AWS Engineer Contracts 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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 104 119
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 15 21 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.83% 0.98% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.03% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 40
10th Percentile £354 £417 £481
25th Percentile £413 £506 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +0.38%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £701
90th Percentile £738 £696 £763
Central London median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +0.38%

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 1,695 2,038 3,299
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.41% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 1,401 2,229
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £451 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.36% -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer 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 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 8 (53.33%) Finance
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (46.67%) Terraform
5 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (33.33%) GitHub
5 5 (33.33%) Bash
5 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 5 (33.33%) Serverless
6 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (26.67%) Banking
6 4 (26.67%) SQL
6 4 (26.67%) ETL
6 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
6 4 (26.67%) Ansible
6 4 (26.67%) Docker
6 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
6 4 (26.67%) Data Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) GitLab
7 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
7 3 (20.00%) Java
7 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking

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 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) Azure
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (6.67%) Datadog
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) NAS
1 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (6.67%) SAN
1 1 (6.67%) SSH
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) Parquet
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (13.33%) Retail
5 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
1 2 (13.33%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Blockchain
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Equities
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) Data Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (26.67%) ETL
3 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (20.00%) Observability
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
5 2 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (13.33%) Pricing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) Scala
6 1 (6.67%) Bicep
6 1 (6.67%) DAML
6 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) R
6 1 (6.67%) Ruby
6 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) Argo
4 1 (6.67%) Packer
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) TOWER Software