AWS Data Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > North West

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the North West is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £47,500 - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £101,250 - -
90th Percentile £102,500 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 5,292 4,814 3,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.87% 92.58% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,849 2,546 2,878
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -0.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 West.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the North West

AWS Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester - 7 £70,000 - 1
Lancashire - 1 - - 2
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 North West region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (37.50%) Data Science
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (25.00%) Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
6 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (25.00%) Dagster
6 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (25.00%) Data Munging
6 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
6 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (25.00%) Docker
6 2 (25.00%) ETL
6 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
6 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Dagster
2 2 (25.00%) Prefect
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (25.00%) Data Munging
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker