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 4 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
4 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 358 407
Rank change year-on-year +58 +49 +105
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 55 43 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.24% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.26% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 65
10th Percentile £419 £413 £463
25th Percentile £456 £438 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -6.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £700
90th Percentile £641 £685 £783
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -7.60%

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 11,740 16,603 25,593
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.29% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,051 11,999 18,537
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £680 £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 145 338 292
10th Percentile £20.33 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.60
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.66 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.29% -21.55% +0.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £62.13
90th Percentile £64.50 £65.00 £78.72
England median hourly rate £30.45 £36.50 £44.53
% change year-on-year -16.58% -18.03% +97.91%

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 4 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 4 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 -16.67% 1
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 55 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (69.09%) Python
3 29 (52.73%) Data Pipeline
4 28 (50.91%) SQL
5 27 (49.09%) Amazon S3
6 26 (47.27%) SC Cleared
6 26 (47.27%) Security Cleared
7 22 (40.00%) Serverless
8 21 (38.18%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (36.36%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (32.73%) Data Engineering
11 15 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
11 15 (27.27%) DevOps
12 14 (25.45%) ETL
13 13 (23.64%) Finance
14 12 (21.82%) Terraform
14 12 (21.82%) PySpark
14 12 (21.82%) dbt
15 11 (20.00%) Snowflake
15 11 (20.00%) Kubernetes
15 11 (20.00%) Analytics
15 11 (20.00%) Tableau
16 10 (18.18%) Apache
16 10 (18.18%) Relational Database
16 10 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
16 10 (18.18%) Public Sector
17 9 (16.36%) Big Data
17 9 (16.36%) Apache Spark
17 9 (16.36%) Data Lake

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 15 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (18.18%) Apache
3 9 (16.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (49.09%) Amazon S3
3 22 (40.00%) Serverless
4 21 (38.18%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (21.82%) dbt
6 11 (20.00%) Snowflake
7 7 (12.73%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (7.27%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (7.27%) Azure
10 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
11 3 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (5.45%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (5.45%) GitHub
11 3 (5.45%) IaaS
11 3 (5.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (36.36%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (20.00%) Tableau
3 10 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 9 (16.36%) Big Data
4 9 (16.36%) Data Lake
5 8 (14.55%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (10.91%) NoSQL
8 4 (7.27%) DynamoDB
8 4 (7.27%) Power BI
9 3 (5.45%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (5.45%) Flink
9 3 (5.45%) Neo4j
9 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.82%) Parquet
11 1 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) GitLab
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) MLflow
General
1 13 (23.64%) Finance
2 10 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Banking
4 4 (7.27%) Retail
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.82%) PySpark
2 7 (12.73%) Kafka
3 3 (5.45%) Plotly
3 3 (5.45%) React
4 1 (1.82%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
1 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (32.73%) Data Engineering
3 15 (27.27%) DevOps
4 14 (25.45%) ETL
5 11 (20.00%) Analytics
6 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.55%) Data Transformation
7 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.73%) Microservices
9 6 (10.91%) Data Architecture
9 6 (10.91%) Data Science
9 6 (10.91%) Decision-Making
9 6 (10.91%) Migration
10 5 (9.09%) Agile
10 5 (9.09%) Data Integration
10 5 (9.09%) Data Migration
10 5 (9.09%) Data Modelling
10 5 (9.09%) Data Security
10 5 (9.09%) Visualisation
11 4 (7.27%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (69.09%) Python
2 28 (50.91%) SQL
3 5 (9.09%) Java
4 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.64%) Scala
6 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (47.27%) SC Cleared
1 26 (47.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Terraform
2 11 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) Databricks
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.82%) Palantir
20 AWS Data Engineer jobs in England