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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 434 685
Rank change year-on-year -8 +251 +67
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 249 409 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.52% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.55% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 210 279 92
10th Percentile £92,250 - £63,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £135,000
90th Percentile - - £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +28.00% -34.21%

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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Software Engineer 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +24 229 £130,000 +13.04% 10
London +8 212 £130,000 +13.04% 3
Work from Home +4 193 £130,000 +13.04% 8
UK excluding London +46 37 £70,000 -12.50% 8
Scotland -25 20 £100,000 -
North of England +31 15 £65,000 -21.21% 4
North West +16 12 £67,500 -20.59% 2
North East +23 3 £65,000 -18.75% 2
Midlands +51 1 £80,000 -15.79% 1
South East +48 1 - - 2
East Midlands +33 1 £80,000 -15.79% 1

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, AWS Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring AWS Software Engineer in the job title.

1 249 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 249 (100.00%) AWS
2 236 (94.78%) Agile
3 233 (93.57%) Finance
4 201 (80.72%) TypeScript
5 196 (78.71%) Investment Management
5 196 (78.71%) Amazon Athena
6 195 (78.31%) Apache Iceberg
7 190 (76.31%) Python
8 189 (75.90%) JavaScript
9 188 (75.50%) Equities
10 186 (74.70%) Asset Management
10 186 (74.70%) Fixed Income
10 186 (74.70%) Front Office
10 186 (74.70%) SciPy
10 186 (74.70%) NumPy
10 186 (74.70%) Pandas
10 186 (74.70%) Apache Arrow
10 186 (74.70%) Apache Airflow
10 186 (74.70%) Dremio
10 186 (74.70%) dbt
11 184 (73.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 150 (60.24%) Java
13 125 (50.20%) Banking
14 110 (44.18%) Node.js
15 103 (41.37%) GCP
16 102 (40.96%) React
17 100 (40.16%) Order Management
17 100 (40.16%) PostgreSQL
18 97 (38.96%) Risk Management

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 186 (74.70%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (37.75%) Apache
3 9 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 249 (100.00%) AWS
2 186 (74.70%) dbt
3 103 (41.37%) GCP
4 89 (35.74%) Snowflake
5 9 (3.61%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.21%) Serverless
7 7 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.41%) Azure
9 4 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.61%) SaaS
10 2 (0.80%) GitHub
11 1 (0.40%) IaaS
11 1 (0.40%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (78.71%) Amazon Athena
2 195 (78.31%) Apache Iceberg
3 186 (74.70%) Apache Arrow
3 186 (74.70%) Dremio
4 100 (40.16%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (36.14%) Data Lake
6 89 (35.74%) Apache Ignite
7 17 (6.83%) Big Data
8 13 (5.22%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.41%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.01%) Apache Hudi
10 5 (2.01%) Parquet
10 5 (2.01%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.01%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.61%) KDB
11 4 (1.61%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (2.01%) JUnit
2 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.80%) GitLab
2 2 (0.80%) JIRA
2 2 (0.80%) Selenium
3 1 (0.40%) Git
General
1 233 (93.57%) Finance
2 186 (74.70%) Front Office
3 125 (50.20%) Banking
4 93 (37.35%) Investment Banking
5 37 (14.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (14.86%) Law
6 10 (4.02%) Retail
7 3 (1.20%) Games
8 2 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Advertising
9 1 (0.40%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (74.70%) NumPy
1 186 (74.70%) Pandas
1 186 (74.70%) SciPy
2 110 (44.18%) Node.js
3 102 (40.96%) React
4 97 (38.96%) AngularJS
4 97 (38.96%) Vue
5 89 (35.74%) gRPC
5 89 (35.74%) Protocol Buffers
6 18 (7.23%) Spring
6 18 (7.23%) Web Services
7 11 (4.42%) Kafka
8 10 (4.02%) REST
8 10 (4.02%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.41%) OAuth
9 6 (2.41%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.41%) OpenID
9 6 (2.41%) SAML
10 4 (1.61%) RESTful
10 4 (1.61%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 188 (75.50%) Equities
2 186 (74.70%) Fixed Income
3 184 (73.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 97 (38.96%) Derivative
5 89 (35.74%) Hedge funds
5 89 (35.74%) Pricing Data
6 20 (8.03%) Cloud Native
7 17 (6.83%) Algorithms
7 17 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.21%) Equity Derivative
8 8 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.80%) Online Games
10 2 (0.80%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 236 (94.78%) Agile
3 196 (78.71%) Investment Management
4 186 (74.70%) Asset Management
5 100 (40.16%) Order Management
6 97 (38.96%) Fintech
6 97 (38.96%) Performance Attribution
6 97 (38.96%) Risk Management
7 32 (12.85%) SDLC
8 29 (11.65%) CI/CD
9 21 (8.43%) Community of Practice
9 21 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (8.43%) Visualisation
10 19 (7.63%) Artificial Intelligence
11 18 (7.23%) Machine Learning
11 18 (7.23%) Operational Stability
12 16 (6.43%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (5.62%) Microservices
14 13 (5.22%) DevOps
15 12 (4.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 201 (80.72%) TypeScript
2 190 (76.31%) Python
3 189 (75.90%) JavaScript
4 150 (60.24%) Java
5 9 (3.61%) Kotlin
6 8 (3.21%) Scala
6 8 (3.21%) SQL
7 6 (2.41%) Go
8 5 (2.01%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 10 (4.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (7.23%) Kubernetes
1 18 (7.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (4.02%) Ping Identity
2 6 (2.41%) Facebook
2 6 (2.41%) Google
3 5 (2.01%) Databricks
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle