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 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 707 441 417
Rank change year-on-year -266 -24 +288
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 80 250 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.51% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.56% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 74 212 281
10th Percentile £59,375 £93,250 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £130,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +30.61%

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 104,733 44,390 75,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 89.68% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 72,126 26,208 47,516
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,132 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,500 £74,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -254 73 £90,000 -30.77% 32
UK excluding London -88 44 £65,000 -7.14% 39
London -223 34 £100,000 -23.08% 15
Work from Home -195 31 £100,000 -23.08% 11
South East - 25 £65,000 - 4
North West -24 9 £75,000 +11.11% 3
North of England -71 9 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Scotland -9 5 £100,000 - 21
Midlands -29 4 £76,250 -4.69% 5
East Midlands -28 2 £56,250 -29.69% 5
West Midlands - 2 £85,000 -
East of England - 1 £100,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 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 80 (100.00%) AWS
2 74 (92.50%) Software Engineering
3 42 (52.50%) Python
4 28 (35.00%) C#
5 25 (31.25%) Degree
6 21 (26.25%) C++
6 21 (26.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (23.75%) TypeScript
8 16 (20.00%) Java
9 14 (17.50%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
9 14 (17.50%) Finite Element Analysis
10 13 (16.25%) Go
10 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
11 12 (15.00%) Microservices
12 11 (13.75%) Agile
12 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
13 10 (12.50%) AI
13 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (12.50%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.50%) Spring Boot
14 9 (11.25%) Fintech
14 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
15 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (8.75%) .NET
16 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
16 7 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (8.75%) Design Patterns
16 7 (8.75%) RESTful
16 7 (8.75%) 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 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
2 7 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (8.75%) Serverless
3 5 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.75%) Datadog
5 3 (3.75%) GitHub
6 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.50%) SaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (1.25%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) CircleCI
2 3 (3.75%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Finance
3 8 (10.00%) Health Technology
4 6 (7.50%) Aerospace
4 6 (7.50%) Automotive
5 5 (6.25%) Front Office
6 4 (5.00%) Digital Health
6 4 (5.00%) Tech for Good
7 3 (3.75%) Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.50%) Law
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
8 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 7 (8.75%) .NET
2 7 (8.75%) RESTful
3 6 (7.50%) Django
3 6 (7.50%) Terraform
3 6 (7.50%) Vue
4 5 (6.25%) Node.js
5 4 (5.00%) React
6 3 (3.75%) gRPC
6 3 (3.75%) Kafka
6 3 (3.75%) Next.js
6 3 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.75%) Spring
7 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.50%) Pandas
7 2 (2.50%) REST
7 2 (2.50%) web3js
8 1 (1.25%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.25%) NumPy
8 1 (1.25%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Distributed Computing
2 12 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.50%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Web3
6 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (92.50%) Software Engineering
2 14 (17.50%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 14 (17.50%) Finite Element Analysis
3 12 (15.00%) Microservices
4 11 (13.75%) Agile
4 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
5 10 (12.50%) AI
5 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 9 (11.25%) Fintech
7 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (8.75%) Design Patterns
9 6 (7.50%) Code Quality
9 6 (7.50%) DevOps
10 5 (6.25%) Asset Management
10 5 (6.25%) Event-Driven
10 5 (6.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (6.25%) Front End Development
10 5 (6.25%) Test Automation
11 4 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (52.50%) Python
2 28 (35.00%) C#
3 21 (26.25%) C++
4 19 (23.75%) TypeScript
5 16 (20.00%) Java
6 13 (16.25%) Go
7 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.00%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Degree
2 21 (26.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
3 6 (7.50%) PhD
4 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (3.75%) Databricks
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft