AWS Data Engineer Contracts 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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 346 406
Rank change year-on-year +47 +60 +110
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 54 45 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.27% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 34 67
10th Percentile £419 £408 £463
25th Percentile £456 £428 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -6.50%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £700
90th Percentile £644 £684 £780
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured AWS Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in London

AWS Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Engineer 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +5 5 £500 - 1
AWS Data Engineer
England

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (68.52%) Python
3 29 (53.70%) SQL
4 28 (51.85%) Amazon S3
4 28 (51.85%) Data Pipeline
5 27 (50.00%) SC Cleared
5 27 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 23 (42.59%) Serverless
7 22 (40.74%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (38.89%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (33.33%) Data Engineering
10 16 (29.63%) DevOps
11 14 (25.93%) Apache Airflow
11 14 (25.93%) ETL
12 13 (24.07%) Finance
12 13 (24.07%) Terraform
13 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
13 12 (22.22%) Tableau
13 12 (22.22%) PySpark
14 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
14 11 (20.37%) dbt
14 11 (20.37%) Analytics
15 10 (18.52%) Relational Database
15 10 (18.52%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (18.52%) Apache
16 9 (16.67%) Big Data
16 9 (16.67%) Apache Spark
16 9 (16.67%) Data Lake
16 9 (16.67%) Snowflake
16 9 (16.67%) CI/CD

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (25.93%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (18.52%) Apache
3 9 (16.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (51.85%) Amazon S3
3 23 (42.59%) Serverless
4 22 (40.74%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (20.37%) dbt
6 9 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 7 (12.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (9.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (7.41%) Azure
10 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
11 3 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (5.56%) GitHub
11 3 (5.56%) IaaS
11 3 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.89%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (22.22%) Tableau
3 10 (18.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (18.52%) Relational Database
4 9 (16.67%) Big Data
4 9 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (11.11%) NoSQL
8 4 (7.41%) DynamoDB
8 4 (7.41%) Power BI
9 3 (5.56%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (5.56%) Flink
9 3 (5.56%) Neo4j
9 3 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.85%) Parquet
11 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) MLflow
General
1 13 (24.07%) Finance
2 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Banking
4 4 (7.41%) Retail
5 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.22%) PySpark
2 7 (12.96%) Kafka
3 3 (5.56%) Plotly
3 3 (5.56%) React
4 1 (1.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
1 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (51.85%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 16 (29.63%) DevOps
4 14 (25.93%) ETL
5 11 (20.37%) Analytics
6 9 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.81%) Data Transformation
7 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (14.81%) Microservices
8 6 (11.11%) Data Architecture
8 6 (11.11%) Data Science
8 6 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 6 (11.11%) Migration
9 5 (9.26%) Agile
9 5 (9.26%) Data Integration
9 5 (9.26%) Data Migration
9 5 (9.26%) Data Modelling
9 5 (9.26%) Data Security
9 5 (9.26%) Visualisation
10 4 (7.41%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (68.52%) Python
2 29 (53.70%) SQL
3 5 (9.26%) Java
4 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.70%) Scala
6 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 27 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (24.07%) Terraform
2 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Databricks
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.85%) Palantir
20 AWS Data Engineer jobs in England