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 14 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 289 351
Rank change year-on-year -61 +62 +45
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 53 55 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.44% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.48% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 48 31
10th Percentile £427 £419 £413
25th Percentile £463 £461 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £635 £641 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% -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 16,525 11,541 16,388
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.35% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,971 7,894 11,839
10th Percentile £350 £345 £325
25th Percentile £428 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £688
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 143 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +24.77% -23.24%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.97 £45.18
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £46.50 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.00% -20.00% -14.88%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -11 5 £575 +15.00%
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 14 May 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 53 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (58.49%) Python
3 23 (43.40%) Data Engineering
4 20 (37.74%) Amazon S3
4 20 (37.74%) SQL
5 19 (35.85%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (35.85%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (35.85%) SC Cleared
5 19 (35.85%) Security Cleared
5 19 (35.85%) Serverless
6 18 (33.96%) ETL
7 17 (32.08%) Analytics
7 17 (32.08%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (28.30%) Snowflake
9 14 (26.42%) Data Modelling
10 13 (24.53%) Databricks
11 12 (22.64%) Agile
11 12 (22.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (20.75%) Data Quality
12 11 (20.75%) DevOps
12 11 (20.75%) Terraform
13 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
14 8 (15.09%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (15.09%) Azure
14 8 (15.09%) Migration
14 8 (15.09%) Validation
15 7 (13.21%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (13.21%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (13.21%) Data Governance
15 7 (13.21%) Data Warehouse

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 17 (32.08%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.55%) Apache
3 3 (5.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.89%) Appian
4 1 (1.89%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (37.74%) Amazon S3
3 19 (35.85%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (35.85%) Serverless
4 15 (28.30%) Snowflake
5 8 (15.09%) Azure
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (13.21%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (9.43%) GitHub
8 4 (7.55%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (7.55%) dbt
8 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.89%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) 4G
1 1 (1.89%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (15.09%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.55%) Delta Lake
5 4 (7.55%) Metadata
5 4 (7.55%) Power BI
6 3 (5.66%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (3.77%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (3.77%) Star Schema
7 2 (3.77%) Tableau
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.89%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) GitLab
3 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) MLflow
General
1 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Banking
3 6 (11.32%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.77%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Billing
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) PySpark
2 2 (3.77%) Kafka
2 2 (3.77%) Next.js
2 2 (3.77%) Pandas
2 2 (3.77%) pytest
2 2 (3.77%) React
3 1 (1.89%) boto
3 1 (1.89%) NumPy
3 1 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Data Engineering
2 19 (35.85%) Data Pipeline
3 18 (33.96%) ETL
4 17 (32.08%) Analytics
5 14 (26.42%) Data Modelling
6 12 (22.64%) Agile
7 11 (20.75%) DevOps
8 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
9 8 (15.09%) Migration
9 8 (15.09%) Validation
10 7 (13.21%) Data Governance
10 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (9.43%) Data Ingestion
12 5 (9.43%) Data Transformation
12 5 (9.43%) ETL Development
12 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (7.55%) Event-Driven
13 4 (7.55%) Visualisation
14 3 (5.66%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) Python
2 20 (37.74%) SQL
3 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.89%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) Java
4 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (35.85%) SC Cleared
1 19 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Terraform
2 1 (1.89%) Grafana
2 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Databricks
2 3 (5.66%) Informatica
2 3 (5.66%) SAP
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) Denodo
4 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow