AWS Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 63 83
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +9
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% 0.39% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.41% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £483 - £491
25th Percentile £494 £425 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £528 £497 £559
90th Percentile £533 £510 £569
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 472 725 980
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.06% 93.79% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 483 754
10th Percentile £200 £163 £213
25th Percentile £350 £258 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £565
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 79 62
10th Percentile £11.44 £11.81 £11.80
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.00 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%
75th Percentile £28.79 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £51.91 £64.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the East Midlands

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the East Midlands

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Nottinghamshire +9 3 £500 +11.11% 4
Northamptonshire -1 1 £537 +4.78%
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 East Midlands region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Server Building
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Big Data
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (50.00%) Databricks
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Server Building
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk