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 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 666 846 880
Rank change year-on-year +180 +34 +214
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 34 66 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.067% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.071% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 27 57 81
10th Percentile £54,500 £52,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £104,700 £90,000 £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £66,750
% change year-on-year +14.29% +4.87% +2.69%

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 49,015 93,487 94,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,518 67,038 59,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Top 9 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 7 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
England +139 32 £80,000 +14.29% 21
Work from Home +137 19 £80,000 +14.29% 15
London +90 18 £92,500 +23.33% 18
UK excluding London +177 9 £80,000 +14.29% 8
North of England +48 4 £80,000 +18.08% 1
North West +12 4 £80,000 +52.38% 1
Midlands +52 3 £55,000 -21.43%
West Midlands +41 3 £55,000 -21.43%
South East +94 2 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (82.35%) Python
3 26 (76.47%) Serverless
3 26 (76.47%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (67.65%) Amazon S3
5 22 (64.71%) ETL
6 21 (61.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (55.88%) SQL
8 18 (52.94%) DynamoDB
9 17 (50.00%) Data Lake
10 16 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (44.12%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (44.12%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (41.18%) Analytics
13 13 (38.24%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (38.24%) Data Engineering
14 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
14 12 (35.29%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (32.35%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (29.41%) Terraform
16 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
17 9 (26.47%) DevOps
18 8 (23.53%) Amazon Kinesis
18 8 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
18 8 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
18 8 (23.53%) Scala
18 8 (23.53%) Java
19 7 (20.59%) Finance
19 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
19 7 (20.59%) Data Analytics

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 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (76.47%) AWS Lambda
2 26 (76.47%) Serverless
3 23 (67.65%) Amazon S3
4 13 (38.24%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (32.35%) Amazon EMR
6 8 (23.53%) Amazon Kinesis
6 8 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (17.65%) dbt
8 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
10 3 (8.82%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
10 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
11 2 (5.88%) Alation
11 2 (5.88%) GCP
12 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (61.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (52.94%) DynamoDB
3 17 (50.00%) Data Lake
4 15 (44.12%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (44.12%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (35.29%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (17.65%) Big Data
7 4 (11.76%) Dremio
7 4 (11.76%) Hadoop
7 4 (11.76%) Power BI
8 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
9 2 (5.88%) Neo4j
10 1 (2.94%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.88%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 3 (8.82%) Advertising
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) PySpark
2 1 (2.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) ETL
2 16 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (41.18%) Analytics
4 13 (38.24%) Data Engineering
5 12 (35.29%) Mentoring
6 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 9 (26.47%) DevOps
8 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
8 7 (20.59%) Data Analytics
8 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
10 5 (14.71%) Data Management
11 4 (11.76%) Agile
11 4 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
11 4 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
11 4 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
11 4 (11.76%) Open Source
11 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
12 3 (8.82%) Line Management
12 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (82.35%) Python
2 19 (55.88%) SQL
3 8 (23.53%) Java
3 8 (23.53%) Scala
4 3 (8.82%) C#
4 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Google