AWS Data Engineer Job Trends in England

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in England is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 642 657
Rank change year-on-year +81 +15 +230
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 36 37 33
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.069% 0.077% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.083% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 18 32 31
10th Percentile £49,250 £55,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,188 £64,375 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £98,125 £96,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,375 £97,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £76,250 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.17% +11.54% -18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 47,437 44,591 47,245
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 92.72% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 29,917 23,336 37,002
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in England

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in England

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Data Engineer in England

AWS Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
London +58 23 £75,000 -16.67% 7
North of England - 9 £95,000 - 5
North West - 8 £95,000 - 3
East of England - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
AWS Data Engineer
UK

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, AWS Data 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 across the England region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (80.56%) Python
3 26 (72.22%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (69.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 21 (58.33%) Data Engineering
6 20 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
6 20 (55.56%) Serverless
7 19 (52.78%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (47.22%) ETL
9 16 (44.44%) Apache Spark
10 15 (41.67%) Amazon S3
10 15 (41.67%) SQL
11 13 (36.11%) Analytics
11 13 (36.11%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (36.11%) Data Governance
11 13 (36.11%) Data Modelling
12 12 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (33.33%) DevOps
13 11 (30.56%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (30.56%) Java
13 11 (30.56%) Kafka
13 11 (30.56%) Mentoring
14 10 (27.78%) Data Quality
14 10 (27.78%) Scala
15 9 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (25.00%) Big Data
15 9 (25.00%) Data Science
15 9 (25.00%) Databricks
15 9 (25.00%) Hadoop

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (44.44%) Apache Spark
2 8 (22.22%) Apache
3 6 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 20 (55.56%) Serverless
3 15 (41.67%) Amazon S3
4 13 (36.11%) AWS Step Functions
5 11 (30.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 8 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (8.33%) Azure
7 3 (8.33%) GCP
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (5.56%) Dagster
8 2 (5.56%) dbt
8 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.56%) Prefect
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (69.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (52.78%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (25.00%) Big Data
4 9 (25.00%) Hadoop
5 8 (22.22%) Apache Hive
6 7 (19.44%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (11.11%) Data Lake
8 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
8 3 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
9 2 (5.56%) Power BI
9 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (2.78%) Apache Hudi
10 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
10 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
10 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Deequ
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (38.89%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) Kafka
2 8 (22.22%) boto
2 8 (22.22%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (19.44%) PySpark
4 3 (8.33%) pytest
5 1 (2.78%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (22.22%) e-Learning
3 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (58.33%) Data Engineering
3 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 17 (47.22%) ETL
5 13 (36.11%) Analytics
5 13 (36.11%) Data Governance
5 13 (36.11%) Data Modelling
6 12 (33.33%) DevOps
7 11 (30.56%) Mentoring
8 9 (25.00%) Data Science
9 7 (19.44%) Agile
9 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
12 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
12 4 (11.11%) Data Security
12 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (11.11%) Visualisation
13 3 (8.33%) Clean Code
13 3 (8.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (80.56%) Python
2 15 (41.67%) SQL
3 11 (30.56%) Java
4 10 (27.78%) Scala
5 1 (2.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 8 (22.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) HDFS
2 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) SAP