AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Scotland

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Scotland is £432, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 116 130
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +22
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 4 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.26% 0.062% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.067% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £401 - £469
25th Percentile £402 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £469 £488 £531
90th Percentile - - £544
UK median daily rate £463 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -11.90% +0.48% -12.92%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,402 1,489 2,251
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 91.91% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 889 1,378
10th Percentile £216 £205 £250
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 46 97
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.13 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.46 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.88 £22.94 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -49.03% +153.95%
75th Percentile £54.69 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £64.10 £34.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -10.96% +4.29%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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 Scotland.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
Edinburgh - 2 £463 - 1
Glasgow - 2 £401 -
AWS Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 2026, 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 Scotland region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Mart
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) ETL Development

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (50.00%) Data Mart
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) ETL Development
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft