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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 162 249
Rank change year-on-year -90 +87 -45
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 382 397 349
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.62% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.75% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 328 297
10th Percentile £388 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £598 £825 £675
90th Percentile £690 £875 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

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 36,522 22,722 34,320
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.70% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,886 15,172 22,851
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,461 869 2,384
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.75 £19.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £67.47 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.93% -13.00% -22.22%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -76 245 £525 -22.22% 37
North of England -45 59 £500 +5.26% 25
Midlands -45 27 £680 +32.04% 10
Yorkshire -50 26 £520 -0.95% 2
West Midlands -40 23 £703 +30.09% 9
North West -45 22 £500 +17.65% 17
East of England -19 14 £510 +16.57% 4
North East -13 11 £425 -24.78% 6
South East -59 11 £575 +15.00% 12
South West -21 10 £535 -14.40% 10
East Midlands -34 4 £402 -19.60% 1
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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.

1 382 (100.00%) AWS
2 197 (51.57%) CI/CD
3 193 (50.52%) DevOps
4 183 (47.91%) Terraform
5 174 (45.55%) Python
6 141 (36.91%) Security Cleared
7 135 (35.34%) SC Cleared
8 131 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 105 (27.49%) Serverless
10 101 (26.44%) AWS Lambda
11 97 (25.39%) Kubernetes
12 92 (24.08%) Docker
13 83 (21.73%) Amazon S3
14 77 (20.16%) GitHub
15 69 (18.06%) Agile
16 68 (17.80%) Containerisation
17 67 (17.54%) Amazon EKS
17 67 (17.54%) GitLab
18 63 (16.49%) AWS CloudFormation
19 59 (15.45%) SQL
20 57 (14.92%) Platform Engineering
21 52 (13.61%) Azure
22 49 (12.83%) Amazon EC2
22 49 (12.83%) Analytics
22 49 (12.83%) Linux
23 48 (12.57%) Jenkins
24 46 (12.04%) Data Engineering
24 46 (12.04%) GitHub Actions
25 45 (11.78%) Cloud Security
25 45 (11.78%) Software Engineering

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 37 (9.69%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (6.28%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.14%) Apache
4 7 (1.83%) Confluence
5 5 (1.31%) SAS
6 4 (1.05%) nginx
7 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 382 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (27.49%) Serverless
3 101 (26.44%) AWS Lambda
4 83 (21.73%) Amazon S3
5 77 (20.16%) GitHub
6 67 (17.54%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (16.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (13.61%) Azure
9 49 (12.83%) Amazon EC2
10 46 (12.04%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (10.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (10.21%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (8.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (6.54%) Snowflake
14 22 (5.76%) GCP
15 19 (4.97%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (4.45%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (3.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 15 (3.93%) AWS CodePipeline
18 13 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.19%) Firewall
2 9 (2.36%) VPN
3 7 (1.83%) DNS
4 5 (1.31%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.79%) LAN
5 3 (0.79%) Network Security
5 3 (0.79%) WAN
6 2 (0.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.52%) HTTP
6 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.26%) 4G
7 1 (0.26%) 5G
7 1 (0.26%) BGP
7 1 (0.26%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.26%) DHCP
7 1 (0.26%) ICMP
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.64%) Amazon Redshift
2 32 (8.38%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.24%) DynamoDB
6 18 (4.71%) Data Lake
7 16 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.14%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.88%) Metadata
10 9 (2.36%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.36%) Power BI
11 7 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.83%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (1.83%) Flink
11 7 (1.83%) Tableau
12 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.57%) Redis
13 5 (1.31%) Big Data
13 5 (1.31%) MySQL
13 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (17.54%) GitLab
2 48 (12.57%) Jenkins
3 38 (9.95%) Git
4 10 (2.62%) JIRA
5 8 (2.09%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.09%) Snyk
6 6 (1.57%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.57%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.79%) JUnit
9 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.52%) Gradle
9 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.52%) MLflow
9 2 (0.52%) Mocha
9 2 (0.52%) MSTest
9 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.52%) tSQLt
General
1 55 (14.40%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.87%) Public Sector
3 52 (13.61%) Finance
4 26 (6.81%) Banking
5 16 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.83%) Aeronautics
6 7 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.57%) Front Office
8 5 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.05%) Legal
10 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.52%) Law
11 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.52%) Military
11 2 (0.52%) Retail
11 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Billing
12 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.69%) Kafka
2 19 (4.97%) Node.js
3 18 (4.71%) PySpark
4 13 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (3.40%) REST
5 12 (3.14%) React
6 10 (2.62%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.36%) Next.js
7 9 (2.36%) RESTful
8 7 (1.83%) pytest
9 6 (1.57%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.57%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.57%) Web Services
10 5 (1.31%) .NET
10 5 (1.31%) Keycloak
10 5 (1.31%) Spring
11 4 (1.05%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.05%) JWT
11 4 (1.05%) OpenAPI
11 4 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.40%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (2.62%) NHS
4 9 (2.36%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.83%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.57%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.31%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.31%) Replication
9 4 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.52%) Life Science
11 2 (0.52%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.83%) Linux
2 10 (2.62%) Windows
3 7 (1.83%) Unix
3 7 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (51.57%) CI/CD
2 193 (50.52%) DevOps
3 131 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (18.06%) Agile
5 68 (17.80%) Containerisation
6 57 (14.92%) Platform Engineering
7 49 (12.83%) Analytics
8 46 (12.04%) Data Engineering
9 45 (11.78%) Cloud Security
9 45 (11.78%) Software Engineering
10 42 (10.99%) Observability
11 39 (10.21%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (9.42%) ETL
13 34 (8.90%) Microservices
14 33 (8.64%) Data Modelling
14 33 (8.64%) Migration
15 28 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (6.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 24 (6.28%) AI
18 23 (6.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 174 (45.55%) Python
2 59 (15.45%) SQL
3 38 (9.95%) Bash
4 35 (9.16%) Java
5 17 (4.45%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.62%) C#
6 10 (2.62%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.36%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.83%) Go
9 6 (1.57%) Groovy
10 5 (1.31%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.79%) Ruby
11 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.52%) AWK
12 2 (0.52%) C
12 2 (0.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.26%) Perl
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Rust
13 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 141 (36.91%) Security Cleared
2 135 (35.34%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.59%) AWS Certification
4 11 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.88%) Degree
4 11 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (1.31%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (0.79%) PhD
8 2 (0.52%) CCNP
8 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.52%) OCP
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.88%) GDPR
3 9 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.83%) NIST
5 6 (1.57%) SLA
6 5 (1.31%) QA
7 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (24.08%) Docker
2 7 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.83%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.31%) vSphere
4 4 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) Squid
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 183 (47.91%) Terraform
2 97 (25.39%) Kubernetes
3 37 (9.69%) Grafana
4 36 (9.42%) Prometheus
5 32 (8.38%) Ansible
6 18 (4.71%) Argo
7 8 (2.09%) Puppet
8 6 (1.57%) Packer
9 5 (1.31%) Istio
9 5 (1.31%) Rancher
10 3 (0.79%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.79%) Salt
11 2 (0.52%) Consul
11 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.26%) Nessus
12 1 (0.26%) Opsview
12 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.26%) QRadar
12 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (7.85%) Databricks
2 21 (5.50%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.93%) Splunk
4 10 (2.62%) VMware
5 8 (2.09%) Oracle
5 8 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.57%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.57%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.57%) Talend
7 5 (1.31%) Citrix
7 5 (1.31%) Informatica
7 5 (1.31%) Qualys
8 4 (1.05%) Cisco
8 4 (1.05%) Denodo
8 4 (1.05%) SAP
8 4 (1.05%) Tenable
9 3 (0.79%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.79%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.52%) AVEVA