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 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 736 728
Rank change year-on-year +156 -8 +96
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 8 28 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.039% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.041% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 4 25 18
10th Percentile £59,875 £49,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £72,813 £62,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.19% +9.60%
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 36,224 67,834 52,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 94.85% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,759 47,939 30,034
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 18 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 18 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
North of England +32 4 £80,000 +18.08%
North West 0 4 £80,000 +52.38%
South East +88 2 - - 8
Midlands +59 2 £52,500 -25.00% 1
West Midlands +44 1 - -
East Midlands +22 1 £52,500 +1.94% 1
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 18 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (62.50%) Data Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (50.00%) Apache
3 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
4 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 3 (37.50%) PySpark
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Big Data
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Scala
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (37.50%) MapReduce
4 3 (37.50%) OO
4 3 (37.50%) C#
4 3 (37.50%) Java

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 4 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) Alation
4 2 (25.00%) dbt
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Data Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (37.50%) MapReduce
3 3 (37.50%) OO
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks