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 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 287 355
Rank change year-on-year -65 +68 +67
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 53 56 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.45% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.48% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 49 33
10th Percentile £425 £419 £413
25th Percentile £463 £456 £438
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 £640 £640 £685
England median daily rate £510 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 16,557 11,716 16,625
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 93.41% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,989 8,029 12,027
10th Percentile £350 £346 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 274 145 338
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +25.29% -21.55%
75th Percentile £63.26 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £31.35 £36.50
% change year-on-year +49.94% -14.12% -17.64%

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 7 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 7 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 -9 5 £575 +15.00% 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 7 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 32 (60.38%) Python
3 23 (43.40%) Data Engineering
4 21 (39.62%) Amazon S3
4 21 (39.62%) SQL
5 20 (37.74%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (37.74%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (37.74%) Serverless
6 19 (35.85%) ETL
7 18 (33.96%) Analytics
7 18 (33.96%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (33.96%) SC Cleared
7 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
8 16 (30.19%) Snowflake
9 15 (28.30%) Data Modelling
10 14 (26.42%) Databricks
11 13 (24.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (22.64%) Agile
12 12 (22.64%) Data Quality
12 12 (22.64%) Terraform
13 11 (20.75%) DevOps
14 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
15 8 (15.09%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (15.09%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (15.09%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (15.09%) Azure
15 8 (15.09%) Data Governance
15 8 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (15.09%) Migration

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 (33.96%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.55%) Apache
2 4 (7.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.89%) Appian
3 1 (1.89%) Confluence
3 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 21 (39.62%) Amazon S3
3 20 (37.74%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (37.74%) Serverless
4 16 (30.19%) Snowflake
5 8 (15.09%) Amazon Kinesis
5 8 (15.09%) AWS Step Functions
5 8 (15.09%) Azure
6 5 (9.43%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (9.43%) GitHub
6 5 (9.43%) Power Platform
7 4 (7.55%) dbt
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) 4G
1 1 (1.89%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (15.09%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.43%) Data Lake
3 5 (9.43%) Power BI
3 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.55%) Delta Lake
4 4 (7.55%) Metadata
5 3 (5.66%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (5.66%) Tableau
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (3.77%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.77%) Redshift Spectrum
6 2 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (3.77%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.89%) CockroachDB
7 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 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Banking
2 7 (13.21%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.77%) Retail
6 1 (1.89%) Billing
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) PySpark
2 3 (5.66%) Kafka
3 2 (3.77%) Next.js
3 2 (3.77%) Pandas
3 2 (3.77%) pytest
3 2 (3.77%) React
4 1 (1.89%) boto
4 1 (1.89%) NumPy
4 1 (1.89%) REST
4 1 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
4 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 20 (37.74%) Data Pipeline
3 19 (35.85%) ETL
4 18 (33.96%) Analytics
5 15 (28.30%) Data Modelling
6 12 (22.64%) Agile
7 11 (20.75%) DevOps
8 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
9 8 (15.09%) Data Governance
9 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (15.09%) Migration
9 8 (15.09%) Validation
10 7 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (9.43%) Data Ingestion
11 5 (9.43%) Data Transformation
11 5 (9.43%) ETL Development
11 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (7.55%) Event-Driven
12 4 (7.55%) Visualisation
13 3 (5.66%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Python
2 21 (39.62%) SQL
3 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.89%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) Java
4 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) SC Cleared
1 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (22.64%) Terraform
2 1 (1.89%) Grafana
2 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) 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