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 £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 104 111
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 -4
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 24 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.06% 0.74% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.79% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 13
10th Percentile £465 £370 £420
25th Percentile £553 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £763 £653 £613
90th Percentile £875 £731 £678
Central London median daily rate £688 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -10.57%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,127 1,645 1,982
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 93.84% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,441 1,105 1,246
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 14
10th Percentile £17.06 £17.08 £15.95
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £22.28
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.74% -14.05% -7.75%
75th Percentile £34.51 £56.75 £89.06
90th Percentile £61.25 £65.57 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.07 £27.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.86% -20.50% -

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 19 September 2026.

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 City of London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (70.83%) Python
3 15 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (62.50%) Serverless
4 12 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 12 (50.00%) Terraform
5 11 (45.83%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (45.83%) SQL
6 10 (41.67%) Amazon S3
6 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
7 9 (37.50%) Data Modelling
8 8 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (33.33%) Analytics
8 8 (33.33%) GitHub
8 8 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (29.17%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (29.17%) Bitbucket
9 7 (29.17%) Event-Driven
10 6 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (25.00%) DevOps
10 6 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (25.00%) GitLab
11 5 (20.83%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS

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 6 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.50%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) nginx
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (62.50%) Serverless
3 10 (41.67%) Amazon S3
4 8 (33.33%) GitHub
4 8 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 6 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (16.67%) SaaS
7 4 (16.67%) Snowflake
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (12.50%) GCP
9 2 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (8.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) OpenVPN
1 1 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (4.17%) SSH
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (29.17%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (4.17%) Looker
6 1 (4.17%) Pinecone
6 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Bitbucket
2 6 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Back Office
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Front Office
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Billing
6 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (20.83%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) boto
4 1 (4.17%) LangChain
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) AI Agents
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) PropTech
3 1 (4.17%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 11 (45.83%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 9 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 8 (33.33%) Analytics
5 8 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (29.17%) Event-Driven
7 6 (25.00%) DevOps
7 6 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 5 (20.83%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (16.67%) AI
9 4 (16.67%) Data Governance
9 4 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (12.50%) ETL
10 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
10 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) LookML
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Packer
2 1 (4.17%) SELinux
2 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow