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 £528, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 81 107
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 +8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 7 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.36% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.33% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £438 -
25th Percentile £525 £448 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -5.95% +0.96%
75th Percentile £533 £561 £594
90th Percentile £534 £584 £628
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 1,798 908 1,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 90.89% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 492 850
10th Percentile £191 £225 £206
25th Percentile £325 £363 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £556
90th Percentile £675 £686 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 155 480
10th Percentile £13.64 £15.37 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.10 £21.46 £16.29
Median hourly rate £23.79 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.35% +50.00% +21.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 21 March 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
Cambridgeshire -1 4 £530 -3.64% 3
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Essex - 1 £525 -
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 March 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 3 (42.86%) GitLab
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (42.86%) VPN
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (28.57%) CCNP
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 2 (28.57%) Git
5 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (28.57%) Google
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Route 53
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Boomi
5 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Law
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) API Design
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Key Management
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) RBAC
5 1 (14.29%) Runbook
5 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Pega
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) TOWER Software
2 1 (14.29%) VMware