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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 822 865 1093
Rank change year-on-year +43 +228 -272
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 61 94 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.095% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.10% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 52 76 109
10th Percentile £51,375 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £160,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.19% +9.60% -10.71%

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Top 12 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 17 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 55 £71,500 -1.38% 10
Work from Home +27 28 £73,250 -5.48% 6
UK excluding London -8 28 £70,000 +2.19% 4
London +87 23 £77,500 -3.13% 8
North of England +57 17 £67,750 +50.56% 1
North East - 13 £82,500 -
Midlands -4 7 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands +16 5 £70,000 - 1
South East -5 4 £90,000 +28.57% 2
North West -6 3 £52,500 +16.67%
East Midlands -9 2 £51,500 +3.00%
Yorkshire +73 1 £47,500 -26.92% 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 61 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (72.13%) Python
3 32 (52.46%) ETL
4 31 (50.82%) SQL
5 28 (45.90%) Data Engineering
6 26 (42.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (37.70%) Data Modelling
8 22 (36.07%) Social Skills
9 20 (32.79%) Amazon S3
9 20 (32.79%) Data Quality
10 19 (31.15%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (29.51%) Amazon Kinesis
12 17 (27.87%) Data Transformation
13 16 (26.23%) Data Integration
14 15 (24.59%) Data Extraction
14 15 (24.59%) Client/Server
14 15 (24.59%) Data Ingestion
14 15 (24.59%) Apache Airflow
15 14 (22.95%) Performance Tuning
15 14 (22.95%) dbt
16 13 (21.31%) Java
16 13 (21.31%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (21.31%) Games
16 13 (21.31%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (21.31%) Data Architecture
16 13 (21.31%) SaaS
16 13 (21.31%) Online Games
17 12 (19.67%) Scala
17 12 (19.67%) Apache Spark
17 12 (19.67%) Snowflake

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 (24.59%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (19.67%) Apache Spark
3 6 (9.84%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (32.79%) Amazon S3
3 18 (29.51%) Amazon Kinesis
4 14 (22.95%) dbt
5 13 (21.31%) SaaS
6 12 (19.67%) Snowflake
7 11 (18.03%) Amazon EMR
7 11 (18.03%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (18.03%) Serverless
8 10 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (14.75%) GCP
10 6 (9.84%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (6.56%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (6.56%) AWS CodeCommit
12 4 (6.56%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (4.92%) Azure
14 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (42.62%) Amazon Redshift
2 13 (21.31%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (21.31%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (18.03%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (18.03%) DynamoDB
4 8 (13.11%) NoSQL
5 6 (9.84%) Data Lake
6 5 (8.20%) Neo4j
7 4 (6.56%) Big Data
7 4 (6.56%) Data Mining
8 3 (4.92%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.92%) Dremio
8 3 (4.92%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.92%) MySQL
9 2 (3.28%) Apache Hive
9 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.28%) Impala
9 2 (3.28%) Parquet
9 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.64%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Git
1 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
1 6 (9.84%) Spinnaker
2 1 (1.64%) ERwin
General
1 22 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Games
3 7 (11.48%) Banking
3 7 (11.48%) Finance
4 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Law
6 1 (1.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) Kafka
2 3 (4.92%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.28%) PySpark
3 2 (3.28%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (1.64%) .NET
4 1 (1.64%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) Pandas
4 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Client/Server
2 13 (21.31%) Online Games
3 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) IoT
4 2 (3.28%) Music Streaming
5 1 (1.64%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (52.46%) ETL
2 28 (45.90%) Data Engineering
3 23 (37.70%) Data Modelling
4 19 (31.15%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (27.87%) Data Transformation
6 16 (26.23%) Data Integration
7 15 (24.59%) Data Extraction
7 15 (24.59%) Data Ingestion
8 14 (22.95%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (21.31%) Data Architecture
10 10 (16.39%) CI/CD
10 10 (16.39%) Coaching
11 9 (14.75%) Mentoring
11 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (9.84%) Data Science
12 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (9.84%) Machine Learning
13 3 (4.92%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 3 (4.92%) Master Data Management
13 3 (4.92%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (72.13%) Python
2 31 (50.82%) SQL
3 13 (21.31%) Java
4 12 (19.67%) Scala
5 5 (8.20%) C#
6 1 (1.64%) Rust
6 1 (1.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (32.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Terraform
2 8 (13.11%) Ansible
3 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Google
2 4 (6.56%) Cloudera
2 4 (6.56%) Informatica
3 2 (3.28%) Hortonworks
4 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.64%) Databricks