AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 67 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 20 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.52% 0.39% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 0.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £366 £463 -
25th Percentile £379 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% - -
75th Percentile £419 £581 -
90th Percentile £430 £608 -
England median daily rate £515 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -1.90% -12.50% +1.05%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,153 705 732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.88% 91.32% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 482 449
10th Percentile £263 £191 £250
25th Percentile £402 £330 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £656 £625 £622
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 64 52
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.17 £12.71
25th Percentile £14.13 £17.87 £14.20
Median hourly rate £18.31 £21.39 £20.80
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +2.86% +3.98%
75th Percentile £26.55 £25.15 £50.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £26.10 £51.91
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies 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 15 September 2026. 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 +6 18 £425 - 13
Northamptonshire +13 1 £358 -31.84% 2
Leicestershire - 1 £400 - 2
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 East Midlands region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Agile
6 1 (5.00%) AI
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.00%) Analytics
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (5.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (5.00%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (5.00%) Agile
5 1 (5.00%) AI
5 1 (5.00%) Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (5.00%) Lakehouse
5 1 (5.00%) Logistics
5 1 (5.00%) Microservices
5 1 (5.00%) Observability
5 1 (5.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Databricks