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 13 March 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 180 225
Rank change year-on-year -69 +45 -19
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 372 377 400
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 1.53% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.64% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 304 346
10th Percentile £373 £425 £413
25th Percentile £428 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £599 £791 £670
90th Percentile £692 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -11.69% +6.55% -6.38%
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 33,621 22,950 35,200
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 93.03% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,202 15,047 23,545
10th Percentile £310 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
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 2,216 759 2,280
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.86 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year +4.79% +2.77% -23.53%

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 13 March 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 13 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
London -69 233 £518 -23.33% 33
North of England -25 69 £500 -3.12% 25
Yorkshire -32 36 £523 +3.21% 5
Midlands -43 29 £539 +7.70% 9
North West -18 23 £440 -7.37% 18
West Midlands -41 23 £680 +28.30% 7
South East -57 13 £550 +10.00% 23
North East -13 10 £550 -2.65% 2
South West -20 8 £535 -6.96% 12
East Midlands -31 6 £433 -13.50% 2
East of England -25 5 £525 -4.55% 3
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 372 (100.00%) AWS
2 205 (55.11%) CI/CD
3 201 (54.03%) DevOps
4 191 (51.34%) Terraform
5 182 (48.92%) Python
6 139 (37.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 135 (36.29%) Security Cleared
8 126 (33.87%) SC Cleared
9 104 (27.96%) Serverless
10 103 (27.69%) Kubernetes
11 93 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
12 89 (23.92%) Docker
13 81 (21.77%) GitHub
14 78 (20.97%) Amazon S3
14 78 (20.97%) GitLab
15 74 (19.89%) Containerisation
16 67 (18.01%) AWS CloudFormation
17 65 (17.47%) Amazon EKS
18 63 (16.94%) Agile
19 57 (15.32%) Jenkins
20 54 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
20 54 (14.52%) SQL
21 52 (13.98%) Linux
22 49 (13.17%) Software Engineering
23 46 (12.37%) Azure
23 46 (12.37%) Cloud Security
23 46 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
24 45 (12.10%) Analytics
25 44 (11.83%) Amazon EC2
25 44 (11.83%) Observability

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 35 (9.41%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (6.18%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.30%) Apache
4 6 (1.61%) Confluence
5 4 (1.08%) nginx
5 4 (1.08%) SAS
6 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 372 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (27.96%) Serverless
3 93 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (21.77%) GitHub
5 78 (20.97%) Amazon S3
6 67 (18.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (17.47%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (12.37%) Azure
8 46 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (11.83%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (11.29%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (10.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (9.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (8.06%) GCP
14 23 (6.18%) Snowflake
15 17 (4.57%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (4.57%) AWS CodePipeline
16 16 (4.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 15 (4.03%) AWS KMS
17 15 (4.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.96%) DNS
2 10 (2.69%) Firewall
3 8 (2.15%) VPN
4 4 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.54%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) 4G
6 1 (0.27%) 5G
6 1 (0.27%) BGP
6 1 (0.27%) DHCP
6 1 (0.27%) ICMP
6 1 (0.27%) LAN
6 1 (0.27%) Network Security
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.60%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 28 (7.53%) Data Lake
4 24 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.91%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (4.84%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (4.30%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.42%) Metadata
10 8 (2.15%) Power BI
10 8 (2.15%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.88%) Flink
11 7 (1.88%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.88%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.88%) Tableau
12 6 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (1.61%) Big Data
13 5 (1.34%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (1.08%) Redis
14 4 (1.08%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 78 (20.97%) GitLab
2 57 (15.32%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.80%) Git
4 10 (2.69%) Cucumber
4 10 (2.69%) JIRA
5 8 (2.15%) Liquibase
6 5 (1.34%) Snyk
7 4 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.08%) MLflow
7 4 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.81%) JUnit
8 3 (0.81%) Mockito
8 3 (0.81%) Selenium
8 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.54%) Gradle
9 2 (0.54%) Mocha
9 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.54%) tSQLt
General
1 67 (18.01%) Finance
2 61 (16.40%) Public Sector
3 57 (15.32%) Social Skills
4 33 (8.87%) Banking
5 18 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.42%) Front Office
7 7 (1.88%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.88%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.34%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.81%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Law
12 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Games
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.14%) Kafka
2 22 (5.91%) Node.js
3 20 (5.38%) REST
4 18 (4.84%) PySpark
5 17 (4.57%) RESTful
6 15 (4.03%) AWS CDK
6 15 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.42%) React
8 7 (1.88%) pytest
9 6 (1.61%) Web Services
10 5 (1.34%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.34%) Flask
10 5 (1.34%) Pandas
10 5 (1.34%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.08%) boto
11 4 (1.08%) HTML
11 4 (1.08%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (1.08%) NumPy
11 4 (1.08%) OAuth
11 4 (1.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.03%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.76%) Hedge funds
4 14 (3.76%) NHS
5 10 (2.69%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.34%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.08%) Equities
9 4 (1.08%) Replication
10 3 (0.81%) Derivative
10 3 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.81%) Pricing Data
10 3 (0.81%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.98%) Linux
2 10 (2.69%) Unix
3 5 (1.34%) Windows
4 3 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.54%) CentOS
5 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (55.11%) CI/CD
2 201 (54.03%) DevOps
3 139 (37.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (19.89%) Containerisation
5 63 (16.94%) Agile
6 54 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
7 49 (13.17%) Software Engineering
8 46 (12.37%) Cloud Security
9 45 (12.10%) Analytics
10 44 (11.83%) Observability
11 43 (11.56%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (11.29%) Data Engineering
12 42 (11.29%) Microservices
13 35 (9.41%) Migration
14 32 (8.60%) ETL
14 32 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (7.80%) Data Modelling
16 28 (7.53%) AI
17 24 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 23 (6.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 182 (48.92%) Python
2 54 (14.52%) SQL
3 38 (10.22%) Bash
4 36 (9.68%) Java
5 21 (5.65%) TypeScript
6 16 (4.30%) Go
7 12 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.88%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.61%) C#
11 4 (1.08%) Ruby
12 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.54%) AWK
13 2 (0.54%) C
13 2 (0.54%) Groovy
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Rust
14 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
14 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 135 (36.29%) Security Cleared
2 126 (33.87%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.60%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.30%) Degree
5 11 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.96%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.81%) PhD
10 2 (0.54%) CCNP
10 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) OCP
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.76%) GDPR
3 9 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.15%) QA
5 7 (1.88%) NIST
6 5 (1.34%) SLA
7 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.81%) NCSC
9 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.54%) WCAG
10 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (23.92%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 191 (51.34%) Terraform
2 103 (27.69%) Kubernetes
3 40 (10.75%) Ansible
4 38 (10.22%) Grafana
5 37 (9.95%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.30%) Argo
7 8 (2.15%) Packer
7 8 (2.15%) Puppet
8 4 (1.08%) Istio
9 3 (0.81%) Rancher
10 2 (0.54%) Consul
10 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.54%) Salt
10 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.27%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.27%) Opsview
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (8.60%) Databricks
2 22 (5.91%) Splunk
3 19 (5.11%) Microsoft
4 7 (1.88%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.61%) Arista
5 6 (1.61%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.61%) Oracle
6 5 (1.34%) Citrix
6 5 (1.34%) Qualys
6 5 (1.34%) SAP
6 5 (1.34%) Tenable
7 4 (1.08%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.08%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.08%) Okta
8 3 (0.81%) Informatica
8 3 (0.81%) Talend
9 2 (0.54%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.54%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.54%) Google
9 2 (0.54%) Salesforce