92%) Cucumber
6 14 (8.92%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.55%) JIRA
8 3 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.91%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.91%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.91%) Selenium
9 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.64%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.64%) jMock
9 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.64%) Spinnaker
General
1 132 (84.08%) Finance
2 101 (64.33%) Front Office
3 46 (29.30%) Banking
4 41 (26.11%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.10%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.27%) Games
6 2 (1.27%) Marketing
6 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.64%) Back Office
7 1 (0.64%) Electronics
7 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Legal
7 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Publishing
7 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (47.77%) Node.js
2 71 (45.22%) React
3 67 (42.68%) AngularJS
4 64 (40.76%) Vue
5 63 (40.13%) NumPy
5 63 (40.13%) Pandas
5 63 (40.13%) SciPy
6 34 (21.66%) PySpark
7 21 (13.38%) gRPC
8 19 (12.10%) Spring
9 18 (11.46%) Protocol Buffers
9 18 (11.46%) Redux
10 17 (10.83%) Spring Boot
11 15 (9.55%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (8.92%) JMS
13 11 (7.01%) Kafka
14 8 (5.10%) REST
15 7 (4.46%) .NET
15 7 (4.46%) Django
15 7 (4.46%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 97 (61.78%) Fixed Income
2 71 (45.22%) Equities
2 71 (45.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 33 (21.02%) Hedge funds
4 32 (20.38%) Derivative
5 14 (8.92%) Cloud Native
5 14 (8.92%) Credit Derivative
5 14 (8.92%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (8.92%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.91%) Blockchain
6 3 (1.91%) Web3
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.64%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (73.89%) Agile
2 113 (71.97%) Software Engineering
3 95 (60.51%) Asset Management
4 77 (49.04%) Investment Management
5 64 (40.76%) Fintech
6 63 (40.13%) Performance Attribution
7 51 (32.48%) Risk Management
8 45 (28.66%) Order Management
9 32 (20.38%) Data Management
10 30 (19.11%) CI/CD
11 25 (15.92%) DevOps
12 19 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (12.10%) Microservices
13 18 (11.46%) Analytics
13 18 (11.46%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 16 (10.19%) SDLC
15 15 (9.55%) Deployment Automation
16 13 (8.28%) Full-Stack Development
17 12 (7.64%) Containerisation
18 9 (5.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 102 (64.97%) Python
2 79 (50.32%) JavaScript
3 76 (48.41%) TypeScript
4 72 (45.86%) Java
5 43 (27.39%) SQL
6 14 (8.92%) C++
7 8 (5.10%) C#
8 6 (3.82%) Go
9 2 (1.27%) XQuery
10 1 (0.64%) Rust
10 1 (0.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (3.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.91%) Degree
2 3 (1.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 15 (9.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.64%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (12.10%) Terraform
2 16 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.92%) Ansible
4 6 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.64%) Grafana
6 1 (0.64%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (8.92%) IBM
2 6 (3.82%) SimCorp
3 3 (1.91%) Okta
4 2 (1.27%) Google
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle
4 2 (1.27%) Solace
5 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.64%) Databricks
5 1 (0.64%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.64%) SAP