AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Bristol is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 68 75
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.44% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £593 - -
25th Percentile £625 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £675 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £650 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +52.94% -5.56% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,260 673 834
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 92.45% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 335 442
10th Percentile £379 £250 £225
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £748 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £508 £508
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 145 154
10th Percentile £20.63 £12.82 £19.83
25th Percentile £46.43 £18.87 £58.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £33.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.03% -52.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.10 £68.00 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £60.17 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +139.22% -62.74% +12.50%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 30 September 2026, AWS Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) dbt
3 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Tableau
4 1 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Validation

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 5 (83.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
AWS Data Engineer jobs