AWS Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 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 547 736 723
Rank change year-on-year +189 -13 +105
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 10 30 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.027% 0.043% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.045% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 20
10th Percentile £58,000 £49,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +4.87% +2.69%
75th Percentile - £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile - - £80,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured AWS Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Midlands +79 4 £60,000 -14.29%
North of England +72 4 £80,000 +18.08%
North West +33 4 £80,000 +52.38%
West Midlands +48 3 £55,000 -21.43%
South East +107 2 - - 7
East Midlands +49 1 £65,000 +26.21%
AWS Data Engineer
UK

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Data 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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) ETL
3 7 (70.00%) Data Analytics
3 7 (70.00%) Analytics
3 7 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (60.00%) Serverless
4 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (60.00%) Amazon EMR
4 6 (60.00%) Python
4 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (50.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Big Data
6 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (30.00%) Terraform
6 3 (30.00%) C#
6 3 (30.00%) Java
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
6 3 (30.00%) OO
6 3 (30.00%) Apache

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EMR
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Alation
5 2 (20.00%) dbt
6 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (30.00%) Big Data
3 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ETL
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
2 7 (70.00%) Data Analytics
2 7 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (30.00%) Data Validation
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (30.00%) MapReduce
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Data Security
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) Scala
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform