AWS Software Engineer Job Trends

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 508 586
Rank change year-on-year -100 +78 +265
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 52 175 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.38% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 49 162 101
10th Percentile £69,000 £76,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -7.69%

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 61,307 45,494 70,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.18% 91.70% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 38,565 23,655 55,494
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,420
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -58 51 £102,500 -2.38% 4
Work from Home -59 39 £105,000 - 1
London -100 38 £105,000 - 4
UK excluding London +15 13 £70,000 -6.67% 2
North of England -4 6 £75,000 -
Midlands +12 5 £70,000 -26.32%
North West +12 4 £90,000 +63.64%
East Midlands -7 4 £70,000 -26.32%
South East +14 2 - - 2
North East -3 2 £55,000 -26.67%
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 15 February 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 52 (100.00%) AWS
1 52 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 35 (67.31%) TypeScript
3 30 (57.69%) Python
4 25 (48.08%) Agile
5 24 (46.15%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (46.15%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (46.15%) Apache Arrow
5 24 (46.15%) Apache Iceberg
5 24 (46.15%) Asset Management
5 24 (46.15%) dbt
5 24 (46.15%) Dremio
5 24 (46.15%) Investment Management
5 24 (46.15%) JavaScript
5 24 (46.15%) NumPy
5 24 (46.15%) Pandas
5 24 (46.15%) SciPy
6 17 (32.69%) Fintech
6 17 (32.69%) Node.js
6 17 (32.69%) React
7 16 (30.77%) Java
8 14 (26.92%) AngularJS
8 14 (26.92%) GCP
8 14 (26.92%) Order Management
8 14 (26.92%) Performance Attribution
8 14 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (26.92%) Risk Management
8 14 (26.92%) Vue
9 10 (19.23%) Apache
9 10 (19.23%) Apache Ignite

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 24 (46.15%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (19.23%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (46.15%) dbt
3 14 (26.92%) GCP
4 10 (19.23%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.77%) Serverless
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.92%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (46.15%) Amazon Athena
1 24 (46.15%) Apache Arrow
1 24 (46.15%) Apache Iceberg
1 24 (46.15%) Dremio
2 14 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (19.23%) Apache Ignite
3 10 (19.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
General
1 26 (50.00%) Finance
2 24 (46.15%) Front Office
3 10 (19.23%) Banking
3 10 (19.23%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.69%) Games
5 2 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (46.15%) NumPy
1 24 (46.15%) Pandas
1 24 (46.15%) SciPy
2 17 (32.69%) Node.js
2 17 (32.69%) React
3 14 (26.92%) AngularJS
3 14 (26.92%) Vue
4 10 (19.23%) gRPC
4 10 (19.23%) Protocol Buffers
5 3 (5.77%) .NET
5 3 (5.77%) Spring
6 2 (3.85%) REST
6 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.92%) A2A Protocol
7 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.92%) CrewAI
7 1 (1.92%) LangChain
7 1 (1.92%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.92%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 24 (46.15%) Equities
1 24 (46.15%) Fixed Income
1 24 (46.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (23.08%) Hedge funds
3 10 (19.23%) Derivative
3 10 (19.23%) Pricing Data
4 5 (9.62%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.85%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 25 (48.08%) Agile
3 24 (46.15%) Asset Management
3 24 (46.15%) Investment Management
4 17 (32.69%) Fintech
5 14 (26.92%) Order Management
5 14 (26.92%) Performance Attribution
5 14 (26.92%) Risk Management
6 7 (13.46%) AI
7 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.69%) DevOps
8 4 (7.69%) Workflow
9 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (5.77%) LLM
10 2 (3.85%) Clean Code
10 2 (3.85%) Customer Experience
10 2 (3.85%) Machine Learning
11 1 (1.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 1 (1.92%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (67.31%) TypeScript
2 30 (57.69%) Python
3 24 (46.15%) JavaScript
4 16 (30.77%) Java
5 5 (9.62%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) Bash
7 1 (1.92%) PHP
7 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.92%) Degree
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft