AWS Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Amazon Web Services Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 59 69
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 +17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 12 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.17% 0.15% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.41% 0.15% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £453 £335 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -17.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £488 £365 £516
90th Percentile - - £589
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 497 647 853
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 95.29% 96.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 460 588
10th Percentile £164 £250 £260
25th Percentile £313 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £641 £725 £713
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 19 27
10th Percentile - £14.10 £13.22
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.75 £15.94
Median hourly rate £14.00 £37.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +82.93% +14.85%
75th Percentile £22.08 £49.38 £28.46
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £78.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.59 £20.50
% change year-on-year +24.25% -4.44% +13.89%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Birmingham

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 9 (75.00%) Docker
3 9 (75.00%) Python
3 9 (75.00%) Terraform
3 9 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (66.67%) Public Sector
4 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 8 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (58.33%) DFS Replication
5 7 (58.33%) Confluence
5 7 (58.33%) Patch Management
5 7 (58.33%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (58.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (58.33%) Amazon ELB
5 7 (58.33%) Vagrant
5 7 (58.33%) ServiceNow
5 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
5 7 (58.33%) Git
5 7 (58.33%) Groovy
5 7 (58.33%) Replication
5 7 (58.33%) SSH
5 7 (58.33%) JIRA
5 7 (58.33%) Configuration Management
5 7 (58.33%) Change Management

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 7 (58.33%) Confluence
2 3 (25.00%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 8 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (58.33%) Amazon ELB
4 7 (58.33%) AWS KMS
4 7 (58.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (33.33%) Azure
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (25.00%) Route 53
8 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (16.67%) GitHub
8 2 (16.67%) Serverless
9 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
1 7 (58.33%) FTP
1 7 (58.33%) HTTP
1 7 (58.33%) SMTP
1 7 (58.33%) SSH
2 3 (25.00%) IMAP
2 3 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (58.33%) Git
2 7 (58.33%) JIRA
2 7 (58.33%) Vagrant
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 8 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Amazon Linux
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
1 7 (58.33%) VMS
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Change Management
3 7 (58.33%) Cloud Security
3 7 (58.33%) Configuration Management
3 7 (58.33%) Patch Management
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (8.33%) Analytics
7 1 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
7 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
7 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
7 1 (8.33%) Migration
7 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) Groovy
2 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) Perl
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Docker
2 7 (58.33%) DFS Replication
3 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (25.00%) Dovecot
4 3 (25.00%) Postfix
4 3 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 7 (58.33%) Grafana
2 7 (58.33%) Prometheus
3 3 (25.00%) Nessus
3 3 (25.00%) Proxmox
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (8.33%) IBM