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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 467 509
Rank change year-on-year +16 +42 +173
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 52 58 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 41 99
10th Percentile £458 £390 £425
25th Percentile £463 £438 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -9.68%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £681 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 25,466 30,983 42,910
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,521 20,498 30,243
10th Percentile £286 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 1,827 1,342
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +9 40 £550 +15.79% 13
North West +5 6 £475 - 2
North of England -6 6 £475 - 2
South East +23 1 £402 -19.60% 5
Midlands -11 1 £600 -
East Midlands - 1 £600 -
AWS Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (69.23%) Python
3 24 (46.15%) SQL
3 24 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (42.31%) Amazon S3
5 18 (34.62%) ETL
5 18 (34.62%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (32.69%) Serverless
6 17 (32.69%) Security Cleared
6 17 (32.69%) Data Engineering
7 16 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (30.77%) SC Cleared
8 14 (26.92%) Snowflake
8 14 (26.92%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (23.08%) Finance
10 11 (21.15%) PySpark
11 10 (19.23%) CI/CD
11 10 (19.23%) dbt
11 10 (19.23%) Kubernetes
11 10 (19.23%) NoSQL
11 10 (19.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (17.31%) Terraform
12 9 (17.31%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
12 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
13 8 (15.38%) DevOps
13 8 (15.38%) Docker
13 8 (15.38%) Data Quality
13 8 (15.38%) Data Warehouse

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 18 (34.62%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (11.54%) Apache
3 5 (9.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.92%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Endur
1 1 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.92%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.92%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (42.31%) Amazon S3
3 17 (32.69%) Serverless
4 16 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (26.92%) Snowflake
6 10 (19.23%) dbt
7 9 (17.31%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (9.62%) Azure
9 4 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (7.69%) GitHub
10 3 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (5.77%) GCP
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) Amazon Athena
2 10 (19.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (19.23%) NoSQL
3 8 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 6 (11.54%) Tableau
5 5 (9.62%) Big Data
5 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (7.69%) DynamoDB
7 3 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.85%) Parquet
8 2 (3.85%) Power BI
8 2 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) MLflow
3 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (23.08%) Finance
2 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) PySpark
2 4 (7.69%) Kafka
3 2 (3.85%) Jinja
4 1 (1.92%) Plotly
4 1 (1.92%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.92%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (34.62%) ETL
3 17 (32.69%) Data Engineering
4 10 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 8 (15.38%) Data Integration
6 8 (15.38%) DevOps
7 7 (13.46%) Data Modelling
7 7 (13.46%) Data Science
7 7 (13.46%) Data Transformation
7 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.54%) Agile
8 6 (11.54%) Analytics
9 5 (9.62%) Data Governance
10 4 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (7.69%) Data Security
10 4 (7.69%) Microservices
10 4 (7.69%) Visualisation
11 3 (5.77%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (69.23%) Python
2 24 (46.15%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) Scala
5 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.92%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (17.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Databricks
2 2 (3.85%) Google
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle
2 2 (3.85%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.92%) Palantir
3 1 (1.92%) SAP