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 £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 300 343
Rank change year-on-year -55 +43 +66
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 49 54 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.43% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.46% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 46 35
10th Percentile £414 £419 £409
25th Percentile £463 £456 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £600
90th Percentile £670 £644 £683
England median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%

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 16,422 11,735 16,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.50% 93.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,940 8,042 12,035
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £799
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 146 337
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.05 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +26.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.16 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £35.96
% change year-on-year +48.55% -12.01% -20.09%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -9 5 £575 +15.00% 1
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 30 April 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 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (69.39%) Python
3 23 (46.94%) SQL
4 22 (44.90%) Amazon S3
4 22 (44.90%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (44.90%) Data Engineering
4 22 (44.90%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (44.90%) Serverless
5 21 (42.86%) ETL
6 20 (40.82%) Analytics
6 20 (40.82%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (34.69%) Data Modelling
7 17 (34.69%) Snowflake
8 15 (30.61%) Databricks
9 14 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (28.57%) Data Quality
9 14 (28.57%) SC Cleared
9 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
9 14 (28.57%) Terraform
10 12 (24.49%) Agile
10 12 (24.49%) CI/CD
11 11 (22.45%) DevOps
12 10 (20.41%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (20.41%) AWS Step Functions
12 10 (20.41%) Data Governance
12 10 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (16.33%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (16.33%) Azure

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 (40.82%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (12.24%) Apache Spark
3 4 (8.16%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) Appian
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (44.90%) Amazon S3
2 22 (44.90%) AWS Lambda
2 22 (44.90%) Serverless
3 17 (34.69%) Snowflake
4 10 (20.41%) Amazon Kinesis
4 10 (20.41%) AWS Step Functions
5 8 (16.33%) Azure
6 7 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
6 7 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (8.16%) GitHub
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (6.12%) dbt
9 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) 4G
1 1 (2.04%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 7 (14.29%) Power BI
5 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
5 5 (10.20%) Tableau
6 4 (8.16%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (8.16%) Delta Lake
6 4 (8.16%) Metadata
6 4 (8.16%) Redshift Spectrum
7 3 (6.12%) Apache Hudi
8 2 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
8 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (4.08%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) GitLab
3 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) MLflow
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Billing
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Marketing
5 1 (2.04%) Retail
5 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) Kafka
1 5 (10.20%) PySpark
2 3 (6.12%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (4.08%) Next.js
3 2 (4.08%) Pandas
3 2 (4.08%) pytest
3 2 (4.08%) React
4 1 (2.04%) boto
4 1 (2.04%) NumPy
4 1 (2.04%) REST
4 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Data Engineering
1 22 (44.90%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (42.86%) ETL
3 20 (40.82%) Analytics
4 17 (34.69%) Data Modelling
5 12 (24.49%) Agile
5 12 (24.49%) CI/CD
6 11 (22.45%) DevOps
7 10 (20.41%) Data Governance
7 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (16.33%) Validation
10 7 (14.29%) Migration
11 5 (10.20%) Data Transformation
11 5 (10.20%) ETL Development
11 5 (10.20%) Software Engineering
11 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (8.16%) Data Architecture
12 4 (8.16%) Data Science
12 4 (8.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (69.39%) Python
2 23 (46.94%) SQL
3 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.04%) C#
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (2.04%) Grafana
2 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Databricks
2 3 (6.12%) Informatica
2 3 (6.12%) SAP
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) Denodo
4 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow