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 17 April 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 168 246
Rank change year-on-year -92 +78 -46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 384 399 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.63% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.76% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 327 305
10th Percentile £388 £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 £598 £825 £675
90th Percentile £690 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £585 £545
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.34% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

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 36,323 22,654 34,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.69% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,825 15,139 23,065
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 860 2,374
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -5.00% -21.59%
75th Percentile £67.31 £64.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.42
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.20% -12.02% -22.22%

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 17 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 17 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 -87 246 £525 -22.22% 34
North of England -51 60 £505 +6.32% 25
Midlands -49 29 £575 +11.65% 9
Yorkshire -39 26 £520 -0.95% 4
West Midlands -37 23 £703 +30.09% 8
North West -32 22 £500 +17.65% 16
East of England -16 14 £510 +16.57% 3
North East -15 12 £425 -25.44% 5
South East -59 11 £575 +15.00% 8
South West -23 9 £536 -14.20% 8
East Midlands -30 6 £433 -13.50% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 384 (100.00%) AWS
2 198 (51.56%) CI/CD
3 193 (50.26%) DevOps
4 181 (47.14%) Terraform
5 178 (46.35%) Python
6 142 (36.98%) Security Cleared
7 135 (35.16%) SC Cleared
8 130 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 106 (27.60%) Serverless
10 102 (26.56%) AWS Lambda
11 96 (25.00%) Kubernetes
12 90 (23.44%) Docker
13 84 (21.88%) Amazon S3
14 77 (20.05%) GitHub
15 69 (17.97%) Agile
16 67 (17.45%) Amazon EKS
16 67 (17.45%) Containerisation
16 67 (17.45%) GitLab
17 62 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
18 61 (15.89%) SQL
19 57 (14.84%) Platform Engineering
20 53 (13.80%) Azure
21 50 (13.02%) Analytics
22 49 (12.76%) Data Engineering
23 47 (12.24%) Jenkins
23 47 (12.24%) Linux
23 47 (12.24%) Software Engineering
24 46 (11.98%) Amazon EC2
24 46 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
25 44 (11.46%) Cloud Security

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 37 (9.64%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.13%) Apache
4 6 (1.56%) Confluence
5 5 (1.30%) 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%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 384 (100.00%) AWS
2 106 (27.60%) Serverless
3 102 (26.56%) AWS Lambda
4 84 (21.88%) Amazon S3
5 77 (20.05%) GitHub
6 67 (17.45%) Amazon EKS
7 62 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 53 (13.80%) Azure
9 46 (11.98%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (9.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (9.90%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (6.51%) Snowflake
13 22 (5.73%) GCP
14 20 (5.21%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (4.43%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
16 16 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
17 15 (3.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.17%) Firewall
2 9 (2.34%) VPN
3 7 (1.82%) DNS
4 5 (1.30%) 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 36 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 30 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 23 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.21%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.69%) Data Lake
6 18 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.86%) Metadata
9 9 (2.34%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.34%) Power BI
10 7 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (1.82%) Flink
10 7 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.82%) Tableau
11 6 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.56%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.56%) Redis
12 5 (1.30%) Big Data
12 5 (1.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 67 (17.45%) GitLab
2 47 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.16%) Git
4 9 (2.34%) JIRA
5 8 (2.08%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.08%) Snyk
6 6 (1.56%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.56%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.04%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.78%) JUnit
9 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.52%) Gradle
9 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.52%) MLflow
9 2 (0.52%) Mocha
9 2 (0.52%) MSTest
9 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.52%) tSQLt
General
1 58 (15.10%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.06%) Public Sector
3 53 (13.80%) Finance
4 26 (6.77%) Banking
5 18 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.82%) Aeronautics
6 7 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.56%) Front Office
8 5 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.04%) Legal
10 3 (0.78%) Law
10 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.52%) Military
11 2 (0.52%) Retail
11 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Police
12 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.64%) Kafka
2 19 (4.95%) Node.js
3 18 (4.69%) PySpark
4 14 (3.65%) REST
5 13 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (3.13%) React
7 11 (2.86%) AWS CDK
8 9 (2.34%) Next.js
8 9 (2.34%) RESTful
9 7 (1.82%) pytest
10 6 (1.56%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.56%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.56%) Web Services
11 5 (1.30%) .NET
11 5 (1.30%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.30%) Spring
12 4 (1.04%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.04%) JWT
12 4 (1.04%) Lambda Expressions
12 4 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (2.60%) NHS
4 9 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.82%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.82%) Fixed Income
5 7 (1.82%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.04%) Replication
9 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.78%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.52%) Life Science
10 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.24%) Linux
2 9 (2.34%) Windows
3 7 (1.82%) Unix
4 6 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (51.56%) CI/CD
2 193 (50.26%) DevOps
3 130 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (17.97%) Agile
5 67 (17.45%) Containerisation
6 57 (14.84%) Platform Engineering
7 50 (13.02%) Analytics
8 49 (12.76%) Data Engineering
9 47 (12.24%) Software Engineering
10 44 (11.46%) Cloud Security
11 42 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
11 42 (10.94%) Observability
12 40 (10.42%) ETL
13 35 (9.11%) Data Modelling
13 35 (9.11%) Microservices
14 33 (8.59%) Migration
15 30 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (6.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 24 (6.25%) AI
18 23 (5.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 178 (46.35%) Python
2 61 (15.89%) SQL
3 38 (9.90%) Bash
3 38 (9.90%) Java
4 17 (4.43%) TypeScript
5 10 (2.60%) C#
5 10 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.34%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.82%) Go
8 5 (1.30%) Groovy
8 5 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.78%) Ruby
9 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.52%) AWK
10 2 (0.52%) C
10 2 (0.52%) Scala
11 1 (0.26%) JSX
11 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Rust
11 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 142 (36.98%) Security Cleared
2 135 (35.16%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.55%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.13%) Degree
5 11 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.13%) GDPR
3 9 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.82%) NIST
5 6 (1.56%) QA
5 6 (1.56%) SLA
6 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 90 (23.44%) Docker
2 7 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.82%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.04%) vSphere
4 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Squid
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 181 (47.14%) Terraform
2 96 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 36 (9.38%) Grafana
4 35 (9.11%) Prometheus
5 33 (8.59%) Ansible
6 18 (4.69%) Argo
7 8 (2.08%) Puppet
8 6 (1.56%) Packer
9 5 (1.30%) Istio
9 5 (1.30%) Rancher
10 3 (0.78%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.78%) Salt
11 2 (0.52%) Consul
11 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.26%) Nessus
12 1 (0.26%) Opsview
12 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.26%) QRadar
12 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (8.07%) Databricks
2 21 (5.47%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.65%) Splunk
4 9 (2.34%) VMware
5 8 (2.08%) Oracle
5 8 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.56%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.56%) Talend
7 5 (1.30%) Citrix
7 5 (1.30%) Informatica
7 5 (1.30%) Qualys
7 5 (1.30%) SAP
8 4 (1.04%) Cisco
8 4 (1.04%) Denodo
8 4 (1.04%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.04%) Tenable
9 3 (0.78%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.78%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.52%) Salesforce