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 £514, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 320 352
Rank change year-on-year -38 +32 +59
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 71 46 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.36% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 38 31
10th Percentile £431 £445 £406
25th Percentile £475 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -6.54%
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 18,343 12,617 16,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.26% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,048 8,531 11,676
10th Percentile £359 £331 £330
25th Percentile £445 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 196 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.47 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.73 £22.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +13.27% -24.51%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £63.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.78% -29.55% -6.98%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -7 6 £575 +35.29%
East London +3 1 £575 -
West London - 1 - -
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (54.93%) Python
3 33 (46.48%) Data Engineering
4 28 (39.44%) Data Pipeline
5 27 (38.03%) SQL
6 24 (33.80%) Amazon S3
6 24 (33.80%) Security Cleared
7 23 (32.39%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (32.39%) SC Cleared
7 23 (32.39%) Serverless
8 20 (28.17%) Analytics
8 20 (28.17%) Apache Airflow
8 20 (28.17%) Data Modelling
8 20 (28.17%) Snowflake
9 18 (25.35%) ETL
10 16 (22.54%) Agile
11 15 (21.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
11 15 (21.13%) Terraform
12 12 (16.90%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (16.90%) dbt
12 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (16.90%) Migration
13 11 (15.49%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (14.08%) Data Quality
14 10 (14.08%) DevOps
15 9 (12.68%) Data Governance
15 9 (12.68%) Databricks
15 9 (12.68%) GitHub
16 8 (11.27%) Git

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 20 (28.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
2 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (33.80%) Amazon S3
3 23 (32.39%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (32.39%) Serverless
4 20 (28.17%) Snowflake
5 12 (16.90%) dbt
6 9 (12.68%) GitHub
7 7 (9.86%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (9.86%) Amazon Kinesis
7 7 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.63%) Azure
9 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.23%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) 4G
1 1 (1.41%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 12 (16.90%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (15.49%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.63%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.63%) Delta Lake
4 4 (5.63%) Power BI
4 4 (5.63%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.23%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (4.23%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.82%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.82%) Metadata
6 2 (2.82%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.82%) Tableau
7 1 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Git
2 5 (7.04%) GitLab
3 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.23%) JIRA
4 2 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (18.31%) Finance
2 10 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Banking
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Billing
5 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.82%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Back Office
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Marketing
6 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) PySpark
2 3 (4.23%) Kafka
3 2 (2.82%) Next.js
3 2 (2.82%) Pandas
3 2 (2.82%) pytest
3 2 (2.82%) React
4 1 (1.41%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.41%) boto
4 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.41%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) Data Engineering
2 28 (39.44%) Data Pipeline
3 20 (28.17%) Analytics
3 20 (28.17%) Data Modelling
4 18 (25.35%) ETL
5 16 (22.54%) Agile
6 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
7 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (16.90%) Migration
8 10 (14.08%) DevOps
9 9 (12.68%) Data Governance
10 7 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (8.45%) AI
11 6 (8.45%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (7.04%) Data Ingestion
12 5 (7.04%) Use Case
13 4 (5.63%) Data Transformation
13 4 (5.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.93%) Python
2 27 (38.03%) SQL
3 3 (4.23%) Java
4 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (33.80%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.41%) Grafana
2 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (12.68%) Databricks
2 4 (5.63%) Informatica
3 2 (2.82%) SAP
4 1 (1.41%) Denodo
4 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle