AWS Software Engineer Job Trends

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 711 428 422
Rank change year-on-year -283 -6 +296
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 70 284 482
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.64% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 65 241 264
10th Percentile - £85,000 £80,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% - +6.98%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £79,375
% change year-on-year -3.70% -14.96% +27.00%

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 97,516 44,723 79,510
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 90.09% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 66,672 26,642 54,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -255 66 £90,000 -21.74% 17
UK excluding London -75 37 £65,000 -3.70% 9
London -225 30 £100,000 -13.04% 11
Work from Home -174 29 £90,000 -30.77% 7
South East - 22 £65,000 - 2
North West -10 10 £75,000 +11.11% 4
North of England -47 10 £75,000 +15.38% 4
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 -
Midlands - 3 £85,000 -
Scotland -12 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (91.43%) Software Engineering
3 35 (50.00%) Python
4 25 (35.71%) C#
5 23 (32.86%) Degree
6 19 (27.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (25.71%) C++
8 17 (24.29%) Java
9 16 (22.86%) TypeScript
10 12 (17.14%) Go
11 11 (15.71%) CI/CD
11 11 (15.71%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
11 11 (15.71%) Finite Element Analysis
11 11 (15.71%) Microservices
12 10 (14.29%) Fintech
12 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (14.29%) Kubernetes
12 10 (14.29%) Spring Boot
13 9 (12.86%) AI
14 8 (11.43%) DevOps
15 7 (10.00%) .NET
15 7 (10.00%) Agile
15 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
15 7 (10.00%) Machine Learning
15 7 (10.00%) RESTful
16 6 (8.57%) Amazon S3
16 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
16 6 (8.57%) Serverless

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 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (8.57%) Amazon S3
2 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (8.57%) Serverless
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (4.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.29%) Datadog
4 3 (4.29%) GitHub
5 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.86%) SaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.43%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.29%) CircleCI
2 3 (4.29%) GitLab
3 2 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Finance
2 8 (11.43%) Health Technology
3 4 (5.71%) Aerospace
3 4 (5.71%) Automotive
3 4 (5.71%) Digital Health
3 4 (5.71%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.29%) Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Law
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Marketing
6 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 7 (10.00%) .NET
2 7 (10.00%) RESTful
3 5 (7.14%) Node.js
4 4 (5.71%) Django
4 4 (5.71%) Spring
4 4 (5.71%) Vue
5 3 (4.29%) gRPC
5 3 (4.29%) Kafka
5 3 (4.29%) Next.js
5 3 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.29%) React
6 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.86%) REST
6 2 (2.86%) web3js
7 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.43%) Jinja
7 1 (1.43%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) Distributed Computing
2 14 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.29%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Web3
5 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.43%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.43%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (91.43%) Software Engineering
2 11 (15.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (15.71%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 11 (15.71%) Finite Element Analysis
2 11 (15.71%) Microservices
3 10 (14.29%) Fintech
3 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (12.86%) AI
5 8 (11.43%) DevOps
6 7 (10.00%) Agile
6 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (10.00%) Machine Learning
7 5 (7.14%) Computer Science
7 5 (7.14%) Event-Driven
7 5 (7.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (7.14%) Front End Development
8 4 (5.71%) Analytics
8 4 (5.71%) Code Quality
8 4 (5.71%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (5.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) Python
2 25 (35.71%) C#
3 18 (25.71%) C++
4 17 (24.29%) Java
5 16 (22.86%) TypeScript
6 12 (17.14%) Go
7 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.71%) Kotlin
9 3 (4.29%) Ruby
10 2 (2.86%) Bash
11 1 (1.43%) PHP
11 1 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (32.86%) Degree
2 19 (27.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.71%) PhD
4 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Terraform
3 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) Databricks