AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Central London > City of London

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the City of London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 121 133
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +56
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 6 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.33% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.26% 0.29%
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
Central London median daily rate £563 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.48% -1.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,701 1,915 2,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 92.92% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,176 1,730
10th Percentile £326 £354 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +134.69% -30.00%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.29% +40.08% -23.12%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of 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 the City of London.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the City of London

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 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 City of 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 the City of 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
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