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 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 80 96
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 +55
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 2 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.15% 0.69% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.72% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £59,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -

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 1,255 969 1,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 95.94% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 816 547 1,007
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,445 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.99% -8.28% -

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 13 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%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) dbt

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 Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
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%) Google