AWS Data Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the North of England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 179 218
Rank change year-on-year +22 +39 +9
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 9 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.13% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.14% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 2
10th Percentile - £319 £433
25th Percentile £463 £344 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £480
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -16.67% +6.67%
75th Percentile £525 £403 £505
90th Percentile £553 £496 £511
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured AWS Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in the North of England

AWS Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Engineer in the North of England

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +17 6 £475 +18.75%
North East - 2 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
AWS Data Engineer
England

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 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 North of England region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (55.56%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) ETL
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 4 (44.44%) Docker
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) dbt
5 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) Google
5 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
5 2 (22.22%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) Databricks
5 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (55.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) dbt
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Pipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ETL
2 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CTC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Google