AWS Software Engineer Job Trends

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 464 478
Rank change year-on-year -193 +14 +340
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 58 194 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.50% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 55 186 143
10th Percentile - £72,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £98,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £137,500 £131,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +7.14%

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 85,212 39,160 91,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 89.49% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,182 22,791 67,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,344 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.48% +4.69% -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 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 12 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 16 May 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 -187 56 £82,500 -25.00% 13
London -149 31 £90,000 -21.74% 5
UK excluding London -47 25 £65,000 - 8
Work from Home -99 22 £90,000 -18.18% 9
South East -9 12 £65,000 -40.91% 1
North of England -36 8 £75,000 +15.38% 6
North West -2 7 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Midlands - 4 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £70,000 -
North East -42 1 £55,000 -21.43%
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 1
East of England - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (89.66%) Software Engineering
3 26 (44.83%) Python
4 19 (32.76%) C#
5 14 (24.14%) Degree
6 13 (22.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (22.41%) TypeScript
7 12 (20.69%) C++
7 12 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (20.69%) Java
8 9 (15.52%) AI
9 7 (12.07%) Fintech
9 7 (12.07%) Go
9 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
10 6 (10.34%) .NET
11 5 (8.62%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
11 5 (8.62%) Finite Element Analysis
12 4 (6.90%) CI/CD
12 4 (6.90%) DevOps
12 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
12 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
12 4 (6.90%) Machine Learning
12 4 (6.90%) Microservices
12 4 (6.90%) Node.js
12 4 (6.90%) RESTful
12 4 (6.90%) Spring
12 4 (6.90%) Workflow
13 3 (5.17%) Agile
13 3 (5.17%) Front End Development
13 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL

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:

Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
2 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (3.45%) Serverless
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.72%) Datadog
3 1 (1.72%) GitHub
3 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.72%) SaaS
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) Big Data
3 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 5 (8.62%) Finance
2 4 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.45%) Automotive
3 2 (3.45%) Games
4 1 (1.72%) Banking
4 1 (1.72%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
2 6 (10.34%) .NET
3 4 (6.90%) Node.js
3 4 (6.90%) RESTful
3 4 (6.90%) Spring
4 3 (5.17%) React
5 2 (3.45%) Django
5 2 (3.45%) REST
5 2 (3.45%) Vue
6 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.72%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.72%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.72%) gRPC
6 1 (1.72%) Kafka
6 1 (1.72%) LangChain
6 1 (1.72%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.72%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.72%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (10.34%) AI Agents
3 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.17%) Sports Betting
5 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.45%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.72%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.72%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (89.66%) Software Engineering
2 12 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (15.52%) AI
4 7 (12.07%) Fintech
5 5 (8.62%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
5 5 (8.62%) Finite Element Analysis
6 4 (6.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (6.90%) DevOps
6 4 (6.90%) Machine Learning
6 4 (6.90%) Microservices
6 4 (6.90%) Workflow
7 3 (5.17%) Agile
7 3 (5.17%) Front End Development
8 2 (3.45%) Analytics
8 2 (3.45%) Computer Science
8 2 (3.45%) Design Patterns
8 2 (3.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (3.45%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (3.45%) Workforce Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.83%) Python
2 19 (32.76%) C#
3 13 (22.41%) TypeScript
4 12 (20.69%) C++
4 12 (20.69%) Java
5 7 (12.07%) Go
6 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.45%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) Ruby
8 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.72%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) Degree
2 13 (22.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.45%) PhD
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft