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 £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 356 374
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 +163
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 26 42 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.28% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 33 57
10th Percentile £478 £315 £460
25th Percentile £513 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £688
90th Percentile £703 £670 £788
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 12,354 15,084 20,906
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.05% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,278 10,094 15,252
10th Percentile £326 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £673 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 181 235
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.39
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -6.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £50.50 £56.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £66.54 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
% change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +1 4 £550 +2.33% 6
East London - 1 - -
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (80.77%) Python
3 13 (50.00%) SQL
4 12 (46.15%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (42.31%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (42.31%) Snowflake
5 11 (42.31%) Amazon S3
6 9 (34.62%) ETL
6 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
7 7 (26.92%) dbt
7 7 (26.92%) Databricks
7 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
7 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
7 7 (26.92%) Azure
8 6 (23.08%) Analytics
8 6 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (23.08%) Finance
8 6 (23.08%) Serverless
9 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
9 5 (19.23%) Terraform
9 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
9 5 (19.23%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (15.38%) DevOps
10 4 (15.38%) Data Transformation
10 4 (15.38%) Data Integration
10 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
10 4 (15.38%) GitHub
10 4 (15.38%) Data Science
10 4 (15.38%) PySpark

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 12 (46.15%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
3 2 (7.69%) Apache
4 1 (3.85%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Endur
1 1 (3.85%) SAP BPC
1 1 (3.85%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) Amazon S3
2 11 (42.31%) Snowflake
3 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) dbt
4 6 (23.08%) Serverless
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (15.38%) GitHub
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
8 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (7.69%) GCP
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (3.85%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.69%) Big Data
3 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) Tableau
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.85%) ClickHouse
4 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Parquet
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) PySpark
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) Jinja
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.85%) pytest
4 1 (3.85%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
2 9 (34.62%) ETL
3 6 (23.08%) Analytics
4 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
5 4 (15.38%) Data Integration
5 4 (15.38%) Data Science
5 4 (15.38%) Data Transformation
5 4 (15.38%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (11.54%) Data Governance
6 3 (11.54%) Dimensional Modelling
6 3 (11.54%) Microservices
7 2 (7.69%) Change Management
7 2 (7.69%) Data Extraction
7 2 (7.69%) Data Security
7 2 (7.69%) Migration
8 1 (3.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) Python
2 13 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) Scala
5 1 (3.85%) HiveQL
5 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.85%) R
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Databricks
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) SAP
25 AWS Data Engineer jobs in England