AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
North West > Cheshire

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Cheshire is £405, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.16% 0.39% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -29.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 559 482 330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.15% 93.77% 86.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 291 204
10th Percentile £271 £323 £225
25th Percentile £358 £384 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £465 £498
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% -6.53% +10.56%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £586
90th Percentile £638 £640 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 22 26
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.36 £22.10
Median hourly rate £29.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.60% +32.78%
75th Percentile £36.06 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £53.63 £47.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -32.04% +21.15% +27.54%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in Cheshire

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Knutsford - 1 £405 -
AWS Data Engineer
North West

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, 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 across the Cheshire region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes