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 £426, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 104 101
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 17 15 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 0.73% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.78% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 34
10th Percentile £343 £402 £400
25th Percentile £363 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £575 £519
Median % change year-on-year -25.87% +10.84% -5.68%
75th Percentile £584 £622 £576
90th Percentile £623 £704 £684
Central London median daily rate £428 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -25.65% +9.52% -2.33%

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 1,708 1,922 2,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 93.03% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,183 1,717
10th Percentile £328 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +134.69% -30.00%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.29% +40.08% -23.12%

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 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 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
4 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
4 7 (41.18%) Serverless
5 6 (35.29%) GitHub
6 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
6 5 (29.41%) Analytics
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (29.41%) Terraform
7 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (23.53%) Docker
7 4 (23.53%) Node.js
8 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (17.65%) Apache
8 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
8 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
8 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) SQL
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (11.76%) Ansible

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 (17.65%) Apache
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (41.18%) Serverless
3 6 (35.29%) GitHub
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
5 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (11.76%) Apigee
7 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (11.76%) Azure
7 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (5.88%) Datadog
8 1 (5.88%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) CouchDB
3 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Parquet
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) JWT
2 2 (11.76%) OAuth
2 2 (11.76%) PySpark
3 1 (5.88%) Memcached
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.88%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Analytics
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) API Management
6 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
6 2 (11.76%) ETL
6 2 (11.76%) Microservices
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (5.88%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Secure Coding
7 1 (5.88%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
1 1 (5.88%) Databricks
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle