AWS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in England is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 198 211
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 -15
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 411 373 439
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 1.28% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.38% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 301 371
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £419 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £614 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.51% +11.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £673
90th Percentile £825 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £518 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 - -

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 28,372 27,015 35,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,130 16,817 24,123
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
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 1,748 878 1,358
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.70 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 15 December 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 -36 249 £544 -19.44% 39
North of England +7 93 £500 +17.65% 28
Yorkshire -22 49 £500 +25.00% 8
Midlands +2 45 £525 +1.94% 22
West Midlands +7 40 £525 -0.94% 12
North West +7 36 £405 -14.74% 16
South East +1 14 £538 +7.50% 30
North East -6 9 £550 +4.76% 4
South West -11 7 £488 -15.22% 19
East Midlands -13 5 £446 -10.75% 10
East of England -21 2 £450 -21.74% 17
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 December 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.

1 411 (100.00%) AWS
2 243 (59.12%) Python
3 220 (53.53%) Terraform
4 214 (52.07%) DevOps
5 207 (50.36%) CI/CD
6 157 (38.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 137 (33.33%) Security Cleared
8 127 (30.90%) SC Cleared
9 109 (26.52%) Docker
9 109 (26.52%) Kubernetes
10 107 (26.03%) Serverless
11 105 (25.55%) Amazon S3
12 99 (24.09%) Agile
13 93 (22.63%) AWS Lambda
14 90 (21.90%) GitHub
15 89 (21.65%) Jenkins
16 85 (20.68%) Software Engineering
17 76 (18.49%) GitLab
18 69 (16.79%) AWS CloudFormation
19 68 (16.55%) Apache Airflow
19 68 (16.55%) Containerisation
19 68 (16.55%) Java
20 65 (15.82%) Platform Engineering
20 65 (15.82%) SQL
21 64 (15.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
22 63 (15.33%) Linux
23 62 (15.09%) Amazon RDS
23 62 (15.09%) TypeScript
24 59 (14.36%) Amazon Athena
24 59 (14.36%) 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 68 (16.55%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (8.27%) Apache
3 26 (6.33%) Confluence
4 18 (4.38%) Apache Spark
5 14 (3.41%) nginx
6 2 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (2.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 411 (100.00%) AWS
2 107 (26.03%) Serverless
3 105 (25.55%) Amazon S3
4 93 (22.63%) AWS Lambda
5 90 (21.90%) GitHub
6 69 (16.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (15.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 59 (14.36%) Amazon EC2
8 59 (14.36%) Amazon ECS
9 54 (13.14%) Azure
10 52 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (12.17%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (11.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 40 (9.73%) dbt
13 40 (9.73%) GCP
14 39 (9.49%) Snowflake
15 33 (8.03%) AWS KMS
16 23 (5.60%) Route 53
17 20 (4.87%) Amazon ELB
18 19 (4.62%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.27%) DNS
2 27 (6.57%) Firewall
3 18 (4.38%) HTTP
3 18 (4.38%) SMTP
4 17 (4.14%) FTP
4 17 (4.14%) SSH
5 11 (2.68%) IMAP
5 11 (2.68%) OpenLDAP
5 11 (2.68%) VPN
6 6 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.97%) Network Security
8 3 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.49%) DHCP
9 2 (0.49%) SSL
10 1 (0.24%) BGP
10 1 (0.24%) IPsec
10 1 (0.24%) LAN
10 1 (0.24%) OSPF
10 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.09%) Amazon RDS
2 59 (14.36%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (11.92%) Data Lake
5 39 (9.49%) Apache Iceberg
6 37 (9.00%) Apache Arrow
6 37 (9.00%) Dremio
7 26 (6.33%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (6.08%) DynamoDB
9 24 (5.84%) NoSQL
10 23 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (4.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (2.19%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.95%) Metadata
14 8 (1.95%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.70%) Big Data
15 7 (1.70%) Flink
16 6 (1.46%) MySQL
16 6 (1.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (21.65%) Jenkins
2 76 (18.49%) GitLab
3 53 (12.90%) Git
4 36 (8.76%) JIRA
5 18 (4.38%) Vagrant
6 12 (2.92%) Liquibase
7 7 (1.70%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.46%) MLflow
9 5 (1.22%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.22%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.73%) JUnit
11 3 (0.73%) Mockito
11 3 (0.73%) Selenium
11 3 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.73%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.49%) Gradle
General
1 103 (25.06%) Finance
2 81 (19.71%) Public Sector
3 73 (17.76%) Social Skills
4 53 (12.90%) Banking
5 43 (10.46%) Front Office
6 27 (6.57%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.19%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.70%) Aeronautics
11 6 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.97%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.73%) Legal
14 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Law
14 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.49%) Retail
15 1 (0.24%) Publishing
15 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.98%) Kafka
2 39 (9.49%) Node.js
3 37 (9.00%) NumPy
3 37 (9.00%) Pandas
3 37 (9.00%) SciPy
4 32 (7.79%) React
5 31 (7.54%) AWS CDK
6 26 (6.33%) gRPC
6 26 (6.33%) Protocol Buffers
7 23 (5.60%) REST
8 20 (4.87%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (4.87%) RESTful
9 17 (4.14%) PySpark
10 14 (3.41%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.68%) LDAP
11 11 (2.68%) Vue
12 8 (1.95%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (1.22%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.22%) OAuth
13 5 (1.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.95%) Hedge funds
3 43 (10.46%) Fixed Income
4 37 (9.00%) Equities
4 37 (9.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 26 (6.33%) Derivative
5 26 (6.33%) Pricing Data
6 21 (5.11%) Replication
7 20 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (4.14%) Public Cloud
9 14 (3.41%) NHS
10 8 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.97%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.73%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 63 (15.33%) Linux
2 26 (6.33%) Windows
3 21 (5.11%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (4.38%) VMS
5 11 (2.68%) Unix
6 10 (2.43%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.73%) CentOS
8 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (52.07%) DevOps
2 207 (50.36%) CI/CD
3 157 (38.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (24.09%) Agile
5 85 (20.68%) Software Engineering
6 68 (16.55%) Containerisation
7 65 (15.82%) Platform Engineering
8 56 (13.63%) Cloud Security
9 49 (11.92%) Microservices
10 43 (10.46%) Investment Management
10 43 (10.46%) Observability
11 41 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (9.25%) Asset Management
13 35 (8.52%) Change Management
14 34 (8.27%) Data Engineering
14 34 (8.27%) Migration
15 33 (8.03%) Analytics
15 33 (8.03%) Configuration Management
16 30 (7.30%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 243 (59.12%) Python
2 68 (16.55%) Java
3 65 (15.82%) SQL
4 62 (15.09%) TypeScript
5 49 (11.92%) JavaScript
6 31 (7.54%) Bash
6 31 (7.54%) Go
7 29 (7.06%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.87%) Groovy
9 12 (2.92%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.68%) Perl
11 4 (0.97%) C#
12 3 (0.73%) Ruby
13 2 (0.49%) AWK
13 2 (0.49%) PHP
13 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.49%) Scala
14 1 (0.24%) C
14 1 (0.24%) R
14 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 127 (30.90%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.92%) AWS Certification
4 32 (7.79%) Degree
5 20 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.49%) OCP
13 2 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.49%) PhD
14 1 (0.24%) CCNP
14 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.92%) QA
3 11 (2.68%) GDPR
4 9 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.22%) WCAG
6 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.97%) NCSC
6 4 (0.97%) NIST
7 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 109 (26.52%) Docker
2 17 (4.14%) DFS Replication
3 12 (2.92%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.68%) Dovecot
4 11 (2.68%) Postfix
4 11 (2.68%) Squid
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 220 (53.53%) Terraform
2 109 (26.52%) Kubernetes
3 58 (14.11%) Grafana
4 55 (13.38%) Ansible
5 48 (11.68%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.68%) Nessus
7 10 (2.43%) Packer
7 10 (2.43%) Proxmox
8 9 (2.19%) Argo
8 9 (2.19%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.19%) Puppet
9 4 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.49%) Kibana
12 1 (0.24%) Consul
12 1 (0.24%) Control-M
12 1 (0.24%) Istio
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.24%) QRadar
12 1 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (6.33%) Databricks
1 26 (6.33%) ServiceNow
2 22 (5.35%) Splunk
3 15 (3.65%) Arista
3 15 (3.65%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.68%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (1.70%) Oracle
6 6 (1.46%) IBM
7 5 (1.22%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.73%) CheckPoint
8 3 (0.73%) Confluent
8 3 (0.73%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.73%) Okta
8 3 (0.73%) Qualys
8 3 (0.73%) Tenable
9 2 (0.49%) Cisco
9 2 (0.49%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.49%) F5
9 2 (0.49%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.49%) Red Hat