AWS Engineer Job Trends in Leeds

Amazon Web Services Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in Leeds is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 January 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 84 101
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 2 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.14% 0.58% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.61% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 12
10th Percentile - £63,750 £41,525
25th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 1,322 989 1,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 96.11% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 870 554 1,105
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,637 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,074 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 22 January 2026, AWS 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 Leeds region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) ETL

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks