AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.71% 0.83% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 0.98% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £515 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £535 £600 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £530 £550 -
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 203 102 181
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 85.00% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 69 110
10th Percentile £222 £311 £235
25th Percentile £400 £425 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £603
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £487 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.42% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 27
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.96 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.03 £21.70 £22.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.57% +64.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £34.25 £61.25 £66.50
90th Percentile £35.88 £65.00 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.96 £20.98 £16.30
% change year-on-year -23.93% +28.71% +5.16%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 2 April 2026, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) CCNP
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) F5
4 2 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (33.33%) Route 53
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) TOWER Software