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 28 April 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 169 251
Rank change year-on-year -88 +82 -47
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 386 392 338
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.60% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.73% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 327 286
10th Percentile £400 £412 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £594 £831 £675
90th Percentile £689 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £518 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% -8.33%
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 37,090 22,661 34,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.65% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,200 15,114 22,756
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.82% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,526 899 2,410
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.20 £12.92
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.59 £31.76 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.53% -10.91% -20.78%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.54
UK median hourly rate £43.39 £29.25 £35.83
% change year-on-year +48.35% -18.36% -20.38%

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 28 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 28 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 -68 243 £525 -22.22% 33
North of England -59 59 £500 +5.26% 25
Midlands -40 31 £506 +1.25% 13
West Midlands -34 27 £575 +4.55% 8
Yorkshire -48 25 £519 -1.19% 3
North West -33 21 £500 +14.29% 18
East of England -19 14 £510 +16.57% 4
North East -16 13 £425 -24.78% 4
South East -64 12 £550 +10.00% 17
South West -27 11 £518 -17.20% 7
East Midlands -36 4 £402 -19.60% 5
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 386 (100.00%) AWS
2 199 (51.55%) CI/CD
3 192 (49.74%) DevOps
4 186 (48.19%) Terraform
5 176 (45.60%) Python
6 146 (37.82%) Security Cleared
7 139 (36.01%) SC Cleared
8 134 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 107 (27.72%) Serverless
10 104 (26.94%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (24.09%) Docker
12 90 (23.32%) Kubernetes
13 86 (22.28%) Amazon S3
14 77 (19.95%) GitHub
15 72 (18.65%) Agile
16 71 (18.39%) GitLab
17 69 (17.88%) Containerisation
18 66 (17.10%) Amazon EKS
19 64 (16.58%) AWS CloudFormation
20 59 (15.28%) SQL
21 58 (15.03%) Platform Engineering
22 53 (13.73%) Analytics
23 50 (12.95%) Azure
24 49 (12.69%) Jenkins
24 49 (12.69%) Linux
24 49 (12.69%) Software Engineering
25 48 (12.44%) Amazon EC2
26 47 (12.18%) GitHub Actions
27 46 (11.92%) Observability
28 45 (11.66%) Data Engineering

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 (9.59%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (5.96%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.11%) Apache
4 11 (2.85%) Confluence
5 9 (2.33%) 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%) 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
1 386 (100.00%) AWS
2 107 (27.72%) Serverless
3 104 (26.94%) AWS Lambda
4 86 (22.28%) Amazon S3
5 77 (19.95%) GitHub
6 66 (17.10%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (16.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (12.95%) Azure
9 48 (12.44%) Amazon EC2
10 47 (12.18%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (11.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (10.62%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (8.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (6.74%) Snowflake
15 22 (5.70%) Amazon Kinesis
16 19 (4.92%) GCP
17 17 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (4.40%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (3.89%) AWS CodePipeline
19 14 (3.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.15%) Firewall
2 9 (2.33%) VPN
3 8 (2.07%) DNS
4 5 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.78%) HTTP
5 3 (0.78%) LAN
5 3 (0.78%) Network Security
5 3 (0.78%) TCP/IP
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%) SSL
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.59%) Amazon Redshift
2 35 (9.07%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (6.74%) Amazon Athena
4 25 (6.48%) DynamoDB
5 23 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (5.18%) Data Lake
6 20 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.37%) Power BI
7 13 (3.37%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.59%) Metadata
9 8 (2.07%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.81%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (1.55%) Big Data
11 6 (1.55%) Flink
11 6 (1.55%) Pentaho
11 6 (1.55%) Redis
11 6 (1.55%) Tableau
12 5 (1.30%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 71 (18.39%) GitLab
2 49 (12.69%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.10%) Git
4 14 (3.63%) JIRA
5 9 (2.33%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.07%) Snyk
7 6 (1.55%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.04%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.78%) JUnit
