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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 707 467 454
Rank change year-on-year -240 -13 +211
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 101 217 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.49% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 91 177 278
10th Percentile £50,750 - £80,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £130,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £142,500
90th Percentile - - £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +33.33%

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 109,479 44,337 68,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 89.81% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,234 25,787 39,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -235 92 £77,500 -40.38% 63
UK excluding London -84 72 £75,000 +7.14% 49
Work from Home -164 37 £100,000 -23.08% 16
South East -17 32 £65,000 - 2
London -205 28 £100,000 -23.08% 27
Midlands -35 15 £45,000 -43.75% 6
East Midlands -17 13 £45,000 -43.75% 6
North West -19 12 £75,000 +11.11% 11
North of England -64 12 £75,000 +15.38% 14
Scotland -1 8 £100,000 - 20
East of England - 5 £90,000 - 6
West Midlands - 2 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 100 (99.01%) Software Engineering
3 48 (47.52%) Python
4 32 (31.68%) C#
5 28 (27.72%) Degree
6 24 (23.76%) C++
6 24 (23.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (22.77%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
7 23 (22.77%) Finite Element Analysis
8 16 (15.84%) Microservices
8 16 (15.84%) TypeScript
9 15 (14.85%) Java
10 14 (13.86%) Machine Learning
11 13 (12.87%) Agile
12 12 (11.88%) Kubernetes
12 12 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (9.90%) CI/CD
13 10 (9.90%) Go
14 9 (8.91%) AI
14 9 (8.91%) Design Patterns
14 9 (8.91%) Fintech
14 9 (8.91%) Serverless
15 8 (7.92%) .NET
15 8 (7.92%) Asset Management
15 8 (7.92%) DevOps
15 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (7.92%) JavaScript
16 7 (6.93%) Amazon S3
16 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (6.93%) Event-Driven

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 (0.99%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (8.91%) Serverless
3 7 (6.93%) Amazon S3
3 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (3.96%) GitHub
6 3 (2.97%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (2.97%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.97%) Datadog
6 3 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.98%) GCP
7 2 (1.98%) SaaS
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.99%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.99%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.97%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.98%) Big Data
4 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.99%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.97%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.97%) GitLab
3 2 (1.98%) MLflow
4 1 (0.99%) Git
4 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 17 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.90%) Finance
3 8 (7.92%) Front Office
3 8 (7.92%) Health Technology
4 6 (5.94%) Aerospace
4 6 (5.94%) Automotive
5 5 (4.95%) Banking
6 4 (3.96%) Digital Health
6 4 (3.96%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.98%) Law
7 2 (1.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.99%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) .NET
2 7 (6.93%) RESTful
3 6 (5.94%) Django
3 6 (5.94%) Node.js
3 6 (5.94%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.94%) Terraform
3 6 (5.94%) Vue
4 5 (4.95%) Next.js
5 4 (3.96%) React
6 3 (2.97%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.97%) gRPC
6 3 (2.97%) Kafka
6 3 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.98%) Pandas
7 2 (1.98%) REST
7 2 (1.98%) Spring
7 2 (1.98%) web3js
8 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.99%) Jinja
8 1 (0.99%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.76%) Distributed Computing
2 15 (14.85%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.91%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.97%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.98%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Web3
6 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.99%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (99.01%) Software Engineering
2 23 (22.77%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 23 (22.77%) Finite Element Analysis
3 16 (15.84%) Microservices
4 14 (13.86%) Machine Learning
5 13 (12.87%) Agile
6 10 (9.90%) CI/CD
7 9 (8.91%) AI
7 9 (8.91%) Design Patterns
7 9 (8.91%) Fintech
8 8 (7.92%) Asset Management
8 8 (7.92%) DevOps
8 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (6.93%) Event-Driven
9 7 (6.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (6.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (6.93%) Test Automation
10 6 (5.94%) Code Quality
11 5 (4.95%) Clean Code
11 5 (4.95%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (47.52%) Python
2 32 (31.68%) C#
3 24 (23.76%) C++
4 16 (15.84%) TypeScript
5 15 (14.85%) Java
6 10 (9.90%) Go
7 8 (7.92%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.96%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.98%) SQL
10 1 (0.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (27.72%) Degree
2 24 (23.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.94%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.94%) PhD
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.99%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (5.94%) Databricks
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft