AWS Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 238 275
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 -79
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 28 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.33% 0.26% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.29% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 27 15 31
10th Percentile £58,700 £45,800 £33,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £74,250 £82,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 8,050 5,197 7,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.93% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 3,200 4,854
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,256
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the West Midlands

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in the West Midlands

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in the West Midlands

AWS Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Birmingham -15 15 £72,500 +3.57% 2
Solihull +7 9 £72,500 -7.64% 2
Coventry - 4 £60,000 - 1
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, AWS 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 West Midlands region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (71.43%) Python
3 18 (64.29%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (64.29%) Amazon S3
3 18 (64.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (64.29%) AWS Lambda
3 18 (64.29%) Serverless
4 17 (60.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (53.57%) AWS Certification
6 15 (53.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (53.57%) AWS CloudTrail
6 15 (53.57%) NIST
6 15 (53.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 14 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
7 14 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (50.00%) Incident Response
8 12 (42.86%) PropTech
8 12 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (42.86%) DevSecOps
9 7 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (25.00%) Terraform
10 6 (21.43%) DevOps
10 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
10 6 (21.43%) Bash
10 6 (21.43%) Finance
10 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
11 5 (17.86%) Ansible

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon S3
2 18 (64.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 18 (64.29%) AWS Lambda
2 18 (64.29%) Serverless
3 16 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 15 (53.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (53.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 15 (53.57%) AWS CloudTrail
5 7 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 4 (14.29%) GitHub
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (7.14%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (7.14%) Azure
7 2 (7.14%) GCP
7 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.57%) HBase
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Burp Suite
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) Metasploit
1 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (7.14%) sqlmap
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Back Office
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) PropTech
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) CentOS
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 14 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 12 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 12 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (14.29%) Open Source
6 3 (10.71%) Coaching
6 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.14%) Secrets Management
7 2 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
2 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) CEH
4 1 (3.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (53.57%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 2 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) VMware