Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 828 871 1091
Rank change year-on-year +43 +220 -284
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 68 99 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.095% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.10% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 59 81 105
10th Percentile £50,950 £51,250 -
25th Percentile £62,250 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £85,625 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £160,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Data Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data 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 Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +78 62 £70,000 -3.45% 9
Work from Home +55 35 £70,000 -8.20% 5
UK excluding London +20 30 £70,000 +7.69%
London +101 28 £75,000 -6.25% 8
North of England +60 17 £67,750 +50.56%
North East - 13 £82,500 -
Midlands +9 7 £70,000 -
West Midlands +26 5 £70,000 -
South East +28 4 £90,000 +28.57%
North West +8 3 £52,500 +16.67%
South West -2 2 £62,500 -8.76%
East Midlands -13 2 £51,500 +3.00%
Yorkshire +93 1 £47,500 -26.92%

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, AWS Data 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (75.00%) Python
3 35 (51.47%) ETL
4 34 (50.00%) SQL
5 31 (45.59%) Data Engineering
6 27 (39.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (35.29%) Data Modelling
8 23 (33.82%) Amazon S3
9 22 (32.35%) Social Skills
10 21 (30.88%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (30.88%) Data Quality
11 20 (29.41%) Amazon Kinesis
12 18 (26.47%) Data Transformation
13 17 (25.00%) Data Integration
14 16 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
15 15 (22.06%) Data Ingestion
15 15 (22.06%) Serverless
15 15 (22.06%) Data Extraction
15 15 (22.06%) Client/Server
15 15 (22.06%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (22.06%) Performance Tuning
16 14 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
16 14 (20.59%) dbt
16 14 (20.59%) Snowflake
16 14 (20.59%) CI/CD
17 13 (19.12%) Java
17 13 (19.12%) Games
17 13 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
17 13 (19.12%) Online Games
17 13 (19.12%) Data Architecture

AWS Data 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 16 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (17.65%) Apache Spark
3 7 (10.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (33.82%) Amazon S3
3 20 (29.41%) Amazon Kinesis
4 15 (22.06%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (22.06%) Serverless
5 14 (20.59%) dbt
5 14 (20.59%) Snowflake
6 13 (19.12%) SaaS
7 11 (16.18%) Amazon EMR
8 10 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (13.24%) GCP
10 7 (10.29%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (5.88%) AWS CodeCommit
12 4 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (4.41%) Azure
14 2 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.71%) Amazon Redshift
2 14 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (19.12%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (16.18%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (16.18%) DynamoDB
5 8 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 5 (7.35%) Neo4j
7 4 (5.88%) Big Data
7 4 (5.88%) Data Mining
7 4 (5.88%) Dremio
8 3 (4.41%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.41%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.41%) MySQL
9 2 (2.94%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.94%) Impala
9 2 (2.94%) Parquet
9 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.47%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Git
1 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
1 6 (8.82%) Spinnaker
2 1 (1.47%) ERwin
General
1 22 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Games
3 7 (10.29%) Banking
3 7 (10.29%) Finance
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Law
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) Kafka
1 5 (7.35%) PySpark
2 3 (4.41%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.94%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (1.47%) .NET
4 1 (1.47%) JSON
4 1 (1.47%) Pandas
4 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Client/Server
2 13 (19.12%) Online Games
3 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.88%) IoT
5 3 (4.41%) Music Streaming
6 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Bitcoin
7 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) ETL
2 31 (45.59%) Data Engineering
3 24 (35.29%) Data Modelling
4 21 (30.88%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (26.47%) Data Transformation
6 17 (25.00%) Data Integration
7 15 (22.06%) Data Extraction
7 15 (22.06%) Data Ingestion
7 15 (22.06%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (20.59%) CI/CD
9 13 (19.12%) Data Architecture
10 10 (14.71%) Coaching
11 9 (13.24%) Mentoring
11 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.29%) Data Science
13 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (8.82%) Machine Learning
14 4 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
14 4 (5.88%) Computer Science
15 3 (4.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (75.00%) Python
2 34 (50.00%) SQL
3 13 (19.12%) Java
4 12 (17.65%) Scala
5 5 (7.35%) C#
6 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) R
7 1 (1.47%) Rust
7 1 (1.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (30.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.41%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (14.71%) Terraform
2 8 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Google
2 4 (5.88%) Cloudera
2 4 (5.88%) Informatica
3 2 (2.94%) Databricks
3 2 (2.94%) Hortonworks
4 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft