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 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 208 200
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 437 379 497
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.21% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.31% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 305 414
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £614 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +11.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £788 £675
90th Percentile £825 £850 £784
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 27,559 29,042 36,964
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 93.00% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,706 17,770 25,618
10th Percentile £281 £300 £295
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
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 1,648 1,096 1,418
10th Percentile £14.24 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.32% +50.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +55.05%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -1 270 £588 -11.32% 98
North of England +4 91 £500 +25.00% 71
Yorkshire -23 51 £500 +25.00% 18
Midlands +14 47 £475 +7.95% 7
West Midlands +7 42 £525 +19.32% 4
North West +8 32 £404 -15.05% 52
South East +10 18 £525 +7.69% 19
South West -7 10 £600 -2.04% 2
North East -3 9 £550 -0.36% 1
East Midlands - 5 £455 - 3
East of England -18 2 £450 -18.18% 2
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 437 (100.00%) AWS
2 260 (59.50%) Python
3 223 (51.03%) Terraform
4 219 (50.11%) DevOps
5 211 (48.28%) CI/CD
6 164 (37.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 129 (29.52%) Security Cleared
8 119 (27.23%) SC Cleared
9 115 (26.32%) Agile
9 115 (26.32%) Kubernetes
10 113 (25.86%) Amazon S3
11 110 (25.17%) Serverless
12 109 (24.94%) Docker
13 96 (21.97%) Software Engineering
14 93 (21.28%) AWS Lambda
14 93 (21.28%) Jenkins
15 91 (20.82%) GitHub
16 84 (19.22%) Java
17 83 (18.99%) Apache Airflow
18 82 (18.76%) GitLab
19 81 (18.54%) TypeScript
20 76 (17.39%) Amazon Athena
21 75 (17.16%) AWS CloudFormation
22 72 (16.48%) Containerisation
23 70 (16.02%) JavaScript
24 69 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
24 69 (15.79%) Linux
25 68 (15.56%) Ansible
26 67 (15.33%) SQL
27 66 (15.10%) Amazon EC2

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 83 (18.99%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (9.38%) Apache
3 28 (6.41%) Confluence
4 16 (3.66%) Apache Spark
5 15 (3.43%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.46%) JBoss
6 2 (0.46%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Luigi
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Endur
1 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 437 (100.00%) AWS
2 113 (25.86%) Amazon S3
3 110 (25.17%) Serverless
4 93 (21.28%) AWS Lambda
5 91 (20.82%) GitHub
6 75 (17.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 69 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 66 (15.10%) Amazon EC2
9 62 (14.19%) Amazon ECS
10 58 (13.27%) dbt
11 51 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (11.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 49 (11.21%) Azure
13 48 (10.98%) GCP
14 47 (10.76%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (10.07%) Snowflake
16 35 (8.01%) AWS KMS
17 24 (5.49%) Route 53
18 21 (4.81%) Amazon ELB
19 19 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.92%) DNS
2 32 (7.32%) Firewall
3 19 (4.35%) SMTP
4 18 (4.12%) SSH
5 17 (3.89%) FTP
5 17 (3.89%) HTTP
6 13 (2.97%) VPN
7 12 (2.75%) IMAP
7 12 (2.75%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (1.60%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.14%) DHCP
9 5 (1.14%) Network Security
9 5 (1.14%) SSL
10 3 (0.69%) BGP
10 3 (0.69%) IPsec
10 3 (0.69%) OSPF
10 3 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.23%) Internet
11 1 (0.23%) NAS
11 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (17.39%) Amazon Athena
2 64 (14.65%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (13.04%) Apache Iceberg
5 55 (12.59%) Apache Arrow
5 55 (12.59%) Dremio
6 54 (12.36%) Data Lake
7 34 (7.78%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (5.72%) NoSQL
9 23 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (5.26%) DynamoDB
10 17 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (2.06%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.60%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.37%) Metadata
14 6 (1.37%) MySQL
14 6 (1.37%) Tableau
15 5 (1.14%) Big Data
15 5 (1.14%) Flink
Development Applications
1 93 (21.28%) Jenkins
2 82 (18.76%) GitLab
3 54 (12.36%) Git
4 38 (8.70%) JIRA
5 19 (4.35%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.75%) Liquibase
7 8 (1.83%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.14%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.14%) MLflow
9 5 (1.14%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.92%) 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
1 123 (28.15%) Finance
2 84 (19.22%) Social Skills
3 75 (17.16%) Public Sector
4 60 (13.73%) Banking
5 59 (13.50%) Front Office
6 35 (8.01%) Investment Banking
7 24 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.14%) Aeronautics
10 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.69%) Legal
12 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Law
12 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.46%) Retail
13 1 (0.23%) Publishing
13 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (12.59%) NumPy
1 55 (12.59%) Pandas
1 55 (12.59%) SciPy
2 43 (9.84%) Node.js
3 41 (9.38%) React
4 34 (7.78%) gRPC
4 34 (7.78%) Protocol Buffers
5 33 (7.55%) Kafka
6 30 (6.86%) AWS CDK
7 24 (5.49%) AngularJS
8 22 (5.03%) REST
9 21 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (4.81%) Vue
10 20 (4.58%) RESTful
11 12 (2.75%) LDAP
11 12 (2.75%) PySpark
12 8 (1.83%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (1.14%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.14%) JSON
13 5 (1.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.50%) Fixed Income
2 55 (12.59%) Equities
2 55 (12.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 55 (12.59%) Hedge funds
3 47 (10.76%) Cloud Native
4 34 (7.78%) Derivative
4 34 (7.78%) Pricing Data
5 20 (4.58%) Replication
6 19 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.89%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.97%) NHS
9 8 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.14%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 69 (15.79%) Linux
2 27 (6.18%) Windows
3 22 (5.03%) Amazon Linux
4 19 (4.35%) VMS
5 14 (3.20%) Unix
6 10 (2.29%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.69%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (50.11%) DevOps
2 211 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 164 (37.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (26.32%) Agile
5 96 (21.97%) Software Engineering
6 72 (16.48%) Containerisation
7 62 (14.19%) Platform Engineering
8 59 (13.50%) Investment Management
9 58 (13.27%) Cloud Security
10 55 (12.59%) Asset Management
11 49 (11.21%) Microservices
12 47 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (9.15%) Migration
13 40 (9.15%) Observability
14 38 (8.70%) Configuration Management
14 38 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
15 35 (8.01%) Change Management
15 35 (8.01%) High Availability
16 33 (7.55%) Infrastructure Automation
17 28 (6.41%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 260 (59.50%) Python
2 84 (19.22%) Java
3 81 (18.54%) TypeScript
4 70 (16.02%) JavaScript
5 67 (15.33%) SQL
6 35 (8.01%) Go
7 34 (7.78%) Bash
8 29 (6.64%) PowerShell
9 21 (4.81%) Groovy
10 13 (2.97%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.52%) Perl
12 6 (1.37%) C
12 6 (1.37%) C++
13 4 (0.92%) C#
14 3 (0.69%) PHP
14 3 (0.69%) Scala
15 2 (0.46%) AWK
15 2 (0.46%) Ruby
16 1 (0.23%) HiveQL
16 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 129 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 119 (27.23%) SC Cleared
3 53 (12.13%) AWS Certification
4 35 (8.01%) Degree
5 18 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.66%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.14%) PhD
11 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.69%) CCNP
12 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.23%) OCP
13 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.20%) QA
2 13 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.29%) GDPR
4 7 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.14%) WCAG
6 4 (0.92%) NCSC
6 4 (0.92%) NIST
7 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (24.94%) Docker
2 17 (3.89%) DFS Replication
3 13 (2.97%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.75%) Dovecot
4 12 (2.75%) Postfix
4 12 (2.75%) Squid
5 1 (0.23%) iptables
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 223 (51.03%) Terraform
2 115 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 68 (15.56%) Ansible
4 58 (13.27%) Grafana
5 49 (11.21%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.66%) Puppet
7 12 (2.75%) Nessus
8 11 (2.52%) Packer
9 10 (2.29%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.29%) Proxmox
10 8 (1.83%) Argo
11 5 (1.14%) 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%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.23%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (5.49%) Splunk
2 23 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.81%) Arista
4 19 (4.35%) Databricks
5 12 (2.75%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (2.75%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.60%) IBM
7 6 (1.37%) Oracle
8 5 (1.14%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.92%) Okta
10 3 (0.69%) Cisco
10 3 (0.69%) Confluent
10 3 (0.69%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.69%) Ping Identity
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%) SAP