AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Edinburgh is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
31 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.32% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £456
25th Percentile £456 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.30%
75th Percentile £469 - £547
90th Percentile - - £549
Scotland median daily rate £432 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% -5.00% -13.04%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 570 575 869
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 94.73% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 313 510
10th Percentile £228 £201 £227
25th Percentile £410 £390 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 44
10th Percentile £19.05 £20.51 £16.08
25th Percentile £28.00 £21.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £23.59 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.45% -60.68% +210.88%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.18 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.24 £27.26 £66.70
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £22.94 £45.00
% change year-on-year -0.27% -49.03% +153.95%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 31 January 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 Edinburgh region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mart
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mart
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
AWS Data Engineer jobs