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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 190 216
Rank change year-on-year -59 +26 -31
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 457 401 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 1.48% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.61% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 310 346
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -1.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £850
90th Percentile £675 £875 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -4.58%
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 41,629 24,950 34,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.04% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,507 16,246 22,465
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,206 2,466
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.90 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.86 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £26.50 £39.53
% change year-on-year +63.21% -32.95% -8.08%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -53 298 £525 -22.22% 49
North of England -40 72 £520 +9.47% 10
Midlands -43 32 £469 -6.20% 6
North West -45 30 £540 +27.06% 5
West Midlands -48 28 £472 +2.05% 1
Yorkshire -36 25 £525 +2.44% 1
South West -23 19 £475 -24.00% 15
North East -19 17 £425 +11.84% 4
East of England -11 15 £510 +13.33% 2
South East -69 13 £505 +0.90% 13
East Midlands -22 4 £413 -17.50% 5
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 July 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.

1 457 (100.00%) AWS
2 241 (52.74%) CI/CD
3 223 (48.80%) Terraform
4 215 (47.05%) DevOps
5 189 (41.36%) Python
6 173 (37.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 159 (34.79%) Security Cleared
8 151 (33.04%) SC Cleared
9 122 (26.70%) Serverless
10 117 (25.60%) AWS Lambda
11 107 (23.41%) Amazon S3
11 107 (23.41%) Kubernetes
12 100 (21.88%) GitLab
13 97 (21.23%) Docker
14 85 (18.60%) Containerisation
15 83 (18.16%) Platform Engineering
16 79 (17.29%) Agile
16 79 (17.29%) GitHub
17 76 (16.63%) Amazon EKS
18 75 (16.41%) SQL
19 67 (14.66%) Data Engineering
20 60 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
21 59 (12.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
21 59 (12.91%) AWS CloudFormation
22 58 (12.69%) Analytics
23 57 (12.47%) Grafana
23 57 (12.47%) Software Engineering
24 56 (12.25%) GitHub Actions
24 56 (12.25%) Jenkins
24 56 (12.25%) Observability

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 30 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.63%) Confluence
3 11 (2.41%) SAS
4 10 (2.19%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.75%) Apache
6 7 (1.53%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.66%) nginx
7 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.22%) Appian
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 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
1 457 (100.00%) AWS
2 122 (26.70%) Serverless
3 117 (25.60%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (23.41%) Amazon S3
5 79 (17.29%) GitHub
6 76 (16.63%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (12.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 59 (12.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (12.25%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (12.04%) Amazon EC2
10 47 (10.28%) Azure
11 46 (10.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 39 (8.53%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (6.78%) Snowflake
14 22 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (4.38%) dbt
16 19 (4.16%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (3.94%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (3.94%) GCP
18 17 (3.72%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.60%) Firewall
2 11 (2.41%) DNS
3 9 (1.97%) Network Security
4 6 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.31%) VPN
4 6 (1.31%) WAN
5 4 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.88%) SSL
6 3 (0.66%) HTTP
7 2 (0.44%) BGP
7 2 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.44%) Internet
7 2 (0.44%) LAN
8 1 (0.22%) 4G
8 1 (0.22%) 5G
8 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.22%) DHCP
8 1 (0.22%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 37 (8.10%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (7.88%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (5.03%) DynamoDB
6 21 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (3.72%) Data Lake
7 17 (3.72%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.06%) Power BI
9 8 (1.75%) MySQL
9 8 (1.75%) Pentaho
10 7 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
10 7 (1.53%) Metadata
10 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.53%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.31%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (1.09%) Redis
13 4 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 100 (21.88%) GitLab
2 56 (12.25%) Jenkins
3 46 (10.07%) Git
4 16 (3.50%) JIRA
5 10 (2.19%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.75%) Snyk
6 8 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.53%) Gatling
8 6 (1.31%) JMeter
9 5 (1.09%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.44%) Mocha
11 2 (0.44%) MSTest
11 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.44%) tSQLt
General
1 75 (16.41%) Public Sector
2 70 (15.32%) Social Skills
3 47 (10.28%) Finance
4 23 (5.03%) Banking
5 16 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (0.88%) Law
9 4 (0.88%) Retail
10 3 (0.66%) Back Office
10 3 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.66%) Military
11 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.44%) Billing
11 2 (0.44%) Legal
11 2 (0.44%) Local Government
11 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.22%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.03%) Kafka
2 20 (4.38%) .NET
3 18 (3.94%) PySpark
4 17 (3.72%) AWS CDK
5 15 (3.28%) Node.js
5 15 (3.28%) React
6 14 (3.06%) REST
7 10 (2.19%) Next.js
7 10 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (1.97%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.75%) Spring
10 7 (1.53%) Flask
10 7 (1.53%) Keycloak
10 7 (1.53%) RESTful
11 6 (1.31%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.31%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.31%) JSON
11 6 (1.31%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (1.09%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 81 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (2.19%) AI Agents
4 9 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.75%) NHS
6 7 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.88%) Replication
9 3 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.66%) PKI
10 2 (0.44%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.44%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.44%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.44%) Life Science
10 2 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.04%) Linux
2 15 (3.28%) Windows
3 9 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.09%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.09%) Unix
6 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.44%) CentOS
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.22%) VMS
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (52.74%) CI/CD
2 215 (47.05%) DevOps
3 173 (37.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (18.60%) Containerisation
5 83 (18.16%) Platform Engineering
6 79 (17.29%) Agile
7 67 (14.66%) Data Engineering
8 60 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
9 58 (12.69%) Analytics
10 57 (12.47%) Software Engineering
11 56 (12.25%) Observability
12 55 (12.04%) Migration
13 52 (11.38%) AI
14 43 (9.41%) Data Modelling
15 41 (8.97%) Cloud Security
15 41 (8.97%) ETL
16 39 (8.53%) Microservices
17 37 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
19 28 (6.13%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 189 (41.36%) Python
2 75 (16.41%) SQL
3 52 (11.38%) Bash
4 36 (7.88%) Java
5 23 (5.03%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.72%) C#
7 14 (3.06%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.75%) Groovy
10 7 (1.53%) Go
11 4 (0.88%) Scala
12 3 (0.66%) Bicep
12 3 (0.66%) C
12 3 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) Perl
14 1 (0.22%) Ruby
14 1 (0.22%) Rust
14 1 (0.22%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 159 (34.79%) Security Cleared
2 151 (33.04%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.69%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.88%) Degree
8 3 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.44%) CCNP
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.44%) CISSP
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.22%) CCIE
10 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.97%) QA
3 6 (1.31%) GDPR
3 6 (1.31%) SLA
4 4 (0.88%) NIST
5 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 97 (21.23%) Docker
2 11 (2.41%) Squid
3 8 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.53%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.09%) vSphere
6 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.22%) Postfix
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 223 (48.80%) Terraform
2 107 (23.41%) Kubernetes
3 57 (12.47%) Grafana
4 48 (10.50%) Prometheus
5 46 (10.07%) Ansible
6 14 (3.06%) Argo
6 14 (3.06%) Puppet
7 7 (1.53%) Packer
8 6 (1.31%) Istio
8 6 (1.31%) Kibana
9 4 (0.88%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.88%) Rancher
9 4 (0.88%) Suricata
10 3 (0.66%) Salt
11 2 (0.44%) Consul
11 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.22%) Nessus
12 1 (0.22%) Opsview
12 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (6.78%) Databricks
2 24 (5.25%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.16%) Splunk
4 12 (2.63%) Informatica
5 11 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.41%) Foundry
6 10 (2.19%) VMware
7 9 (1.97%) Denodo
7 9 (1.97%) Oracle
8 7 (1.53%) Palantir
8 7 (1.53%) Talend
9 6 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.09%) Citrix
10 5 (1.09%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.09%) Google
10 5 (1.09%) SAP
11 4 (0.88%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.88%) Cisco
11 4 (0.88%) Trend Micro
12 3 (0.66%) Red Hat