AWS Data Pipeline Contract Job Trends

Amazon AWS Data Pipeline
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AWS Data Pipeline skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 554 632
Rank change year-on-year +8 +78 +188
Contract jobs citing AWS Data Pipeline 14 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.021% 0.019%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.061% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile £418 £478 £473
25th Percentile £481 £481 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £519 £563
90th Percentile - £523 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Data Pipeline falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,729 13,025 17,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.40% 34.87% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,496 8,599 12,292
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £408 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 180 331
10th Percentile £15.23 £16.30 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.38 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +44.91%
75th Percentile £43.75 £66.69 £63.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £33.93 £22.51
% change year-on-year -41.06% +50.73% +14.82%

AWS Data Pipeline
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Data Pipeline relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Data Pipeline job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Data Pipeline.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Data Pipeline

AWS Data Pipeline
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Pipeline over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Pipeline in the UK

AWS Data Pipeline
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Data Pipeline within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +15 10 £512 +2.45% 4
Work from Home +20 7 £613 +22.50% 8
London +26 6 £512 - 3
UK excluding London -17 4 £505 - 3
North of England -30 3 £575 - 1
North West - 2 £505 -
East Midlands - 1 £435 -
Midlands - 1 £435 -
North East - 1 £625 -

AWS Data Pipeline
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (28.57%) Apache
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) Google Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Google Tag Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Hudi
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 2 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (14.29%) Looker
2 2 (14.29%) Parquet
2 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
General
1 2 (14.29%) Legal
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Data Architect
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Data Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) QA Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Senior QA Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
4 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) ETL
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) AI
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) SDLC
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (21.43%) Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Data Science
5 3 (21.43%) Data Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
5 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
5 3 (21.43%) Validation
6 2 (14.29%) Functional Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow