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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 296 344
Rank change year-on-year -48 +48 +54
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 60 51 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.41% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.44% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 45 30
10th Percentile £431 £425 £412
25th Percentile £463 £463 £428
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 £671 £680 £689
England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +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 16,751 11,531 16,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 93.34% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 7,870 11,819
10th Percentile £355 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £428 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £757 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.27% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 150 318
10th Percentile £19.23 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +23.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £63.88 £65.32
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.23 £37.18
% change year-on-year +53.95% -21.38% -16.94%

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 21 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 21 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 -7 6 £575 +35.29%
East London - 1 £575 - 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 21 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 60 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (58.33%) Python
3 25 (41.67%) Data Engineering
4 23 (38.33%) Data Pipeline
5 22 (36.67%) SQL
6 21 (35.00%) Amazon S3
7 20 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (33.33%) SC Cleared
7 20 (33.33%) Security Cleared
7 20 (33.33%) Serverless
8 19 (31.67%) Analytics
8 19 (31.67%) Snowflake
9 18 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
9 18 (30.00%) ETL
10 16 (26.67%) Data Modelling
11 13 (21.67%) Agile
12 12 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (20.00%) Databricks
12 12 (20.00%) Terraform
13 11 (18.33%) Data Quality
13 11 (18.33%) DevOps
14 10 (16.67%) Migration
15 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
16 8 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (13.33%) Azure
16 8 (13.33%) Data Governance
16 8 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (13.33%) Git
16 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
16 8 (13.33%) Validation

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 18 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.67%) Apache
2 4 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) Appian
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (35.00%) Amazon S3
3 20 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (33.33%) Serverless
4 19 (31.67%) Snowflake
5 8 (13.33%) Azure
6 7 (11.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (11.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (10.00%) dbt
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (8.33%) GitHub
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) 4G
1 1 (1.67%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 4 (6.67%) Metadata
4 4 (6.67%) Power BI
5 3 (5.00%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (3.33%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.33%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.33%) Tableau
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.67%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.67%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Git
2 5 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (15.00%) Finance
1 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Banking
3 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.33%) Billing
5 2 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) PySpark
2 3 (5.00%) Kafka
2 3 (5.00%) Pandas
3 2 (3.33%) boto
3 2 (3.33%) Next.js
3 2 (3.33%) pytest
3 2 (3.33%) React
4 1 (1.67%) NumPy
4 1 (1.67%) REST
4 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.67%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Data Engineering
2 23 (38.33%) Data Pipeline
3 19 (31.67%) Analytics
4 18 (30.00%) ETL
5 16 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 13 (21.67%) Agile
7 11 (18.33%) DevOps
8 10 (16.67%) Migration
9 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
10 8 (13.33%) Data Governance
10 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (13.33%) Validation
11 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
12 5 (8.33%) Data Transformation
12 5 (8.33%) ETL Development
12 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (6.67%) Event-Driven
13 4 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
13 4 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 35 (58.33%) Python
2 22 (36.67%) SQL
3 2 (3.33%) Java
3 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.67%) C#
4 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 20 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
2 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Databricks
2 3 (5.00%) Informatica
2 3 (5.00%) SAP
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (1.67%) Denodo
4 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow