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 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 171 228
Rank change year-on-year -92 +57 -29
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 368 367 383
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.51% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.63% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 300 330
10th Percentile £375 £424 £414
25th Percentile £438 £500 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £606 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +10.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £670
90th Percentile £690 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £586 £550
% change year-on-year -10.41% +6.55% -7.37%
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 34,699 22,524 34,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.96% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,859 15,103 23,349
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,284 813 2,292
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.54 £34.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.85% +4.95% -24.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £77.00 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.20% -24.38%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -74 228 £525 -22.22% 39
North of England -28 67 £518 -0.43% 27
Yorkshire -30 34 £525 +1.20% 5
Midlands -42 31 £538 +7.50% 10
North West -16 25 £466 +16.00% 20
West Midlands -36 25 £628 +18.40% 8
South East -54 12 £550 +10.00% 21
South West -16 10 £535 -6.96% 7
North East -13 8 £425 -25.44% 2
East of England -27 7 £528 +6.84% 4
East Midlands -29 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 27 March 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.

1 368 (100.00%) AWS
2 196 (53.26%) CI/CD
3 194 (52.72%) DevOps
4 184 (50.00%) Terraform
5 177 (48.10%) Python
6 135 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 129 (35.05%) Security Cleared
8 121 (32.88%) SC Cleared
9 104 (28.26%) Serverless
10 95 (25.82%) Kubernetes
11 93 (25.27%) AWS Lambda
12 91 (24.73%) Docker
13 78 (21.20%) GitHub
14 76 (20.65%) Amazon S3
15 75 (20.38%) GitLab
16 72 (19.57%) Containerisation
17 71 (19.29%) Agile
18 65 (17.66%) AWS CloudFormation
19 64 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
20 56 (15.22%) Jenkins
20 56 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
20 56 (15.22%) SQL
21 52 (14.13%) Software Engineering
22 49 (13.32%) Analytics
22 49 (13.32%) Azure
22 49 (13.32%) Linux
23 46 (12.50%) Cloud Security
23 46 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
24 44 (11.96%) Amazon EC2
24 44 (11.96%) Data Engineering

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 35 (9.51%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.52%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.08%) Apache
4 7 (1.90%) Confluence
5 4 (1.09%) nginx
5 4 (1.09%) SAS
6 2 (0.54%) 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 (0.54%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 368 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (28.26%) Serverless
3 93 (25.27%) AWS Lambda
4 78 (21.20%) GitHub
5 76 (20.65%) Amazon S3
6 65 (17.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (13.32%) Azure
9 46 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (11.96%) Amazon EC2
11 41 (11.14%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (9.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (8.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (7.61%) GCP
15 23 (6.25%) Snowflake
16 17 (4.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 17 (4.62%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
18 15 (4.08%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.99%) Firewall
2 9 (2.45%) VPN
3 8 (2.17%) DNS
4 4 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.54%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) LAN
5 2 (0.54%) Network Security
5 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.54%) WAN
6 1 (0.27%) 4G
6 1 (0.27%) 5G
6 1 (0.27%) BGP
6 1 (0.27%) DHCP
6 1 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.27%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.42%) Amazon RDS
1 31 (8.42%) Amazon Redshift
2 27 (7.34%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.16%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (4.62%) DynamoDB
6 15 (4.08%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.72%) Metadata
8 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.17%) Power BI
10 7 (1.90%) Flink
10 7 (1.90%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.63%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (1.63%) Tableau
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.36%) Big Data
12 5 (1.36%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.36%) Redis
13 4 (1.09%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 75 (20.38%) GitLab
2 56 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.97%) Git
4 10 (2.72%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.45%) JIRA
6 8 (2.17%) Liquibase
7 6 (1.63%) Snyk
8 5 (1.36%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.82%) JUnit
10 3 (0.82%) MLflow
10 3 (0.82%) Mockito
10 3 (0.82%) Selenium
11 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.54%) Gradle
11 2 (0.54%) Mocha
11 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.54%) tSQLt
General
1 66 (17.93%) Finance
2 55 (14.95%) Public Sector
2 55 (14.95%) Social Skills
3 33 (8.97%) Banking
4 19 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.17%) Front Office
6 7 (1.90%) Aeronautics
6 7 (1.90%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.82%) Legal
10 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Games
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.24%) Kafka
2 22 (5.98%) Node.js
3 20 (5.43%) REST
4 18 (4.89%) PySpark
5 16 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (4.35%) RESTful
6 13 (3.53%) AWS CDK
7 10 (2.72%) React
8 7 (1.90%) pytest
9 6 (1.63%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.63%) Web Services
10 5 (1.36%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.36%) Flask
10 5 (1.36%) Next.js
10 5 (1.36%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.09%) boto
11 4 (1.09%) JWT
11 4 (1.09%) Keycloak
11 4 (1.09%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (1.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 11 (2.99%) Hedge funds
4 11 (2.99%) NHS
5 9 (2.45%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.45%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.36%) Replication
9 4 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.82%) Equities
10 3 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.54%) Derivative
11 2 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (13.32%) Linux
2 9 (2.45%) Unix
3 5 (1.36%) Windows
4 3 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) CentOS
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (53.26%) CI/CD
2 194 (52.72%) DevOps
3 135 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (19.57%) Containerisation
5 71 (19.29%) Agile
6 56 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
7 52 (14.13%) Software Engineering
8 49 (13.32%) Analytics
9 46 (12.50%) Cloud Security
10 44 (11.96%) Data Engineering
11 43 (11.68%) Data Pipeline
12 41 (11.14%) Microservices
13 40 (10.87%) Observability
14 35 (9.51%) ETL
15 34 (9.24%) Migration
16 33 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (8.70%) Data Modelling
18 27 (7.34%) AI
19 24 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 23 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 177 (48.10%) Python
2 56 (15.22%) SQL
3 38 (10.33%) Java
4 35 (9.51%) Bash
5 18 (4.89%) TypeScript
6 16 (4.35%) Go
7 11 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.45%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.90%) C#
10 6 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.09%) Ruby
12 3 (0.82%) Groovy
12 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.54%) AWK
13 2 (0.54%) C
13 2 (0.54%) Scala
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Rust
14 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 129 (35.05%) Security Cleared
2 121 (32.88%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.15%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.35%) Degree
5 11 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.82%) PhD
9 2 (0.54%) CCNP
9 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.54%) OCP
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.80%) GDPR
3 10 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.17%) NIST
5 6 (1.63%) QA
6 5 (1.36%) SLA
7 4 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.54%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (24.73%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 184 (50.00%) Terraform
2 95 (25.82%) Kubernetes
3 36 (9.78%) Ansible
3 36 (9.78%) Grafana
3 36 (9.78%) Prometheus
4 16 (4.35%) Argo
5 7 (1.90%) Packer
6 6 (1.63%) Puppet
7 4 (1.09%) Istio
7 4 (1.09%) Rancher
8 3 (0.82%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.54%) Consul
9 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.54%) Salt
10 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.27%) Nessus
10 1 (0.27%) Opsview
10 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (9.24%) Databricks
2 22 (5.98%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.43%) Splunk
4 8 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.63%) Oracle
6 5 (1.36%) Citrix
6 5 (1.36%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.36%) Qualys
6 5 (1.36%) SAP
7 4 (1.09%) Arista
7 4 (1.09%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.09%) Informatica
7 4 (1.09%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.09%) Talend
7 4 (1.09%) Tenable
8 3 (0.82%) Denodo
8 3 (0.82%) Okta
8 3 (0.82%) VMware
9 2 (0.54%) Cisco
9 2 (0.54%) Salesforce