AWS Software Engineer Job Trends

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 August 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 721 436 408
Rank change year-on-year -285 -28 +314
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 69 278 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.56% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.62% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 63 236 274
10th Percentile - £83,125 £80,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% - +6.98%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -15.63% +20.75%

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 99,120 44,882 78,754
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.95% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 67,762 26,708 53,085
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,425
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,924 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.31% -2.15% -6.54%

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 9 August 2026.

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 9 August 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 -258 65 £90,000 -21.74% 26
UK excluding London -83 37 £65,000 -3.70% 18
London -232 30 £100,000 -18.37% 16
Work from Home -186 27 £90,000 -30.77% 8
South East - 22 £65,000 - 4
North West -11 10 £75,000 +11.11% 2
North of England -46 10 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Scotland -13 2 - - 7
West Midlands - 2 £85,000 -
Midlands - 2 £85,000 - 2
East of England - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 August 2026, 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 69 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (91.30%) Software Engineering
3 33 (47.83%) Python
4 25 (36.23%) C#
5 22 (31.88%) Degree
6 18 (26.09%) C++
6 18 (26.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (24.64%) Java
8 16 (23.19%) TypeScript
9 13 (18.84%) Go
10 11 (15.94%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
10 11 (15.94%) Finite Element Analysis
10 11 (15.94%) Kubernetes
10 11 (15.94%) Microservices
10 11 (15.94%) Spring Boot
11 10 (14.49%) AI
11 10 (14.49%) CI/CD
11 10 (14.49%) Fintech
11 10 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (11.59%) Agile
13 7 (10.14%) .NET
13 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
13 7 (10.14%) Machine Learning
13 7 (10.14%) RESTful
14 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
14 6 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (8.70%) DevOps
14 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (8.70%) Serverless

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 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
2 6 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (8.70%) Serverless
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.35%) Datadog
4 3 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.90%) SaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.45%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.35%) CircleCI
2 3 (4.35%) GitLab
3 2 (2.90%) JIRA
General
1 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Finance
3 8 (11.59%) Health Technology
4 4 (5.80%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.80%) Automotive
4 4 (5.80%) Digital Health
4 4 (5.80%) Tech for Good
5 3 (4.35%) Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.90%) Law
6 2 (2.90%) Marketing
6 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) Spring Boot
2 7 (10.14%) .NET
2 7 (10.14%) RESTful
3 5 (7.25%) Node.js
4 4 (5.80%) Django
4 4 (5.80%) Spring
4 4 (5.80%) Vue
5 3 (4.35%) gRPC
5 3 (4.35%) Kafka
5 3 (4.35%) Next.js
5 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.35%) React
6 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.90%) REST
6 2 (2.90%) web3js
7 1 (1.45%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.45%) Jinja
7 1 (1.45%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.09%) Distributed Computing
2 13 (18.84%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.90%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Web3
6 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.45%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (91.30%) Software Engineering
2 11 (15.94%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 11 (15.94%) Finite Element Analysis
2 11 (15.94%) Microservices
3 10 (14.49%) AI
3 10 (14.49%) CI/CD
3 10 (14.49%) Fintech
3 10 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (11.59%) Agile
5 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (10.14%) Machine Learning
6 6 (8.70%) DevOps
7 5 (7.25%) Code Quality
7 5 (7.25%) Event-Driven
7 5 (7.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (7.25%) Front End Development
7 5 (7.25%) Test Automation
8 4 (5.80%) Analytics
8 4 (5.80%) Computer Science
8 4 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.83%) Python
2 25 (36.23%) C#
3 18 (26.09%) C++
4 17 (24.64%) Java
5 16 (23.19%) TypeScript
6 13 (18.84%) Go
7 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.80%) Kotlin
9 3 (4.35%) Ruby
10 1 (1.45%) PHP
10 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (31.88%) Degree
2 18 (26.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.80%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.80%) PhD
4 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.25%) Terraform
3 3 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.45%) Databricks