AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Manchester is £368, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.19% - 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £361 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.73%
75th Percentile £381 - £438
90th Percentile £385 - -
North West median daily rate £405 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.88% -22.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 984 1,078 1,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 93.66% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 624 1,114
10th Percentile £300 £315 £278
25th Percentile £392 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £582
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 33 63
10th Percentile £14.02 £16.16 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.78 £25.35 £16.74
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +66.67% -11.36%
75th Percentile £31.40 £62.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £61.50 £73.90 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £34.54
% change year-on-year -22.86% +1.33% +49.49%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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 Manchester.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 29 October 2025, 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 Manchester region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Control-M
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Control-M
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle