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 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 202 197
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -11
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 428 372 511
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.44% 1.19% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.28% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 295 425
10th Percentile £385 £392 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £788 £675
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -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 27,117 29,070 37,227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.99% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,434 17,754 25,839
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
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 1,602 1,095 1,412
10th Percentile £14.09 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -10.81% +50.70%
75th Percentile £51.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.32% +54.84%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -3 269 £600 -7.69% 130
North of England +12 88 £500 +25.00% 98
Yorkshire -15 50 £500 +25.00% 20
Midlands +16 42 £475 +7.95% 5
West Midlands +2 37 £475 +7.95% 2
North West +2 31 £402 -15.37% 77
South East +11 17 £525 +7.69% 49
South West -1 10 £600 -2.04% 3
North East -2 8 £535 +17.84% 1
East Midlands - 5 £455 - 3
East of England -14 2 £450 -18.18% 5
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 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.

1 428 (100.00%) AWS
2 260 (60.75%) Python
3 217 (50.70%) Terraform
4 214 (50.00%) DevOps
5 205 (47.90%) CI/CD
6 159 (37.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 121 (28.27%) Security Cleared
8 115 (26.87%) Agile
9 111 (25.93%) Amazon S3
9 111 (25.93%) SC Cleared
10 110 (25.70%) Kubernetes
11 107 (25.00%) Docker
11 107 (25.00%) Serverless
12 99 (23.13%) Software Engineering
13 90 (21.03%) Jenkins
14 89 (20.79%) AWS Lambda
15 87 (20.33%) GitHub
16 86 (20.09%) Apache Airflow
16 86 (20.09%) Java
16 86 (20.09%) TypeScript
17 79 (18.46%) Amazon Athena
17 79 (18.46%) GitLab
18 77 (17.99%) JavaScript
19 70 (16.36%) Containerisation
20 69 (16.12%) Linux
21 68 (15.89%) AWS CloudFormation
22 67 (15.65%) Ansible
23 66 (15.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 65 (15.19%) SQL
25 64 (14.95%) Amazon EC2

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 (20.09%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (9.81%) Apache
3 28 (6.54%) Confluence
4 15 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.47%) JBoss
5 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Endur
1 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 428 (100.00%) AWS
2 111 (25.93%) Amazon S3
3 107 (25.00%) Serverless
4 89 (20.79%) AWS Lambda
5 87 (20.33%) GitHub
6 68 (15.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 66 (15.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 64 (14.95%) Amazon EC2
9 62 (14.49%) dbt
10 60 (14.02%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (11.92%) GCP
12 50 (11.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 49 (11.45%) Azure
13 49 (11.45%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (10.28%) Snowflake
15 42 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
16 35 (8.18%) AWS KMS
17 22 (5.14%) Route 53
18 21 (4.91%) Amazon ELB
19 17 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.11%) DNS
2 32 (7.48%) Firewall
3 19 (4.44%) SMTP
4 18 (4.21%) SSH
5 17 (3.97%) FTP
5 17 (3.97%) HTTP
6 12 (2.80%) IMAP
6 12 (2.80%) OpenLDAP
6 12 (2.80%) VPN
7 7 (1.64%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.17%) DHCP
8 5 (1.17%) Network Security
8 5 (1.17%) SSL
9 3 (0.70%) BGP
9 3 (0.70%) IPsec
9 3 (0.70%) OSPF
9 3 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.23%) Internet
10 1 (0.23%) NAS
10 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (18.46%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (14.49%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (14.25%) Apache Iceberg
5 59 (13.79%) Apache Arrow
5 59 (13.79%) Dremio
6 54 (12.62%) Data Lake
7 36 (8.41%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (5.84%) NoSQL
9 23 (5.37%) DynamoDB
10 21 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (2.10%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.64%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.40%) Metadata
15 6 (1.40%) MySQL
16 5 (1.17%) Big Data
16 5 (1.17%) Tableau
17 4 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (21.03%) Jenkins
2 79 (18.46%) GitLab
3 53 (12.38%) Git
4 38 (8.88%) JIRA
5 19 (4.44%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.80%) Liquibase
7 8 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.40%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.17%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.17%) MLflow
10 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.70%) Maven
11 3 (0.70%) Mockito
11 3 (0.70%) Selenium
11 3 (0.70%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 122 (28.50%) Finance
2 80 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 73 (17.06%) Public Sector
4 62 (14.49%) Banking
4 62 (14.49%) Front Office
5 37 (8.64%) Investment Banking
6 24 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.04%) Financial Institution
7 13 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
8 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.47%) Law
10 2 (0.47%) Legal
10 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.23%) Games
11 1 (0.23%) Military
11 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.79%) NumPy
1 59 (13.79%) Pandas
1 59 (13.79%) SciPy
2 44 (10.28%) Node.js
2 44 (10.28%) React
3 36 (8.41%) gRPC
3 36 (8.41%) Protocol Buffers
4 30 (7.01%) AWS CDK
5 28 (6.54%) Kafka
6 26 (6.07%) AngularJS
7 23 (5.37%) Vue
8 20 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (4.67%) REST
9 19 (4.44%) RESTful
10 12 (2.80%) LDAP
10 12 (2.80%) PySpark
11 8 (1.87%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (1.17%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.17%) JSON
12 5 (1.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.49%) Fixed Income
2 59 (13.79%) Equities
2 59 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (13.32%) Hedge funds
4 48 (11.21%) Cloud Native
5 36 (8.41%) Derivative
5 36 (8.41%) Pricing Data
6 20 (4.67%) Replication
7 19 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (4.21%) Public Cloud
9 13 (3.04%) NHS
10 9 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.87%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.17%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.70%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (0.70%) PKI
15 2 (0.47%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.12%) Linux
2 26 (6.07%) Windows
3 22 (5.14%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (4.44%) VMS
5 14 (3.27%) Unix
6 10 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (50.00%) DevOps
2 205 (47.90%) CI/CD
3 159 (37.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (26.87%) Agile
5 99 (23.13%) Software Engineering
6 70 (16.36%) Containerisation
7 62 (14.49%) Investment Management
8 61 (14.25%) Platform Engineering
9 59 (13.79%) Asset Management
10 55 (12.85%) Cloud Security
11 46 (10.75%) Microservices
11 46 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (9.11%) Configuration Management
13 38 (8.88%) Migration
13 38 (8.88%) Observability
14 37 (8.64%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (8.41%) High Availability
16 35 (8.18%) Change Management
17 31 (7.24%) Infrastructure Automation
18 28 (6.54%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 260 (60.75%) Python
2 86 (20.09%) Java
2 86 (20.09%) TypeScript
3 77 (17.99%) JavaScript
4 65 (15.19%) SQL
5 36 (8.41%) Go
6 33 (7.71%) Bash
7 28 (6.54%) PowerShell
8 21 (4.91%) Groovy
9 13 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.57%) Perl
11 6 (1.40%) C
11 6 (1.40%) C++
12 3 (0.70%) C#
12 3 (0.70%) PHP
12 3 (0.70%) Scala
13 2 (0.47%) AWK
13 2 (0.47%) Ruby
14 1 (0.23%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 111 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.45%) AWS Certification
4 35 (8.18%) Degree
5 18 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.74%) Master's Degree
7 15 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.17%) PhD
10 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.70%) CCNP
11 3 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.27%) QA
2 12 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.87%) GDPR
4 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.17%) WCAG
6 4 (0.93%) NCSC
6 4 (0.93%) NIST
7 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (25.00%) Docker
2 17 (3.97%) DFS Replication
3 12 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.80%) Dovecot
3 12 (2.80%) Postfix
3 12 (2.80%) Squid
4 1 (0.23%) iptables
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 217 (50.70%) Terraform
2 110 (25.70%) Kubernetes
3 67 (15.65%) Ansible
4 56 (13.08%) Grafana
5 47 (10.98%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.74%) Puppet
7 12 (2.80%) Nessus
8 11 (2.57%) Packer
9 10 (2.34%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.34%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.87%) Argo
11 5 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.47%) Kibana
13 2 (0.47%) SELinux
14 1 (0.23%) Consul
14 1 (0.23%) Control-M
14 1 (0.23%) Istio
14 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.23%) yum
Vendors
1 23 (5.37%) ServiceNow
1 23 (5.37%) Splunk
2 21 (4.91%) Arista
3 18 (4.21%) Databricks
4 12 (2.80%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (2.57%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.64%) IBM
7 5 (1.17%) CheckPoint
7 5 (1.17%) Oracle
8 4 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.93%) Okta
9 3 (0.70%) Cisco
9 3 (0.70%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.47%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.47%) F5
10 2 (0.47%) Google
10 2 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.47%) SAP