AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > East of England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 94 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +36
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 1 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.078% 0.13% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.15% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £474 £473
25th Percentile - £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -2.27% -
75th Percentile - £591 £613
90th Percentile - £611 £650
England median daily rate £525 £600 £594
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.05% -1.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,085 1,329 1,673
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.30% 88.01% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 537 999
10th Percentile £186 £203 £200
25th Percentile £363 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £600
90th Percentile £688 £618 £711
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 362 255
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.41 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.28 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +13.64% +111.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.13 £68.68 £84.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the East of England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £450 -
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 15 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 East of England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM