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 £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 321 335
Rank change year-on-year -37 +14 +118
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 26 42 61
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 51
10th Percentile £405 £403 £413
25th Percentile £453 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £547 £609 £591
90th Percentile £608 £650 £675
England median daily rate £475 £528 £513
% change year-on-year -9.95% +2.93% -14.58%

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 13,515 13,078 16,836
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.55% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,985 8,419 12,143
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 143 275
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.34 £18.97
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.05% -9.05%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.35 £67.20
England median hourly rate £28.84 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.61% -12.50% +14.29%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -1 4 £450 -21.74%
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 January 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 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (80.77%) Python
3 19 (73.08%) Amazon S3
4 16 (61.54%) SQL
5 14 (53.85%) Analytics
5 14 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (53.85%) ETL
5 14 (53.85%) Serverless
6 13 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (50.00%) Databricks
6 13 (50.00%) SC Cleared
6 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 13 (50.00%) Terraform
7 11 (42.31%) Data Engineering
8 10 (38.46%) Data Quality
9 9 (34.62%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (34.62%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (34.62%) DevOps
10 8 (30.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
10 8 (30.77%) Data Governance
10 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (30.77%) Snowflake
11 7 (26.92%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (26.92%) Azure
11 7 (26.92%) Data Science
12 6 (23.08%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (23.08%) Data Lake

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 6 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (19.23%) Apache Spark
3 3 (11.54%) Apache
4 1 (3.85%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (73.08%) Amazon S3
3 14 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (53.85%) Serverless
4 9 (34.62%) Amazon Kinesis
4 9 (34.62%) AWS Step Functions
5 8 (30.77%) Snowflake
6 7 (26.92%) Amazon EMR
6 7 (26.92%) Azure
7 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
8 3 (11.54%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (11.54%) GitHub
9 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
9 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (3.85%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (23.08%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 6 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (23.08%) Tableau
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (15.38%) Power BI
4 3 (11.54%) Redshift Spectrum
5 2 (7.69%) Metadata
5 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Big Data
6 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.85%) ClickHouse
6 1 (3.85%) CockroachDB
6 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) MLflow
General
1 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Kafka
1 5 (19.23%) PySpark
2 3 (11.54%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.85%) boto
3 1 (3.85%) NumPy
3 1 (3.85%) Pandas
3 1 (3.85%) Ray
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Analytics
1 14 (53.85%) ETL
2 13 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (42.31%) Data Engineering
4 9 (34.62%) DevOps
5 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 8 (30.77%) Data Governance
5 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (26.92%) Data Science
7 6 (23.08%) Data Modelling
7 6 (23.08%) Validation
8 5 (19.23%) Data Security
8 5 (19.23%) Data Transformation
9 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (15.38%) Data Architecture
9 4 (15.38%) Microservices
10 3 (11.54%) Migration
10 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
10 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) Python
2 16 (61.54%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.85%) HiveQL
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Databricks
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow