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 £433, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 53 53
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 +33
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 4 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.44% 0.18% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.19% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £405 - £425
25th Percentile £409 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -2.44% -9.29%
75th Percentile £454 £525 £600
90th Percentile £458 - £625
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 824 517 697
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 91.83% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 309 489
10th Percentile £185 £205 £187
25th Percentile £348 £310 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £523 £525 £550
90th Percentile £625 £601 £667
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 25 52
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.10 £12.12
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.57 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £24.06
90th Percentile £26.45 £32.95 £54.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.22% +23.80%

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 11 January 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
Northamptonshire - 4 £433 -
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Aerospike
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Backtesting
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation

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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Aerospike
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
1 2 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Backtesting
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks