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 £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 120 | 106 | 111 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -14 | +5 | -3 |
| Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer | 25 | 13 | 15 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the City of London | 1.17% | 0.76% | 0.71% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 1.24% | 0.81% | 0.75% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 23 | 10 | 12 |
| 10th Percentile | £463 | £349 | £411 |
| 25th Percentile | £501 | £392 | £513 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £675 | £488 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +38.46% | -11.36% | +1.85% |
| 75th Percentile | £763 | £584 | £619 |
| 90th Percentile | £875 | £594 | £728 |
| Central London median daily rate | £675 | £525 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +28.57% | -4.55% | - |
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.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title | 2,010 | 1,614 | 1,989 |
| % of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title | 93.84% | 94.11% | 93.78% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1,366 | 1,108 | 1,230 |
| 10th Percentile | £363 | £328 | £363 |
| 25th Percentile | £454 | £423 | £463 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £550 | £550 | £575 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -4.35% | -3.28% |
| 75th Percentile | £675 | £675 | £688 |
| 90th Percentile | £775 | £775 | £788 |
| Central London median daily rate | £550 | £550 | £575 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -4.35% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 21 | 18 | 15 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £16.90 | £16.60 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.60 | £20.63 | £25.06 |
| Median hourly rate | £21.00 | £27.04 | £57.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -22.32% | -52.98% | +51.32% |
| 75th Percentile | £31.00 | £35.88 | £112.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £61.50 | £64.30 | £137.50 |
| Central London median hourly rate | £25.00 | £27.50 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | -9.09% | -21.43% | -5.41% |
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 Daily Rate Trend 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 17 October 2026.
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.
AWS Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London
For the 6 months to 17 October 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.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 25 |
| 2 | AWS Lambda | 64.0% | 16 |
| 2 | Python | 64.0% | 16 |
| 2 | Serverless | 64.0% | 16 |
| 2 | Terraform | 64.0% | 16 |
| 6 | CI/CD | 56.0% | 14 |
| 6 | Infrastructure as Code | 56.0% | 14 |
| 8 | SQL | 48.0% | 12 |
| 9 | Amazon S3 | 44.0% | 11 |
| 9 | Data Engineering | 44.0% | 11 |
| 9 | Data Pipeline | 44.0% | 11 |
| 12 | Data Modelling | 40.0% | 10 |
| 13 | GitHub | 36.0% | 9 |
| 13 | GitHub Actions | 36.0% | 9 |
| 15 | Amazon EKS | 32.0% | 8 |
| 15 | Amazon RDS | 32.0% | 8 |
| 15 | Analytics | 32.0% | 8 |
| 15 | DevOps | 32.0% | 8 |
| 15 | Platform Engineering | 32.0% | 8 |
| 20 | AI | 28.0% | 7 |
| 20 | Amazon Athena | 28.0% | 7 |
| 20 | Amazon EC2 | 28.0% | 7 |
| 20 | Bitbucket | 28.0% | 7 |
| 20 | Event-Driven | 28.0% | 7 |
| 20 | GitLab | 28.0% | 7 |
| 26 | Amazon CloudWatch | 24.0% | 6 |
| 26 | Amazon EventBridge | 24.0% | 6 |
| 26 | Artificial Intelligence Engineering | 24.0% | 6 |
| 26 | AWS Step Functions | 24.0% | 6 |
| 26 | Data Quality | 24.0% | 6 |
AWS Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS Data Engineer | 36.0% | 9 |
| 2 | Senior Data Engineer | 16.0% | 4 |
| 3 | Workflow Engineer | 12.0% | 3 |
| 4 | Artificial Intelligence Engineer | 8.0% | 2 |
| 4 | AWS DevOps Engineer | 8.0% | 2 |
| 4 | Cloud Platform Engineer | 8.0% | 2 |
| 4 | GCP Data Engineer | 8.0% | 2 |
| 8 | Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer | 4.0% | 1 |
| 8 | AWS Architect | 4.0% | 1 |
| 8 | AWS Platform Engineer | 4.0% | 1 |
| 8 | Gen AI Engineer | 4.0% | 1 |
| 8 | Lead Cloud Engineer | 4.0% | 1 |
| 8 | Senior AWS DevOps Engineer | 4.0% | 1 |
| 8 | Snowflake Engineer | 4.0% | 1 |