AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > South West

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the South West is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 118 138
Rank change year-on-year -31 +20 -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 9 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.24% 0.051% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.057% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £576 - -
25th Percentile £605 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £675 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - +2.44%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,510 1,747 2,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 89.22% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,873 993 1,372
10th Percentile £340 £225 £225
25th Percentile £450 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £508
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £624
90th Percentile £725 £715 £700
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 634 231 245
10th Percentile £16.63 £13.50 £14.84
25th Percentile £28.69 £18.22 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.17 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +139.22% -62.74% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £74.26
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -1.92%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South 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 South West.

AWS Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Bristol -11 6 £650 +52.94% 2
Wiltshire - 3 £585 -
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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 South West region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) Analytics
2 8 (88.89%) Data Engineering
3 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
4 6 (66.67%) Agile
4 6 (66.67%) Snowflake
5 5 (55.56%) dbt
6 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
7 3 (33.33%) AI
7 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
7 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
7 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (33.33%) Python
7 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (33.33%) Terraform
8 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (22.22%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (22.22%) Business Analytics
8 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
8 2 (22.22%) Data Science
8 2 (22.22%) DataOps
8 2 (22.22%) Generative AI
8 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Snowflake
3 5 (55.56%) dbt
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (22.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) RStudio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (88.89%) Analytics
2 8 (88.89%) Data Engineering
3 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
4 6 (66.67%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) AI
5 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (22.22%) Business Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Data Science
6 2 (22.22%) DataOps
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Prompt Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality