AWS Data Engineer Contracts

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 555 700
Rank change year-on-year +48 +145 -121
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 78 134 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.25% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 109 119
10th Percentile £402 £450 £425
25th Percentile £438 £496 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £457 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.76% +4.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,738 53,234 84,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,861 37,175 59,182
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,475 2,018
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 62 £500 -9.09% 13
London +49 46 £500 -13.04% 11
Work from Home +58 29 £500 -4.76% 8
UK excluding London +40 20 £457 -8.70% 4
Scotland +42 6 £460 -5.25% 1
North of England +31 6 £400 -11.11% 2
North West - 6 £400 - 2
South West +7 3 £450 -14.29%
Midlands +22 2 £625 +56.25% 1
South East +12 2 £500 -
West Midlands +8 2 £625 +56.25% 1
East of England +8 1 £650 +44.44%

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, AWS Data Engineer contract 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 contract job ads featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (67.95%) Python
3 38 (48.72%) Data Pipeline
4 35 (44.87%) SQL
5 28 (35.90%) Amazon S3
5 28 (35.90%) Data Engineering
6 27 (34.62%) ETL
7 21 (26.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (25.64%) Serverless
9 19 (24.36%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (23.08%) Terraform
11 17 (21.79%) Amazon Kinesis
11 17 (21.79%) Security Cleared
12 15 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (17.95%) Data Quality
13 14 (17.95%) PySpark
13 14 (17.95%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (17.95%) CI/CD
14 13 (16.67%) Analytics
15 12 (15.38%) Kubernetes
15 12 (15.38%) DevOps
15 12 (15.38%) Data Modelling
15 12 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
16 11 (14.10%) Databricks
16 11 (14.10%) Social Skills
16 11 (14.10%) Snowflake
16 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
16 11 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (14.10%) Kafka
16 11 (14.10%) Docker

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 12 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (12.82%) Apache
3 8 (10.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (35.90%) Amazon S3
3 20 (25.64%) Serverless
4 17 (21.79%) Amazon Kinesis
5 15 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (14.10%) Snowflake
7 9 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
8 8 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (10.26%) Azure
9 7 (8.97%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (6.41%) dbt
11 4 (5.13%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (5.13%) Dagster
12 3 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (24.36%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (17.95%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (12.82%) Big Data
5 9 (11.54%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.69%) Flink
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (3.85%) Tableau
9 2 (2.56%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.56%) Parquet
9 2 (2.56%) Spark SQL
9 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Git
2 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.85%) GitLab
3 3 (3.85%) JIRA
4 2 (2.56%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (14.10%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.69%) Finance
3 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.28%) Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.95%) PySpark
2 11 (14.10%) Kafka
3 7 (8.97%) REST
4 5 (6.41%) Pandas
5 4 (5.13%) NumPy
6 3 (3.85%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (2.56%) JSON
8 1 (1.28%) Apache Avro
8 1 (1.28%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.28%) JDBC
8 1 (1.28%) Node.js
8 1 (1.28%) ODBC
8 1 (1.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.28%) RESTful
8 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.28%) Life Science
3 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (48.72%) Data Pipeline
2 28 (35.90%) Data Engineering
3 27 (34.62%) ETL
4 14 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.67%) Analytics
6 12 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 12 (15.38%) DevOps
7 9 (11.54%) Computer Science
8 7 (8.97%) Agile
9 6 (7.69%) Data Transformation
9 6 (7.69%) DataOps
9 6 (7.69%) Mentoring
9 6 (7.69%) Migration
10 5 (6.41%) Data Management
10 5 (6.41%) Data Science
10 5 (6.41%) Microservices
11 4 (5.13%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (5.13%) Data Integration
11 4 (5.13%) OO
11 4 (5.13%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 53 (67.95%) Python
2 35 (44.87%) SQL
3 9 (11.54%) Java
4 6 (7.69%) Scala
5 2 (2.56%) Perl
5 2 (2.56%) R
6 1 (1.28%) Bash
6 1 (1.28%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) Degree
4 6 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.56%) IBM Certification
6 2 (2.56%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (14.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (23.08%) Terraform
2 12 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.13%) Argo
4 2 (2.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Databricks
2 3 (3.85%) Informatica
3 2 (2.56%) IBM
3 2 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle
4 1 (1.28%) Splunk