AWS Engineer Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 April 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
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 204 140
Rank change year-on-year -45 -64 +42
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 349 685 1,412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 1.34% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.42% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 554 1,163
10th Percentile £413 £456 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £688
90th Percentile £800 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,314 48,292 68,671
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.53% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,846 34,229 48,801
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,384 1,462 1,928
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.76%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% +0.48%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
London -22 251 £575 -8.00% 45
North of England +28 37 £463 -9.76% 13
North West +22 29 £456 -8.75% 9
South West +1 19 £550 -4.35% 5
South East -17 15 £538 -8.51% 6
Yorkshire +18 8 £500 -2.20% 2
Midlands +31 6 £481 -16.30% 12
East Midlands +19 4 £481 -3.75% 4
West Midlands +24 2 £488 -22.00% 8
East of England +2 1 £650 +25.00% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 April 2024, AWS 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 England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 349 (100.00%) AWS
2 174 (49.86%) Python
3 164 (46.99%) DevOps
4 147 (42.12%) Terraform
5 110 (31.52%) CI/CD
6 97 (27.79%) Kubernetes
7 85 (24.36%) Finance
8 83 (23.78%) Security Cleared
9 81 (23.21%) Serverless
10 78 (22.35%) SC Cleared
10 78 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 76 (21.78%) Amazon S3
12 71 (20.34%) Agile
13 70 (20.06%) AWS Lambda
13 70 (20.06%) Docker
14 69 (19.77%) Amazon EC2
15 66 (18.91%) Java
16 60 (17.19%) Linux
16 60 (17.19%) Amazon Athena
17 58 (16.62%) SQL
18 53 (15.19%) Social Skills
19 52 (14.90%) Ansible
20 51 (14.61%) Software Engineering
21 49 (14.04%) JavaScript
22 46 (13.18%) Apache
23 43 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
23 43 (12.32%) Apache Airflow
24 41 (11.75%) Data Lake
24 41 (11.75%) AWS Certification
24 41 (11.75%) Containerisation

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 46 (13.18%) Apache
2 43 (12.32%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.43%) Confluence
4 5 (1.43%) nginx
5 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 349 (100.00%) AWS
2 81 (23.21%) Serverless
3 76 (21.78%) Amazon S3
4 70 (20.06%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (19.77%) Amazon EC2
6 43 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 39 (11.17%) dbt
7 39 (11.17%) Snowflake
8 36 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 34 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (8.88%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (8.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 29 (8.31%) Azure
12 26 (7.45%) GitHub
13 25 (7.16%) GCP
14 22 (6.30%) Amazon Kinesis
15 21 (6.02%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (5.16%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (4.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.44%) Firewall
2 11 (3.15%) DNS
3 7 (2.01%) Network Security
4 4 (1.15%) DHCP
5 3 (0.86%) IPv4
5 3 (0.86%) LAN
5 3 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.86%) VPN
5 3 (0.86%) WLAN
6 2 (0.57%) SMTP
6 2 (0.57%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.29%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.19%) Amazon Athena
2 41 (11.75%) Data Lake
3 40 (11.46%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (10.60%) Apache Arrow
4 37 (10.60%) Dremio
5 32 (9.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (8.31%) Apache Ignite
6 29 (8.31%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (6.02%) DynamoDB
8 17 (4.87%) Big Data
9 11 (3.15%) MySQL
10 10 (2.87%) Flink
11 9 (2.58%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.43%) Parquet
14 5 (1.43%) Tableau
15 4 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
15 4 (1.15%) Data Mining
15 4 (1.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 35 (10.03%) Git
2 34 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 27 (7.74%) GitLab
4 9 (2.58%) JIRA
5 5 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.15%) JMeter
6 4 (1.15%) Maven
7 3 (0.86%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.86%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.57%) Snyk
8 2 (0.57%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) Gradle
9 1 (0.29%) Selenium
9 1 (0.29%) Storybook
9 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (24.36%) Finance
2 53 (15.19%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.17%) Banking
4 30 (8.60%) Front Office
5 27 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.45%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.29%) Law
9 7 (2.01%) Retail
10 6 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.57%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.29%) Back Office
13 1 (0.29%) Electronics
13 1 (0.29%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.60%) gRPC
1 37 (10.60%) Protocol Buffers
2 33 (9.46%) NumPy
2 33 (9.46%) Pandas
3 29 (8.31%) SciPy
4 23 (6.59%) Kafka
5 16 (4.58%) AWS CDK
6 13 (3.72%) Node.js
6 13 (3.72%) PySpark
6 13 (3.72%) React
7 9 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.29%) .NET
8 8 (2.29%) Lambda Expressions
8 8 (2.29%) REST
9 7 (2.01%) Vue
9 7 (2.01%) YAML
10 6 (1.72%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.72%) JSON
10 6 (1.72%) Redux
11 4 (1.15%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.02%) Hedge funds
2 20 (5.73%) Fixed Income
3 14 (4.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.44%) Derivative
4 12 (3.44%) Equities
5 8 (2.29%) Clustering
6 7 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.72%) PKI
8 5 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.86%) Life Science
10 3 (0.86%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.57%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 60 (17.19%) Linux
2 19 (5.44%) Windows
3 8 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.72%) Unix
5 4 (1.15%) VMS
6 3 (0.86%) Debian
7 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (46.99%) DevOps
2 110 (31.52%) CI/CD
3 78 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (20.34%) Agile
5 51 (14.61%) Software Engineering
6 41 (11.75%) Containerisation
7 40 (11.46%) Asset Management
8 35 (10.03%) Data Engineering
8 35 (10.03%) ETL
9 32 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (8.60%) Analytics
12 27 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (7.45%) Investment Management
14 24 (6.88%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (5.73%) Microservices
15 20 (5.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 18 (5.16%) Computer Science
17 17 (4.87%) Migration
18 16 (4.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 174 (49.86%) Python
2 66 (18.91%) Java
3 58 (16.62%) SQL
4 49 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 40 (11.46%) TypeScript
6 39 (11.17%) Bash
7 24 (6.88%) Go
8 15 (4.30%) C#
9 14 (4.01%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.87%) Scala
11 8 (2.29%) Ruby
11 8 (2.29%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.01%) C++
13 6 (1.72%) C
14 5 (1.43%) PHP
15 3 (0.86%) Groovy
15 3 (0.86%) Perl
16 2 (0.57%) R
16 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 83 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 78 (22.35%) SC Cleared
3 41 (11.75%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.44%) Degree
5 16 (4.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 16 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.57%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.45%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.43%) NIST
4 3 (0.86%) GDPR
5 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) QA
6 1 (0.29%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (20.06%) Docker
2 8 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 147 (42.12%) Terraform
2 97 (27.79%) Kubernetes
3 52 (14.90%) Ansible
4 16 (4.58%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.15%) Grafana
6 8 (2.29%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.29%) Puppet
7 5 (1.43%) Packer
8 4 (1.15%) Argo
8 4 (1.15%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.15%) Kibana
9 3 (0.86%) Consul
10 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.29%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.29%) Graylog
11 1 (0.29%) logstash
11 1 (0.29%) Nagios
11 1 (0.29%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 12 (3.44%) Red Hat
1 12 (3.44%) Splunk
2 7 (2.01%) Oracle
3 5 (1.43%) Databricks
3 5 (1.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.43%) SAP
3 5 (1.43%) VMware
4 4 (1.15%) Google
5 3 (0.86%) AppDynamics
5 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.57%) F5
6 2 (0.57%) IBM
6 2 (0.57%) Informatica
6 2 (0.57%) MKS
6 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.57%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.29%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.29%) BMC
7 1 (0.29%) NetApp
7 1 (0.29%) Qualys