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 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 704 428 422
Rank change year-on-year -276 -6 +325
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 68 277 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.62% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 63 233 262
10th Percentile - £81,000 £77,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% - +6.98%
75th Percentile £93,750 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £148,750
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 95,392 44,432 84,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 90.12% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 65,258 26,408 58,586
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 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 10 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 26 July 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 -262 65 £87,500 -23.91% 10
UK excluding London -85 36 £65,000 -3.70% 6
London -215 29 £100,000 -13.04% 7
Work from Home -177 27 £90,000 -30.77% 3
South East - 22 £65,000 -
North West -5 10 £75,000 +11.11% 2
North of England -44 10 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Midlands - 3 £85,000 -
West Midlands - 3 £85,000 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (91.18%) Software Engineering
3 36 (52.94%) Python
4 25 (36.76%) C#
5 22 (32.35%) Degree
6 19 (27.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (26.47%) C++
8 16 (23.53%) TypeScript
9 15 (22.06%) Java
10 11 (16.18%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
10 11 (16.18%) Finite Element Analysis
10 11 (16.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (16.18%) Go
10 11 (16.18%) Microservices
11 10 (14.71%) CI/CD
11 10 (14.71%) Fintech
12 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
13 8 (11.76%) AI
13 8 (11.76%) DevOps
13 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (11.76%) Spring Boot
14 7 (10.29%) .NET
14 7 (10.29%) Amazon S3
14 7 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
14 7 (10.29%) Machine Learning
14 7 (10.29%) RESTful
14 7 (10.29%) Serverless
15 6 (8.82%) Agile
15 6 (8.82%) Event-Driven

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 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (10.29%) Amazon S3
2 7 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (10.29%) Serverless
3 5 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (7.35%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
4 4 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.41%) Datadog
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub
6 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.94%) SaaS
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.47%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.41%) CircleCI
2 3 (4.41%) GitLab
3 2 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.29%) Finance
2 7 (10.29%) Health Technology
3 4 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 4 (5.88%) Automotive
3 4 (5.88%) Digital Health
4 3 (4.41%) Banking
4 3 (4.41%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 7 (10.29%) .NET
2 7 (10.29%) RESTful
3 5 (7.35%) Node.js
4 4 (5.88%) Django
4 4 (5.88%) Vue
5 3 (4.41%) gRPC
5 3 (4.41%) Kafka
5 3 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.41%) Spring
6 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.94%) Next.js
6 2 (2.94%) React
6 2 (2.94%) REST
6 2 (2.94%) web3js
7 1 (1.47%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.47%) CrewAI
7 1 (1.47%) LangChain
7 1 (1.47%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.47%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.47%) Distributed Computing
2 14 (20.59%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.41%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.94%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.94%) Web3
5 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.47%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.47%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (91.18%) Software Engineering
2 11 (16.18%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 11 (16.18%) Finite Element Analysis
2 11 (16.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (16.18%) Microservices
3 10 (14.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (14.71%) Fintech
4 8 (11.76%) AI
4 8 (11.76%) DevOps
4 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (10.29%) Machine Learning
6 6 (8.82%) Agile
6 6 (8.82%) Event-Driven
6 6 (8.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (7.35%) Front End Development
8 4 (5.88%) Analytics
8 4 (5.88%) Computer Science
8 4 (5.88%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (5.88%) Design Patterns
8 4 (5.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.94%) Python
2 25 (36.76%) C#
3 18 (26.47%) C++
4 16 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 15 (22.06%) Java
6 11 (16.18%) Go
7 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.41%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.41%) Ruby
9 2 (2.94%) Bash
10 1 (1.47%) PHP
10 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (32.35%) Degree
2 19 (27.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.88%) PhD
4 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Terraform
3 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.47%) Databricks