AWS Software Engineer Jobs

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 6 June 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 833 870
Rank change year-on-year +369 +37 -202
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 509 123 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.14% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 201 119 369
10th Percentile £71,250 £70,500 £66,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £107,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £138,750 £142,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,875 £72,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.03% -14.71% +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 101,543 85,646 164,275
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 91.24% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 71,805 55,459 85,654
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +246 324 £76,875 +6.03% 3
Scotland - 283 - - 2
England +137 224 £110,000 +2.33% 12
Work from Home +118 191 £115,000 +5.75% 16
London +164 183 £115,000 +4.55% 10
North of England +35 19 £76,875 +23.00% 1
North West - 17 £81,875 - 1
South West - 12 £80,000 -
South East -2 4 £112,500 +60.71%
East of England -18 3 £127,500 +75.86%
East Midlands - 3 £75,000 -
Midlands - 3 £75,000 -
North East - 2 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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.

1 509 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 509 (100.00%) AWS
2 466 (91.55%) Agile
3 438 (86.05%) Finance
4 339 (66.60%) Python
5 297 (58.35%) Java
6 294 (57.76%) CI/CD
7 284 (55.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 283 (55.60%) Law
9 281 (55.21%) SDLC
10 280 (55.01%) Operational Stability
11 239 (46.95%) Apache
12 216 (42.44%) SQL
13 207 (40.67%) NoSQL
14 200 (39.29%) Risk Management
14 200 (39.29%) Legal
15 197 (38.70%) JavaScript
16 192 (37.72%) Algorithms
17 191 (37.52%) Continuous Improvement
18 190 (37.33%) Visualisation
19 185 (36.35%) Artificial Intelligence
20 182 (35.76%) Machine Learning
21 180 (35.36%) Asset Management
22 169 (33.20%) Apache Spark
22 169 (33.20%) Community of Practice
23 163 (32.02%) Banking
23 163 (32.02%) Investment Banking
24 155 (30.45%) TypeScript
25 145 (28.49%) Front Office
26 144 (28.29%) Fixed Income

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
1 239 (46.95%) Apache
2 169 (33.20%) Apache Spark
3 144 (28.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Sketch
1 1 (0.20%) UXPin
1 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 509 (100.00%) AWS
2 144 (28.29%) dbt
3 118 (23.18%) Snowflake
4 86 (16.90%) Serverless
5 73 (14.34%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (11.00%) Amazon ECS
7 54 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
7 54 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (10.41%) Amazon SQS
9 48 (9.43%) Amazon EMR
10 36 (7.07%) GCP
11 33 (6.48%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (3.34%) Azure
13 8 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.57%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.18%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (1.18%) Datadog
15 5 (0.98%) Amazon EventBridge
15 5 (0.98%) Azure Pipelines
15 5 (0.98%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (40.67%) NoSQL
2 144 (28.29%) Amazon Athena
2 144 (28.29%) Apache Arrow
2 144 (28.29%) Apache Ignite
2 144 (28.29%) Dremio
3 133 (26.13%) Hadoop
4 132 (25.93%) Big Data
5 118 (23.18%) Data Lake
6 67 (13.16%) Apache Hive
6 67 (13.16%) HBase
7 48 (9.43%) Electronic Patient Records
8 23 (4.52%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.79%) MySQL
12 3 (0.59%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.59%) Redis
13 2 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.39%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 91 (17.88%) Git
2 68 (13.36%) Jenkins
3 67 (13.16%) Bitbucket Server
4 18 (3.54%) GitLab
5 5 (0.98%) Postman
6 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.20%) JIRA
7 1 (0.20%) Mocha
7 1 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 438 (86.05%) Finance
2 284 (55.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 283 (55.60%) Law
4 200 (39.29%) Legal
5 163 (32.02%) Banking
5 163 (32.02%) Investment Banking
6 145 (28.49%) Front Office
7 66 (12.97%) Marketing
8 41 (8.06%) Financial Institution
9 26 (5.11%) Social Skills
10 18 (3.54%) Games
11 15 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.77%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.98%) Advertising
15 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (28.29%) gRPC
1 144 (28.29%) NumPy
1 144 (28.29%) Pandas
1 144 (28.29%) Protocol Buffers
1 144 (28.29%) SciPy
2 35 (6.88%) React
3 30 (5.89%) Node.js
4 21 (4.13%) AngularJS
4 21 (4.13%) Redux
4 21 (4.13%) Vue
5 16 (3.14%) RESTful
6 15 (2.95%) Django
6 15 (2.95%) GraphQL
7 13 (2.55%) Kafka
8 12 (2.36%) Spring
8 12 (2.36%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.38%) .NET
10 6 (1.18%) PySpark
11 5 (0.98%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.98%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 192 (37.72%) Algorithms
2 144 (28.29%) Fixed Income
3 118 (23.18%) Derivative
3 118 (23.18%) Equities
3 118 (23.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 118 (23.18%) Hedge funds
4 69 (13.56%) Cloud Native
5 48 (9.43%) Pricing Data
6 36 (7.07%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.77%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.79%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.59%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.59%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.39%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.20%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.20%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.20%) IoT
12 1 (0.20%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 67 (13.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 466 (91.55%) Agile
3 294 (57.76%) CI/CD
4 281 (55.21%) SDLC
5 280 (55.01%) Operational Stability
6 200 (39.29%) Risk Management
7 191 (37.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 190 (37.33%) Visualisation
9 185 (36.35%) Artificial Intelligence
10 182 (35.76%) Machine Learning
11 180 (35.36%) Asset Management
12 169 (33.20%) Community of Practice
13 132 (25.93%) Investment Management
14 105 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
15 100 (19.65%) TDD
16 78 (15.32%) Test Automation
17 68 (13.36%) Open Source
18 67 (13.16%) Batch Processing
19 64 (12.57%) Greeks
20 57 (11.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 339 (66.60%) Python
2 297 (58.35%) Java
3 216 (42.44%) SQL
4 197 (38.70%) JavaScript
5 155 (30.45%) TypeScript
6 102 (20.04%) Scala
7 67 (13.16%) PL/SQL
8 12 (2.36%) C#
9 5 (0.98%) Go
10 3 (0.59%) Bash
11 2 (0.39%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (2.95%) DBS Check
2 6 (1.18%) Degree
3 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (12.57%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 67 (13.16%) HDFS
2 15 (2.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 80 (15.72%) Terraform
2 16 (3.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.59%) Grafana
3 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (22.99%) Databricks
2 67 (13.16%) Informatica
3 37 (7.27%) Cloudera
4 6 (1.18%) Bloomberg
4 6 (1.18%) Reuters
5 3 (0.59%) Splunk
6 2 (0.39%) GoCardless
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle
6 2 (0.39%) PayPal
6 2 (0.39%) Sage