AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > East Midlands

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the East Midlands is £385, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.31% - 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £370 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.99%
75th Percentile £396 - £519
90th Percentile £399 - -
England median daily rate £463 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -11.90% +0.48% -11.44%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 888 533 753
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 91.74% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 329 518
10th Percentile £190 £221 £166
25th Percentile £354 £341 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £606 £600 £650
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 22 71
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.29 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.26
Median hourly rate £19.64 £23.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +31.72% +1.99%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.54 £21.60
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.55 £35.00
England median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.03% - -9.09%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 3 £385 - 1
AWS Data Engineer
England

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 February 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 East Midlands region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Aerospike
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) pytest
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Aerospike
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) pytest
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
3 1 (33.33%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks