AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > East of England

As of 20 January 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the East of England.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 80 99
Rank change year-on-year -20 +19 +33
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 1 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.062% 0.36% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.41% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £445 £493
25th Percentile - £466 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +10.82%
75th Percentile - £613 £550
90th Percentile - £620 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,462 984 1,573
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 89.78% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 446 848
10th Percentile £188 £225 £204
25th Percentile £313 £327 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -1.42% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 151 348
10th Percentile £13.72 £16.25 £13.72
25th Percentile £16.35 £21.46 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £39.91
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% +25.27% +90.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.15
England median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.28
% change year-on-year -18.16% -13.10% +15.07%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 of England.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend 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 20 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
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 3
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 20 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 of England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) Pega
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) Pega
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow