AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
London > Central London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Central London is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 114 101
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 +50
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 21 14 40
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.06% 0.65% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.70% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 39
10th Percentile £343 £401 £400
25th Percentile £363 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £606
90th Percentile £638 £715 £701
London median daily rate £535 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -17.69% +18.18% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,856 1,986 2,479
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 92.67% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,281 1,252 1,786
10th Percentile £340 £363 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £775 £793
London median daily rate £526 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.45% -1.79% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 25
10th Percentile £19.14 £18.10 £17.77
25th Percentile £24.15 £25.40 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £41.80 £40.25 £38.00
90th Percentile £46.05 £112.00 £65.00
London median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -4.41%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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 Central London.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Central London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Central London

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Central London

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
City of London +4 18 £375 -34.78% 17
AWS Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 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 Central London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
4 11 (52.38%) Python
5 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (47.62%) Terraform
6 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
7 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (28.57%) Serverless
8 5 (23.81%) Analytics
8 5 (23.81%) GitHub
9 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
9 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
9 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (19.05%) Docker
9 4 (19.05%) Node.js
9 4 (19.05%) SQL
10 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (14.29%) Apache
10 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
10 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
10 3 (14.29%) Data Governance
10 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
10 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (14.29%) DynamoDB
10 3 (14.29%) ETL

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Apache
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (28.57%) Serverless
3 5 (23.81%) GitHub
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (9.52%) Apigee
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (9.52%) Azure
6 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (4.76%) Datadog
7 1 (4.76%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (4.76%) Textract
7 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.76%) CockroachDB
3 1 (4.76%) CouchDB
3 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.76%) Metadata
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Redis
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Banking
2 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Node.js
2 3 (14.29%) PySpark
3 2 (9.52%) JWT
3 2 (9.52%) OAuth
4 1 (4.76%) boto
4 1 (4.76%) Memcached
4 1 (4.76%) NumPy
4 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.76%) Pandas
4 1 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 3 (14.29%) ETL
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) API Management
7 2 (9.52%) Design Patterns
7 2 (9.52%) Microservices
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) Validation
7 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 1 (4.76%) Batch Processing
8 1 (4.76%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) PHP
4 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) SAP