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 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 208 203
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -19
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 396 380 525
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.39% 1.20% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 1.29% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 311 432
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £469 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £825 £675
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -10.64% +6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.50 - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £61.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,866 29,369 38,361
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 93.02% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,630 17,923 26,734
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,473 1,192 1,407
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.94 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.43% -6.41% +60.98%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.86 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +67.17%

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 21 October 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Engineer 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 21 October 2025. 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 -6 252 £600 -11.11% 50
North of England +3 70 £475 +18.75% 25
Midlands +16 41 £475 +35.71% 3
Yorkshire -25 37 £500 +25.00% 1
West Midlands +13 36 £475 +35.71%
North West +4 27 £400 -15.79% 22
South East +16 20 £525 -2.33% 42
South West +6 11 £575 -6.12% 5
North East +1 7 £550 +21.15% 2
East Midlands - 5 £455 - 3
East of England -3 2 £450 -21.74% 3
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, 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.

1 396 (100.00%) AWS
2 247 (62.37%) Python
3 185 (46.72%) Terraform
4 183 (46.21%) CI/CD
5 182 (45.96%) DevOps
6 143 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 121 (30.56%) Agile
8 104 (26.26%) Amazon S3
9 102 (25.76%) Kubernetes
10 101 (25.51%) Software Engineering
11 100 (25.25%) Security Cleared
12 98 (24.75%) Docker
12 98 (24.75%) Serverless
12 98 (24.75%) TypeScript
13 90 (22.73%) SC Cleared
14 87 (21.97%) JavaScript
15 86 (21.72%) Amazon Athena
15 86 (21.72%) Apache Airflow
15 86 (21.72%) Jenkins
16 85 (21.46%) Java
17 79 (19.95%) AWS Lambda
18 71 (17.93%) dbt
19 69 (17.42%) Apache Iceberg
19 69 (17.42%) GitHub
19 69 (17.42%) GitLab
20 67 (16.92%) Apache Arrow
20 67 (16.92%) Asset Management
20 67 (16.92%) Containerisation
20 67 (16.92%) Dremio
20 67 (16.92%) Investment Management

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 86 (21.72%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (11.11%) Apache
3 26 (6.57%) Confluence
4 13 (3.28%) nginx
5 9 (2.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.51%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) Luigi
7 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (3.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Endur
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 396 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (26.26%) Amazon S3
3 98 (24.75%) Serverless
4 79 (19.95%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (17.93%) dbt
6 69 (17.42%) GitHub
7 60 (15.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 57 (14.39%) Amazon EC2
9 56 (14.14%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (12.88%) GCP
12 49 (12.37%) Snowflake
12 49 (12.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 43 (10.86%) Azure
14 41 (10.35%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
16 35 (8.84%) AWS KMS
17 22 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
18 19 (4.80%) Route 53
19 18 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.09%) DNS
2 32 (8.08%) Firewall
3 19 (4.80%) SMTP
4 18 (4.55%) SSH
5 17 (4.29%) FTP
5 17 (4.29%) HTTP
6 12 (3.03%) IMAP
6 12 (3.03%) OpenLDAP
7 11 (2.78%) VPN
8 7 (1.77%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.52%) SSL
10 5 (1.26%) DHCP
10 5 (1.26%) Network Security
11 4 (1.01%) BGP
11 4 (1.01%) IPsec
11 4 (1.01%) OSPF
12 3 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.25%) Internet
13 1 (0.25%) SAN
13 1 (0.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (21.72%) Amazon Athena
2 69 (17.42%) Apache Iceberg
3 67 (16.92%) Apache Arrow
3 67 (16.92%) Dremio
4 63 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
5 56 (14.14%) Amazon RDS
6 51 (12.88%) Data Lake
7 40 (10.10%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (6.31%) NoSQL
9 22 (5.56%) DynamoDB
10 19 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.52%) MySQL
13 6 (1.52%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.26%) Big Data
15 4 (1.01%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.01%) Metadata
15 4 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (21.72%) Jenkins
2 69 (17.42%) GitLab
3 52 (13.13%) Git
4 37 (9.34%) JIRA
5 19 (4.80%) Vagrant
6 11 (2.78%) Liquibase
7 8 (2.02%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.26%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.26%) MLflow
10 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.76%) Maven
10 3 (0.76%) Mockito
10 3 (0.76%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.51%) Selenium
11 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 124 (31.31%) Finance
2 80 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 69 (17.42%) Public Sector
4 67 (16.92%) Front Office
5 61 (15.40%) Banking
6 41 (10.35%) Investment Banking
7 23 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.03%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Law
12 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.51%) Retail
13 1 (0.25%) Games
13 1 (0.25%) iGaming
13 1 (0.25%) Legal
13 1 (0.25%) Military
13 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.92%) NumPy
1 67 (16.92%) Pandas
1 67 (16.92%) SciPy
2 48 (12.12%) Node.js
2 48 (12.12%) React
3 40 (10.10%) gRPC
3 40 (10.10%) Protocol Buffers
4 30 (7.58%) AngularJS
4 30 (7.58%) AWS CDK
5 27 (6.82%) Vue
6 21 (5.30%) Kafka
7 18 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (4.29%) REST
9 16 (4.04%) RESTful
10 12 (3.03%) LDAP
11 10 (2.53%) PySpark
12 8 (2.02%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.26%) HTML
13 5 (1.26%) Lambda Expressions
14 4 (1.01%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 67 (16.92%) Equities
1 67 (16.92%) Fixed Income
1 67 (16.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 58 (14.65%) Hedge funds
3 45 (11.36%) Cloud Native
4 40 (10.10%) Derivative
4 40 (10.10%) Pricing Data
5 20 (5.05%) Replication
6 19 (4.80%) Public Cloud
7 16 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (2.53%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.77%) NHS
10 7 (1.77%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.76%) PKI
13 2 (0.51%) BBC
13 2 (0.51%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.39%) Linux
2 26 (6.57%) Windows
3 19 (4.80%) Amazon Linux
3 19 (4.80%) VMS
4 12 (3.03%) Unix
5 10 (2.53%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.76%) CentOS
7 3 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (46.21%) CI/CD
2 182 (45.96%) DevOps
3 143 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 121 (30.56%) Agile
5 101 (25.51%) Software Engineering
6 67 (16.92%) Asset Management
6 67 (16.92%) Containerisation
6 67 (16.92%) Investment Management
7 53 (13.38%) Cloud Security
8 48 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
9 44 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (9.60%) Migration
11 37 (9.34%) Configuration Management
11 37 (9.34%) Microservices
12 35 (8.84%) Change Management
13 34 (8.59%) High Availability
14 32 (8.08%) Observability
15 31 (7.83%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (7.83%) Fintech
16 29 (7.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 247 (62.37%) Python
2 98 (24.75%) TypeScript
3 87 (21.97%) JavaScript
4 85 (21.46%) Java
5 58 (14.65%) SQL
6 37 (9.34%) Bash
7 36 (9.09%) Go
8 29 (7.32%) PowerShell
9 21 (5.30%) Groovy
10 11 (2.78%) Perl
10 11 (2.78%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.52%) C++
12 5 (1.26%) C
13 4 (1.01%) Scala
14 3 (0.76%) PHP
15 2 (0.51%) C#
16 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.25%) R
16 1 (0.25%) Ruby
16 1 (0.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 100 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 90 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 48 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 34 (8.59%) Degree
5 17 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (3.79%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.79%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.26%) PhD
10 4 (1.01%) CCNP
10 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.79%) QA
2 8 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.26%) GDPR
3 5 (1.26%) WCAG
4 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.01%) NCSC
4 4 (1.01%) NIST
5 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (24.75%) Docker
2 17 (4.29%) DFS Replication
3 12 (3.03%) Dovecot
3 12 (3.03%) Postfix
3 12 (3.03%) Squid
4 11 (2.78%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.25%) iptables
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 185 (46.72%) Terraform
2 102 (25.76%) Kubernetes
3 63 (15.91%) Ansible
4 51 (12.88%) Grafana
5 43 (10.86%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.04%) Puppet
7 12 (3.03%) Nessus
8 10 (2.53%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.53%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.52%) Packer
10 4 (1.01%) Argo
10 4 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.51%) Kibana
12 2 (0.51%) SELinux
13 1 (0.25%) Cilium
13 1 (0.25%) Control-M
13 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.25%) Podman
13 1 (0.25%) yum
Vendors
1 23 (5.81%) Arista
1 23 (5.81%) ServiceNow
2 18 (4.55%) Splunk
3 14 (3.54%) Databricks
4 12 (3.03%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (2.02%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.77%) IBM
7 6 (1.52%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.01%) Cisco
8 4 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.01%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.01%) Okta
9 3 (0.76%) Oracle
9 3 (0.76%) Tenable
10 2 (0.51%) F5
10 2 (0.51%) Google
10 2 (0.51%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.51%) Qualys
10 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.51%) SAP