AWS Engineer Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 256 194
Rank change year-on-year +85 -62 -55
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 392 336 689
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.61% 0.90% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 0.97% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 284 555
10th Percentile £408 £413 £463
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £838 £688 £694
90th Percentile £875 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +53 309 £675 +17.39% 108
North of England +29 43 £475 +2.70% 46
North West +13 23 £414 -10.59% 38
South East +45 15 £500 -12.09% 37
Yorkshire +12 10 £519 -1.19% 5
North East - 10 £565 - 4
Midlands +22 5 £500 +11.11% 5
East Midlands +11 4 £500 +11.11% 4
South West +35 2 £625 +31.58% 5
East of England +30 1 £438 -32.69% 3
West Midlands +13 1 £550 +12.82%
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 392 (100.00%) AWS
2 258 (65.82%) Python
3 184 (46.94%) DevOps
4 177 (45.15%) Terraform
5 159 (40.56%) Finance
6 157 (40.05%) CI/CD
7 143 (36.48%) Agile
8 140 (35.71%) Software Engineering
9 138 (35.20%) Kubernetes
10 127 (32.40%) Amazon Athena
11 126 (32.14%) Apache Airflow
12 117 (29.85%) Serverless
12 117 (29.85%) Asset Management
12 117 (29.85%) dbt
13 116 (29.59%) Front Office
14 114 (29.08%) AWS Lambda
15 113 (28.83%) Java
16 111 (28.32%) Apache Iceberg
17 105 (26.79%) Docker
18 104 (26.53%) Apache
19 102 (26.02%) Dremio
20 100 (25.51%) Apache Arrow
21 96 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
22 95 (24.23%) Amazon S3
23 93 (23.72%) JavaScript
24 92 (23.47%) Security Cleared
25 80 (20.41%) SC Cleared
26 78 (19.90%) TypeScript
26 78 (19.90%) Amazon ECS
27 74 (18.88%) PySpark

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 126 (32.14%) Apache Airflow
2 104 (26.53%) Apache
3 50 (12.76%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.55%) nginx
5 5 (1.28%) Confluence
6 4 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.77%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) Camunda
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 392 (100.00%) AWS
2 117 (29.85%) dbt
2 117 (29.85%) Serverless
3 114 (29.08%) AWS Lambda
4 95 (24.23%) Amazon S3
5 78 (19.90%) Amazon ECS
6 74 (18.88%) Amazon EC2
6 74 (18.88%) Snowflake
7 73 (18.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 54 (13.78%) GCP
9 49 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (10.20%) GitHub
11 38 (9.69%) OpenShift
12 27 (6.89%) Azure
13 26 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (5.10%) IaaS
16 19 (4.85%) PaaS
16 19 (4.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (4.34%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.34%) Firewall
2 10 (2.55%) HTTP
3 7 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (1.02%) Network Security
6 3 (0.77%) BGP
6 3 (0.77%) DNS
6 3 (0.77%) IPsec
6 3 (0.77%) OSPF
6 3 (0.77%) SSL
6 3 (0.77%) VPN
7 2 (0.51%) Internet
8 1 (0.26%) Broadband
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.26%) SSH
8 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (32.40%) Amazon Athena
2 111 (28.32%) Apache Iceberg
3 102 (26.02%) Dremio
4 100 (25.51%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (17.35%) Apache Ignite
6 48 (12.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (11.48%) Data Lake
8 39 (9.95%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (5.10%) DynamoDB
12 15 (3.83%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.57%) Big Data
13 14 (3.57%) NoSQL
14 13 (3.32%) Tableau
15 8 (2.04%) MongoDB
16 6 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (1.53%) Parquet
17 5 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (1.28%) Presto
Development Applications
1 47 (11.99%) GitLab
2 46 (11.73%) Jenkins
3 35 (8.93%) Artifactory
4 24 (6.12%) Git
5 14 (3.57%) JIRA
6 5 (1.28%) Poetry
7 3 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.51%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.51%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.51%) Maven
8 2 (0.51%) Mocha
8 2 (0.51%) Postman
8 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 159 (40.56%) Finance
2 116 (29.59%) Front Office
3 68 (17.35%) Banking
4 50 (12.76%) Investment Banking
5 39 (9.95%) Public Sector
6 35 (8.93%) Social Skills
7 7 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.28%) Law
8 5 (1.28%) Retail
9 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.02%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Electronics
11 2 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.51%) Local Government
11 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.51%) Marketing
11 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (18.88%) PySpark
2 56 (14.29%) NumPy
2 56 (14.29%) Pandas
2 56 (14.29%) SciPy
3 49 (12.50%) Kafka
4 48 (12.24%) React
5 43 (10.97%) Node.js
6 40 (10.20%) gRPC
6 40 (10.20%) Protocol Buffers
7 33 (8.42%) J2EE
8 29 (7.40%) Vue
9 28 (7.14%) AngularJS
10 16 (4.08%) AWS CDK
11 11 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (2.81%) Redux
12 8 (2.04%) .NET
13 7 (1.79%) GraphQL
13 7 (1.79%) JSON
14 6 (1.53%) REST
14 6 (1.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 72 (18.37%) Fixed Income
2 56 (14.29%) Equities
3 55 (14.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 48 (12.24%) Hedge funds
5 45 (11.48%) Derivative
6 12 (3.06%) Pricing Data
7 11 (2.81%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.28%) Tandem
10 3 (0.77%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.77%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.51%) Vector Graphics
11 2 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.93%) Linux
2 10 (2.55%) Windows
3 9 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.28%) Unix
4 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (46.94%) DevOps
2 157 (40.05%) CI/CD
3 143 (36.48%) Agile
4 140 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 117 (29.85%) Asset Management
6 96 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (14.03%) Data Engineering
8 50 (12.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 41 (10.46%) Containerisation
10 40 (10.20%) Fintech
10 40 (10.20%) Open Source
11 39 (9.95%) Cloud Security
11 39 (9.95%) Investment Management
11 39 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
12 38 (9.69%) Migration
13 31 (7.91%) Microservices
14 27 (6.89%) Performance Attribution
15 24 (6.12%) ETL
16 23 (5.87%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 258 (65.82%) Python
2 113 (28.83%) Java
3 93 (23.72%) JavaScript
4 78 (19.90%) TypeScript
5 72 (18.37%) SQL
6 41 (10.46%) Go
7 26 (6.63%) Bash
8 9 (2.30%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.04%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.53%) C
10 6 (1.53%) C++
11 5 (1.28%) C#
12 3 (0.77%) Scala
13 2 (0.51%) Perl
13 2 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) DAML
14 1 (0.26%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 92 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 80 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.40%) AWS Certification
4 17 (4.34%) Degree
5 8 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.53%) PhD
7 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.77%) CCNP
8 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.51%) OCP
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.81%) QA
3 4 (1.02%) NIST
4 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 105 (26.79%) Docker
2 3 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 177 (45.15%) Terraform
2 138 (35.20%) Kubernetes
3 37 (9.44%) Ansible
4 22 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 19 (4.85%) Grafana
6 7 (1.79%) Kibana
6 7 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.28%) Puppet
8 4 (1.02%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.77%) Argo
10 2 (0.51%) logstash
10 2 (0.51%) Packer
11 1 (0.26%) Cilium
11 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.26%) Istio
11 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.26%) Podman
11 1 (0.26%) QRadar
11 1 (0.26%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.26%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 11 (2.81%) Databricks
2 8 (2.04%) Oracle
3 7 (1.79%) Virgin Media
4 6 (1.53%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.02%) Cisco
5 4 (1.02%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.77%) Arista
6 3 (0.77%) CheckPoint
6 3 (0.77%) Dataiku
6 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.51%) Cribl.io
7 2 (0.51%) Google
7 2 (0.51%) Qualys
7 2 (0.51%) SAP
7 2 (0.51%) Splunk
7 2 (0.51%) Tenable
8 1 (0.26%) Citrix
8 1 (0.26%) Informatica
8 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software