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 £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 111 107
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +32
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 13 17 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.74% 0.81% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.86% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 36
10th Percentile £370 £420 £419
25th Percentile £416 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £653 £613 £701
90th Percentile £731 £678 £741
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £615
% change year-on-year - -10.57% +11.82%

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 1,644 1,982 2,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 94.16% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,246 1,958
10th Percentile £325 £363 £359
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.95 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.75 £22.28 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £32.75 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% -7.75% -14.46%
75th Percentile £56.75 £89.06 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.57 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.83 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.50% - -15.66%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer 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 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the City of London region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
AWS Engineer
Central London

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) Bash
4 4 (30.77%) GitHub
4 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (23.08%) Ansible
5 3 (23.08%) GitLab
5 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 3 (23.08%) Observability
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (15.38%) Azure
6 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (15.38%) Git
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
6 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
1 1 (7.69%) NAS
1 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) SSH
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Parquet
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) PySpark
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Equities
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 3 (23.08%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
6 1 (7.69%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (7.69%) Mathematics
6 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) DAML
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) R
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Packer
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Databricks