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 £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 334 338
Rank change year-on-year -31 +4 +34
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 75 35 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.28% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 29 28
10th Percentile £431 £506 £300
25th Percentile £475 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +12.82% -13.33%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £600
90th Percentile £725 £705 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -6.82% +15.79% -9.52%
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 18,720 12,511 15,211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 92.93% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,168 8,419 10,680
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 205 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -12.66% -10.86%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +8.43%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -3 7 £638 +15.91% 2
East London -1 1 £575 - 1
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 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 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (52.00%) Python
3 37 (49.33%) Data Engineering
4 28 (37.33%) Data Pipeline
4 28 (37.33%) SQL
5 24 (32.00%) Security Cleared
6 23 (30.67%) SC Cleared
6 23 (30.67%) Serverless
7 22 (29.33%) Analytics
7 22 (29.33%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (29.33%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (29.33%) Snowflake
8 21 (28.00%) Amazon S3
8 21 (28.00%) Data Modelling
9 18 (24.00%) ETL
10 16 (21.33%) Agile
10 16 (21.33%) CI/CD
10 16 (21.33%) dbt
11 14 (18.67%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (18.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (14.67%) Data Governance
12 11 (14.67%) Data Quality
12 11 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (14.67%) GitHub
12 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (14.67%) Terraform
13 10 (13.33%) Databricks
13 10 (13.33%) Migration
14 8 (10.67%) Git
15 7 (9.33%) Amazon EMR

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 22 (29.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.00%) Apache
2 3 (4.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.33%) PowerExchange
4 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (30.67%) Serverless
3 22 (29.33%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (29.33%) Snowflake
4 21 (28.00%) Amazon S3
5 16 (21.33%) dbt
6 11 (14.67%) GitHub
7 7 (9.33%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
10 4 (5.33%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (5.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (5.33%) Azure
11 3 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (4.00%) GCP
12 2 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.67%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (18.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (6.67%) Power BI
5 4 (5.33%) Delta Lake
5 4 (5.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (2.67%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (2.67%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.67%) Metadata
7 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.67%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.67%) Tableau
8 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Git
2 6 (8.00%) GitLab
3 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.00%) JIRA
5 2 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.67%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (21.33%) Finance
2 11 (14.67%) Banking
3 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Back Office
6 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Billing
7 1 (1.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) PySpark
2 2 (2.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (2.67%) Kafka
2 2 (2.67%) Next.js
2 2 (2.67%) pytest
2 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.67%) React
3 1 (1.33%) boto
3 1 (1.33%) Great Expectations
3 1 (1.33%) Jinja
3 1 (1.33%) Pandas
3 1 (1.33%) RESTful
3 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.33%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.33%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.33%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (49.33%) Data Engineering
2 28 (37.33%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (29.33%) Analytics
4 21 (28.00%) Data Modelling
5 18 (24.00%) ETL
6 16 (21.33%) Agile
6 16 (21.33%) CI/CD
7 11 (14.67%) Data Governance
7 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (13.33%) Migration
9 7 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (9.33%) DevOps
9 7 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.00%) AI
10 6 (8.00%) Data Transformation
10 6 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (6.67%) Use Case
11 5 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.00%) Python
2 28 (37.33%) SQL
3 2 (2.67%) Java
3 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.33%) C#
4 1 (1.33%) COBOL
4 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (30.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) Control-M
2 1 (1.33%) Grafana
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Databricks
2 4 (5.33%) Informatica
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle
3 2 (2.67%) SAP
4 1 (1.33%) Denodo
4 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft