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 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 202 214
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 -19
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 387 352 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.26% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.36% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 283 354
10th Percentile £385 £400 £413
25th Percentile £423 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £756 £670
90th Percentile £825 £838 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
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 28,971 25,853 34,065
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.86% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,558 16,013 23,269
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% - -4.55%
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 1,739 810 1,452
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £61.38 £64.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.45 £74.47 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.66% -27.78% +41.02%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -32 230 £550 -15.38% 33
North of England +17 91 £500 +5.26% 12
Yorkshire -23 48 £500 +17.65% 3
Midlands +2 43 £525 +1.94% 6
West Midlands -2 38 £537 +1.32% 6
North West -2 35 £420 -11.58% 9
South East -11 15 £525 +5.00% 13
North East -5 9 £550 -2.65%
South West -13 6 £488 -15.22% 11
East Midlands -16 5 £446 -10.75%
East of England -20 2 £450 -18.18% 5
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 January 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.

1 387 (100.00%) AWS
2 230 (59.43%) Python
3 207 (53.49%) Terraform
4 203 (52.45%) DevOps
5 197 (50.90%) CI/CD
6 148 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 130 (33.59%) Security Cleared
8 123 (31.78%) SC Cleared
9 104 (26.87%) Serverless
10 102 (26.36%) Amazon S3
10 102 (26.36%) Kubernetes
11 99 (25.58%) Docker
12 92 (23.77%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (22.74%) Agile
14 87 (22.48%) GitHub
15 81 (20.93%) Jenkins
16 79 (20.41%) Software Engineering
17 72 (18.60%) GitLab
18 68 (17.57%) AWS CloudFormation
19 64 (16.54%) Containerisation
20 61 (15.76%) Platform Engineering
21 60 (15.50%) Amazon RDS
21 60 (15.50%) Linux
21 60 (15.50%) SQL
22 59 (15.25%) Amazon ECS
23 58 (14.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 58 (14.99%) Apache Airflow
24 56 (14.47%) Amazon EC2
24 56 (14.47%) Grafana
24 56 (14.47%) Java

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 58 (14.99%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (7.24%) Apache
3 24 (6.20%) Confluence
4 17 (4.39%) Apache Spark
5 13 (3.36%) nginx
6 2 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 10 (2.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 387 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (26.87%) Serverless
3 102 (26.36%) Amazon S3
4 92 (23.77%) AWS Lambda
5 87 (22.48%) GitHub
6 68 (17.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 59 (15.25%) Amazon ECS
8 58 (14.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 56 (14.47%) Amazon EC2
10 54 (13.95%) Azure
11 52 (13.44%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (12.66%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (10.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 37 (9.56%) GCP
15 33 (8.53%) Snowflake
16 32 (8.27%) dbt
17 30 (7.75%) AWS KMS
18 21 (5.43%) Route 53
19 18 (4.65%) Amazon ELB
19 18 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.53%) DNS
2 26 (6.72%) Firewall
3 17 (4.39%) HTTP
4 16 (4.13%) FTP
4 16 (4.13%) SMTP
4 16 (4.13%) SSH
5 10 (2.58%) IMAP
5 10 (2.58%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (2.07%) VPN
7 6 (1.55%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.78%) Network Security
9 2 (0.52%) DHCP
9 2 (0.52%) SSL
10 1 (0.26%) LAN
10 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.50%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (13.18%) Amazon Athena
3 47 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (11.11%) Data Lake
5 31 (8.01%) Apache Iceberg
6 29 (7.49%) Apache Arrow
6 29 (7.49%) Dremio
7 25 (6.46%) DynamoDB
8 24 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (5.68%) NoSQL
10 20 (5.17%) Apache Ignite
11 16 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (2.07%) Metadata
13 8 (2.07%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.81%) Big Data
14 7 (1.81%) Flink
14 7 (1.81%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.55%) MySQL
15 6 (1.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 81 (20.93%) Jenkins
2 72 (18.60%) GitLab
3 47 (12.14%) Git
4 34 (8.79%) JIRA
5 16 (4.13%) Vagrant
6 12 (3.10%) Liquibase
7 6 (1.55%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.29%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.29%) MLflow
9 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.78%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.78%) JUnit
10 3 (0.78%) Mockito
10 3 (0.78%) Selenium
10 3 (0.78%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.52%) Gradle
11 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 89 (23.00%) Finance
2 77 (19.90%) Public Sector
3 69 (17.83%) Social Skills
4 46 (11.89%) Banking
5 35 (9.04%) Front Office
6 21 (5.43%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.33%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.81%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.78%) Legal
14 2 (0.52%) Law
14 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.26%) Games
15 1 (0.26%) Military
15 1 (0.26%) Retail
15 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.34%) Kafka
2 37 (9.56%) Node.js
3 32 (8.27%) React
4 30 (7.75%) NumPy
4 30 (7.75%) Pandas
5 29 (7.49%) SciPy
6 28 (7.24%) AWS CDK
7 24 (6.20%) REST
8 21 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (5.17%) gRPC
9 20 (5.17%) Protocol Buffers
9 20 (5.17%) RESTful
10 18 (4.65%) PySpark
11 15 (3.88%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.58%) LDAP
13 9 (2.33%) Vue
14 8 (2.07%) Lambda Expressions
14 8 (2.07%) Next.js
15 6 (1.55%) Flask
16 5 (1.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.21%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.82%) Hedge funds
3 35 (9.04%) Fixed Income
4 29 (7.49%) Equities
4 29 (7.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (5.17%) Derivative
6 20 (5.17%) Pricing Data
6 20 (5.17%) Replication
7 15 (3.88%) Public Cloud
8 14 (3.62%) NHS
9 7 (1.81%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.50%) Linux
2 23 (5.94%) Windows
3 19 (4.91%) Amazon Linux
4 16 (4.13%) VMS
5 10 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.58%) Unix
6 3 (0.78%) CentOS
6 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (52.45%) DevOps
2 197 (50.90%) CI/CD
3 148 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (22.74%) Agile
5 79 (20.41%) Software Engineering
6 64 (16.54%) Containerisation
7 61 (15.76%) Platform Engineering
8 54 (13.95%) Cloud Security
9 47 (12.14%) Microservices
10 46 (11.89%) Observability
11 38 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (9.04%) Investment Management
13 32 (8.27%) Analytics
13 32 (8.27%) Change Management
13 32 (8.27%) Data Engineering
13 32 (8.27%) High Availability
14 30 (7.75%) Asset Management
15 29 (7.49%) Configuration Management
16 28 (7.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 230 (59.43%) Python
2 60 (15.50%) SQL
3 56 (14.47%) Java
4 55 (14.21%) TypeScript
5 39 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 33 (8.53%) Bash
7 26 (6.72%) Go
8 25 (6.46%) PowerShell
9 18 (4.65%) Groovy
10 12 (3.10%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.33%) Perl
12 4 (1.03%) C#
13 3 (0.78%) Ruby
14 2 (0.52%) AWK
14 2 (0.52%) PHP
14 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.26%) C
15 1 (0.26%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.26%) Scala
15 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 130 (33.59%) Security Cleared
2 123 (31.78%) SC Cleared
3 48 (12.40%) AWS Certification
4 33 (8.53%) Degree
5 23 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (3.36%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.55%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.78%) PhD
13 2 (0.52%) OCP
13 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.26%) CEH
14 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.26%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.62%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.10%) QA
3 11 (2.84%) GDPR
4 8 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.29%) WCAG
6 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.03%) NCSC
6 4 (1.03%) NIST
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 99 (25.58%) Docker
2 16 (4.13%) DFS Replication
3 10 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.58%) Dovecot
3 10 (2.58%) Postfix
3 10 (2.58%) Squid
4 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 207 (53.49%) Terraform
2 102 (26.36%) Kubernetes
3 56 (14.47%) Grafana
4 52 (13.44%) Ansible
5 48 (12.40%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.84%) Argo
7 10 (2.58%) Nessus
7 10 (2.58%) Packer
7 10 (2.58%) Proxmox
8 9 (2.33%) Puppet
9 7 (1.81%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.26%) Consul
13 1 (0.26%) Control-M
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.26%) QRadar
13 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (6.72%) Databricks
2 23 (5.94%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.43%) Splunk
4 15 (3.88%) Microsoft
5 13 (3.36%) Arista
6 10 (2.58%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (1.81%) Oracle
8 6 (1.55%) IBM
9 5 (1.29%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.03%) Okta
10 4 (1.03%) Qualys
10 4 (1.03%) Tenable
11 3 (0.78%) Confluent
11 3 (0.78%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.52%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.52%) F5
12 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.52%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.52%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.52%) Virgin Media