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 £536, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 338 347
Rank change year-on-year -27 +9 +40
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 77 35 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.28% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 29 26
10th Percentile £431 £506 £338
25th Percentile £477 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +12.82% -15.22%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £594
90th Percentile £725 £705 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -6.36% +15.79% -10.38%
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 18,810 12,563 15,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 92.94% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,236 8,468 10,714
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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 345 204 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.54 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% -11.27% -11.83%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.13 £54.06
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +7.14%

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 15 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 15 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 -12 7 £638 +15.91% 1
East London 0 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 15 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 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (51.95%) Python
3 39 (50.65%) Data Engineering
4 30 (38.96%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (37.66%) SQL
6 25 (32.47%) Serverless
7 24 (31.17%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (31.17%) Security Cleared
8 23 (29.87%) Amazon S3
8 23 (29.87%) Analytics
8 23 (29.87%) Apache Airflow
8 23 (29.87%) SC Cleared
8 23 (29.87%) Snowflake
9 22 (28.57%) Data Modelling
10 19 (24.68%) ETL
11 17 (22.08%) CI/CD
12 16 (20.78%) Agile
12 16 (20.78%) dbt
13 15 (19.48%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (19.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (15.58%) Data Governance
14 12 (15.58%) Data Quality
14 12 (15.58%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (15.58%) Terraform
15 11 (14.29%) GitHub
15 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 10 (12.99%) Databricks
16 10 (12.99%) Migration
17 9 (11.69%) Git
18 8 (10.39%) Amazon EMR

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 23 (29.87%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.49%) Apache
3 4 (5.19%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.90%) Confluence
5 1 (1.30%) PowerExchange
5 1 (1.30%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (32.47%) Serverless
3 24 (31.17%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (29.87%) Amazon S3
4 23 (29.87%) Snowflake
5 16 (20.78%) dbt
6 11 (14.29%) GitHub
7 8 (10.39%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (7.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (7.79%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
11 4 (5.19%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (5.19%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (5.19%) Azure
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (3.90%) GCP
13 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) 4G
1 1 (1.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) Amazon Athena
1 15 (19.48%) Amazon Redshift
2 12 (15.58%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (7.79%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (6.49%) Power BI
6 4 (5.19%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.19%) Delta Lake
6 4 (5.19%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.90%) Apache Hudi
7 3 (3.90%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.90%) Metadata
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (2.60%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.60%) Redshift Spectrum
8 2 (2.60%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Git
2 6 (7.79%) GitLab
3 4 (5.19%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (22.08%) Finance
2 11 (14.29%) Banking
3 8 (10.39%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Back Office
6 2 (2.60%) Billing
6 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.60%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Front Office
7 1 (1.30%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) PySpark
2 3 (3.90%) Kafka
3 2 (2.60%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (2.60%) Next.js
3 2 (2.60%) pytest
3 2 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.60%) React
4 1 (1.30%) boto
4 1 (1.30%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.30%) Jinja
4 1 (1.30%) Pandas
4 1 (1.30%) RESTful
4 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.30%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.30%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.65%) Data Engineering
2 30 (38.96%) Data Pipeline
3 23 (29.87%) Analytics
4 22 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 19 (24.68%) ETL
6 17 (22.08%) CI/CD
7 16 (20.78%) Agile
8 12 (15.58%) Data Governance
9 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (12.99%) Migration
11 8 (10.39%) DevOps
12 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (7.79%) AI
13 6 (7.79%) Data Transformation
13 6 (7.79%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (7.79%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (7.79%) Workflow
14 5 (6.49%) Data Ingestion
14 5 (6.49%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (51.95%) Python
2 29 (37.66%) SQL
3 3 (3.90%) Java
4 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.30%) C#
5 1 (1.30%) COBOL
5 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) Terraform
2 1 (1.30%) Control-M
2 1 (1.30%) Grafana
2 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Databricks
2 4 (5.19%) Informatica
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle
3 2 (2.60%) SAP
4 1 (1.30%) Denodo
4 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft