Hybrid/Remote AWS Data Engineer Contract Job Trends

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 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
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 312 329
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +171
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 11 27 88
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.21% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.23% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 73
10th Percentile £428 £375 £413
25th Percentile £497 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -11.89%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £620
90th Percentile £600 £594 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -15.00%

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 9,147 11,789 19,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.48% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,032 7,477 13,483
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 280 424
10th Percentile £13.82 £20.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.02 £34.73 £25.71
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -10.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote AWS Data Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote AWS Data Engineer job vacancies

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Python
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Snowflake
3 7 (63.64%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (54.55%) dbt
5 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
6 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
7 2 (18.18%) MLOps
7 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (18.18%) Data Science
7 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (18.18%) ETL
7 2 (18.18%) SQL
7 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (18.18%) Docker
8 1 (9.09%) Flask
8 1 (9.09%) Data Munging
8 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
8 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
8 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
8 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
8 1 (9.09%) GCP

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 7 (63.64%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Snowflake
3 6 (54.55%) dbt
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (9.09%) Azure
6 1 (9.09%) Datadog
6 1 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) ClickHouse
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 1 (9.09%) Flask
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) Ray
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Data Science
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
3 2 (18.18%) MLOps
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) AIOps
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
4 1 (9.09%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Data Munging
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) HiveQL
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Scala
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks