AWS Data Engineer Contracts

Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 562 701
Rank change year-on-year +59 +139 -116
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Data Engineer 81 135 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 113 112
10th Percentile £400 £451 £425
25th Percentile £438 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £653
90th Percentile £673 £700 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -9.40% -4.76% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

AWS Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Data Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Data Engineer in the UK

AWS Data Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +39 66 £475 -13.64% 12
London +40 48 £488 -15.22% 9
Work from Home +70 28 £494 -5.95% 6
UK excluding London +35 21 £453 -9.40% 3
North of England +20 6 £400 -11.11% 2
North West - 6 £400 - 2
Scotland +52 5 £457 -5.97%
West Midlands +19 4 £625 +56.25% 1
Midlands +18 4 £625 +56.25% 1
South West - 3 £450 -
South East +11 2 £500 -
East of England +5 1 £650 +44.44%

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 featuring AWS Data Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (69.14%) Python
3 39 (48.15%) SQL
3 39 (48.15%) Data Pipeline
4 34 (41.98%) Amazon S3
5 29 (35.80%) ETL
6 27 (33.33%) Data Engineering
7 24 (29.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (27.16%) Serverless
9 20 (24.69%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (23.46%) Terraform
11 18 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
12 17 (20.99%) Data Quality
12 17 (20.99%) Analytics
12 17 (20.99%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (19.75%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (19.75%) Security Cleared
14 15 (18.52%) PySpark
14 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
15 14 (17.28%) Databricks
15 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
16 13 (16.05%) Snowflake
16 13 (16.05%) Java
16 13 (16.05%) DevOps
17 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
17 12 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
18 11 (13.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 11 (13.58%) Docker
18 11 (13.58%) Big Data
18 11 (13.58%) Kafka

AWS Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (12.35%) Apache Spark
3 9 (11.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (41.98%) Amazon S3
3 22 (27.16%) Serverless
4 18 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
5 16 (19.75%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (16.05%) Snowflake
7 11 (13.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (13.58%) Azure
8 10 (12.35%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (12.35%) Amazon EMR
8 10 (12.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (9.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (7.41%) dbt
11 5 (6.17%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (4.94%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (4.94%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (4.94%) Dagster
13 3 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (2.47%) AWS CodeCommit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (29.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 20 (24.69%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (20.99%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (13.58%) Big Data
5 10 (12.35%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (6.17%) Flink
7 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.94%) Tableau
9 3 (3.70%) Data Mining
9 3 (3.70%) MySQL
9 3 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.47%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
10 2 (2.47%) Parquet
10 2 (2.47%) Spark SQL
10 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Git
2 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.70%) GitLab
3 3 (3.70%) JIRA
4 2 (2.47%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.17%) Finance
2 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Retail
5 1 (1.23%) Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Czech Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.52%) PySpark
2 11 (13.58%) Kafka
3 7 (8.64%) REST
4 5 (6.17%) Pandas
5 4 (4.94%) NumPy
6 3 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (3.70%) RESTful
7 2 (2.47%) JSON
8 1 (1.23%) Apache Avro
8 1 (1.23%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.23%) JDBC
8 1 (1.23%) Node.js
8 1 (1.23%) ODBC
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.23%) IoT
3 1 (1.23%) Life Science
3 1 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.15%) Data Pipeline
2 29 (35.80%) ETL
3 27 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 17 (20.99%) Analytics
5 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
6 13 (16.05%) DevOps
7 11 (13.58%) Data Modelling
8 10 (12.35%) Agile
9 8 (9.88%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.64%) Data Management
10 7 (8.64%) Data Science
10 7 (8.64%) DataOps
11 6 (7.41%) Data Transformation
11 6 (7.41%) Mentoring
11 6 (7.41%) Migration
12 5 (6.17%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (6.17%) Data Integration
12 5 (6.17%) Microservices
13 4 (4.94%) MLOps
13 4 (4.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 56 (69.14%) Python
2 39 (48.15%) SQL
3 13 (16.05%) Java
4 7 (8.64%) Scala
5 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.47%) R
7 1 (1.23%) Bash
7 1 (1.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) Degree
4 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) IBM Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.99%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (23.46%) Terraform
2 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.94%) Argo
4 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Databricks
2 3 (3.70%) Informatica
3 2 (2.47%) IBM
3 2 (2.47%) SAP
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.23%) Splunk