AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 170 232
Rank change year-on-year -90 +62 -31
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 383 389 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.60% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.72% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 321 315
10th Percentile £377 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £650
90th Percentile £694 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £540
% change year-on-year -10.26% +8.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 35,653 22,632 34,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.88% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,473 15,157 23,256
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,346 840 2,307
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.36%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £76.25 £71.45
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend in England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in England

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 4 April 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
London -78 235 £525 -22.22% 39
North of England -40 69 £518 +3.50% 27
Yorkshire -33 35 £525 - 5
Midlands -44 34 £537 +7.45% 10
West Midlands -31 28 £575 +8.49% 8
North West -33 26 £494 +15.92% 20
East of England -23 11 £518 +18.29% 4
South East -54 11 £575 +15.00% 21
South West -21 9 £536 -10.63% 7
North East -14 8 £425 -25.44% 2
East Midlands -29 6 £433 -13.50% 2
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 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 England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 383 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (52.48%) CI/CD
3 199 (51.96%) DevOps
4 184 (48.04%) Terraform
5 183 (47.78%) Python
6 135 (35.25%) Security Cleared
7 134 (34.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 127 (33.16%) SC Cleared
9 111 (28.98%) Serverless
10 100 (26.11%) AWS Lambda
10 100 (26.11%) Kubernetes
11 94 (24.54%) Docker
12 80 (20.89%) Amazon S3
13 79 (20.63%) GitHub
14 75 (19.58%) Agile
14 75 (19.58%) GitLab
15 74 (19.32%) Containerisation
16 65 (16.97%) Amazon EKS
17 64 (16.71%) AWS CloudFormation
18 58 (15.14%) SQL
19 57 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
20 54 (14.10%) Jenkins
20 54 (14.10%) Software Engineering
21 53 (13.84%) Azure
22 51 (13.32%) Linux
23 50 (13.05%) Analytics
24 47 (12.27%) Data Engineering
25 46 (12.01%) Amazon EC2
25 46 (12.01%) Cloud Security
26 45 (11.75%) GitHub Actions

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 38 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.27%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.92%) Apache
4 6 (1.57%) Confluence
5 5 (1.31%) SAS
6 4 (1.04%) nginx
7 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 383 (100.00%) AWS
2 111 (28.98%) Serverless
3 100 (26.11%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (20.89%) Amazon S3
5 79 (20.63%) GitHub
6 65 (16.97%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (16.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 53 (13.84%) Azure
9 46 (12.01%) Amazon EC2
10 45 (11.75%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (10.44%) Amazon ECS
12 37 (9.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (8.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (7.31%) GCP
15 25 (6.53%) Snowflake
16 18 (4.70%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (4.18%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (4.18%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (3.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.92%) Firewall
2 9 (2.35%) VPN
3 8 (2.09%) DNS
4 4 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.78%) LAN
5 3 (0.78%) Network Security
5 3 (0.78%) WAN
6 2 (0.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.52%) HTTP
6 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.26%) 4G
7 1 (0.26%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) BGP
7 1 (0.26%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.26%) DHCP
7 1 (0.26%) ICMP
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 30 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (6.79%) Data Lake
5 22 (5.74%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (5.22%) DynamoDB
7 19 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.92%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.61%) Metadata
9 10 (2.61%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.09%) Power BI
11 7 (1.83%) Flink
11 7 (1.83%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.83%) Tableau
12 6 (1.57%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.31%) Big Data
13 5 (1.31%) MySQL
13 5 (1.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (19.58%) GitLab
2 54 (14.10%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.18%) Git
4 10 (2.61%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.35%) JIRA
6 8 (2.09%) Liquibase
7 7 (1.83%) Snyk
8 5 (1.31%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.31%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.04%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.78%) JUnit
10 3 (0.78%) MLflow
10 3 (0.78%) Mockito
10 3 (0.78%) Selenium
11 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.52%) Gradle
11 2 (0.52%) Mocha
11 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.52%) tSQLt
General
1 64 (16.71%) Finance
2 61 (15.93%) Social Skills
3 57 (14.88%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.88%) Banking
5 18 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.09%) Front Office
7 7 (1.83%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.04%) Legal
11 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.52%) Law
12 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.26%) Billing
13 1 (0.26%) Games
13 1 (0.26%) Military
13 1 (0.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.40%) Kafka
2 23 (6.01%) Node.js
3 21 (5.48%) REST
4 18 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (4.70%) PySpark
5 16 (4.18%) RESTful
6 13 (3.39%) AWS CDK
7 12 (3.13%) React
8 7 (1.83%) Next.js
8 7 (1.83%) pytest
9 6 (1.57%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.57%) Web Services
10 5 (1.31%) .NET
10 5 (1.31%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.31%) Flask
10 5 (1.31%) Keycloak
10 5 (1.31%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.04%) JWT
11 4 (1.04%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (1.04%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 61 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.92%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.13%) NHS
5 10 (2.61%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.35%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.35%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.31%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.78%) Equities
10 3 (0.78%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.78%) Replication
11 2 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (13.32%) Linux
2 8 (2.09%) Unix
3 6 (1.57%) Windows
4 3 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (52.48%) CI/CD
2 199 (51.96%) DevOps
3 134 (34.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (19.58%) Agile
5 74 (19.32%) Containerisation
6 57 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
7 54 (14.10%) Software Engineering
8 50 (13.05%) Analytics
9 47 (12.27%) Data Engineering
10 46 (12.01%) Cloud Security
11 44 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (11.23%) Microservices
13 42 (10.97%) Observability
14 37 (9.66%) ETL
15 34 (8.88%) Data Modelling
15 34 (8.88%) Migration
16 31 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (7.05%) AI
18 25 (6.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 24 (6.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 183 (47.78%) Python
2 58 (15.14%) SQL
3 38 (9.92%) Bash
3 38 (9.92%) Java
4 20 (5.22%) TypeScript
5 17 (4.44%) Go
6 11 (2.87%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.61%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.35%) C#
9 6 (1.57%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.04%) Groovy
10 4 (1.04%) Ruby
11 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.52%) AWK
12 2 (0.52%) C
12 2 (0.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.26%) JSX
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Rust
13 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 135 (35.25%) Security Cleared
2 127 (33.16%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.57%) AWS Certification
4 18 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (4.70%) Degree
5 11 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.87%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.31%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.78%) PhD
9 2 (0.52%) CCNP
9 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.52%) OCP
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.66%) GDPR
3 10 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.09%) NIST
5 6 (1.57%) QA
5 6 (1.57%) SLA
6 4 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.52%) NCSC
7 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.52%) WCAG
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (24.54%) Docker
2 6 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.04%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Squid
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 184 (48.04%) Terraform
2 100 (26.11%) Kubernetes
3 39 (10.18%) Grafana
4 38 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 37 (9.66%) Ansible
6 17 (4.44%) Argo
7 7 (1.83%) Packer
7 7 (1.83%) Puppet
8 4 (1.04%) Istio
8 4 (1.04%) Rancher
9 3 (0.78%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.52%) Consul
10 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.52%) Salt
11 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.26%) Nessus
11 1 (0.26%) Opsview
11 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 33 (8.62%) Databricks
2 22 (5.74%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.22%) Splunk
4 8 (2.09%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.83%) Oracle
6 6 (1.57%) Talend
7 5 (1.31%) Citrix
7 5 (1.31%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.31%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.31%) Informatica
7 5 (1.31%) Qualys
7 5 (1.31%) SAP
7 5 (1.31%) VMware
8 4 (1.04%) Cisco
8 4 (1.04%) Denodo
8 4 (1.04%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.04%) Tenable
9 3 (0.78%) Arista
9 3 (0.78%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.78%) Okta
95 AWS Engineer jobs in England