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 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 192 218
Rank change year-on-year -56 +26 -6
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 374 360 407
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.39% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.49% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 286 359
10th Percentile £375 £416 £413
25th Percentile £414 £500 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £788 £659
90th Percentile £713 £838 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -7.56%
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 31,870 24,101 34,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 93.03% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,212 15,168 23,324
10th Percentile £303 £296 £270
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,043 704 2,142
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.24 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £31.18 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.31% -2.86% -9.09%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -60 236 £518 -20.38% 51
North of England -23 76 £500 - 15
Yorkshire -27 41 £520 +4.00% 1
Midlands -40 31 £563 +12.50% 15
North West -4 28 £436 -10.51% 14
West Midlands -35 26 £680 +28.30% 13
South East -27 14 £550 +10.00% 18
South West -16 7 £536 -4.67% 17
North East -16 7 £550 -2.65%
East Midlands -23 5 £417 -16.55% 2
East of England -26 2 £525 -4.55% 3
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 February 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.

1 374 (100.00%) AWS
2 207 (55.35%) CI/CD
3 202 (54.01%) DevOps
4 199 (53.21%) Terraform
5 195 (52.14%) Python
6 142 (37.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 140 (37.43%) Security Cleared
8 131 (35.03%) SC Cleared
9 106 (28.34%) Kubernetes
10 105 (28.07%) Serverless
11 96 (25.67%) Docker
12 92 (24.60%) AWS Lambda
13 82 (21.93%) Amazon S3
14 74 (19.79%) GitHub
15 73 (19.52%) GitLab
16 70 (18.72%) Agile
17 67 (17.91%) Containerisation
18 66 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
19 65 (17.38%) Jenkins
20 58 (15.51%) Amazon EKS
21 57 (15.24%) Linux
21 57 (15.24%) Software Engineering
22 56 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
23 52 (13.90%) Cloud Security
24 50 (13.37%) SQL
25 48 (12.83%) Amazon EC2
25 48 (12.83%) Azure
26 46 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
26 46 (12.30%) Ansible
27 44 (11.76%) Microservices

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 (9.63%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (5.61%) Apache Spark
3 17 (4.55%) Apache
4 11 (2.94%) Confluence
5 8 (2.14%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 374 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (28.07%) Serverless
3 92 (24.60%) AWS Lambda
4 82 (21.93%) Amazon S3
5 74 (19.79%) GitHub
6 66 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (15.51%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (12.83%) Amazon EC2
8 48 (12.83%) Azure
9 46 (12.30%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (11.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (10.70%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (9.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 33 (8.82%) GCP
14 22 (5.88%) Snowflake
15 21 (5.61%) AWS KMS
16 17 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (4.01%) Amazon EMR
17 15 (4.01%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.81%) DNS
2 14 (3.74%) Firewall
3 8 (2.14%) HTTP
3 8 (2.14%) VPN
4 6 (1.60%) FTP
4 6 (1.60%) SMTP
4 6 (1.60%) SSH
5 4 (1.07%) IMAP
5 4 (1.07%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.53%) Network Security
8 1 (0.27%) 4G
8 1 (0.27%) 5G
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) ICMP
8 1 (0.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.96%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.95%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (6.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 26 (6.95%) Data Lake
4 20 (5.35%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.81%) DynamoDB
6 15 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.21%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (2.67%) Apache Arrow
8 10 (2.67%) Dremio
9 8 (2.14%) Metadata
10 7 (1.87%) Big Data
10 7 (1.87%) Flink
10 7 (1.87%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.60%) Apache Ignite
11 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.60%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (19.52%) GitLab
2 65 (17.38%) Jenkins
3 34 (9.09%) Git
4 17 (4.55%) JIRA
5 11 (2.94%) Liquibase
6 9 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.60%) Vagrant
8 5 (1.34%) MLflow
8 5 (1.34%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.07%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.80%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.80%) JUnit
10 3 (0.80%) Mockito
10 3 (0.80%) Selenium
10 3 (0.80%) Snyk
10 3 (0.80%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.53%) Mocha
11 2 (0.53%) MSTest
11 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (18.72%) Finance
2 68 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 63 (16.84%) Social Skills
4 35 (9.36%) Banking
5 21 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.28%) Front Office
7 9 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.87%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.80%) Legal
13 2 (0.53%) Law
13 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Military
14 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.63%) Kafka
2 26 (6.95%) Node.js
3 23 (6.15%) REST
4 19 (5.08%) React
5 18 (4.81%) AWS CDK
5 18 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (4.81%) RESTful
6 16 (4.28%) PySpark
7 12 (3.21%) Pandas
8 11 (2.94%) NumPy
9 10 (2.67%) AngularJS
9 10 (2.67%) SciPy
10 8 (2.14%) Lambda Expressions
11 7 (1.87%) Next.js
12 6 (1.60%) Flask
12 6 (1.60%) gRPC
12 6 (1.60%) Protocol Buffers
12 6 (1.60%) Web Services
13 5 (1.34%) HTML
13 5 (1.34%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.51%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.08%) Hedge funds
4 18 (4.81%) Public Cloud
5 17 (4.55%) Fixed Income
6 14 (3.74%) NHS
7 11 (2.94%) Equities
8 10 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.67%) Replication
9 8 (2.14%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.60%) Derivative
10 6 (1.60%) Pricing Data
11 5 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.24%) Linux
2 12 (3.21%) Windows
3 11 (2.94%) Unix
4 9 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.87%) VMS
6 4 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.80%) CentOS
7 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (55.35%) CI/CD
2 202 (54.01%) DevOps
3 142 (37.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (18.72%) Agile
5 67 (17.91%) Containerisation
6 57 (15.24%) Software Engineering
7 56 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
8 52 (13.90%) Cloud Security
9 44 (11.76%) Microservices
10 43 (11.50%) Observability
11 39 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
12 38 (10.16%) Analytics
13 37 (9.89%) Data Engineering
14 35 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (8.56%) Migration
16 27 (7.22%) High Availability
17 26 (6.95%) AI
17 26 (6.95%) ETL
18 23 (6.15%) Validation
19 22 (5.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 195 (52.14%) Python
2 50 (13.37%) SQL
3 39 (10.43%) Java
4 34 (9.09%) Bash
5 31 (8.29%) TypeScript
6 21 (5.61%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.08%) Go
8 15 (4.01%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.41%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.14%) Groovy
11 6 (1.60%) C#
12 4 (1.07%) Ruby
13 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) AWK
14 2 (0.53%) Perl
14 2 (0.53%) PHP
15 1 (0.27%) C
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Rust
15 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 140 (37.43%) Security Cleared
2 131 (35.03%) SC Cleared
3 39 (10.43%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.88%) Degree
5 18 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.80%) PhD
13 2 (0.53%) OCP
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.27%) CEH
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
14 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.21%) GDPR
3 10 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.67%) QA
4 6 (1.60%) NIST
5 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.07%) NCSC
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.53%) WCAG
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 96 (25.67%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.60%) DFS Replication
3 4 (1.07%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.07%) Postfix
3 4 (1.07%) Squid
4 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 199 (53.21%) Terraform
2 106 (28.34%) Kubernetes
3 46 (12.30%) Ansible
4 38 (10.16%) Grafana
4 38 (10.16%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.48%) Argo
6 9 (2.41%) Packer
6 9 (2.41%) Puppet
7 5 (1.34%) Nessus
8 4 (1.07%) Istio
8 4 (1.07%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.07%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.53%) Consul
10 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.27%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
11 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (7.49%) Databricks
2 23 (6.15%) Splunk
3 16 (4.28%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.14%) Arista
6 6 (1.60%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.60%) Oracle
7 5 (1.34%) Citrix
7 5 (1.34%) Qualys
7 5 (1.34%) Tenable
8 4 (1.07%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.07%) Okta
9 3 (0.80%) Confluent
9 3 (0.80%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.53%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.53%) IBM
10 2 (0.53%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.53%) SAP