AWS Software Engineer Job Trends

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 474 534
Rank change year-on-year -185 +60 +335
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 32 179 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.46% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 30 170 111
10th Percentile £64,250 £76,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% +11.39%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £148,750 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +18.37%

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 68,739 38,903 80,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.47% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,768 23,119 61,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.23%

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 17 March 2026.

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 17 March 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 -163 31 £85,000 -19.05% 6
London -127 20 £90,000 -14.29% 2
Work from Home -90 19 £85,000 -19.05% 2
UK excluding London -26 11 £70,000 -6.67% 4
North of England -38 6 £75,000 - 2
North West -13 4 £90,000 +38.46% 1
Midlands - 4 £70,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £70,000 -
North East -22 2 £55,000 -26.67%
South East -12 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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 32 (100.00%) AWS
1 32 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (43.75%) TypeScript
3 12 (37.50%) Java
4 10 (31.25%) Python
5 6 (18.75%) AI
5 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (15.63%) Spring
7 4 (12.50%) Agile
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (12.50%) Apache
7 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (12.50%) Apache Arrow
7 4 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
7 4 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 4 (12.50%) C#
7 4 (12.50%) Data Lake
7 4 (12.50%) dbt
7 4 (12.50%) Dremio
7 4 (12.50%) Fintech
7 4 (12.50%) gRPC
7 4 (12.50%) Investment Management
7 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 4 (12.50%) NumPy
7 4 (12.50%) Pandas
7 4 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (12.50%) SciPy
7 4 (12.50%) Snowflake
7 4 (12.50%) Workflow

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 4 (12.50%) Apache
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) dbt
2 4 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Arrow
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
1 4 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 4 (12.50%) Dremio
2 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
2 4 (12.50%) Front Office
2 4 (12.50%) Games
2 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Spring
2 4 (12.50%) gRPC
2 4 (12.50%) NumPy
2 4 (12.50%) Pandas
2 4 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
2 4 (12.50%) SciPy
3 3 (9.38%) Node.js
3 3 (9.38%) React
3 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.25%) .NET
4 2 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.13%) CrewAI
5 1 (3.13%) LangChain
5 1 (3.13%) LangGraph
5 1 (3.13%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Hedge funds
2 5 (15.63%) AI Agents
3 4 (12.50%) Derivative
3 4 (12.50%) Equities
3 4 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 4 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (12.50%) Pricing Data
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.25%) Sports Betting
6 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) AI
2 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (12.50%) Agile
3 4 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 4 (12.50%) Fintech
3 4 (12.50%) Investment Management
3 4 (12.50%) Workflow
4 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (6.25%) LLM
6 1 (3.13%) Clean Code
6 1 (3.13%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.13%) Customer Experience
6 1 (3.13%) Event-Driven
6 1 (3.13%) Generative AI
6 1 (3.13%) Multi-Agent System
6 1 (3.13%) Observability
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) TypeScript
2 12 (37.50%) Java
3 10 (31.25%) Python
4 4 (12.50%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) PHP
6 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft