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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 107 101
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 +15
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 18 13 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 0.74% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.79% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 15
10th Percentile £371 £339 £417
25th Percentile £451 £406 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -14.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £763 £688 £663
90th Percentile £875 £744 £696
Central London median daily rate £575 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +6.98% -14.00% +2.88%

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 2,284 1,641 2,049
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 93.83% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,523 1,040 1,412
10th Percentile £357 £350 £350
25th Percentile £453 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £571
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -3.54% -4.79%
75th Percentile £670 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £799
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £16.33
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.83 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +44.29% -35.00%
75th Percentile £42.74 £63.75 £32.03
90th Percentile £59.72 £89.88 £45.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £30.04 £26.78
% change year-on-year -14.20% +12.15% -23.49%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (44.44%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Serverless
3 7 (38.89%) Terraform
4 5 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) .NET
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (22.22%) Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) C#
5 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) GitLab
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) SaaS
5 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 3 (16.67%) SQL
7 2 (11.11%) AI
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (11.11%) Ansible
7 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse

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 5 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (44.44%) Serverless
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (22.22%) SaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.56%) Azure
6 1 (5.56%) dbt
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Billing
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) Analytics
2 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (11.11%) AI
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 2 (11.11%) Generative AI
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (5.56%) Release Management
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
1 1 (5.56%) Google
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft