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 1 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 487 606
Rank change year-on-year -30 +119 +151
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 132 278 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.43% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.45% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 112 254 96
10th Percentile £97,750 £80,000 £63,125
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £107,500 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -4.44% +16.88%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £143,750
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +30.43% -11.54%

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 48,887 61,129 48,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 94.26% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 30,843 33,997 37,695
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,656 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 -21 122 £130,000 +20.93% 4
London -65 113 £130,000 +20.93% 2
Work from Home -18 106 £130,000 +13.04% 3
UK excluding London +87 19 £75,000 - 2
Scotland +20 10 £100,000 -
Midlands +55 4 £70,000 -26.32% 2
East Midlands +26 4 £70,000 -26.32% 2
North of England +21 3 £80,000 +6.67%
South East +50 2 - -
North West +44 2 £90,000 +84.62%
North East +13 1 £55,000 -29.03%

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 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.

1 132 (100.00%) AWS
1 132 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 117 (88.64%) Agile
3 107 (81.06%) Python
4 103 (78.03%) Amazon Athena
5 102 (77.27%) Apache Iceberg
5 102 (77.27%) TypeScript
6 98 (74.24%) Apache Airflow
6 98 (74.24%) Apache Arrow
6 98 (74.24%) Asset Management
6 98 (74.24%) dbt
6 98 (74.24%) Dremio
6 98 (74.24%) Investment Management
6 98 (74.24%) JavaScript
6 98 (74.24%) NumPy
6 98 (74.24%) Pandas
6 98 (74.24%) SciPy
7 76 (57.58%) Java
8 55 (41.67%) Apache
9 54 (40.91%) Data Lake
10 53 (40.15%) Apache Ignite
10 53 (40.15%) gRPC
10 53 (40.15%) Protocol Buffers
10 53 (40.15%) Snowflake
11 49 (37.12%) React
12 48 (36.36%) GCP
12 48 (36.36%) Node.js
13 46 (34.85%) Fintech
13 46 (34.85%) PostgreSQL
14 45 (34.09%) AngularJS

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 98 (74.24%) Apache Airflow
2 55 (41.67%) Apache
3 4 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) AWS
2 98 (74.24%) dbt
3 53 (40.15%) Snowflake
4 48 (36.36%) GCP
5 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.03%) Serverless
6 3 (2.27%) Azure
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.52%) SaaS
8 1 (0.76%) IaaS
8 1 (0.76%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (78.03%) Amazon Athena
2 102 (77.27%) Apache Iceberg
3 98 (74.24%) Apache Arrow
3 98 (74.24%) Dremio
4 54 (40.91%) Data Lake
5 53 (40.15%) Apache Ignite
6 46 (34.85%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (6.06%) Big Data
8 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.27%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.52%) Apache Hudi
10 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.52%) KDB
10 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.52%) Parquet
10 2 (1.52%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.52%) JUnit
2 1 (0.76%) Git
General
1 117 (88.64%) Finance
2 98 (74.24%) Front Office
3 71 (53.79%) Banking
4 55 (41.67%) Investment Banking
5 20 (15.15%) Law
6 19 (14.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.52%) Games
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Billing
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (74.24%) NumPy
1 98 (74.24%) Pandas
1 98 (74.24%) SciPy
2 53 (40.15%) gRPC
2 53 (40.15%) Protocol Buffers
3 49 (37.12%) React
4 48 (36.36%) Node.js
5 45 (34.09%) AngularJS
5 45 (34.09%) Vue
6 9 (6.82%) Spring
7 5 (3.79%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.03%) Kafka
8 4 (3.03%) Web Services
9 3 (2.27%) OAuth
9 3 (2.27%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.27%) OpenID
9 3 (2.27%) SAML
10 2 (1.52%) .NET
10 2 (1.52%) RESTful
10 2 (1.52%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 100 (75.76%) Equities
2 98 (74.24%) Fixed Income
2 98 (74.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (43.18%) Derivative
4 53 (40.15%) Hedge funds
4 53 (40.15%) Pricing Data
5 11 (8.33%) Cloud Native
6 8 (6.06%) Algorithms
6 8 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 117 (88.64%) Agile
3 98 (74.24%) Asset Management
3 98 (74.24%) Investment Management
4 46 (34.85%) Fintech
5 45 (34.09%) Order Management
5 45 (34.09%) Performance Attribution
5 45 (34.09%) Risk Management
6 16 (12.12%) SDLC
7 15 (11.36%) CI/CD
8 12 (9.09%) AI
9 11 (8.33%) Machine Learning
10 10 (7.58%) Community of Practice
10 10 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (7.58%) Visualisation
11 9 (6.82%) Operational Stability
12 7 (5.30%) DevOps
13 6 (4.55%) Analytics
13 6 (4.55%) Microservices
14 5 (3.79%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 107 (81.06%) Python
2 102 (77.27%) TypeScript
3 98 (74.24%) JavaScript
4 76 (57.58%) Java
5 5 (3.79%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.03%) Scala
6 4 (3.03%) SQL
7 3 (2.27%) C#
7 3 (2.27%) Go
8 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 4 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.82%) Terraform
2 8 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (2.27%) Facebook
1 3 (2.27%) Google
2 2 (1.52%) Databricks
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle
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