AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £439, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 110 106
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 14 14 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.81% 0.66% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.71% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 39
10th Percentile £345 £513 £400
25th Percentile £379 £516 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £605
90th Percentile £588 £738 £703
Central London median daily rate £450 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -21.74% +6.48% -0.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,628 1,981 2,623
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 93.31% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,216 1,836
10th Percentile £326 £363 £354
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 15
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.06 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +51.32% -7.88%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £50.63
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% -5.41% -8.64%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of 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 the City of London.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the City of London

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 7 November 2025. 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
AWS Engineer
Central London

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, 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 City of London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) GitHub
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) Terraform
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 4 (28.57%) Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (28.57%) Serverless
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (21.43%) Ansible
6 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (21.43%) Docker
6 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
6 3 (21.43%) SQL
6 3 (21.43%) Unix
7 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (14.29%) Apache
7 2 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (14.29%) Azure
7 2 (14.29%) Bash
7 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (28.57%) Serverless
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (7.14%) Apigee
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Datadog
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Internet
2 1 (7.14%) NAS
2 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) SSH
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) CouchDB
3 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) Parquet
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Redis
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JWT
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) Memcached
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (7.14%) OO
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) R
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Packer
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
3 1 (7.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft