AWS Engineer Contracts

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 205 156
Rank change year-on-year -46 -49 +21
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 417 805 1,628
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 1.36% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.44% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 632 1,319
10th Percentile £418 £456 £463
25th Percentile £462 £506 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +13.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS Engineer in the UK

AWS Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England -61 336 £550 -8.33% 95
London -22 253 £575 -8.00% 63
Work from Home -12 204 £586 -2.29% 68
UK excluding London -31 95 £511 -7.05% 35
North of England +3 32 £463 -13.95% 9
Scotland +41 26 £480 -8.09% 1
North West +22 26 £456 -8.75% 8
South East -5 17 £600 +2.13% 6
South West -4 12 £475 -17.39% 4
Yorkshire +1 6 £525 -12.50% 1
Midlands +23 5 £450 -25.00% 12
East Midlands +20 3 £450 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +16 2 £488 -22.00% 9
Wales - 2 £666 - 2
East of England +9 1 £650 +25.00%

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 417 (100.00%) AWS
2 218 (52.28%) Python
3 217 (52.04%) DevOps
4 176 (42.21%) Terraform
5 143 (34.29%) CI/CD
6 130 (31.18%) Kubernetes
7 100 (23.98%) Agile
8 96 (23.02%) Security Cleared
8 96 (23.02%) Serverless
9 92 (22.06%) Finance
10 91 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 87 (20.86%) Java
12 86 (20.62%) SC Cleared
13 84 (20.14%) Amazon S3
13 84 (20.14%) AWS Lambda
14 80 (19.18%) Docker
15 76 (18.23%) Amazon EC2
16 67 (16.07%) SQL
16 67 (16.07%) Linux
17 63 (15.11%) JavaScript
18 62 (14.87%) Ansible
19 61 (14.63%) Snowflake
20 60 (14.39%) Amazon Athena
21 58 (13.91%) Software Engineering
22 57 (13.67%) Apache Airflow
23 53 (12.71%) Social Skills
24 52 (12.47%) Data Lake
24 52 (12.47%) Bash
25 51 (12.23%) Jenkins
25 51 (12.23%) TypeScript

AWS 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 57 (13.67%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (11.03%) Apache
3 9 (2.16%) Confluence
4 7 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.20%) nginx
6 3 (0.72%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 417 (100.00%) AWS
2 96 (23.02%) Serverless
3 84 (20.14%) Amazon S3
3 84 (20.14%) AWS Lambda
4 76 (18.23%) Amazon EC2
5 61 (14.63%) Snowflake
6 51 (12.23%) dbt
7 50 (11.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (11.75%) Azure
9 41 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (9.83%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (9.35%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (7.91%) GitHub
12 32 (7.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (6.24%) Amazon Kinesis
13 26 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (4.80%) GCP
15 19 (4.56%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (4.32%) Route 53
17 17 (4.08%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.12%) Firewall
2 12 (2.88%) DNS
3 8 (1.92%) Network Security
4 4 (0.96%) DHCP
5 3 (0.72%) IPv4
5 3 (0.72%) LAN
5 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.72%) SMTP
5 3 (0.72%) VPN
5 3 (0.72%) WLAN
6 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.24%) MPLS
6 1 (0.24%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.24%) SSL
6 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.39%) Amazon Athena
2 52 (12.47%) Data Lake
3 43 (10.31%) Apache Arrow
3 43 (10.31%) Dremio
4 39 (9.35%) Amazon RDS
5 37 (8.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 31 (7.43%) Apache Ignite
7 28 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (4.56%) Big Data
9 18 (4.32%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (2.64%) MySQL
11 11 (2.64%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.92%) Flink
13 6 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.20%) Data Mining
14 5 (1.20%) Tableau
15 4 (0.96%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (12.23%) Jenkins
2 45 (10.79%) Git
3 40 (9.59%) GitLab
4 19 (4.56%) JIRA
5 8 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.92%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.20%) Maven
7 4 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.96%) JMeter
7 4 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.72%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.72%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.48%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.48%) Snyk
9 2 (0.48%) Subversion
9 2 (0.48%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.24%) Gatling
10 1 (0.24%) Storybook
10 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 92 (22.06%) Finance
2 53 (12.71%) Social Skills
3 36 (8.63%) Banking
4 31 (7.43%) Front Office
5 28 (6.71%) Investment Banking
5 28 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.16%) Law
8 8 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.92%) Retail
9 5 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Back Office
11 1 (0.24%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Marketing
11 1 (0.24%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.24%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.31%) gRPC
1 43 (10.31%) Protocol Buffers
2 35 (8.39%) NumPy
2 35 (8.39%) Pandas
3 31 (7.43%) SciPy
4 24 (5.76%) Kafka
5 22 (5.28%) PySpark
6 21 (5.04%) AWS CDK
7 19 (4.56%) React
8 14 (3.36%) REST
9 13 (3.12%) .NET
9 13 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (2.88%) Node.js
11 11 (2.64%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.64%) CSS
12 9 (2.16%) Lambda Expressions
13 8 (1.92%) Spring
14 7 (1.68%) .NET Core
14 7 (1.68%) Spring Boot
14 7 (1.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.91%) Hedge funds
2 28 (6.71%) Fixed Income
3 22 (5.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (4.80%) Derivative
4 20 (4.80%) Equities
5 15 (3.60%) Public Cloud
6 13 (3.12%) Clustering
6 13 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.68%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.44%) Pricing Data
10 5 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.20%) PKI
11 4 (0.96%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.72%) Life Science
13 2 (0.48%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.48%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 67 (16.07%) Linux
2 25 (6.00%) Windows
3 13 (3.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.68%) Unix
7 3 (0.72%) Debian
8 2 (0.48%) VMS
9 1 (0.24%) Android
9 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (52.04%) DevOps
2 143 (34.29%) CI/CD
3 100 (23.98%) Agile
4 91 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (13.91%) Software Engineering
6 51 (12.23%) Containerisation
6 51 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
7 45 (10.79%) Asset Management
8 42 (10.07%) Data Engineering
9 38 (9.11%) Investment Management
9 38 (9.11%) Platform Engineering
10 35 (8.39%) Analytics
10 35 (8.39%) ETL
11 34 (8.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 33 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (5.76%) Microservices
14 24 (5.76%) Migration
14 24 (5.76%) Test Automation
15 21 (5.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 218 (52.28%) Python
2 87 (20.86%) Java
3 67 (16.07%) SQL
4 63 (15.11%) JavaScript
5 52 (12.47%) Bash
6 51 (12.23%) TypeScript
7 28 (6.71%) Go
8 18 (4.32%) C#
9 15 (3.60%) Scala
10 13 (3.12%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.12%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.64%) Groovy
12 8 (1.92%) C
12 8 (1.92%) C++
13 7 (1.68%) PHP
13 7 (1.68%) Ruby
14 6 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.96%) Perl
15 4 (0.96%) R
16 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 96 (23.02%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.91%) AWS Certification
4 18 (4.32%) Degree
5 14 (3.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 13 (3.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.48%) SANS
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CCIE
10 1 (0.24%) CISA
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CISSP
10 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.96%) NCSC
3 4 (0.96%) NIST
4 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.48%) GDPR
4 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.48%) QA
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.24%) SLA
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (19.18%) Docker
2 7 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 176 (42.21%) Terraform
2 130 (31.18%) Kubernetes
3 62 (14.87%) Ansible
4 25 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.80%) Grafana
6 10 (2.40%) Kibana
6 10 (2.40%) Puppet
7 9 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.20%) Argo
8 5 (1.20%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.72%) Consul
9 3 (0.72%) Graylog
9 3 (0.72%) Nagios
9 3 (0.72%) Packer
9 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.24%) logstash
11 1 (0.24%) Nessus
11 1 (0.24%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 1 (0.24%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 20 (4.80%) Splunk
2 17 (4.08%) Databricks
3 13 (3.12%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.16%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.92%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.44%) Oracle
7 4 (0.96%) F5
7 4 (0.96%) Informatica
7 4 (0.96%) SAP
7 4 (0.96%) UiPath
8 3 (0.72%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.72%) Google
8 3 (0.72%) VMware
9 2 (0.48%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco
9 2 (0.48%) IBM
9 2 (0.48%) MKS
9 2 (0.48%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.48%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.24%) Cylance