AWS Engineer Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 187 151
Rank change year-on-year -56 -36 +34
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 351 668 1,317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 1.40% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.48% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 536 1,080
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £734 £694 £688
90th Percentile £850 £800 £750
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 33,857 45,213 67,215
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,443 32,115 47,974
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £649
90th Percentile £750 £763 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,492 1,325 1,826
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.42% +7.10%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.90%

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 24 May 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 24 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
London -12 275 £575 -8.00% 83
North of England +5 30 £463 -11.90% 19
North West +26 25 £450 -10.00% 15
South East -13 19 £600 +2.13% 33
South West -12 8 £475 -17.39% 5
Midlands +25 5 £450 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire -6 5 £494 -17.71% 4
West Midlands +10 3 £488 -22.00% 6
East Midlands +22 2 £450 -14.29% 3
East of England +3 2 £625 +20.19% 5
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 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.

1 351 (100.00%) AWS
2 193 (54.99%) Python
3 166 (47.29%) DevOps
4 147 (41.88%) Terraform
5 107 (30.48%) Kubernetes
6 105 (29.91%) CI/CD
7 101 (28.77%) Finance
8 88 (25.07%) Java
9 86 (24.50%) Agile
10 81 (23.08%) JavaScript
11 78 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
12 75 (21.37%) Apache Airflow
12 75 (21.37%) Security Cleared
13 70 (19.94%) SC Cleared
14 69 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 67 (19.09%) Snowflake
16 66 (18.80%) Software Engineering
17 65 (18.52%) Asset Management
17 65 (18.52%) Serverless
17 65 (18.52%) dbt
18 64 (18.23%) Apache Arrow
18 64 (18.23%) Dremio
18 64 (18.23%) gRPC
18 64 (18.23%) Docker
18 64 (18.23%) Protocol Buffers
18 64 (18.23%) Amazon S3
19 63 (17.95%) Data Lake
20 62 (17.66%) TypeScript
21 61 (17.38%) Amazon EC2
22 59 (16.81%) Apache

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 75 (21.37%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (16.81%) Apache
3 8 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.14%) Confluence
4 4 (1.14%) nginx
5 3 (0.85%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.28%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 351 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (19.09%) Snowflake
3 65 (18.52%) dbt
3 65 (18.52%) Serverless
4 64 (18.23%) Amazon S3
5 61 (17.38%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (10.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (8.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (8.55%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (7.69%) Azure
9 27 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (6.55%) GitHub
11 19 (5.41%) GCP
12 16 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (4.27%) Amazon EMR
14 14 (3.99%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (3.99%) Route 53
15 13 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.42%) DNS
1 12 (3.42%) Firewall
2 8 (2.28%) Network Security
3 4 (1.14%) DHCP
4 3 (0.85%) IPv4
4 3 (0.85%) LAN
4 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.85%) SMTP
4 3 (0.85%) VPN
4 3 (0.85%) WLAN
5 2 (0.57%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.57%) SSL
6 1 (0.28%) MPLS
6 1 (0.28%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
2 64 (18.23%) Apache Arrow
2 64 (18.23%) Dremio
3 63 (17.95%) Data Lake
4 46 (13.11%) Apache Ignite
5 34 (9.69%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (7.12%) Big Data
7 22 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (4.27%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.56%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.28%) MySQL
12 6 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.71%) Flink
13 5 (1.42%) Data Mining
14 4 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.85%) Tableau
16 2 (0.57%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 38 (10.83%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.54%) Git
3 27 (7.69%) GitLab
4 8 (2.28%) JIRA
5 6 (1.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.14%) JMeter
7 3 (0.85%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.85%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.57%) Maven
8 2 (0.57%) Snyk
8 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.57%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.28%) Ant
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) Selenium
9 1 (0.28%) Storybook
9 1 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.28%) VisualWorks
General
1 101 (28.77%) Finance
2 47 (13.39%) Front Office
3 46 (13.11%) Banking
4 43 (12.25%) Social Skills
5 40 (11.40%) Investment Banking
6 25 (7.12%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.56%) Law
8 7 (1.99%) Retail
9 6 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.28%) Marketing
12 1 (0.28%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (18.23%) gRPC
1 64 (18.23%) Protocol Buffers
2 51 (14.53%) Pandas
3 50 (14.25%) NumPy
4 46 (13.11%) SciPy
5 22 (6.27%) Kafka
6 19 (5.41%) React
7 16 (4.56%) .NET
7 16 (4.56%) Node.js
8 12 (3.42%) PySpark
9 10 (2.85%) AWS CDK
10 9 (2.56%) Redux
10 9 (2.56%) Vue
11 8 (2.28%) .NET Core
11 8 (2.28%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.28%) Lambda Expressions
12 7 (1.99%) CSS
12 7 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (1.71%) REST
14 4 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.81%) Hedge funds
2 43 (12.25%) Fixed Income
3 34 (9.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (9.12%) Derivative
4 32 (9.12%) Equities
5 18 (5.13%) Clustering
6 12 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.42%) Pricing Data
7 6 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.14%) PKI
9 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.57%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.81%) Linux
2 15 (4.27%) Windows
3 8 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.99%) Unix
5 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.85%) Debian
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (47.29%) DevOps
2 105 (29.91%) CI/CD
3 86 (24.50%) Agile
4 69 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (18.80%) Software Engineering
6 65 (18.52%) Asset Management
7 59 (16.81%) Investment Management
8 36 (10.26%) Containerisation
9 32 (9.12%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (8.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (8.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 26 (7.41%) ETL
12 26 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (7.12%) Analytics
13 25 (7.12%) Data Engineering
13 25 (7.12%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (5.70%) Greeks
15 18 (5.13%) Microservices
16 17 (4.84%) Computer Science
17 16 (4.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 193 (54.99%) Python
2 88 (25.07%) Java
3 81 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 62 (17.66%) TypeScript
5 53 (15.10%) SQL
6 39 (11.11%) Bash
7 33 (9.40%) Go
8 18 (5.13%) C#
9 12 (3.42%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.85%) C
11 10 (2.85%) C++
12 8 (2.28%) Ruby
13 7 (1.99%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.71%) PHP
15 5 (1.42%) Groovy
15 5 (1.42%) Scala
16 3 (0.85%) Perl
17 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 70 (19.94%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.98%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.13%) Degree
5 15 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.85%) CISA
8 3 (0.85%) CISM
8 3 (0.85%) CISSP
8 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.57%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.28%) CCIE
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.83%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.14%) NIST
4 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.28%) QA
6 1 (0.28%) SLA
6 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (18.23%) Docker
2 7 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 147 (41.88%) Terraform
2 107 (30.48%) Kubernetes
3 52 (14.81%) Ansible
4 26 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.85%) Grafana
6 8 (2.28%) Puppet
7 6 (1.71%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.14%) Argo
8 4 (1.14%) HP Fortify
8 4 (1.14%) Kibana
8 4 (1.14%) Packer
9 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.57%) Nagios
11 1 (0.28%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.28%) Graylog
11 1 (0.28%) logstash
11 1 (0.28%) Podman
11 1 (0.28%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 17 (4.84%) Splunk
2 12 (3.42%) Red Hat
3 5 (1.42%) Databricks
3 5 (1.42%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.42%) Oracle
4 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.14%) F5
4 4 (1.14%) SAP
5 3 (0.85%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.57%) Cisco
6 2 (0.57%) IBM
6 2 (0.57%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.57%) Virgin Media
6 2 (0.57%) VMware
7 1 (0.28%) Brio
7 1 (0.28%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.28%) Citrix
7 1 (0.28%) Google
7 1 (0.28%) Informatica
7 1 (0.28%) Salesforce