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 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 203 199
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -12
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 432 388 481
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.25% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 1.34% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 312 402
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +12.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £674
90th Percentile £825 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.50 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £59.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 27,858 28,874 36,736
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.96% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,854 17,655 25,362
10th Percentile £281 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,695 1,080 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £56.60 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +50.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -18 268 £575 -14.81% 66
North of England -2 88 £500 +25.00% 39
Yorkshire -28 49 £500 +25.00% 12
Midlands +14 47 £475 -5.00% 4
West Midlands +16 42 £525 +19.32% 1
North West +11 32 £404 -15.05% 24
South East +12 18 £525 +7.69% 18
South West -5 10 £600 -2.04% 3
North East -2 8 £563 +1.90% 3
East Midlands -9 5 £455 -8.95% 3
East of England -13 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 21 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.

1 432 (100.00%) AWS
2 255 (59.03%) Python
3 222 (51.39%) Terraform
4 219 (50.69%) DevOps
5 211 (48.84%) CI/CD
6 163 (37.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 133 (30.79%) Security Cleared
8 123 (28.47%) SC Cleared
9 114 (26.39%) Amazon S3
10 111 (25.69%) Kubernetes
10 111 (25.69%) Serverless
11 110 (25.46%) Agile
12 109 (25.23%) Docker
13 94 (21.76%) AWS Lambda
13 94 (21.76%) Software Engineering
14 92 (21.30%) GitHub
14 92 (21.30%) Jenkins
15 80 (18.52%) GitLab
16 79 (18.29%) Apache Airflow
16 79 (18.29%) Java
17 77 (17.82%) TypeScript
18 73 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
19 72 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
20 70 (16.20%) Containerisation
20 70 (16.20%) Linux
21 68 (15.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 66 (15.28%) Amazon EC2
22 66 (15.28%) JavaScript
22 66 (15.28%) SQL
23 63 (14.58%) 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 79 (18.29%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (9.03%) Apache
3 28 (6.48%) Confluence
4 15 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.47%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.46%) JBoss
5 2 (0.46%) 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 (2.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 432 (100.00%) AWS
2 114 (26.39%) Amazon S3
3 111 (25.69%) Serverless
4 94 (21.76%) AWS Lambda
5 92 (21.30%) GitHub
6 73 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 68 (15.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 66 (15.28%) Amazon EC2
9 61 (14.12%) Amazon ECS
10 54 (12.50%) dbt
11 50 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (11.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 49 (11.34%) Azure
13 47 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (10.65%) GCP
15 43 (9.95%) Snowflake
16 34 (7.87%) AWS KMS
17 24 (5.56%) Route 53
18 21 (4.86%) Amazon ELB
19 18 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 38 (8.80%) DNS
2 30 (6.94%) Firewall
3 19 (4.40%) SMTP
4 18 (4.17%) SSH
5 17 (3.94%) FTP
5 17 (3.94%) HTTP
6 12 (2.78%) IMAP
6 12 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
6 12 (2.78%) VPN
7 6 (1.39%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.16%) DHCP
9 4 (0.93%) Network Security
9 4 (0.93%) SSL
10 3 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.46%) BGP
11 2 (0.46%) IPsec
11 2 (0.46%) OSPF
12 1 (0.23%) Internet
12 1 (0.23%) NAS
12 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (12.27%) Apache Iceberg
5 52 (12.04%) Data Lake
6 51 (11.81%) Apache Arrow
6 51 (11.81%) Dremio
7 32 (7.41%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (5.79%) NoSQL
9 23 (5.32%) DynamoDB
10 22 (5.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (2.08%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.62%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.39%) Big Data
15 6 (1.39%) Metadata
15 6 (1.39%) MySQL
15 6 (1.39%) Tableau
16 5 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (21.30%) Jenkins
2 80 (18.52%) GitLab
3 54 (12.50%) Git
4 38 (8.80%) JIRA
5 19 (4.40%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.78%) Liquibase
7 7 (1.62%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.39%) MLflow
9 5 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.16%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.16%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.69%) Maven
11 3 (0.69%) Mockito
11 3 (0.69%) Selenium
11 3 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 117 (27.08%) Finance
2 82 (18.98%) Social Skills
3 75 (17.36%) Public Sector
4 58 (13.43%) Banking
5 55 (12.73%) Front Office
6 33 (7.64%) Investment Banking
7 24 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.01%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.39%) Aeronautics
11 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.69%) Legal
13 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Law
13 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.46%) Retail
14 1 (0.23%) Publishing
14 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.81%) NumPy
1 51 (11.81%) Pandas
1 51 (11.81%) SciPy
2 43 (9.95%) Node.js
3 39 (9.03%) React
4 34 (7.87%) Kafka
5 32 (7.41%) gRPC
5 32 (7.41%) Protocol Buffers
6 30 (6.94%) AWS CDK
7 22 (5.09%) AngularJS
7 22 (5.09%) REST
8 21 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (4.63%) RESTful
10 19 (4.40%) Vue
11 12 (2.78%) LDAP
11 12 (2.78%) PySpark
12 8 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (1.16%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.16%) JSON
13 5 (1.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.73%) Fixed Income
2 53 (12.27%) Hedge funds
3 51 (11.81%) Equities
3 51 (11.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 50 (11.57%) Cloud Native
5 32 (7.41%) Derivative
5 32 (7.41%) Pricing Data
6 21 (4.86%) Replication
7 19 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.70%) Public Cloud
9 13 (3.01%) NHS
10 8 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.85%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.16%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.93%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.20%) Linux
2 27 (6.25%) Windows
3 22 (5.09%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (4.40%) VMS
5 14 (3.24%) Unix
6 10 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.69%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (50.69%) DevOps
2 211 (48.84%) CI/CD
3 163 (37.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (25.46%) Agile
5 94 (21.76%) Software Engineering
6 70 (16.20%) Containerisation
7 61 (14.12%) Platform Engineering
8 56 (12.96%) Cloud Security
9 55 (12.73%) Investment Management
10 51 (11.81%) Asset Management
11 50 (11.57%) Microservices
12 45 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (9.26%) Migration
14 39 (9.03%) Observability
15 38 (8.80%) Data Pipeline
16 37 (8.56%) Configuration Management
17 35 (8.10%) Change Management
17 35 (8.10%) High Availability
18 31 (7.18%) Infrastructure Automation
19 28 (6.48%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 255 (59.03%) Python
2 79 (18.29%) Java
3 77 (17.82%) TypeScript
4 66 (15.28%) JavaScript
4 66 (15.28%) SQL
5 34 (7.87%) Bash
5 34 (7.87%) Go
6 29 (6.71%) PowerShell
7 22 (5.09%) Groovy
8 11 (2.55%) Perl
8 11 (2.55%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.93%) C
9 4 (0.93%) C#
9 4 (0.93%) C++
10 3 (0.69%) PHP
10 3 (0.69%) Scala
11 2 (0.46%) AWK
11 2 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (30.79%) Security Cleared
2 123 (28.47%) SC Cleared
3 53 (12.27%) AWS Certification
4 34 (7.87%) Degree
5 19 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.47%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.93%) PhD
13 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.46%) CCNP
14 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.23%) OCP
15 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.24%) QA
2 13 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.08%) GDPR
4 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.16%) WCAG
6 4 (0.93%) NCSC
7 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.69%) NIST
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 109 (25.23%) Docker
2 17 (3.94%) DFS Replication
3 13 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.78%) Dovecot
4 12 (2.78%) Postfix
4 12 (2.78%) Squid
5 1 (0.23%) iptables
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 222 (51.39%) Terraform
2 111 (25.69%) Kubernetes
3 63 (14.58%) Ansible
4 57 (13.19%) Grafana
5 49 (11.34%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.47%) Puppet
7 12 (2.78%) Nessus
8 11 (2.55%) Packer
9 10 (2.31%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.31%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.85%) Argo
11 5 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.46%) Kibana
13 2 (0.46%) SELinux
14 1 (0.23%) Consul
14 1 (0.23%) Control-M
14 1 (0.23%) Istio
14 1 (0.23%) Rancher
14 1 (0.23%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 23 (5.32%) Splunk
3 20 (4.63%) Databricks
4 19 (4.40%) Arista
5 13 (3.01%) Microsoft
6 12 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (1.62%) IBM
7 7 (1.62%) Oracle
8 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.93%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.93%) Okta
10 3 (0.69%) Confluent
10 3 (0.69%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.46%) Cisco
11 2 (0.46%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.46%) Google
11 2 (0.46%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.46%) Tenable