AWS Data Engineer Contracts

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 569 680
Rank change year-on-year +81 +111 -140
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 91 131 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.23% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 105 133
10th Percentile £401 £450 £453
25th Percentile £447 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £663
90th Percentile £681 £710 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £496 £481
% change year-on-year -5.75% +3.12% -5.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Data Engineer.

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
England +76 72 £500 -9.09% 9
London +76 50 £500 -13.04% 8
Work from Home +92 35 £511 -4.88% 5
UK excluding London +78 24 £468 -5.75%
South West +28 7 £463 -15.91%
Scotland +37 6 £460 -5.25%
North of England +31 6 £400 -16.67%
North West - 6 £400 -
Midlands +27 2 £569 +42.19%
South East +24 2 £500 -
West Midlands +29 1 £625 +56.25%
East of England +11 1 £650 +44.44%
East Midlands - 1 £513 -

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 91 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (63.74%) Python
3 43 (47.25%) SQL
4 42 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (40.66%) Data Engineering
6 33 (36.26%) ETL
7 31 (34.07%) Amazon S3
7 31 (34.07%) Serverless
8 27 (29.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (29.67%) Amazon Kinesis
9 26 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (27.47%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (23.08%) Security Cleared
12 20 (21.98%) PySpark
12 20 (21.98%) Terraform
13 18 (19.78%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
14 17 (18.68%) Data Modelling
14 17 (18.68%) DevOps
14 17 (18.68%) Data Quality
15 16 (17.58%) Kafka
15 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
16 15 (16.48%) Analytics
16 15 (16.48%) Data Lake
17 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
17 14 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (14.29%) Agile
18 13 (14.29%) Apache
18 13 (14.29%) Snowflake
19 12 (13.19%) AWS Step Functions

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (14.29%) Apache
2 9 (9.89%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.40%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (34.07%) Amazon S3
2 31 (34.07%) Serverless
3 27 (29.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 26 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (14.29%) Snowflake
7 12 (13.19%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (12.09%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (8.79%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.79%) Azure
10 7 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (7.69%) dbt
11 4 (4.40%) AWS CodeCommit
11 4 (4.40%) Dagster
12 3 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.30%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (2.20%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 25 (27.47%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (19.78%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (16.48%) Data Lake
5 10 (10.99%) Flink
6 8 (8.79%) Big Data
7 5 (5.49%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.49%) Tableau
8 4 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.30%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.30%) Parquet
9 3 (3.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.20%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.20%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.20%) Power BI
10 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) JIRA
3 3 (3.30%) GitLab
4 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.20%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.79%) Finance
3 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.30%) Retail
6 1 (1.10%) Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.10%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.98%) PySpark
2 16 (17.58%) Kafka
3 8 (8.79%) REST
4 4 (4.40%) NumPy
4 4 (4.40%) Pandas
5 3 (3.30%) JSON
5 3 (3.30%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (2.20%) YAML
7 1 (1.10%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.10%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.10%) JDBC
7 1 (1.10%) Node.js
7 1 (1.10%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.20%) IoT
4 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.10%) Life Science
4 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
2 37 (40.66%) Data Engineering
3 33 (36.26%) ETL
4 17 (18.68%) Data Modelling
4 17 (18.68%) DevOps
5 15 (16.48%) Analytics
6 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 13 (14.29%) Agile
8 11 (12.09%) Computer Science
8 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (9.89%) Data Transformation
10 8 (8.79%) Data Science
10 8 (8.79%) DataOps
10 8 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (6.59%) Data Management
12 6 (6.59%) Migration
12 6 (6.59%) OO
12 6 (6.59%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 58 (63.74%) Python
2 43 (47.25%) SQL
3 11 (12.09%) Java
4 7 (7.69%) Scala
5 2 (2.20%) Perl
5 2 (2.20%) R
6 1 (1.10%) Bash
6 1 (1.10%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.19%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.89%) Degree
5 8 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.20%) IBM Certification
7 2 (2.20%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (8.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (21.98%) Terraform
2 10 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.40%) Argo
4 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (8.79%) Databricks
2 4 (4.40%) Informatica
3 3 (3.30%) Oracle
4 2 (2.20%) IBM
4 2 (2.20%) SAP
4 2 (2.20%) Splunk
5 1 (1.10%) Google
5 1 (1.10%) Talend