AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 341 370
Rank change year-on-year -11 +29 +131
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 21 40 66
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.27% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 55
10th Percentile £470 £308 £413
25th Percentile £513 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £625
90th Percentile £660 £673 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.28% -13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,385 14,895 19,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.06% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,246 9,671 14,260
10th Percentile £335 £348 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 166 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.36
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -5.85% +21.62%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.11 £79.75 £76.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.94 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.43% -6.41% +60.98%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in London

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in London

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Central London +10 5 £563 - 4
East London - 1 - -
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 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 London region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (80.95%) Python
3 12 (57.14%) SQL
4 11 (52.38%) Amazon S3
4 11 (52.38%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (47.62%) Data Engineering
6 9 (42.86%) ETL
7 8 (38.10%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (38.10%) Snowflake
8 7 (33.33%) Analytics
8 7 (33.33%) Azure
8 7 (33.33%) Databricks
9 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
9 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
10 5 (23.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
10 5 (23.81%) Serverless
10 5 (23.81%) Terraform
11 4 (19.05%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (19.05%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
11 4 (19.05%) Data Integration
11 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
11 4 (19.05%) Data Science
11 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
11 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (19.05%) DevOps
11 4 (19.05%) GitHub
11 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (38.10%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (14.29%) Apache
2 3 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.76%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Endur
1 1 (4.76%) SAP BPC
1 1 (4.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Amazon S3
3 8 (38.10%) Snowflake
4 7 (33.33%) Azure
5 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (23.81%) Serverless
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (19.05%) GitHub
7 3 (14.29%) dbt
7 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
8 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (9.52%) GCP
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (4.76%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 3 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 2 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (9.52%) Big Data
4 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.52%) Tableau
5 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.76%) ClickHouse
5 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Parquet
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
1 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (9.52%) Jinja
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.76%) pytest
3 1 (4.76%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (47.62%) Data Engineering
3 9 (42.86%) ETL
4 7 (33.33%) Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
6 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (19.05%) Data Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Data Science
6 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
7 3 (14.29%) Microservices
8 2 (9.52%) AI
8 2 (9.52%) Change Management
8 2 (9.52%) Data Extraction
8 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
8 2 (9.52%) Data Security
8 2 (9.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) Scala
5 1 (4.76%) HiveQL
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.76%) R
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) SAP