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 in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 496 585
Rank change year-on-year +48 +89 +97
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 72 86 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 71 107
10th Percentile £425 £400 £450
25th Percentile £463 £438 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £650
90th Percentile £636 £675 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +1.60% -6.50% +1.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Top 12 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 1 May 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
England +60 70 £500 - 19
London +47 54 £525 +5.00% 17
Work from Home +28 21 £481 -3.75% 15
UK excluding London +52 13 £475 +1.60% 7
North of England +22 9 £475 +18.75%
North West +17 6 £475 +18.75%
Scotland +9 2 £475 +3.26%
North East - 2 £550 -
South West +40 1 - -
Midlands +21 1 £550 -3.30%
West Midlands +14 1 £550 -12.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (66.67%) Python
3 35 (48.61%) Amazon S3
4 34 (47.22%) SQL
4 34 (47.22%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
6 29 (40.28%) SC Cleared
7 25 (34.72%) ETL
7 25 (34.72%) Data Engineering
7 25 (34.72%) Serverless
8 24 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (31.94%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
11 17 (23.61%) Kubernetes
11 17 (23.61%) DevOps
11 17 (23.61%) Finance
12 15 (20.83%) dbt
12 15 (20.83%) Snowflake
13 14 (19.44%) PySpark
13 14 (19.44%) Terraform
13 14 (19.44%) Data Quality
13 14 (19.44%) Analytics
14 13 (18.06%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (18.06%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (16.67%) Public Sector
15 12 (16.67%) Apache
15 12 (16.67%) Tableau
15 12 (16.67%) Relational Database
16 11 (15.28%) Apache Spark
16 11 (15.28%) Amazon RDS

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 20 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (16.67%) Apache
3 11 (15.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (48.61%) Amazon S3
3 25 (34.72%) Serverless
4 24 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (20.83%) dbt
5 15 (20.83%) Snowflake
6 8 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 7 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.94%) Azure
10 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
11 3 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (4.17%) GitHub
11 3 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (31.94%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (18.06%) Amazon Redshift
2 13 (18.06%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 12 (16.67%) Tableau
4 11 (15.28%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (15.28%) Big Data
5 10 (13.89%) Data Lake
6 9 (12.50%) NoSQL
7 5 (6.94%) DynamoDB
7 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.56%) Flink
8 4 (5.56%) Power BI
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (4.17%) Neo4j
9 3 (4.17%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.78%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.78%) MySQL
11 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) MLflow
General
1 17 (23.61%) Finance
2 12 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.94%) Retail
5 4 (5.56%) Banking
6 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.17%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Electronics
8 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.44%) PySpark
2 7 (9.72%) Kafka
3 3 (4.17%) Plotly
3 3 (4.17%) React
4 1 (1.39%) pytest
4 1 (1.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
1 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
1 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.22%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (34.72%) Data Engineering
2 25 (34.72%) ETL
3 17 (23.61%) DevOps
4 14 (19.44%) Analytics
5 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 9 (12.50%) Data Transformation
6 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 8 (11.11%) Microservices
8 7 (9.72%) Agile
8 7 (9.72%) Data Architecture
8 7 (9.72%) Data Integration
8 7 (9.72%) Data Science
8 7 (9.72%) Migration
8 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.33%) Data Security
9 6 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 5 (6.94%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (66.67%) Python
2 34 (47.22%) SQL
3 6 (8.33%) Java
4 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.78%) Scala
6 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
2 29 (40.28%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.78%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (23.61%) Kubernetes
2 14 (19.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Databricks
2 4 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (2.78%) Google
3 2 (2.78%) Informatica
3 2 (2.78%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.39%) Palantir
4 1 (1.39%) SAP