9 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.52%) Gradle
10 2 (0.52%) MLflow
10 2 (0.52%) Mocha
10 2 (0.52%) MSTest
10 2 (0.52%) tSQLt
11 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
General
1 55 (14.25%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.99%) Public Sector
3 50 (12.95%) Finance
4 24 (6.22%) Banking
5 16 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.81%) Aeronautics
8 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.30%) Front Office
10 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.04%) Legal
11 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.52%) Law
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Military
12 2 (0.52%) Retail
13 1 (0.26%) Billing
13 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.07%) Kafka
2 18 (4.66%) Node.js
3 17 (4.40%) PySpark
4 14 (3.63%) REST
5 12 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.85%) React
7 10 (2.59%) AWS CDK
8 8 (2.07%) Next.js
8 8 (2.07%) RESTful
9 7 (1.81%) pytest
9 7 (1.81%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.55%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.55%) Spring
10 6 (1.55%) Web Services
11 5 (1.30%) .NET
11 5 (1.30%) JWT
11 5 (1.30%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.30%) OAuth
12 4 (1.04%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.04%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (2.59%) NHS
4 8 (2.07%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.81%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.55%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.55%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.30%) Replication
8 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.52%) Life Science
10 2 (0.52%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.69%) Linux
2 10 (2.59%) Windows
3 8 (2.07%) Unix
4 7 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (51.55%) CI/CD
2 192 (49.74%) DevOps
3 134 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (18.65%) Agile
5 69 (17.88%) Containerisation
6 58 (15.03%) Platform Engineering
7 53 (13.73%) Analytics
8 49 (12.69%) Software Engineering
9 46 (11.92%) Observability
10 45 (11.66%) Data Engineering
11 44 (11.40%) Cloud Security
12 40 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (9.84%) ETL
14 37 (9.59%) Data Modelling
15 35 (9.07%) Migration
16 31 (8.03%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (7.77%) Microservices
18 26 (6.74%) AI
19 25 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
19 25 (6.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 176 (45.60%) Python
2 59 (15.28%) SQL
3 40 (10.36%) Bash
4 35 (9.07%) Java
5 16 (4.15%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.59%) C#
6 10 (2.59%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.81%) Go
8 7 (1.81%) Groovy
9 6 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.78%) Ruby
10 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.52%) AWK
11 2 (0.52%) C
11 2 (0.52%) Scala
12 1 (0.26%) JSX
12 1 (0.26%) Perl
12 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 146 (37.82%) Security Cleared
2 139 (36.01%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.25%) AWS Certification
4 11 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (2.85%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.59%) Degree
6 5 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.04%) 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%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.85%) GDPR
3 9 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.81%) NIST
5 6 (1.55%) SLA
6 5 (1.30%) QA
7 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (24.09%) Docker
2 7 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.81%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.30%) vSphere
4 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) Squid
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 186 (48.19%) Terraform
2 90 (23.32%) Kubernetes
3 41 (10.62%) Grafana
4 36 (9.33%) Prometheus
5 32 (8.29%) Ansible
6 16 (4.15%) Argo
7 8 (2.07%) Puppet
8 7 (1.81%) Packer
9 5 (1.30%) Rancher
10 4 (1.04%) Istio
11 3 (0.78%) Consul
11 3 (0.78%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.78%) Salt
12 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Opsview
13 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.26%) QRadar
13 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (7.51%) Databricks
2 20 (5.18%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.89%) Splunk
4 11 (2.85%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.59%) VMware
6 9 (2.33%) Oracle
7 8 (2.07%) Denodo
7 8 (2.07%) Informatica
7 8 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.55%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.55%) Talend
9 5 (1.30%) Citrix
9 5 (1.30%) Qualys
10 4 (1.04%) Cisco
10 4 (1.04%) SAP
10 4 (1.04%) Tenable
11 3 (0.78%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.78%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.78%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.52%) AVEVA