Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 833 882 1059
Rank change year-on-year +49 +177 -234
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 65 98 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.097% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.11% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 56 79 110
10th Percentile £51,875 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £62,375 £61,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -1.69% +5.36%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £160,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +2.19% +7.45% -8.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Top 13 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 10 May 2024. 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 +61 59 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Work from Home +25 32 £67,500 -10.00% 3
UK excluding London -1 30 £70,000 +2.19%
London +80 25 £75,000 -6.25% 4
North of England +58 17 £67,750 +50.56%
North East - 13 £82,500 -
Midlands -14 7 £70,000 -
West Midlands 0 5 £70,000 -
South East +7 4 £90,000 +28.57%
North West 0 3 £52,500 +16.67%
East Midlands -14 2 £51,500 +3.00%
South West -20 2 £62,500 -8.76%
Yorkshire +88 1 £47,500 -26.92%

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 65 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (73.85%) Python
3 34 (52.31%) ETL
4 33 (50.77%) SQL
5 30 (46.15%) Data Engineering
6 26 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (35.38%) Data Modelling
8 22 (33.85%) Amazon S3
8 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
9 20 (30.77%) Data Quality
9 20 (30.77%) Amazon Kinesis
10 19 (29.23%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (26.15%) Data Transformation
12 16 (24.62%) Data Integration
13 15 (23.08%) Data Extraction
13 15 (23.08%) Client/Server
13 15 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
13 15 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
14 14 (21.54%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (21.54%) dbt
14 14 (21.54%) Snowflake
15 13 (20.00%) Serverless
15 13 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (20.00%) Java
15 13 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (20.00%) Games
15 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (20.00%) Data Architecture
15 13 (20.00%) SaaS
15 13 (20.00%) Online Games

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 15 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (18.46%) Apache Spark
3 6 (9.23%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (33.85%) Amazon S3
3 20 (30.77%) Amazon Kinesis
4 14 (21.54%) dbt
4 14 (21.54%) Snowflake
5 13 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (20.00%) SaaS
5 13 (20.00%) Serverless
6 11 (16.92%) Amazon EMR
7 10 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (13.85%) GCP
9 6 (9.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (6.15%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (6.15%) AWS CodeCommit
11 4 (6.15%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (4.62%) Azure
13 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 13 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (16.92%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (16.92%) DynamoDB
4 8 (12.31%) NoSQL
5 6 (9.23%) Data Lake
6 5 (7.69%) Neo4j
7 4 (6.15%) Big Data
7 4 (6.15%) Data Mining
8 3 (4.62%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.62%) Dremio
8 3 (4.62%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.62%) MySQL
9 2 (3.08%) Apache Hive
9 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.08%) Impala
9 2 (3.08%) Parquet
9 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Git
1 6 (9.23%) Jenkins
1 6 (9.23%) Spinnaker
2 1 (1.54%) ERwin
General
1 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Games
3 7 (10.77%) Banking
3 7 (10.77%) Finance
4 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) Kafka
2 4 (6.15%) PySpark
3 3 (4.62%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.08%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.54%) .NET
5 1 (1.54%) JSON
5 1 (1.54%) Pandas
5 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Client/Server
2 13 (20.00%) Online Games
3 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.15%) IoT
4 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.08%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.54%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (52.31%) ETL
2 30 (46.15%) Data Engineering
3 23 (35.38%) Data Modelling
4 19 (29.23%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (26.15%) Data Transformation
6 16 (24.62%) Data Integration
7 15 (23.08%) Data Extraction
7 15 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
8 14 (21.54%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (20.00%) Data Architecture
10 12 (18.46%) CI/CD
11 10 (15.38%) Coaching
12 9 (13.85%) Mentoring
12 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (9.23%) Data Science
13 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (9.23%) Machine Learning
14 4 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence
15 3 (4.62%) Computer Science
15 3 (4.62%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (73.85%) Python
2 33 (50.77%) SQL
3 13 (20.00%) Java
4 12 (18.46%) Scala
5 5 (7.69%) C#
6 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.54%) Rust
7 1 (1.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.62%) Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Terraform
2 8 (12.31%) Ansible
3 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Google
2 4 (6.15%) Cloudera
2 4 (6.15%) Informatica
3 2 (3.08%) Hortonworks
4 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks