AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 181 218
Rank change year-on-year -59 +37 -4
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 369 367 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 1.42% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.53% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 290 363
10th Percentile £375 £418 £413
25th Percentile £414 £500 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £606 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +10.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £788 £650
90th Percentile £713 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -6.58%
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 31,956 24,036 35,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 92.97% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,260 15,171 23,637
10th Percentile £305 £300 £273
25th Percentile £410 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 723 2,159
10th Percentile £15.07 £16.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £33.17 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.67 £75.20 £72.46
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.27% - -10.26%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -54 231 £518 -23.33% 56
North of England -12 75 £500 - 17
Yorkshire -31 40 £523 +4.50% 1
Midlands -24 32 £545 +9.00% 13
North West -4 28 £436 -10.51% 16
West Midlands -37 26 £680 +28.30% 12
South East -29 13 £550 +10.00% 19
South West -21 7 £536 -4.67% 18
North East -22 7 £550 -2.65%
East Midlands -24 6 £433 -13.50% 1
East of England -26 2 £525 -4.55% 3
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 February 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.

1 369 (100.00%) AWS
2 206 (55.83%) CI/CD
3 203 (55.01%) DevOps
4 198 (53.66%) Terraform
5 189 (51.22%) Python
6 141 (38.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 140 (37.94%) Security Cleared
8 131 (35.50%) SC Cleared
9 103 (27.91%) Kubernetes
9 103 (27.91%) Serverless
10 95 (25.75%) Docker
11 90 (24.39%) AWS Lambda
12 78 (21.14%) Amazon S3
13 76 (20.60%) GitHub
14 74 (20.05%) GitLab
15 68 (18.43%) Agile
16 67 (18.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 67 (18.16%) Containerisation
17 64 (17.34%) Jenkins
18 59 (15.99%) Amazon EKS
19 57 (15.45%) Linux
20 56 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
21 54 (14.63%) Software Engineering
22 53 (14.36%) Cloud Security
23 51 (13.82%) SQL
24 47 (12.74%) Amazon EC2
24 47 (12.74%) Azure
25 46 (12.47%) Amazon ECS
26 45 (12.20%) Ansible
27 43 (11.65%) Microservices

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 36 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (5.96%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.34%) Apache
4 10 (2.71%) Confluence
5 7 (1.90%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 369 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (27.91%) Serverless
3 90 (24.39%) AWS Lambda
4 78 (21.14%) Amazon S3
5 76 (20.60%) GitHub
6 67 (18.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 59 (15.99%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (12.74%) Amazon EC2
8 47 (12.74%) Azure
9 46 (12.47%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (11.38%) GitHub Actions
11 34 (9.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 32 (8.67%) GCP
13 21 (5.69%) AWS KMS
13 21 (5.69%) Snowflake
14 17 (4.61%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (4.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 15 (4.07%) AWS CodePipeline
16 15 (4.07%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.61%) DNS
2 13 (3.52%) Firewall
3 8 (2.17%) VPN
4 7 (1.90%) HTTP
5 5 (1.36%) FTP
5 5 (1.36%) SMTP
5 5 (1.36%) SSH
6 4 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.81%) IMAP
7 3 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.54%) Network Security
9 1 (0.27%) 4G
9 1 (0.27%) 5G
9 1 (0.27%) DHCP
9 1 (0.27%) ICMP
9 1 (0.27%) LAN
9 1 (0.27%) SSL
9 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.84%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (6.78%) Data Lake
5 24 (6.50%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (5.42%) NoSQL
7 18 (4.88%) DynamoDB
8 15 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.71%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (2.17%) Apache Arrow
10 8 (2.17%) Dremio
10 8 (2.17%) Metadata
11 7 (1.90%) Big Data
11 7 (1.90%) Flink
11 7 (1.90%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.63%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.63%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.63%) Tableau
13 5 (1.36%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (1.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (20.05%) GitLab
2 64 (17.34%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.94%) Git
4 16 (4.34%) JIRA
5 11 (2.98%) Liquibase
6 9 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.36%) MLflow
7 5 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.36%) Vagrant
8 4 (1.08%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.08%) Snyk
8 4 (1.08%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.81%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.81%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.81%) JUnit
9 3 (0.81%) Mockito
9 3 (0.81%) Selenium
9 3 (0.81%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.54%) Mocha
10 2 (0.54%) MSTest
General
1 68 (18.43%) Finance
1 68 (18.43%) Public Sector
2 61 (16.53%) Social Skills
3 34 (9.21%) Banking
4 21 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.79%) Front Office
6 9 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.90%) Aeronautics
7 7 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.81%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.27%) Billing
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.03%) Kafka
2 25 (6.78%) Node.js
3 23 (6.23%) REST
4 18 (4.88%) AWS CDK
4 18 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (4.88%) RESTful
5 17 (4.61%) React
6 16 (4.34%) PySpark
7 10 (2.71%) Pandas
8 9 (2.44%) AngularJS
8 9 (2.44%) NumPy
9 8 (2.17%) pytest
9 8 (2.17%) SciPy
10 7 (1.90%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (1.63%) Flask
11 6 (1.63%) Next.js
11 6 (1.63%) Web Services
12 5 (1.36%) gRPC
12 5 (1.36%) HTML
12 5 (1.36%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.26%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.88%) Public Cloud
4 17 (4.61%) Hedge funds
5 15 (4.07%) Fixed Income
6 14 (3.79%) NHS
7 9 (2.44%) Equities
7 9 (2.44%) Replication
8 8 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 8 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.36%) Derivative
9 5 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.36%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.45%) Linux
2 11 (2.98%) Unix
2 11 (2.98%) Windows
3 8 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (1.63%) VMS
5 3 (0.81%) CentOS
5 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (55.83%) CI/CD
2 203 (55.01%) DevOps
3 141 (38.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (18.43%) Agile
5 67 (18.16%) Containerisation
6 56 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
7 54 (14.63%) Software Engineering
8 53 (14.36%) Cloud Security
9 43 (11.65%) Microservices
9 43 (11.65%) Observability
10 40 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
11 39 (10.57%) Analytics
12 38 (10.30%) Data Engineering
13 36 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (7.86%) Migration
15 27 (7.32%) AI
16 26 (7.05%) High Availability
17 24 (6.50%) Data Modelling
17 24 (6.50%) ETL
17 24 (6.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 189 (51.22%) Python
2 51 (13.82%) SQL
3 39 (10.57%) Java
4 35 (9.49%) Bash
5 28 (7.59%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.15%) Go
6 19 (5.15%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.90%) Groovy
10 6 (1.63%) C#
11 4 (1.08%) Ruby
12 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.54%) AWK
13 2 (0.54%) Perl
14 1 (0.27%) C
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Rust
14 1 (0.27%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 140 (37.94%) Security Cleared
2 131 (35.50%) SC Cleared
3 39 (10.57%) AWS Certification
4 21 (5.69%) Degree
5 18 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.98%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.44%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.81%) PhD
13 2 (0.54%) OCP
13 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.27%) CEH
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
14 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.25%) GDPR
3 10 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.71%) QA
4 7 (1.90%) NIST
5 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.08%) NCSC
6 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.54%) SLA
6 2 (0.54%) WCAG
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 95 (25.75%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.36%) DFS Replication
4 3 (0.81%) Dovecot
4 3 (0.81%) Postfix
4 3 (0.81%) Squid
4 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 198 (53.66%) Terraform
2 103 (27.91%) Kubernetes
3 45 (12.20%) Ansible
4 37 (10.03%) Grafana
4 37 (10.03%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.52%) Argo
6 9 (2.44%) Packer
6 9 (2.44%) Puppet
7 4 (1.08%) Istio
7 4 (1.08%) Nessus
7 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.81%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.54%) Consul
9 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.27%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.27%) QRadar
10 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 29 (7.86%) Databricks
2 23 (6.23%) Splunk
3 16 (4.34%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.98%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.90%) Arista
6 6 (1.63%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.63%) Oracle
6 6 (1.63%) Qualys
6 6 (1.63%) Tenable
7 5 (1.36%) Citrix
8 4 (1.08%) Okta
8 4 (1.08%) SAP
9 3 (0.81%) Confluent
9 3 (0.81%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.81%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.54%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.54%) IBM
10 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.54%) Salesforce