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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 170 246
Rank change year-on-year -104 +76 -56
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 363 384 348
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.58% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.71% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 323 293
10th Percentile £390 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% -4.58%
75th Percentile £588 £831 £700
90th Percentile £675 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £518 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% - -
75th Percentile £76.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +65.71% - -

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 37,472 22,498 34,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.54% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,288 14,975 22,610
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.07% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 913 2,443
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.32 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.01% -19.15% -16.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.85% -23.73% -16.67%

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 12 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 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 -77 229 £525 -22.22% 33
North of England -60 49 £510 +7.37% 13
Midlands -30 30 £473 -5.50% 14
West Midlands -39 26 £500 -9.09% 6
North West -36 24 £550 +33.01% 11
East of England -15 14 £510 +16.57%
South West -20 14 £500 -14.89% 1
South East -59 14 £550 +10.00% 21
Yorkshire -50 13 £500 -4.76% 2
North East -16 12 £425 -24.78%
East Midlands -33 4 £402 -19.60% 8
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 363 (100.00%) AWS
2 190 (52.34%) CI/CD
3 178 (49.04%) DevOps
4 167 (46.01%) Terraform
5 156 (42.98%) Python
6 135 (37.19%) Security Cleared
7 127 (34.99%) SC Cleared
8 125 (34.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 99 (27.27%) Serverless
10 95 (26.17%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (24.79%) Kubernetes
12 80 (22.04%) Amazon S3
12 80 (22.04%) Docker
13 68 (18.73%) Agile
13 68 (18.73%) GitLab
14 66 (18.18%) Containerisation
15 65 (17.91%) Amazon EKS
16 63 (17.36%) GitHub
17 53 (14.60%) SQL
18 51 (14.05%) AWS CloudFormation
19 50 (13.77%) Platform Engineering
19 50 (13.77%) Software Engineering
20 49 (13.50%) Analytics
21 48 (13.22%) Amazon EC2
22 47 (12.95%) Bash
23 46 (12.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
23 46 (12.67%) Azure
23 46 (12.67%) Data Engineering
24 45 (12.40%) Linux
25 44 (12.12%) Grafana

