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 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 181 238
Rank change year-on-year -81 +57 -46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 377 386 373
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.59% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.71% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 320 320
10th Percentile £376 £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 £671
90th Percentile £693 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -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 36,130 22,574 34,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.74% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,725 15,118 23,117
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 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 844 2,345
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.69 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -4.41% -22.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.76% -9.60% -21.40%

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 11 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 11 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 -85 241 £525 -22.22% 39
North of England -43 59 £500 +2.56% 27
Midlands -42 29 £575 +15.00% 10
Yorkshire -35 27 £519 -1.19% 5
West Midlands -42 23 £703 +32.55% 8
North West -22 22 £500 +17.65% 20
East of England -19 13 £510 +16.57% 4
South East -58 11 £575 +15.00% 21
North East -15 10 £425 -25.44% 2
South West -24 9 £536 -10.63% 7
East Midlands -38 6 £433 -13.50% 2
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 377 (100.00%) AWS
2 195 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 190 (50.40%) DevOps
4 176 (46.68%) Terraform
5 175 (46.42%) Python
6 137 (36.34%) Security Cleared
7 130 (34.48%) SC Cleared
8 125 (33.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 102 (27.06%) Serverless
10 97 (25.73%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (24.93%) Kubernetes
12 87 (23.08%) Docker
13 81 (21.49%) Amazon S3
14 75 (19.89%) GitHub
15 67 (17.77%) Agile
16 66 (17.51%) Amazon EKS
16 66 (17.51%) Containerisation
16 66 (17.51%) GitLab
17 60 (15.92%) AWS CloudFormation
18 59 (15.65%) SQL
19 56 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
20 53 (14.06%) Azure
21 51 (13.53%) Analytics
22 47 (12.47%) Data Engineering
22 47 (12.47%) Software Engineering
23 46 (12.20%) Linux
24 45 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
24 45 (11.94%) Jenkins
25 44 (11.67%) Cloud Security
25 44 (11.67%) GitHub Actions

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 37 (9.81%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.37%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.45%) Apache
4 5 (1.33%) Confluence
4 5 (1.33%) SAS
5 4 (1.06%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) 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%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 377 (100.00%) AWS
2 102 (27.06%) Serverless
3 97 (25.73%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (21.49%) Amazon S3
5 75 (19.89%) GitHub
6 66 (17.51%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (15.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 53 (14.06%) Azure
9 45 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
11 38 (10.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (9.81%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (6.63%) Snowflake
15 22 (5.84%) GCP
16 20 (5.31%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (4.24%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (4.24%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (3.98%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (3.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.24%) Firewall
2 9 (2.39%) VPN
3 7 (1.86%) DNS
4 5 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.80%) LAN
5 3 (0.80%) Network Security
5 3 (0.80%) 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 (0.27%) 4G
7 1 (0.27%) 5G
7 1 (0.27%) BGP
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.27%) DHCP
7 1 (0.27%) ICMP
7 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.28%) Amazon Redshift
2 29 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.04%) Data Lake
4 19 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (5.04%) DynamoDB
5 11 (2.92%) Metadata
5 11 (2.92%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.39%) Power BI
7 7 (1.86%) Amazon QuickSight
7 7 (1.86%) Flink
7 7 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.86%) Tableau
8 6 (1.59%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.33%) MySQL
9 5 (1.33%) Redis
10 4 (1.06%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 66 (17.51%) GitLab
2 45 (11.94%) Jenkins
3 38 (10.08%) Git
4 9 (2.39%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.12%) JIRA
6 7 (1.86%) Snyk
7 6 (1.59%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.33%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.06%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.80%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.80%) JUnit
11 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.53%) Gradle
11 2 (0.53%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.53%) Mocha
11 2 (0.53%) Mockito
11 2 (0.53%) MSTest
11 2 (0.53%) Selenium
11 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.53%) tSQLt
General
1 57 (15.12%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.06%) Finance
2 53 (14.06%) Public Sector
3 26 (6.90%) Banking
4 18 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (1.86%) Aeronautics
5 7 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.59%) Front Office
6 6 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.06%) Legal
9 3 (0.80%) Law
9 3 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.53%) Military
10 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.27%) Billing
11 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.28%) Kafka
2 21 (5.57%) Node.js
3 17 (4.51%) PySpark
4 14 (3.71%) REST
5 12 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.92%) AWS CDK
6 11 (2.92%) React
7 9 (2.39%) RESTful
8 8 (2.12%) Next.js
9 7 (1.86%) pytest
10 6 (1.59%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.59%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.59%) Web Services
11 5 (1.33%) .NET
11 5 (1.33%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.33%) Spring
12 4 (1.06%) JWT
12 4 (1.06%) Keycloak
12 4 (1.06%) OpenAPI
12 4 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.32%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (2.65%) NHS
4 9 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.39%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.12%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.12%) Hedge funds
6 7 (1.86%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.80%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.80%) Replication
11 2 (0.53%) Life Science
11 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 46 (12.20%) Linux
2 8 (2.12%) Windows
3 7 (1.86%) Unix
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 190 (50.40%) DevOps
3 125 (33.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (17.77%) Agile
5 66 (17.51%) Containerisation
6 56 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
7 51 (13.53%) Analytics
8 47 (12.47%) Data Engineering
8 47 (12.47%) Software Engineering
9 44 (11.67%) Cloud Security
10 41 (10.88%) Data Pipeline
10 41 (10.88%) Observability
11 38 (10.08%) ETL
12 36 (9.55%) Microservices
13 34 (9.02%) Data Modelling
14 33 (8.75%) Migration
15 31 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 25 (6.63%) AI
18 23 (6.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 175 (46.42%) Python
2 59 (15.65%) SQL
3 37 (9.81%) Bash
3 37 (9.81%) Java
4 16 (4.24%) TypeScript
5 9 (2.39%) C#
5 9 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.39%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.86%) Go
7 5 (1.33%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.06%) Groovy
8 4 (1.06%) Ruby
9 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.53%) AWK
10 2 (0.53%) C
10 2 (0.53%) Scala
11 1 (0.27%) JSX
11 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.27%) Rust
11 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 137 (36.34%) Security Cleared
2 130 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.18%) Degree
5 11 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (0.80%) PhD
10 2 (0.53%) CCNP
10 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.53%) OCP
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.18%) GDPR
3 9 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.86%) NIST
5 6 (1.59%) QA
5 6 (1.59%) SLA
6 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (23.08%) Docker
2 7 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.59%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.80%) vSphere
5 1 (0.27%) Squid
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 176 (46.68%) Terraform
2 94 (24.93%) Kubernetes
3 34 (9.02%) Grafana
4 33 (8.75%) Ansible
4 33 (8.75%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.77%) Argo
6 8 (2.12%) Puppet
7 6 (1.59%) Packer
8 5 (1.33%) Istio
9 4 (1.06%) Rancher
10 3 (0.80%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.80%) Salt
11 2 (0.53%) Consul
11 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.27%) Nessus
12 1 (0.27%) Opsview
12 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.27%) QRadar
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (7.96%) Databricks
2 21 (5.57%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.45%) Splunk
4 8 (2.12%) Oracle
4 8 (2.12%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.86%) VMware
6 6 (1.59%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.59%) Talend
7 5 (1.33%) Citrix
7 5 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.33%) Informatica
7 5 (1.33%) Qualys
7 5 (1.33%) SAP
8 4 (1.06%) Cisco
8 4 (1.06%) Denodo
8 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.06%) Tenable
9 3 (0.80%) Arista
9 3 (0.80%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.80%) Cloudera