AWS Software Engineer Jobs

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 502 850
Rank change year-on-year +11 +348 -6
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 204 439 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.45% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.47% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 197 119 135
10th Percentile £74,600 £62,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £137,500 £135,625 £133,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £148,750 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +21.15% -23.53%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +235 204 £110,000 - 52
London +188 186 £110,000 -4.35% 25
Work from Home +242 160 £110,000 -4.35% 42
UK excluding London -95 18 £75,000 -4.76% 34
North of England +84 17 £70,000 -8.94% 23
North West +27 11 £65,000 -20.61% 19
North East +52 4 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £75,000 - 2
South East +106 1 £110,000 -2.22% 10

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 204 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 204 (100.00%) AWS
2 187 (91.67%) Agile
3 185 (90.69%) Finance
4 170 (83.33%) Python
5 166 (81.37%) Amazon Athena
6 164 (80.39%) Apache Airflow
6 164 (80.39%) Dremio
6 164 (80.39%) dbt
6 164 (80.39%) Apache Arrow
6 164 (80.39%) Apache Iceberg
6 164 (80.39%) Front Office
6 164 (80.39%) Fixed Income
6 164 (80.39%) Asset Management
7 150 (73.53%) TypeScript
8 137 (67.16%) JavaScript
9 134 (65.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 134 (65.69%) Equities
10 132 (64.71%) Pandas
10 132 (64.71%) SciPy
10 132 (64.71%) NumPy
11 127 (62.25%) Apache
12 120 (58.82%) Java
13 112 (54.90%) Investment Management
14 110 (53.92%) Banking
15 106 (51.96%) Hedge funds
16 105 (51.47%) Investment Banking
16 105 (51.47%) Derivative
16 105 (51.47%) Snowflake
17 99 (48.53%) gRPC

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
1 164 (80.39%) Apache Airflow
2 127 (62.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 204 (100.00%) AWS
2 164 (80.39%) dbt
3 105 (51.47%) Snowflake
4 93 (45.59%) GCP
5 38 (18.63%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (17.16%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (16.67%) Dagster
8 17 (8.33%) Serverless
9 12 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.45%) SaaS
14 4 (1.96%) Datadog
15 3 (1.47%) GitHub
16 2 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
16 2 (0.98%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (81.37%) Amazon Athena
2 164 (80.39%) Apache Arrow
2 164 (80.39%) Apache Iceberg
2 164 (80.39%) Dremio
3 95 (46.57%) Apache Ignite
4 75 (36.76%) Data Lake
5 40 (19.61%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.43%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.43%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.49%) Big Data
8 1 (0.49%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.49%) MySQL
8 1 (0.49%) Redis
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.96%) CircleCI
1 4 (1.96%) GitLab
1 4 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.98%) NUnit
General
1 185 (90.69%) Finance
2 164 (80.39%) Front Office
3 110 (53.92%) Banking
4 105 (51.47%) Investment Banking
5 13 (6.37%) Social Skills
6 10 (4.90%) Retail
7 4 (1.96%) Games
7 4 (1.96%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.96%) Publishing
7 4 (1.96%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.47%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (64.71%) NumPy
1 132 (64.71%) Pandas
1 132 (64.71%) SciPy
2 99 (48.53%) gRPC
3 95 (46.57%) Protocol Buffers
4 74 (36.27%) Node.js
5 67 (32.84%) React
6 66 (32.35%) PySpark
7 59 (28.92%) AngularJS
7 59 (28.92%) Vue
8 22 (10.78%) Redux
9 11 (5.39%) RESTful
10 10 (4.90%) REST
10 10 (4.90%) Web Services
11 9 (4.41%) .NET
12 7 (3.43%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.96%) GraphQL
13 4 (1.96%) Kafka
13 4 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (1.96%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 164 (80.39%) Fixed Income
2 134 (65.69%) Equities
2 134 (65.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 106 (51.96%) Hedge funds
4 105 (51.47%) Derivative
5 39 (19.12%) Pricing Data
6 4 (1.96%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.96%) Web3
7 3 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.98%) Online Games
9 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 187 (91.67%) Agile
3 164 (80.39%) Asset Management
4 112 (54.90%) Investment Management
5 61 (29.90%) Fintech
6 59 (28.92%) Performance Attribution
7 41 (20.10%) Risk Management
8 40 (19.61%) Order Management
9 34 (16.67%) Migration
10 32 (15.69%) Data Management
11 22 (10.78%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 18 (8.82%) CI/CD
13 11 (5.39%) Cloud Security
13 11 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (5.39%) DevOps
14 10 (4.90%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (4.90%) Identity Access Management
14 10 (4.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 10 (4.90%) Security Architecture
15 8 (3.92%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 170 (83.33%) Python
2 150 (73.53%) TypeScript
3 137 (67.16%) JavaScript
4 120 (58.82%) Java
5 35 (17.16%) SQL
6 12 (5.88%) C#
7 4 (1.96%) Go
8 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
1 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (0.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.96%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (3.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.43%) Terraform
2 6 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.49%) Argo
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (4.90%) Ping Identity