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 26 (7.16%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.68%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.75%) Confluence
3 10 (2.75%) SAS
4 9 (2.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.55%) nginx
5 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.28%) Appian
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 363 (100.00%) AWS
2 99 (27.27%) Serverless
3 95 (26.17%) AWS Lambda
4 80 (22.04%) Amazon S3
5 65 (17.91%) Amazon EKS
6 63 (17.36%) GitHub
7 51 (14.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (13.22%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (12.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 46 (12.67%) Azure
10 40 (11.02%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (9.92%) Amazon ECS
12 35 (9.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (6.34%) Snowflake
14 18 (4.96%) Amazon Kinesis
14 18 (4.96%) GCP
15 15 (4.13%) Amazon EMR
16 14 (3.86%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (3.58%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.41%) Firewall
2 8 (2.20%) DNS
3 7 (1.93%) VPN
4 5 (1.38%) Network Security
4 5 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.10%) HTTP
6 3 (0.83%) LAN
6 3 (0.83%) WAN
7 2 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.55%) SSL
8 1 (0.28%) 4G
8 1 (0.28%) 5G
8 1 (0.28%) BGP
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.28%) DHCP
8 1 (0.28%) ICMP
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.64%) Amazon Redshift
2 29 (7.99%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (7.44%) Amazon Athena
4 23 (6.34%) DynamoDB
5 19 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (4.13%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.86%) Data Lake
9 12 (3.31%) Power BI
10 9 (2.48%) Metadata
11 7 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.93%) Pentaho
12 6 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (1.65%) Big Data
12 6 (1.65%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.65%) Redis
13 5 (1.38%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.38%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.38%) MySQL
14 4 (1.10%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 68 (18.73%) GitLab
2 43 (11.85%) Jenkins
3 37 (10.19%) Git
4 13 (3.58%) JIRA
5 8 (2.20%) Artifactory
5 8 (2.20%) Snyk
6 7 (1.93%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.65%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.10%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.83%) JUnit
9 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.55%) Gradle
10 2 (0.55%) MLflow
10 2 (0.55%) Mocha
10 2 (0.55%) MSTest
10 2 (0.55%) tSQLt
11 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
General
1 54 (14.88%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.60%) Public Sector
3 43 (11.85%) Finance
4 24 (6.61%) Banking
5 13 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.10%) Aeronautics
9 3 (0.83%) Front Office
9 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.83%) Legal
9 3 (0.83%) Military
9 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.83%) Retail
10 2 (0.55%) Law
10 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.28%) Billing
11 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.71%) Kafka
2 17 (4.68%) Node.js
3 16 (4.41%) PySpark
4 12 (3.31%) AWS CDK
5 11 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (3.03%) REST
6 10 (2.75%) React
6 10 (2.75%) Spring Boot
7 9 (2.48%) Spring
8 8 (2.20%) Next.js
9 7 (1.93%) pytest
9 7 (1.93%) RESTful
10 6 (1.65%) .NET
10 6 (1.65%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.38%) Keycloak
12 4 (1.10%) boto
12 4 (1.10%) Django
12 4 (1.10%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.10%) Flask
12 4 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.20%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.93%) AI Agents
4 7 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.38%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.38%) Replication
7 4 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.10%) NHS
7 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.83%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.55%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.55%) Life Science
9 2 (0.55%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.28%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.40%) Linux
2 10 (2.75%) Windows
3 7 (1.93%) Unix
4 6 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (52.34%) CI/CD
2 178 (49.04%) DevOps
3 125 (34.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (18.73%) Agile
5 66 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 50 (13.77%) Platform Engineering
6 50 (13.77%) Software Engineering
7 49 (13.50%) Analytics
8 46 (12.67%) Data Engineering
9 43 (11.85%) Observability
10 41 (11.29%) Migration
11 40 (11.02%) Cloud Security
12 39 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
13 36 (9.92%) ETL
14 33 (9.09%) Data Modelling
15 30 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (7.99%) AI
17 28 (7.71%) Microservices
18 24 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
18 24 (6.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 156 (42.98%) Python
2 53 (14.60%) SQL
3 47 (12.95%) Bash
4 37 (10.19%) Java
5 18 (4.96%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.75%) C#
6 10 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.48%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.93%) Go
8 7 (1.93%) Groovy
9 5 (1.38%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.10%) Scala
11 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.28%) C
13 1 (0.28%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.28%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 135 (37.19%) Security Cleared
2 127 (34.99%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.79%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.03%) Degree
5 10 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.83%) PhD
9 2 (0.55%) CCNP
9 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.55%) CISSP
9 2 (0.55%) OCP
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CCIE
10 1 (0.28%) CEH
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.20%) GDPR
3 7 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.65%) NIST
4 6 (1.65%) SLA
5 5 (1.38%) QA
6 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 80 (22.04%) Docker
2 7 (1.93%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.38%) vSphere
4 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.83%) Squid
5 3 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 167 (46.01%) Terraform
2 90 (24.79%) Kubernetes
3 44 (12.12%) Grafana
4 36 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 29 (7.99%) Ansible
6 15 (4.13%) Argo
7 11 (3.03%) Puppet
8 5 (1.38%) Rancher
9 4 (1.10%) Istio
10 3 (0.83%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.83%) Packer
10 3 (0.83%) Salt
11 2 (0.55%) Consul
11 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.55%) Suricata
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.28%) Opsview
12 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.28%) QRadar
12 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (7.44%) Databricks
2 19 (5.23%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.31%) Dynatrace
4 10 (2.75%) VMware
5 9 (2.48%) Denodo
5 9 (2.48%) Informatica
5 9 (2.48%) Oracle
5 9 (2.48%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.48%) Splunk
6 6 (1.65%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.65%) SAP
6 6 (1.65%) Talend
7 5 (1.38%) Citrix
7 5 (1.38%) Qualys
7 5 (1.38%) Tenable
8 4 (1.10%) Cisco
9 3 (0.83%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.55%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.55%) Google
10 2 (0.55%) Trend Micro