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 4 July 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 467 801
Rank change year-on-year -16 +334 +48
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 257 520 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.48% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.51% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 213 262 114
10th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £71,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £137,500 £143,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - £148,750 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -17.65%

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 53,224 101,891 81,094
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.82% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,964 71,748 54,252
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,118
% change year-on-year - -5.87% +5.18%

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 4 July 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 8 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 4 July 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 +97 237 £115,000 - 109
London +78 219 £115,000 - 58
Work from Home +49 175 £115,000 - 80
UK excluding London -24 38 £67,500 -10.00% 74
Scotland -61 20 £100,000 - 17
North of England +45 18 £65,000 -13.33% 29
North West +11 15 £67,500 -14.29% 25
North East +47 3 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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.

1 257 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 257 (100.00%) AWS
2 242 (94.16%) Finance
3 236 (91.83%) Agile
4 197 (76.65%) Amazon Athena
5 194 (75.49%) Apache Iceberg
5 194 (75.49%) Python
6 185 (71.98%) Front Office
6 185 (71.98%) Fixed Income
6 185 (71.98%) Asset Management
6 185 (71.98%) Apache Arrow
6 185 (71.98%) Dremio
6 185 (71.98%) dbt
6 185 (71.98%) Apache Airflow
7 175 (68.09%) Equities
8 171 (66.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 171 (66.54%) TypeScript
9 163 (63.42%) Java
10 158 (61.48%) Investment Management
11 157 (61.09%) JavaScript
12 153 (59.53%) SciPy
12 153 (59.53%) NumPy
12 153 (59.53%) Pandas
13 144 (56.03%) Banking
14 114 (44.36%) Apache
15 111 (43.19%) Derivative
16 107 (41.63%) Investment Banking
17 103 (40.08%) Hedge funds
17 103 (40.08%) Snowflake
18 99 (38.52%) GCP

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
1 185 (71.98%) Apache Airflow
2 114 (44.36%) Apache
3 9 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 257 (100.00%) AWS
2 185 (71.98%) dbt
3 103 (40.08%) Snowflake
4 99 (38.52%) GCP
5 15 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (5.84%) Amazon S3
6 14 (5.45%) Serverless
7 11 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (4.28%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (4.28%) Dagster
8 10 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.33%) Azure
10 5 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.56%) Datadog
11 4 (1.56%) SaaS
12 2 (0.78%) GitHub
13 1 (0.39%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (76.65%) Amazon Athena
2 194 (75.49%) Apache Iceberg
3 185 (71.98%) Apache Arrow
3 185 (71.98%) Dremio
4 80 (31.13%) PostgreSQL
5 77 (29.96%) Apache Ignite
6 74 (28.79%) Data Lake
7 17 (6.61%) Big Data
7 17 (6.61%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.95%) Apache Hudi
9 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.95%) Parquet
10 4 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.56%) KDB
10 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.33%) GitLab
2 5 (1.95%) JUnit
3 4 (1.56%) CircleCI
3 4 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.78%) JIRA
4 2 (0.78%) Selenium
5 1 (0.39%) NUnit
General
1 242 (94.16%) Finance
2 185 (71.98%) Front Office
3 144 (56.03%) Banking
4 107 (41.63%) Investment Banking
5 36 (14.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (14.01%) Law
6 12 (4.67%) Retail
7 7 (2.72%) Social Skills
8 3 (1.17%) Advertising
8 3 (1.17%) Games
9 2 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (59.53%) NumPy
1 153 (59.53%) Pandas
1 153 (59.53%) SciPy
2 99 (38.52%) Node.js
3 89 (34.63%) React
4 82 (31.91%) AngularJS
4 82 (31.91%) Vue
5 81 (31.52%) gRPC
6 77 (29.96%) Protocol Buffers
7 44 (17.12%) PySpark
8 20 (7.78%) Web Services
9 18 (7.00%) Spring
10 15 (5.84%) Kafka
11 12 (4.67%) REST
12 10 (3.89%) Spring Boot
13 9 (3.50%) RESTful
14 6 (2.33%) OAuth
14 6 (2.33%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.33%) OpenID
14 6 (2.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 185 (71.98%) Fixed Income
2 175 (68.09%) Equities
3 171 (66.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 111 (43.19%) Derivative
5 103 (40.08%) Hedge funds
6 60 (23.35%) Pricing Data
7 23 (8.95%) Cloud Native
8 17 (6.61%) Algorithms
8 17 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.11%) Equity Derivative
9 8 (3.11%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.56%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.56%) Web3
11 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.78%) Online Games
12 2 (0.78%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 236 (91.83%) Agile
3 185 (71.98%) Asset Management
4 158 (61.48%) Investment Management
5 82 (31.91%) Fintech
5 82 (31.91%) Performance Attribution
6 80 (31.13%) Risk Management
7 79 (30.74%) Order Management
8 34 (13.23%) CI/CD
9 32 (12.45%) Data Management
9 32 (12.45%) SDLC
10 22 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (8.17%) Community of Practice
11 21 (8.17%) Visualisation
12 20 (7.78%) Microservices
13 18 (7.00%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (7.00%) Operational Stability
14 17 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (6.61%) DevOps
14 17 (6.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 194 (75.49%) Python
2 171 (66.54%) TypeScript
3 163 (63.42%) Java
4 157 (61.09%) JavaScript
5 39 (15.18%) SQL
6 10 (3.89%) Go
7 9 (3.50%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.11%) Scala
9 5 (1.95%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (0.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.39%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (6.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (9.34%) Terraform
2 23 (8.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.39%) Grafana
4 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (4.67%) Ping Identity
2 6 (2.33%) Facebook
2 6 (2.33%) Google
3 5 (1.95%) Databricks