AWS Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Work from Home is £523 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 405 491
Rank change year-on-year +90 +86 -65
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 31 66 129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 50 90
10th Percentile £452 £450 £500
25th Percentile £475 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £700
90th Percentile £653 £754 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

AWS Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured AWS Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing AWS Data Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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

1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (67.74%) Python
3 16 (51.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (48.39%) Data Engineering
4 15 (48.39%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (38.71%) SQL
5 12 (38.71%) ETL
6 11 (35.48%) Amazon Kinesis
7 10 (32.26%) PySpark
7 10 (32.26%) Analytics
8 9 (29.03%) DevOps
8 9 (29.03%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (29.03%) Terraform
8 9 (29.03%) Serverless
9 8 (25.81%) Amazon S3
9 8 (25.81%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (22.58%) Agile
10 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
10 7 (22.58%) DataOps
11 6 (19.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
11 6 (19.35%) dbt
11 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
12 5 (16.13%) OOD
12 5 (16.13%) OO
12 5 (16.13%) Regression Testing
12 5 (16.13%) Data Management
12 5 (16.13%) JIRA

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 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) Amazon Kinesis
3 9 (29.03%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (29.03%) Serverless
4 8 (25.81%) Amazon S3
5 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (19.35%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (19.35%) dbt
6 5 (16.13%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (16.13%) Snowflake
7 4 (12.90%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (12.90%) Azure
8 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (51.61%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (25.81%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (16.13%) Tableau
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (9.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.45%) Power BI
6 2 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
General
1 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.23%) Retail
3 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) PySpark
2 2 (6.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.23%) IoT
2 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Data Engineering
1 15 (48.39%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (38.71%) ETL
3 10 (32.26%) Analytics
4 9 (29.03%) DevOps
5 7 (22.58%) Agile
5 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (22.58%) DataOps
5 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
6 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
6 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
7 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
7 5 (16.13%) Data Management
7 5 (16.13%) Data Science
7 5 (16.13%) OOD
7 5 (16.13%) Performance Analysis
7 5 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
7 5 (16.13%) Unit Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 12 (38.71%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) Java
3 3 (9.68%) Scala
4 2 (6.45%) Perl
5 1 (3.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
1 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Terraform
2 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Databricks
2 3 (9.68%) Informatica