AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Glasgow is £401, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.26% - 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £401 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.01%
75th Percentile £402 - £513
90th Percentile £402 - -
Scotland median daily rate £432 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -21.41% +10.00% -13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 731 656 831
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 89.86% 96.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 449 566
10th Percentile £248 £245 £338
25th Percentile £363 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £596
90th Percentile £625 £655 £700
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 17
10th Percentile £16.84 £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.64 £16.50 £12.26
Median hourly rate £24.09 £19.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.97% +11.94% -46.15%
75th Percentile £37.36 £29.44 £18.93
90th Percentile £57.50 £43.27 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £19.30 £18.93
% change year-on-year +24.85% +1.93% +6.83%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 13 November 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 Glasgow region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft