AWS Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > England

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 475 542
Rank change year-on-year +60 +67 +104
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 70 67 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 53 91
10th Percentile £425 £400 £456
25th Percentile £463 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £672
90th Percentile £638 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in England

AWS Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Engineer in England

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in England

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +47 54 £525 +5.00% 18
North of England +22 9 £475 +18.75%
North West +17 6 £475 +18.75%
North East - 2 £550 -
South West +40 1 - -
Midlands +21 1 £550 -3.30%
West Midlands +14 1 £550 -12.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
AWS Data Engineer
UK

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (67.14%) Python
3 34 (48.57%) SQL
3 34 (48.57%) Amazon S3
4 33 (47.14%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (44.29%) Security Cleared
6 29 (41.43%) SC Cleared
7 25 (35.71%) Serverless
8 24 (34.29%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (34.29%) Data Engineering
9 23 (32.86%) ETL
9 23 (32.86%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (27.14%) Apache Airflow
11 17 (24.29%) Kubernetes
11 17 (24.29%) DevOps
12 16 (22.86%) Finance
13 15 (21.43%) dbt
14 14 (20.00%) Terraform
15 13 (18.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (18.57%) Analytics
15 13 (18.57%) Data Quality
15 13 (18.57%) Snowflake
15 13 (18.57%) PySpark
16 12 (17.14%) Public Sector
16 12 (17.14%) Tableau
16 12 (17.14%) Relational Database
16 12 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (17.14%) Apache
17 11 (15.71%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (14.29%) Big Data

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (27.14%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (17.14%) Apache
3 10 (14.29%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (48.57%) Amazon S3
3 25 (35.71%) Serverless
4 24 (34.29%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (21.43%) dbt
6 13 (18.57%) Snowflake
7 8 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (11.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (7.14%) Azure
11 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
12 3 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (4.29%) GitHub
12 3 (4.29%) IaaS
12 3 (4.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.86%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (18.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (17.14%) Relational Database
3 12 (17.14%) Tableau
4 11 (15.71%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (14.29%) Big Data
5 10 (14.29%) Data Lake
6 9 (12.86%) NoSQL
7 5 (7.14%) DynamoDB
7 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.71%) Flink
8 4 (5.71%) Power BI
9 3 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (4.29%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (4.29%) Neo4j
9 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.86%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.86%) MySQL
11 1 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.43%) MLflow
General
1 16 (22.86%) Finance
2 12 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Retail
5 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Electronics
7 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
7 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.57%) PySpark
2 7 (10.00%) Kafka
3 3 (4.29%) Plotly
3 3 (4.29%) React
4 1 (1.43%) pytest
4 1 (1.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
1 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
1 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) Data Pipeline
2 24 (34.29%) Data Engineering
3 23 (32.86%) ETL
4 17 (24.29%) DevOps
5 13 (18.57%) Analytics
6 9 (12.86%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.86%) Containerisation
6 9 (12.86%) Data Transformation
6 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (11.43%) Microservices
8 7 (10.00%) Agile
8 7 (10.00%) Data Architecture
8 7 (10.00%) Data Integration
8 7 (10.00%) Data Science
8 7 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 7 (10.00%) Migration
9 6 (8.57%) Data Security
9 6 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.14%) Data Migration
10 5 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (67.14%) Python
2 34 (48.57%) SQL
3 6 (8.57%) Java
4 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.86%) Scala
6 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (44.29%) Security Cleared
2 29 (41.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.86%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (24.29%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (8.57%) Databricks
2 4 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) Google
3 2 (2.86%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.43%) Informatica
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.43%) Palantir
4 1 (1.43%) SAP