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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 238 218
Rank change year-on-year -19 -20 +72
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 29 49 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.37% 0.48% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.51% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 23 36 71
10th Percentile £48,784 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,656 £83,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £110,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +3.13% -5.88%

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 7,153 9,681 6,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 94.70% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,787 7,427 4,039
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £78,500 £80,650
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 28 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 28 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 +55 28 £67,500 +3.85% 36
Cheshire +3 1 £65,000 +4.00% 4
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
2 16 (55.17%) Software Engineering
3 13 (44.83%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Finance
3 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
4 12 (41.38%) Cloud Security
4 12 (41.38%) Python
4 12 (41.38%) TypeScript
5 11 (37.93%) Node.js
5 11 (37.93%) Terraform
6 7 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (24.14%) SaaS
6 7 (24.14%) Security Architecture
6 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (24.14%) NoSQL
7 6 (20.69%) Web Services
7 6 (20.69%) Retail
7 6 (20.69%) Investment Management
7 6 (20.69%) GitHub
7 6 (20.69%) REST
7 6 (20.69%) Microservices
7 6 (20.69%) API Development
7 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
7 6 (20.69%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (20.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 6 (20.69%) Serverless
7 6 (20.69%) Ping Identity
7 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.24%) Customer-Centricity

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 3 (10.34%) Apache
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (24.14%) SaaS
3 6 (20.69%) GitHub
3 6 (20.69%) Serverless
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure
5 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (10.34%) Big Data
4 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) CircleCI
3 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.45%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Retail
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Aviation
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) Node.js
2 6 (20.69%) REST
2 6 (20.69%) Web Services
3 4 (13.79%) GraphQL
4 3 (10.34%) React
5 2 (6.90%) Kafka
5 2 (6.90%) Spring
5 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.45%) .NET
6 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.45%) JSON
6 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.90%) Legacy Code
2 2 (6.90%) Wiki
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Agile
1 16 (55.17%) Software Engineering
2 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
2 13 (44.83%) DevOps
3 12 (41.38%) Cloud Security
4 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (24.14%) Security Architecture
5 6 (20.69%) API Development
5 6 (20.69%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (20.69%) Investment Management
5 6 (20.69%) Microservices
5 6 (20.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.24%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (13.79%) Analytics
7 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
7 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
1 12 (41.38%) TypeScript
2 5 (17.24%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Automic
3 1 (3.45%) Consul
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Ping Identity
2 1 (3.45%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.45%) SAP