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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 302 331
Rank change year-on-year -67 +29 +118
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 32 52 62
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.41% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.43% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 42 51
10th Percentile £403 £419 £413
25th Percentile £463 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £645 £649 £700
England median daily rate £475 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -9.52% +2.69% -7.05%

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 15,211 11,974 16,956
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 93.69% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,192 8,088 12,251
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 143 337
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.04 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £34.75 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.12 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.22 £64.72
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -16 3 £450 -21.74%
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 19 March 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 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (75.00%) Python
3 19 (59.38%) SQL
4 18 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (53.13%) Analytics
6 16 (50.00%) Amazon S3
7 15 (46.88%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (46.88%) Data Engineering
7 15 (46.88%) Serverless
8 14 (43.75%) ETL
8 14 (43.75%) Terraform
9 13 (40.63%) Databricks
10 12 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
10 12 (37.50%) Data Modelling
10 12 (37.50%) Snowflake
11 11 (34.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (34.38%) AWS Step Functions
11 11 (34.38%) Data Quality
12 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
12 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
12 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
13 9 (28.13%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (28.13%) DevOps
14 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
15 7 (21.88%) Azure
15 7 (21.88%) Data Lake
15 7 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (21.88%) Validation

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 12 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (18.75%) Apache Spark
3 5 (15.63%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) Appian
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 15 (46.88%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (46.88%) Serverless
4 12 (37.50%) Snowflake
5 11 (34.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 9 (28.13%) Amazon Kinesis
7 7 (21.88%) Azure
8 6 (18.75%) Amazon EMR
8 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
9 5 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (9.38%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (9.38%) GitHub
11 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (6.25%) dbt
13 1 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) 4G
1 1 (3.13%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (21.88%) Data Lake
2 7 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (18.75%) Power BI
4 5 (15.63%) Tableau
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (12.50%) Redshift Spectrum
6 3 (9.38%) Metadata
7 2 (6.25%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.13%) CockroachDB
8 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
8 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) GitLab
3 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.13%) MLflow
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Billing
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Kafka
2 3 (9.38%) PySpark
2 3 (9.38%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (6.25%) Pandas
3 2 (6.25%) pytest
4 1 (3.13%) boto
4 1 (3.13%) NumPy
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
2 17 (53.13%) Analytics
3 15 (46.88%) Data Engineering
4 14 (43.75%) ETL
5 12 (37.50%) Data Modelling
6 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (28.13%) DevOps
8 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
9 7 (21.88%) Validation
10 6 (18.75%) Agile
10 6 (18.75%) Migration
11 5 (15.63%) Data Science
12 4 (12.50%) Data Architecture
12 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
12 4 (12.50%) Data Transformation
12 4 (12.50%) Visualisation
13 3 (9.38%) Data Integration
13 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) Python
2 19 (59.38%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (34.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (43.75%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Databricks
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
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