AWS Software Engineer Job Trends

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 676 455 466
Rank change year-on-year -221 +11 +343
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 60 194 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.51% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 57 176 157
10th Percentile - £74,375 £66,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £137,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +7.14%

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 86,622 38,048 92,177
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 89.26% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 57,427 21,318 67,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.32%

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 23 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 12 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 23 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 -208 58 £82,500 -25.00% 7
London -157 31 £90,000 -21.74% 3
UK excluding London -44 27 £65,000 - 4
Work from Home -109 23 £90,000 -20.00% 3
South East - 14 £65,000 - 1
North of England -59 9 £75,000 +15.38% 2
North West -9 8 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Midlands - 3 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £75,000 - 1
North East -43 1 £55,000 -15.38%
East Midlands - 1 £70,000 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 60 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (90.00%) Software Engineering
3 27 (45.00%) Python
4 21 (35.00%) C#
5 16 (26.67%) Degree
6 15 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (23.33%) C++
8 13 (21.67%) TypeScript
9 12 (20.00%) Java
10 10 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (15.00%) AI
12 8 (13.33%) Go
13 7 (11.67%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
13 7 (11.67%) Finite Element Analysis
13 7 (11.67%) Fintech
13 7 (11.67%) Spring Boot
14 6 (10.00%) .NET
14 6 (10.00%) Microservices
15 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
15 5 (8.33%) RESTful
16 4 (6.67%) DevOps
16 4 (6.67%) Front End Development
16 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
16 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
16 4 (6.67%) Machine Learning
16 4 (6.67%) QA
16 4 (6.67%) Spring
16 4 (6.67%) Workflow
17 3 (5.00%) Agile
17 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3

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:

Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (5.00%) Serverless
3 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.67%) Datadog
4 1 (1.67%) GitHub
4 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.67%) SaaS
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.67%) Big Data
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.67%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (8.33%) Finance
1 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
2 2 (3.33%) Automotive
2 2 (3.33%) Games
3 1 (1.67%) Banking
3 1 (1.67%) Health Technology
3 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
3 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) Spring Boot
2 6 (10.00%) .NET
3 5 (8.33%) RESTful
4 4 (6.67%) Spring
5 2 (3.33%) Django
5 2 (3.33%) Node.js
5 2 (3.33%) REST
5 2 (3.33%) Vue
6 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.67%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.67%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.67%) gRPC
6 1 (1.67%) Kafka
6 1 (1.67%) LangChain
6 1 (1.67%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.67%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.67%) React
6 1 (1.67%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) Sports Betting
5 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.67%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.67%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (15.00%) AI
4 7 (11.67%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
4 7 (11.67%) Finite Element Analysis
4 7 (11.67%) Fintech
5 6 (10.00%) Microservices
6 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (6.67%) DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Front End Development
7 4 (6.67%) Machine Learning
7 4 (6.67%) Workflow
8 3 (5.00%) Agile
8 3 (5.00%) Event-Driven
8 3 (5.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (3.33%) Design Patterns
9 2 (3.33%) Observability
9 2 (3.33%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (3.33%) Workforce Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.00%) Python
2 21 (35.00%) C#
3 14 (23.33%) C++
4 13 (21.67%) TypeScript
5 12 (20.00%) Java
6 8 (13.33%) Go
7 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.33%) Bash
8 2 (3.33%) Ruby
9 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.67%) PHP
9 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Degree
2 15 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.33%) PhD
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft