AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 185 212
Rank change year-on-year -66 +27 -27
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 456 420 394
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.52% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.66% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 325 330
10th Percentile £409 £401 £390
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £603 £825 £850
90th Percentile £688 £875 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% - -
75th Percentile £76.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £59.50 -
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +62.22% - -

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 42,356 25,309 30,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 91.68% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,686 16,403 20,377
10th Percentile £326 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,156 1,311 1,814
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.65 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.78% -42.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +0.58%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -75 280 £538 -23.21% 132
North of England -52 81 £513 +7.89% 19
Midlands -33 40 £469 -1.26% 8
North West -36 37 £545 +28.24% 10
West Midlands -41 31 £469 -1.26% 1
North East -25 23 £425 -9.57% 3
Yorkshire -40 21 £513 +2.50% 6
South West -35 20 £450 -25.00% 18
East of England -3 14 £510 +13.33% 3
South East -63 14 £483 -3.50% 12
East Midlands -5 9 £425 -20.86% 7
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 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.

1 456 (100.00%) AWS
2 240 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 217 (47.59%) Terraform
4 210 (46.05%) DevOps
5 188 (41.23%) Python
6 177 (38.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 147 (32.24%) Security Cleared
8 139 (30.48%) SC Cleared
9 124 (27.19%) Serverless
10 120 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
11 106 (23.25%) Kubernetes
12 102 (22.37%) Amazon S3
12 102 (22.37%) GitLab
13 93 (20.39%) Platform Engineering
14 91 (19.96%) Docker
15 86 (18.86%) Agile
16 81 (17.76%) Containerisation
16 81 (17.76%) GitHub
17 80 (17.54%) SQL
18 77 (16.89%) Amazon EKS
19 70 (15.35%) Data Engineering
20 68 (14.91%) Software Engineering
21 66 (14.47%) Observability
22 64 (14.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 61 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
24 60 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
24 60 (13.16%) Grafana
25 57 (12.50%) Linux
26 56 (12.28%) Analytics
26 56 (12.28%) Jenkins

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 32 (7.02%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.29%) Confluence
3 11 (2.41%) SAS
4 9 (1.97%) Apache
4 9 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.54%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (1.32%) nginx
6 6 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 456 (100.00%) AWS
2 124 (27.19%) Serverless
3 120 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
4 102 (22.37%) Amazon S3
5 81 (17.76%) GitHub
6 77 (16.89%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (14.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 60 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (12.06%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 50 (10.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 44 (9.65%) Azure
13 42 (9.21%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (7.24%) Snowflake
15 28 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (5.48%) dbt
17 19 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (4.17%) SaaS
18 18 (3.95%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (3.95%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.39%) Firewall
2 13 (2.85%) DNS
3 11 (2.41%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.97%) Network Security
5 6 (1.32%) VPN
5 6 (1.32%) WAN
6 5 (1.10%) SSH
6 5 (1.10%) SSL
7 4 (0.88%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.66%) HTTP
9 2 (0.44%) BGP
9 2 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.44%) Internet
9 2 (0.44%) LAN
10 1 (0.22%) 4G
10 1 (0.22%) 5G
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.99%) Amazon Redshift
2 40 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (5.92%) DynamoDB
5 21 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (3.73%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.29%) Power BI
7 15 (3.29%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.41%) MySQL
9 9 (1.97%) Apache Iceberg
9 9 (1.97%) Pentaho
10 8 (1.75%) Metadata
10 8 (1.75%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.54%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.32%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 102 (22.37%) GitLab
2 56 (12.28%) Jenkins
3 52 (11.40%) Git
4 14 (3.07%) JIRA
5 9 (1.97%) Artifactory
5 9 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.54%) Gatling
8 6 (1.32%) JMeter
8 6 (1.32%) Snyk
9 5 (1.10%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.66%) JUnit
11 3 (0.66%) Mockito
12 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.22%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 68 (14.91%) Social Skills
3 52 (11.40%) Finance
4 24 (5.26%) Banking
5 15 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.32%) Law
9 5 (1.10%) Back Office
9 5 (1.10%) Retail
10 4 (0.88%) Military
11 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.44%) Billing
11 2 (0.44%) Front Office
11 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.44%) Legal
11 2 (0.44%) Local Government
11 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.44%) Marketing
11 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.48%) Kafka
2 23 (5.04%) .NET
3 19 (4.17%) React
4 17 (3.73%) AWS CDK
4 17 (3.73%) PySpark
4 17 (3.73%) REST
4 17 (3.73%) Spring
4 17 (3.73%) Spring Boot
5 16 (3.51%) Node.js
6 11 (2.41%) Next.js
7 10 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (2.19%) RESTful
8 9 (1.97%) Flask
9 8 (1.75%) FastAPI
10 7 (1.54%) boto
10 7 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.54%) Keycloak
11 6 (1.32%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.32%) JSON
11 6 (1.32%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.32%) NHS
7 4 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.88%) Replication
8 3 (0.66%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.66%) PKI
8 3 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.50%) Linux
2 15 (3.29%) Windows
3 13 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.88%) Unix
7 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.44%) CentOS
7 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 210 (46.05%) DevOps
3 177 (38.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (20.39%) Platform Engineering
5 86 (18.86%) Agile
6 81 (17.76%) Containerisation
7 70 (15.35%) Data Engineering
8 68 (14.91%) Software Engineering
9 66 (14.47%) Observability
10 61 (13.38%) Data Pipeline
11 56 (12.28%) Analytics
12 53 (11.62%) AI
13 52 (11.40%) Migration
14 49 (10.75%) Microservices
15 45 (9.87%) Data Modelling
16 42 (9.21%) ETL
17 41 (8.99%) Cloud Security
18 39 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
19 37 (8.11%) Event-Driven
20 35 (7.68%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 188 (41.23%) Python
2 80 (17.54%) SQL
3 55 (12.06%) Bash
4 45 (9.87%) Java
5 19 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 18 (3.95%) C#
7 15 (3.29%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.97%) Groovy
10 7 (1.54%) Go
11 5 (1.10%) Scala
12 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.66%) Bicep
13 3 (0.66%) C
14 1 (0.22%) C++
14 1 (0.22%) Perl
14 1 (0.22%) R
14 1 (0.22%) SAS Macro
14 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 147 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 139 (30.48%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.82%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.29%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.10%) Degree
8 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CCNP
10 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.22%) CCIE
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.97%) QA
3 6 (1.32%) GDPR
4 5 (1.10%) SLA
5 3 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.44%) NIST
6 2 (0.44%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 91 (19.96%) Docker
2 11 (2.41%) Squid
3 7 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.54%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.10%) vSphere
5 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 217 (47.59%) Terraform
2 106 (23.25%) Kubernetes
3 60 (13.16%) Grafana
4 48 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 45 (9.87%) Ansible
6 13 (2.85%) Argo
7 12 (2.63%) Puppet
8 7 (1.54%) Istio
8 7 (1.54%) Kibana
8 7 (1.54%) Packer
9 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.88%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.88%) Rancher
10 4 (0.88%) Suricata
11 3 (0.66%) SELinux
12 2 (0.44%) Consul
12 2 (0.44%) Salt
12 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.22%) Opsview
13 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 28 (6.14%) Databricks
1 28 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.95%) Splunk
3 12 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 11 (2.41%) Foundry
4 11 (2.41%) Informatica
5 10 (2.19%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.19%) Oracle
5 10 (2.19%) VMware
6 9 (1.97%) Denodo
7 8 (1.75%) Talend
8 7 (1.54%) Palantir
8 7 (1.54%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.54%) SAP
9 6 (1.32%) Google
10 4 (0.88%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.88%) Cisco
10 4 (0.88%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.88%) Trend Micro
11 3 (0.66%) Cloudera