AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 19 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 161 192
Rank change year-on-year -21 +31 +66
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 8 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.20% 0.072% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.079% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £392 £418 £420
25th Percentile £448 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £588
90th Percentile £499 £483 £614
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -9.58%

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 3,700 3,817 4,793
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 91.98% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 2,192 3,215
10th Percentile £238 £275 £263
25th Percentile £368 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £584 £600
90th Percentile £650 £670 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 242 204
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.22 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.75 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +25.05% +27.49%
75th Percentile £47.12 £49.69 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £63.22
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 19 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
North West -2 8 £475 +5.56% 3
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 19 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 North of England region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 6 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
4 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (37.50%) SQL
6 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (25.00%) ETL
6 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
6 2 (25.00%) Google
6 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
6 2 (25.00%) GCP
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) dbt
6 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) PySpark
7 1 (12.50%) Serverless
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (12.50%) Flask

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 6 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) dbt
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) MLflow
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) Flask
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) MLOps
3 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
3 1 (12.50%) Trunk-Based Development
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Control-M
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle