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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 324 348
Rank change year-on-year -50 +24 +44
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 69 41 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.32% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 34 31
10th Percentile £431 £458 £390
25th Percentile £473 £483 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -4.76%
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 18,486 12,652 15,766
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 93.10% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,085 8,557 11,239
10th Percentile £363 £331 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 197 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.09% -17.21%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.00 £51.88
90th Percentile £76.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.50 £42.91
% change year-on-year +71.91% -38.24% -2.72%

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 July 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 July 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 -17 6 £575 +4.55% 1
East London +2 1 £575 -
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 24 July 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 69 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (53.62%) Python
3 32 (46.38%) Data Engineering
4 27 (39.13%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (37.68%) SQL
6 22 (31.88%) Security Cleared
7 21 (30.43%) Amazon S3
7 21 (30.43%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (30.43%) Data Modelling
7 21 (30.43%) SC Cleared
7 21 (30.43%) Snowflake
8 20 (28.99%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (28.99%) Serverless
9 19 (27.54%) Analytics
10 18 (26.09%) ETL
11 16 (23.19%) Agile
12 15 (21.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (20.29%) CI/CD
14 13 (18.84%) dbt
15 12 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (17.39%) Migration
15 12 (17.39%) Terraform
16 10 (14.49%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (14.49%) Data Quality
16 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
17 9 (13.04%) Databricks
18 8 (11.59%) Data Governance
18 8 (11.59%) DevOps
18 8 (11.59%) Git
18 8 (11.59%) GitHub

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 21 (30.43%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.80%) Apache
3 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.35%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (30.43%) Amazon S3
2 21 (30.43%) Snowflake
3 20 (28.99%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (28.99%) Serverless
4 13 (18.84%) dbt
5 8 (11.59%) GitHub
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon EMR
7 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.25%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.80%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (4.35%) Azure
11 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) 4G
1 1 (1.45%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 12 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (14.49%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.80%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.80%) Delta Lake
4 4 (5.80%) Power BI
4 4 (5.80%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.35%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.90%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.90%) Metadata
6 2 (2.90%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.90%) Tableau
7 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.45%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Git
2 4 (5.80%) GitLab
3 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.35%) JIRA
4 2 (2.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (18.84%) Finance
2 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Banking
4 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Billing
5 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.90%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Back Office
6 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Marketing
6 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) PySpark
2 2 (2.90%) Kafka
2 2 (2.90%) Next.js
2 2 (2.90%) Pandas
2 2 (2.90%) pytest
2 2 (2.90%) React
3 1 (1.45%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.45%) boto
3 1 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.45%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (46.38%) Data Engineering
2 27 (39.13%) Data Pipeline
3 21 (30.43%) Data Modelling
4 19 (27.54%) Analytics
5 18 (26.09%) ETL
6 16 (23.19%) Agile
7 14 (20.29%) CI/CD
8 12 (17.39%) Migration
9 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (11.59%) Data Governance
10 8 (11.59%) DevOps
11 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (8.70%) AI
12 6 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
12 6 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
13 5 (7.25%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (7.25%) Use Case
14 4 (5.80%) ETL Development
14 4 (5.80%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 37 (53.62%) Python
2 26 (37.68%) SQL
3 3 (4.35%) Java
4 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.45%) Grafana
2 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (13.04%) Databricks
2 4 (5.80%) Informatica
3 2 (2.90%) SAP
4 1 (1.45%) Denodo
4 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle