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 £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 335 346
Rank change year-on-year -48 +11 +27
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 72 27 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.22% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 21 33
10th Percentile £431 £481 £315
25th Percentile £468 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £656 £588 £600
90th Percentile £736 £700 £670
England median daily rate £518 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -1.43% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,979 12,455 15,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 92.73% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,237 8,346 10,175
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 205 182
10th Percentile £17.57 £17.00 £17.54
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -6.27%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £57.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.73 £74.69
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +3.20%

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 17 September 2026.

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 17 September 2026. 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 -20 11 £700 +27.27% 5
East London +2 1 £575 -
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 London region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (52.78%) Python
3 37 (51.39%) Data Engineering
4 29 (40.28%) Data Pipeline
4 29 (40.28%) SQL
5 26 (36.11%) Amazon S3
5 26 (36.11%) Serverless
6 25 (34.72%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (31.94%) Data Modelling
7 23 (31.94%) Security Cleared
8 22 (30.56%) SC Cleared
9 20 (27.78%) Analytics
9 20 (27.78%) Snowflake
10 19 (26.39%) CI/CD
11 18 (25.00%) dbt
12 17 (23.61%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (23.61%) Apache Airflow
12 17 (23.61%) ETL
13 15 (20.83%) Data Quality
13 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (20.83%) Terraform
14 13 (18.06%) Agile
14 13 (18.06%) Data Governance
14 13 (18.06%) GitHub
15 11 (15.28%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (15.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (12.50%) Migration

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 17 (23.61%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.56%) Confluence
3 3 (4.17%) Apache
4 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.39%) PowerExchange
5 1 (1.39%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (36.11%) Amazon S3
2 26 (36.11%) Serverless
3 25 (34.72%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (27.78%) Snowflake
5 18 (25.00%) dbt
6 13 (18.06%) GitHub
7 9 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (9.72%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (6.94%) Amazon Bedrock
11 5 (6.94%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (6.94%) GCP
12 4 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
13 3 (4.17%) Azure
14 2 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.61%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (15.28%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (15.28%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.94%) Apache Iceberg
4 4 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 4 (5.56%) Power BI
4 4 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.78%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.78%) Metadata
6 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.78%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.78%) Tableau
7 1 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.39%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) GitLab
2 7 (9.72%) Bitbucket
3 6 (8.33%) Git
4 4 (5.56%) JIRA
5 3 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 20 (27.78%) Finance
2 10 (13.89%) Banking
3 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.33%) Back Office
5 3 (4.17%) Front Office
6 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Billing
7 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) Terraform
2 8 (11.11%) PySpark
3 4 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.78%) Kafka
4 2 (2.78%) Next.js
4 2 (2.78%) React
5 1 (1.39%) boto
5 1 (1.39%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.39%) Jinja
5 1 (1.39%) Pandas
5 1 (1.39%) RESTful
5 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.39%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.39%) PropTech
3 1 (1.39%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.39%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (51.39%) Data Engineering
2 29 (40.28%) Data Pipeline
3 23 (31.94%) Data Modelling
4 20 (27.78%) Analytics
5 19 (26.39%) CI/CD
6 17 (23.61%) ETL
7 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (18.06%) Agile
8 13 (18.06%) Data Governance
9 9 (12.50%) Migration
9 9 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (9.72%) Data Transformation
11 7 (9.72%) DevOps
11 7 (9.72%) Event-Driven
11 7 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (8.33%) AI
12 6 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.78%) Python
2 29 (40.28%) SQL
3 2 (2.78%) Java
3 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.39%) C#
4 1 (1.39%) COBOL
4 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.83%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Control-M
1 1 (1.39%) Grafana
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Databricks
2 4 (5.56%) Informatica
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (1.39%) Denodo
4 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace