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 to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 845 871
Rank change year-on-year +363 +26 -224
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 474 132 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.15% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 151 128 341
10th Percentile £65,000 £66,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £86,875 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £107,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +13.16% -
75th Percentile £131,875 £142,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% +70.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 13 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 18 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +272 342 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Scotland - 301 - -
England +129 171 £110,000 +2.33% 18
Work from Home +101 137 £115,000 +6.98% 19
London +127 130 £115,000 +4.55% 18
North of England +68 18 £76,875 +25.51%
North West - 16 £81,875 -
South West - 13 £76,250 -
South East +2 4 £112,500 +60.71% 2
East of England +1 3 £127,500 +75.86%
East Midlands -8 3 £75,000 +15.38%
Midlands -9 3 £75,000 +15.38%
North East - 2 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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.

1 474 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 474 (100.00%) AWS
2 437 (92.19%) Agile
3 410 (86.50%) Finance
4 310 (65.40%) CI/CD
5 302 (63.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 301 (63.50%) Law
7 299 (63.08%) SDLC
8 298 (62.87%) Operational Stability
9 296 (62.45%) Python
10 269 (56.75%) Java
11 223 (47.05%) SQL
12 218 (45.99%) NoSQL
13 207 (43.67%) Legal
14 205 (43.25%) Risk Management
15 198 (41.77%) Apache
15 198 (41.77%) Algorithms
16 197 (41.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 196 (41.35%) Visualisation
18 192 (40.51%) Artificial Intelligence
19 191 (40.30%) Machine Learning
20 181 (38.19%) Apache Spark
21 178 (37.55%) Community of Practice
22 155 (32.70%) JavaScript
23 144 (30.38%) Big Data
24 139 (29.32%) Hadoop
25 136 (28.69%) Asset Management
26 125 (26.37%) Investment Banking
26 125 (26.37%) Banking
27 117 (24.68%) Databricks

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
1 198 (41.77%) Apache
2 181 (38.19%) Apache Spark
3 97 (20.46%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Sketch
1 1 (0.21%) UXPin
1 1 (0.21%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 474 (100.00%) AWS
2 97 (20.46%) dbt
3 88 (18.57%) Serverless
4 76 (16.03%) AWS Lambda
4 76 (16.03%) Snowflake
5 56 (11.81%) Amazon SQS
6 53 (11.18%) Amazon ECS
7 51 (10.76%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (10.76%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (10.76%) Amazon EMR
8 33 (6.96%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (5.49%) GCP
10 18 (3.80%) Azure
11 8 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.27%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (1.05%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (1.05%) Azure Pipelines
13 5 (1.05%) SaaS
13 5 (1.05%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (45.99%) NoSQL
2 144 (30.38%) Big Data
3 139 (29.32%) Hadoop
4 97 (20.46%) Amazon Athena
4 97 (20.46%) Apache Arrow
4 97 (20.46%) Apache Ignite
4 97 (20.46%) Dremio
5 76 (16.03%) Data Lake
6 67 (14.14%) Apache Hive
6 67 (14.14%) HBase
7 51 (10.76%) Electronic Patient Records
8 23 (4.85%) DynamoDB
9 15 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.84%) MySQL
12 3 (0.63%) Redis
13 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.42%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.42%) DocumentDB
13 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 91 (19.20%) Git
2 68 (14.35%) Jenkins
3 67 (14.14%) Bitbucket Server
4 18 (3.80%) GitLab
5 5 (1.05%) Postman
6 2 (0.42%) NUnit
6 2 (0.42%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.21%) JIRA
7 1 (0.21%) Mocha
General
1 410 (86.50%) Finance
2 302 (63.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 301 (63.50%) Law
4 207 (43.67%) Legal
5 125 (26.37%) Banking
5 125 (26.37%) Investment Banking
6 98 (20.68%) Front Office
7 77 (16.24%) Marketing
8 44 (9.28%) Financial Institution
9 26 (5.49%) Social Skills
10 18 (3.80%) Games
11 15 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.90%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.05%) Advertising
15 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (20.46%) gRPC
1 97 (20.46%) NumPy
1 97 (20.46%) Pandas
1 97 (20.46%) Protocol Buffers
1 97 (20.46%) SciPy
2 29 (6.12%) React
3 24 (5.06%) Node.js
4 16 (3.38%) RESTful
5 15 (3.16%) AngularJS
5 15 (3.16%) Django
5 15 (3.16%) GraphQL
5 15 (3.16%) Redux
5 15 (3.16%) Vue
6 12 (2.53%) Kafka
7 11 (2.32%) Spring
7 11 (2.32%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.69%) .NET
9 6 (1.27%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.05%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (0.84%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 198 (41.77%) Algorithms
2 96 (20.25%) Fixed Income
3 76 (16.03%) Cloud Native
3 76 (16.03%) Derivative
3 76 (16.03%) Equities
3 76 (16.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 76 (16.03%) Hedge funds
4 37 (7.81%) Onboarding
5 30 (6.33%) Pricing Data
6 9 (1.90%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.63%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.63%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.42%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.21%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.21%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.21%) IoT
11 1 (0.21%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.21%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 67 (14.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 437 (92.19%) Agile
3 310 (65.40%) CI/CD
4 299 (63.08%) SDLC
5 298 (62.87%) Operational Stability
6 205 (43.25%) Risk Management
7 197 (41.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 196 (41.35%) Visualisation
9 192 (40.51%) Artificial Intelligence
10 191 (40.30%) Machine Learning
11 178 (37.55%) Community of Practice
12 136 (28.69%) Asset Management
13 111 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
14 99 (20.89%) TDD
15 90 (18.99%) Investment Management
16 78 (16.46%) Test Automation
17 70 (14.77%) Open Source
18 67 (14.14%) Batch Processing
19 63 (13.29%) Performance Tuning
20 56 (11.81%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 296 (62.45%) Python
2 269 (56.75%) Java
3 223 (47.05%) SQL
4 155 (32.70%) JavaScript
5 115 (24.26%) Scala
6 108 (22.78%) TypeScript
7 67 (14.14%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.74%) C#
9 3 (0.63%) Go
10 2 (0.42%) Bash
10 2 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.21%) Perl
11 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (3.16%) DBS Check
2 6 (1.27%) Degree
3 2 (0.42%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.21%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.70%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 67 (14.14%) HDFS
2 15 (3.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 80 (16.88%) Terraform
2 16 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.63%) Grafana
3 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (24.68%) Databricks
2 67 (14.14%) Informatica
3 37 (7.81%) Cloudera
4 3 (0.63%) Splunk
5 2 (0.42%) GoCardless
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle
5 2 (0.42%) PayPal
5 2 (0.42%) Sage