AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
London > Central London

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Central London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 128 138
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +53
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 6 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.30% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.23% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £319 £520 £389
25th Percentile £451 £531 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £669 £566
90th Percentile - £770 £634
London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,854 2,160 2,581
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 92.62% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,291 1,361 1,868
10th Percentile £329 £358 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
London median daily rate £533 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 25 20
10th Percentile £19.42 £19.66 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £20.67
Median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £24.99
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +40.08% -23.12%
75th Percentile £35.75 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £112.00 £65.88
London median hourly rate £29.65 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.30% - -

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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 Central London.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in Central London

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +2 6 £563 -2.17% 1
AWS Data Engineer
London

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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 Central London region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Apache
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (33.33%) PySpark
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Big Data
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (16.67%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Parquet
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) ETL Development
4 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) R
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle