AWS Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK excluding London is £457 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 420 474
Rank change year-on-year +62 +54 -56
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 20 15 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.098% 0.065% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.069% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 13
10th Percentile £378 £410 -
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -1.48%
75th Percentile £534 - £568
90th Percentile £603 £529 £593
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured AWS Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Scotland +47 6 £460 -5.25%
North of England +31 6 £400 -11.11% 2
North West - 6 £400 - 2
South West +15 3 £450 -14.29%
Midlands +33 2 £625 +56.25% 1
West Midlands +16 2 £625 +56.25% 1
South East +14 2 £500 -
East of England +12 1 £650 +44.44%
AWS Data Engineer
UK

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (70.00%) Python
3 11 (55.00%) ETL
4 8 (40.00%) Java
4 8 (40.00%) SQL
4 8 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 8 (40.00%) Data Quality
5 6 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (30.00%) Terraform
5 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (30.00%) Scala
5 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (25.00%) Snowflake
6 5 (25.00%) Azure
6 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (20.00%) Docker
7 4 (20.00%) DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) Analytics
7 4 (20.00%) Databricks
7 4 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (15.00%) GitOps
8 3 (15.00%) DataOps
8 3 (15.00%) MLOps
8 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (5.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
4 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.00%) Tableau
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) ETL
2 8 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) DataOps
5 3 (15.00%) GitOps
5 3 (15.00%) MLOps
6 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (10.00%) Data Acquisition
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Data Lineage
6 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Scala
4 2 (10.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) IBM Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica