AWS Software Engineer Job Trends

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £130,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2025.

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

 6 months to
31 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 470 632
Rank change year-on-year -16 +162 +120
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 188 295 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.43% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.46% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 148 267 99
10th Percentile - £80,000 £62,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £105,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £143,750
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year - +27.66% -32.86%

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 45,283 64,734 52,203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 95.22% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 27,226 36,793 40,430
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,005 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

AWS Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for AWS Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Software Engineer over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England -28 168 £130,000 +23.81% 6
London -38 159 £130,000 +13.04% 4
Work from Home -44 143 £130,000 +13.04% 3
UK excluding London +73 29 £75,000 - 3
Scotland +17 20 £100,000 -
North of England +16 6 £67,500 -10.00% 1
North West +10 5 £70,000 +64.71%
South East +33 2 - - 2
Midlands +39 1 £80,000 -15.79%
North East +15 1 £55,000 -31.25% 1
East Midlands +15 1 £80,000 -15.79%

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 featuring AWS Software Engineer in the job title.

1 188 (100.00%) AWS
1 188 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 176 (93.62%) Agile
3 147 (78.19%) Amazon Athena
4 146 (77.66%) Apache Iceberg
5 145 (77.13%) Python
6 143 (76.06%) TypeScript
7 139 (73.94%) Investment Management
8 137 (72.87%) Apache Airflow
8 137 (72.87%) Apache Arrow
8 137 (72.87%) Asset Management
8 137 (72.87%) dbt
8 137 (72.87%) Dremio
8 137 (72.87%) JavaScript
8 137 (72.87%) NumPy
8 137 (72.87%) Pandas
8 137 (72.87%) SciPy
9 116 (61.70%) Java
10 74 (39.36%) Apache
10 74 (39.36%) GCP
11 71 (37.77%) PostgreSQL
12 70 (37.23%) Data Lake
12 70 (37.23%) Node.js
12 70 (37.23%) React
13 69 (36.70%) Apache Ignite
13 69 (36.70%) gRPC
13 69 (36.70%) Protocol Buffers
13 69 (36.70%) Snowflake
14 68 (36.17%) AngularJS
14 68 (36.17%) Fintech

AWS Software Engineer 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
1 137 (72.87%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (39.36%) Apache
3 9 (4.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.06%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 188 (100.00%) AWS
2 137 (72.87%) dbt
3 74 (39.36%) GCP
4 69 (36.70%) Snowflake
5 9 (4.79%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.19%) Azure
6 6 (3.19%) Serverless
7 4 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.06%) GitHub
8 2 (1.06%) SaaS
9 1 (0.53%) IaaS
9 1 (0.53%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (78.19%) Amazon Athena
2 146 (77.66%) Apache Iceberg
3 137 (72.87%) Apache Arrow
3 137 (72.87%) Dremio
4 71 (37.77%) PostgreSQL
5 70 (37.23%) Data Lake
6 69 (36.70%) Apache Ignite
7 17 (9.04%) Big Data
8 10 (5.32%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.19%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.66%) Apache Hudi
10 5 (2.66%) Parquet
10 5 (2.66%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.66%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.13%) KDB
11 4 (2.13%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (2.66%) JUnit
2 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.06%) GitLab
2 2 (1.06%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) Selenium
3 1 (0.53%) Git
General
1 176 (93.62%) Finance
2 137 (72.87%) Front Office
3 105 (55.85%) Banking
4 73 (38.83%) Investment Banking
5 38 (20.21%) Law
6 37 (19.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.06%) Legal
7 2 (1.06%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Advertising
8 1 (0.53%) Billing
8 1 (0.53%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (72.87%) NumPy
1 137 (72.87%) Pandas
1 137 (72.87%) SciPy
2 70 (37.23%) Node.js
2 70 (37.23%) React
3 69 (36.70%) gRPC
3 69 (36.70%) Protocol Buffers
4 68 (36.17%) AngularJS
4 68 (36.17%) Vue
5 18 (9.57%) Spring
6 11 (5.85%) Kafka
7 10 (5.32%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.32%) Web Services
8 6 (3.19%) OAuth
8 6 (3.19%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.19%) OpenID
8 6 (3.19%) SAML
9 4 (2.13%) RESTful
9 4 (2.13%) Spark Streaming
10 3 (1.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 141 (75.00%) Equities
2 137 (72.87%) Fixed Income
2 137 (72.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 77 (40.96%) Derivative
4 69 (36.70%) Hedge funds
4 69 (36.70%) Pricing Data
5 20 (10.64%) Cloud Native
6 17 (9.04%) Algorithms
6 17 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.26%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (4.26%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 176 (93.62%) Agile
3 139 (73.94%) Investment Management
4 137 (72.87%) Asset Management
5 68 (36.17%) Fintech
5 68 (36.17%) Order Management
5 68 (36.17%) Performance Attribution
5 68 (36.17%) Risk Management
6 32 (17.02%) SDLC
7 27 (14.36%) CI/CD
8 21 (11.17%) Community of Practice
8 21 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (11.17%) Visualisation
9 20 (10.64%) AI
10 19 (10.11%) Machine Learning
11 18 (9.57%) Operational Stability
12 14 (7.45%) Microservices
13 12 (6.38%) TDD
14 11 (5.85%) Analytics
14 11 (5.85%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 145 (77.13%) Python
2 143 (76.06%) TypeScript
3 137 (72.87%) JavaScript
4 116 (61.70%) Java
5 9 (4.79%) Kotlin
6 8 (4.26%) Scala
6 8 (4.26%) SQL
7 6 (3.19%) Go
8 3 (1.60%) C#
9 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 10 (5.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.57%) Kubernetes
1 18 (9.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (3.19%) Facebook
1 6 (3.19%) Google
2 5 (2.66%) Databricks
3 2 (1.06%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle
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