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 £374, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
25 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 102 102
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 16 17 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.85% 0.90% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.97% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 31
10th Percentile £343 £402 £400
25th Percentile £348 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £428 £622 £582
90th Percentile £623 £704 £638
Central London median daily rate £375 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -34.78% +9.52% -8.70%

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 1,768 1,753 2,318
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 92.95% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,076 1,670
10th Percentile £343 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.97% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.52% +2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 18
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.18 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.37 £20.00 £19.18
Median hourly rate £37.25 £27.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% +13.54% -4.95%
75th Percentile £43.86 £58.19 £44.56
90th Percentile £52.96 £112.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +7.62%

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 25 January 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 25 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 City of London region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
3 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
4 8 (50.00%) Python
5 7 (43.75%) Terraform
6 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (37.50%) Serverless
7 5 (31.25%) GitHub
8 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
8 4 (25.00%) Analytics
8 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (25.00%) Docker
8 4 (25.00%) Node.js
9 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
9 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
9 3 (18.75%) ETL
9 3 (18.75%) GitLab
9 3 (18.75%) PySpark
9 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 3 (18.75%) SQL
10 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (12.50%) Ansible
10 2 (12.50%) Apache
10 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow

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 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (37.50%) Serverless
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (12.50%) Apigee
6 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (12.50%) Azure
6 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (6.25%) Datadog
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.25%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (6.25%) CockroachDB
3 1 (6.25%) CouchDB
3 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (6.25%) Banking
1 1 (6.25%) Finance
1 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Node.js
2 3 (18.75%) PySpark
3 2 (12.50%) JWT
3 2 (12.50%) OAuth
4 1 (6.25%) boto
4 1 (6.25%) Memcached
4 1 (6.25%) NumPy
4 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.25%) Pandas
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
4 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) API Management
5 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
5 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (6.25%) Batch Processing
6 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) High Availability
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (6.25%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) PHP
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
1 1 (6.25%) Databricks
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle
1 1 (6.25%) SAP
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