AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the Midlands is £501, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 128 132
Rank change year-on-year -33 +4 +61
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.097% 0.16% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.17% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £419 £532 £456
25th Percentile £445 £535 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £540 £506
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +6.67% -7.95%
75th Percentile £569 £545 £542
90th Percentile £603 £548 £547
England median daily rate £450 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -18.18% +7.32% -14.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,759 2,333 2,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 92.99% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 1,450 1,740
10th Percentile £216 £225 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 98 116
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.38 £16.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% +19.10% +13.90%
75th Percentile £27.21 £32.13 £31.59
90th Percentile £40.25 £50.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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 the Midlands.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the Midlands

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
East Midlands - 3 £501 -
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 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 Midlands region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Aerospike
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) Backtesting
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Fraud Detection
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) pytest
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospike
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Backtesting
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Fraud Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks