AWS Data Engineer Jobs

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 817 887
Rank change year-on-year +169 +70 +193
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 36 68 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.069% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.073% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 29 59 82
10th Percentile £54,750 £50,950 £51,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,250 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -1.75% -1.72%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,625 £94,375
90th Percentile £103,600 £90,000 £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Data Engineer.

Salary trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +161 34 £80,000 +14.29% 14
Work from Home +165 19 £80,000 +14.29% 11
London +95 19 £92,500 +23.33% 12
UK excluding London +187 10 £80,000 +14.29% 2
North of England +71 4 £80,000 +18.08%
Midlands +58 4 £60,000 -14.29%
North West +34 4 £80,000 +52.38%
West Midlands +49 3 £55,000 -21.43%
South East +111 2 - - 2
East Midlands +48 1 £65,000 +26.21%

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (83.33%) Python
3 27 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (75.00%) Serverless
4 24 (66.67%) ETL
4 24 (66.67%) Amazon S3
5 21 (58.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (55.56%) SQL
7 18 (50.00%) DynamoDB
7 18 (50.00%) Data Lake
7 18 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (47.22%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (41.67%) Data Engineering
10 14 (38.89%) Analytics
11 13 (36.11%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (33.33%) Mentoring
12 12 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (30.56%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
14 10 (27.78%) Terraform
15 9 (25.00%) DevOps
15 9 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (22.22%) Scala
16 8 (22.22%) Java
16 8 (22.22%) Data Analysis
17 7 (19.44%) Finance
17 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 27 (75.00%) Serverless
3 24 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 13 (36.11%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (30.56%) Amazon EMR
6 9 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 8 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (19.44%) dbt
9 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
10 3 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
10 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
11 2 (5.56%) Alation
11 2 (5.56%) GCP
12 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (58.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 18 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 17 (47.22%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (16.67%) Big Data
7 5 (13.89%) Dremio
7 5 (13.89%) Power BI
8 4 (11.11%) Hadoop
9 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
10 2 (5.56%) Neo4j
11 1 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.56%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (19.44%) Finance
2 3 (8.33%) Advertising
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.78%) Law
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) PySpark
2 2 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) ETL
2 18 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (41.67%) Data Engineering
4 14 (38.89%) Analytics
5 12 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 9 (25.00%) DevOps
8 8 (22.22%) Data Analysis
9 7 (19.44%) Data Analytics
9 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering
10 6 (16.67%) Data Management
11 5 (13.89%) Agile
11 5 (13.89%) Data Cleansing
11 5 (13.89%) Data Visualisation
11 5 (13.89%) Visualisation
12 4 (11.11%) Architecture Roadmap
12 4 (11.11%) Line Management
12 4 (11.11%) Open Source
12 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (83.33%) Python
2 20 (55.56%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) Scala
4 3 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Google