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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 339 349
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +145
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 23 41 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 54
10th Percentile £400 £323 £413
25th Percentile £500 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -1.38% -9.17%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £644
90th Percentile £680 £668 £700
England median daily rate £481 £530 £523
% change year-on-year -9.20% +1.44% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,919 14,569 18,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 93.93% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,577 9,421 13,716
10th Percentile £334 £338 £341
25th Percentile £425 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -3.38% -1.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £794
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 155 224
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.21
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.80 £21.69
Median hourly rate £26.89 £36.80 £38.08
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% -3.35% +18.99%
75th Percentile £49.13 £57.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 5 £563 - 5
East London - 1 - - 1
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, 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 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (82.61%) Python
3 17 (73.91%) SQL
4 15 (65.22%) Amazon S3
5 13 (56.52%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (52.17%) ETL
7 10 (43.48%) Analytics
7 10 (43.48%) Data Engineering
7 10 (43.48%) Databricks
8 9 (39.13%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (39.13%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (39.13%) Serverless
8 9 (39.13%) Terraform
9 8 (34.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
9 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
9 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
9 8 (34.78%) Snowflake
10 7 (30.43%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (30.43%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (30.43%) Azure
10 7 (30.43%) Data Quality
10 7 (30.43%) Data Science
10 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (26.09%) Apache Spark
11 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
11 6 (26.09%) Data Lake
11 6 (26.09%) Tableau

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 9 (39.13%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (26.09%) Apache Spark
3 3 (13.04%) Apache
4 1 (4.35%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Endur
1 1 (4.35%) SAP BPC
1 1 (4.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (65.22%) Amazon S3
3 9 (39.13%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (39.13%) Serverless
4 8 (34.78%) Snowflake
5 7 (30.43%) Amazon EMR
5 7 (30.43%) Amazon Kinesis
5 7 (30.43%) Azure
6 5 (21.74%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (17.39%) GitHub
8 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
9 2 (8.70%) GCP
10 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (4.35%) Datadog
10 1 (4.35%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (26.09%) Data Lake
3 6 (26.09%) Tableau
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (13.04%) Hadoop
5 3 (13.04%) Power BI
5 3 (13.04%) Redshift Spectrum
6 2 (8.70%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (8.70%) Big Data
6 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
7 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
7 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.35%) Parquet
7 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Kafka
2 3 (13.04%) PySpark
2 3 (13.04%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (8.70%) Jinja
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.35%) pytest
4 1 (4.35%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (52.17%) ETL
3 10 (43.48%) Analytics
3 10 (43.48%) Data Engineering
4 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
5 7 (30.43%) Data Science
5 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
7 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
7 5 (21.74%) Data Security
7 5 (21.74%) DevOps
8 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
8 4 (17.39%) Data Integration
8 4 (17.39%) Data Transformation
8 4 (17.39%) Microservices
9 3 (13.04%) Dimensional Modelling
9 3 (13.04%) Migration
9 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Python
2 17 (73.91%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) Scala
5 1 (4.35%) HiveQL
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) R
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.04%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) SAP