AWS Data Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the North of England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 286 270
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 +140
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 9 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.085% 0.010% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.011% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £47,500 - £47,500
25th Percentile £64,375 - £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £100,625 - £57,500
90th Percentile £102,500 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -20.31%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 9,328 9,085 6,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 94.41% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,330 4,376 5,249
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of 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 the North of England.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the North of England

AWS Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 24 December 2025. 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
North West - 8 £70,000 - 1
Yorkshire -1 1 - -
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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 North of England region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Dagster
5 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 2 (22.22%) Data Munging
5 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Data Science
5 2 (22.22%) Docker
5 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
5 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Dagster
2 2 (22.22%) Prefect
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) dbt
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
4 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
2 2 (22.22%) Data Munging
2 2 (22.22%) Data Science
2 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
2 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google