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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 332 360
Rank change year-on-year -40 +28 +21
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 73 37 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 30 27
10th Percentile £431 £479 £300
25th Percentile £473 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £600
90th Percentile £725 £703 £675
England median daily rate £513 £538 £488
% change year-on-year -4.65% +10.26% -7.14%
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 18,709 12,535 15,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.98% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,137 8,432 10,599
10th Percentile £363 £325 £349
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -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 359 210 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.89 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -12.10% -12.40%
75th Percentile £60.50 £49.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.00 £71.75
England median hourly rate £42.65 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.44% -43.73% +2.60%

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 24 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 24 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 -14 8 £700 +27.27%
East London +4 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 24 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 73 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (53.42%) Python
3 36 (49.32%) Data Engineering
4 27 (36.99%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (36.99%) SQL
5 24 (32.88%) Security Cleared
5 24 (32.88%) Serverless
6 23 (31.51%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (31.51%) SC Cleared
7 22 (30.14%) Amazon S3
8 21 (28.77%) Analytics
8 21 (28.77%) Snowflake
9 20 (27.40%) Apache Airflow
9 20 (27.40%) Data Modelling
10 18 (24.66%) ETL
11 17 (23.29%) dbt
12 16 (21.92%) Agile
13 15 (20.55%) CI/CD
14 14 (19.18%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (17.81%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (16.44%) Data Governance
16 12 (16.44%) Data Quality
16 12 (16.44%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (16.44%) Terraform
17 10 (13.70%) GitHub
17 10 (13.70%) Migration
18 8 (10.96%) Amazon RDS
18 8 (10.96%) Databricks
18 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management

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 (27.40%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.48%) Confluence
3 3 (4.11%) Apache
4 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.37%) PowerExchange
5 1 (1.37%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (32.88%) Serverless
3 23 (31.51%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (30.14%) Amazon S3
5 21 (28.77%) Snowflake
6 17 (23.29%) dbt
7 10 (13.70%) GitHub
8 7 (9.59%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (8.22%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (6.85%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
11 4 (5.48%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (5.48%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (5.48%) GCP
12 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (4.11%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (2.74%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.18%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (17.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (16.44%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.85%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (6.85%) Power BI
6 4 (5.48%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.48%) Delta Lake
6 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.11%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (2.74%) Apache Hudi
8 2 (2.74%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.74%) Metadata
8 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.74%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.74%) Tableau
9 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Git
2 6 (8.22%) GitLab
3 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket
4 4 (5.48%) JIRA
5 3 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 17 (23.29%) Finance
2 10 (13.70%) Banking
3 9 (12.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Back Office
6 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.74%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Billing
7 1 (1.37%) Front Office
7 1 (1.37%) Marketing
7 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) Terraform
2 7 (9.59%) PySpark
3 2 (2.74%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (2.74%) Kafka
3 2 (2.74%) Next.js
3 2 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.74%) React
4 1 (1.37%) boto
4 1 (1.37%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.37%) Jinja
4 1 (1.37%) Pandas
4 1 (1.37%) RESTful
4 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.37%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.37%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (49.32%) Data Engineering
2 27 (36.99%) Data Pipeline
3 21 (28.77%) Analytics
4 20 (27.40%) Data Modelling
5 18 (24.66%) ETL
6 16 (21.92%) Agile
7 15 (20.55%) CI/CD
8 12 (16.44%) Data Governance
8 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (13.70%) Migration
10 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (8.22%) AI
12 6 (8.22%) DevOps
12 6 (8.22%) Performance Optimisation
12 6 (8.22%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (8.22%) Test Automation
12 6 (8.22%) Workflow
13 5 (6.85%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 39 (53.42%) Python
2 27 (36.99%) SQL
3 2 (2.74%) Java
3 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.37%) C#
4 1 (1.37%) COBOL
4 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (32.88%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Control-M
1 1 (1.37%) Grafana
1 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Databricks
2 4 (5.48%) Informatica
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle
4 1 (1.37%) Denodo
4 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace