AWS Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > London

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 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
26 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 357 393
Rank change year-on-year +54 +36 +123
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 47 47 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.28% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 70
10th Percentile £425 £408 £479
25th Percentile £463 £438 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% -8.54%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £700 £685 £788
England median daily rate £525 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +7.69% -11.36% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,871 16,499 23,814
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,038 11,852 17,368
10th Percentile £336 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 316 274
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £20.22 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.25 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +17.27% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.38 £46.49 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.75 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.17 £39.78 £43.32
% change year-on-year -29.19% -8.17% +73.26%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in London

AWS Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Engineer in London

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in London

AWS Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
Central London +8 5 £425 -22.73% 4
AWS Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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 job ads across the London region featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (68.09%) Python
3 23 (48.94%) SQL
3 23 (48.94%) Data Pipeline
4 21 (44.68%) Amazon S3
5 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
5 19 (40.43%) Security Cleared
6 18 (38.30%) Serverless
7 17 (36.17%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (34.04%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (31.91%) Data Engineering
9 15 (31.91%) Finance
9 15 (31.91%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (29.79%) ETL
11 12 (25.53%) Snowflake
12 11 (23.40%) DevOps
13 10 (21.28%) Apache
13 10 (21.28%) PySpark
14 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
14 9 (19.15%) dbt
15 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
15 8 (17.02%) Tableau
15 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
15 8 (17.02%) Big Data
15 8 (17.02%) Analytics
15 8 (17.02%) Relational Database
16 7 (14.89%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (14.89%) Data Quality
16 7 (14.89%) Data Transformation
16 7 (14.89%) Apache Spark

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (34.04%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (21.28%) Apache
3 7 (14.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.13%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Endur
1 1 (2.13%) SAP BPC
1 1 (2.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (44.68%) Amazon S3
3 18 (38.30%) Serverless
4 17 (36.17%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (25.53%) Snowflake
6 9 (19.15%) dbt
7 7 (14.89%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (10.64%) Azure
9 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (6.38%) GitHub
10 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
11 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (2.13%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.91%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (17.02%) Big Data
2 8 (17.02%) Relational Database
2 8 (17.02%) Tableau
3 7 (14.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (12.77%) Data Lake
4 6 (12.77%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
5 4 (8.51%) DynamoDB
5 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (6.38%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (6.38%) Power BI
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.26%) Parquet
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.13%) MySQL
8 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) MLflow
2 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
2 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Retail
6 2 (4.26%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) PySpark
2 4 (8.51%) Kafka
3 2 (4.26%) Plotly
4 1 (2.13%) pytest
4 1 (2.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.13%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (31.91%) Data Engineering
3 14 (29.79%) ETL
4 11 (23.40%) DevOps
5 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
6 8 (17.02%) Analytics
7 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
7 7 (14.89%) Data Transformation
8 6 (12.77%) Data Integration
9 5 (10.64%) Agile
9 5 (10.64%) Data Science
9 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (10.64%) Microservices
10 4 (8.51%) Change Management
10 4 (8.51%) Data Governance
10 4 (8.51%) Data Security
10 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (8.51%) Visualisation
11 3 (6.38%) Data Visualisation
11 3 (6.38%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (68.09%) Python
2 23 (48.94%) SQL
3 6 (12.77%) Java
4 3 (6.38%) Scala
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
1 19 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Databricks
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle
2 2 (4.26%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) Palantir
3 1 (2.13%) SAP
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