AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > North West

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the North West is £405, 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 133 116 144
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 +40
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.21% 0.086% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.092% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £361 £418 -
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.88% -22.73%
75th Percentile £443 £475 £438
90th Percentile £446 £483 -
England median daily rate £525 £540 £518
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.35% -13.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,157 2,181 2,573
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 93.52% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,157 1,800
10th Percentile £219 £267 £275
25th Percentile £363 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £678 £650 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 151 180
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.49 £15.98
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £34.54
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +1.33% +49.49%
75th Percentile £50.00 £52.20 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.16 £71.50 £63.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.16% -8.39% +55.53%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 North West.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Cheshire -24 3 £435 -3.33% 5
Manchester - 2 £368 - 6
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

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 North West region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) PySpark
3 3 (60.00%) AI
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (60.00%) Big Data
3 3 (60.00%) Flask
3 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) MLflow
3 3 (60.00%) MLOps
3 3 (60.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Terraform
5 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) MLflow
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
2 3 (60.00%) Flask
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) MLOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) DataOps
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (20.00%) Trunk-Based Development
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Control-M
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle