AWS Engineer Jobs in the North West

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > North West

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the North West is £66,350 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 242 228
Rank change year-on-year +25 -14 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 40 47 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.53% 0.48% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.51% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 29 35 68
10th Percentile £47,231 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,350 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £100,750
England median annual salary £107,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +34.38% - -0.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 6,852 9,205 7,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.71% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 7,083 4,090
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,700 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the North West

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in the North West

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the North West

AWS 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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +67 36 £67,500 +5.88% 36
Cheshire +37 2 £65,000 +4.00% 4
Lancashire - 2 £45,000 - 9
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (45.00%) Node.js
2 18 (45.00%) Agile
3 17 (42.50%) Software Engineering
4 16 (40.00%) TypeScript
5 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
6 13 (32.50%) DevOps
6 13 (32.50%) Mentoring
6 13 (32.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (32.50%) Cloud Security
7 12 (30.00%) Terraform
7 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 12 (30.00%) React
7 12 (30.00%) MongoDB
7 12 (30.00%) Finance
8 11 (27.50%) Python
8 11 (27.50%) SaaS
8 11 (27.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (22.50%) NoSQL
9 9 (22.50%) SDLC
9 9 (22.50%) Java
10 8 (20.00%) Scrum
10 8 (20.00%) Law
10 8 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (20.00%) Microservices
10 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
10 8 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
11 7 (17.50%) Serverless
11 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) Camunda
1 6 (15.00%) nginx
2 3 (7.50%) Apache
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (32.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (27.50%) SaaS
4 7 (17.50%) Serverless
5 6 (15.00%) IBM Cloud
5 6 (15.00%) OpenShift
6 4 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.50%) Azure
8 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.50%) GCP
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.50%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 9 (22.50%) NoSQL
3 6 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (15.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (7.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (5.00%) Storybook
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.50%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Law
2 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Retail
5 4 (10.00%) Banking
6 3 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Aviation
8 1 (2.50%) Electronics
8 1 (2.50%) Local Government
8 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.50%) Marketing
8 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (45.00%) Node.js
2 12 (30.00%) React
3 6 (15.00%) GraphQL
3 6 (15.00%) KeystoneJS
3 6 (15.00%) Swagger
4 5 (12.50%) REST
4 5 (12.50%) Web Services
5 2 (5.00%) .NET
5 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.00%) Redux
5 2 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (15.00%) Blockchain
2 6 (15.00%) e-Learning
2 6 (15.00%) Legacy Code
3 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Agile
2 17 (42.50%) Software Engineering
3 13 (32.50%) Cloud Security
3 13 (32.50%) DevOps
3 13 (32.50%) Mentoring
4 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (27.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (22.50%) SDLC
7 8 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (20.00%) Microservices
7 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 8 (20.00%) Scrum
7 8 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
8 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (15.00%) Coaching
9 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
9 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 11 (27.50%) Python
4 9 (22.50%) Java
5 6 (15.00%) Lua
6 5 (12.50%) C#
7 3 (7.50%) Scala
7 3 (7.50%) SQL
8 1 (2.50%) Go
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Automic
3 1 (2.50%) Consul
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Kibana
3 1 (2.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) IBM
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
1 6 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (12.50%) Ping Identity
3 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.50%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.50%) SAP