AWS Software Engineer Jobs

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £115,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 773 815
Rank change year-on-year +340 +42 -102
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 480 114 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.14% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.15% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 259 114 442
10th Percentile £77,500 £64,300 £70,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £148,750 £142,500 £122,500
90th Percentile - £151,250 £136,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% -26.47% +70.00%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Software Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Software Engineer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +195 287 £115,000 +6.98% 7
Work from Home +177 261 £115,000 +6.98% 9
London +213 258 £115,000 +5.75% 6
UK excluding London +174 222 £80,000 +28.00% 5
Scotland - 193 - -
North of England +22 14 £85,000 +36.00%
North West - 14 £85,000 -
South West 0 6 £80,000 +28.00%
South East +7 5 £112,500 +60.71% 2
Midlands -20 3 £75,000 +50.00%
East Midlands -27 3 £75,000 +50.00%
East of England - 1 £127,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 480 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 480 (100.00%) AWS
2 446 (92.92%) Agile
3 419 (87.29%) Finance
4 368 (76.67%) Python
5 316 (65.83%) Java
6 270 (56.25%) Apache
7 240 (50.00%) Asset Management
8 235 (48.96%) JavaScript
9 223 (46.46%) Banking
9 223 (46.46%) Investment Banking
9 223 (46.46%) TypeScript
10 219 (45.63%) Fixed Income
10 219 (45.63%) Front Office
11 215 (44.79%) SciPy
11 215 (44.79%) NumPy
11 215 (44.79%) Pandas
11 215 (44.79%) Protocol Buffers
11 215 (44.79%) gRPC
11 215 (44.79%) Apache Airflow
11 215 (44.79%) Amazon Athena
11 215 (44.79%) Apache Ignite
11 215 (44.79%) Dremio
11 215 (44.79%) dbt
11 215 (44.79%) Apache Arrow
12 207 (43.13%) CI/CD
13 193 (40.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 193 (40.21%) Hedge funds
13 193 (40.21%) Derivative
13 193 (40.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

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
1 270 (56.25%) Apache
2 215 (44.79%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (24.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sketch
1 1 (0.21%) UXPin
1 1 (0.21%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 480 (100.00%) AWS
2 215 (44.79%) dbt
3 189 (39.38%) Snowflake
4 65 (13.54%) Serverless
5 63 (13.13%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (12.29%) Amazon EC2
6 59 (12.29%) Amazon EKS
7 57 (11.88%) GCP
8 53 (11.04%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
10 29 (6.04%) Amazon EMR
11 28 (5.83%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (2.29%) Azure
13 8 (1.67%) Datadog
14 6 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.83%) Amazon Cognito
15 4 (0.83%) Amazon S3
15 4 (0.83%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (0.83%) OpenShift
15 4 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.83%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (44.79%) Amazon Athena
1 215 (44.79%) Apache Arrow
1 215 (44.79%) Apache Ignite
1 215 (44.79%) Dremio
2 189 (39.38%) Data Lake
3 148 (30.83%) NoSQL
4 86 (17.92%) Big Data
4 86 (17.92%) Hadoop
5 60 (12.50%) Apache Hive
5 60 (12.50%) HBase
6 29 (6.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 19 (3.96%) DynamoDB
8 15 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.83%) DocumentDB
10 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.21%) MySQL
11 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (16.67%) Git
2 61 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 60 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 19 (3.96%) GitLab
5 3 (0.63%) NUnit
5 3 (0.63%) Postman
6 1 (0.21%) JIRA
6 1 (0.21%) Mocha
General
1 419 (87.29%) Finance
2 223 (46.46%) Banking
2 223 (46.46%) Investment Banking
3 219 (45.63%) Front Office
4 193 (40.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 192 (40.00%) Law
6 142 (29.58%) Legal
7 31 (6.46%) Marketing
8 26 (5.42%) Financial Institution
9 24 (5.00%) Social Skills
10 16 (3.33%) Games
11 15 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.67%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.63%) Advertising
14 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (44.79%) gRPC
1 215 (44.79%) NumPy
1 215 (44.79%) Pandas
1 215 (44.79%) Protocol Buffers
1 215 (44.79%) SciPy
2 30 (6.25%) PySpark
2 30 (6.25%) React
3 29 (6.04%) Node.js
4 26 (5.42%) AngularJS
5 21 (4.38%) Vue
6 20 (4.17%) Redux
7 16 (3.33%) RESTful
8 15 (3.13%) Django
8 15 (3.13%) GraphQL
9 14 (2.92%) Kafka
10 13 (2.71%) Spring
10 13 (2.71%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.46%) Lambda Expressions
12 6 (1.25%) .NET
13 5 (1.04%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 219 (45.63%) Fixed Income
2 193 (40.21%) Derivative
2 193 (40.21%) Equities
2 193 (40.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 193 (40.21%) Hedge funds
3 142 (29.58%) Algorithms
4 72 (15.00%) Pricing Data
5 38 (7.92%) Cloud Native
6 27 (5.63%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.83%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.63%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.42%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.42%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.42%) IoT
10 2 (0.42%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.21%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.21%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.21%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.21%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 446 (92.92%) Agile
3 240 (50.00%) Asset Management
4 207 (43.13%) CI/CD
5 189 (39.38%) Operational Stability
6 188 (39.17%) SDLC
7 179 (37.29%) Investment Management
8 144 (30.00%) Risk Management
9 142 (29.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 141 (29.38%) Visualisation
11 139 (28.96%) Artificial Intelligence
12 134 (27.92%) Machine Learning
13 121 (25.21%) Community of Practice
14 90 (18.75%) TDD
15 87 (18.13%) Greeks
16 71 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
17 69 (14.38%) Test Automation
18 63 (13.13%) Open Source
19 60 (12.50%) Batch Processing
20 51 (10.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 368 (76.67%) Python
2 316 (65.83%) Java
3 235 (48.96%) JavaScript
4 223 (46.46%) TypeScript
5 179 (37.29%) SQL
6 60 (12.50%) PL/SQL
7 56 (11.67%) Scala
8 7 (1.46%) C#
9 5 (1.04%) Go
10 4 (0.83%) Bash
11 1 (0.21%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (3.13%) DBS Check
2 2 (0.42%) Degree
3 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.21%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (18.13%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.42%) MiFID
4 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 60 (12.50%) HDFS
2 16 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (15.00%) Terraform
2 20 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.63%) Grafana
3 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
Vendors
1 104 (21.67%) Databricks
2 60 (12.50%) Informatica
3 30 (6.25%) Bloomberg
3 30 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 30 (6.25%) Reuters
4 3 (0.63%) Splunk
5 1 (0.21%) GoCardless
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle
5 1 (0.21%) PayPal
5 1 (0.21%) Sage
5 1 (0.21%) Salesforce