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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 298 353
Rank change year-on-year -56 +55 +38
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 66 49 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.40% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.43% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 42 32
10th Percentile £431 £454 £407
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +13.51% -17.78%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £575
90th Percentile £678 £695 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% -13.64%

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 17,467 11,455 16,568
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.56% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,526 7,752 11,944
10th Percentile £356 £341 £325
25th Percentile £433 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 164 328
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £15.98
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.14 £20.17
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% +15.97% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £78.13 £64.63 £67.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -14 5 £575 +35.29%
East London - 1 £575 -
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 11 June 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 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (57.58%) Python
3 28 (42.42%) Data Engineering
4 27 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (39.39%) SQL
6 23 (34.85%) Amazon S3
7 22 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (33.33%) Serverless
8 21 (31.82%) Security Cleared
8 21 (31.82%) Snowflake
9 20 (30.30%) Analytics
9 20 (30.30%) SC Cleared
10 19 (28.79%) Apache Airflow
11 17 (25.76%) Data Modelling
11 17 (25.76%) ETL
12 15 (22.73%) Agile
13 14 (21.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (19.70%) Terraform
15 12 (18.18%) Data Quality
15 12 (18.18%) Migration
16 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
16 11 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (16.67%) Databricks
16 11 (16.67%) DevOps
17 10 (15.15%) dbt
18 9 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
18 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
19 8 (12.12%) Data Governance
19 8 (12.12%) Git
20 7 (10.61%) Amazon Kinesis

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 19 (28.79%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.55%) Apache
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.03%) Confluence
4 1 (1.52%) Appian
4 1 (1.52%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (34.85%) Amazon S3
3 22 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (33.33%) Serverless
4 21 (31.82%) Snowflake
5 10 (15.15%) dbt
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (9.09%) Azure
7 6 (9.09%) GitHub
8 5 (7.58%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) 4G
1 1 (1.52%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.06%) Delta Lake
4 4 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.55%) Apache Hudi
5 3 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.55%) Metadata
5 3 (4.55%) Power BI
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.03%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.03%) Tableau
7 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.52%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Git
2 4 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) JIRA
3 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (18.18%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Banking
4 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.03%) Billing
5 2 (3.03%) Retail
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) PySpark
2 3 (4.55%) Kafka
2 3 (4.55%) Pandas
3 2 (3.03%) boto
3 2 (3.03%) Next.js
3 2 (3.03%) pytest
3 2 (3.03%) React
4 1 (1.52%) NumPy
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.52%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) Data Engineering
2 27 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
3 20 (30.30%) Analytics
4 17 (25.76%) Data Modelling
4 17 (25.76%) ETL
5 15 (22.73%) Agile
6 12 (18.18%) Migration
7 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 11 (16.67%) DevOps
8 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (12.12%) Data Governance
10 6 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (9.09%) Validation
11 5 (7.58%) AI
11 5 (7.58%) Data Ingestion
11 5 (7.58%) Data Transformation
11 5 (7.58%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (7.58%) Use Case
12 4 (6.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 38 (57.58%) Python
2 26 (39.39%) SQL
3 3 (4.55%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (19.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) Grafana
2 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Databricks
2 3 (4.55%) Informatica
2 3 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (1.52%) Denodo
3 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle