AWS Data Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £481, 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 283 311 412
Rank change year-on-year +28 +101 +90
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 21 34 65
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 49
10th Percentile £409 £398 £450
25th Percentile £423 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £638
90th Percentile £594 £645 £758
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured AWS Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Data Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Data Engineer.

AWS Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (71.43%) Python
3 12 (57.14%) SQL
3 12 (57.14%) ETL
4 11 (52.38%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
6 7 (33.33%) dbt
6 7 (33.33%) Snowflake
6 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
7 6 (28.57%) Finance
7 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
7 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
8 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (23.81%) PySpark
8 5 (23.81%) Visualisation
8 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
8 5 (23.81%) Analytics
8 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
8 5 (23.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (19.05%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (19.05%) Data Security
9 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
9 4 (19.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (19.05%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
10 3 (14.29%) Serverless
10 3 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
10 3 (14.29%) Plotly
10 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 7 (33.33%) dbt
2 7 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.52%) Azure
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (9.52%) IaaS
5 2 (9.52%) PaaS
5 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
3 3 (14.29%) Power BI
3 3 (14.29%) Tableau
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (9.52%) Big Data
4 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.52%) Neo4j
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.76%) Flink
5 1 (4.76%) MySQL
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.76%) Parquet
5 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Retail
2 3 (14.29%) Retail Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) PySpark
2 3 (14.29%) Plotly
3 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 2 (9.52%) React
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) ETL
2 11 (52.38%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) Visualisation
5 4 (19.05%) Data Security
5 4 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (19.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
6 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 3 (14.29%) Data Science
6 3 (14.29%) Economics
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
6 3 (14.29%) Pricing Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Databricks
1 2 (9.52%) Informatica
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle