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 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 194 222
Rank change year-on-year -34 +28 -18
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 374 355 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 1.34% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.44% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 282 358
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £650
90th Percentile £725 £838 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
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 30,140 24,646 35,463
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 93.03% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,205 15,195 23,928
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,877 735 2,040
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.92 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.08
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.90% +2.99%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £32.66 £36.05
% change year-on-year -9.36% -9.40% +2.99%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -44 230 £525 -19.23% 50
North of England -5 85 £500 - 22
Yorkshire -24 45 £518 +8.95% 8
North West +1 32 £405 -16.92% 13
Midlands -26 31 £539 +7.70% 14
West Midlands -15 27 £550 +3.77% 14
South East -14 15 £538 +7.50% 17
North East -15 8 £563 -1.32% 1
South West -19 8 £510 -9.33% 8
East Midlands -21 4 £433 -13.50%
East of England -20 2 £525 -4.55% 6
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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.

1 374 (100.00%) AWS
2 207 (55.35%) Terraform
3 206 (55.08%) CI/CD
4 205 (54.81%) DevOps
5 202 (54.01%) Python
6 148 (39.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 136 (36.36%) Security Cleared
8 131 (35.03%) SC Cleared
9 108 (28.88%) Kubernetes
10 105 (28.07%) Serverless
11 100 (26.74%) Docker
12 93 (24.87%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (23.53%) Amazon S3
14 84 (22.46%) GitHub
15 78 (20.86%) GitLab
16 72 (19.25%) Agile
16 72 (19.25%) AWS CloudFormation
17 71 (18.98%) Containerisation
17 71 (18.98%) Jenkins
18 60 (16.04%) Linux
19 58 (15.51%) SQL
20 57 (15.24%) Software Engineering
21 56 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
22 55 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
22 55 (14.71%) Cloud Security
23 54 (14.44%) Amazon EC2
24 53 (14.17%) Amazon ECS
25 52 (13.90%) Azure
26 49 (13.10%) Ansible
27 48 (12.83%) Amazon RDS

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 43 (11.50%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.55%) Apache
2 17 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.55%) Confluence
3 11 (2.94%) nginx
4 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.27%) Appian
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 374 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (28.07%) Serverless
3 93 (24.87%) AWS Lambda
4 88 (23.53%) Amazon S3
5 84 (22.46%) GitHub
6 72 (19.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
8 54 (14.44%) Amazon EC2
9 53 (14.17%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (13.90%) Azure
11 47 (12.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 47 (12.57%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (9.89%) GCP
12 37 (9.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (6.42%) AWS KMS
14 22 (5.88%) Snowflake
15 19 (5.08%) Amazon Kinesis
15 19 (5.08%) Route 53
16 17 (4.55%) dbt
17 16 (4.28%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.42%) DNS
2 19 (5.08%) Firewall
3 12 (3.21%) HTTP
4 10 (2.67%) FTP
4 10 (2.67%) SMTP
4 10 (2.67%) SSH
5 7 (1.87%) IMAP
5 7 (1.87%) OpenLDAP
5 7 (1.87%) VPN
6 4 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.53%) Network Security
7 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (12.83%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (8.29%) Data Lake
4 28 (7.49%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (6.15%) DynamoDB
6 23 (6.15%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.01%) Apache Iceberg
8 14 (3.74%) Apache Arrow
8 14 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.74%) Dremio
9 11 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.41%) Apache Ignite
11 8 (2.14%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.87%) Flink
12 7 (1.87%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.87%) Tableau
13 6 (1.60%) Big Data
13 6 (1.60%) Metadata
14 5 (1.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (20.86%) GitLab
2 71 (18.98%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.43%) Git
4 26 (6.95%) JIRA
5 11 (2.94%) Liquibase
6 10 (2.67%) Vagrant
7 7 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.34%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.34%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.07%) MLflow
9 4 (1.07%) Mockito
9 4 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.80%) JUnit
10 3 (0.80%) Selenium
10 3 (0.80%) Snyk
10 3 (0.80%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.53%) Gradle
11 2 (0.53%) Maven
General
1 73 (19.52%) Public Sector
2 71 (18.98%) Finance
3 62 (16.58%) Social Skills
4 38 (10.16%) Banking
5 20 (5.35%) Front Office
6 18 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.41%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.87%) Aeronautics
10 7 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Law
12 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.27%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.27%) Games
13 1 (0.27%) Retail
13 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.16%) Kafka
2 31 (8.29%) Node.js
3 25 (6.68%) React
4 24 (6.42%) REST
5 21 (5.61%) AWS CDK
6 19 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (4.55%) PySpark
7 17 (4.55%) RESTful
8 16 (4.28%) Pandas
9 15 (4.01%) NumPy
10 14 (3.74%) SciPy
11 10 (2.67%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.41%) gRPC
12 9 (2.41%) Protocol Buffers
13 8 (2.14%) Lambda Expressions
13 8 (2.14%) Next.js
14 7 (1.87%) LDAP
15 6 (1.60%) Flask
16 5 (1.34%) OAuth
16 5 (1.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.15%) Hedge funds
3 20 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.35%) Fixed Income
4 18 (4.81%) Public Cloud
5 15 (4.01%) NHS
6 14 (3.74%) Equities
6 14 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (3.74%) Replication
7 9 (2.41%) Derivative
7 9 (2.41%) Pricing Data
8 8 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.07%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.04%) Linux
2 16 (4.28%) Windows
3 13 (3.48%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (2.94%) Unix
5 10 (2.67%) VMS
6 7 (1.87%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.80%) CentOS
7 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (55.08%) CI/CD
2 205 (54.81%) DevOps
3 148 (39.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (19.25%) Agile
5 71 (18.98%) Containerisation
6 57 (15.24%) Software Engineering
7 56 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
8 55 (14.71%) Cloud Security
9 44 (11.76%) Microservices
9 44 (11.76%) Observability
10 39 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
11 36 (9.63%) Analytics
12 34 (9.09%) Data Engineering
13 33 (8.82%) Migration
13 33 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (8.56%) High Availability
15 27 (7.22%) Change Management
16 26 (6.95%) AI
16 26 (6.95%) ETL
17 24 (6.42%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 202 (54.01%) Python
2 58 (15.51%) SQL
3 41 (10.96%) Java
4 40 (10.70%) TypeScript
5 35 (9.36%) Bash
6 24 (6.42%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.61%) Go
8 19 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.21%) Groovy
10 10 (2.67%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.07%) C#
11 4 (1.07%) Perl
11 4 (1.07%) Ruby
12 2 (0.53%) AWK
12 2 (0.53%) PHP
13 1 (0.27%) C
13 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 131 (35.03%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.96%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.95%) Degree
5 19 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.80%) PhD
12 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.53%) OCP
12 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.27%) CEH
13 1 (0.27%) CISSP
13 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.01%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.21%) GDPR
3 10 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.67%) QA
4 6 (1.60%) NIST
5 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.07%) NCSC
6 3 (0.80%) WCAG
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 100 (26.74%) Docker
2 10 (2.67%) DFS Replication
3 7 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.87%) Dovecot
3 7 (1.87%) Postfix
3 7 (1.87%) Squid
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 207 (55.35%) Terraform
2 108 (28.88%) Kubernetes
3 49 (13.10%) Ansible
4 45 (12.03%) Grafana
5 43 (11.50%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.48%) Argo
7 10 (2.67%) Packer
8 9 (2.41%) Puppet
9 8 (2.14%) Nessus
10 7 (1.87%) Proxmox
11 5 (1.34%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.53%) Consul
13 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.27%) Control-M
14 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.27%) QRadar
14 1 (0.27%) Rancher
14 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (7.49%) Databricks
2 23 (6.15%) Splunk
3 17 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.28%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.41%) Arista
6 7 (1.87%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (1.60%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.60%) Oracle
8 5 (1.34%) Qualys
8 5 (1.34%) Tenable
9 4 (1.07%) Citrix
9 4 (1.07%) Okta
10 3 (0.80%) Confluent
10 3 (0.80%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.53%) AVEVA
11 2 (0.53%) IBM
11 2 (0.53%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.53%) SAP