AWS Software Engineer Jobs

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 March 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 526 885
Rank change year-on-year +22 +359 -23
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 180 362 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.40% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.42% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 171 112 136
10th Percentile £76,000 £57,500 £64,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £136,250 £134,063 £130,938
90th Percentile £148,750 £148,750 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -29.17%

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 46,532 85,499 102,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.70% 92.44%
Number of salaries quoted 26,438 62,910 63,663
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,817 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 24 March 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 9 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 24 March 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 +225 180 £105,000 -4.55% 14
London +163 168 £107,500 -14.00% 7
Work from Home +191 134 £106,250 -11.46% 5
UK excluding London -80 12 £75,000 - 10
North of England +74 11 £75,000 +7.14% 7
Yorkshire +72 5 £75,000 +25.00%
North West +13 5 £65,000 -15.45% 4
South East +86 1 £110,000 +29.41% 2
North East +45 1 £75,000 +15.38% 3

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

For the 6 months to 24 March 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.

1 180 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 180 (100.00%) AWS
2 166 (92.22%) Agile
3 161 (89.44%) Python
4 157 (87.22%) Finance
5 144 (80.00%) Front Office
5 144 (80.00%) Fixed Income
5 144 (80.00%) Asset Management
6 138 (76.67%) Amazon Athena
7 136 (75.56%) Dremio
7 136 (75.56%) dbt
7 136 (75.56%) Apache Airflow
7 136 (75.56%) Apache Arrow
7 136 (75.56%) Apache Iceberg
8 126 (70.00%) Apache
9 119 (66.11%) TypeScript
10 114 (63.33%) JavaScript
11 112 (62.22%) SciPy
11 112 (62.22%) NumPy
11 112 (62.22%) Pandas
12 104 (57.78%) Java
13 99 (55.00%) Banking
14 98 (54.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 98 (54.44%) Equities
14 98 (54.44%) gRPC
15 95 (52.78%) Hedge funds
16 94 (52.22%) Protocol Buffers
16 94 (52.22%) Investment Banking
16 94 (52.22%) Derivative
16 94 (52.22%) Apache Ignite

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
1 136 (75.56%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (70.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) AWS
2 136 (75.56%) dbt
3 94 (52.22%) Snowflake
4 84 (46.67%) GCP
5 38 (21.11%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (19.44%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (18.89%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (18.89%) Dagster
8 21 (11.67%) Serverless
9 18 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 18 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (2.78%) Datadog
14 3 (1.67%) GitHub
14 3 (1.67%) SaaS
15 2 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (76.67%) Amazon Athena
2 136 (75.56%) Apache Arrow
2 136 (75.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 136 (75.56%) Dremio
3 94 (52.22%) Apache Ignite
4 64 (35.56%) Data Lake
5 13 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.89%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.78%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.56%) Big Data
8 1 (0.56%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.56%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) MySQL
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.78%) GitLab
2 4 (2.22%) CircleCI
2 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.11%) NUnit
General
1 157 (87.22%) Finance
2 144 (80.00%) Front Office
3 99 (55.00%) Banking
4 94 (52.22%) Investment Banking
5 20 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 10 (5.56%) Health Technology
6 10 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (5.56%) Publishing
6 10 (5.56%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.67%) Advertising
8 2 (1.11%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (62.22%) NumPy
1 112 (62.22%) Pandas
1 112 (62.22%) SciPy
2 98 (54.44%) gRPC
3 94 (52.22%) Protocol Buffers
4 66 (36.67%) PySpark
5 55 (30.56%) React
6 54 (30.00%) Node.js
7 50 (27.78%) AngularJS
7 50 (27.78%) Vue
8 32 (17.78%) Redux
9 17 (9.44%) RESTful
10 11 (6.11%) .NET
11 10 (5.56%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.78%) Kafka
13 4 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.22%) web3js
14 2 (1.11%) REST
14 2 (1.11%) Web Services
15 1 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 144 (80.00%) Fixed Income
2 98 (54.44%) Equities
2 98 (54.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 95 (52.78%) Hedge funds
4 94 (52.22%) Derivative
5 28 (15.56%) Pricing Data
6 5 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.22%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.22%) Web3
8 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 166 (92.22%) Agile
3 144 (80.00%) Asset Management
4 84 (46.67%) Investment Management
5 52 (28.89%) Fintech
6 50 (27.78%) Performance Attribution
7 40 (22.22%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 34 (18.89%) Migration
9 32 (17.78%) Data Management
10 22 (12.22%) CI/CD
11 16 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (7.78%) Risk Management
13 13 (7.22%) Mentoring
14 12 (6.67%) Scrum
15 11 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (6.11%) Pair Programming
15 11 (6.11%) Process Improvement
15 11 (6.11%) TDD
15 11 (6.11%) User Stories
16 10 (5.56%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 161 (89.44%) Python
2 119 (66.11%) TypeScript
3 114 (63.33%) JavaScript
4 104 (57.78%) Java
5 38 (21.11%) SQL
6 12 (6.67%) C#
7 8 (4.44%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.44%) Scala
8 4 (2.22%) Go
9 1 (0.56%) Bash
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (0.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.44%) Terraform
2 7 (3.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (1.11%) Ping Identity