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 15 April 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 164 238
Rank change year-on-year -95 +74 -39
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 379 395 361
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.62% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.75% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 326 306
10th Percentile £383 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £665
90th Percentile £697 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £544
% change year-on-year -10.26% +7.59% -9.38%
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 36,195 22,605 34,368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.67% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,739 15,107 22,910
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,417 855 2,351
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.41 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -5.00% -21.90%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.86 £31.42 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.20% -10.22% -22.22%

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 15 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 15 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 -72 244 £525 -22.22% 34
North of England -51 58 £509 +7.11% 18
Midlands -40 29 £575 +15.00% 5
Yorkshire -39 26 £520 -0.95%
West Midlands -40 23 £703 +32.55% 4
North West -39 22 £500 +20.92% 11
East of England -18 13 £510 +16.57% 3
South East -54 11 £575 +15.00% 9
North East -18 10 £425 -25.44% 7
South West -21 9 £536 -10.63% 8
East Midlands -28 6 £433 -13.50% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 379 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 191 (50.40%) DevOps
4 178 (46.97%) Terraform
5 175 (46.17%) Python
6 139 (36.68%) Security Cleared
7 132 (34.83%) SC Cleared
8 127 (33.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (27.44%) Serverless
10 99 (26.12%) AWS Lambda
11 95 (25.07%) Kubernetes
12 88 (23.22%) Docker
13 83 (21.90%) Amazon S3
14 77 (20.32%) GitHub
15 69 (18.21%) Agile
16 67 (17.68%) Containerisation
16 67 (17.68%) GitLab
17 66 (17.41%) Amazon EKS
18 61 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
19 60 (15.83%) SQL
20 57 (15.04%) Platform Engineering
21 53 (13.98%) Azure
22 50 (13.19%) Analytics
23 48 (12.66%) Software Engineering
24 47 (12.40%) Data Engineering
25 46 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
25 46 (12.14%) Jenkins
25 46 (12.14%) Linux
26 45 (11.87%) Amazon EC2
27 44 (11.61%) Cloud Security

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 36 (9.50%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.33%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.17%) Apache
4 6 (1.58%) Confluence
5 5 (1.32%) SAS
6 4 (1.06%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 379 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (27.44%) Serverless
3 99 (26.12%) AWS Lambda
4 83 (21.90%) Amazon S3
5 77 (20.32%) GitHub
6 66 (17.41%) Amazon EKS
7 61 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 53 (13.98%) Azure
9 46 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (11.87%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (10.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (10.03%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (7.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (6.33%) Snowflake
14 22 (5.80%) GCP
15 20 (5.28%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (4.49%) AWS Step Functions
17 16 (4.22%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (3.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.22%) Firewall
2 9 (2.37%) VPN
3 7 (1.85%) DNS
4 5 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.79%) LAN
5 3 (0.79%) Network Security
5 3 (0.79%) WAN
6 2 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.53%) HTTP
6 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
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
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 29 (7.65%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (6.07%) Amazon Athena
4 22 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.28%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.75%) Data Lake
6 18 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.17%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.90%) Metadata
9 9 (2.37%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.37%) Power BI
10 7 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (1.85%) Flink
10 7 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.85%) Tableau
11 6 (1.58%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.32%) MySQL
12 5 (1.32%) Redis
13 4 (1.06%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 67 (17.68%) GitLab
2 46 (12.14%) Jenkins
3 38 (10.03%) Git
4 9 (2.37%) JIRA
5 8 (2.11%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.11%) Snyk
6 6 (1.58%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.58%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.79%) JUnit
9 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.53%) Gradle
9 2 (0.53%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.53%) MLflow
9 2 (0.53%) Mocha
9 2 (0.53%) MSTest
9 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.53%) tSQLt
General
1 56 (14.78%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.98%) Finance
2 53 (13.98%) Public Sector
3 26 (6.86%) Banking
4 18 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (1.85%) Aeronautics
5 7 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.58%) Front Office
6 6 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.06%) Legal
9 3 (0.79%) Law
9 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.53%) Military
10 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.26%) Billing
11 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.23%) Kafka
2 20 (5.28%) Node.js
3 17 (4.49%) PySpark
4 14 (3.69%) REST
5 12 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.90%) AWS CDK
6 11 (2.90%) React
7 9 (2.37%) RESTful
8 8 (2.11%) Next.js
9 7 (1.85%) pytest
10 6 (1.58%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.58%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.58%) Web Services
11 5 (1.32%) .NET
11 5 (1.32%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.32%) Spring
12 4 (1.06%) JWT
12 4 (1.06%) Keycloak
12 4 (1.06%) OpenAPI
12 4 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.25%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (2.64%) NHS
4 9 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.37%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.11%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.85%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.85%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.79%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.79%) Replication
11 2 (0.53%) Life Science
11 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 46 (12.14%) Linux
2 8 (2.11%) Windows
3 7 (1.85%) Unix
4 5 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 191 (50.40%) DevOps
3 127 (33.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (18.21%) Agile
5 67 (17.68%) Containerisation
6 57 (15.04%) Platform Engineering
7 50 (13.19%) Analytics
8 48 (12.66%) Software Engineering
9 47 (12.40%) Data Engineering
10 44 (11.61%) Cloud Security
11 41 (10.82%) Observability
12 40 (10.55%) Data Pipeline
13 39 (10.29%) ETL
14 35 (9.23%) Microservices
15 34 (8.97%) Data Modelling
16 33 (8.71%) Migration
17 31 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
18 26 (6.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 25 (6.60%) AI
20 23 (6.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 175 (46.17%) Python
2 60 (15.83%) SQL
3 37 (9.76%) Bash
3 37 (9.76%) Java
4 17 (4.49%) TypeScript
5 10 (2.64%) C#
5 10 (2.64%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.37%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.85%) Go
8 5 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.06%) Groovy
9 4 (1.06%) Ruby
10 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.53%) AWK
11 2 (0.53%) C
11 2 (0.53%) Scala
12 1 (0.26%) JSX
12 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Rust
12 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 139 (36.68%) Security Cleared
2 132 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.65%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.17%) Degree
5 11 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (0.79%) PhD
9 2 (0.53%) CCNP
9 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.53%) OCP
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.17%) GDPR
3 9 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.85%) NIST
5 6 (1.58%) QA
5 6 (1.58%) SLA
6 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (23.22%) Docker
2 7 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.85%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.79%) vSphere
5 1 (0.26%) Squid
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 178 (46.97%) Terraform
2 95 (25.07%) Kubernetes
3 35 (9.23%) Grafana
4 34 (8.97%) Prometheus
5 33 (8.71%) Ansible
6 18 (4.75%) Argo
7 8 (2.11%) Puppet
8 6 (1.58%) Packer
9 5 (1.32%) Istio
10 4 (1.06%) Rancher
11 3 (0.79%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.79%) Salt
12 2 (0.53%) Consul
12 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) Nessus
13 1 (0.26%) Opsview
13 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.26%) QRadar
13 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (7.92%) Databricks
2 21 (5.54%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.69%) Splunk
4 8 (2.11%) Oracle
4 8 (2.11%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.11%) VMware
5 6 (1.58%) Fortinet
5 6 (1.58%) Talend
6 5 (1.32%) Citrix
6 5 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.32%) Informatica
6 5 (1.32%) Qualys
6 5 (1.32%) SAP
7 4 (1.06%) Cisco
7 4 (1.06%) Denodo
7 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.06%) Tenable
8 3 (0.79%) CheckPoint
8 3 (0.79%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.53%) Salesforce